Hi everybody! I'm so sorry for (again) taking so long to update but school's been crazy lately and my computer was broken for a while! But, it's fixed now and I have plenty of free time to post the next couple of chapters  I hope you enjoy, so here are parts 1 & 2 (out of 3) of Chapter 10:

Chapter 10 – Catch You (pt. 1)

(Jay's POV) Books on the floor, TV on a music video channel, and me and Michalchuk making out on the couch… Never in a million years would I have wanted this to happen, but somehow its right. It's also crazy, weird, and compulsive, but you get the point. Putting everything aside though, I could really get used to this. It's not like Princess is trying to change me, but she makes me a better person. Lately I haven't been wondering what I'm gunna get in trouble for next, and instead waiting until moments like this when I get to make out with one of the most popular girls in school. Ok, so I honestly couldn't care less about her "social status", but she has this off-limits air to her that makes this whole thing sexier by the minute… not to mention that we're keeping this a secret. I mean come on, what's hotter than sneaking around with the teen-queen of heat? So we continue to make out in her basement instead of studying like we originally planned on doing.

Paige: We should really stop.
Jay: But we're having so much fun.
Paige: Yea, and we need to study.
Jay: No, you want to study. If you know your crap why should you study?
Paige: Because Rebel Without a Cause, what if I don't know the material?
Jay: Listen to me Michalchuk, you know Shakespeare like you speak English. No sweat. Besides, we have an entire weekend to study for this thing.
Paige: Hmm… when you put it like that.

Princess pulled me down onto the couch with her as we stopped our small disagreement and continued with the make-out session. Unfortunately, what neither of us realized was that we weren't the only ones in the basement anymore. From the bottom of the stairs none other than Hazel Aden cleared her throat and immediately Princess jumped from her spot underneath me on the couch to a sitting position far from where I was slumped. I looked from a shocked and likely appalled Hazel to Paige who had a deer caught in the headlights look going.

Jay: Well… this is cozy.

Practically simultaneously Paige and Hazel turned their eyes to mine, making "try to say something smart again; I dare you" faces.

Jay: I'll take that as my cue to leave

With that I picked up my hat from the coffee table and walked over to the basement window where I climbed onto the soft grass and then walked across the street to my car.

Jay: Got out of there just in time…

Paige: Before you freak; let me explain.

(Paige's POV) Hazel stood with a wide-eye expression as I sat on the edge of the couch trying to figure out what to say… it was useless though. It's like my brain is currently suffering from a blackout and I have to wait until the power company can get thought flowing again in order to make up excuses.

Paige: Ok, so I can't explain… BUT, I can beg of you, my all-time best, please be gentle on your concerned friend/hostile onlooker speech that I know is lurking within your bones right now.

I made the most pleading face I could and hoped that the yelling would be a minimum as Hazel remained in the spot she had been in for the past 5 minutes.

Paige: Out with it Aden, you're driving me crazy here.

After another minute or so Hazel finally spoke as she sat on the last step of the stairway, which reminder to self: lock the door when you're with your secret boyfriend.

Hazel: We're still best friends.
Paige: Is that like a statement or a question?
Hazel: Jay Hogart?
Paige: Again.
Hazel: Resident bad boy/criminal in training, Jay Hogart?
Paige: Yea, that's what I thought too, but he's different. At least… with me he is.

Hazel looked down at the ground for a moment obviously trying to decide the best thing to say next. Weather it's going to be good or bad I have absolutely no idea.

Paige: If it helps, you're the first to know about us. Well minus Dylan, but that's kind of a given… come to think about it, Dylan did the whole creepy stairway, clearing throat thing too. Haze?

Hazel looked up at me with the same thoughtful expression as I continued talking hoping that it would help her to approve.

Paige: I really like him…

After about 3 seconds Hazel rolled her eyes as she smiled and quickly scuttled her way over to the couch and sat down next to me. I turned to face her and pulled my legs up onto the cushion as she did the same with one of hers. Immediately I smiled and laughed as we began our total girly detail talk.

Hazel: So how did it all happen? I mean it's not exactly like you and Jay talked to each other.
Paige: Well it's really weird, but do you remember that day when Spin and I got into that huge fight in the foyer?
Hazel: That narrows it down!
Paige: The day you and Ash were with me in the bathroom afterwards.
Hazel: Oh, that fight… what does that have to do with Jay?
Paige: Well after everything that Spinner said I needed to clear my head so I went for a walk. Whenever I was passing the dot Jay drove up and almost hit me with his car.
Hazel: Wait, he almost hit you with his car? Was it on purpose?
Paige: No! Haze, he might be a little immoral, but he's not murderous.
Hazel: Sorry… so then what happened?

I explained everything that had gone on between Jay and me in the past two weeks while Hazel excitedly listened and pressed for all of the details. I was up to the part of me and Jay in the room at Jimmy's party when I finally paused for a moment.

Hazel: Paige!
Paige: Ok calm down! A one second pause won't kill you!
Hazel: That's what you think! Now spill your guts Michalchuk! This is getting way more interesting than I would have thought.
Paige: Well, I was really upset about the fight between Spinner and Jay and I sorta felt like it was all my fault. Anyways, Jay was so… not Jay. He wasn't even the semi-sentimental guy I had been talking to; it was like he was a completely different person. He hugged me and told me that there was no way I could blame myself, and before I knew it we were laying down on the bed…

Hazel had an absolute look of shock on her face while I just nodded my head and continued.

