Hey Guys ! I'm back with not one BUT TWO CHAPTER ! Hope you like it and like always thank for your reviews and for read this ! I would like to publish more quickly but unfortunately between my beta and I, things are pretty slow ... (btw thank you to her yet) (MERCI GRACE !)

oh another thing, it will have the presence of an OC but it's still a little character ... or not. héhéhé.


Secret for a Secret

Part One


It was the weekend, and Erik had offered to Schmidt to go for a trip at the mall. Which the officer had gladly accepted. It had been a month now that he had become a cool guy! And in addition he got the lead role in the play, Peter Pan's part, but it also shared the lead with Molly!
Moreover, they had exchanged a few texts about their outfits during the show. It was funny. He got along really well with the girl. Sometimes he regretted not being born 7 years later he would have been popular and with a girlfriend as was Jenko at the time ...

Jenko with which he distanced himself. His new friends didn't like him and didn't stop to criticize him. Lately though these critics irritated Erik who started pointing it out. Schmidt knew he had to take Jenko's side but he couldn't do it. He would stay silent and let others say what they wanted.
This story between Erik and Jenko intrigued him more and more however and he was going to talk to Molly about that, maybe she would know more than him.

"You're sending messages to Molly?"

Schmidt turned to Erik at his side. They were now in a shoe store and strolled in the aisles.

"I ... no ! "

Erik laughed lightly before putting his hand on his friend's shoulder in a gesture of friendship:

"Don't worry dude, I'm not the possessive type. Molly and I are in an open relationship. Of course we hook up from time to time but nothing else. "

Schmidt stared him, trying to notice any contradictions but no, Erik gave him free way with Molly! Amazing! At last, he went back down to earth when he realized he couldn't do anything.

"And anyway, I got my eyes on someone else," Erik whispered softly staring into the empty, forgetting that Schmidt could hear him. He watched his friend looking at him with a mysterious smile.

"Schmidti ! Schmidti ! "

The policeman looked up to see Phyllis, the neighbor and friend of her mother, not far from the aisles. As often said Jenko, coincidence could sometimes be a bitch, like now. He saw Erik watching him as well as his friends. He had to get out of there, and quickly! He went to meet his neighbor, and whispered to be quiet but she continued to call him. He was now facing her and trying to silence her but she couldn't stop talking. She was going to blow up his cover and Erik who was approaching to see what was happening… Shit! Shit! He had to do something and fast, and the first thing his brain advised him to do was to hit the old woman, which he did. His parents were going to kill him, literally, but he had no choice, had he?

"She tried to grab my penis!" He cried out as the group walked toward him.

It was madness clear and simple but desperate times call for desperate measures !

He passed for a true... and he didn't know what to say about that. The vigil was trying to stand his neighbor up while Erik, Tommy and Amir insulted her. Schmidt would apologize to her later, he would even bring flowers if she wanted.

They quickly left the mall and went to Taco Bell.

" Wow, this is the first time I heard an old woman sexually harassing a teenage in a shop" said Tommy disgusted while driving.
" Oh, you know, old women today have no longer any shame ..." Replied Schmidt. "Man I 'm starving!" he said trying to change the subject.
Besides him on the back seat, Erik didn't say a word too concentrated at sending texts. He had a soft smile on his lips. It would be his new girlfriend Schmidt supposed. He wanted to say something but he did not really know what to say, however Amir talked first:

"Still sending messages to this girl?"
" Mind your own business!" Erik replied without stopping his tapping.
"A while now that Erik hide things from us. He doesn't want to tell us anything about this chick ... " Informed Tommy at Schmidt " He spends all his time writing texts, and when we told him he's in love... "
" Shut up I'm not in love!" Erik spat.
"…That's how he reacts. Dude ! You should see you, seriously. "
Schmidt nodded, but he felt Erik's eyes on him. Should he say something?
"Something wrong?" Schmidt asked in the end.
"You, Mcquaid, are really weird." And he returned his attention to his two friends in the front. Schmidt observed Erik, what did he mean by that?

