Okay. Here is the next chapter in this strange story you will never see happen in the series but many people love to think would..........

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Well, I do own some things. A few cd's and whatnot, but I own none of the characters or the show or anything. How much does that suck????? I also don't own any of The Calling's songs or anything, if I did, would I be writing this crap?????

Chapter 4

They were all eating dinner. Shawn had gone home and it was a little family meal. Lunch had been pretty good, considering only his mom was home and Cory just made sandwiches.

"So," Cory's mom said while sitting down, "what did y'all do today?"

"I went to Sarah's house and her mom said I could spend the night tomorrow." Morgan answered.

"Well, I'll have to talk to her mom and see what we can do." Mrs. Matthews answered. Everyone else said 'nothing much' or 'nothing to exciting.' When Eric said this, Cory answered 'made out with Shawn' under his breath.

"What did you say hon?" She said, looking at Cory. The table got quiet and all eyes were focused on Cory.

"I said I lost my pawn.........in my chess game." Cory changed his answer. His mom just smiled and nodded. The rest of the family knew what he had said.

After dinner, his mom got to thinking. 'Cory doesn't have a chess game.'

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Cory was busy reading a book he had to read over winter vacation at the small desk in his room. He heard the door open, but didn't bother to turn around.

"Cory." It was his mom. She heard a little 'hmm' out of him but he still didn't turn around. "You don't have a chess game, do you?"

"No, Mom, I don't." He answered quickly, not even thinking about why she asked him that. "Yeah I do." He replied extremely fast while turning in his chair. His mom looked at him like she knew he was hiding something. 'Crap' Cory thought.

"Why do you lie to me? You didn't really lose your chess piece, did you?" His mother inquired. 'Well, this day had to come some time.' He thought.

"No, I didn't lose my pawn mom. I actually said that I made out with Shawn." He said to get the situation over with. She sat there, with neither a happy or shocked expression on her face. She was actually pale and looked like she had about a million things going through her head.

"Mom?" Cory started. She started shaking her head.

"No, it's not true. You're lying. People can't be gay, it's a sin. Why? Why are you so mean to me by doing something that terrible?" She ended. With that, she got up, walked away, and left Cory tear stricken. 'How could she not accept me?' He thought over and over again. All this crying and thinking was quite tiring for him, so he decided to take a nap on his bed.

His mother had to do something to let her anger out. She went to go find her husband to ask if he knew about this. He was reading his paper on their bed.

"Did you know that Cory is a homosexual?" She inquired. He slowly put his paper down and looked at his wife.

"Why? Does it bother you?" He asked looking at her expression, and since it wasn't good, he figured something was wrong.

"Of course it does." She said, looking very annoyed. "It even says it in the bible that it's a sin to be gay. Haven't you ever heard the expression, 'God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve?"

"Okay, you see, that was something a grade schooler would say." He explained to her. "What's so wrong about it?" She looked at him like he was blind in the eyes. She threw her arms up in frustration and ran out. Alan was left either to go see how Cory was doing, or go back to reading his paper. He decided to read the sports and figured Cory would've called Shawn or talked to Eric.

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The next time Cory had woken up, it was early the next morning. When he looked over at the clock, the little green numbers showed it was 6:23 in the morning. He felt like he slept enough, and decided to get up. Eric must've stayed with Jack or something, because he wasn't here. Cory was thankful for that, he didn't really want to talk to anyone, except maybe Shawn. He reached over and turned on his radio to keep him occupied until somebody got up and made breakfast or something. He decided to listen to Camino Palmero by The Calling. He really liked the last song on there because it relates to him a lot.

'Even God himself and the faith I knew,

it shouldn't hold me back, it shouldn't keep me from you.

'Yeah, if only mom could understand that.' He thought while listening to the rest of the song.

By the time he went through the rest of the CD, it was about 7:30. He decided he was going to have to go downstairs and face his mom sooner or later. So, he took his morning shower and got dressed. When he went downstairs, his mom was in the kitchen making pancakes.

"Morning Mom." He greeted her. She just ignored him and pretended not to hear. He shook his head at her childish behavior. "Whatever......I'm going to Shawn's place after breakfast, just wanted to let you know." Still nothing. He was so annoyed he just had a bowl of cereal and left before she was done with breakfast. Eric had been watching from the little corner connecting the kitchen to the living room and wondered how she would react to when he told her about him and Jack.

"Hello Mom." He said while walking over to and sitting at the table.

"Hello Eric, where were you last night?" She asked while serving him a plate of pancakes.

"I was..." He hesitated a bit," I spent the night with Jack." She smiled and nodded. Eric was thankful that she didn't think anything of it.

"Did you make them smiley?" He asked as his airheaded self.

"Of course I did." She answered. When she set the plate down, there where two little pancakes as eyes and one big one for the mouth. She poured the syrup on the larger pancake as a moth that was smiling. As Eric was so transfixed on the syrup slowly running down the pancake, he also noticed it turned into somewhat of a frown.

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Shawn had woken up earlier than he normally does. He went in the bathroom to brush his teeth and he saw Cory's toothbrush next to his. He bought it so he didn't have to bring his own whenever he spent the night. Shawn just smiled to his reflection in the mirror and squeezed the toothpaste on the toothbrush.

"Those stupid double colors never come out like they do on the commercials." He said to himself while looking at the tube of toothpaste. After he finished, he decided to get some breakfast when he heard the doorbell ring. He really didn't want to go get it, but after a while when there wasn't a second ring, he thought the person either left or Jack got it. When he heard Jack's voice, he decided to go see who it was.

Cory was sitting down on the couch as Jack was offering him breakfast when Shawn came in.

"No thanks." He replied. As he turned to see Shawn, he stayed seated and waited for Shawn to come to the couch.

