Chapter 2

A/N Okay here is another chapter, sorry for the late update. I just wanted to let people know that there is no underage sexual acts going on in this story, these boys are all sixteen which is the legal age of consent. Anyways if you like my story please review it and if you have suggestions for this story just let me know in a review.

Shannon's POV

I heard a knock at my door and I went to answer it. It was Eve and Evan. I smiled at Eve and looked over Evan. He looked even better than when I saw him sitting in the coffee shop. "Come in." I said opening my door. I stepped aside and Eve and Evan walked in. "Evan this is Shannon, Shannon this is Evan." Eve said. Evan was standing behind Eve and Eve pulled him in front of her. "Hey." I said to Evan. I walked over to Evan and stood in front of him. "Don't be shy." I told him. Evan nodded. "I'll leave you two to talk." Eve spoke up. Eve left the room and Evan stared at the door when she closed it. "Relax, your safe with me. You can sit down." I said. Evan sat in a chair by the desk and I sat next to Evan in the other chair. "Eve told me that you wanted me to come live with you, that you would take care of me." Evan said. "Yea, she's right. I do want you to come live with me." I said. "Why?" Evan asked. Evan looked to the floor and I reached over tilting his face to look at me. "I like you Evan. I think you're cute and you're not exactly living a good life. I want you to be happy." I said. "And you think you can make me happy?" Evan asked. I leaned in "I know I can make you happy." I whispered. I could sense Evan nervousness "I don't know how I would leave." Evan told me. "You let me take care of that. If you want we can leave tomorrow." I told Evan. Evan looked to be in deep thought "How can I live with you if I don't know you. I don't know if I would be safe." Evan said. I placed my hand on Evan's shoulder "Evan please baby, I would never hurt you. If you don't like living with me you can leave. I'm not forcing you to come with me and I wont hold you against your will." I said. Evan looked right into my eyes "Okay, I'll go with you." Evan said.

Eve came back to the room "We need to get Evans bags from his uncles." she said. "I don't want anything from his house. I have everything I want in my bag here." Evan said. I looked to see a black backpack by Evans chair. "Okay, what ever else you need I can get you when we get back to my place." I said. "Okay, well if everything is okay here then I'm going to leave for the night." Eve said. Evan looked at her with a smile, letting her know that he was fine here with me. Eve left "So are you hungry?" I asked Evan. "Yea." he said. I looked at the hotel menu "We can call for room service, what kinds of food do you like to eat?" I asked. "I like hamburgers, pizza or pasta." Evan said. I handed him the menu "Choose anything you want." I told him. Thirty minutes later the food came and we were sitting down eating at the table. Evan looked reluctant to talk so I didn't push him. We were almost finished eating when he finally spoke up. "What kind of work do you do?" Evan asked. I smiled "I own a tattoo parlor and working on opening my second one." I said. "I guess I should of known that." Evan said looking at my tattoo covered arms. I laughed and continued to eat. "How old are you?" Evan asked me. "I'm twenty five." I said. "I'm sixteen." Evan told me. "I know, Eve told me." I said. We chatted a little bit more and it was easy to talk to Evan. I was really curious about Evans family life and I wanted to know but I didn't want to upset Evan so I kept my mouth shut.

I called the air port and booked two flights back to North Carolina for the next day. I needed Evan out of this place as soon as possible. Evan was sleeping on the other bed. I changed my hotel room for a double bed. I didn't want Evan to feel uncomfortable with sleeping in the same bed with me. I wanted Evan to make the decision on his own if he wanted to be with me.

Getting on the plane was easy considering Evan was now a runaway e and there was no telling what could happen. I picked up my car from the airport and drove the hour to my house. Evan looked out the window as we drove through town "I live right outside of town. I like to have my space." I said. "Yea, I would like that too.' Evan said. I pulled up to my house and parked in the garage. Evan grabbed his black back pack before I could offer to carry it. "You live here by yourself?" Evan asked. He was looking at my two story house. "Yea, my friend lives down the block. He come by a lot." I told him. Evan followed me into my house. I showed him around and showed him where he would be sleeping. I gave him my guest room for now.

