Well it's been a while since, we've updated this story, been really busy, hardly have time to meet to write this at the moment. But here is the next chapter.

We are still writing, and don't know how long this story will be, i don't think we're even half way through yet, but we do have lots of plans for future :)


Chapter 9

As they started driving Dave was admiring the interior of the car "so what did you pick up?"

"Oh, nothing much, just some stuff. Wanna put some music on?"

"Sure, where's your iPod"

"Beside you"

"Huh"

"There" just said pointing to his side, by the gear stick

"Oh, right" he said picking started scrolling through the artist "you have a lot of music. And some weird stuff"

"Weird? What's weird stuff?"

"Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth but then you also have Avril Lagvine and Taylor Swift. A weird collection of music"

"Just hit shuffle" Dave put it on shuffle, and put it back in the dock. The first song that comes on is Fever by Bullet for my Valentine "I haven't heard this song in ages" Justin starts taping the steering wheel to the beat, and starts to sing along, without realising Dave was watching him. The song came to an end, and Justin looked over at Dave who was looking back with a smile on his face "what?"

"Nothing"

"No, tell me what?"

"How do you do that?"

"What?"

"Sing"

Justin laughs "that's an odd question"

"You know what I mean"

"I don't know, I just do, always have, Dads do as well"

"What about your sister"

"She tries"

"Maybe you should join a new band?"

"My old band's still together, I'm just here. We jam over Skype"

"Really?"

"Yeah, there was band that did it before, in a film, time difference is a bit of an issue, but we usually do it at the weekends"

"Not the same though, is it?"

"No, but we do what we can"

"You miss them, don't you?"

"They're my best friends, but they're coming over soon. They have a break when we don't"

"You'll be at school"

"And?"

"Justin you can't skip school"

"I can"

"No you can't, we've got exams"

"Life's for living, schools easy and plus I've done it all before"

"How could you of?"

"Home schooled when I was off ill. I'm about two years above what I'm actually in"

"Wow. Fair enough. But you still can't skip school; you could get kicked out of school"

"I could do those exams with my eyes closed; besides there are other schools out there"

"You don't like McKinley"

"Let's just say there's one thing that's keeping me there" Dave smiles

They drove in silence for a while apart from Justin singing along to some songs.

"So where are we going?"

"I found a lake, when I was out on my bike. Thought we could go there, it's quiet"

"Sounds nice"

"There's a little restaurant nearby, if we get hungry. But we don't have to go there if you don't want to"

"I'm sure it will be fine wherever we go"

"Are you sure, we could go further, out of Lima?"

"It'll be fine, stop worrying" Dave said reaching over and giving Justin knee a gentle squeeze "why do you worry so much"

"Sorry. We're nearly there"

They pulled into the parking lot, and had a look round. It was quiet, with a couple of fisherman on the other side of the lake. It was near a nature reserve, surrounded by trees, it was like a small forest.

"Shall we go for a walk?" Justin asked Dave, slightly nervous of the answer

"Yeah, sure" They both got out of the car, they both start walking, when Justin had a strange feeling he forgot something

"You keep walking; I forgot to lock the car" Justin said and walked away

Dave kept walking ahead and heard someone behind him, and turned to see Justin running towards him. He stopped waiting for him to catch up.

"Sorry about that, new car I wanted to make sure it was safe"

"That's okay"

They started walking again, and found a way into the forest, Justin leading the way. As the tree's got closer together, Dave turned to Justin and said "We're going to get lost"

"No we're not, trust me. And if we do it will be an adventure" with little hesitation Dave reached for Justin's hand and said

"I trust you" Justin gives Dave's hand a gentle squeeze and smiles, as they keep walking.

