A/N - Sorry, guys! This took longer to come out than I thought it was going
to!!
Ch 8: Robbie's Worry and a Broken Ten Thousand Dollar Vase - 12/20/06 - Tuesday - 7:43pm
Robbie picked up the phone and dialed Kim's phone. As usual, it was busy. Almost any time he called, the phone was busy. He sighed and dialed her cell. "Come on, Kim...please..."
Kim was on her phone in her room when her cell phone rang. She frowned, who would be calling her cell at almost eight o'clock? "Hey Holly, can you hang on a sec? Someone's calling my cell." She laid the phone down and picked up the cell phone. "Hello?"
"Kim.."
"Robbie." Kim smiled. "Can you hang on a sec?" She picked up the cordless and said, "Hey can I call you later?"
"Why?"
"Robbie's calling me, I don't wanna use my minutes."
"Ok, later Kim..."
"Bye, hun." She switched back to her cell, "Hey, I'm gonna call you back on my line, don't wanna use all my minutes up."
"Ok.."
Kim hung up the cell, picked up the cordless, and hit 'Memory' and '2', the phone automatically dialed Robbie's number.
"Kim?"
"Yeah. What was it that you wanted to talk about, baby?"
"Kim...I don't know what I'm going to do..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I mean...I can see Riley and Travis getting over it, Lily...she'll get used to it but it'll be while...but Ray...he'll never accept it. I don't know if he'll even talk to me. I might be losing one of my best friends..."
"Well....It's kind of life....You win some, you loose some and...sometimes that means you loose friends."
"Kim! Ray's been my best friend since I was five."
"Look, hun, I'm sorry but I don't know what you expect me to do about it...unless...." She sounded like she was about to cry, "You wanna....b-b- break up with...."
"No." He said immediately, "No,Kim...I..." Robbie's left hand slid over to cover his eyes, which he closed as he did this. "I don't want to break up with you. I just.....I don't know what what I'm going to do. I don't want to break up with you......but I don't want to ruin my frienship with Ray..."
Robbie heard Kim's mom yelling at her, but he couldn't understand what she was saying. "I...I gotta go..."
"Why?"
"My mom needs the phone."
"Alright, later baby."
"Bye, hun."
And all Robbie heard was the phone go dead. He sighed, dropped the phone to the floor and fell back. He quickly sat back up and picked the phone up. He dialed 598-7642. He needed to talk to someone.
~*~
12/20/06 - 7:48pm
Riley was just opening the door to her room, a great idea for her story in mind, ready to write it all down.....and she heard her phone ring. She sighed and rolled her eyes. She picked the phone up, "Lily, I don't care about every single detail of your last date with Ray. I'm not in the mood."
"Eh...Riley?"
"Oh....Robbie? Sorry, I'm used to Lily calling me..." Then she added, "Or Travis." she sounded like she was smiling.
"Yeah....I need to talk to you...."
"Ok...what about?"
"Why is life so messed up?"
"I don't know...but...I do know that life..."
"Sucks and then you die." The two unified.
Riley blinked. No one she knew used that phrase. "You know it too?"
"Like anyone knows that Ray likes Lily..."
Riley grinned, "You've been sneaking off too much. We're all paired up now. Ray and Lily are finally a couple as are Travis and I."
"Right..."
"So, anyway, I'm pretty sure you didn't call for me to ramble about the couples that have formed lately...."
"Well...you're right...."
"What did you want to talk about?"
"Riley...what am I going to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"I assume you and Travis will be the first to get over mine and Kim's relationship, Lily will eventually get there but...Ray....I don't want to ruin my friendship with him but I don't want to break up with Kim just to save it..."
"Well, unless us three, that is Traivs, Lily and I, can't convince him to apologize to Kim and accept you're relationship with her, you'll have to choose. You might want to start weighing you're decisions here in about a month or so..."
Riley heard him sigh. "This is seriously starting to be a little annoying..."
"Well....I don't know about annoying, yet. It will be when I end up being the one to try and convince him of everything."
