A/N - Well...this chapter was fun to write but I will warn you....the
last...oh...I dunno, probably a bit before the half was written with my
friend. She doesn't really like the show but she has seen more than enough
eps of RFR than needed to make this fun. Anyhow, just thought I'd warn you
guys b/c it's different than normal....if there is such thing in my writing
style lol! Hope you enjoy!
Ch 13 - A Possible Bit of Innuendo - 3/21/07 - Wednesday - 1:36am
Half of the candles had burned out, all of the flashlights excepts one had run the batteries out, the lantern was down to already using it's last container of propane. Everyone was still sitting around in the living room. Lily was in Ray's lap in the chair he was sitting in, Kim was in Robbie's lap on the couch. Riley was the only one not sitting her her respective boyfriend's lap. She just didn't see why girls did that, it was an extremely pointless way to get closer to you're boyfriend; plus, the one time when she had she noticed that Travis didn't really like it so she didn't do it any more. Riley sighed and fell over on to her side on the couch. The only person in the entire room that could make anything to do out of the silence running between the six of them was Travis. He could, and was, using the time to meditate. Riley looked at her boyfriend and rolled her eyes. "Meditating?" She shook her head best she could, considering she was practically embedded in the couch on her side, "You're one weird person Travis..."
"Is he a person? Maybe he's an alien..." Ray said in the silence that followed after Riley's statement. "I've had my theories that he may be an alien...or an android, but I think that alien is more likely."
"Really? I would think that a human-type android would be more realistic...seeing as how aliens probably don't look like humans." Riley said as she sat up, Indian-style.
"Hmm...I think you may be on to something, Riley..." Ray said with an almost serious tone.
Travis opened his eyes and looked back and forth between the two cousins, eyebrows raised. "Did it ever occur to you that I might be human?"
The two looked at each other, then back to the blonde haired boy, "No."
Riley smiled and said, "BUT...now that you mention it....maybe you are human...you've just been all around the world and you've learned about all kinds of crap that none of us really know about. When you think about it though, if we needed to, we could come for you for something about history, couldn't we?"
"Or...you could just come to me for Chemistry..."
"Hey! I know I suck at the damn class, I don't need you to tell me that!" She shoved him lightly.
Everyone was quiet once again. Travis glanced around the room. Robbie, Ray, Lily, and Kim had all fallen asleep and Riley looked like he was about to fall. He and Riley were the only two fully awake. Riley looked around and saw the same thing. Hmm...Ray usually stays up pretty late...I figure he'd be awake....guess it all finally caught up with him. She smiled. It was interesting to see everyone around asleep. She glanced at Travis and smiled.
"What?"
She shrugged, "I dunno..." That was the last thing she said before she herself fell into a soundless slumber. Travis sighed and went back to meditating, which soon turned into him falling backwards into the couch, asleep.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 2:02am
Kim stirred awake. "Mmm...where...am I?" She whispered to herself.
"The Brennon's..." She heard Robbie whisper.
"Oh, hey baby...did I wake you up?"
Robbie shook his head, "No, I've been awake..." "How long?"
"About...five minutes..."
Kim got up to sit next to him, rather than in his lap. She leaned over as he put an arm around her. She looked up at her boyfriend, "Robbie..."
"Yeah?"
"Are you gonna quit?"
"I don't know, Kim..."
"Oh, come on..."
"Kim...they're my friends...I haven't seen them enough as it is. Sneaking around like I was before..."
"Look, I'm not asking you to join Cougar Radio..."
"Then why do I need to quit the station I'm doing?"
"Isn't it a little....old?"
"What? No...why? Do you think it is?"
She shrugged, "I dunno...it's just...I don't know how good it is to be dating someone form my stations nemesis...you know?"
"Kim...I'm not going to quit the station just because you think it's strange or not right dating someone from you're nemesis radio station."
"Alright...fine...whatever." Kim said, rolling her eyes.
"Kim..."
"Don't worry, hun, I'm not mad it's just...strange..." With that, Kim flipped the other way and lay down, closing her eyes to go to sleep.
Robbie sighed as he leaned back against the couch, eyes closed. "Way to go, McGrath, way to go..." He whispered to himself.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 3:31am
Lily wasn't sure why, but she suddenly found herself awake at three thirty in the morning. She rolled her eyes. Three thirty? Why the hell am I waking up at three thirty? She sighed and suddenly remembered that she was in Ray's lap. When she felt him stir slightly, she turned to look at him and smiled. He was so cute when he was sleeping. "And not so sarcastic...." She muttered to herself. She noticed that he was smiling in his sleep and she suddenly wondered what he was dreaming about. "Hmmm...well...it's Ray...and he's a guy...I wonder?" Lily was asking herself sarcastically. She rolled her eyes.
"Lils?"
"Ray...did I wake you up?"
"No...why?"
"Well..I was talking to myself and I thought that maybe I...woke you up."
"No...I just sort of...woke up."
"Yeah, so did I....a few minutes ago..."
"What time is it?" Ray asked, just before he yawned.
Lily looked at her watch, "Three thirty-three."
"Damn...If I'm supposed to be sleeping, why am I awake?"
"Who knows...."
"Not me...I'm usually sleeping right now..."
Lily lazily punched him in the arm
"What was that for?"
"Who isn't usually sleeping at this hour?"
Ray thought about it for a moment, then came back with, "People at an all night party...people that work the graveyard shift..people that work at the Wal Mart super center...and....the people that own the three-sixty-five- twenty-four-seven grocery store."
She punched him in the arm again this time it was a little less haphazard, "Just...stop...go no farther."
Ray shrugged, "You asked for it, Lils..."
"Why do you people insist on calling me 'Lils'? My name is Lily.." She said with a lot of emphasis on 'Lily'.
Ray shrugged again, "We could go around calling you...Lil...ooorrr...Shady..."
"Yes, that would be wonderful, give my identity away."
"So...what do you think we'll do next year, last show? Do you think we should...reveal who we are?
It was Lily's turn to shrug, "I dunno...but I know whatever it is, it'll be big...seeing as how it will have to be a big going away blow out..."
Soon enough, the couple fell asleep again.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 4:58am
Riley was never sure why she woke up at the hours she did, but every night she woke up the same hours: 2 and 4 something. There were times when she would wake up more often but that didn't happen too terribly much. Today was one of the normal nights, 4:58am, and here she was, downstairs, on the couch, wide awake. She had heard Robbie and Kim talking but she didn't listen to the conversation. She thought she had heard Ray and Lily at some point, but Riley had come to the conclusion that she was crazy. Right now, she was laying on her back looking at the ceiling, wishing and willing someone else to wake up, simply for the fact that she could talk to them. Riley sighed and sat up, thinking. After a few minutes of this, she realized she had a seriously killer headache. Was it from the thinking or sheer coincidence? She thought as she stood up to go get a Tylenol from the kitchen. Riley had been too bored and lost in her thoughts to realize that someone else was awake and, to be quite specific, not in the living room. When she entered the dark kitchen, she hadn't expected to see the silhouette of a person sitting at the kitchen table. She frowned, wondering who it was as she flipped on the light.
