Atticus sat at the edge of the central park, surrounded by people, happy people. "Why did they deserve happiness?" He thought bitterly, the brunette's tears had dried up and now all he felt was pain and resentment. He wanted to hate Lucas, but he couldn't, even in his current state of mind the thought of that dark hair or those hazel eyes brought a smile to the depressed brunette. Fishing his hand into his pocket the older boy wanted to talk to Lucas one last time. Punching in the number he waited, and waited, no answer. Just as he was about to give up a voice appeared on the other end of the line, "Atticus, where the hell are you?" Atticus could hear the fear in the younger boys voice, at least Lucas cared for him in some way. "Don't worry Lucas, it doesn't matter. I'm only phoning because i wanted to hear your voice one last time." Saying all he had to say the brunette pulled the phone away from his ear and was going to hang up when he heard a voice blare from the phone's speakers, "Atticus i swear if you hang up on me now, i will spend however long it takes to track you down. I've lost too many people who are important to me already, i'm not losing you aswell! Now talk to me!" Atticus was shocked to hear the emotion with which Lucas spoke. Moving the phone back to it's original position next to his ear he simply said "meet me at the campus coffee house, alone." The olders voice was nothing more than a whisper as he removed the phone again and hung up.

Jesse and Jaden were sat in a cafe, Jesse had finally put his shirt back on, the brunette wasn't sure whether to be happy that he no longer blushed everytime he saw his new friend, or sad that the boy he had a massive crush on was covering himself up after so long. Either way Jaden was pleased to have gotten to know the southern beauty, he was so interesting. To start, his appearance; he had that striking teal hair and deep emerald eyes, this guy could have pretty much anyone he wanted. Then his personality, he was funny, smart, sweet, caring. Jaden could go on for hours about how amazing Jesse was, the brunette was beginning to reconcile himself to his position, while Chazz was in the picture Jaden always will be a friend, but not anything more. The mark on Jesse's neck was a constant reminder of this. But the brunette wasn't particularly bothered, he and Jesse were so similar they would always have a close relationship, even if it wasn't physical. Jaden was just pleased to be friends with someone as amazing as Jesse.

These thoughts were all running through his mind, distracting him from his time spent with Jesse. The brunette was raised from his stupor by a hand waving in front of his face, "hey Jay, are you okay? You keep spacing out on me." The bluenette flashed Jaden a mischeivous grin, causing Jaden to blush furiously "uh yeah Jess i'm fine, just didn't feel too great yesterday." The brunette hated lying to his new friend, who currently looked very sceptical. Jaden gave him a weak smile, this seemed to convince the teal haired boy.

Jaden glanced down to check the time, jumping up from his seat Jaden ran from the cafe leaving Jesse without an explanation. The teal haired boy got up and chased his new friend, thinking that he had upset the brunette somehow. "Shit, Jazz how could i forget you?" Jaden thought, of course he knew the answer. The image of a certain teal haired teenager came to mind. Jaden could imagine his voice calling him. The smile spread across his face as he ran to the bus stop. It was only then he realized Jesse was actually calling him, Jaden stopped and turned to see Jesse catching up to him, "why are you running? Did i upset you or something?" The bluenette didn't bother to hide the worry from his face, for some reason he couldn't understand, he cared about what Jaden thought of him, more than what anyone else thought of him. Pushing the confusing thoughts to the back of his mind Jesse looked at Jaden as he explained how he had lost track of time and forgotten he had to pick up his sister. Relief flooded Jesse's face, his entire face relaxed upon hearing it wasn't something he had said. But before Jesse could dwell on the thought the brunette had bolted again down the street, now closely followed by the teal haired boy.

Sara was fuming, she had just gotten off the phone with her mother. According to her Lucas was staying at Duel Prep this summer. She stormed into the boys block of dorms, it was against the rules but at the moment the raven haired girl couldn't care less. Her family consisted of her Lucas and her mother, despite being a mature and friendly girl Sara did not find it easy to stay with her mother alone. She supposed she had never truly forgiven what her mother had done like Lucas had. That was why she was so mad, how the hell was she supposed to survive six weeks alone with her mother, it wasn't as if she could go see the neighbours either, because her and Lucas' mother lived in the middle of nowhere.

