"What is up with you and Caitlin Seeger!" Taylor demanded her boyfriend Brett.
"Nothing." Brett stepped back from Taylor who waved her hands in front of him.
"Yea right. Every time I turn around you are by Caitlin's side or looking at her with an love sick look on your face." Taylor yelled.
"Not so." Was all Brett could say. *Smooth Brett real smooth.* "Taylor I want to be with you; you are my girlfriend after all. I wouldn't be dating you if I didn't have special feelings for you." He smiled softly at Taylor.
Taylor just shook her head and turned and walked down the street.
"Aww man. I hate this." Brett growled and waved his arms backward and took an step back as he watched Taylor storm away. *What Taylor said is so untrue. Me and Caitlin. Yea right!!" Brett turned around and started back to the Lowes' ranch to visit with his best friend Griffin. *Wait till I till Griff about this. He'll get an great laugh at it.*
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When Brett arrived at the Lowes' ranch he stopped and watched Caitlin ride Bandit out to the range. He didn't realize that he had an soft and love stuck expression on his face.
*He's so into Caitlin.* Griffin thought with an slight smile as he spotted his best friend by the coral. *What about Taylor?* He frowned at the thought of the most popular girl at High River High.
"Hey Brett." Griffin called from behind Brett.
Brett turned around and grinned. "Griffin my man how's it going?"
"Had another fight with Taylor I see." Griffin knew right off the bat.
"Yea. Girlfriends can be an pain sometimes." Brett kicked the coral with his foot.
"Yea I know when I was dating Nikki and I thought you were going after her I was upset." Griffin said.
"Taylor accused me of having feelings for Caitlin." Brett bursted out.
"Do you?" Griffin asked matter of factually.
"No. Yes. But just as friends." Brett said.
*More than friends you mean.* Griff thought as he heard the uncertainly tone in Brett's voice.
"Just friends." Brett repeated more sure this time.
"You are in love with her." Griffin said matter of factually. "You can deny it to yourself all you want but Taylor knows it; and I know it."
Brett frowned and stepped toward Griffin. "I said I like Caitlin as an friend. Nothing more. Got it!" He growled.
"If you only cared for Caitlin as an friend than you would not be acting like this." Griffin said calmly not at all scared of the way Brett was coming to him. "Tell me what you like about her."
Brett stopped and leaned against the corral "I like the fact that she is up front and honest. Always honest. I like the fact that she pulled herself from her non trust to trusting people. I love her gosh darn it..... I love her." Brett said in shock. "I love Caitlin Seeger and I want to be with her always." Brett frowned. "But she will never have me. She doesn't love me. Why brother."
"So that's why you are with Taylor." Griffin nodded his head and thought back to when Brett and Taylor first started dating. He always had an feeling that Brett had special feelings for Caitlin ever since they first meet. But he knew at the time Caitlin didn't have any feelings for Brett; or for anyone for that matter. Than Brett started dating Taylor and seemed happy. Than Will came into the picture and Caitlin seemed to be almost in love with the guy. She was never like that with Eric. *Eric and Caitlin always got on each other nerves to really work out.*
"Will came into the picture and Caitlin fell head over heels for him. For his fake bad boy mange. It fit in with her 'I don't need anyone' mood she was in." Brett said the exact thing that Griffin was thinking.
"Yea what an poseur. A true loser. I am glad that he is out of Caitlin's life." Griffin said.
"But is he really. You know when he was in that motorcycle accident last month and when Caitlin went to visit him in the hospital they seemed close again." Brett sighed and groaned.
"How many times have you seen them together since than?" Griffin looked pointing at Brett. "By my count zero. Caitlin is over him."
"I still care for Taylor." Brett counted. "Side Caitlin doesn't have any feelings for me expect for friendship. She may be better off with Eric or Jordan but not with dumb jock me." Brett pounded his chest with his hand.
"Stop it Brett. You are not an dumb jock. You are an very talented jock. With an bright further. I like both Eric and Jordan but they are so not right for Caitlin. You are." Griffin said with passion.
"How I have never rebelled before in my life. I never want to rebel. How can Caitlin who basically gibes on rebellion like an wimp like me." Brett said in frustration.
"How can she not." Dori asked from behind the two boys.
"Mom." Griffin said shocked as he turned and saw his mother.
"Dr. Lowe. You weren't apposite to hear that." Brett swallowed the lump in his throat and blushed red at the site of Griffin's mother.
"How long have you been there?" Griffin asked.
"The entire conversion. I was going to turn away and leave you two but than I heard you bash Will...." Dori said with an slight frown to her face.
"Will deserves to be bashed. You know everything he put Caitlin through." Griffin frowned.
"Will is just going through and rough patch in his life right now. Be patient and he will be the man he is apposite to be. Look how Caitlin is coming along now." Dori pointed out. She too was very angry at Will for hurting Caitlin but she was an wise woman who knew that life throws curves balls once in an while so she had patients for other people down points.
Both Griffin and Dori noticed how Brett's face soften at the mere mention of Caitlin.
"What are you going to do about Taylor?" Griffin asked.
"I have to break things off with her. It is not fair to string her along any longer. She deserves to find someone to make her happy and who can devote his heart solely to her; after God that is." Brett said.