A/N- Alright. i'm back. *sings* and I'm better than ever! Gotta knack-....Um, okay. That kinda sucks. Um, my internets breaking!!! *wails* And Nic, don't worry, babe, you were'nt offending me. It's just a lot easier for me to give ya shout outs like this one! (You can go back to annonymous reviews now!! ^_^) Hope y'all like this. I was planning on waiting a little bit longer cause I normally get four or five reviews per chapter, but it's all good. I don't wanna leave y'all hangin'.
Disclaimer- I own Scott and Glen (If I spell Glen with two 'Ns', it's a total habit for me. Normally I catch it, but I am tired today.
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Summer In Cameron
Same Thursday Night
also co-written by Hearts Desire and Franny Teth
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"What do you think's up?" Adam asked as Jeff took a seat next to him. He had helped Shannon and Jay into the back, too, while Matt and Shane sat up front.
"I don't really know. I can't think of anything." Jeff replied.
"Did we do something wrong?"
"Not that I know of."
:Maybe it has something to do with us staying at Amy's so long."
"No, cause he was gonna pick us up, remember?"
Adam chewed his lip. He really didn't want to get in trouble here. Especially since he was a guest at their house. HIs mom had just talked to him the other day about not getting in trouble here! Jay looked his brother in the eyes, noticing the questioning look in them and shrugging. He looked around the road they were driving on until his eyes settled on Jeff.
Shannon was leaning against Jeff. Jeff's arm was around Shannon's shoulder so he was laying against his chest. Jay cringed, gritting his teeth. Shannon looked peacefully sleeping, maybe, certainly looking as if he didn't plan on leaving any time soon. Jay felt the jealousy and anger surging through his veins. Jeff must have sensed it because he he turned from his conversation with Adam, catching Jay's gaze. He glanced at Jay, confusion in his eyes, before turning back to Adam.
Gil turned into the Hardy's drive-way, parking slowly. Jeff turned to Shannon and gentley shook his shoulder, calling to him quietly. Shannon blinked tiredly, looking around before sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"We home?" he moaned quietly.
"We're back at my house, Shann."
Jay quickly made his way out of the truck bed, holding his hand out to Shannon. "Here, Shann, let me help you. Don't want my boyfriend getting hurt." he said, catching Jeff's attention smuggly.
Shannon tiredly hopped down from the truck, wobbling slightly into the house still rubbing his eyes. Everyone else soon followed into the house, taking seats around the table. Gil stood in front of them all.
"Guys, I already called your parents and told them you were staying here tonight. That is, unless you want to go home, but we all need to talk."
Gil sighed somewhat nervously, rubbing his hands together.
"What's wrong, dad?" Matt asked.
Gil seemed to ignore the question. "As you guys obviously know, Shannon has been hopping around from place to place lately, not really knowing where he was going to be staying at night. And um, since it's nearing summer and stuff, I am getting really worried about his welfare and things like that. So I went downtown to the police station this afternoon, and I was trying to get ahold of Shannon's parents...."
SHannon looked up, now wide awake at the knowledge of what was to come.
"Mr. Hardy, please...don't, I'll do any-"
"Shh, calm down son, don't over react already."
Shannon nodded and sat back, noticabley worried about something.
"Alright, so when I went down there, I found out, that Shannon's parents had actually moved out of the state last year and left Shannon at the house. And they are now in the process of putting Shannon up for adoption since he is under age and not legally allowed to be living at the house on his own."
Shannon opened his mouth to speak, but decided against it. He could tell that some people were looking at him, making him a bit nervous.
"So, I was doing a bit more research, so to speak, and Shannon, I found out, never had a brother in the first place. The person you actually met, was Shannon's cousin."
Shannon took an intake of breath, exhaling it sharply.
"So, I, I decided, that I am going to see what I can do to get him a home around here. Preferabley....here with us." Gil said carefully, "What do you think?"
Shannon could feel everyone's eyes on him. He could feel his breath shorten and catch his throat; little spots were dancing in front of his eyes.
"Shannon?"
Shannon looked up at Gil, who had kneeled in front of him. "Is that okay with you? If I tried to get you to stay here with us?"