"I don't think they'll shove it all off on you..."
"No, but I live with him, I'll have to do more of it than the other two."
"I get what you mean..."
Riley knew that she and Ray were the only one's home at the moment and she heard something break downstairs. "What the hell was that?"
"What?"
"I don't know...hold on.." Riley took the phone with her and slowly made her way down the stairs. She saw Ray picking up pieces of broken glass. "What happened, Ray?"
Ray glanced up at his cousin, "I lost one of my best friends to that bitch."
"Ray...you didn't loose one of you're best friends.to her. Yes, Robbie is dating Kim but she didn't steal him or whatever...he's still here...he didn't go anywhere...but...what's with the glass?" She asked, motoining to the glass on the floor.
"I accidently knocked over a vase..."
Riley looked around and saw only three of her aunt's vases. Her eyes widened, "Ray! Aunt Marie is going to kill you."
"My mom isn't going to kill me."
"But...wasn't that the one that she got from like....India...the one of a kind vase from India...the one that was never to be made again?"
Ray sighed, "Well....maybe she won't notice..."
"Right, Aunt Marie won't notice that her one of a kind, ten thousand dollar Indian vase is suddenly missing. She'll think that we didn't lock to doors and someone stole it."
"Eh..."
Riley sighed and rolled her eyes, "Whatever, that's you're deal." She turned on the stair, and started back up, bringing the phone back to her ear, "Sorry about that."
"So...what happened?"
Riley rolled her eyes, "Ray just tripped and broke Aunt Marie's one of a kind, never to be made again, ten thousand dollar, Indian vase. Just normal things going on."
"Yeah...I heard Ray say something else..."
"Oh...that...how much did you hear?"
"Well, I guess everything..."
"I lost one of my best friends to that bitch, ring any bells?"
"Yeah..."
"Yeah...about that...you know he doesn't mean any of the shit he's saying...right? Cause...I mean, I think that after a few weeks or so, Ray'll get over it, ignore Kim and talk to you. I guess we'll just see how he plays he cards though, eh?"
"Yeah...I guess so..."
Riley saw her Aunt and Uncle pull into the driveway. "I gotta go save my cousin's ass...later, alright?"
Robbie laughed, "Alright...thanks for listening."
"Sure, anytime. Just call me. You talk, I listen, I keep my mouth shut."
"Alright...I'll let you go.."
"Later." She hung up, tossed the phone on her bed and went downstairs to save her cousin a brutal lash out to take on singally from her aunt.
"Raymond Jamison! Where is my original, one of a kind, Indian vase?" Ray already had all the glass thrown away.
"Mom, I--"
"Aunt Marie, it wasn't just Ray....it's both our faults. We were...foolin' around and...we dunno who but...one of us hit the table, it shook, and the vase broke."
Marie looked at her son, an eyebrow raised, "Is this true, Ray?"
Ray nodded, "Eh...Yeah..."
"Really?"
"Yeah, really mom, that's what happened."
"I can't believe you two broke a ten thousand dollar vase..."
"We're really sorry, it was an accident." The two seventeen year olds chorused, making it a little more believable that they were both at fault.
"I'm going to go to my room to recover..." Marie said, slowly making her way upstairs. James followed, shaking his head at the pair of teenagers' clumsiness.
Once the adults were out of ear-shot, Ray let out a sigh of relief, "Thanks Ri..."
"You owe me you know..."
"Right...what do you wish for me to do my queen?" He asked jokingly.
Riley suddenly had an idea. She smirked, "I want you to..." She took two steps. "Apologize to Kim, and..." She took another three. "Accept that she's dating Robbie." She took one more step, now on the floor. "And..." She took the few steps that were needed to close the gap between the two. "I want you to talk to Robbie just like you would have before you found out about Kim."
"WHAT?"
"I want you to apologize, accept, and talk. That's all...."
"I'm not doing a million things, Riley!"