"That was bright..." Travis said as he blinked to ge adjusted to the sudden light, "Yes, lights should be bright..." He shook his head and turned to face whoever had come into the kitchen and turned on the evil light. "Riley?"
"Travis, what are you doing up?"
"I could ask you the same thing..."
The couple looked at each other for a moment and at the same time replied, "Couldn't sleep."
"Are you a mind reader? Or...is Ray right?"
"About what?"
"Swami!" She said in a strange, slightly loud, and higher pitched voice. As she said this, she threw her hands in the air, then let them down at her sides. When Travis gave her a look, she said, "It's five in the morning, how do you expect me to act?"
Travis shrugged. "Why couldn't you sleep?"
Riley had already walked around the entire kitchen in a complete circle so she decided she would sit on the counter. She jumped up and sat and leaned back and forth as she answered him, "I dunno...I just wake up at two and four something every night, usually I can get back to sleep but tonight..." She shrugged, "Tonight, I couldn't..." She paused and threw herself forward with so much force, she almost threw herself off the counter. "What about you?"
The blonde shrugged, "I have no clue...I woke up," He glanced at his watch, "Two hours ago...couldn't go back to sleep, came in here about an hour ago."
Riley pushed herself off the counter and walked over to stand behind Travis. She slipped her arms around his neck and leaned down. "Travis?"
He looked up at her, "Yeah?"
Riley stepped back and took his wrist, "Come here! I wanna show you something."
"Riley..." He said as he allowed himself to be pulled through the living room and up the stairs by his girlfriend. "What are you doing?"
Riley knew exactly what she was doing. She was taking him to her room, so they could be alone. When they got there, she opened the door, letting him in first. When he was close enough, Riley shoved him onto the bed. Travis' eyes were wide as dinner plates as Riley straddled, pinned, and kissed him. No matter how surprised he was, he couldn't resist kissing back. After a few minutes of this, Riley broke the kiss.
Travis blinked. Had any of the last seven minutes actually happened, or was this all just some kind of really wierd but, he had to admit, really great dream. Travis opened his mouth to speak but no sound came out. He closed his mouth, liked his lips, and swallowed. He decided he would try and speak again. "I...R-Riley...." So maybe he couldn't speak, maybe he would just look shocked.
"What?" Riley asked as she licked her lips. She wondered if anyone knew the fact that that was a bad nervoius habit of hers. She was really kind of wondering if Travis knew right now. She was chewing on her lower lip now. Maybe she had been wrong in doing this...was that blood? Had she chewed her lip that hard?
Travis swallowed, "I..I...Wh...a..bu...What...." Travis closed his eyes, took in a deep breath and opened his eyes again. "Why...What...I..." So maybe talking was a bad idea. Maybe he was still too shocked by everything.
Riley sat up, sitting there, straddling her boyfriend and she closed her eyes, sighing. "I...um...I have no clue why...I did all this...I should have known that...I mean...why would you...not yet..." Suddenly, Riley remembered her lip. She reached up and touched her lower lip and looked at her fingers. "So...guess I did bite down that hard..." She moved to sit on the edge of the bed, sitting on her knees. Her hands moved from her fingertips being at the bridge of her nose, to her temples, to stay on the back of her neck for a moment, and finally, her hands fell to her lap, where they stayed. "I'm sorry...I...I should have known...you're not that kind of guy...I'm...I'm sorry, I..." She glanced over at him, then back at the floor. She lowered her head and let her hair fall in her face.
"No...Riley..." Travis sat up, pinching the bridge of his nose, eyes closed. He let out a barely audible sigh and opened his eyes. "Riley...You're...You're right, I'm not that kind of guy and...I like that you have enough courtesy to respect that...and...a-and I...I really..." He swallowed. He really wasn't sure what he was trying to say exactly.
Riley looked back at him again, "You mean...you don't....hate me or...anything?"
"No...Riley...I could never hate you."
"You could if I did the completely wrong thing..."
"No...Riley, I don't care what you do...I'll never, ever be able to really, truly hate you...I...a...I...l-l...." He swallowed.
Riley turned around and faced him, sitting cross-legged. "What?" She looked in his eyes and saw....she wasn't sure. It was sort of like a mix of fear and...something she couldn't quite place. She frowned, what was it?
"a...I..." He licked his lips, "I...I don't know...I..." He bit his lower lip, "I don't know what I'm trying to say....."
"Travis..." She took his hand in hers, "Come on, what is it?"
He shook his head, "N-no...I...I don't know what I'm trying to say...."
Riley was wearing a look of complete and utter confusion. "What?"
"I...I don't know..."
Riley was still extremely confused but she decided to not dwell on it. "Ok...well...I'm gonna go to bed..." After a second she added, "Here..I'm not going back down there."
Travis nodded, "Ok..well...I'm going to go back down and...well..good night."
Riley kissed him on the cheek. "Night..."
Travis got up and walked to the door. When he reached it however, Riley gasped and spoke, "Oh! Wait!" Travis stopped and looked at his girlfriend, eyebrow raised.
Riley got up and walked over to her desk and opened the center drawer. "No...not in there...where is it?" She closed that drawer and opened another one to her right. "Damn...where'd I put it?" She opened the drawer to the left of the center one and dug through it, "Ha! Found it!" She took out a black notebook, set it on the desk, closed the drawer and turned to face Travis.
"What.."
Riley made a motion with her hands to say "Silence", "I added....I want you to read it..."
"What?"
"Iii added...I want you to read it..." As she said this, she was smiling.
Travis started to come back in the room. "But I thought..."
"I know.." she rolled her eyes haphazardly, "I said I don't usually let people read my stuff but..." She shrugged, "You're different...you...I know whatever you tell me, it's...it's sincere...it's real," She shrugged again, "True."
Travis was standing next to her now, "Ok."
Riley stood from where she had previously been sitting in her chair. They were practically right against each other. Riley was grinning, she kissed him again, this time though, it was a real kiss. When she broke away she was still grinning and she went to sit on her bed as Travis sat down and turned the desk lamp on. As her read, Riley watched him, observed really. It was almost as if she was entranced by him. To be completely honest, she had to say she was...captivated by him. She started humming. This caught Travis' attention. For a moment he stopped reading and, frowning, he tired to place the tune she was humming to the song. What was it? Then it hit him. He smirked and starting singing, more or less out of habit, if he knew a song he sang it. "The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful...Stop me and steal my breath."