Shannon somehow found movement of his head and nodded a few times stiffly. Mr. Hardy smiled softly, "That's what I was hoping. It'll be alright, Shannon, don't worry."
He stood up to face the other boys, "Now, I'm moving things of Shannon's from his house over to here, and there's also stuff over at The Helms' house. We're gonna be housin' Shannon till we find out everything, okay?"
The other boys nodded. SHannon chewed his lip. He felt like crying and could feel the hot tears behind his eyes. But he also felt like screaming, he didn't need everyone to do this. He was doing fine on his own. He had worked for money, saved up everything, searched the house, and sod things every week for money. He save all his money, and used less lights, less water adn electricity, and he'd been able to pay off everything.
On the other hand, he wanted to run into Mr. Hardy's arms and thank him over and over and over for saving his ass. How many people would do this for a poor ol' homeless boy?, he thought to himself.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and jumped back to reality. It was Matt. "I bet you're tired. You can sleep in my room tonight."
"That's okay Matt, really, I can sleep on the couch."
"No. I want you to sleep in a real bed."
"Matt, you don't have-"
"Shannon." Matt cut off, putting his hand on Shannon's shoulder, "I insist."
"Not just cause you found-"
"Shannon, please." Matt smiled, "Just take it. I can sleep on the couch. You know how many times you've slept on that ratty old couch in Shane's basement or in the living room here? I mean, how often did you even sleep in the bed at your house? You were hardly ever there. Please, Shannon, just take my bed."
Shannon chewed his lip again and turned away from everyone so they couldn't see him tear up. "Excuse me." he dashed off to the bathroom.
Jeff headed to the hallway closet and pulled out a big ratty quilt his mother had made before she died. She made it especially for when Jeff had a friend over and they needed something else to use. Shannon and Jeff were the first to use it and they both fell in love with it. He went into Matt's room and tore off Matt's blanket, throwing the quilt on it instead. Then, he threw the pillow at Matt, hitting him square in the face with it.
On any other circumstance, Matt would have hit Jeff square in the jaw, but he just shrugged ti off, setting it on the couch. Shannon slowly came out from the bathroom and it was obvious that he had cried and wiped down his face with water.
"I'm tired and I think I'm just going to go to bed. Night guys." he said quickly, shutting himself in Matt's room before anyone could say anything.
Everyone looked at each other. This was quite a bit of action for the night. "I'm gonna get you guys some blankets, and you can set up camp where ever." matt said, heading to the closet, as well.
Gil nodded good night to everyone and headed to his bedroom as everyone else got settled in the living room.
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Jay woke up in the middle of the night, not quite sure what was going on. He looked around himself, noting that everyone was still asleep. he was just heading to the bathroom when he heard what sounded like crying and light talking. He shook his head, passing it off and went into the bathroom for a little late nigth trip. But, as he started back into the living room, he could swear he heard the crying again.
He tip-toed to Matt's door, where the talking and crying got a bit louder. He slowly pushed the door open and took a moment for the scene to sink in. Shannon was hunched towards the window, sitting curled on the bed. Jeff had his arm around Shannon, keeping him as close to him as possible. Jay watched silently as the two talked for a little while longer, his anger boiling at each passing second. Why hadn't Shannon come to him if he needed to talk?
Shannon leaned into Jeff a bit more so they were as close as possible. "Jeff, I don't want everyone to treat me different." he whispered quietly.
Jeff clicked his tounge, "It's okay, Shanny. Just tell everyone how you feel."
"I can't Jeffy, don't you know how hard this is for me?"
Jeff sighed, turning Shannon towards him and holding his chin in his hand and looking him in the eyes. "It's fine."
Jay hissed in anger as Jeff reached forwards and pressed his lips to Shannon's cheek. From his position, it certainly looked as if it was a full on kiss.
"What is this?" He asked angrily.
Shannon and Jeff both jumped, turning towards Jay. Shannon sighed, "Jay. Did I wake you up? How long have you been standing th-"
"I think I've been here long enough, now what is this?" he growled, pushing Jeff and Shannon apart.
Shannon looked at him confused, "Jay, wh-"
"Shannon! Just someone answer my question!"
"Jay, we were just talking." Jeff said.
