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Ch. 25 Together's Where We Both Belong
(JOHNNY)
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY!" Clare squeals happily jumping into my arms when I walk into her house Tuesday evening. It's my birthday today and my party is at her house. She throws her arms around my neck and plants a kiss on my lips, right in front of Fitz. It's just a quick kiss and he doesn't seem to mind he just kind of shakes his head with a smile.
"Thanks, did you start on the drinking already?" I inquire and she giggles.
"No I'm just in a good mood, I'm going to go change for your party," Clare says and skips off to her room. When I hear her door close I look at Fitz.
"What did she take?"
"No idea and she swears she didn't take anything. You would think with me, two of her brothers, Owen, Zig, Maya, Bianca, Jenna, Tris and K.C. at the school we'd be able to keep an eye on her all the time but we didn't and by fourth period she was that happy. I thought Drew would go ballistic but he actually seemed kind of relieved that she seemed so happy. She has been kind of down since returning from camping. Sunday night and last night she kept thinking about something that was obviously bothering her but wouldn't talk about it and all Drew will say about their camping trip is that it was enlightening," he says with a worried look and shaking his head. But then looks up at me with a smile, "She'll be okay anyway Happy Birthday, you want a beer or something?"
"Yeah thanks," I nod walking in and sitting on the sofa. "Where's everyone else?" I question looking around the house.
"Spin went to pick up Lucas and hasn't seen Clare yet. Adam, Maya and Bianca are setting stuff up in the back. Drew, Owen and K.C. have football practice, Jenna's in the kitchen having a snack…"
"Happy Birthday Johnny," Jenna calls from the kitchen before Fitz can say anything else.
"And everyone else is at work," Fitz finishes.
I start sipping at the beer and Adam, Bianca and Maya come in from the back and wish me happy birthday. When Spinner comes in with Lucas we get off sofa so Lucas can lie down.
"Happy Birthday Dude," Lucas says with a slightly strained breath as he sits on the sofa.
"Thanks how do you feel?"
"I'm fine and tired of not being able to do anything. Mia's been over a few times to see me, she says as soon as I can move we can go out. I think I'm going to marry that girl," Lucas smiles.
"You barely know her," I laugh.
"I know she's the most incredible girl I've ever known. She's beautiful, she's sweet and caring. I've never felt this way about anyone else."
"Well I'm happy for you it's about time you met a nice girl," I grin and then Clare comes skipping out of her room.
"YAY LUCAS IS HERE," Clare grins happily and starts to leap into Lucas' lap. If he hadn't have been stabbed recently I'm sure it would be fine but he has. Adam, Bianca and I catch Clare before she can land on Lucas.
"He got stabbed remember no leaping onto Lucas," Adam reminds her.
"But I love Lucas and I want to hug him," Clare pouts.
"I love you too but how about you just blow me a kiss?" Lucas says so Clare blows him a kiss. "What's she on?" Lucas asks. We've let go of Clare and she's now spinning around.
"No idea," Adam sighs.
"I just decided to be happy," Clare asserts as Spinner comes out of the kitchen. "Hi big brother," Clare grins skipping over and jumping on Spinner to hug him.
"What did you take?" Spinner asks her.
"I took happy," Clare repeats.
"Uh-huh. Fitz, Adam can I see you two in my room please," Spinner demands.
"Clare why don't you help me in the kitchen," Bianca says taking Clare's hand.
"I wonder if Spin will send her on another camping trip," Maya muses but follows the girls into the kitchen.
I talk with Lucas for a while since no one will let me help with anything. Spinner, Adam and Fitz return after a short while and Spin goes outside to get the BBQ going. As more people arrive we start to move outside but Jenna, Clare, Fitz, Adam, Maya and K.C. stay inside with Lucas. We're all inside for cake and presents, I get some good stuff and thank everybody but as it's a school night and/or work night for everyone the party ends by eleven. Lucas doesn't live too far from me so I volunteer to bring him home.
"Is your mom working tonight?" I question as I help Lucas into the empty house.
"Yeah I'll be fine though just going to bed," Lucas says.
"Yeah you can barely move, you sure you don't need any help?"
"Yeah I'll be okay," Lucas nods. "You know Mia goes to U of T maybe she has a friend for you," Lucas comments as I'm getting ready to leave.
"Why don't you two have your first date and then you can worry about setting me up," I comment and Lucas grins.
