Hello All, okay I have some bad news. My internet is down. So, my updates won't be as plentiful for now. I'm going to try and write as many chapters as I can and then post when I can. That all is going to be dependent on my work schedule so no for sure dates.

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Chapter 26

*Freddie's POV*

*Two weeks later*

"Guess who," a sweet sound rang through my ear as I sat on a bench outside of the school reading up on a past class assignment. Her hands covered my eyes, but I recognize that voice anywhere.

"Um, Miss Briggs," I stated sarcastically. I felt a shove as she uncovered my eyes and sat next to me. "Emma it's you." I said puckering my lips for a kiss from my current girlfriend.

"I am slightly offended by that answer." She said turning away from my pucker.

"Oh come on, I knew it was you." I said back to her.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," She said before giving me a small peck. She smiled big before looking down. "What are you doing?"

"Before we graduated Miss Briggs wants us to do an assignment where we talk about a past assignment that she feels impacted us the most. I'm writing about the assignment where we had to take a current film and translate it into Shakespeare language." I said before I knew it the old script was snatched out of my hand.

"Oh, I want to see." She stated turning it to her front page. "Twlight, The Shakespeare Rendition, by Freddie N. Benson and Sam…" She stopped as she came up to Sam's name. A fact that a left out on purpose. "You worked on this with Sam?" She asked.

"Um, yeah I did." I stated. She sat there quietly for a minute flipping through the pages. All of a sudden I felt the need to defend myself. "I mean I didn't have much of a choice since Briggs picked the partners. Plus, we weren't together at the time I was still with Valerie. As a matter of fact, that's what started all the drama with Val; that and me being friends with Sam, because as you know already we were just friends at first. We were just friends when we met." I stopped talking when I realized what I was saying probably wasn't helping my case.

She finally looked up at me with a sweet smile. "Freddie its okay I realize that you and Sam have a past. Remember, my best friend was partially responsible for the break up?" She said.

"Yeah, I know. I just don't want you to feel weird and all since me and Sam are friends again." I said.

She smiled and kissed me on the cheek. "You're so sweet, but for the hundredth time I'm okay. You seem happy now that you and Sam are friends again." She said back.

"Yeah, I missed our friendship." I said thinking about Sam and our recently rekindled friendship. It felt like we were almost back to normal. Although, it will never be like it used to, at least it's something.

She nodded her head and leaned on to me pulling her legs up on the bench. We sat there in silence before I checked my watch. I would've normally been gone considering school let out forty five minutes ago, but me and the guys were hanging out today. So, I had to wait on all of them who had landed in detention because they pranked Mr. Howard during homeroom.

"You know the guys will be out soon, you can head home if you want." I said finally placing the script in my backpack.

"Oh yeah, um what time are you guys finishing up?" She asked.

"I don't know we're just going to play some basketball at the gym." I said back. "Why," I asked.

"Um, I just wanted some alone time with you." She said back.

"Well, you can come by my house. My mom doesn't get off until eight tonight." I answered clearly not catching what she was getting at as she looked unsatisfied. "Or, we can go to the movies and dinner, or something."

"Freddie I'm ready." She stated calmly.

"Ready to go I know, I told you its cool." I said.

She shook her head and grabbed my hands turning to face me. "No Freddie, I'm really ready." She said with a knowing look.

"Oh," I said finally catching on to what she was talking about. "I thought you wanted to wait a while?"

"I did, but only because I wanted it to be special. However, I've been thinking about it lately and I don't need all the crap they do in the movies. It will be special because it is with you." She stated. I was speechless I didn't know how to respond, but I didn't have to because the guys showed up in a knick of time.

She heard all the hooting and hollering from my friends and waved at them. "You better go; I think detention has them a little nutty." She stated before giving me a long lingering kiss. "My parents are going to be at this fundraiser thing tonight it usually doesn't end to midnight which puts them home around two. Come over at nine?" She asked with a slight pout.

I just nodded my head causing her to smile widely, before giving me another kiss and running off towards her car. I left my spot on the bench and headed to where the guys were standing.

