Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:14:37 +0000 From: Dean Subject: When Nothing Goes Right Chapter 13 Gay/Highschool section Disclaimer- this story involves the love of two males so if this offends u then don't read. This story is totally fiction and not meant to reflect on anyone. And all the usual stuff applies lol. Author's Note- Hey you guys this is my first attempt at a gay themed story, so bare with me and send feed back, tell me if I suck or if I'm any good, this will be a short story with about 15 chapters, so I hope u guys enjoy. Join my yahoo group- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deansplace/ ****************************************************************** When Nothing Goes Right Chapter 13 It had been a couple of weeks since Zander had given me his blessing and life couldn't have been better. Kyle and I hung out a lot and we got to learn a lot about each other in the process. He was slowly turning into my best friend. Sure he flirted every now and then but that was just Kyle being Kyle, he flirted with everyone, even Angie who's crush for him turned into a bit of an obsession, not that Kyle minded or anything. I bet he even got off on it in some weird way. A big ego boost to that already inflamed ego of his. Things between Zander and I were going extremely well. If anything I think we were falling even more in love with each other. Winter break was fast approaching and we were planning a romantic week away just the two of us. Mr. and Mrs. Daniels or Mike and Janet, as I called them now, have pretty much adopted me into the family and they were pretty used to seeing me and Zander cuddling together on the couch watching a movie or giving each other pecks on the lips. Things between Kyle and Zander were tense but bearable. Zander was trying really hard for my sake and for that I loved him even more. I still remember the first day they talked civilly to each other. It was at school a few days after Zander told me he'd try to tolerate Kyle. Zander and I were at my locker while I was putting books away cause school had just let out. Kyle came up to us and made a stupid comment and I thought, great what a way to start the peace. "Can't get enough of each other in the bedroom huh, don't you guys get tired of each other's faces." Kyle said leaning against the other side of my locker. "Shut up, man." I said looking over to Zander seeing how he would react to Kyle. Surprisingly he was calm and just gave a smile which apparently threw Kyle a little off because he didn't have a quick remark to say to me like he would usually have. "Well um, I was seeing if you wanted to come chill later afterschool." Kyle said recovering as he turned to me and leaned a little too close for comfort. I took a step backwards and said, "Sorry afterschool is me and Zander time." "God, so how are we supposed to be friends if you're with him all the time?" Kyle said a little annoyed. I got really nervous at this point, because surly there was only so much of Kyle that my smart-mouthed boyfriend could tolerate, and the way Kyle was starting things off, let's just say he wasn't scoring any points for Zander's good side. "Dude..." I started. "You know what?" Zander started, his face was emotionless as we both looked at him. "You're absolutely right Kyle." "What?!" Kyle and I said at the same time. "Yeah Babe, go hang out with your friend, we have lots of time together anyways. I'm fine with it." "You sure?" I said looking into his eyes. "Yeah Sky, its cool...go on. I'll talk to you later." He said earnestly. I was in shock and so was Kyle, but at that moment Kyle was the last thing on my mind as I continued to stare into my boyfriend's eyes. "Okay cool." I leaned over and gave him a peck on the lips. Zander stared at me this time his turn to be shocked. "Babe?" he said looking around to see if anybody noticed. The strange thing was I didn't seem to care....at all. "What? Who cares, as long as I've got you I'm not worried about what people think. I've got nothing to worry about." I said stroking his cheek and his hair. Zander grabbed my hand that was stroking him and leaned into it and kissed it as he smiled, watery eyed. If people were watching I didn't notice, I definitely didn't care anymore. I kissed him again, this time with a little more passion before we were interrupted with the sound of a clearing throat...more like a hacking cough. We both turned to Kyle. "As much as I'd like to enjoy this view, which by the way I don't....." Kyle said looking put off by something. Couldn't be jealously, could it? No way, it wasn't. "Sorry Kyle forgot you were there." I said smiling as I slipped my arm around Zander's waist. "You know what, I'm going to forgive you, and just pretend those words did not just leave your mouth." He said trying to use his usual Kyle retort, but something definitely seemed off with him. "Something the matter?" Zander smiled at Kyle. "No, ...No, everything's just peachy." He said sarcastically. He frowned for a split second before turning to me and smiling. "You ready yet or do you need to suck his face off some more?" he asked. "Yeah, yeah I coming", I said turning to Zander and kissing him one more time and hugging him before I separated myself from him. "Let's go!" I said turning back to Kyle. From then on I knew