Paige: We didn't have sex or anything if that's what you're thinking, but there was this moment… I don't know, it was crazy. It was like, for a while I didn't have to think about Dean, or Spinner, or anybody at school… or even myself. I just thought of how everything felt right for once… of course that turned to crap as soon as I decided that I needed to start thinking again and I ran out of the room like a total idiot!
Hazel: Paige!
Paige: What, that's what happened!
Hazel: So you're telling me that you were all alone in a bedroom with Jay Hogart and nothing happened?
Paige: I didn't say nothing.

Hazel's eyes grew wide again as she hit me with a pillow and pressed for more details. As I obliged it felt so good to finally get all of the secrets I've been keeping off my chest. Lord knows I have a royal difficulty keeping secret just so for long periods of time. Once I finally finished telling Hazel all of the details of mine and Jay's secret romance it was around midnight so Hazel called her parents to let them know that she was going to stay at my house for the night and we both tried to go to sleep but ended up talking most of the night.

The next day after school Haze and I decided to go to the dot. She, of course, was trying to convince me that Jay and I should make a "public debut" at the dance tonight, and I in return told her not to hold her breath.

Hazel: Come on Paige, it would be so perfect!
Paige: Hazel it's a school dance called 'The Fall Ball'. How does that and Jay Hogart equal perfect?
Hazel: Whenever you're in the mix with the two. Come on, you are like a combining element! Besides, with me on your side there's no way that anybody will be able to say anything about it. Come on Paige, please!
Paige: No way Hazel! It'll happen over my dead body!

As soon as I said that Spinner walked over to our table to take our orders. It was more than a bit awkward, but what pushed it over the edge was when Jay walked through the door. Spinner finished with our order so he walked back to the kitchen and no more than 3 seconds later Jay slyly moved past the table Hazel and I were at making sure to slip me a discrete note and walk out the back door to get to the ally-way.

Hazel: You have a very sneaky boy-toy you know!
Paige: Shut up!

We both laughed as I unfolded the torn piece of paper and read the message that was written on it. Once I was finished a laughed slightly to myself as Hazel yanked the note away from my hands and read it too.

Hazel: 'A1, 4:10, Got you a present Princess'? Is this in English?
Paige: It's a code we have. So that if anybody were to find one of these notes they wouldn't know who it was from or to, and they wouldn't know where we were meeting.
Hazel: Ok, so where are you meeting?
Paige: Outside.

With that I stood up and straightened out my shirt a bit before telling Hazel to wait for me for a while and subtly moving to the back exit of the dot. Once I got to the door I quietly opened it and walked out to the ally where Jay asked me to meet him.

Jay: Took you long enough.
Paige: I like to make you wait.
Jay: Quit being a tease Michalchuk.
Paige: I recall the word present.
Jay: Right, your present… well let's see if you can guess. Tall, handsome, incredible witty-
Paige: Perhaps an egotistical jerk?
Jay: No that was yesterday's gift.
Paige: One of these days I'm gunna make you actually buy me something.
Jay: I don't see that happening.
Paige: Well maybe those sunglasses of yours have caused vision impairment.
Jay: Oh, you have jokes now eh?

I started to laugh as Jay made his way toward me and spun me onto the wall opposite the back of the dot. I pressed my back against the wall as Jay placed one hand above my head and let the other one roam my hair, face, and stomach.

Jay: So this thing tonight.
Paige: You mean dinner at my place or the dance?
Jay: Dinner. Why? Have you changed your mind about the ever-so-amazing dance?
Paige: Are you mocking me?
Jay: Answer the question.
Paige: No.
Jay: No you won't answer or no you haven't changed your mind.
Paige: Which do you think?
Jay: Both.
Paige: Nice, really. I haven't changed my mind. If nobody knows about us there's no way I'm going!
Jay: Good, because you would have to do a hell of a lot of convincing to even get me thinking about a school dance.
Paige: Well if I wanted to…

Paige pulled Jay closer to her and left open-mouth kisses trailing along his neck. He started to laugh and Paige knew that he was getting that stupid grin on his face.

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(Inside) Spinner: Alright here are your meals, and— Where's Paige?
Hazel: Paige? Right, um she went to the… washroom.
Spinner: You're her best friend right? Never mind, I already know the answer to that.

Hazel rolled her eyes waiting for Spinner to ask some bizarre & random question.

Spinner: Do you think that maybe there's any way she and I can… well anyway she can give me… What can I do to get a second chance?
Hazel: Spinner do you know what you've been putting her through? The things you've said… what you've done? What you did!

Spinner took a seat in the booth chair across from the one Hazel was sitting in and moved closer to her over the table.

Spinner: I've been a jerk… an idiot… a complete insensitive moron, but that doesn't change the way that I feel about her.
Hazel: You brought up Dean in the school foyer!

Hazel kept her voice to a whisper but made sure that Spinner got the full effect of his actions. Directly after she said it Spin looked down for a moment and sighed before speaking again.

Spinner: I love her. She is everything in my life that I want to hold on to. If love is too much, then is there any way that she can even talk to me again?

Spinner and Hazel sat silently starring at one another until Spinner's boss called for him to take the trash outside to the dumpster. Feeling that he was about to get much desired information, Spinner dejectedly left the booth and started to the back doorway. Hazel looked down at the table for a minute thinking whenever she realized that Paige and Jay were still in the back ally. She rushed up from the table hoping that she would be able to stop Spinner.