Chapter 9

Kelly got up from the couch and walked over to Oliver. She kissed him on the cheek, "You're not nervous are you?"

"No, of course not, " he remarked placidly, hiding his emotions inside. Inside he was a bunch of butterflies. He barely even knew Rachelle and here he was, standing with so much hatred towards her and her boyfriend. He hadn't talked to Mike in weeks and wasn't about to anytime soon.

"I am." She said, softly. Oliver laughed.

"Ok, so I lied. I am nervous." Kelly laughed at him and guided him towards the stairs, "Ready?"

"I'm not nervous anymore." Kelly said, traveling up the stairs, "I thought it was nervousness but I'm just so excited to shove this in her face."

Kelly had to show Oliver where the bedroom was and Oliver got that silly grin on his face again, "Oliver, remember, you will tell no one about this."

"Yeah whatever, now can we go in?" Oliver grinned. Kelly pushed open the door and walked quickly to Rachelle's bed. She pulled the covers off of Rachelle's body and shook she gently. She didn't want to wake up the whole bedroom with Rachelle screaming at her.

"Huh?" Rachelle muttered, looked to see who had disrupted her from her sleep, "Kelly, what the hell do you want?"

That's when Rachelle noticed Oliver. She rubbed her eyes twice before saying something, thinking it was a dream.

"Why the hell is he in here!" Rachelle screamed, Kelly reached out to cover her mouth, causing a hissy fit from Rachelle. Oliver grabbed her flailing legs to keep from hitting Kelly and Kelly struggled to control Rachelle's arms.

"Rachelle, calm down. Where just here to show you something." With that, Kelly hurried to the tv and shoved the tape in, leaving Oliver to manage Rachelle by himself.

After a few seconds of fuzziness and a few muffled screams from Rachelle, the movie started play and Rachelle started to relax. She at first noticed Mike on the screen and smiled but then realized that Kelly and Oliver wouldn't come into the girl's bedroom in the middle of the night just to show her a video of Mike. Something had to be up. Rachelle pulled at Oliver's grasp.

"What does this mean?" Rachelle said, softer. If something was going on in this video, she sure as hell didn't want to let the whole bedroom hear it, "Why are you showing me this?"

"Just watch." Oliver said. Soon you could hear the door opening, Kelly's footsteps against the floor, and Mike saying hello to Kelly for the final time. As the scene played out, Rachelle's smile slowly diminished, leaving nothing but a broken hearted frown. Rachelle looked at Kelly and Oliver with tears in her eyes.

"Why did you do this?" Rachelle asked, "Why did you think you had to do this. I have been nothing but mean to you for the past weeks and you still persist to be my friend."

Oliver glanced at Kelly and actually thought about this question. It was a very good question.

"Best friends just can't quit. Friends just don't leave or disappear." Kelly said, walking towards the bed, "I can't see Mike hurt you more than he already did. "

"I couldn't see Mike hurt another girl." Oliver added, "Plus, he hit on my girlfriend, what else as I going to do, leave it as is?"

"I know I have been a complete and total bitch lately and I know I have been caught up with being Mike's perfect girlfriend, " Rachelle cried, "but thanks you guys. In my heart, I knew you two were right. I just didn't want to believe it."

"Rachelle, don't worry about it." Kelly said, "Go back to bed, we can talk about this in the morning."

"Can we save it till lunch; I have some business I have to deal with first."

"Yeah, sure." Kelly said, uncertainly, "I don't mind."

As Kelly and Oliver made their way back downstairs, Rachelle called back to them.

"Hey, Oliver! Was the girl's bedroom everything you thought it would be?" Rachelle laughed.

Oliver's grin spread back across his face.