"Why do you look like someone just told you that Pear Electronics is shutting down?" Brad asked as I reached them.

I just shook my head. "I'll explain later." I stated as we headed to the car.

*30 minutes later*

The guys didn't stop bugging me about what I was so dazed about. I had avoided talking about the non-existent sex life between me and Emma, because that involved telling that Emma has no previous sex life.

I didn't want to put her business out there, and they would find it hard to believe. However, after the bomb she had just dropped on me I needed to talk to them. Of course, telling them about the situation quickly proved to be a terrible mistake as we stood on the gym floor, while the laughed hysterically.

"Guys, seriously it's not that funny." I stated as I tossed the ball through the hoop.

Wesley opened his mouth to say something but all that came out was more laughter.

"We're sorry. It's just that, she's on the cheerleading squad; the varsity cheerleading squad." Brad said picking up the ball and passing it back to me.

"Yeah, don't mention that to her. She takes that very offensively." I said passing the ball to Gibby.

"Well she definitely picked the wrong group to hangout with, after all her best friend alone is known for lifting up that cheer skirt for anyone who asks, right Brad?" Gibby stated tossing the ball to Brad.

Brad rolled his head and threw it back to Gibby. "Look who's talking." Brad said. "If I remember correctly you slept with her first."

"Yeah, that was before she became open for business." Gibby said back with a throw back to Brad.

I shook my head as an argument started about Rachael running through our group with an exception of me and Wes. Gibby was the last of us to loose his virginity and it just so happened to be with Rachael before she started sleeping around with everyone. We often blame Gibby for that as a joke.

"Fellas, fellas, I think we're getting way off base now." Wes finally spoke up before stealing the ball from Brad and going for a lay-up. "So, she wants you to be her first, but she wants to wait for something special?" He asked passing me the ball.

I went for a jump shot, missing it in the process. "No, that's what she wanted at first; that is until this afternoon when she told me that she wanted it to happen tonight, because being with me would make it special no matter what." I said putting my hands on my sides and letting out a deep breath.

I saw the laughs about to start, but surprisingly they didn't. "Dude, I would run while you still can because that is a bunch of bullshit." Brad said with the straightest face I have ever seen grace his face.

"What," I asked in confusion.

"What he is saying is, you better find a way to make it special, or else you will ruin her first time. And, if that happens she will never forgive you." Wesley said.

"Better yet, just skip it all. Get out before you get in. You do not want to deal with the drama that comes with deflowering a virgin." Gibby said.

"He's deflowered a virgin before Gibb." Wesley said taking a seat in the middle of the court.

"No, that was different." I said. "I was a virgin too and we both didn't know what we were doing. With this it's like pressure because I feel like she is expecting something that I don't know I can give her."

"You can't give it to her. Run, quick, before you do something you may regret." Gibby said.

"I'm sorry how would you know anything about this?" Wes asked Gibby.

Gibby shrugged. "Look, I've actually done this okay. I deflowered a girl who said she was ready and really wasn't." He said honestly.

"Um, when," Brad asked. Gibby didn't even look his way. He scratched his head and looked at the ground. "I don't know, not too long after I lost mine. I believe it was at The Bash sophomore year."

"And, why are we just now hearing about this?" I asked in shock.

"Because it was a mess, she freaked out the next morning, like seriously freaked out. She kept screaming what have I done and she started crying. Then, she swore me to secrecy. We never talked about it again." He said. "But, even now she can't look at me the same… you know on the rare occasions I see her."

We all nodded. "The only thing about that Gibbs is that you were at The Bash which means she was probably not in her right mind because of the alcohol." Wes said.

"Well, I know that, but even more so, she was emotionally unstable. She and her boyfriend had just broken up. She just wanted the pain to go away." Gibbs said. "Which brings me to my next question, what made her decide that she didn't want to wait for something special anymore?"

I shrugged. "Maybe you should tell us what happened to even bring on the sex talk." Brad said.

"Well, honestly I don't know. It wasn't like we were hot and heavy. I was actually looking over that old assignment you guys helped me and Sam with. She came over and looked over it. We talked about how me and Sam's friendship was going, and that was it." I said noticing they were giving me the same look.

