I Disclaim

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The Loser's Club Ch.9

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"I didn't mean to make you cry." Ethan sat down on the bed and took Kay in his arms trying to comfort her. "I'm sorry, I just don't know how to handle this, Brian is too old for you, and you're in no shape to try to start a relationship with anyone." Kay continued to sob, but her cries got louder, and more uncontrollable." I'm just trying to protect you."

"I know." Kay stopped crying, upset with herself that she made Ethan think it was his fault. " Ethan, I know that everything you're saying is true, I know it's all true, and after everything I did I don't deserve to find to be as happy as I've been when I with Brian." "I don't go looking for him, and don't think he looks for me either, we just keep finding each other."

" First, you do deserve happiness, you made some mistakes, but you are trying to be become a better person." Ethan wiped the tears from his sister's face as he gave her a weak smile. "I'm just concerned neither one of you is any shape to start something, right now."

"Don't you think I know that?" Brian knew Theresa was trying to help, but he knew all this. " Trust me, before I even went up to her all the reasons went through my mind, but I can't describe to what it did to me to see her sitting there looking sad."

Brian moved form his place on the bench outside the house and started pacing. " Brian, Kay is…" Theresa let out a breathe not really knowing how to describe Kay, when she was younger she was just a cute little tomboy that ran and played with her brother, but loving Miguel had changed Kay, she became deceitful and untrustworthy. She wanted to believe that Kay had reverted back to her old self, but she had seen Kay act before, and didn't want her brother in the crossfire if Kay was a planning a war. " Do you remember Kay as a child?

" Yeah, she was also getting into trouble." Brian grinned as he remembered the things Kay and Miguel had gotten into. "Didn't she was once try to sell Jessica and Paloma?"

"Yes, during a garage sale." Theresa chuckled at the scene. She and her mother had gone to pick up Miguel and found him standing behind a grinning Kay as she tried to talk Tabitha Lennox into buying both children for the low price of a dollar. " The point I'm trying to make is that Kay isn't that little girl anymore, she has grown and the person she has become isn't the person you're looking for."

"Trust me, I know." "I'm not the same person I was when I left Harmony, all those years ago." " I'm not going to apologize for what I did, kissing her was an experience that I can't find words for." Theresa started to speak but Brian stopped her. "But I'm just going to be her friend from here on out, you're right anything more would cause too many problems."

"Do you think that's a good idea?" Ethan looked at Kay, and doubted after heating everything she had just said about Brian that she could keep her developing feelings from coming to the surface if she keep seeing him.

"I have to, I like Brian, and I think we help each other, I haven't had a friend like him in a long time, and I don't want to lose because of my hormones."

"Ok, if you say so," Theresa kissed her brother good bye and walked into the phone she was headed toward her room when she heard the phone ring, changing direction she catches it before it wake the whole house. "Hello?"

"It's me." Ethan voice sounded tense and more then a little stressed, but she more then understood. " How did your conversation go?"

"I he's in denial." Theresa teared up a she remembered the look on her brother's face when she suggested he stop seeing Kay in any fashion, he looked like he lost everything. "Yours?"

"Same." Ethan walked back toward his car, and got in. " So, they're falling in love with each other?"

"Yup."

"What should we do now?" Ethan grimaced when he imagined the scene if he father or Luis found out.

"I suggest we duck and cover." Theresa was also imagining what would happen when the two new lovers get discovered, and she envisioned a jail cell and a trip to the hospital.

Walking into her bedroom Simone went straight for her diary, and began flipping through the pages to the first months when she had met Chad. Reading over things that happened in the past it struck Simone that Reese was right, their relationship if they could even be called that, were too similar.

The first time Chad said he loved her, he was delirious with fever, and the same could be said for their first kiss.

Chad never actually asked her out for their first date, it was just assumed that they were going to the Sheridan and Luis engagement party together.

Simone closes the book, when she heard a car drive up, opening the window, she saw Chad's car outside and watched in amazement as Chad flashed his lights at the house. She stepped away from the window when she heard another window opening. 

"Chad, go away before my father sees you." Simone gasped when she heard Whitney's voice obviously Chad had been signaling to her sister.

Finally the truth slaps Simone in the face, she was just like Reese, and she was the other half of a relationship that wasn't a relationship at all. Chocking back her tears Simone opened her door and headed downstairs, and out the back door, she had stood in the shadows and watched as Whitney tried to send Chad away, when her sister gave up and closed the window Simone hurried to the car and opened the passenger side door. "Hey Chad, don't you think it's time we talked."