"Hey Cory, what's up?" Shawn said walking over.

"Nothing much." Was Cory's answer. "You wanna go to the park or something later today?"

"Sure." Shawn said. Then, Jack left with his Pop-Tart he had made just before Cory came and disappeared into his room. Shawn sat next to Cory and as soon as the coast was clear, he gave him a hug and a kiss as he sat down.

"So, I'm guessing you haven't told him yet?" Cory stated. Shawn shook his head slowly, thinking he was mad at him for not telling. "Well, when the time comes." Shawn simply nodded.

"You sure you don't want anything to eat?" He asked Cory as he walked to the kitchen.

"Nah, I already ate some cereal."

"Just cereal? Nothing else?" Shawn asked as he put some microwaveable french toast sticks in the microwave. After he finished pushing the buttons, he leaned against the counter and saw the sad expression on his face. "Eric ate all the pancakes again, huh?"

Cory looked at him funny and shook his head. "I told my mom about us."

"Oh, I'm guessing she didn't take it too well."

"You got it. I mean, she's not even talking to me. She only talks to Eric, and when she finds out about him...." Cory trailed off.

"I see where you're going." Shawn said. The microwave beeped and he took his food out. He got out the syrup and poured it all over them accompanied by some powdered sugar on top. He took a bite of one, and got some of the syrupy mixture on his nose.

"You're so cute." Cory stated.

"When am I not?" Shawn questioned, while wiping his nose off with a damp paper towel.

"You always are, you're just cuter than normal." Cory said. He walked over to Shawn and grabbed one of the french toast sticks and started eating it.

"Thought you said you weren't hungry?" Shawn said, smiling a little after he finished off his stick.

"I lied, I'm sorry." Cory answered with a hint of humor lacing his voice.

"I thought so." As Cory went to take another bite of his food, Shawn pushed his head down a little and Cory had a sticky substance all over his mouth and nose.

"Oh no you didn't." Cory simply stated.

"Oh yes I did." Shawn contradicted. With that, Cory placed his grub on the plate and proceeded to run after an already backing away Shawn. As Shawn was trying to climb over the couch, he slipped on one of the cushions and Cory trapped him beneath himself and the cushions of the couch.

"Now, you wanna tell me why you did that?" Cory inquired.

"I think it makes you look cute." Shawn said, recalling Cory's words.

"Yeah, whatever." Cory said climbing off and sitting by Shawn's legs.

"You're still all sticky, you know?" Shawn said.

"Thank you, Captain Obvious." He said about to get up to clean his face. Instead, Shawn got up, pushed him back down on the couch and left Cory sitting there.

"I'll help you." Shawn suggested. He walked to the kitchen to get yet another moist paper towel. When he came back, he wiped off Cory's nose and set the paper towel down on the coffee table. After that, Shawn sat on Cory's knees, putting one of his knees on either side of Cory's legs, his hands on the back of the couch by Cory's shoulders. He then started to lick little circles around Cory's mouth where the syrup was located. After he finished that, he closed his lips over Cory's and moved his tongue over them. Cory's hands were on Shawn's back and he pulled him closer. All of a sudden, the bathroom door opened, but nobody came out. (AN: Hahahaha.....I interrupted that lovely scene, 'cause I'm so mean. Don't worry, there's more later.) Cory and Shawn took this opportunity to get off of each other and go back to normal. Jack came out of the bathroom with a basket of dirty clothes in his hands.

"It's your turn to do the laundry." Jack said directing to Shawn. Shawn sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Can I do it after I'm done with breakfast?" He asked, almost laughing. Jack nodded and walked over to turn on the radio. After he found a good station, he sat down on the couch and turned on his laptop to do some work. Shawn continued eating and Cory looked at what Jack was doing to keep himself occupied. After a couple minutes, Cory got bored and started to read the newpaper. On the radio, an interesting song came on.

'Come and lay right on my bed, sit and drink some wine

I'll try not to make you cry

And if you get inside my head, then you'd understand

Then you'd understand me

Why I've felt sos alone, why I kept myself from love

And you became my perfect drug

So let me take you right now and swallow you down

I need you inside



Shawn looked over at Cory and smiled suggestively. 'Was this song a sign or what?' Cory thought. With that, they listened to the rest.



If we had this night together

If we had a moment to oursleves

If we had this night thogehter, then we'd be unstoppable



Do you think that this is right, or is it really wrong

I know that this is what we've been wanting

And all this burning in my soul, it fills up to my throat

It fills up 'till my heart is breaking



If we had this night together

If we had a moment to oursleves

If we had this night thogehter, then we'd be unstoppable



Now, we can both learn

Somehow, you'll see it's all we have

Love, it keeps us together

And I need love



When I wake up without you, knowing you're not there

I'm only feeling half as good

Well, I'm gonna find a way

To wrap you in my arms, you make me feel alive



If we had this night together

If we had a moment to oursleves

If we had this night thogehter, then we'd be unstoppable



When that song ended, Shawn said he was going to do the laundry. Cory offered to go with him and 'help'. Of course, Shawn couldn't turn him down. Jack thought it a bit strange that Shawn didn't procrastinate as he usually did, but if it got them clean clothes......





Well, that's the end. Of this chapter anyway. Could you tell I love The Calling???? Now, isn't that a suggestive song with the whole, 'swallow you down, I need you inside' bit? They have so many songs like that, so go buy their album if you don't already have it. Their 'Thank You's' are also quite slashy.

Anyway, how was it? I was going to make them tell Jack, but I have a different scene for the telling of Jack. This was pretty much just fluff, but fluff is good. I was getting too serious, and, since school's out and all, I'm happy. Yay!!!! Please review......