"It's only three...and it's worth it...unless you want me to tell Aunt Marie the truth about the ten thousand dollar vase. Come on, three little things for five thousand dollars worth of damage? That's not much..."
"Five thousand dollars?"
"Yeah, if she wanted to, she could make us split the costs and pay for the vase over the rest of our lives....or hers, whichever came first. I assume if she chose that, is would be our lives that came first, she'd be alive until she got the money for the vase back."
"Yeah...you're probably right..."
"So, are you gonna do it or am I gonna have to go tell Aunt Marie the truth?"
Ray weighed his options in his mind and sighed. "Fine..."
"What?"
"I'll do it..."
Riley grinned. She was really good a persuading people of things. "Ok. You've got to do it by Friday."
"Friday?" Ray sighed, "Alright..."
~*~
12/23/06 - Friday - 3:57pm
Ray had decided he would just wait until Friday to apologize to Kim, hold off as long as he could. He had Riley call Robbie and get her number, then he called her and told her to meet him at Mickey's Disks.
Kim Carlisle was confused. Ray Brennon had just called her two minutes ago telling her to meet him at Mickey's Disks. She said she would but she was completely confused as to why she was going.
~*~
12/23/06 - 4:09pm
Ray and Kim arrived outside Mickey's at the same time.
"Ok, what did you want, Brennon?"
Ray sighed, "Look...Kim...what I said the other day..."
"About me being a demanding, controlling, deceiving, corruptive, seductive, friend stealing, bitch?"
"Eh...yeah..." Now that he actually thought about it, Ray realized that he had been pretty harsh. "I'm...I'm sorry about that..."
"Really?"
Ray shifted, "Yeah..."
Kim smiled, "That's really sweet of you, Brennon." She ptted him on the cheek. "That all?"
Ray nodded.
"You couldn't do this on the phone?"
"I dunno..."
She shrugged, "Oh well, uh...see ya later?"
"Yeah.."
~*~*~*~
A/N - I know! This chapter was pretty short compared to some of the others but.*shrug* it had to end there. I hope the next chapter is longer!
Later days!
~PFB
Ch 8: Robbie's Worry and a Broken Ten Thousand Dollar Vase - 12/20/06 - Tuesday - 7:43pm
Robbie picked up the phone and dialed Kim's phone. As usual, it was busy. Almost any time he called, the phone was busy. He sighed and dialed her cell. "Come on, Kim...please..."
Kim was on her phone in her room when her cell phone rang. She frowned, who would be calling her cell at almost eight o'clock? "Hey Holly, can you hang on a sec? Someone's calling my cell." She laid the phone down and picked up the cell phone. "Hello?"
"Kim.."
"Robbie." Kim smiled. "Can you hang on a sec?" She picked up the cordless and said, "Hey can I call you later?"
"Why?"
"Robbie's calling me, I don't wanna use my minutes."
"Ok, later Kim..."
"Bye, hun." She switched back to her cell, "Hey, I'm gonna call you back on my line, don't wanna use all my minutes up."
"Ok.."
Kim hung up the cell, picked up the cordless, and hit 'Memory' and '2', the phone automatically dialed Robbie's number.
"Kim?"
"Yeah. What was it that you wanted to talk about, baby?"
"Kim...I don't know what I'm going to do..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I mean...I can see Riley and Travis getting over it, Lily...she'll get used to it but it'll be while...but Ray...he'll never accept it. I don't know if he'll even talk to me. I might be losing one of my best friends..."
"Well....It's kind of life....You win some, you loose some and...sometimes that means you loose friends."
"Kim! Ray's been my best friend since I was five."
"Look, hun, I'm sorry but I don't know what you expect me to do about it...unless...." She sounded like she was about to cry, "You wanna....b-b- break up with...."
"No." He said immediately, "No,Kim...I..." Robbie's left hand slid over to cover his eyes, which he closed as he did this. "I don't want to break up with you. I just.....I don't know what what I'm going to do. I don't want to break up with you......but I don't want to ruin my frienship with Ray..."