Riley grinned and continued with him, "Emerald from mountains, thrust toward the sky...Never revealing their depth..." She stopped and spoke, "You know the song?"
"Yeah...did think you'd be the type to have even heard it, nevermind liked it..."
Riley rolled her eyes, "Shows how well you know me, eh? I'm a very variationist type of person. I listen to...everything...except Opera...it scares me."
Travis chuckled and shook his head. "You're a very variationist type of person, are you?"
Riley nodded enthusiastically, "Yeah..."
Travis shook his head again and sounded like he was going to say something but Riley didn't let him, "Go on! Read!" She hopped up and down on her knees on her bed. Travis turned back to the notebook and began to read again.
~*~
3/21/07 ~ 5:34am
Travis was still reading from the little black notebook. He blinked, hard. He was really starting to get tired, but he was going to finish reading, he'd told her he'd read it and Travis Anthony Strong wasn't one to break a promise. Riley found herself starting to fall asleep. This was quite unnatrual for her because usually during Spring Break, she would stay up until all hours of the night and never even think about sleep at five thirty-seven. Travis shook his head, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. "Riley..." When he got no answer, he turned around, "Ri..." Before he even finished her name he smiled. She had fallen backwards onto her pillow. He glanced back at the notebook and shook his head, there was no way he'd be able to read any more of it. It was great, she'd written it with the perfect mix of humor, drama, and everything else, it was perfectly fit in with all the situations. He just couldn't stay up for any more, it was too late. He stood up and yawned, he wasn't even sure if he wanted to go all the way back downstairs. Travis wasn't sure when, but...evidentially, he'd gotten a pillow somehow at some point because about fifteen minutes later, he subconsciously noticed it. Maybe I'm losing my mind but, oh well...who cares..., was his last thought before he fell into a true slumber.
~*~
3/21/07 ~ 7:31am
Riley had been in a perfectly normal slumber and she was perfectly happy-- until the phone rang. At first, Riley wasn't sure that the phone was actually ringing, maybe it was her imagination. That had been her hope, she really didn't want to get up. When she realized it wasn't her imagination and the phone really was ringing, she slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to glare at the phone. After the fifth annoying ring, she groaned and rolled over, picking the phone up. "Hello?"
"Riley!" Cheyanne Strong's frantic voice came over the phone. "Do you know where Travis is? He never came home last night! I've been worried sick!"
Travis? Oh...he hasn't been anywhere...my house...upstairs...my room...we were alone...nothing much has happened lately though, but I think he fell asleep somewhere up here...but other than that, nothing's happened. Riley thought. Shit...what an I going to tell her?
"Riley? Riley, are you there?"
"Oh shit..." Riley didn't even realize she was muttering, "He's here...in my room..."
"What?"
"On my desk..." Riley continued with what she thought was her mind rambling.
"What?" Cheyanne's voice was slowly starting to get higher pitched.
Riley's eyes widened as she suddenly realized that she had spoken her thoughts out loud. "Omygod! No! Mrs. Cheyanne! No! Don't get it wrong, we-- "
"What is my son doing at you're house, in you're room, on you're desk?" She asked quickly in a slightly higher pitched voice.
"Mrs. Strong, really, you've got to listen to me, please..."
"I'm listening." Her voice was very stern now.
"Ok...last night the electricity went out and eventually we all fell asleep- -"
"All? Who is 'all'?"
"Travis, Lily, Ray, Robbie, Kim, and I." Riley rattled off quickly.
"Right...." She was skeptical now, "Continue..." "Well...we, Travis and I, came up to my room when we both woke up a little later..." Cheyanne made a noise but Riley continued since the woman didn't say anything. "And...we were talking. And...I write...stories...hopeful novels, and...he's been reading what I'm writing currently and...I wanted him to read what I'd written earlier and...he fell asleep at the desk..." Riley glanced over at him and thought, And some how ended up with a pillow...maybe Ray's right...he's not an android, he is an alien!
"Oh....ok...I assume you're aunt and uncle were there, correct?"
"Yeah...Aunt Marie and Uncle James were here." In the since of being here in mine & Ray's heads...seeing as how they're on a cruise somewhere and won't be back until tomorrow...but, they were here....sort of....
Riley heard Cheyanne let out a sigh, hopefully of relief. "Well, I'll be wanting Travis home by eight thirty."
Riley smiled, "Ok...he'll be there.."
"Ok, bye hun..."
Riley threw the phone down and jumped off the bed. She ran over to the chair and practically made the blonde boy convulse, all the while, yelling, "TRAVIS! WAKE UP!" She was pretty sure that he hadn't gotten to sleep until about five in the morning he probably wouldn't like being awaken only two hours later. "Travis! Get you're ass up! Wake up!"
Travis was ever so slowly coming to. Riley wasn't liking how slowly he was waking up. She decided she'd actually wake the boy up this time. She shoved him out of the chair and yelled, "TRAVIS ANTHONY STRONG! WAKE UP!"
Travis' eyes had flown open as he was falling to the ground, "What the--"
"Took you long enough! You....slug!"
"What?"
"You have to be home in-" She looked at her watch, "You've got to be home in fourty-five minutes and we have to wake everyone else up!"
"Why do I have to be home in fourty-five minutes?"
"You're mom called and she now knows that you were asleep in my room! On my desk, but still! In my room!"
Travis blinked, "I don't swear often but I think this qualifies: Shit."
"That was good... Just add a bit of enthusiasm."
Travis jumped up from his place on the floor and followed Riley's advice. "Shit. SHIT. SHIT!"
"Very good, now let's go wake everyone up!"
As the two tore down the stairs, Riley said, "Ok, you wake Robbie and Kim up, I'll get Lily and Ray..."
"If we yell, won't they all wake up?"
"Not Ray. And right now, I'm the only one in this house that knows how to wake the boy up!"
Travis looked at her, "I have a feeling this is going to involve things I want to know nothing of." Before they entered the living room, Riley starting yelling, "ALRIGHT YOU S.O.B.'S WAKE THE FUCK UP!"
"Riley! Was that needed?"
"To wake everyone up? Yes."
When they entered the living room, three of the four teenagers were wide awake.
"Did you just swear at me?" Kim asked.
Riley looked at her with an annoyed expression on her face. "Yes." She glanced around the room for something not breakable. The only thing that as found was a throw pillow. She looked at the pillow and shrugged, picking it up and walking over to Ray. "RAY! WAKE YOU'RE ASS UP YOU SMARMY BASTARD!"
"You know, all those documentaries on England really weren't good for you." Robbie said.
"Why exactly did you wake us up?" Lily asked.
"Because your parents have no clue where the hell you are!"