I return to my place and get ready for bed since I have an early class. My family hasn't so much as called to say happy birthday but my friends have always been more like family. I guess that's why I never dated any of the girls in our gang because I saw them all as sisters and just never thought of them that way. Lucas is right though it would be nice to have a steady girlfriend again. The last one I had was Alli last year and it didn't really end well and we only dated a couple of months. A grownup relationship would be nice, now I just need to find a girl.
(MIA)
"You look amazing," Lucas remarks when I open my door. It's Saturday night and we're about to go on our first date. He called me yesterday and said the doctor told him he could resume normal activities with some restrictions. He can't go back to work for another couple of weeks but he can resume doing most things like driving.
"Thanks you look nice too," I smile.
He offers me his arm and we leave my dorm for his car. He drives us downtown where he made reservations at a nice restaurant.
"So how are you liking U of T?" Lucas asks after we've placed our order.
"It's good, it's a good school and some of my professors are great. Not really sure about my math professor though he seems a little…I don't know like he doesn't want to teach."
"Have you declared a major?"
"Marketing, in a way it's a little bit of everything," I reply.
"Cool my buddy Johnny is in the literature program as an English major. He's real smart, I was never smart enough to go to university, didn't even finish high school," Lucas comments.
"You have a good job now though."
"Yeah my buddy Jay got it for me. I like my job and it pays pretty well but I'm not sure I want to be a security guard the rest of my life. I thought about maybe going for the police academy but I'd at least need to get my GED before I try."
"I'm sure you could do it if you wanted. You sure seem to have a lot of buddies you've mentioned two since we got here and I've herd you talk about Sean and Spinner before too. I remember Spinner because I thought it was a funny name."
"It's not his real one but yeah I have a close circle of friends. Jay and I grew up on the same block and became friends. He met Spin in school and Sean and Johnny. We all became good friends and when Spinner's mom died we were all there for him, we were all young but we are all there for him. His house sort of became our hub, it was bigger than ours and his dad wasn't home too much, the teenage nanny his dad hired was hot. We all just grew up together and we became close to Spin's younger sibs and their friends all became part of our group and their younger sibs. There's a bunch of us but it's nice to have such close friends, we're there for each other for anything. I'm not real close to my family, my dad walked out and my mom is always working. My sister and I barely speak, I love her but we've never been close."
"I'm an only child but I always wished I had brother or sister so it must be nice to have so many close friends. I have a best friend but I never had a big group of close friends like that. It must be nice. I never knew my dad either so it's always been just me and my mom. I hope I get to meet all your friends," I grin just as our food is brought out.
"You will, they all want to meet you too but it can be a bit overwhelming. Jay's having a Halloween party on Saturday since Halloween is Monday and most of us have school or work. Everyone is going if you'd like to go with me?"
"I'd love to. Maybe we can go look for costumes after this," I grin and Lucas smiles.
We talk a little more over dinner; he tells me about his sister Jane who's going to school at Stanford. He tells me about his mom and I tell him about mine and where I grew up. Lucas pays for dinner and we walk from the restaurant to a costume shop, we walk very slowly since he's still recovering from surgery but the shop is only a block away. We look around a little pulling out various costumes, after about an hour of looking at costumes we decide on two costumes that go together.
"Are you sure Jay will be okay with me coming to the Halloween party?" I question as we leave the store.
"He insisted on it I've been talking about you so much. It's still pretty early would you like to get dessert? I know of a great little place, it's a bit of a drive but well worth it," Lucas says when we reach his car.
"Sounds great I would love desert," I grin.
We get in the car and Lucas drives. We end up at a little roadside diner which honestly from the outside doesn't look like it has good food. When we get inside however it smells amazing and there's at least a dozen different pies and cakes in a display case. We sit down and both order coffee, Lucas gets cherry pie alamode and I get chocolate cake. I ask Lucas to tell me more about his friends while we eat. There really are a lot of them; he talks about Jay and Sean while we eat dessert. After dessert we go for a drive and he tells me about Sean's younger brother Fitz and then Sean's fiancé Emma while we drive. On the drive back to town he tells me about Paige.
"I had a lot of fun tonight and I look forward to meeting all your friends at Halloween," I say when Lucas walks me back to my dorm room.
"I had a great time too. I can't go back to work for a while how about another date? Maybe tomorrow night?"
