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Authors Note: Please don't flame me about anything, especially spell, usage and grammar. I am not to good with the mechanics of english. THANX!

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The second day of school wasn't much better and the rest of the week was just as bad. I had been a bit of an outcast before all this but now it was even worse. It was Saturday evening and he was laying on his bed reading when the phone rang. He let his mom pick it up.
"Slash! Phone!" I considered pretending I was asleep but something told me this was important. I picked up.
"Yeah?" I heard my mom let out an exasperated sigh and hang up.
"Sl...Slash?" the voice at the other end was familiar, and sounding meek. "Um, it's Eddy," know I knew why I recognized the voice.
"Hey, Eddy, I thought I recognized the voice." I hear him let out a breath. He was obviously nervious.
"Really? You recognized my voice?" he seemed surprised that some one would find him familiar.
"Really, so what can I do for you?" I asked. He was quiet for a bit.
"Well, um, my birthday is on Monday and I was going to have a party tomorrow and, um, I want you to come." I could tell that he was certin I would say no.
"Of course I'd love to go, can I bring some one?"
"Sure, the nurses are letting me have the party in the activity room and their even gonna let anyone on the floor who wants to come to come, so it really doesn't matter. Besides I want to see Jam again." I could he the smile in his voice, especially at the last comment.
"How'd you know it would be him?" I had never told him about Jam and me. I figured that he really didn't kneed to know.
"Well, I guess my mom never told you that I was an expert at feigning sleep." I blushed.
"Oh," He chuckled slighty at that.
"Well I guess I'll see you and Jam tomorrow at six then."
"I guess so," we said our good byes and hung up. I then picked up the receiver again and called Jam. He was more than happy to go with me.

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The next afternoon I was sitting on Jam's bed while he changed for the party. He insisted on looking good despite the fact that it was really just a little gathering at the hospital.
"All right how do I look?" I look up and see him dressed in a dark button down shirt and clean, fairly new jeans. I hid a small smile. It was the same outfit he had tried on about an hour ago.
"Same as you did about an hour ago." I tell him, "You look really, really hot!" He rolls his eyes and sighs.
"Fine then, are you ready to go?" I nodded and got up. The two of us where just about to get into the car when Jam stopped, he looked at me and said.
"Um, I forgot something in side, I'll be right back." As I got into the passenger side, Jam turned and ran into the house. When he returned he was trying to stuff something into his jacket pocket. He climbed into the drivers seat and turned the car on.
"What did you forget?" I asked. He looked at me for a second.
"Nothing," HE pulled out of the driveway and turned towards the hospital. I leaned back in the seat and looked at him out of the side of my eyes. He was staring straight ahead and gripping the steering wheel so hard his knuckles where white. He was obviously nervous about something, but I new he wasn't going to tell me, and it was probably best to not push it. We, as usual, took an hour to get to the hospital. When we did one of the nurses, Betty, told us to head straight to the activity room. When we got there the room was decorated with ribbons and balloons. Eddy was in a wheelchair with a huge smile on his face in the middle of the room. I wave to him.
"Hey, happy birthday buddy." I say with a smile to match his. He smiled back.
"I am so happy you could come, hi Jam, how are you? Hope everything goes as planned." With that Eddy winked at Jam and headed off into the crowed of patients, nurses and his parents. I tried to ask him about what he had ment with 'Hope everything goes as planned' but he wouldn't answer, and Jam swore he knew nothing of what Eddy was talking about. I decided that the best thing to do would be to forget about it and just have fun. It wasn't all that easy though, more twice that night I caught Eddy and Jam having a private conversation that stopped when they saw me. I was starting to get a tad worried. At the end of the evening, as Jam and I were climbing into the car, he asked if we could stop some where private for a bit. Agreed, happy that we would get to spend some time alone with out the threat of parents walking in on us. We parked in a small parking lot that was about three quarters of the way up the mountain that was really for the picnic area. We sat their in silence for a few seconds after Jam turned the engine off. I folded one leg under me and turned towards him.
"So, I'm guessing that you probably wanted to talk." He looked at me. The look in his eye told me that he was nervous.
"Um, well sort of, I actually wanted to give you something." He fumbled with something in his pocket for a moment before turning to me. He held a small black box in one hand. He handed it to me, I took the box and opened it. I gasped. Inside was a ring, it was silver with a rose ingraved on it.
"Um, it's a promise ring. It, um, it means that I promise that one day I'm going to ask you to spend the rest of your life with me." He was blushing by now. I bit my lip, I really didn't know if I should cry or kiss him. Sure the ring was a little feminine but I loved it. I pulled the ring out of the box and slipped it onto my finger, I then decided the best thing to do would be to kiss him. We stayed there doing more talking that kissing until about twelve thirty. When I got home I sat on my bed for about half an hour examining the ring.