"That's not what it looked like to me!"
"Jay, Shannon had another nightmare, I just came in here and--"
"I'm sure that's exactly what happened. I've been watching you hit on my boyfriend all fucking week and it's driving me nuts!"
"What? Jay, he-"
"Stay out of this, Shannon." Jay hissed, whitout thinking.
Shannon stumbled back at what Jay said. He grabbed Mrs. hardy's quilt, wrapping it close around him and inhaling the scent of it, trying to keep himself from listening to what was going on around him. What was he supossed to do? His father always told him to stay out of everyone's business. That he only caused more trouble in everyone's lives.
He heard Jeff tell Jay that he was getting it all wrong and Jay reply by telling him that moving in on someone's boyfriend was the same through and through. Shannon could feel the hot tears start to flow down down his face as the two people he cared most about in the world continued to argue to each other about him.
He rocked back and forth, mumbling incoherently to himself. He could feel his breath start hitching in his throat every couple of seconds and his vision to become blurry. He wished that jeff and Jay could just stop yelling at each other and notice that something was wrong. He could tell already that he needed help; he's had mild asthma ever since he was a kid.
"Jay, you're blowing this way out of proportion! Can you just knock it off so I can explain this to you?" Jeff said, his voice rising.
"I don't want to hear about what you two were doing, I saw it with my own eyes. I was standing RIGHT here, Jeff. I saw you to kiss!"
"It was a peck on the cheek, man. You've never kissed a friend on the cheek?"
"On the cheek? It didn't look like on the cheek."
"Well, that's what it was! If you would just-"
"Jeezus, guys. What're you trying to do? Wake up dad?' Matt asked, coming into the room tiredly.
"Jeff was kissing Shannon when I came in here." Jay protested, "Obviously I was going to go off."
"Matt, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. he had a nightmare, you know how he gets. He's sensitive."
"And gone, where is he?" Matt asked, looking around the room.
"he was just here-"
"Sh." Matt hushed quickly, "Do you hear that?"
"What?" Jay asked.
"Shit, Shannon." matt clenched, running over to a shaking pile on the floor.
Matt pulled the quilt back from over Shannon, who looked up at the older man, scared and relieved at the same time. He coughed and his voice hitched quickly. Matt pulled the blonde into his arms, trying to calm him down.
"Jeff, go get dad."
"What?"
"I said go get dad, you idiot. Can't you see something's wrong?!"
Jeff glared at Jay as he headed out the door. Jay quickly came over to Shannon and Matt. Matt was making motherly sounds, trying to sooth Shannon and calm him down. By the time Jeff got back with Mr. hardy, the rest of the guys had filtered into the room.
"What's going on?" Adam asked as Shane pushed past him.
"I...don't know. I think Shannon's having an asthma attack.....I was just...I was too busy...I was arguing with Jay."
"About what?"
"He thought I was hitting on Shannon. I wasn't! We're just best, best friends. I didn't mean him to think anything."
"Yeah." Adam said offhandedly. He knew taht Jay got jealous, but he never reacted like this before.
Gil calmly lifted Shannon into his arms. By know, Shannon had lost conciousness. That was one thing Gil had forgotten when he was back at the Moore's house. It had passed hsi mind completely.
"You guys stay here, alright? Keep the phone line clear and we'll call you on my way home." he said, leaving the room with Matt in tow.
Matt grabbed his fathers keys and held the doors open as Mr. Hardy headed to the car. "Don't kill each other while we're gone." he warned.
The guys watched as the three left for a few minutes. Jeff glared at Jay, plopping on the couch. "This is all your fault. You know that, right?"
"What? No it;s not. If you hadn't kissed him, then I wouldn't have freaked out." Jay said, sitting on the other end of the couch.
Shane shook his head, "I can't believe you two."
"Me either." Adam agreed.
"Listen." Shane said, "Shannon and Jeff, yeah they're close, but I kow them. They are definatley not interested in each other. Not in a relationship like way. They're too much alike. They've been through too much together. Trust me, Jay, they were not kissing romantically. And Jeff wasn't hitting on Shannon."
Jay looked to the ground, not wanting to admit he was wrong.