I shook my head. "Nope, you guys can go ahead and get that thought out of your head. This is Emma we're talking about." I said.

"I mean it would make since Freddie. She may still feel insecure about this whole friendship thing between you and Sam. I mean are you sure she is as okay as you said she was?" Brad asked.

"She was the one who suggested it." I said.

"All words, all words," Gibby said shaking his head. "She said that right after all that Rachael shit went down."

"Guys, I know Emma she wouldn't be that damn insecure, or for that matter she wouldn't do something so stupid." I said.

They all gave each other a knowing look, but didn't push the matter any further. Emma would never decide to have sex with me now, just because we talked about Sam…. Right? I contemplated the opinions of my friends before deciding that it was all poppycock.

"So, are you going to go through with it?" Wes asked.

I shrugged. "I don't know. I mean it has been a really long time, but you guys make a valid point." I said.

"Well, you can always say no." Brad said.

"Hell, she might not have meant any of it and not expect anything to happen tonight." Gibby said with a shrug.

"You know what you're right. There is a chance that she has forgotten about all of this right?" I said. They all nodded.

"Dare you to move. Dare you to move. I dare you to lift yourself off of the floor." My phone rang out. Emma's name flashed across my screen next to an envelope. I opened up the text. I let out a heavy cough at the message that popped up on my screen.

"Or, she could be dead serious." I said as my mouth stood wide open at my phone. The guys made there way over to me and took in the eye full I was receiving. Emma had sent me a picture of her seemingly naked under her sheets, with the message "I'll see you tonight xoxoxo."

"Yeah, you better just go through with it." Wes said.

I looked at him. "What," I said before putting my phone back in my pocket.

"If you can't go through with it, you'll be a jackass." Brad said. "She is really expecting this to happen.

"I'm sorry, what happened to 'it will ruin her life?'" I asked the three friends that stood before me.

"Well, it will hurt her worse if she has put in all this effort and you don't go through with it without a valid excuse, she will feel like shit." Brad finished out.

I just shook my head. "Guys, I think I have a lot of stuff to workout, so I'm going to head out. Thank you for all your input, but I got to figure this out on my own." I said before heading out the gym.

*That Night*

"Okay, Freddie you can do this." I said to myself as I sat in my car outside of Emma's house. "Hell, you have done this. You love doing this."

I looked at the house. It seemed as if no one was there, but I knew that wasn't true. Why was I feeling like this? It's just sex, right? But, this is Emma we're talking about she's fragile. I wanted her to experience everything she needed and wanted. I just hope I could give it to her.

I finally got out of the car and headed up to the house. I checked my breath before knocking on the door. Emma answered the door right away. She was in her robe she leaned against the door rail.

"Hey," She said with a sweet smile.

I couldn't help but to smile back at her. "Hey," I said back. "Can I come in?" I asked.

She took my hand and led me into the house. I noticed the dark setting in the house with light illuminating from upstairs. I followed her upstairs and into her room. The only light was coming from inside it was one little lamp with a sheer pink fabric laying over it.

"I wish I could've done more, but I didn't want my parents to be suspicious if I didn't have enough time to clean up." She said closing her door and leaning onto it.

"That's completely understandable." I said before bringing her to me and wrapping my arms around her. I wanted to comfort her for feeling like it wasn't enough.

She pulled me down to her and kissed me gently. "I want you Freddie." She whispered in my ear. I took her and picked her up I pressed her against the wall before kissing her.

When we broke apart she told me to put her down. I obliged to her wishes. She took my hand and led me to her bed. She sat me down on top of the bright pink pallet and walked away.

She turned back towards me. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She began to untie her robe before completely removing it. Underneath was this pink silky short night gown, I believe it's called a negligee.

My mouth fell open at the sight. She was indeed beautiful, but something was off.

"So," She began as I sat there mouth open. "What do you think?"

"I…" I started. "I… I don't think I can go through with this."

A/N: I've already started writing the next chapter, but it's not quite finished yet. It will be finished and posted as soon as I can get it to you!

Thanks for everything again. :)