"Simone, what's going on?" Chad had thought when the door opened that Whitney had been coming to talk to him, but maybe this was a sign that he needed to finally tell her the truth.

"We should talk, but I don't think we should do it here, so why don't we talk while you drive, and then you can drop me back off." Simone puts her seat belt on and watches Chad starts driving down the main road.

"Okay." Chad drove a short distance to the community center parking lot. "So what did you want to talk about?"

"I want to talk about how long you been interested in my sister." Simone unbuckled her seatbelt and turned to face Chad.

"Simone, I want to be honest with you, and I haven't been in the past." "I'm not just interested in your sister, I'm in love with Whitney, and have been since the beginning."

"You thought you were talking to Whitney when you declared your love?" Seeing he nods everything falls into place. "Did you ever care about me?"

"Simone I have always cared about you, but I don't love you, and I'm sorry I can't."

"No, that's fine, I was tried of trying to figurer out what was wrong with our relationship anyway, now I known." Simone backed away as Chad tries to comfort her. "It's fine now you can be with Whitney."

"No, that's not possible either." Chad's face breaks into a solemn mask of acceptance. " Whitney doesn't believe we should be together."

"Because of me." Simone knew that people thought she hated Whitney, but she knew her big sister was always looking out for her, trying to keep her from pain, and this sounded like something Whit would do.

" Kind of, Whitney doesn't want you to think that I picked her over you, because that's not what happened." "I can't help who I fell in love with, but we have more problems then that."

"Whitney's 'yes daddy' routine." When Whitney just automatically agreed to whatever it was that her parents wanted, it made Simone glad that they never had expectations of her. "Lord knows that act annoys me."

Chad laughs as Simone rolls her eyes. " She just wants to make them proud, but I don't think she has ever done anything because she wanted it." Chad looks at the time and knows he needs to take Simone back. " We should head back." Chad stars up the car and turns to go back to the Russell house.

A block from the house Simone tells Chad to pullover. "No points in risking letting someone see us." Simone opens the door o leave, but stops and turns back to look at Chad. " I'm angry that you didn't tell me the truth sooner, but I'm glad that you were honest with me, and I hope you and Whitney work out."

"Thank you, Simone, I know you'll find someone who can really love you lie you deserve. "

Simone shuts the door and runs home, not letting the tear reach her eyes, it was like she told Reese, there was someone out there for her, she just had to find them.

The limo speed past the 'Welcome to Harmony Sign' just as the phone inside rang. The blonde man inside groaned as he answered, while his sister chuckled to herself.

"Yes Grandfather." Andrew Crane had known who was calling, no one else knew they were coming, much less cared.

"Don't give me attitude Drew, just put me on speakerphone." Alistair waited until her heard the sounds of his grandchildren in the limo before starting. " Now, I don't want you two getting too involved with this townspeople, that was the mistake your moronic father made, and look where it got him."

"We are aware of our father's faults, but tell why we are being summoned to Harmony." Amanda was told she would never be allowed into Harmony again after what happened all those years ago, so she knew that for Grandfather to call her he must be desperate.

"We must try to rebuild the Crane Imagine, by fixing all the problems that Julian caused." " Amanda as the oldest you will have to take over at Crane Industries, and that means dealing with Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald and your mother, I don't want either women using my name. "

"That's great Grandfather, I happy for Mandy, but why drag me from school."

" You are here for one reason and one reason alone, PR, since we lost Ethan we have only had Julian to act as a Public figure, and he screwed that up too." "All you have to do is be charming and gracious, kiss babies and shakes hands, and stay out of trouble."

"So we're the clean crew." Mandy sends an 'I told you so' to her brother, while she fixes herself a drink." Anything else we need to know?" she takes a sip of her brandy as she waits for her grandfather to answer.

"Yes, your aunt Sheridan is alive, and was brought back to Harmony by Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald."

Mandy spits out the brandy and begins coughing as she tries to compose herself and Drew laughs at her.

"Yes, I thought you would have that reaction, just try to do better when you actually see him again, and don't let history repeat itself." I'll be in touch." The phone click, and Drew hangs up on their end, still chuckling at his flustered sister.

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Coming Soon:  

Miguel and Kay Talk.

Brian turns to an old friend for help.

More visitors make their way to Harmony.