"You can pick me up at seven," I grin. I grip his shirt and pull him to me smashing my lips to his for a salacious goodnight kiss. Then I disappear into the room leaving him in the doorway with a happily goofy grin on his face.
I close my door and lean against it feeling my heart flutter and my stomach fill with butterflies. I know it's early but I think I might be falling love.
(FITZ)
"So what are you kids up to tonight?" Drew asks when I arrive at Clare's house to pick her up for our date.
"You know I'm a year younger than you and Fitz is your age so you can't call us kids," Clare comments coming down the hall.
"I can and I will," Drew responds while I'm just grinning at Clare.
"You look incredible," I tell her and she smiles. She's wearing a simple black halter dress that swivels at her hips when she walks. The dress has a v-neckline that plunges down just enough to make me, and any other guy that's not her brother, salivate. Drew sees it too and he twists his face at it. She's wearing heels, not spiky heels just low heels that have straps around her ankles.
"Thanks you look very nice too," she says even though I'm just wearing black jeans and a dark grey button up shirt with a black blazer. "And we're going dancing for your information. Any other questions?" Clare asks her brother.
"Take a coat it's cold," Drew says and Clare rolls her eyes going back to her room and now Drew looks at me.
"Are you going to tell me to have her home early and you'll break my hands if I touch her?" I inquire.
"No I trust you with her; you're one of a very short list I trust implicitly with her. Just watch her tonight you know how she's been all week."
"Yeah she still won't tell me what happened on your camping trip. I'll watch her and I'll make sure she just doesn't take anything else," I assure her brother.
I slept over the night of Johnny's party and after some prodding she finally confessed to Adam and I that she took E. Adam was slightly horrified and was very worried about her, Drew wasn't exactly thrilled that his sister had taken drugs but he also seemed almost relieved. Not that she was taking drugs but since returning from their camping trip she'd been sort of out of it, almost depressed. Since taking E she's been happier and hasn't taken drugs since so her happiness isn't from the aid of narcotic. We've all been watching her too closely for her to have the chance and she swears she won't. Spinner wanted to ground her but Drew convinced him not too. He's been oddly more protective of her since their camping trip. Not more protective around guys or anything but more protective in a different way, a way that's hard to describe but I'm not the only that's noticed Adam's been wondering about it too.
"One time, it was one pill and I felt so funny afterward I don't ever want to take anything again," Clare says shooting us both a look as she comes out wrapped in a coat.
"And I don't want anything to happen to you because you're my baby sister and I love you," Drew says holding her face and kissing her forehead. "And Fitz cares about you too. Have fun tonight," Drew says releasing her.
Clare links her arm with mine and we leave her house getting in my car. She already told me she wanted to go dancing so I take us to a restaurant downtown that has dancing and no age limit to get in. We order dinner first and watch people dancing.
"I can't do that, you know I can't dance," I comment to her while we eat.
"Then why'd you bring me dancing?" Clare questions.
"Because you wanted to come dancing."
"You move your body and you hold me," Clare smiles.
"On the slow songs I can do that, what about the fast ones?"
"Do like Fonzie did and dance slow even to the fast songs," she replies and I laugh.
We finish eating and when the band plays a slow song I take her out to the dance floor. Thankfully when the next song is fast Clare takes me back to the table.
"You know we're the youngest ones here," she remarks when we sit back down.
"Well you're not old enough to get into a club and I wouldn't have taken you to one anyway. It was this or Above the Dot and Spinner is working tonight," I remind her.
"Why don't we get dessert to go and go to the harbor," Clare suggests.
"It's pretty cold out and you're wearing a short dress," I remind her.
"You can keep me warm; we don't have to get out of the car we'll just go look at moon and the stars. We can dance under them that will keep me warm."
"Okay I'll ask for dessert to go," I reply and Clare smiles.
I find our waitress and tell her I'd like dessert to go and pay the bill. I return to the table and our waitress brings us a bag with two boxes containing our dessert. We get back in my car and I drive us to the harbor we eat in the car watching the water and the moon and the boats.
"Let's go dance under the moonlight," Clare says when she's done eating.
I laugh but put on the car radio and we get out dance on the sidewalk under the moonlight. Dancing slow even to the fast songs we stay out there until she begins to shiver and I take her back to my car.
"So what should we do now?"