I decided to take a couple of days off of work so I could get Evan settled in. I wasn't sure what Evan wanted to do. "Evan do you feel like going shopping for some things." I asked. I knew it was risky to take Evan out but everything should be straightened out in a few days. Evan was sitting on his bed looking through his black back pack. He looked up "Are you sure I can go? I don't want to get you into trouble." Evan asked me. I shrugged "It shouldn't be a problem, we are pretty far away from where you used to live." I said. Evan put away his back pack and followed me to my car.

We were at Walmart and I watched as Evan looked through clothes. "Pick out anything you want, money is not a problem for me." I told Evan. Evan looked to me unsure and went back to looking at jeans. Evan picked out a few outfits and I tossed in a few that I thought would look good on him. We looked around Walmart to buy other things Evan would need. "Thank you." Evan told me once we were in my car. "Evan I told you that I would take care of you and I plan on doing just that." I said to him. I leaned over my seat and placed a kiss on his cheek. "No need to thank me." I said. Evan blushed.

I helped bring Evans things into his room. I helped Evan put away his stuff. "So I'm going to take some time off of work for a few days so I can help you get settled in." I told Evan. "You don't need to do that, I'm okay here." Evan said. "I want to take some time off and its no problem. I want to get to know you more." I said. I took hold of Evans hands and kissed them, smiling. I watched Evan blush and look away. "I'm going to cook us some food." I said letting go of his hands. "Okay, can I help?" Evan asked. I nodded and Evan followed me into the kitchen.

Randy's POV

"I'm glad that we could make this arrangement." I said handing the check over. "Yea, yea just make sure to take good care of him. I don't want him in any more trouble." Mr. Hardy said. Mr. Hardy put away the check for five thousand and handed me Jeff's bags. I had just brought Jeff from his dad. Of course it took some work. Hunter had convinced Mr. Hardy that Jeff would be better off living with me.

I walked into Jeff's room. "Good morning, ready to leave?" I asked. "And where am I going?" Jeff asked. Jeff was sitting on the bed. "Home with me." I said. "No, I'm not." Jeff said. "Where else do you think your going to go then? Your dad doesn't want you anymore; he says you are too much trouble. You have no other family." I said. "Then I'll live on the streets, but there is no way I'm going with you." Jeff said. I knew this was going to be difficult. "Stop being difficult, if you stay with me then you can get help for your problem." I told him. "I don't have a problem, I don't need your help." Jeff said. "You have been hospitalized five times in the past year for drug overdose and you have just tried to commit suicide." I said. All Jeff did was shrug "I don't know why the state hasn't taken you by now." I said. "The state couldn't give a shit about me, no one does." Jeff said. "The only one that seemed to care left me." Jeff quietly said. Jeff stood up "Where are my bags?" Jeff asked. "There in my car, lets go." I said. "Who said you can take my stuff?" Jeff asked getting in my face. I towered over Jeff "Your dad, now get your ass into my car before I have to drag you myself." I growled at him. Jeff backed down and slowly made his way out of the room.

"You have a nice car." Jeff said once we got to my car. Jeff was hesitant to get in and I watched him until he was in the car and buckled in before I got in my car. "How far do you live from here?" Jeff asked me. "About an hour away." I told him. "You travel almost an hour to work every day." Jeff said. "Yea, it's the best hospital to work at." I told him. I drove into my garage. I parked and took Jeff's bags out of the trunk. Jeff slowly made his way into my house. He looked around "Are you going to stand there and just look." I asked him. Jeff followed me into the guest room. "This is going to be your room. I'll leave you to unpack." I told him. Jeff walked in and he slammed the door in my face. I glared at the now closed door before making my way into the kitchen. I needed to eat something, I was starving. I made a turkey and cheese sand which and I made one for Jeff. Jeff was still in the guest room and I knocked on the door. I opended the door and saw Jeff sitting on the bed, his bags were still where I left them. "Your not going to unpack?" I asked. Jeff shrugged and looked at the sandwhich in my hand. "This is for you, I will leave it on the table. "Do you need help unpacking?" I asked. Jeff shook his head, "I just want to be left alone." He said. I nodded and left his room. I knew it was going to take time for Jeff to adjust to living with me.