"And, Jeff, Jay just gets jealous easily. He's never been with another guy. He's new to that whole thing. Just let him get used to it. He's just an idiot and can't control his jealousy." Adam said.
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A/N- I hope that was a bit longer! Hope ya like it! R&R
Disclaimer- I own Scott and Glen (If I spell Glen with two 'Ns', it's a total habit for me. Normally I catch it, but I am tired today.
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Summer In Cameron
Same Thursday Night
also co-written by Hearts Desire and Franny Teth
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"What do you think's up?" Adam asked as Jeff took a seat next to him. He had helped Shannon and Jay into the back, too, while Matt and Shane sat up front.
"I don't really know. I can't think of anything." Jeff replied.
"Did we do something wrong?"
"Not that I know of."
:Maybe it has something to do with us staying at Amy's so long."
"No, cause he was gonna pick us up, remember?"
Adam chewed his lip. He really didn't want to get in trouble here. Especially since he was a guest at their house. HIs mom had just talked to him the other day about not getting in trouble here! Jay looked his brother in the eyes, noticing the questioning look in them and shrugging. He looked around the road they were driving on until his eyes settled on Jeff.
Shannon was leaning against Jeff. Jeff's arm was around Shannon's shoulder so he was laying against his chest. Jay cringed, gritting his teeth. Shannon looked peacefully sleeping, maybe, certainly looking as if he didn't plan on leaving any time soon. Jay felt the jealousy and anger surging through his veins. Jeff must have sensed it because he he turned from his conversation with Adam, catching Jay's gaze. He glanced at Jay, confusion in his eyes, before turning back to Adam.
Gil turned into the Hardy's drive-way, parking slowly. Jeff turned to Shannon and gentley shook his shoulder, calling to him quietly. Shannon blinked tiredly, looking around before sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"We home?" he moaned quietly.
"We're back at my house, Shann."
Jay quickly made his way out of the truck bed, holding his hand out to Shannon. "Here, Shann, let me help you. Don't want my boyfriend getting hurt." he said, catching Jeff's attention smuggly.
Shannon tiredly hopped down from the truck, wobbling slightly into the house still rubbing his eyes. Everyone else soon followed into the house, taking seats around the table. Gil stood in front of them all.
"Guys, I already called your parents and told them you were staying here tonight. That is, unless you want to go home, but we all need to talk."
Gil sighed somewhat nervously, rubbing his hands together.
"What's wrong, dad?" Matt asked.
Gil seemed to ignore the question. "As you guys obviously know, Shannon has been hopping around from place to place lately, not really knowing where he was going to be staying at night. And um, since it's nearing summer and stuff, I am getting really worried about his welfare and things like that. So I went downtown to the police station this afternoon, and I was trying to get ahold of Shannon's parents...."
SHannon looked up, now wide awake at the knowledge of what was to come.
"Mr. Hardy, please...don't, I'll do any-"
"Shh, calm down son, don't over react already."
Shannon nodded and sat back, noticabley worried about something.
"Alright, so when I went down there, I found out, that Shannon's parents had actually moved out of the state last year and left Shannon at the house. And they are now in the process of putting Shannon up for adoption since he is under age and not legally allowed to be living at the house on his own."
Shannon opened his mouth to speak, but decided against it. He could tell that some people were looking at him, making him a bit nervous.
"So, I was doing a bit more research, so to speak, and Shannon, I found out, never had a brother in the first place. The person you actually met, was Shannon's cousin."
Shannon took an intake of breath, exhaling it sharply.
"So, I, I decided, that I am going to see what I can do to get him a home around here. Preferabley....here with us." Gil said carefully, "What do you think?"
Shannon could feel everyone's eyes on him. He could feel his breath shorten and catch his throat; little spots were dancing in front of his eyes.
"Shannon?"
Shannon looked up at Gil, who had kneeled in front of him. "Is that okay with you? If I tried to get you to stay here with us?"
Shannon somehow found movement of his head and nodded a few times stiffly. Mr. Hardy smiled softly, "That's what I was hoping. It'll be alright, Shannon, don't worry."
He stood up to face the other boys, "Now, I'm moving things of Shannon's from his house over to here, and there's also stuff over at The Helms' house. We're gonna be housin' Shannon till we find out everything, okay?"