"Crap..."
Riley turned back to her still sleeping cousin. She rolled her eyes, "I was thinking it wouldn't have to come to this..." She looked from him to the pillow in her hand. She shrugged and started attacking him with the pillow. "WAKE UP! Please....wake up!...please, please, please."
"Why are you waking him up? He lives here." Kim interrupted the black haired girl's antics.
After bashing Ray in the head with the pillow a few more times she stopped. "Oh..you're right..."
"I know how to wake him up..." Lily said, getting up from her current position on the floor, where she had been since Riley yelled a few moments earlier.
Riley stopped her, "No! We'll never get you back! I won't let you!"
While Riley had turned around, Ray had woken up. He smirked. Since she didn't know he was awake he knew this would be great. All he did was simply take hold of her sides, pulling her backwards into his lap and she screamed. "RAYMOND!"
Ray knew he would eventually get hit for it, but it was fun anyway. As soon as the thought of getting hit crossed his mind, she hit him on the shoulder. "What is with you two and hitting me?" He asked, indicating Riley and Lily.
"I hit you because of the shit you do!"
"And I punch you because of the stupid things you say." Lily replied.
Ray sighed. "Ok...so...why did you attack me with the pillows?"
Before she actually answered him, Riley went off on something, "The Brennon Wars: Attack of the Pillows...." Everyone gave her raised eyebrows. "WHAT? It's called playing on words, people!" She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, I don't know why I woke you up, Kim recently pointed out that you live here but...everyone else has to get home...well...most likely."
Before anyone could say anything at all, the phone rang. Ray was right next to it so he answered. "Hello?"
"Oh, hi Ray. Is Travis on his way home?"
"Uh..no...he's right here...in the living room..."
"Why?"
"Why? Why what?"
"Why is he still in you're living room? He should be home by now..."
"Why?"
As everyone heard Ray's end of the conversation similar thoughts like, What is he, two? ran through everyone's minds.
"Well, he was supposed to be home fifteen minutes ago..."
"Fifteen minutes ago? What?"
Riley and Travis looked at each other with realization hitting,.
"Well...uh....he's here...now..." Ray said, obviously very confused with Cheyanne right now.
"Let me talk to either you're mother or father, please."
"Uh...I would but, they're gone..."
"Where are they? The store?"
"No...they went on a one week cruise. They won't be back until tomorrow."
Riley smacked her forehead. She knew what was going on now. This was going all wrong, horribly, horribly wrong.
"What? But...Riley told me that they were there just yesterday....if this cruise is for a week, how were they there yesterday and will be home tomorrow?" Cheyanne was getting concerned and distressed now.
"What?"
"Hey! Ray! I need you're help!" Riley suddenly yelled.
"With what?"
"This...box!"
"What box?" Ray asked, staring at his very bizarre cousin.
"The one I'm carrying up the basement stairs!" Riley gave him a "Come on! Go along with it!" look.
"Ok! Hold on!" He went back to talking to Cheyanne, "Um...Mrs. Strong...could I...uh...talk to you later?"
"I heard and yes. But send my son home immediately." "Ok. Bye."
Riley smacked Ray in the head, "You ruined everything!"
"What?"
"We're in deep shit!"
"What?"
"Ray? Are you five year old trapped inside a seventeen year olds body?"
"I might be...but...right now I'm a confused five year old and whatnot...Now, back to the original topic...why are we in deep shit?"
"Because...Mrs. Strong now knows that not only did her son, Robbie, Kim and Lily stay the night, but she knows that your parents were not here to provide... parental supervision of six extremely hormonal teenagers. This means she will be calling everyone's parents. This means your parents will be calling my parents. This means I might be going home after I worked so hard to convince my parents to let me stay. This means we are all going to be so very grounded! This also means that I'm going to kill you and you are a complete moron!"
"How was I to know?"
"You were just supposed to!"
"So what do we do?"
"Praying might help," Robbie said lightly.
"Well, at least the situation couldn't get any-"
"Shut up, Ray! Don't say it!"
"Worse..."
"You git! You just made everything worse!"
Everyone stayed where they were, still and quiet, waiting for something to happen. After waiting for about two minutes, nothing happened. "Ok, so maybe it won't happen immediately! But it will happen! One of us is gonna die or something!"
"Well...I don't really wanna die." Lily said.
"Well...to late! Your boyfriend ruined everything! We're gonna die now!"
Travis was standing behind Riley now. He put a hand on her shoulder, "Riley, calm down, really. We don't need everyone panicking."
Riley turned her head to look at her boyfriend. "If you don't get home, you're going to be the dead one!"
Travis looked thoughtful for a second, "Aww hell." and with that, he left.
After a moment, Lily pointed where her blonde friend had just been. "Did he just say, 'aww hell'?" "You're a really bad influence on him, you know." Ray said.
"No I'm...actually...he said shit four times upstairs and just said hell, maybe you're right..."
~*~ 3/21/07 ~ 9:01am
When Travis walked in the door, Cheyanne immediately started in on her son. "Why were you at the Brennon's last night? With neither James nor Marie, who would actually be the more trustworthy one...but anyway! With neither of them there! And on top of that you were upstairs in Riley's room! And you slept there! What were you thinking?"
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"You had sexual intercourse with that girl didn't you?"
Travis sighed. He was not in the mood for this. "Yes mother, we had sex. It was very possible for us to do so with her on one side of the room on the bed and me on the other side, at the desk...and later on the desk...how I got there and where the pillow came from, I'm not really sure..."
Cheyanne frowned. Even if he was telling the truth, Travis wasn't ever one to stray from the subject. "What has that girl done to you? Made you into a liar? You're not allowed to see her any more!"
Travis resisted the temptation to roll his eyes. He knew she wasn't serious. "Mom, if you don't believe me, call her. She has four witnesses. Trust me, if any of them had heard anything from upstairs, they would have come to see and...well...they would have seen. But there was nothing to see because we did nothing."
"Nothing...at all?"
"No, mother. Nothing happened...Nothing."
Cheyanne looked her son and tried to decide if he was telling the truth or lying. After a few moments, she sighed. "Alright. If I find out that anything did happen..." She warned.
"Mom, really, nothing happened. Except my girlfriend waking me up at seven thirty when I'd only just gotten to sleep about an hour ago..."
"Well, I'm sorry but I was worried. You never called, you always call, what was I supposed to do?"
"I don't know...I have a cell phone...You could have called me instead of my girlfriend's personal phone line."
"Travis..."
"Don't tell me to go to my room, I'm already doing it."
Cheyanne sighed and closed her eyes. Travis finally let the temptation of rolling his eyes go as he made his way up the stairs.
