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"SCOUT! Damn it! What the hell are you doing, don't you know how to knock?" Jake yelled.
"Dude, we're sorry. We'll just leave, okay? Come on Will." A shocked Scout turned around and walked away, and Will followed behind him, shutting the door as he left.
"Holy shit. Jake, what if they tell someone what they just saw?" Hamilton was shaken up and was getting nervous about Will and Scout. They didn't really know the guys all that well, could they keep a secret? Jake looked at Hamilton and then jumped off the bed and ran to the door. She slammed the door open and called down the hallway.
"Scout! Will! Get over here!" Will and Scout looked at each other and turned back around to walk back to Jake's room.
"What's up, Jake?" Will asked, curious.
"Get in here." Jake pulled the two boys into the room and shut the door behind them. She looked at Hamilton, who just looked back at her. "Okay," she slowly began, "I don't know how much you two saw, but it's not what it looks like."
"Well, Jake, it looked like you and Ham were kissing, but hey--" Scout began.
"OK! Okay, it is what it looks like." Jake paused to look at the two of them. Oddly enough, they seemed pretty cool about it. That was strange. "But," she continued, "You can't tell anyone about this, if you do, I might get kicked out."
"Why would the Dean kick you out?" Will inquired. Hamilton answered for Jake.
"My dad is pretty strict about this kind of stuff. And he would probably want to get to the solution by getting rid of the problem, and he wouldn't understand this..." Hamilton was babbling now, and Jake stepped in.
"Shut up, Hamilton. What he's trying to say is that if his dad found out about the two of us, he wouldn't like it. He would try to put a stop to it, and to do that, he would separate us. Which one do you think he would get rid of? His own son, or the guy who 'turned' his son? Think about it." Jake raised one brow and looked at Will, who then nodded, and answered.
"We won't tell a soul, just turn down the looks a bit in public, people are starting to talk." Will suggested to them with a knowing glance.
Jake turned and looked at Hamilton and said "I told you!"
"Sorry, Jake, don't have a cow!"
"Sorry." Jake apologized, smiling sheepishly, looking into his eyes. Will cleared his throat, reminding them that they were not alone. Jake looked up and stared pointedly at Scout and Will.
"We should go now, come on Scout, let's go see if Bella wants to get some food. See you two." Will turned around and pulled Scout out of the room by his sleeve.
"Yeah, okay, bye guys, see you in class"
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"Can you believe it?" Scout blurted out. Scout and Will were walking towards Bella. "I mean I always knew something was up with those two, but hot damn, did you see the way they were looking at each other?"
"Yeah, well, we did have our suspicions about them. Now we know the truth."
"Know the truth about what?" Bella asked, over hearing the last part of what Will said. Scout and Will were now standing in front of the gas station.
"Uh, nothing important. What's up Bella? Do you want to get some food with us?" Scout fumbled over his words, hoping that Bella wouldn't notice.
"Yeah sure, I'm starved." Bella got up and walked with the two boys to the diner across the street.
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Hamilton and Jake were walking down the dock, not saying anything. Jake was enjoying the silence, it was something that there wasn't too much of at Rawley. Hamilton finally broke the wanted silence with a question.
"So, now what?"
"Huh?" confused, Jake stopped walking and looked at Hamilton.
"Come, Jake, please tell me that your not just going to let them think that I'm gay!" Jake raised an eyebrow at the sudden change. 'Thought you didn't care about what they thought,' she said to herself.
"Hamilton, they already had known about us, didn't you hear Will? He said that people were talking. It's to late now." Hamilton shook his head in disbelief.
"You could have told them." Hamilton looked at her as if it were the simplest thing in the world. Jake threw her hands up in the air, exasperated.
"Yeah, right, I can see it now: 'Uh, Will, Scout, I'm a girl, see, I've got boobs and all!' Yup! They'll totally enjoy that one!" Hamilton sighed and caved in.
"Well, okay, I guess that I can see your point, but, um, well, please think about it? Please?"
Jake looked at her boyfriend, remembering back to a time when no one knew about her, not even Hamilton, and then she remembered what happened after she told him. She thought the he would never speak to her again, but then he showed up at her door and told her that if she were a guy, he'd punch her, but since she wasn't, he kissed her instead. But that wouldn't happen with Scout and Will. She didn't know if she trusted them enough.
"No. I've made up my mind, I can't tell them, it's just not possible. I thought that you would never speak to me again after you found out. You know how I almost left Rawley then? Well, I'd rather not repeat that."
"OK, it's your decision, not mine. But you can't keep this a secret forever, what if something happened and say Will was the only one who could help, what would you do?"
"If that were to happen, IF, that were to happen, then the truth would come out. But I don't want to just walk up to them and blurt it all out." Hamilton sighed again. Even though he didn't like this, he would do it because Jake made very valid points about everything. She very well couldn't just go and tell them because they might not understand it and might nark on them.
Sighing, he replied with an "OK."
"OK." Jake turned and continued walking down the dock and Hamilton followed after her.