things were gonna be interesting between those two. ****************************************************************** In the days that followed I became more and more comfortable showing Zander affection at school. I ignored the whispering that followed us as well the looks. People's reactions just didn't seem to have any affect on me any more. Angie was becoming depressed at being the only one single in the group, watching us all the time. It wasn't till one day after practice that I noticed a change in the way people thought of me, well at least my teammates anyways. We were undressing in the locker room when Jamie Davis, the school's star jock, made a comment to me. "Hey Ortiz, you sure your boyfriend doesn't get all jealous with you being in the showers with naked guys everywhere dude." He said snickering. The whole locker room seemed to hold their breath as they were silently waiting for my reaction. I gave the appearance of thinking really hard about that, to draw up the suspense, before giving my response. "Dude my boyfriend has nothing to worry about because he knows that I know he'd kick my ass if I ever felt one of you up. Then he'd beat the crap out the participating party." I said surprising myself with my witty remark. What surprised me more though was the fact that after the awkward silence Davis actually started to chuckle, which turned into a laugh, and then everyone joined in too. "Man you got some jokes." Davis said to me. I smiled as some of the guys patted me on the back on their way to the showers. Davis walked up to me and said, "Well at least your boy gives you a personality, dude. You're alright." He play punched my shoulder. "Thanks man." I said giving him a wink. "Just don't be staring me up and down in the showers and we'll be cool." He winked back. "Don't worry man; you have nothing to worry about. You're not exactly my type." "What? I'm everyone's type dude!" he said in mock hurt. I laughed at him, "I only got eyes for one sorry for the disappointment." He dropped the last of his clothes, "What's your boy got that I don't?" he asked with a playful smile. "A bigger dick that's for sure." I said playfully back as some of the guys still getting ready snickered. He wrapped a towel around himself as I finished undressing and grabbed my towel too. "He's a good liar too." He snickered to the guys as we both walked to the showers. Over the next few days I started connecting more to the jocks. We always joked around, sometimes about my sexuality but mostly it was other stuff. Me being gay wasn't a problem to them and I found that I was an actually funny and sarcastic guy when I wanted to be. Zander was really breaking me out of my shell and he seemed to love my new sense of humor. Over the weeks that followed we were invited to lots of parties. I was sort of becoming popular which made my mother extremely happy, believe me. Between hanging with the jocks and spending lots of time with Kyle; Zander and I's alone time was very limited. I don't think it was a problem though. I think Zander was really happy for me, happy that I was doing so well. I was sure that it didn't bother him at all. ****************************************************************** "Angie, it really bothers me." Zander said lying next to her on her bed. "We'll have you talked to him about it?" she asked. Zander laid his head on her shoulder, "No I haven't. He's happy and he's a totally new person. He's funnier, he actually has a personality, and it's just.... " "It's just now you're not the only one who sees him how he truly is, instead of the shy no personality loser that everyone thought him to be. Now you have to share him with practically the whole school. You know I hear they actually want him to run for prom king." Zander sat up on the bed, "Oh yeah, that will be so much fun; seeing him dance with some girl who wins prom queen." He said sarcastically. "You know Sky loves you Zan." Angie said sternly, sitting up too. "I know, I know", Zander sighed, "It's just I never get to see him anymore, he's either always with the dumb jocks or with that bastard." "You think Kyle has some alternative motive?" she frowned. "I know he does, he's trying to tear us apart. He knows that it bothers me that he spends so much time with Sky. He's doing it on purpose, expecting me to speak up so that I'll make Sky choose, which will make me look bad in front of Sky and I'm not going to give him that satisfaction. So I'm going to keep this to myself." Zander said calming down after working himself up with his rant. He put his head in his hands. Angie moved closer and put her hand on his shoulder. "Are you sure that's what he's doing, sweetie?" He turned to look at her, "I'm positive, Angie." "Okay Zan, so what are you gonna do?" "I don't know yet, I'm just playing it by ear." "Okay, well enough with your problems guess what that boyfriend of yours did for me?" she said excited. Zander laughed at her tactics of changing the subject as they both leaned back against the headboard of the bed. "Set you up on a date with one of his stupid jock friends." Zander smiled. "Hey they're not all stupid." Angie said in mock annoyance. "Yeah mine's not, that's about it." Zander chuckled seriously. "His name is Jamie Davis. He's really cute." "Yeah I know he was best friends with my last