The dark haired girl burst into her brothers dorm, but rather than being greeted by her twin she saw Bastion dressed only in his underwear. The underwear was rather snug and Sara couldn't help but notice. Bastion noticed the girl stood in his door way and grabbed his robe from his bed, quickly covering himself up. The boy had blushed furiously "S-Sara?" Looking at her friend Sara immediatly blushed an even deeper scarlet than Bastion, she didn't understand why but she couldn't get the view of Bastions surprisingly toned body out of her head. "Oh no, Bastion i-i'm so sorry." She blushed even deeper, Bastion had recovered from the initial shock "don't fret, it's fine honestly. How can i help you?" He asked, "I-I was looking for Luc, have you seen him?" She asked, but truthfully she wasn't that bothered anymore, she was more confused by the surge of feelings she had just felt towards Bastion. "I think i saw him with Alexis earlier, but haven't seen him since." Still confused all Sara could come out with was "ok, well thanks, and umm sorry again for the whole you know..." She blushed even more furiously then turned and walked until she knew she was far enough away that she could run without raising suspicion. The black haired girl ended up sat under the giant oak tree on the school field, deep in her thoughts, all concerning Bastion.

Jaden and Jesse arrived at the bus stop just as the coach pulled in, the automated door slid open and a flood of kids massed on the pavement next to the bus waiting for their bags to be unloaded. Jaden immediatly spotted his sister by her hair, it was similar to Jadens, except hers was almost completely the darker brown colour with only the tips the light brown. Once she had collected her bag she looked around for her brother who waved her over. Once arriving at Jaden and Jesse the first thing she said was, "who's this Jaden?" Pointing quite obviously at Jesse who looked uncomfortable under the young girls gaze. "Jazz it's rude to point." Jaden scolded, the girl lowered her hand but continued to stare at the bluenette "anyway this is Jesse Anderson, he's a friend of mine. His family moved in down the street." The little girls face immediatly broke into a grin, "Jay, is he your boyfriend?" Mortified at what his sister had just said Jaden immediatly bent down to her eye level and firmly told her "no, he's not." Jesse was more uncomfortable than ever, it was ironic he thought how two members of one family could have such different effects on him. After greeting Jesse properly the trio proceeded to walk home, where Jesse decided to go home and check on his brother, who Jaden found out was called Mason.

Lucas had slipped away from Alexis, he had told her that Atticus hadn't said where he was and just wanted them to know he was ok. Alexis didn't beleive a word of it, but she complied anyway knowing that Lucas wouldn't lie unless it was important. So once he got a chance he ran to the coffee shop on campus, he hadn't been too late but was shocked to see Atticus leaving the shop looking depresssed, "he thought i wasn't coming..." Thought Lucas, the young boy hadn't realised how upset Atticus truly was about the night before. Lucas didn't call out for Atticus or try and get his attention in any way, he just ran at the older boy who was still unaware of the black haired youth's presence, eventually he turned at the sounds of footsteps, but instead of seeing someone running down the street Atticus felt something fly into him, arms wrapping around his neck and soft warm lips press upon his own. The sensation was amazing, the other person felt so warm upon him, Atticus didn't know who this was, but it didn't feel wrong. It was like a drug, the brunette couldn't get enough of the feelings that came with the body pressed upon his own. Which is why he whimpered slightly when he felt the other person pulling away, then he looked into those hazel eyes. The eyes of the boy he had fallen head over heels for, "L-Lucas, I... I thought you..." Atticus was at a loss for words it was perhaps the only time in his life it happened, "b-but you didn't..." Lucas looked deep into Atticus' eyes, "i'm kissing you now aren't i?" The younger whispered seductively into the brunette's ear, just as Atticus had done to him the night before. Atticus was too stunned to speak, "Atticus, will you be my boyfriend?" There was a momentary pause before Atticus burst out "of course i will!" The brunette gathered up his new boyfriend in his arms and the two kissed, it wasn't as forceful as their previous kiss, just a light push upon eachothers lips, but it was just as magical.

Jaden was sat in his room again, thinking of Jesse. The brunette couldn't understand why he was so hung up on the bluenette. He had just got a text off Lucas telling him that he and Atticus were together. Jaden was happy for his friends obviously but in the back of his mind he felt jealousy, he wanted that with Jesse. Lost in his thoughts Jaden was shocked by the sound of the doorbell, opening the door he was shocked, "what are you doing here Chazz?"


A/N

hey guys, so it was quite a short chapter but ALOT happens, or at least i think so... I may be a bit too in to this...

anyway guys i want to thank you, i went out for like 1 night and i got a load of reviews and a couple of favorites and stuff, so yeah thanks. Thats why this is a short chapter because i thought i would write one out as a sort of thank you.

i actually realised when i was looking over my other chapters that i hadn't said, i really can't write accents, so with Jesse etc i will write pretty much normally, i may try and write in an accent but im really not great at it.

i may upload another chapter a bit later on, but it depends on how quickly i write it.