I left Jeff alone for the rest of the day. I worked out in my gym, and watched some T.V. My cell phone rang and I smiled when I saw who was calling me. "Hey man." I said. "Hey Rand, what's up?" my friend John asked. "Nothing much just trying to relax and you?" I asked. "Just came home from doing some shopping with Justin." John said. Justin was the boy that was now living with John and by the way that John talks about him makes me think he really likes him. "Yea well at least Justin wants to be near you, Jeff won't even stay in the same room as me." I said. "Don't worry; you just have to give him some space. He's going through a lot right now and just needs some one to be there for him even if he doesn't say it." John told me. I could always count on John to give me some good advice when ever I need it. "Yea I know, I just hate seeing Jeff like this." I said. "Well then make more of an effort then. He will see that you really want to be there for him." John told me. "Okay, thanks John.' I said. "No problem Rand. Talk to you later." John said. I hung up the phone and an idea came to my head.

I knocked on Jeff's door, "Hey I'm going to cook us some dinner, why don't you join me?" I asked. I stared at Jeff who looked up from his drawing pad "Okay." he finally said. Jeff followed me into the kitchen. 'So what kinds of food do you like eating?" I asked looking into the fridge. "Anything." was all Jeff said. I decided to cook us some pasta with sauce and a salad on the side. "I can make the salad." Jeff said. Jeff took some lettuce, tomatoes and onions and started chopping them. "I used to help my dad cook when I was home." Jeff said. "My mom taught me how before I graduated high school, she said I needed to learn if I was going to live on my own." I said. I think I saw a smile on his face. "It's always good to learn how to cook." Jeff said. "You know Jeff if you need to talk I'm here for you." I told him. Jeff glared at him "I don't need to talk to no one." Jeff said. I glared back "I'm just saying, don't get all pissy with me." I told him. Jeff softened his face and looked down to the floor, "I'm sorry, I don't like talking about it." he said. I walked over to Jeff standing in front of him. I lifter his chin up "It's okay." I said. "No it's not, nothing is okay, nothing is ever okay." Jeff whispered. "Jeff listen to me. As long as your with me, living here nothing is going to hurt you. You understand?" I asked. Jeff nodded and I pulled him into my chest. Jeff struggled but gave in and let me hug him.

Wade's POV

I made sure that my house was cleaned and organized before Cody arrived. Hunter told me that Eve was going to bring Cody around mid afternoon so I spent most of the morning making sure my house was cleaned. The door bell rang and there was Eve and Cody. Cody smiled at me. They walked in and I immediately took Cody's bags from him. "Thanks" Cody mumbled. Eve looked around my house smiling. "I hope my house is clean enough." I said. "Your house is very clean." Eve said. Cody looked around and then walked up to me. "Thank you, for helping me." Cody said. I gently pulled Cody to my chest, "It was no problem love." I said. "I'm going to let you guys talk while I look around." Eve said. I nodded and took Cody by the hand. I led him into the living room. I couldn't help but notice the bruise on Cody's left cheek. It looked like he tried to cover it up but failed. I traced my finger lightly over it. Cody winced and I removed my hand "Never again." I whispered. "Okay, everything seems good to me, Cody are you okay here?' Eve asked. I glared at Eve "Of course he's okay here." I growled. "Relax, its just precaution. I know he is more than okay here." Eve told me. "I'm fine." Cody told Eve. "Okay, then I'm going to go then. If you need anything just call Hunter." Eve said. Eve left and I was now alone with Cody. "How about we try to get you settled in." I suggested. Cody gave me a small smile and followed me to the bedroom.

"Cody, love how does pizza sound for dinner tonight?" I asked. Cody was watching the television I wasn't sure if he heard me from the kitchen. I walked over to him and placed my hand on his shoulder "Cody" I said, maybe a little bit too loudly. Cody jumped "I'm sorry love, I just wanted to know if you wanted pizza for dinner." I said. "Yea.. pizza is okay." Cody stuttered out. I think I might have scared him a bit. I brushed my hand over his cheek and smiled. "I'm going to order now, do you want anything on it?" I asked. Cody shook his head. I needed to be careful on how I approached Cody and talked to him. I didn't want him to be intimidated by me.

"Is what Hunter does illegal?" Cody asked me. We were sitting in the living room just lazily watching what was on television. "I don't know what you mean." I said. "Hunter had one of his friends Eve come talk to me and she said that Hunter's job is to get troubled or abused teens away from their home so they can have better homes but she says that Hunter gets paid for the teens to live with other people." Cody told me. I smiled "Yes well I did pay for you but only because I didn't want you living at home. I don't know if what Hunter does is illegal but I do know that Hunter helps a lot of teenagers." I said. I moved closer to Cody on the couch and wrapped an arm around Cody. Cody laid his head on my shoulder. "I'm safe here with you." Cody said. It sounded more like a question than a statement. "Yes Cody, you are safe with me." I said. Cody looked up at me and moved his face closer to mine. His lips touched mine and I kissed him gently. I broke the kiss and Cody leaned on me without saying anything.