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A/N - Well...wasn't THAT fun? Travis swore...like...five times! Woohoo! Riley really IS a bad influence on him, isn't she? lol! Next chapter might be up by tomorrow, I'm not sure...Maybe even later tonight.
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Ch 13 - A Possible Bit of Innuendo - 3/21/07 - Wednesday - 1:36am
Half of the candles had burned out, all of the flashlights excepts one had run the batteries out, the lantern was down to already using it's last container of propane. Everyone was still sitting around in the living room. Lily was in Ray's lap in the chair he was sitting in, Kim was in Robbie's lap on the couch. Riley was the only one not sitting her her respective boyfriend's lap. She just didn't see why girls did that, it was an extremely pointless way to get closer to you're boyfriend; plus, the one time when she had she noticed that Travis didn't really like it so she didn't do it any more. Riley sighed and fell over on to her side on the couch. The only person in the entire room that could make anything to do out of the silence running between the six of them was Travis. He could, and was, using the time to meditate. Riley looked at her boyfriend and rolled her eyes. "Meditating?" She shook her head best she could, considering she was practically embedded in the couch on her side, "You're one weird person Travis..."
"Is he a person? Maybe he's an alien..." Ray said in the silence that followed after Riley's statement. "I've had my theories that he may be an alien...or an android, but I think that alien is more likely."
"Really? I would think that a human-type android would be more realistic...seeing as how aliens probably don't look like humans." Riley said as she sat up, Indian-style.
"Hmm...I think you may be on to something, Riley..." Ray said with an almost serious tone.
Travis opened his eyes and looked back and forth between the two cousins, eyebrows raised. "Did it ever occur to you that I might be human?"
The two looked at each other, then back to the blonde haired boy, "No."
Riley smiled and said, "BUT...now that you mention it....maybe you are human...you've just been all around the world and you've learned about all kinds of crap that none of us really know about. When you think about it though, if we needed to, we could come for you for something about history, couldn't we?"
"Or...you could just come to me for Chemistry..."
"Hey! I know I suck at the damn class, I don't need you to tell me that!" She shoved him lightly.
Everyone was quiet once again. Travis glanced around the room. Robbie, Ray, Lily, and Kim had all fallen asleep and Riley looked like he was about to fall. He and Riley were the only two fully awake. Riley looked around and saw the same thing. Hmm...Ray usually stays up pretty late...I figure he'd be awake....guess it all finally caught up with him. She smiled. It was interesting to see everyone around asleep. She glanced at Travis and smiled.
"What?"
She shrugged, "I dunno..." That was the last thing she said before she herself fell into a soundless slumber. Travis sighed and went back to meditating, which soon turned into him falling backwards into the couch, asleep.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 2:02am
Kim stirred awake. "Mmm...where...am I?" She whispered to herself.
"The Brennon's..." She heard Robbie whisper.
"Oh, hey baby...did I wake you up?"
Robbie shook his head, "No, I've been awake..." "How long?"
"About...five minutes..."
Kim got up to sit next to him, rather than in his lap. She leaned over as he put an arm around her. She looked up at her boyfriend, "Robbie..."
"Yeah?"
"Are you gonna quit?"
"I don't know, Kim..."
"Oh, come on..."
"Kim...they're my friends...I haven't seen them enough as it is. Sneaking around like I was before..."
"Look, I'm not asking you to join Cougar Radio..."
"Then why do I need to quit the station I'm doing?"
"Isn't it a little....old?"
"What? No...why? Do you think it is?"
She shrugged, "I dunno...it's just...I don't know how good it is to be dating someone form my stations nemesis...you know?"
"Kim...I'm not going to quit the station just because you think it's strange or not right dating someone from you're nemesis radio station."
"Alright...fine...whatever." Kim said, rolling her eyes.
"Kim..."
"Don't worry, hun, I'm not mad it's just...strange..." With that, Kim flipped the other way and lay down, closing her eyes to go to sleep.
Robbie sighed as he leaned back against the couch, eyes closed. "Way to go, McGrath, way to go..." He whispered to himself.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 3:31am
Lily wasn't sure why, but she suddenly found herself awake at three thirty in the morning. She rolled her eyes. Three thirty? Why the hell am I waking up at three thirty? She sighed and suddenly remembered that she was in Ray's lap. When she felt him stir slightly, she turned to look at him and smiled. He was so cute when he was sleeping. "And not so sarcastic...." She muttered to herself. She noticed that he was smiling in his sleep and she suddenly wondered what he was dreaming about. "Hmmm...well...it's Ray...and he's a guy...I wonder?" Lily was asking herself sarcastically. She rolled her eyes.
"Lils?"
"Ray...did I wake you up?"
"No...why?"
"Well..I was talking to myself and I thought that maybe I...woke you up."
"No...I just sort of...woke up."
"Yeah, so did I....a few minutes ago..."
"What time is it?" Ray asked, just before he yawned.
Lily looked at her watch, "Three thirty-three."
"Damn...If I'm supposed to be sleeping, why am I awake?"
"Who knows...."
"Not me...I'm usually sleeping right now..."
Lily lazily punched him in the arm
"What was that for?"
"Who isn't usually sleeping at this hour?"
Ray thought about it for a moment, then came back with, "People at an all night party...people that work the graveyard shift..people that work at the Wal Mart super center...and....the people that own the three-sixty-five- twenty-four-seven grocery store."
She punched him in the arm again this time it was a little less haphazard, "Just...stop...go no farther."
Ray shrugged, "You asked for it, Lils..."
"Why do you people insist on calling me 'Lils'? My name is Lily.." She said with a lot of emphasis on 'Lily'.
Ray shrugged again, "We could go around calling you...Lil...ooorrr...Shady..."
"Yes, that would be wonderful, give my identity away."
"So...what do you think we'll do next year, last show? Do you think we should...reveal who we are?
It was Lily's turn to shrug, "I dunno...but I know whatever it is, it'll be big...seeing as how it will have to be a big going away blow out..."
Soon enough, the couple fell asleep again.
~*~ 3/21/07 - 4:58am
Riley was never sure why she woke up at the hours she did, but every night she woke up the same hours: 2 and 4 something. There were times when she would wake up more often but that didn't happen too terribly much. Today was one of the normal nights, 4:58am, and here she was, downstairs, on the couch, wide awake. She had heard Robbie and Kim talking but she didn't listen to the conversation. She thought she had heard Ray and Lily at some point, but Riley had come to the conclusion that she was crazy. Right now, she was laying on her back looking at the ceiling, wishing and willing someone else to wake up, simply for the fact that she could talk to them. Riley sighed and sat up, thinking. After a few minutes of this, she realized she had a seriously killer headache. Was it from the thinking or sheer coincidence? She thought as she stood up to go get a Tylenol from the kitchen. Riley had been too bored and lost in her thoughts to realize that someone else was awake and, to be quite specific, not in the living room. When she entered the dark kitchen, she hadn't expected to see the silhouette of a person sitting at the kitchen table. She frowned, wondering who it was as she flipped on the light.