ex." Zander said as his smile faded. "Oh...." Angie's smile dropping as well. "Don't worry about it, he didn't know. Remember it was one of our rules; I couldn't meet any of his friends. Feel free to talk to him, I really don't care." His smile returning as he thought of Skyler. "Well if things go right, I may not be the third wheel anymore." Angie smiled back. "You know that's actually a good thing then, I won't have to listen to you whining all day about being the only boyfriend less dork in the group." Zander said in all seriousness. "Hey!" Angie yelled as she hit Zander in the head with her pillow. ****************************************************************** Zander and I were out in the Quad before class, just spending some time together. Now that we were fully open with our relationship we had no problem with public affection, no one bothered us with it, and it was almost like we were just another normal couple. Zander was sitting on top of a table with his legs spread hanging over the side. I was in between them and had him in my arms. I gave him a peck on the lips then stared at his face. He smiled at me and then stared off. Something was definitely on his mind. "What's up Babe?" I asked him. "Huh?" he asked bring his attention back to me, "oh....nothing." he looked down. "No come on, there something on your mind. I can see it on your face. Talk to me." I said lifting his face to mine so that he looked me in the eyes. Zander stared at me for a second before he sighed. "You know I'm happy for you right baby?" I nodded, "I'm glad you are doing so well socially, making new friends..." "But..."I interrupted, knowing there was a 'but' coming. "I just feel like I don't have you anymore." I leaned back from him "What that's crazy." I said in shock. "I mean I know you love me, but between the school and Kyle, I feel like I have to schedule an appointment to spend alone time with you. It feels like your dating the whole school and what's worst, you spend way more time with Kyle than you do with me." I was silent for a moment, thinking about what he just said and it hurt but I knew he was right. I had been sort of neglecting him. Zander took my silence as me being mad at him. "Babe please don't be mad, I seriously don't mind you hanging with Kyle anymore, but I just need to know where I fit in to it all." Zander said a little emotionally. I looked at him and wrapped my arms tightly around him. "Zan, I'm sooo sorry baby. I didn't mean to leave you out. Can you forgive me?" "Of course I can babe," Zander said into my chest. "I promise I'll make it up to you." I kissed his head. "Oh yeah?" Zander asked suggestively. "Yeah, this weekend I'm all yours. From Friday night to Monday morning, whatever you want to do with me or to me, no interruptions." I said winking at him. "Hmm sounds interesting." Zander said. "Yeah I bet you'll make it real interesting." I kissed him. "I've got a few ideas." He kissed me back. "So you really promise that I have you the whole weekend?" "I promise." I told him seriously. "With no Kyle or dumb jocks?" he asked. "Hey I resent that, we are not dumb." I said in mock hurt "It's ok baby, you're my dumb jock." He said pecking my lips and wrapping his arms around my waist tighter, making me completely forget about the insult. "I'm definitely all yours." I said. The bell rang for class and I walked him to his class before going to mine. After school I was over at Kyle's place, chilling like we usually do. "Dude, let's go skinny dipping." Kyle said seductively as he glanced at me and then to his backyard. "I'm up for a swim, but with trunks Kyle. You really need to stop being perverted." "Hey, I'm never perverted, that's just how I normally swim." Kyle winked. "It's too cold isn't it?" "Heated pool or we could just chill in the Jacuzzi and relax a little." Kyle said. "Sure." Kyle lent me some trunks and he put on a pair of bikini trunks that left nothing to the imagination and made it impossible not to stare at him. Kyle was a pretty hot guy, and I probably would consider being more than a friend to him if I didn't have Zander. But Zander was seriously all I needed. We took a dip in the pool which felt really nice and ended up in the Jacuzzi, just chillaxing and talking about nothing. "So we're going to have a nice weekend at my vacation house. I got everything planned and ready." Kyle suddenly brought up. "Oh shit I totally forgot about that." I said mentally kicking myself as I slapped my forehead. "We're still on right?" Kyle asked, "Just the two of us guys, and nature, some bonding time....among other things" he winked. "Kyle seriously, you need to stop with the come-ons. Zander can only take so much and I really can't make it this weekend." "What? Why?" Kyle asked with his voice raised. "I promised Zan that I'd spend the whole weekend with him. I've been sort of neglecting him lately and I need this weekend to make it up to him." I said in a sorrowful tone. "Oh, I see Zan doesn't like the fact we hangout so he's trying to subtly keep you away." He said sounding a little bitter. "No, it's not like that at all...." I started. "Isn't it? Sky we planned this trip months ago, you know how hard it was to make the rents trust me and this is the only weekend they'll let me do it. Can't you reschedule with your boyfriend? You guys can