"Let's just drive, we can go find a little motel and stay the night and we'll come back tomorrow, my brother's trust you."
"That doesn't mean they wouldn't kill me for taking you away for a night without their permission first."
"Let's go back to my place then or yours. Now that your mom's not in the house I could stay over. I'll text Drew that I'm sleeping at your place he won't care and he'll explain it to Spin."
"Okay then back to my place. You want to stop at your house for clothes?"
"No," she shakes her head.
I start driving to my house and she sends a text to Drew. Sean is out with Jay, Johnny and Owen tonight and Emma is working so my house is empty when we get there. I unlock the door and turn on the lights in the living room.
"You want to watch a movie or something?" I ask her.
She shakes her head taking me back to my room. She takes off her coat and then pulls off my blazer sitting on my bed to get her shoes off. I get my shoes off and she unzips her dress taking it over hear head. Now she's in nothing but a halter bra and black panties.
"Are you sure about this?"
"I'm not a virgin anymore you know."
"Yeah I'm well aware of that fact but the fact that you've had sex once doesn't mean you're ready to do it again."
"I thought boys were always ready for sex," she kind of huffs.
"Clare you've been acting a little erratic since I got out. First you can't be near me and then you can't get enough of me. You took drugs for the first time ever, which you admitted to getting from some kid in the ravine and he could have given you anything. You're lucky he didn't give you something to knock you out so he could rape you."
"Everyone in the ravine near DeGrassi knows that my brothers would put their head on a pike if anything happened to me," she shrugs nonchalantly. It scares me a little the way she does like she's so confident nothing could ever happen to her because people are afraid of the wrath of her brothers and the rest of us.
"My point is you've never taken drugs before, certainly not to be happy. I'd love to make love to you I just want make sure that you're sure."
"Jeff didn't ask me this many times and it was my first time," she says taking off her bra.
"I know you better than Jeff," I comment.
"I don't think you know me as well as you think you do. I don't think anyone knows me as well as they think not even Adam. I think," she comments getting up and walking over to me, "that you should get naked."
She unbuttons my shirt and takes it off, then my under shirt and she starts pulling my belt from my jeans. I help her get my jeans off and she takes down my boxers. She pushes me to the bed and then takes her panties down. I reach over to my nightstand to grab the box of condoms and take one out but Clare takes it from me.
"I'm on birth control you know," she comments.
"I know but you've had sex with someone else and I'm not risking disease."
"Jeff is clean," she says twisting her mouth at me.
"I really don't want to talk about him when I'm about to make love to you and I'd prefer to be cautious," I comment.
"Fine but let me put it on," she says opening the foil.
She puts the condom on and then mounts over me. I take her hips and she begins to lower herself down on me but bites her lip and stifles a whimper. I flip us so that she's on her back and I'm on my knees between her legs.
"It's going to take more than once for it to not be painful, especially if you're trying to be on top," I comment and penetrate into her slowly.
Clare moans and a breath hitches in her throat, her eyes lull back and she grips onto me tightly. For a while I thrust very slowly to open her up and get her wet. It seems to take forever but I watch her breasts bounce and her skin tighten, I watch the muscles in her face contort and relax between pain and pleasure. Eventually she moans with every breath, her core is hot and wet, her body trembling slightly. I begin to speed up, just a little with every thrust going in a little deeper and little faster. I feel her core tighten around me, I moan and exhale Clare's name. I admit I've dreamed about this moment for a very long time but it's so much more amazing than I could have ever thought. She feels amazing, my entire body is tingling and I wish I could somehow be more a part of her. We climax together, she screams out my name so loud it rattles my window. Her name rolls from my lips with a rapturous primal grunt. I continue to thrust slowly while we ride out or orgasms and then pull out of her. Clare whimpers and lurches slightly, rolling over she curls to her side while I sit up and take off the condom tossing it in the trash.
"Are you okay? I didn't hurt you did I?"
"Not at all and I feel great," she replies turning over to smile at me. I start to lie down with her but I hear the front door.
"That's Sean I'm going to go tell him you're staying the night," I tell her grabbing my robe from the back of my door. I put it on and go out to the living room.
"How was your date?" Sean asks.
"Great and she's staying the night," I inform him.
"Cool. I'm beat I'm going to bed," Sean yawns.
"Night," I nod and go back in my room.
"Let's go out or ooh will you teach me to ride a motorcycle?" Clare asks.