Robbie heard Kim's mom yelling at her, but he couldn't understand what she was saying. "I...I gotta go..."
"Why?"
"My mom needs the phone."
"Alright, later baby."
"Bye, hun."
And all Robbie heard was the phone go dead. He sighed, dropped the phone to the floor and fell back. He quickly sat back up and picked the phone up. He dialed 598-7642. He needed to talk to someone.
~*~
12/20/06 - 7:48pm
Riley was just opening the door to her room, a great idea for her story in mind, ready to write it all down.....and she heard her phone ring. She sighed and rolled her eyes. She picked the phone up, "Lily, I don't care about every single detail of your last date with Ray. I'm not in the mood."
"Eh...Riley?"
"Oh....Robbie? Sorry, I'm used to Lily calling me..." Then she added, "Or Travis." she sounded like she was smiling.
"Yeah....I need to talk to you...."
"Ok...what about?"
"Why is life so messed up?"
"I don't know...but...I do know that life..."
"Sucks and then you die." The two unified.
Riley blinked. No one she knew used that phrase. "You know it too?"
"Like anyone knows that Ray likes Lily..."
Riley grinned, "You've been sneaking off too much. We're all paired up now. Ray and Lily are finally a couple as are Travis and I."
"Right..."
"So, anyway, I'm pretty sure you didn't call for me to ramble about the couples that have formed lately...."
"Well...you're right...."
"What did you want to talk about?"
"Riley...what am I going to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"I assume you and Travis will be the first to get over mine and Kim's relationship, Lily will eventually get there but...Ray....I don't want to ruin my friendship with him but I don't want to break up with Kim just to save it..."
"Well, unless us three, that is Traivs, Lily and I, can't convince him to apologize to Kim and accept you're relationship with her, you'll have to choose. You might want to start weighing you're decisions here in about a month or so..."
Riley heard him sigh. "This is seriously starting to be a little annoying..."
"Well....I don't know about annoying, yet. It will be when I end up being the one to try and convince him of everything."
"I don't think they'll shove it all off on you..."
"No, but I live with him, I'll have to do more of it than the other two."
"I get what you mean..."
Riley knew that she and Ray were the only one's home at the moment and she heard something break downstairs. "What the hell was that?"
"What?"
"I don't know...hold on.." Riley took the phone with her and slowly made her way down the stairs. She saw Ray picking up pieces of broken glass. "What happened, Ray?"
Ray glanced up at his cousin, "I lost one of my best friends to that bitch."
"Ray...you didn't loose one of you're best friends.to her. Yes, Robbie is dating Kim but she didn't steal him or whatever...he's still here...he didn't go anywhere...but...what's with the glass?" She asked, motoining to the glass on the floor.
"I accidently knocked over a vase..."
Riley looked around and saw only three of her aunt's vases. Her eyes widened, "Ray! Aunt Marie is going to kill you."
"My mom isn't going to kill me."
"But...wasn't that the one that she got from like....India...the one of a kind vase from India...the one that was never to be made again?"
Ray sighed, "Well....maybe she won't notice..."
"Right, Aunt Marie won't notice that her one of a kind, ten thousand dollar Indian vase is suddenly missing. She'll think that we didn't lock to doors and someone stole it."
"Eh..."
Riley sighed and rolled her eyes, "Whatever, that's you're deal." She turned on the stair, and started back up, bringing the phone back to her ear, "Sorry about that."
"So...what happened?"
Riley rolled her eyes, "Ray just tripped and broke Aunt Marie's one of a kind, never to be made again, ten thousand dollar, Indian vase. Just normal things going on."
"Yeah...I heard Ray say something else..."
"Oh...that...how much did you hear?"
"Well, I guess everything..."
"I lost one of my best friends to that bitch, ring any bells?"
"Yeah..."
"Yeah...about that...you know he doesn't mean any of the shit he's saying...right? Cause...I mean, I think that after a few weeks or so, Ray'll get over it, ignore Kim and talk to you. I guess we'll just see how he plays he cards though, eh?"
