Chapter 4

Shannon's POV.

The varsity game was a smidgen more interesting than the JV game, more hitting. Every five minutes there was a big hit. Even Adam got them in! I was so proud. The varsity won.I think, they had a lot of points next to the thing that said "home". The crowd watching the varsity game was bigger than the one watching the JV game. After the game I went down to the guy's locker room to wait for Adam. I got there before the team did, when Adam saw me he shoved me into the wall and went inside. Luckily the wait wasn't long, he was second out of the change room, and surprisingly he didn't smell like sweat or any other active smell.

'So did you enjoy the game?'

'Well it was a little more active than the JV one, hey you got hits in to, I saw them.see I actually paid attention! Aren't you proud?'

'Very proud, well done. Do you mind if we stop at my place before we go out, I want a real shower, and I want to change my cloths.'

'Uh, yea sure, no problem.' Catch him in the buff! That evil little part of my conscience gives me crazy idea's all the time. 'Hey it's dark out for this time of the year.' We got to the front of the school and the streetlights were all on.

'Yea it is.'

'Hey I have an idea, instead of going out we should just get a whole bunch of candy, and rent some movies.' The sky was getting darker by the second, and the air was nice and cool, a nice change from the summer air only weeks ago.

'Yea, that's cool, I really don't care either way, I just want to do something fun.' Adam clicked the automatic car lock and unlocked the car and opened the trunk.

Ok, after hearing that, I think it's a friend thing, one of those "safe dates" where you just hang out with the person you think you like just to make sure on a real date that you won't be getting their hopes up for a second one. Mildly disappointing but I kind of figured that he is only interested as a friend.

The parking lot was crawling with people; I couldn't believe how many people actually went to see hockey games. I still don't understand what the appeal is about them. We got to Adam's black two door car, and the doors unlocked and the trunk opened at once. I walked over to my side of the car, and heard people yelling at Adam, telling him he played a good game and stuff like that. I brought my bag to the front with me because it was one of those almost purse but it passes off for a school bag things. Adam got into the car shortly after me. I handed him a "New Town Animals" CD. 'Here put this in.'

Adam took the CD and slipped it into the CD player. For most of the ride Adam was quiet for a lot of the ride.

'Hey, what's wrong? You seem pretty quiet.everything ok?'

'During the game Scooter told me that Rick, Cole and a couple other guy's broke into the JV teams locker room and took their cloths and put them in the shower. Adam's jaw kind of clenched. I'm just worried that they will be pissed at me.'

'Adam, if they blame you there're just being stupid, you were with me the entire time, just tell them that.'

'I know but I already get the feeling that Charlie is pissed at me for some reason or another.' Adam said driving out of the school's general view.

'Well Charlie has been snippy towards everyone, your just conivent because you got on the Varsity team and left the ducks behind. I can guarantee that if he was on the varsity team he would be just as snippy if not more. So don't worry, if they're angry with you, they have not right to be, just tell them your side of the story.'

'Yea I guess your right, I'll just phone Luis and hope he listens.'

'If he doesn't, I'll make him listen.I'll use my yelling voice.'

'You would use your yelling voice for me? It's amazing that something so evil comes out of something so sweet and prissy like you.'

My yelling voice is really loud; it scares all that hear it. I only use it for special occasions; I scared Fulton one day using it while fighting with him which is a normal occurrence, Adam was there that is the only reason he knows it.

'I'm not prissy if I was I wouldn't like bugs!'

Adam's POV

I'm really pissed that they did that to the ducks, what is worse is they will think I had something to do with it. Scooter did say something about a feud between the JV and the varsity.

We rolled into my driveway and I got out and took out all my gear.

'Do you want any help?' Shannon says taking hold of my bag.

'No I'm good.' We walked into my house and my mom came to greet us at the door.

'Adam your home, I have leftovers in the oven for you. How did your game go?'

'Hey mom, um, I don't think you've met Shannon.'

'Oh, hello, Adam say's so many good things about you!' mom says taking Shannon's hand.

'Yea, the game went well we won.'

