AUTHORS NOTE:
First off lets thank TEMPEST for her wonderful story, Amor Vincit Omnia!!!!!! {{Applause!!!}}
Wonderful stuff! It was just too good to end, so we are going to finish it. Give it some closure, and give a few of those jerks what they have coming…Duck Style!!! Alright! Woo hoo! Secondly I would like to mention that the conclusion to this story is inspired by the wonderful writing of TEMPEST {{Applause!!}} and by Mandy Moore's song
Not Too Young. It is also inspired by pure anger over Jerks like Jacob. J So on with it then.
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Camryn listened to the dedication on the radio, and had to wonder. "Chicago D.P. huh? That is so cute." She thought to herself.
She lay in her bed looking at the ceiling. The dots seemed to dance around to her. She kept staring and they danced around so she could see a D.P in the ceiling. "Just call the stupid radio station," she thought to herself… "I can do better than that…"
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"Geez man snap out of it!"
Dean didn't hear which one of his friends said that, but it got his attention.
"What??" he said. Irritated that his thoughts were broken.
"Here, it's for you." Louis said handing him the phone.
"Hello?" Dean asked into the phone.
"…" No response.
"Hello?!" Dean said getting more upset.
"…Hi…" Camryn said into the receiver not sure she wanted reveal who was on the phone.
"HI." Dean said utterly surprised she was calling.
"What's up Chicago D.P.?" She asked with a little smirk on her face.
"Oh so you heard that, huh?" he said a little apprehensive.
"Yeah, I did. I must admit I was a bit surprised. So…"she couldn't find the words she wanted to say.
"Do you want to say something Cammy?" Dean asked remembering she had said those exact same words to him.
"Yeah I just don't exactly know how to say it." She said not quite aware of the significance of those words.
"Some one very wise once told me 'The best way to say it is just to say it'."
She smiled because she remembered then that they had this conversation the other way around.
"Can we meet somewhere at school on Monday to talk?" She said a little unsure of what his answer will be.
"I would love to." He said with complete honesty.
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The weekend past, her parents had the "chat" with her and deemed that because it was so unlike her, and that they would let her slide with a warning and she was on probation. If she broke cerfew again without an outstanding reason, then she would have to deal with a punishment for that offense and the one they let slide. That translates to a month and a half of being grounded. NO phone, no company, no nothing.
Monday rolled around and it was time to go to first period. It went by fairly uneventful, until the end of class when Jacob came to talk to me again. I had resolved not to let him get to me and irritate me, or pit me against Dean. We had to talk whether or not Jacob and I were on good terms.
"So, do you have an engagement after school?" Asked Jacob in his amazingly sophisticated tone.
"Actually, I do." I replied.
"What are you doing?" He asked trying not to sound to amazingly interested.
"I am meeting someone, if it is any of your business." I replied a little bit more rude than I was meaning to sound.
"Oh, I do apologize, I don't mean to pry, but weren't we supposed to go out?"
"No, we weren't supposed to. You didn't even ask." I said feeling like he was getting a little bit cocky.
"Well I assumed th-" he was cut off.
"That is your problem you assume, you assumed I wouldn't mind you kissing me Friday, you assumed that you could touch me the other night…You know what they say about when you assume…" she said curtly.
"I guess I deserved that." He said feeling a little awkward.
"If you will excuse me, I have to go to my next class." I said as I passed him.
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Monday came around quickly for Dean. He wasn't sure how his little chat with Cam, was going to go later that afternoon. He couldn't help but want to go to her class to walk her to second period like he used to do. He didn't have to walk her he figured but he would walk in that direction. He could get to class just as easily if he went that way, even though it would take an extra minute or two. He decided that it was worth it, just to grab a glance at her to see if it may reflect if their conversation would be a good one or a bad one.
As he rounded the corner he saw Jacob talking to Camryn at the door of her class. He noticed that she was a little bit upset so he walked a little bit slower so that he could make sure that just in case, he would be in striking distance of that Rico Suave jerk. He overheard her tell him off, and excuse herself. Just as he passed by she looked at him. She smiled brightly, kinda like before, then he smile faded as she remembered all that had happened and looked down as she walked away. Dean could see the sorrow in her eyes and decided the end of the day was too long to wait. He would talk to her at lunch.
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Her next 3 periods she seemed to daydream through. She was just trying to get it over with so she could go see Dean. Even though she was upset about the whole kiss thing, she really missed him and wanted things to go back to normal. She missed their simple time together and how he would look at her, and how he would protect her. She loved the way he was jealous over her and would stare anyone down who would look at her funny or like they were attracted to her. Even though nothing was ever "official" he still made her feel like his woman; that was a feeling that she enjoyed and was upset that she didn't have it anymore. She didn't feel that way around Jacob.
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The bell rang and broke her train of thought. "Wow, lunch time already?" She thought to herself. She exited the classroom to find Dean waiting for her.
"Dean… um, hi." I said not sure why he was standing there.
"Camryn, would you mind if we had that chat now?" He asked sounding a little nervous.
"Sure, why not, where do you want to go?" I asked.
"Bleachers?" He suggested.
"Ok, walk with me?" I don't know what possessed me to ask, I guess I really wanted to go talk and I didn't want Jacob to distract me and make me forget. He was able to make me forget a lot of things.
"Sure." He said. Without really thinking about it he took her books from her and offered his arm.
She looked down at his arm and thought, "well I can live in my daydream for 5 more minutes I guess." She took his arm like it was the most natural thing in the world. They walked out to the stadium.
"So…" She began.
"So." He repeated.
"I…um, I'm sorry, that I never let you tell your side of the story." There I said it.
"I am sorry that you saw that. In all honesty, it wasn't my fault, they set me up." Dean began in his defense.
"They? They who? Set you up for what?" I asked a bit puzzled.
"You aren't going to like hearing this, but believe me when I tell you I am not going to lie to you…Do you promise you will not think of me as lying to you. Because I never would." He said with most sincerity.
She looked up at him. She took a moment to read his eyes, she had never seen this side of him before. He looked almost vulnerable.
"Ok." I said. "I will try."
Dean began to tell this twisted tale of deceit and trickery, and how Rebecca and Jacob set them up to see Rebecca kissing Dean, and how Jacob was trying to get her in the right spot to see it, and how she just happened to be there. He told her how Jacob paid her to kiss him, and how Jacob told him all this.
His face was a little red when he was finished.
There was silence between them.
"Wow…I really can't believe this."
"I know isn't it sick?"
"I know you had to go to pretty desperate measures to cook this one up. You never cease to amaze me Dean. I almost believed you…I almost let myself…" Tears were steadily coming down her face and she got up and ran out of the stadium.
Dean sat there in shock. He couldn't believe that she wasn't going to believe him. "Desperate measures??? This is great." He thought to himself. "I will show her desperate measures. Jacob wants to play dirty, then dirty he's going to get."
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