The other boys nodded. SHannon chewed his lip. He felt like crying and could feel the hot tears behind his eyes. But he also felt like screaming, he didn't need everyone to do this. He was doing fine on his own. He had worked for money, saved up everything, searched the house, and sod things every week for money. He save all his money, and used less lights, less water adn electricity, and he'd been able to pay off everything.
On the other hand, he wanted to run into Mr. Hardy's arms and thank him over and over and over for saving his ass. How many people would do this for a poor ol' homeless boy?, he thought to himself.
He felt a hand on his shoulder and jumped back to reality. It was Matt. "I bet you're tired. You can sleep in my room tonight."
"That's okay Matt, really, I can sleep on the couch."
"No. I want you to sleep in a real bed."
"Matt, you don't have-"
"Shannon." Matt cut off, putting his hand on Shannon's shoulder, "I insist."
"Not just cause you found-"
"Shannon, please." Matt smiled, "Just take it. I can sleep on the couch. You know how many times you've slept on that ratty old couch in Shane's basement or in the living room here? I mean, how often did you even sleep in the bed at your house? You were hardly ever there. Please, Shannon, just take my bed."
Shannon chewed his lip again and turned away from everyone so they couldn't see him tear up. "Excuse me." he dashed off to the bathroom.
Jeff headed to the hallway closet and pulled out a big ratty quilt his mother had made before she died. She made it especially for when Jeff had a friend over and they needed something else to use. Shannon and Jeff were the first to use it and they both fell in love with it. He went into Matt's room and tore off Matt's blanket, throwing the quilt on it instead. Then, he threw the pillow at Matt, hitting him square in the face with it.
On any other circumstance, Matt would have hit Jeff square in the jaw, but he just shrugged ti off, setting it on the couch. Shannon slowly came out from the bathroom and it was obvious that he had cried and wiped down his face with water.
"I'm tired and I think I'm just going to go to bed. Night guys." he said quickly, shutting himself in Matt's room before anyone could say anything.
Everyone looked at each other. This was quite a bit of action for the night. "I'm gonna get you guys some blankets, and you can set up camp where ever." matt said, heading to the closet, as well.
Gil nodded good night to everyone and headed to his bedroom as everyone else got settled in the living room.
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Jay woke up in the middle of the night, not quite sure what was going on. He looked around himself, noting that everyone was still asleep. he was just heading to the bathroom when he heard what sounded like crying and light talking. He shook his head, passing it off and went into the bathroom for a little late nigth trip. But, as he started back into the living room, he could swear he heard the crying again.
He tip-toed to Matt's door, where the talking and crying got a bit louder. He slowly pushed the door open and took a moment for the scene to sink in. Shannon was hunched towards the window, sitting curled on the bed. Jeff had his arm around Shannon, keeping him as close to him as possible. Jay watched silently as the two talked for a little while longer, his anger boiling at each passing second. Why hadn't Shannon come to him if he needed to talk?
Shannon leaned into Jeff a bit more so they were as close as possible. "Jeff, I don't want everyone to treat me different." he whispered quietly.
Jeff clicked his tounge, "It's okay, Shanny. Just tell everyone how you feel."
"I can't Jeffy, don't you know how hard this is for me?"
Jeff sighed, turning Shannon towards him and holding his chin in his hand and looking him in the eyes. "It's fine."
Jay hissed in anger as Jeff reached forwards and pressed his lips to Shannon's cheek. From his position, it certainly looked as if it was a full on kiss.
"What is this?" He asked angrily.
Shannon and Jeff both jumped, turning towards Jay. Shannon sighed, "Jay. Did I wake you up? How long have you been standing th-"
"I think I've been here long enough, now what is this?" he growled, pushing Jeff and Shannon apart.
Shannon looked at him confused, "Jay, wh-"
"Shannon! Just someone answer my question!"
"Jay, we were just talking." Jeff said.
"That's not what it looked like to me!"
"Jay, Shannon had another nightmare, I just came in here and--"
"I'm sure that's exactly what happened. I've been watching you hit on my boyfriend all fucking week and it's driving me nuts!"
