"He's been in there a while now…" Chris observed, finally coming up for air and looking back through the bushes.
Beaver moved into a sitting position next to her. "That can only mean good things."
"Why?"
Beaver laughed slightly and put his arm around her. "It means that she's giving him the time of day, she would have kicked him out if she didn't want to talk to him…"
Chris nodded. "I wish I could be up there with him…moral support and all…"
"Cappie has the wordsmith thing under control, if anyone can get Casey back it's him. Now get up. Let's go back to the Kappa Tau house and get some dinner while we wait this out." Chris nodded as he helped her up out of their bush and the two walked hand in had back towards the Kappa Tau house.
"I could honestly kill that Rebecca girl. You know she knew exactly what she was doing when she let that one slip." Chris stopped as the two walked down the side walk. "Actually…I think that's a great idea…"
Beaver turned to look at her concerned by what that could mean. "What are you going to do?"
"WE are going to go find Rebecca Logan, and then I'm going to put that two faced spoiled brat in her place…might as well try the ZBZ house first right?" Chris turned into the Zeta Beta lawn without giving Beaver a chance to respond, and knocked on the door. When some poor girl she didn't know answered Chris put on her best smile and asked for Rebecca.
"Oh, um…I think she went to Dobbler's…" The girl answered happily. "If she's not there I would try the Psychology building."
"Thank you!" Chris said turning to leave. "Hey Beav, want a drink?"
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The silence in Casey's room had become too much for Cappie. It had been a good five minuets since he had poured his heart out the girl who was still staring down at him at his place on the floor. "Casey?" He whispered, hoping she would say anything at all.
She didn't respond, and Cappie's heart broke as he stood up nodding and began to walk towards the door. He hadn't lied; he wasn't even close to being done fighting for her; but he had better just chalk this one up to a lost battle and focus on the war.
Rusty just looked at him solemnly as he grew closer and closer to the door. Cappie knew this was hurting the little guy to watch almost as much as it was killing him. But then something unexpected happened as he began to turn the door knob.
THWACK. Something soft hit him in the back of the head ad he turned around to see Casey standing on her bed ready to throw another round ZBZ pillow at him.
"For someone who claims to be fighting for me Cappie, you're pretty quick to run away!" Casey threw the next pillow at him. "You screwed up, and I can't forgive you just because you give an amazingly sweet and sincere little speech about how much you love me. Real life doesn't work like that!"
"Okay." Cappie took a careful step closer to her, afraid of what might be the next thing to come flying.
Casey stepped down on her bed onto the floor. "But I was wrong too…a lot…"
Cappie looked at her confused. Rarely did Casey admit to being wrong, even when she was, but here he had no idea how she could believe that she was anything but innocent in this situation.
"I can't forgive you Cappie until you can forgive me…I broke up with you for a stupid reason without meaning too, and I let my pride keep me from going back to you. Then I started dating Evan even though I knew it would hurt you because I wanted to get ahead in the sorority…Don't get me wrong…I did have feelings for him…But I loved you all along…I just let myself forget it for a while…" Casey looked over at Rusty. "I have my…our… little brother to thank for pulling me out of my stupidity."
"Me?" Rusty looked confused at his sudden inclusion in the conversation.
"If you hadn't come here Rusty, I would have never found out that Evan cheated on me with…her..."
"…and you would have never come to see me that night at the pool hall…" Cappie smiled at the memory.
"It was Rusty's coming here that opened all these old wounds again…wounds I created Cappie. Not you."
This time it was Cappie's turn to look hard at her. "That's debatable Cas…"
"So do you forgive ME Cappie?" Casey's eyes searched his looking for some semblance of understanding.
Cappie took a step closer to her, now within arms reach. "You admitted that you love me…"
"Yea I did…"
He took another step. "And I already said I still love you."
Casey's mouth began to form a smile against her will. "That you did."
Cappie reached out and put his hands on her shoulders. "Remember when we watched Love Story together? What did we learn that day?"
"Cap…"
His hands moved to the sides of her face. Suddenly Rusty felt very out of place in the situation and began to move towards the door. "Casey…Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Casey didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Of course their issues were far from gone, but suddenly they didn't seem as impossible to conquer as they had only minuets before. They loved each other and that was all that mattered. "So you forgive me then?"
Cappie laughed, and instead of answering the question he closed the gap left between them and pulled her into a deep kiss.
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"I really don't think this is a good idea Chris. I know that what she did was bad…worse than bad, bordering on evil, but you just met this girl." Beaver said trying to stop her.
Chris turned around. She was mad. Not at him, honestly she doubted it was possible for her ever to be truly mad at Beaver; but in her mind Rebecca Logan represented everything wrong that had happened to her and Cappie in the last year. She didn't care about making an ass of herself; this was something she had to do in order to put the story to rest once and for all. "Beaver, I understand if you don't want to come. But this is something I have to do. I'll meet you back at the Kappa Tau house later if you want."