"That was bright..." Travis said as he blinked to ge adjusted to the sudden light, "Yes, lights should be bright..." He shook his head and turned to face whoever had come into the kitchen and turned on the evil light. "Riley?"
"Travis, what are you doing up?"
"I could ask you the same thing..."
The couple looked at each other for a moment and at the same time replied, "Couldn't sleep."
"Are you a mind reader? Or...is Ray right?"
"About what?"
"Swami!" She said in a strange, slightly loud, and higher pitched voice. As she said this, she threw her hands in the air, then let them down at her sides. When Travis gave her a look, she said, "It's five in the morning, how do you expect me to act?"
Travis shrugged. "Why couldn't you sleep?"
Riley had already walked around the entire kitchen in a complete circle so she decided she would sit on the counter. She jumped up and sat and leaned back and forth as she answered him, "I dunno...I just wake up at two and four something every night, usually I can get back to sleep but tonight..." She shrugged, "Tonight, I couldn't..." She paused and threw herself forward with so much force, she almost threw herself off the counter. "What about you?"
The blonde shrugged, "I have no clue...I woke up," He glanced at his watch, "Two hours ago...couldn't go back to sleep, came in here about an hour ago."
Riley pushed herself off the counter and walked over to stand behind Travis. She slipped her arms around his neck and leaned down. "Travis?"
He looked up at her, "Yeah?"
Riley stepped back and took his wrist, "Come here! I wanna show you something."
"Riley..." He said as he allowed himself to be pulled through the living room and up the stairs by his girlfriend. "What are you doing?"
Riley knew exactly what she was doing. She was taking him to her room, so they could be alone. When they got there, she opened the door, letting him in first. When he was close enough, Riley shoved him onto the bed. Travis' eyes were wide as dinner plates as Riley straddled, pinned, and kissed him. No matter how surprised he was, he couldn't resist kissing back. After a few minutes of this, Riley broke the kiss.
Travis blinked. Had any of the last seven minutes actually happened, or was this all just some kind of really wierd but, he had to admit, really great dream. Travis opened his mouth to speak but no sound came out. He closed his mouth, liked his lips, and swallowed. He decided he would try and speak again. "I...R-Riley...." So maybe he couldn't speak, maybe he would just look shocked.
"What?" Riley asked as she licked her lips. She wondered if anyone knew the fact that that was a bad nervoius habit of hers. She was really kind of wondering if Travis knew right now. She was chewing on her lower lip now. Maybe she had been wrong in doing this...was that blood? Had she chewed her lip that hard?
Travis swallowed, "I..I...Wh...a..bu...What...." Travis closed his eyes, took in a deep breath and opened his eyes again. "Why...What...I..." So maybe talking was a bad idea. Maybe he was still too shocked by everything.
Riley sat up, sitting there, straddling her boyfriend and she closed her eyes, sighing. "I...um...I have no clue why...I did all this...I should have known that...I mean...why would you...not yet..." Suddenly, Riley remembered her lip. She reached up and touched her lower lip and looked at her fingers. "So...guess I did bite down that hard..." She moved to sit on the edge of the bed, sitting on her knees. Her hands moved from her fingertips being at the bridge of her nose, to her temples, to stay on the back of her neck for a moment, and finally, her hands fell to her lap, where they stayed. "I'm sorry...I...I should have known...you're not that kind of guy...I'm...I'm sorry, I..." She glanced over at him, then back at the floor. She lowered her head and let her hair fall in her face.
"No...Riley..." Travis sat up, pinching the bridge of his nose, eyes closed. He let out a barely audible sigh and opened his eyes. "Riley...You're...You're right, I'm not that kind of guy and...I like that you have enough courtesy to respect that...and...a-and I...I really..." He swallowed. He really wasn't sure what he was trying to say exactly.
Riley looked back at him again, "You mean...you don't....hate me or...anything?"
"No...Riley...I could never hate you."
"You could if I did the completely wrong thing..."
"No...Riley, I don't care what you do...I'll never, ever be able to really, truly hate you...I...a...I...l-l...." He swallowed.
Riley turned around and faced him, sitting cross-legged. "What?" She looked in his eyes and saw....she wasn't sure. It was sort of like a mix of fear and...something she couldn't quite place. She frowned, what was it?
"a...I..." He licked his lips, "I...I don't know...I..." He bit his lower lip, "I don't know what I'm trying to say....."
"Travis..." She took his hand in hers, "Come on, what is it?"
He shook his head, "N-no...I...I don't know what I'm trying to say...."
Riley was wearing a look of complete and utter confusion. "What?"
"I...I don't know..."
Riley was still extremely confused but she decided to not dwell on it. "Ok...well...I'm gonna go to bed..." After a second she added, "Here..I'm not going back down there."
Travis nodded, "Ok..well...I'm going to go back down and...well..good night."
Riley kissed him on the cheek. "Night..."
Travis got up and walked to the door. When he reached it however, Riley gasped and spoke, "Oh! Wait!" Travis stopped and looked at his girlfriend, eyebrow raised.
Riley got up and walked over to her desk and opened the center drawer. "No...not in there...where is it?" She closed that drawer and opened another one to her right. "Damn...where'd I put it?" She opened the drawer to the left of the center one and dug through it, "Ha! Found it!" She took out a black notebook, set it on the desk, closed the drawer and turned to face Travis.
"What.."
Riley made a motion with her hands to say "Silence", "I added....I want you to read it..."
"What?"
"Iii added...I want you to read it..." As she said this, she was smiling.
Travis started to come back in the room. "But I thought..."
"I know.." she rolled her eyes haphazardly, "I said I don't usually let people read my stuff but..." She shrugged, "You're different...you...I know whatever you tell me, it's...it's sincere...it's real," She shrugged again, "True."
Travis was standing next to her now, "Ok."
Riley stood from where she had previously been sitting in her chair. They were practically right against each other. Riley was grinning, she kissed him again, this time though, it was a real kiss. When she broke away she was still grinning and she went to sit on her bed as Travis sat down and turned the desk lamp on. As her read, Riley watched him, observed really. It was almost as if she was entranced by him. To be completely honest, she had to say she was...captivated by him. She started humming. This caught Travis' attention. For a moment he stopped reading and, frowning, he tired to place the tune she was humming to the song. What was it? Then it hit him. He smirked and starting singing, more or less out of habit, if he knew a song he sang it. "The strands in your eyes that color them wonderful...Stop me and steal my breath."
Riley grinned and continued with him, "Emerald from mountains, thrust toward the sky...Never revealing their depth..." She stopped and spoke, "You know the song?"
