Crossing the Line: Chapter 2
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Oliver wanted to give Lois a break, a break from what was happening and all of her problems. Oliver knew Lois; he knew her better than anyone. He knew that Lois was tough. Not in the masculine guy way; more like she could take whatever came her way. Getting past her mom's death was a big step, and Oliver respected her for that. Lois found it very hard to open up and share her feelings although, when she did, she felt there was only so much trust she could put in someone. She never cried, not after her mom died, and not much before for that matter.
"Hey Lo, are you sure you just don't wanna stay home tonight and watch some movies?" he said sounding concerned.
"Please Ollie, I mean have I really ever been one to stay home, especially when a party is about to start." she said with a smirk.
Oliver smiled, winked at her, and ran out the door yelling, "Race ya!!"
Lois shook her head and ran out the door after him. They both hopped in the car and Oliver started to speed off. He took a CD out of his backpack and put it in the CD player. He laughed before the music even came on. He was waiting for a hilarious reaction. Hannah Montana's "Nobody's Perfect" started blasting and Lois screamed in horror.
She yelled "Please turn it off!! Oliver!!"
Oliver laughed he was quite amused by her display of how much she hated Hannah Montana. He took it out out the CD player and he threw it out of the car window, which made Lois laugh. He laughed at that too.
Then there was a long silence... it was awkward to both of them because they never ran out of things to talk about. Maybe, it wasn't that they had run out of things to talk about, they were just both thinking about how things would turn out in the long run. How their lives would be... how their future would turn out? Oliver broke the silence.
"Lo, I'm kinda worried about you."
"Why would you be worried about me? I can take care of myself!" She said kind of defensively.
"Seriously. I don't want you to get hurt…or should I say hurt anybody." he said.
Lois laughed "I can't make any guarantees, but I'll do my best."
Lois and Oliver were headed to Swen's house. There was gonna be a little party. Swen's parents were out of the house for the weekend. Swen was 16, he had dark hair, and he was about 6'4, he was cute in a weird way. Chloe seemed to like him. Swen and Ollie were pals since ever. Long before Lois and Oliver.
They got to the party early, and Chloe was there.
"Hey cuz," she said. Lois smiled and gave her a hug.
"We need to talk later, okay?" Chloe told her.
"Okay??" Lois said. Now she was going to wonder what this conversation is gonna be about all night. They went into the house; a few members of the football team were already there. There was no sign of Trent, which was a relief for Lois. She made her way through a crowd of people, and then she saw him.
Trent had obviously picked up the phone before Lois had seen him, because he was hanging up the phone now. She stared at him. Wait, were those tears she saw streaming down his face? No, it couldn't be? Trent crying? It just didn't seem possible to her. There was a part in Lois that wanted to help him, and ask him what was wrong, but then there was still that bitterness towards him, that just didn't seem to want to go away. The comforting part of her took over her body; Trent was sitting at the table when Lois walked over to him.
"Your about the only thing that could make me smile right now," he said trying to quickly wipe the tears away from his eyes.
"Glad I could be of service," she said trying to look happy. Trent also tried to smile, but a tear fell from his eye and he turned away.
Lois, looking concerned sat down next to him. "What's wrong?" she asked. She sounded soft-spoken and nice which was a big surprised to her and Trent. Trent looked at her, he now didn't even care that tears were streaming down his face. He could really care less.
"My Mom has just been placed in Belle Reve, the doctors said she has schizophrenia and the house is not a safe environment for her right now." he said trying to hold back the rest of the tears. "You must think I am such a girl right now, I can't believe I'm crying."
"No, I don't think that at all, not at all," Lois said.
"You know I just feel that I've lost her, like she's dead, but she's still very much alive."
Lois looked at him as if he was a totally different person. "I know how it feels to lose someone." Trent 's dad died when he was young. "But I also know what its like to have a loved one who is alive but feel like they aren't really there. I feel like I've lost both my parents this year."
She felt as if she was going to cry herself, but she didn't. "What does is your brother saying about everything?" Lois asked.
"He could care less, his girlfriend is his world right now, and he has no time for anyone but himself. So I called him, he told me to stay here for the night and he would pick me up in the morning. The authorities said my brother can take care of me as long as I behave..."
"Well that shouldn't be a problem," Lois said sarcastically trying to lighten the mood.
Lois was looking at Trent in a different way; she never realized how very nice his eyes were until now. They were a piercing blue, quite handsome, they were full of fear. The bravery covered the fear, but you could still see it. She now felt attracted to him; Trent was staring into her eyes. They were lost in each others eyes, and they were locked into each other. Lois felt as if she couldn't control her actions. He moved his hand on top of her's, he held it not tightly but not softly, but while he held her hand she felt assured everything would be alright.
Oliver spotted them and ruined the moment. He ran over and pushed him away from Lois. Trent fell over in his chair. Lois was in a daze. The noise of Trent toppling over in his chair caused everyone in the room to turn in their direction.
"Are you alright?" Oliver practically screamed in her face.
"Yea I'm fine, you don't have to scream...God.
"Hey, you her boyfriend or something, buddy?" Trent yelled at Oliver.
"Yea, well what if I am??!!" He yelled back.
They were in a good distance of each other did they really need to scream? Lois thought, it was most likely just for the effect.
"Well since I know your not! Why don't you BACK-OFF!?" Trent said throwing a hard punch at Oliver's left cheek. It hit him hard and he fell on the ground. Everything seemed to be happening in slow motion to Lois. Oliver slowly brought his hand up to his lip where he had gotten hit badly. His hand was covered with blood. This filled him with rage.
"Do NOT mess with Lois!" Oliver yelled throwing himself at Trent .
They flew across the room, hitting the ground hard. "STOP!!" Lois screamed.
"Just stop!! PLEASE!!" Lois yelled again as she started to cry. You'd think it would be any girls dream for two guys as cute as Oliver and Trent to be fighting over you, but not right now, not to Lois.
Surprisingly, Trent is the one who went after Lois. He came into the room, and ran up to her... "Don't cry baby, please don't cry... I'm really sorry about all this; it's over now everything will be fine."
That assured feeling came over her once again and she thought, could this really be happening? Is this really Trent ? Is he capable of being this way?
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