do that romance thing anytime." Kyle said getting really frustrated. I was quietly thinking about my predicament. Kyle was making me feel guilty, but I would feel guilty if I rain checked on Zander. "I'll have to think about it." I said; ready to get out the water. "Think about it? That means no." he said staring at me getting out and going for my towel. "No, it means I'll think about it." I said drying off and going into the house to get dress while Kyle stayed in the water. I went home thinking about how I was supposed to let one of them down, either way someone was going to get mad, it was definitely a no win situation. ****************************************************************** The next day I was still clueless of what to do, I hadn't made a final decision but it was leaning more in Zander's favor of course. I figured I'd just talk to him about it and see what he said. Zander was waiting for me at our usual table before school started. I walked over to him and gave him a kiss. "Good morning sexy," he told me when the kiss broke. "Morning Babe." I said a little distracted. Zander gave me a funny look, so I smiled at him and gave him another kiss. "Okay, so what's up?" Zander asked. "Nothing." I smiled trying to reassure him. "You're a really bad liar, you know that?" Zander smiled at me. "I've been hearing that a lot lately." I smiled back. "So spill, mister." Zander pressed on as I sat on the table and he stood leaning into me. "Well, I wanted to talk to you about...." I started. "Hey did you tell him yet?" Kyle interrupted, coming out of no where. Zander frowned as he looked between me and Kyle. He then focused in on me. Oh shit! "Tell me what?" "Um...I..." I said suddenly nervous. "What's going on Sky?" Zander said, his frown getting deeper as he took a step away from me. Kyle came closer as he sighed. "Sky you need more balls, I'll do it for you." "No...wait..." I tried to intercept but failed. "We have plans already this weekend, so you two have to reschedule your 'alone time' for another time." He said in a sarcastic tone. "Kyle" I snapped to shut him up. Zander stood there for a second. I didn't know what he was thinking. Way to go Kyle. "Zander..." "Save it, I really don't care." Zander interrupted s he turned and walked away. "Zan....wait." I tried but he just walked faster. "That went very well." Kyle smiled. "Kyle you're an asshole." I said as I walked away from him. ****************************************************************** "Angie have you seen Zander anywhere?" I said as I walked closer to her locker "No, I thought he was sick today, I haven't seen him since yesterday. He wasn't in our class this morning." She said putting away some books "Shit, where could he be." I said getting worried. "What happened?" Angie asked concerned. "Kyle happened, what else." I said in frustration. "Oh no, I hope everything's okay. He's been saying Kyle is trying to get in between the two of you. I hope that's not what happened." She said frowning. "What? No, that's not true. This is all just a misunderstanding. Kyle would never do a thing like that." I said "You're probably right, but in Zander's mind all he sees is you being with Kyle more than him and he feels that maybe Kyle is doing that on purpose." "That's crazy. I just need to talk to him." "Yeah that's probably a good idea." She said as she closed her locker. I headed to the parking lot and saw that Zander's car wasn't where he parked it this morning. I took out my cell to call him and it went straight to voicemail. By this time I was really getting worried. I hopped in the car, completely ditching school to find my boyfriend. I ended up at his place where I saw his car parked. I knocked on the door and waited, no one answered. So I went around to the back and walked down the pathway. Zander had like a whole park in his backyard, so if he was out there it would take some time to find him. I followed one of the paths that led to his mother's gardens. "Zander... Zan....are you out here?" I heard some movement in the tree above me, so I looked up and saw my boyfriend sitting in one of the branches. "Babe...what are you doing?" Zander was ignoring me, just looking at his hands. "Zander..." "What do you want?" he snapped. "I was worried..." "HA!" Zander said finally looking at me. "Zander, come on. Can you at least come down here so we can talk?" "I don't really feel like talking to you right now, thank you." Zander snapped again. "Zan, stop being so damn immature." I said getting frustrated. "WHAT!?" Zander shouted in anger as he climbed down. "ME? IMMATURE?" "Zander look, you ran off before we could even talk about what Kyle said." I said as he stood in front of me with his arms crossed. "What's the point, you'd rather be with him than me. I'm just getting out of your guys' way." "Zander you know that is not true." I said hurt that he'd even think that. "Isn't it? You promised me and you lied straight to my face; promising me a Kyle free weekend and then with one work Kyle gets what he wants as usual. I give up." He said turning away from me. "What is it exactly that you think Kyle wants." I said getting more frustrated in where this conversation was going. Zander turned back around with a frown "Isn't it obvious? He wants you Sky. He's taking you away from me and you don't even see