"Yeah...I guess so..."
Riley saw her Aunt and Uncle pull into the driveway. "I gotta go save my cousin's ass...later, alright?"
Robbie laughed, "Alright...thanks for listening."
"Sure, anytime. Just call me. You talk, I listen, I keep my mouth shut."
"Alright...I'll let you go.."
"Later." She hung up, tossed the phone on her bed and went downstairs to save her cousin a brutal lash out to take on singally from her aunt.
"Raymond Jamison! Where is my original, one of a kind, Indian vase?" Ray already had all the glass thrown away.
"Mom, I--"
"Aunt Marie, it wasn't just Ray....it's both our faults. We were...foolin' around and...we dunno who but...one of us hit the table, it shook, and the vase broke."
Marie looked at her son, an eyebrow raised, "Is this true, Ray?"
Ray nodded, "Eh...Yeah..."
"Really?"
"Yeah, really mom, that's what happened."
"I can't believe you two broke a ten thousand dollar vase..."
"We're really sorry, it was an accident." The two seventeen year olds chorused, making it a little more believable that they were both at fault.
"I'm going to go to my room to recover..." Marie said, slowly making her way upstairs. James followed, shaking his head at the pair of teenagers' clumsiness.
Once the adults were out of ear-shot, Ray let out a sigh of relief, "Thanks Ri..."
"You owe me you know..."
"Right...what do you wish for me to do my queen?" He asked jokingly.
Riley suddenly had an idea. She smirked, "I want you to..." She took two steps. "Apologize to Kim, and..." She took another three. "Accept that she's dating Robbie." She took one more step, now on the floor. "And..." She took the few steps that were needed to close the gap between the two. "I want you to talk to Robbie just like you would have before you found out about Kim."
"WHAT?"
"I want you to apologize, accept, and talk. That's all...."
"I'm not doing a million things, Riley!"
"It's only three...and it's worth it...unless you want me to tell Aunt Marie the truth about the ten thousand dollar vase. Come on, three little things for five thousand dollars worth of damage? That's not much..."
"Five thousand dollars?"
"Yeah, if she wanted to, she could make us split the costs and pay for the vase over the rest of our lives....or hers, whichever came first. I assume if she chose that, is would be our lives that came first, she'd be alive until she got the money for the vase back."
"Yeah...you're probably right..."
"So, are you gonna do it or am I gonna have to go tell Aunt Marie the truth?"
Ray weighed his options in his mind and sighed. "Fine..."
"What?"
"I'll do it..."
Riley grinned. She was really good a persuading people of things. "Ok. You've got to do it by Friday."
"Friday?" Ray sighed, "Alright..."
~*~
12/23/06 - Friday - 3:57pm
Ray had decided he would just wait until Friday to apologize to Kim, hold off as long as he could. He had Riley call Robbie and get her number, then he called her and told her to meet him at Mickey's Disks.
Kim Carlisle was confused. Ray Brennon had just called her two minutes ago telling her to meet him at Mickey's Disks. She said she would but she was completely confused as to why she was going.
~*~
12/23/06 - 4:09pm
Ray and Kim arrived outside Mickey's at the same time.
"Ok, what did you want, Brennon?"
Ray sighed, "Look...Kim...what I said the other day..."
"About me being a demanding, controlling, deceiving, corruptive, seductive, friend stealing, bitch?"
"Eh...yeah..." Now that he actually thought about it, Ray realized that he had been pretty harsh. "I'm...I'm sorry about that..."
"Really?"
Ray shifted, "Yeah..."
Kim smiled, "That's really sweet of you, Brennon." She ptted him on the cheek. "That all?"
Ray nodded.
"You couldn't do this on the phone?"
"I dunno..."
She shrugged, "Oh well, uh...see ya later?"
"Yeah.."
~*~*~*~
A/N - I know! This chapter was pretty short compared to some of the others but.*shrug* it had to end there. I hope the next chapter is longer!
Later days!
~PFB