"Yeah...did think you'd be the type to have even heard it, nevermind liked it..."
Riley rolled her eyes, "Shows how well you know me, eh? I'm a very variationist type of person. I listen to...everything...except Opera...it scares me."
Travis chuckled and shook his head. "You're a very variationist type of person, are you?"
Riley nodded enthusiastically, "Yeah..."
Travis shook his head again and sounded like he was going to say something but Riley didn't let him, "Go on! Read!" She hopped up and down on her knees on her bed. Travis turned back to the notebook and began to read again.
~*~
3/21/07 ~ 5:34am
Travis was still reading from the little black notebook. He blinked, hard. He was really starting to get tired, but he was going to finish reading, he'd told her he'd read it and Travis Anthony Strong wasn't one to break a promise. Riley found herself starting to fall asleep. This was quite unnatrual for her because usually during Spring Break, she would stay up until all hours of the night and never even think about sleep at five thirty-seven. Travis shook his head, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. "Riley..." When he got no answer, he turned around, "Ri..." Before he even finished her name he smiled. She had fallen backwards onto her pillow. He glanced back at the notebook and shook his head, there was no way he'd be able to read any more of it. It was great, she'd written it with the perfect mix of humor, drama, and everything else, it was perfectly fit in with all the situations. He just couldn't stay up for any more, it was too late. He stood up and yawned, he wasn't even sure if he wanted to go all the way back downstairs. Travis wasn't sure when, but...evidentially, he'd gotten a pillow somehow at some point because about fifteen minutes later, he subconsciously noticed it. Maybe I'm losing my mind but, oh well...who cares..., was his last thought before he fell into a true slumber.
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3/21/07 ~ 7:31am
Riley had been in a perfectly normal slumber and she was perfectly happy-- until the phone rang. At first, Riley wasn't sure that the phone was actually ringing, maybe it was her imagination. That had been her hope, she really didn't want to get up. When she realized it wasn't her imagination and the phone really was ringing, she slowly opened her eyes and turned her head to glare at the phone. After the fifth annoying ring, she groaned and rolled over, picking the phone up. "Hello?"
"Riley!" Cheyanne Strong's frantic voice came over the phone. "Do you know where Travis is? He never came home last night! I've been worried sick!"
Travis? Oh...he hasn't been anywhere...my house...upstairs...my room...we were alone...nothing much has happened lately though, but I think he fell asleep somewhere up here...but other than that, nothing's happened. Riley thought. Shit...what an I going to tell her?
"Riley? Riley, are you there?"
"Oh shit..." Riley didn't even realize she was muttering, "He's here...in my room..."
"What?"
"On my desk..." Riley continued with what she thought was her mind rambling.
"What?" Cheyanne's voice was slowly starting to get higher pitched.
Riley's eyes widened as she suddenly realized that she had spoken her thoughts out loud. "Omygod! No! Mrs. Cheyanne! No! Don't get it wrong, we-- "
"What is my son doing at you're house, in you're room, on you're desk?" She asked quickly in a slightly higher pitched voice.
"Mrs. Strong, really, you've got to listen to me, please..."
"I'm listening." Her voice was very stern now.
"Ok...last night the electricity went out and eventually we all fell asleep- -"
"All? Who is 'all'?"
"Travis, Lily, Ray, Robbie, Kim, and I." Riley rattled off quickly.
"Right...." She was skeptical now, "Continue..." "Well...we, Travis and I, came up to my room when we both woke up a little later..." Cheyanne made a noise but Riley continued since the woman didn't say anything. "And...we were talking. And...I write...stories...hopeful novels, and...he's been reading what I'm writing currently and...I wanted him to read what I'd written earlier and...he fell asleep at the desk..." Riley glanced over at him and thought, And some how ended up with a pillow...maybe Ray's right...he's not an android, he is an alien!
"Oh....ok...I assume you're aunt and uncle were there, correct?"
"Yeah...Aunt Marie and Uncle James were here." In the since of being here in mine & Ray's heads...seeing as how they're on a cruise somewhere and won't be back until tomorrow...but, they were here....sort of....
Riley heard Cheyanne let out a sigh, hopefully of relief. "Well, I'll be wanting Travis home by eight thirty."
Riley smiled, "Ok...he'll be there.."
"Ok, bye hun..."
Riley threw the phone down and jumped off the bed. She ran over to the chair and practically made the blonde boy convulse, all the while, yelling, "TRAVIS! WAKE UP!" She was pretty sure that he hadn't gotten to sleep until about five in the morning he probably wouldn't like being awaken only two hours later. "Travis! Get you're ass up! Wake up!"
Travis was ever so slowly coming to. Riley wasn't liking how slowly he was waking up. She decided she'd actually wake the boy up this time. She shoved him out of the chair and yelled, "TRAVIS ANTHONY STRONG! WAKE UP!"
Travis' eyes had flown open as he was falling to the ground, "What the--"
"Took you long enough! You....slug!"
"What?"
"You have to be home in-" She looked at her watch, "You've got to be home in fourty-five minutes and we have to wake everyone else up!"
"Why do I have to be home in fourty-five minutes?"
"You're mom called and she now knows that you were asleep in my room! On my desk, but still! In my room!"
Travis blinked, "I don't swear often but I think this qualifies: Shit."
"That was good... Just add a bit of enthusiasm."
Travis jumped up from his place on the floor and followed Riley's advice. "Shit. SHIT. SHIT!"
"Very good, now let's go wake everyone up!"
As the two tore down the stairs, Riley said, "Ok, you wake Robbie and Kim up, I'll get Lily and Ray..."
"If we yell, won't they all wake up?"
"Not Ray. And right now, I'm the only one in this house that knows how to wake the boy up!"
Travis looked at her, "I have a feeling this is going to involve things I want to know nothing of." Before they entered the living room, Riley starting yelling, "ALRIGHT YOU S.O.B.'S WAKE THE FUCK UP!"
"Riley! Was that needed?"
"To wake everyone up? Yes."
When they entered the living room, three of the four teenagers were wide awake.
"Did you just swear at me?" Kim asked.
Riley looked at her with an annoyed expression on her face. "Yes." She glanced around the room for something not breakable. The only thing that as found was a throw pillow. She looked at the pillow and shrugged, picking it up and walking over to Ray. "RAY! WAKE YOU'RE ASS UP YOU SMARMY BASTARD!"
"You know, all those documentaries on England really weren't good for you." Robbie said.
"Why exactly did you wake us up?" Lily asked.
"Because your parents have no clue where the hell you are!"
"Crap..."