After the stop by Taco Bell, they went to Erik's. Schmidt was pleasantly surprised by the immensity of the place. Erik was fucking rich! But why would he deal then? Schmidt followed him in the garden where Molly was waiting for them, she greeted him with a big hug. What a nice girl ! They small talked before being interrupted by Erik who kissed Molly. There couldn't be a more awkward situation ... But the officer did nothing as it was apart from an embarrassed laugh, and following the others inside.

Back at Jenko, the officer went to Zack's, stopping once to buy a pack of Redbull and answering to some of Erik's texts. They were discussing the last game of the Atlantics, and the way the tournament went now. Soon, Jenko's favorite team, the Wasps , will met the Atlantics , and Erik tried to prove him by A plus B that his team was the best. He also learned by Erik that Schmidt had been assaulted by an old woman in shopping mall.

Seriously, she tried to grab his balls? What with that story?
Erik had finished their conversation with a "can't wait to see you alone"

Jenko hadn't responded.

Distance. Taking some distance was the keyword.

He invited himself at Zack's little house. His parents had built a small house in their garden, where he could entertain his friends without problems.

The beginning of evening went very well, they set on the chip and heard Molly ask Schmidt - subtly; to bring her to the prom this year. Which astonished Jenko in a way, not the fact that Molly was so bolt, but that Erik didn't go. As for Molly, who seriously would want to go to prom with her ... except for Schmidt of course?

It made Schmidt wondered why Erik had not invited her, she just replied with a "cause he thinks of bringing someone else. "

The Nerds wondered who it could be. Erik was quite a popular guy, known to all so if he was going out with someone else, people would have known quickly. Jenko cleared his throat and chose to remain silent. He still hoped that Erik wouldn't ask him to come.
However he was happy for his teammate that he finally managed to ask Molly to accompany him. 7 years after that prom-disaster, Schmidt was finally able to go to the prom with the girl he liked. Jenko mood quickly fell however when he heard the rest of the conversation and the question of the supposedly drunk girl:

"It's true that you and Brad are brothers?"

Jenko held his breath waiting for the answer with some trepidation:

"He has been adopted, he was from a dodgy family and I always have to help him. He can't do anything." What sparked laughter from the group.

Zack, Delroy and Roman turned to Jenko who looked the screen hardly believing what he heard.

Schmidt was just now mocking him in front of others. And he kept talking about the fact that he was someone uninteresting and dumb.

Jenko couldn't believe his ears. He knew that celebrity could go to the head but he thought Schmidt was someone down on earth. Someone who didn't care for what people say. He had been heavily disappointed. What's worse than being betrayed by the one person who we trust the most? The only person you could give your life for… well it seemed.

Delroy went to shut the thing off when he saw Jenko's face but Erik's voice could be heard and the policeman asked him to leave it:

"You're not cool dude."

Silence was heard on the other side.

"I ... I don't see how?" Stuttered Schmidt.
"Your brother might not be the smartest, he screwed up with Tommy and hang out with weirdos but he's a good guy. "

The silence was persistent, cut after a moment by Molly who laughed nervously: "he's your friend now? "
"Whether he's my friend or not is not the point. I had the opportunity to chat with him and the bit we talked was a good laugh. "
"Laugh?" it was Tommy "He hit me because I'm gay! "
"Yes, yes but I think it was because he's been schooled in France, something like that. They aren't like us those people. "

The Nerds and Jenko were speechless. Especially the cop. He would never had thought something like that, Erik took his defense in front of his friends ! His own friends who thought he was dumbass!

"I just have one thing to add though. He's your brother Doug, and even if he was adopted, there is nothing more important than family. "

"Wow" said Zack after a moment, "I never thought Erik could be ... nice. Did you hear that Brad ... Brad ? "

"Hm!" The officer had a big goofy smile on, having trouble to hide his joy. While he was still upset at Schmidt, what he thought of the young dealer raised a bit. Right now he only wanted to hug Erik and say "thank you dude." Maybe more...

Jenko cleared his throat to snap out of it.