They start a little conversation about Justin's friends back home, and his school life. They come to a small clearing with a tree that has a low branch. With a small smile Justin let's go of Dave's hand turns to him and says watch this. He then runs at the branch, and jumps to grab it, as his wait hits the branch, there was sudden crack, and Justin disappears from Dave's sight. He runs over to where Justin is to see him lying on his back laughing "I think my judgement was a bit off there"

"You don't say. You alright?" Dave said, slowly making his way down the slope

"Yeah I'll be fine. Wanna help me up?" Dave reached out his hand to grab Justin's, he felt a tug on his arm, and fell on top of Justin. Dave let out an uncomfortable laugh, as he looked at Justin. They lay there for a couple of minutes just looking at each other. Dave slowly rolls off Justin, but still lays close to his body. Justin rolls onto his side, keeping eye contact; he slowly reaches out for Dave's hand and intertwines their fingers. Dave looks down at their hands and back at Justin as he whispers "I trust you" and leans in for a kiss, Justin meets him half way, and pulls Justin back on top of him. Dave moves so he his straddling Justin and deepens the kiss. Dave releases his lips and moves down to his neck, and starts to suck on it gently, Justin lets out a small moan places a hand under his t-shirt, and the other one on Justin's hip.

"You don't have to do this"

"I want to" Dave said fumbling with Justin's zipper, Justin pulls Dave's lips back to his, they kiss passionately while palms Justin's crotch, Justin pulls away, and starts to nibble on Dave's ear, then pants "where did you learn to do that" Dave laughs and starts makes his way down Justin's body, he stops just below his bellybutton and starts nipping at the skin, Justin grips Dave's hair and takes in a sharp breath, Dave moves down so that he was hovering over his bulge, Dave moves his hand up and strokes Justin's cheek, slowly Justin open his eyes and is met with Dave's nervous looking ones, he was about to say something but heard a rustle followed by a flash of a fish head and a scream "oh for fucks sake"

"What, the hell was that?" he said as he jumped of Justin

"That would be a blowfish" Justin said jumping to his feet and pulling out his gun

"A blow what? And why do you have that?"

"Dave, go back to the car, and lock the doors" Justin said handing Dave the keys

"What, why?"

"Just do as I say, I'll explain it all later" Dave turns to go back to the car, but Justin catches his arm, pulling him in for a kiss

"What was that for?"

"Because you trust me, Now go!"

Justin speeds of in the direction of the blowfish, hoping that Dave made it back to the car, he pulled out his phone from his pocket and tried his Dad It rang, before going to voice male "shit" he hung up and tried his Tad, the same "fuck" he whispered as he hung up again. He could see the blowfish now scaring some poor couple out for a stroll; he tried phoning his parent's one last try, but still no answer, he was in this alone. Taking a deep breath he steps out from his cover…

Dave ran back to the car, and locked himself in, "what the hell's going on" he asked himself. All he could think was is Justin okay

Justin takes the safety off of his gun, "so I'm here on a date, miles away from the rift and yet here you are here most likely high and drunk scaring the locals, why, and most of all how?" The blowfish turned around

"Look what we have here, a kid doing a man's job" the Blowfish said sarcastically

"Look what we have here a fish out of its bowl" Justin replied "are you going to answer or you going to…"

"I'm a fish how do you think I got here"

"Cut the crap"

"Or what you will shoot me"

"You bet. Try me" Justin cocked his gun. With a steady hand, Justin raised his gun to the blowfishes head. "Give me one reason I shouldn't kill you right now" the blowfish smiled, and answered. "He's coming for you Justin, and I know where he is"
"Who? What you on about? And how do you know my name?" The fish pulls out a small black box from his pocket.
"You see this? All I have to do is activate this tiny little box, and he'll know where you are and how to find you"
"What the fuck you on about?"
"I think you know, Justin" at this point Justin realised who he was going on about. Justin fidgets "you're too slow" the blowfish pressed the button, and Justin shoots. The fish collapses to the floor, and Justin slowly lowers his gun. With it still in his hand he slowly walks over to the blowfishes body. He stares down at the body, his eyes heading to the black box in its hand. He reaches down, picks it up and throws it into the forest.