it." "Why is it so hard for you to see that Kyle has changed? He's different now. I can't believe this. I thought you were over this." I said frowning back to him. This seemed to piss Zander off, "I can't believe you are so blind. He doesn't want to be your friend Skyler. He'd never be friends with you unless he wanted something from you." He blurted out. I looked at him in shock at what he just said. It stung worst than a smack to my face. "Take that back." I growled, suddenly getting very emotional. "It's true, it's harsh but it's the truth." Zander said definitely but he couldn't look into my eyes, instead he looked down to the ground. "I see, so you think I can't have friends. You think people don't really like me, is that what you're saying. You think I'm such a dumb loser don't you. Well fuck you, Zander." I said as I turned to leave. I was so hurt and angry that I didn't trust myself around him anymore. I took a few steps then stopped and without turning back to look at him I said, "By the way, I was planning to ask you about this weekend this morning just so I could tell Kyle I asked at least, but I was planning on telling Kyle no, no matter what. I had already chosen you." I walked on to my car leaving Zander standing there. I drove home, went to my room, and didn't come out till the next morning. At school as I was walking through the hall, me and Zander passed each other and gave each other looks to kill while walking away. "Whoa what was that?" Davis said to me. "Yeah, wassup?" Angie asked as she released Davis' hand. I guess they were an item now. "Nothing! Everything is just great." I said with heavy sarcasm. "Hey babe, I think I'm gonna go check on Zander, can you um..." Angie said nodding her head in my direction. I gave a sarcastic laugh as Davis nodded his head in understanding and she turned to find Zander. "Dude..." he started. "Man, let's just drop it." I said. "Okay, but you tell Angie I tried." He laughed as he held his hand out as we did our usual handshake that most of the jocks do. ****************************************************************** For the next few days, Zander and I completely ignored each other; me with my pride and ego hurt, and him with his stubbornness to see reason. Angie tried to talk to each of us to find out what happened but apparently neither of us where talking. I was hanging with Kyle at lunch and where we were sitting at just happened to have the perfect view of Zander's table where he sat with Davis and Angie. He was now the third wheel I noticed and I felt a little sympathy for him cause he looked so miserable being next to the new lovey dovey couple. That was until he turned to glare at me and my sympathy turn straight into anger as I glared back at him. I turned to look back at Kyle who was studying me. "What?" I snapped. "Geez, don't bite my head off." He said affronted. I put my head in my hands "Sorry, I'm just...." "Not in a good mood, I know." Kyle said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "Yeah." I said as we grew silent. I then sighed and turned to look at him "Look, I'm sorry, I feel responsible." He said looking really sincere. "It's not your fault Kyle. Zander and his insecurities did this." I said looking back down and putting my head in my arms on the table. "I know but if I hadn't acted like such a jerk, I don't mean to, sometimes it just comes out and I don't even know I'm being like that till it's too late." "You don't have to explain Kyle, I know." "I wish I could fix this." "Only Zander can fix this by apologizing and taking back what he said." I said as I lifted up my head to glare at Zander again. While Kyle and I were at my locker at the end of the day, Zander walked by on the way to his locker. "Kyle, where are you going?" I said as he started walking towards Zander. I went after him. "What do you want? Don't you have everything you want from me already?" Zander said as he pointedly glared from him to me. "Come on Kyle let's go." I said, feeling my frustration at Zander rushing in. "No, I want to apologize for how I acted. I was a jerk and I shouldn't have talked to you the way I did." Kyle said. There was a moment of silence as Zander studied Kyle, giving him a confused but calculated look. Then a light bulb seemed to go off in his mind. "Bullshit!" Zander said with a sardonic smile, "You don't really mean it, I know exactly what you're trying to do right now." "Zander you can be such an ass you know that." I said to him as my frustration finally won over. "And look at that... seems to be working." He said his eyes still on Kyle. "Zander stop being so....." I said raising my voice a little. "You don't talk to me. I don't want to listen to you defend him. Can't you see what he's doing right now? He's making himself look completely innocent when he's not." "I don't know what you're talking about Zander, I just feel bad about causing rift between the two of you and I thought if I came and apologized it might make you two make up." Kyle said. "Un-fucking-believable. You're making me out to be the asshole." "No you're doing a fine job of that yourself." I said as I started walking away, not seeing the evil wink and smile that Kyle gave to Zander. "Come on Kyle, let's get out of here." "That's right go screw each other for all I care." Zander shouted