"What? Jay, he-"
"Stay out of this, Shannon." Jay hissed, whitout thinking.
Shannon stumbled back at what Jay said. He grabbed Mrs. hardy's quilt, wrapping it close around him and inhaling the scent of it, trying to keep himself from listening to what was going on around him. What was he supossed to do? His father always told him to stay out of everyone's business. That he only caused more trouble in everyone's lives.
He heard Jeff tell Jay that he was getting it all wrong and Jay reply by telling him that moving in on someone's boyfriend was the same through and through. Shannon could feel the hot tears start to flow down down his face as the two people he cared most about in the world continued to argue to each other about him.
He rocked back and forth, mumbling incoherently to himself. He could feel his breath start hitching in his throat every couple of seconds and his vision to become blurry. He wished that jeff and Jay could just stop yelling at each other and notice that something was wrong. He could tell already that he needed help; he's had mild asthma ever since he was a kid.
"Jay, you're blowing this way out of proportion! Can you just knock it off so I can explain this to you?" Jeff said, his voice rising.
"I don't want to hear about what you two were doing, I saw it with my own eyes. I was standing RIGHT here, Jeff. I saw you to kiss!"
"It was a peck on the cheek, man. You've never kissed a friend on the cheek?"
"On the cheek? It didn't look like on the cheek."
"Well, that's what it was! If you would just-"
"Jeezus, guys. What're you trying to do? Wake up dad?' Matt asked, coming into the room tiredly.
"Jeff was kissing Shannon when I came in here." Jay protested, "Obviously I was going to go off."
"Matt, I gave him a kiss on the cheek. he had a nightmare, you know how he gets. He's sensitive."
"And gone, where is he?" Matt asked, looking around the room.
"he was just here-"
"Sh." Matt hushed quickly, "Do you hear that?"
"What?" Jay asked.
"Shit, Shannon." matt clenched, running over to a shaking pile on the floor.
Matt pulled the quilt back from over Shannon, who looked up at the older man, scared and relieved at the same time. He coughed and his voice hitched quickly. Matt pulled the blonde into his arms, trying to calm him down.
"Jeff, go get dad."
"What?"
"I said go get dad, you idiot. Can't you see something's wrong?!"
Jeff glared at Jay as he headed out the door. Jay quickly came over to Shannon and Matt. Matt was making motherly sounds, trying to sooth Shannon and calm him down. By the time Jeff got back with Mr. hardy, the rest of the guys had filtered into the room.
"What's going on?" Adam asked as Shane pushed past him.
"I...don't know. I think Shannon's having an asthma attack.....I was just...I was too busy...I was arguing with Jay."
"About what?"
"He thought I was hitting on Shannon. I wasn't! We're just best, best friends. I didn't mean him to think anything."
"Yeah." Adam said offhandedly. He knew taht Jay got jealous, but he never reacted like this before.
Gil calmly lifted Shannon into his arms. By know, Shannon had lost conciousness. That was one thing Gil had forgotten when he was back at the Moore's house. It had passed hsi mind completely.
"You guys stay here, alright? Keep the phone line clear and we'll call you on my way home." he said, leaving the room with Matt in tow.
Matt grabbed his fathers keys and held the doors open as Mr. Hardy headed to the car. "Don't kill each other while we're gone." he warned.
The guys watched as the three left for a few minutes. Jeff glared at Jay, plopping on the couch. "This is all your fault. You know that, right?"
"What? No it;s not. If you hadn't kissed him, then I wouldn't have freaked out." Jay said, sitting on the other end of the couch.
Shane shook his head, "I can't believe you two."
"Me either." Adam agreed.
"Listen." Shane said, "Shannon and Jeff, yeah they're close, but I kow them. They are definatley not interested in each other. Not in a relationship like way. They're too much alike. They've been through too much together. Trust me, Jay, they were not kissing romantically. And Jeff wasn't hitting on Shannon."
Jay looked to the ground, not wanting to admit he was wrong.
"And, Jeff, Jay just gets jealous easily. He's never been with another guy. He's new to that whole thing. Just let him get used to it. He's just an idiot and can't control his jealousy." Adam said.
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A/N- I hope that was a bit longer! Hope ya like it! R&R