Chapter 35…
At the basketball-field near the highschool ryan was still there,hanging out and drinking beers when one of them walked away;"It's pretty late,guys,so I'm out of here."
"So am i."said the second one and walked away as well;"See you guys tomorrow at school."
"How about you,danny,don't you have to go home too?"asked ryan as he turned towards his friend;""Or isn't it past your bedtime yet?"
"I can decide my own bedtime,r.c."laughed he and grabbed another beer;"How about you,my friend,won't you get into trouble for staying out so late on a school-night and getting drunk?"
"I'm not drunk!"answered his friend irritated while he tried to get up without falling down again and finally was able to by holding on to danny;"Maybe just a little bit,but who cares?"
"Your family might,ryan,they might not be all that happy about you being so waisted and coming home so late."started danny slowly;"So do you need a ride home?"
"No,I don't want to go home yet,so how about going over to your place?"asked he;"I'm not going to school tomorrow anyway."
"Sure,r.c."smiled his friend as he helped ryan into his car;"If that's what you want."
The next morning jesse tried to sneak out of the room at mary's place when he ran into mary in the hallway;"Goodmorning,jesse,you wouldn't be trying to avoid anybody,would you?"
"Ssssh,lacey is still asleep and I don't want to wake her up."answered her grandson a bit irritated and quickly closed the door behind him gently;"I'm not trying avoid anybody,mary,I'm just going for a walk and that's all."
"I heard about what happened yesterday,jesse,so I know that it was a real shock when you found out about your mother not remembering anything."started she softly while following him down the stairs;"Running away from this isn't the answer."
"I'm not running away from anything!"said jesse;"I just don't feel like talking about it right now and even if I did what would be the point anyway?"
"Why wouldn't there be any point?"asked his grandmother;"It might make you feel better and keeping everything bottled up inside isn't the answer either,jesse,so maybe you should talk about it."
"It sucks that she can't remember what happened that night and that she doesn't remember that I'm her son,but talking about it won't change that and it won't make this damn situation any better!"answered he angry and walked out of there;"I'm going for a walk."
At the highschool alex was getting out of ginny's car when her ex-boyfriend came up to them;"What are you doing here,Kevin?"
"I need to talk to you,alex,please?"begged he;"If I can just talk to you then I can make you understand that we belong together and that this break-up is stupid."
"Trusting you again was stupid!"answered his ex-girlfriend while she noticed that Kevin looked like he'd been up all night and also like he was high on something;"Please go away and leave me alone!"
"Do you really think that acting like this is going to change alex's mind or something?"asked ginny as she locked up her car and walked up to her cousin;"Get a life,Kevin!"
"Why don't you just mind your own business for once!"said he angry and pushed ginny away;"This is between me and my girlfriend!"
"Your ex-girlfriend and that's going to stay that way!"started alex just as angry while she turned towards ginny;"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine,so let's not waist anymore time on this jerk."answered her cousin and pulled alex with her towards the school;"Let's get to class."
"Like hell she is!"yelled Kevin furious while he suddenly grabbed alex's arm and pulled her with him;"You're coming with me and we're going to talk about us,alex,because we belong together and you're mine!"
"Let go off me,Kevin,you're hurting my arm!"said she scared when she saw the crazy look in his eyes and tried to pull away from him,but Kevin kept on pulling her towards his car;"Kevin!"
"What the hell are you doing?"asked Patrick,who'd been asked to help by ginny,angry and came up to them with ginny as well as with a few others;"Let go off her,Kevin,right now!"
"Or what?"yelled he in a rage as he let go of alex and pushed Patrick away;"What are you going to do about it,queer?"
"Security is on it's way right now,Kevin,so I'd leave if I were you!"warned ginny him while she got in between him and alex again;"Right now!"
"This isn't over!"said her cousin's ex-boyfriend as he turned towards alex before he got into his car and left;"It will never be over!"
"Are you okay?"started Patrick worried while ginny put her arm around alex's shoulders and gently took her with them towards the car;"Maybe ginny should take you home and I'll explain everything downhere."
"No,I'm not letting that jerk mess up my day!"answered she,wiping away the tears from her eyes,and walked back towards the school;"Let's go inside or we'll be late for class."