out. ****************************************************************** "Look, do you love him?" Angie asked over the phone to Zander. He was silent for awhile. "Zander???" "Yes, okay. Of course I do but..." "No buts! You love him so you know the right thing to do. Just go talk to him Zan." There was more silence and then Zander finally sighed, "God I hate when you're right....oh wait" Zander said hearing a beep. He lowered his phone from his ear to check the caller ID, "It's him actually." "Oh wow, he actually beat you to it." Angie said with a smile. "Yeah okay, I'll call you back alright?" "Okay." She said as he clicked over to the other line, straightening himself up more on his bed. "Hello?" he answered. "Zander, we really need to talk." "Yeah I know, look..."he started, but I interrupted him so I could get out what I needed to say before we had the chance to argue about anything. "No, listen to me first...I...I can't do this anymore Zan. You seem to have no trust in me or my judgment." "Wait Sky..." he tried to interrupt. "No let me finish. You are being so immature about this whole thing and the way that you hurt me with your words and your silence..." "What are you trying to say...you don't want me anymore?" Zander said sounding a little shocked. "NO, that's not what I'm saying at all. I love you Zander, I really do but maybe what we need is a break from each other." "A break, Sky a break is a break up. I know how these things work." Skyler said his anger rising once again. "No, calm down babe, I just think we need some space to think things out." "No, look Sky...I'm sorry okay, I love you and I'm really, really sorry." Zander said almost pleading in a panicky state. "Thank you for apologizing Zan, but I still think we need the space, it might do us both some good." I said as my heart broke to hear him like this. "Sky please." He squeaked, I could almost see the tears rolling down his face. "This is always how a break up starts....you told me you would never hurt me Sky. You told me you'd never break my heart." I couldn't stand this, I was in danger of just giving in but I knew I couldn't. This is exactly what we needed. "I promise you Zander this is not a break up, I love you more than anything. This is just space, baby." "Space, so you can sleep with Kyle on a clear conscience, I bet." He snapped, angry again. "No you see this is exactly what I'm talking about. Your insecurities are ruining us. I just need time to think, and maybe you should do the same thing too. I'm sorry Zander, I need to go.....bye." I said hanging up. Zander listened to the sudden silence on his phone just staring at the wall in his room as he tried to process what was happening. He couldn't move or think. What was he going to do? Kyle was winning. He fell right into Kyle's trap. ****************************************************************** "So you guys are taking a break?" Kyle asked as we lazed around the backyard. "Yeah, I feel bad because he freaked out about it. I'm not leaving him, and I don't want to. I love him too much. I just think that if we spend enough time apart, we'll realize how stupid we're being to each other and how much we need each other and..." "Oh stop!" Kyle said in mock grossness. "Sorry." I said embarrassed that I was going off on a tangent. "Look I know you're in a crappy mood, so I think what you need is a distraction and," Kyle paused for effect, "our weekend trip is perfect for that." I gave him a piercing look. "Kyle I told you I'm not in the mood for a trip, especially the trip that caused all this in the first place." "I said I was sorry didn't I, I even apologized to your ungrateful boy toy." He said taking offense. "Kyle!" I narrowed my eyes at him. "What..." I raised eye brows at him. "Okay, okay, I'm sorry. He's not a boy toy" I shook my head at him, "I'm not blaming you." I said in frustration. There was silence for awhile. I was hoping the subject would be dropped, but apparently Kyle didn't. "Come on Sky, it would be the perfect distraction to get your mind off of things. Or maybe it'll help you put things in perspective on where things stand between you and Zander. You never know, you could be missing out on the chance of a lifetime...." "FINE!!!" I gave in, "if I go will you shut up?" I smiled. "Of course." Kyle said getting this wide smile on his face. "You'll have the time of your life. You'll see." I don't know if I was imagining it or not, but Kyle's smile had an evil glint to it. What am I getting myself into? ****************************************************************** Hey guys Dean here, and I know.... finally I have this out, I'm not even going to make an excuse cause I was just being lazy haha. Well guess what 2 chapters left and the next chapter will bring us to the tragic beginning so finally everything will come full circle. You won't wanna miss out. Sorry to those who had to reread to remember what's going on. I'm not making promises about the next chapter coming out very soon, but just know that I intend to finish this story. The more feedback I get though, the more I want to write. I'm also thinking about the next story but I want to co-write it with someone. Let me know if you're interested. Send all feed back to adsherrill@msn.com or join my yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/deansplace/