CM Punk's POV

Like promised Hunter brought Ted over to my apartment the next afternoon. The night before I made sure the guest room was fixed up and Ted had some things he might need.

Hunter stayed until I was finished giving Ted the tour of my place. "Okay Ted I'm leaving now. You be good for Punk now." Hunter said to Ted. Ted smiled "Yes I know." he said. "I'll see you in a couple of days" Hunter told me. I decided to take a couple of days off so I could get Ted settled in and make sure he was going to be okay. Hunter left and Ted was sitting on the couch. Ted had one bag with him, a black duffle bag. "Do you want to see your room?" I asked. Ted followed me to his room "I brought some things you might need, its in the closet. If you need anything let me know." I said.

I made an appointment for Ted to see a doctor tomorrow afternoon. I wanted to make sure Ted was healthy and that him taking pills and drinking didn't do some serious damage to his body. I also was planning to put him into group therapy sessions that would help him deal with his problems. "Ted I made an appointment for you to see a doctor tomorrow." I said. "I'm not sick or anything." Ted said. "I know but I want to make sure you stay healthy and the doctor is going to help you with your smoking and drinking problems." I told Ted. "Okay, if the doctor is going to make sure I stay healthy then I'm okay with seeing a doctor." Ted said.

The next day I drove Ted to the doctor's office. We were waiting in one of the patient rooms, waiting to see doctor Shawn Michaels. He was a well known doctor here and he was best friends with Hunter. Shawn walked into the room and looked at Ted. "Ted, Dibiase?" Shawn asked? Ted nodded, I could tell he was nervous. Shawn smiled at Ted. "I'm doctor Michaels but you can call me Shawn. No need to be nervous Ted." Shawn said. "Okay.' Ted said. "Now what brings you into the office today Ted?' Shawn asked. Ted looked to me "Ted is living with me now and I just wanted him to get checked out." I told him. Shawn could tell that there was more to the story. "Okay then well why don't you let me check out Ted. You can wait in the waiting room." Shawn said. I left the room while Shawn checked Ted and would probably have a talk with him. I looked over some magazines until Shawn walked into the waiting room. "Hey you can come back into the room now." Shawn told me. "So Ted is healthy, but he could use more nutrition. We had a good chat about the right foods he should eat." Shawn told me. "That's good, I'll make sure he eats right." I said. "Okay, Ted I need to talk with Punk here so why don't you bring this paper to the front desk." Shawn said handing Ted a paper. Ted nodded and left the room. "Is there something wrong with Ted?" I asked "Nothing is wrong with him, I just wanted to suggest that you put him into counseling some treatments for the drinking problems." Shawn told me. I nodded "I know, I was going to put him into the group therapy at the place I work at" I said. "Good, just keep an eye on him. I spoke with Ted, he wants to change. He says he hated taking pills and drinking but found no other way that helped him." Shawn said. "I know, we talked last night, I'm going to try everything I can to get him through this." I told Shawn. Shawn nodded "Okay, well if Ted feels sick just give me a call." Shawn said. "Will do Shawn, and thanks again." I said before leaving to get Ted and go home. Ted was silent the ride back home "You okay Ted?" I asked. "Yea I just wanted to know if I could go back to school." Ted said. "If you really want to go then I will check out some schools near by. I think graduating is a good thing for you." I said.

The rest of the day I spent trying to get to know Ted better. I didn't bring up his family life but asked questions about the things he liked. We ordered Chinese food and was eating in the living room. "How long have you been working for Hunter?" Ted asked. "I did an internship with him my senior year of high school and then he hired me part time when I was in college." I told him. "How long were you in college?" Ted asked. "I graduated last year and now I work full time for Hunter." I said. "What made you want to help troubled teenagers?" "I don't know, I guess seeing the teenagers in my high school struggle made me feel bad and I felt a strong need to help them." I said. Ted had a lot of questions and I knew if I answered them then Ted would learn to trust me and open up more to me about his family life.