In the hospital sage was just coming out of m.j.'s room when she ran into justin;"Hi,justin,can we please talk?"
"No,stop asking me that."answered he annoyed;"There's nothing left to talk about."
'."said Kathleen as she showed up and was surprised to see sage walking away with tears in her eyes,so she turned towards justin;"What was that all about?"
"What was what all about?"asked her nephew quickly and wanted to go into his mother's room;"I have no idea,aunt Kathleen."
"Wait a minute!"answered she while she stopped him;"What's going on between you and sage?"
"There's nothing going on and I didn't come downhere to talk about sage!"started justin irritated again;"I came here to see mom."
"It was pretty obvisious just now that there is something going on between you and sage because you seemed irritated with her for some reason and she seemed upset about that,so why don't you just tell me what it is and maybe I can help."said his aunt;"Does it have anything to do with your mother,justin,is that why you're irritated or something with her?"
"You aren't going to let up on this,are you?"asked he angry;"Sage and I have been dating for a few weeks now and a few days we stopped seeing eachother when it became clear to me that she doesn't trust me enough to tell her son about us."
"How old is sage's son?"answered Kathleen curious;"I didn't know that she had a son."
"Her son is almost ten and I wanted him to know about us,aunt Kathleen,but sage made some stupid excuse about it being too early to tell him and that was just her way of telling me that she doesn't trust me enough to let me be a part of that part of her life."started her nephew slowly;"That's all there is to it."
"Are you really that one-sighted that you can't even understand why sage would think it's too early to tell her son about you since you guys haven't even gone out for that long yet,justin?"asked she surprised and said one more thing before she walked into her sister's room;"Try putting yourself in sage's shoes and see things from her point of view."
At the policestation shawn had stopped by there on his way to college when he walked into his father's office;"Hi,dad,why aren't you at home with mom?"
"Because your mother went to work and told me to do the same."said shane;"She refused to stay home."
"Why?"asked his son surprised;"Uncle Michael was buried yesterday,so mom's got no business being at work and neither do you,dad,so why didn't you guys just stay home?"
"I just told you why!"answered he irritated;"I have enough to do anyway,including bringing alan garrison in for questioning and also talking to the rape-suspect's lawer about our deal."
"Haven't they been in touch with you about that yet?"started shawn slowly;"Do you really think that he's guilty."
"All the evidence points in his direction,so that's all that we have to look at."said his father;"Whether he's guilty or not is up to a jury,shawn,we don't have to decide that."
"That wasn't what I asked you."answered he;"Do you think that this guy did all those things."
"I have no idea and I have other things to worry about that right now,shawn,so all I care about is whether not the evidence says that he did it or not."started shane tired;"Go to college."
That day at lunch Amanda had just arrived at tops when lisa came up to her;"Hi,Amanda,I'm glad that you came."
"What did you want to talk to me about?"asked she as they walked up to lisa's office and went inside as lisa closed to door behind them;"Is it about mandy?"
"In a way it is,because both of your daughters came to see me lastnight and they seemed really worried about you."started lisa hesitating;"They said that you've been feeling sick a lot lately and that you haven't been yourself either."
"They shouldn't have gone to talk to you,lisa,especially not since I have already told the both of them that I'm fine and there's nothing going on with me!"answered her sister-in-law irritated;"I'm sorry that they that did and I will have a talk with them about it."
"There's no need for that,because I'm glad that they came to me and now that I'm seeing you with my own two eyes I have to say that I can't blame them for being worried."said she;"You don't look fine at all to me and you look like you haven't slept in days,so what's going on with you?"
"Nothing!"answered Amanda lying;"Nothing at all!"
"Come on,Amanda,it's me that you're talking to here."started her sister-in-law slowly;"Are you pregnant?"
"I don't know."began she suddenly in tears as she broke down;"I was suppose to get my period days ago,but I didn't and with me being sick a lot lately I'm really scared that I am pregnant."
"Have you taken a pregnancy-test yet?"asked lisa and saw the answer written all over Amanda's face;"Let's do that first this afternoon and just take it from there if it turns out that you are pregnant."
To be continued….