"I'm not going to let you go alone." Beaver said walking up next to her. "If this is really what you want to do then this is what we'll do."
"It is." Chris said with as much finality as she could.
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Rusty managed to escape Casey's room with out any argument from his sister and headed down stairs feeling happy with how things had turned out for two of the most important people in his life. He did however need a drink now…who wouldn't?
He walked quickly towards Dobbler's without much thought. It had been a long day for him and there wasn't much on his mind now except for what brew of beer he wanted.
Upon walking in the door he immediately noticed Beaver and Chris standing at a table, Beaver watching Chris cautiously while sipping on a beer and Chris doing the second of three shots of a dark brown liquid. "Hi guys! What's going on here?"
"Chris is about to defend Cappie's honor." Beaver said solemnly.
"What?" Rusty asked.
Beaver simply pointed to the bar where Rebecca Logan stood laughing with some girl. Rusty's eyes widened and he looked over at Chris who winced a bourbon smile at him. "Is that such a good idea?"
"Third best idea I've had all day, right Beaver?" Chris smiled at him with a slight twinkle in her eye.
"I've got your back Chris." Was all Beaver said, and she nodded gathering up her courage.
She walked past them both and stopped briefly to look at Rusty. "I might be able to teach you textbooks full of things about Physics Rusty but this is one lesson they you really should take notes on."
With that she headed off towards the bar. Rusty turned back to Beaver with a questioning look. "This isn't going to end well is it?"
"One of these girls is going to walk out of here with her ego handed to her on a platter; I just hope it's not mine." Beaver sat down on a stool behind him to watch the show.
Rusty did the same as he continued to watch. "So you and Chris are together now?"
"Yea."
"Good to hear…" Rusty looked back over to where Chris was tapping on Rebecca's shoulder. "It probably would have been good if I had told her that Casey and Cappie made up, before she went over there…"
Beaver laughed, it was all he could do. "Nah, now she's got more momentum."
Chris could feel Beaver and Rusty's eyes on her back as she walked towards the bar, and the force behind their stares pushed her closer and closer to Rebecca. She reached out and tapped on the younger girls shoulder and held her breath when until she turned around.
"Chris! How good to see you again!" Rebecca's insincerity fueled Chris's anger.
"Cork it Logan. I just wanted to tell you that what you did today was shitty. It might not have been the shittiest thing you've ever done but I thought you should know that most people would rank it right up there with calling the IRS on your grandmother."
"I'm sorry…how does this affect you in anyway?"
"Cappie is my BEST friend, and Casey is my friend. You however are nothing more than a little rich girl with a superiority complex. Did daddy not give you enough attention as a child? Or is this behavior just an attempt to make lasting friendships?" Chris grabbed the bar for support.
"Where do you get off…?" Rebecca stepped back as Chris continued.
The alcohol in Chris's system began to kick in. "Someone has to stop this behavior Rebecca, and since you seem to be completely incapable of controlling your self serving whims, I think it's important that you know that I won't let you hurt my friends anymore. Feel free to continue ruining your own reputation and burning bridges around here, just leave the people I care about out of it."
"And let Casey go on thinking she's the Queen of the ZBZ castle? I don't think so." Rebecca tapped on the bar innocently for another drink.
Chris laughed at the routine. "You really don't remember me do you?"
"Excuse me?"
Chris just stared at her. "We met three years ago at the Governor's ball. You were there helping to promote your father on his bid for Senator." Rebecca's eyes flashed slight recognition. "My father is William Davidson, owner and CEO of The Rockfill Group…and one of your father's biggest supporters…"
The young debutante's face grew pale and she stepped back slightly.
"Now unlike some I hate to use my father's position in society for personal gain, but in this case I'm willing to make an exception. Imagine what would happen if my father and I had a little talk about how his favorite politician's daughter treated those around her and failed to hold up the values that make her dad's position so inviting?" Chris stepped forward towards Rebecca, dropping her voice slightly. "Then imagine what would happen if my father in turn told his friends, other big business owners, about this information?"
"You wouldn't."
"I would. There is no phone with dirty videos on it for you to break now Logan. If you don't shape up it could be the difference between your national reputation…or even your father's next election…"
Rebecca looked away from Chris's hard face and tried to hide the obvious sting of tears in her eyes. "I get the message."
"You better. Stay away from Cappie and Casey." Chris said as she turned around and walked a back to the table where Beaver and Rusty sat, grabbed her purse, nodded to the boys and walked out of Dobbler's. Beaver and Rust followed close behind.
Okay, Cappie and Casey are back together, Chris and Beaver are together, and Rusty is…Rusty. I've got some ideas where to go from here, but I'm willing to hear a little input. I do know that Chris is going to feel a little guilty for playing dirty with Rebecca…Like she said; she doesn't like using her dad's position as leverage.