"Not tonight you don't have the right clothing, if you're not tired we could watch a movie."
"No just hold me in bed," she replies grabbing my dark grey dress shirt from the floor and putting it on. I put on some clean boxers and get in the bed, I lie on my back and she rolls on her side draping her arm across my chest. "I don't want to go home tomorrow let's go to Guelph."
"Where Jeff lives? I don't think so," I shake my head.
"I thought you liked competition?"
"That doesn't mean I'm going to drive you there. Would you rather be with him?"
"I didn't say that," she replies dragging her finger over my chest. "Do you ever think how Sean's life would be different if you weren't around?" She asks quietly after a few minutes.
"Sometimes but he still would have had Mom to take care of. Why?"
"No reason," she says so softly I barely hear her.
"You never did tell me what happened during your camping trip with Drew," I comment. I feel her body go tight, she curls up even tighter and seems to stop breathing all together. I hold her tighter just as she bursts into tears. "Clare?" She only shakes her head and clings to me so I hold her tighter and stroke her back wondering exactly what did happen with her brother in the woods.
(JAY)
"So where's your brother taking Clare tonight?" I ask Sean. We're at The Dock Ellis with Johnny and Owen, everyone else has plans or work tonight but the four of us are getting dinner and then we'll get costumes for my Halloween party and some decorations too.
"That's for her brothers to worry about not me," Sean shakes his head.
"I don't think her brothers worry about her with Fitz," Owen remarks.
"And they shouldn't my brother will take excellent care of her," Sean replies.
"So Owen you going to tell us what you've been so busy with lately?" I ask.
"Hockey tryouts," he responds.
"You've never had to try out for the DeGrassi team, you earned your spot right from junior high," I comment.
"Yeah but they're recruiting from all over the province they acquired a junior pro team. I'm not supposed to say anything but it will be announced soon because they have to get billet families for the other players. I haven't met any of the other team yet but I know I'm the only one from Toronto to make it. They're still doing tryouts for a few spots too but they've narrowed down to the final ones for each position."
"Awesome," I grin slapping him on the back.
"Yeah congratulations Buddy that's great," Johnny smiles.
"Way to go I bet your parents were proud," Sean says.
"Yeah very. I told Clare and Adam but no one else yet."
We eat and talk and watch the sports playing on the TV in the bar. Before we leave to go to the costume shop I use the washroom. When I leave the washroom I see a familiar face, one I haven't seen since going to DeGrassi.
"Manny!"
"Hogart, good to see you," she grins.
She was good friends with Emma in school although never quite a part of the gang she was sort of on the fringes of it. She dates Spinner for a bit after he fought with Paige and she was always in competition with Paige. We dated a short time in high school before she moved to Los Angeles.
"Are you back in town?" I question.
"For a little bit," she replies.
"Well if you're in town next weekend I'm having a Halloween party at my place Saturday night. Everyone will be there Paige included of course so no fighting with her."
"Oh please my rivalry with Paigey ended in high school," she says taking a pen from her purse and taking my hand she starts writing on it, "here's my number text me address."
"Yeah," I smile as she saunters off.
"Ready to go?" Sean asks when I return to the table and I nod.
"Is that a number on your hand?" Owen asks.
"Yeah I ran into Manny and she's coming to the party."
"Well it's been a few years since they saw each other maybe Paige won't kill her," Johnny laughs.
"I'm sure Paige won't do anything, she's grown up a lot since high school," Sean remarks.
We get in my car and drive to the costume mega shop where we start looking around at costumes. I'm sort of looking but I'm thinking about Manny, and hoping Paige doesn't get mad that I invited her.
"You can go as a gorilla," Sean laughs.
"I was thinking something more like this," I remark pulling a sexy fireman costume from the rack.
"I've got my costume are you guys ready yet?" Johnny asks holding a bag.
Owen is buying his costume and Sean picks out a Robin Hood costume for himself and a Maid Marion costume for Emma. Now that we all have our costumes we pick out some decorations before heading back to my place. We hang out and drink a few beers, Owen goes home first and Johnny crashes on my sofa. Sean goes home when Johnny falls asleep on my sofa. I go up to my room and text Manny my address and when to show up for the party and she texts back saying she'll be here.
Update next Saturday might begin with Jeff's pov and maybe just maybe we'll get to the Halloween party…maybe.