Riley turned back to her still sleeping cousin. She rolled her eyes, "I was thinking it wouldn't have to come to this..." She looked from him to the pillow in her hand. She shrugged and started attacking him with the pillow. "WAKE UP! Please....wake up!...please, please, please."
"Why are you waking him up? He lives here." Kim interrupted the black haired girl's antics.
After bashing Ray in the head with the pillow a few more times she stopped. "Oh..you're right..."
"I know how to wake him up..." Lily said, getting up from her current position on the floor, where she had been since Riley yelled a few moments earlier.
Riley stopped her, "No! We'll never get you back! I won't let you!"
While Riley had turned around, Ray had woken up. He smirked. Since she didn't know he was awake he knew this would be great. All he did was simply take hold of her sides, pulling her backwards into his lap and she screamed. "RAYMOND!"
Ray knew he would eventually get hit for it, but it was fun anyway. As soon as the thought of getting hit crossed his mind, she hit him on the shoulder. "What is with you two and hitting me?" He asked, indicating Riley and Lily.
"I hit you because of the shit you do!"
"And I punch you because of the stupid things you say." Lily replied.
Ray sighed. "Ok...so...why did you attack me with the pillows?"
Before she actually answered him, Riley went off on something, "The Brennon Wars: Attack of the Pillows...." Everyone gave her raised eyebrows. "WHAT? It's called playing on words, people!" She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, I don't know why I woke you up, Kim recently pointed out that you live here but...everyone else has to get home...well...most likely."
Before anyone could say anything at all, the phone rang. Ray was right next to it so he answered. "Hello?"
"Oh, hi Ray. Is Travis on his way home?"
"Uh..no...he's right here...in the living room..."
"Why?"
"Why? Why what?"
"Why is he still in you're living room? He should be home by now..."
"Why?"
As everyone heard Ray's end of the conversation similar thoughts like, What is he, two? ran through everyone's minds.
"Well, he was supposed to be home fifteen minutes ago..."
"Fifteen minutes ago? What?"
Riley and Travis looked at each other with realization hitting,.
"Well...uh....he's here...now..." Ray said, obviously very confused with Cheyanne right now.
"Let me talk to either you're mother or father, please."
"Uh...I would but, they're gone..."
"Where are they? The store?"
"No...they went on a one week cruise. They won't be back until tomorrow."
Riley smacked her forehead. She knew what was going on now. This was going all wrong, horribly, horribly wrong.
"What? But...Riley told me that they were there just yesterday....if this cruise is for a week, how were they there yesterday and will be home tomorrow?" Cheyanne was getting concerned and distressed now.
"What?"
"Hey! Ray! I need you're help!" Riley suddenly yelled.
"With what?"
"This...box!"
"What box?" Ray asked, staring at his very bizarre cousin.
"The one I'm carrying up the basement stairs!" Riley gave him a "Come on! Go along with it!" look.
"Ok! Hold on!" He went back to talking to Cheyanne, "Um...Mrs. Strong...could I...uh...talk to you later?"
"I heard and yes. But send my son home immediately." "Ok. Bye."
Riley smacked Ray in the head, "You ruined everything!"
"What?"
"We're in deep shit!"
"What?"
"Ray? Are you five year old trapped inside a seventeen year olds body?"
"I might be...but...right now I'm a confused five year old and whatnot...Now, back to the original topic...why are we in deep shit?"
"Because...Mrs. Strong now knows that not only did her son, Robbie, Kim and Lily stay the night, but she knows that your parents were not here to provide... parental supervision of six extremely hormonal teenagers. This means she will be calling everyone's parents. This means your parents will be calling my parents. This means I might be going home after I worked so hard to convince my parents to let me stay. This means we are all going to be so very grounded! This also means that I'm going to kill you and you are a complete moron!"
"How was I to know?"
"You were just supposed to!"
"So what do we do?"
"Praying might help," Robbie said lightly.
"Well, at least the situation couldn't get any-"
"Shut up, Ray! Don't say it!"
"Worse..."
"You git! You just made everything worse!"
Everyone stayed where they were, still and quiet, waiting for something to happen. After waiting for about two minutes, nothing happened. "Ok, so maybe it won't happen immediately! But it will happen! One of us is gonna die or something!"
"Well...I don't really wanna die." Lily said.
"Well...to late! Your boyfriend ruined everything! We're gonna die now!"
Travis was standing behind Riley now. He put a hand on her shoulder, "Riley, calm down, really. We don't need everyone panicking."
Riley turned her head to look at her boyfriend. "If you don't get home, you're going to be the dead one!"
Travis looked thoughtful for a second, "Aww hell." and with that, he left.
After a moment, Lily pointed where her blonde friend had just been. "Did he just say, 'aww hell'?" "You're a really bad influence on him, you know." Ray said.
"No I'm...actually...he said shit four times upstairs and just said hell, maybe you're right..."
~*~ 3/21/07 ~ 9:01am
When Travis walked in the door, Cheyanne immediately started in on her son. "Why were you at the Brennon's last night? With neither James nor Marie, who would actually be the more trustworthy one...but anyway! With neither of them there! And on top of that you were upstairs in Riley's room! And you slept there! What were you thinking?"
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"You had sexual intercourse with that girl didn't you?"
Travis sighed. He was not in the mood for this. "Yes mother, we had sex. It was very possible for us to do so with her on one side of the room on the bed and me on the other side, at the desk...and later on the desk...how I got there and where the pillow came from, I'm not really sure..."
Cheyanne frowned. Even if he was telling the truth, Travis wasn't ever one to stray from the subject. "What has that girl done to you? Made you into a liar? You're not allowed to see her any more!"
Travis resisted the temptation to roll his eyes. He knew she wasn't serious. "Mom, if you don't believe me, call her. She has four witnesses. Trust me, if any of them had heard anything from upstairs, they would have come to see and...well...they would have seen. But there was nothing to see because we did nothing."
"Nothing...at all?"
"No, mother. Nothing happened...Nothing."
Cheyanne looked her son and tried to decide if he was telling the truth or lying. After a few moments, she sighed. "Alright. If I find out that anything did happen..." She warned.
"Mom, really, nothing happened. Except my girlfriend waking me up at seven thirty when I'd only just gotten to sleep about an hour ago..."
"Well, I'm sorry but I was worried. You never called, you always call, what was I supposed to do?"
"I don't know...I have a cell phone...You could have called me instead of my girlfriend's personal phone line."
"Travis..."
"Don't tell me to go to my room, I'm already doing it."
Cheyanne sighed and closed her eyes. Travis finally let the temptation of rolling his eyes go as he made his way up the stairs.
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A/N - Well...wasn't THAT fun? Travis swore...like...five times! Woohoo! Riley really IS a bad influence on him, isn't she? lol! Next chapter might be up by tomorrow, I'm not sure...Maybe even later tonight.
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