Justin then drags the body over to the tree and quickly places it into the whole he previously fell into and covers it up with an old bit of fallen branch. He then starts to slowly make his way back to the car, he sees the lake and his phone starts to ring, he answers his phone

"Where the hell have you been? The schools called saying you've been fighting, no one knows where you..." Justin interrupted

"Tad please just stop talking for one minute, I needed to get out of school, Dave's with me we went to the lake and there was a fish, a blowfish.."

"What? Are you okay, is anyone hurt? What lake is it? Where's the blowfish now?"

"No. No one's hurt. I killed the fish. I don't know what lake it is, it's about one hour away. I've put the body in a dead tree, it's not too hard to find. I didn't know what to do. I tried calling you and there was no answer"

"As long as you're safe. Are you ok you sound a bit…off"

"Yeah I'm fine, you no just killed a fish"

"No, it's not that. Are you sure you're okay,"

"Yeah"

"You can go home now, I've tracked your phone, just leave it to me and your dad now okay"

"Tad"

"Yeah"

"It's nothing, don't worry"

"It's my job to worry. Now are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, just trying to come up with something to tell Dave"

"Ohh"

"I'm gonna have to tell him everything now"

"We can Retcorn him"

"No, that's no fair, he's been great to me. I will tell him. Can you not tell Dad though, please, you know what he's like"

"Don't tell him what?"

"About me telling Dave"

"I don't know Justin"

"Please, not yet. I don't want Dave to forget"

"Okay, but you'll have to tell him, Dave knows at some point"

"Yeah I know" there was a slight pause "Tad, I love you"

"I love you too, son"

Justin put his phone back in his pocket and made his way to the car. When he got in the car he said nothing as he started the engine and pulled away. He didn't even notice Dave until he felt a gentle hand rest on his knee "are you okay, you're very, quiet, what happened?"

"It's hard to explain, please can I tell you when we're back at mine please"

"Justin, please" Justin didn't reply. They drove in silence, Dave hand on Justin's knee the whole time, gently rubbing it, to reassure Justin, even though he had no idea what had just happened. Justin pulled into an empty driveway

"There's no one home yet" Justin said as they got out of the car, and made their way into the house.

Myfanwy, runs up to Justin as he walked through the front door, he bent dent down to stroke her as Dave closed the door behind them.

"Do u want to go up to your room?"

"How about we go in the front room and watch so TV? I don't want to be in a small space right now"

"Oh okay"

"Make yourself at home. I'm going to let Myfanwy out in the garden and have a quick smoke"

Dave made his way into the front room and for the first time, he was taking in the decor and the photos, that we're place around the room. Some on the mantel piece, some hung on the wall. The biggest was a family portrait hung above the mantel piece. The walls were an off white sort of colour, with a chocolate border around there middle. To the left of the room, was the piano in the far corner, and to the right was a

Dave moved over to the couch facing the TV and found the remote; he took a seat on the sofa peering into the hallway to have a quick look to see if he could see Justin. He thought about going to see if he was okay, but decided against it, and to let him go through his thoughts alone. He turned on the TV and started to flick through the channels. He stopped on 'Friends', as he thought they could both use a laugh. Justin then walked into the room just as the Intro music was ending.

"What are we watching" he asked sitting down next to Dave

"Friends. I think it's the one with the wedding dress you know where the girls go a bit mad a were dress each, and practise throwing the bouquet" Justin just nodded and lent forward. Dave looked at him. "Justin, are you ok? You're shaking"

"I'm fine"

"Justin, you're far from fine. Do you need another cigarette?"

"I need something stronger than that"

"Justin?"

"Please, don't judge me"

"Justin, I would never… Justin, look at me"

"I can't"

"Justin" Dave got off the sofa and got on his knees in front of Justin, taking his hands in his own

"I'm so scared"

"Justin"

"He's coming for me. He knows where I am"

"Who does Justin?"

"My ex"