That night before I went to bed I looked up the name and number of the nearest high school so I could get Ted registered there. I was happy that Ted wanted to go to school and he wanted to get his life back in order. I wrote down the information I needed to get Ted started at his new school. Before going to bed I snuck my head into Ted's room to see him fast asleep. I wasn't sure what was going to happen but I hoped everything would work out for Ted.

John's POV

I woke up to the smell of coffee. I walked into my kitchen and Justin was sitting down at the counter reading a newspaper. "Hi." he said looking up at me. "Hey, you made coffee?" I asked. Justin nodded "I wanted to have coffee ready for you when you woke up." Justin told me. I walked over to the coffee pot and poured me a cup. "Thanks Justin, you want a cup?" I asked. Justin shook his head "I don't drink coffee." he said. It was probably a good thing that he didn't. I sat down next to Justin and he handed me the newspaper. "I could cook us some breakfast." Justin said. 'You don't have to if you don't want to." I told Justin. Justin smiled at me "I don't mind, I like cooking." Justin said. I nodded, if Justin wanted to cook then I wasn't going to stop him. I showed Justin where all the cooking things were and I watched as he started cooking.

When breakfast was over I helped clean up the dishes. I refused to let Justin clean up. "Do you want to work out?" I asked. I taught Justin about the work out equipment and how to use it. Justin looked like he really liked to work out and I couldn't help but stare at him. It made me loose my concentration but I didn't mind. Every time Justin caught me staring at him he would wink at me. I knew he liked that I was checking him out. Two hours late we were showering, in separate bathrooms and went out. "How long have you been in the United States?" I asked Justin. We decided to take a walk around my neighborhood because Justin wanted to look around. "I have been here for almost a month. I like it here, sometimes I miss Africa but then I realize that there is nothing there for me anymore." Justin told me. I understood what Justin was telling me. I moved out of my parents house at eighteen and never went back. I missed my family but it was better for me to stay away. "Do you like what you see?" I asked. "Yea, you live in a nice neighborhood. I like that you have a park down the street and a few stores to shop at." Justin said. "Speaking of shopping, we need to get you more things." "Okay."

After our walk we decided to hit the mall and do some shopping. All the stores were advertising back to school stuff and that reminded me that maybe Justin should go to school. "Justin how would you feel about starting school?" I asked him. We were looking at some clothes. "I wouldn't mind going to school, but how would I be able to go?" Justin asked. "Don't worry about it, if you want to go I could make it happen." I said to Justin. "Okay. I like these jeans." Justin said holding up a pair of dark blue jeans. "Try them on see if they fit." I told Justin. I watched as Justin went into the changing room to try on the jeans. While he was doing that I looked around for some more jeans and shirts Justin would like. I tossed them under the door for him to try on. I stood outside the changing room and waited. Justin showed me everything he tried on. He looked good in all the clothes he tried on and I couldn't help but stare at him when he would turn around modeling the tight jeans.

I had a cart full of clothes for Justin and myself. After seeing Justin shop for his clothes, it made me want to shop. The next shop we went to was footlocker. Justin needed sneakers. I watched Justin look for some sneakers but he didn't seem to like any of them. "We can go to another store." I said to him. "Its not that, the sneakers are expensive." Justin said. I shook my head. "Price don't matter to me Justin. Pick the sneakers that you want." I said. "But you already brought me so many clothes." Justin said. I shrugged, "I like to shop and your going to need them for school." I said. Justin nodded and took two pairs that he seemed to like. I looked around myself.

The trip to the mall tired me out and I planned on taking a nap. Justin was in his room putting his clothes away. I went to my room and laid on my bed. There was a knock at my door and I saw Justin standing there. "Hey what's up?" I asked. "I just wanted to know what you were doing, I will leave you alone to take a nap." Justin said. I smiled at Justin, he was sweet. "Its okay, if you need anything let me know. I'm going to sleep some." I said. "Okay I will get dinner ready." Justin told me. I motioned for Justin to walk over to me and I sat up from my bed. "Justin you don't have to cook all the time." I said. "I don't mind I like to cook and I want to help you as much as I can since your letting me stay here." Justin told me. I pulled Justin close to me "You don't have to repay me for staying here, I like having you here." I said. I ran my hand down Justin's left cheek and watched as Justin blushed. "I'm going to take a nap now, so go do what you want to and if you want to cook then do it." I said. I placed a kiss on Justin's cheek and watched him leave the room.

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