A/N: No reviews for last chapter. I'm done updating. Ha! Sorry. No, but I am leaving tomorrow for a couple days. So nothing until Tuesday earliest. I do understand no reviews for last chapter, it was basically everything we already knew. Nothin too special about it. I actually think I need four chapters now for the rest of Parker. I'm not sure yet, I may combine the final part. We'll see. Darn, I was hoping I could go through one A/N without saying we'll see. Oh well. That's another one of those "Kara says this too much." So is, "that's just not Kosher." As Parker said in the previous chapter.

Chapter 3: Confrontations of the Third Kind

~Parker~

=Wednesday Night=

After a grueling couple of days for reviews for the upcoming finals we were having, I needed some sort of release. It just so happened, there was an open house.

It wasn't like the parties I had been attending as of late. These people were more of the jock nature, not the druggie nature. God, did I actually just call myself a druggie? No, not me. My friends. Those people. I'll never be those people. Those people have no lives. They end up living in their parent's basements. Not me.

Needless to say, it was more of a social gathering than anything else. As I said, there were lots of jocks. Ronnie being one of them. I stared him down the entire time. He kept noticing too. Big deal.

"What?" He finally exploded after one stare down.

I glared back at him and sneered, "Nothing."

"Right." And he went back to his friends.

I didn't watch him the whole night. Just if I caught his eye. Which was only a few times. I mostly sat on the couch, conversing with people from my classes.

"Parker, how's it holding up?" Ethan came up to me and sat down on the couch next to me.

"Pretty decent. Yourself?" Actually, Kate was still heavy on my mind and I was trying to kick it out unsuccessfully.

Ethan looked at me intently for a couple minutes. He looked like he was looking for something. Trying to figure something out. It freaked me out a little. "Yeah, decent." He finally settled on.

"You okay?"

"I could be better." He responded. Were Ethan Craft and I having a conversation that could led to something with....substance?

We talked for a little bit longer and it was surprisingly a really great conversation.

I tried to find Ronnie a couple times during the conversation, but failed. I had no idea where he had gone. I hadn't seen him since Ethan had approached me. And that was about ten minutes ago. Where did the little prick go?

Ethan's expression suddenly changed. He looked like he was pissed off at something I had or hadn't said. "I've gotta go. Take care of some unfinished business."

He stood before I could respond and he was walking towards a familiar blonde. He tapped him on the shoulder. "We need to talk. Outside."

Ronnie looked confused. "About what, man? Why outside?"

"Now." Ethan responded coldly. I looked down and his hands. They were clenched into whitening fists.

"Yeah, now's perfect. Let's go." Ronnie and Ethan started walking out and I stealthily followed behind.

Once outside, Ethan started on him.

"You're an idiot, you know that?"

"Ethan Craft, calling me an idiot? That's rich." Ronnie laughed him off.

"I'm smarter than you in every way possible you fucking asshole." Hostile much?

"Dude, what's your problem? What the hell did I do to you?"

"Oh, it's not what you did to me. It's what you did to a friend of mine. A really special friend of mine. And now, you're going to pay."

"Friend? What friend?"

Ethan started pummeling on Ronnie like it was his life duty. Before this night I had never seen this side of Ethan, I had never even HEARD of this side. It was a little frightening. He was really beating Ronnie up. Ronnie had no chance.

As much as I enjoyed seeing Ronnie suffer I couldn't figure out why he was suffering in this case.

Ronnie lay on the ground motionless. Temporarily passed out. Just a mix of the liquor in his system and being beaten up.

"That's for Kate. You don't just rape a girl and expect to get away with it." He spat at Ronnie's body.

I smiled. Kate had told Ethan. That's why he beat up Ronnie. He gave Ronnie everything he deserved.

"Ethan! That was great. I didn't know you-" Ethan turned and stared at me. He left before I could finish my sentence. "-knew Kate's story."

Most likely, Kate didn't tell Ethan that I knew.

After all, she didn't mention any of that to me. That had to be it.

A/N: Like I said, Parker will conclude after my return.