'Oh that's great.' My mom was obviously busy with the fact that I brought home a girl. I'm happy to, I'm just more interested in making sure that the ducks know that I had nothing to do with what happened to their close. I'm even more nervous that they will retaliate. They won't take this lying down. I swung into the kitchen were my mom was busying chatting with Shannon. 'I'm going to take a shower.' Mom just looked up and nodded then went back to speaking with Shannon.

I walked into my room and decided to phone Luis and Guy first before showering. I picked up the phone and dialed Luis's number first. One ring, two

'Hello?'

'Hey Luis it's me'

'Oh, what do you want?'

'I just wanted to say that I had nothing to do with what happened to any of your cloths.I was with Shannon the entire time.'

'Right, I don't believe you! Your such a bastard, I can't believe you would use that as an excuse.

My face felt like all colour left and I was left standing not knowing what to say.

'But, Luis, I.I didn't I'm fucking serious!'

'Ahahahah I know I just wanted to see what you would do, both Guy and a couple of other guy's saw you leave with Shannon.'

'Jesus! Luis, you ass! Does Charlie think I had something to do with it?

'Well you know Charlie, we told him but he thinks that you knew or something and you should have given us a heads up or whatever.'

'Oh, well I didn't know anything, Rick told me half way through the game, he likes to get me angry, he's just waiting to start something.'

'Well don't worry about it man, we know you had nothing to do with it.'

'Ok, well I'll talk to you later. See ya.'

'Yup, bye.'

Shannon's POV

Adam's mom is so cute! I love her she is so nice. While Adam was in the shower she made me try what she had made for supper, it was like I put heaven in my mouth and it melted. She's a gourmet cook! She's really funny to she kept making fun of Adam and his brothers and father. She was flitting around the kitchen, setting Adam's place so that it was ready for him when he got out of the shower.

'So your Fulton's younger sister?'

'Yea, it's weird we've been asked if we're twins because were in the same grade, but that's because I skipped a grade going into Eden.'

'Oh really that must be strange being in some of his classes..'

'Well I don't have any classes with him this year so I'm safe, but I have a lot of classes with the other ducks, which is cool.'

We heard Adam before we could see him coming down the hall. He came into the kitchen, his hair was still wet but he was wearing black sweats and a white tee shirt.

'I have your supper all ready for you.'

'I see that, thanks mom. So what movies do you want to rent?' Adam said turning to me.

'I don't know let's just see what's there.' Adam finished his dinner, which didn't take long because he ate fast. We got outside and it was colder than before so Adam had to turn the heat on in his car. 'Did you manage to speak with Luis?'

'Yea actually, they know I had nothing to do with it.'

'That's great! What about Charlie?'

'He accepts the fact that I had nothing to do with it but he thinks I knew or something, I don't know he's just being a spiteful bastard right now.'

'I know. I'm planning on talking to him about that, it's starting to bother me to.' We pulled into the parking lot of the movie rental place. We ended up getting "Red Dragon" only on Adam's insistence, and "Rules of Attraction". When we got back to his house his older brother James was home with a few of his friends. Adam's brother is in collage. I've only met him once, I didn't like him very much, and he's really obnoxious and loud. Adam and James don't get along at all, James knows that he can make Adam mad really easy.

'Hi Adam! How did your game go? I heard you won, that will make daddy so very proud.' James said when Adam walked into the living room. I could immediately see the utter dislike he had for James. I followed Adam into the dark living room; it was covered with photos of family, and other art pieces. There was a big screen and fireplace in one corner, and a stereo on the other side of the room, with big chairs and sofa's. James's friends looked like typical frat guy's, they were all laughing drinking what I think was beer.

'Yea we did win.' before Adam could finish James saw me, I knew what was coming.

'Hey Adam is that your girlfriend.isn't that your friends sister?'

Adam's face went red, I could tell that mine was to, I didn't know what else to do, when faced with confrontation like that, I get mentally lost. I completely forget what to say, my mind goes blank and then I end up embarrassing myself. By that time all of James's friends were snickering, strange thing was it wasn't that funny, but things are always funny when you're tipsy.

'No she's not my girlfriend, and yes she is one of my friends sisters but were friends to.' Adam said glaring at James. I took his arm to make him back away.

'Hey, Adam let's just go find somewhere else to watch the movies.'

Adam didn't say anything he just backed away without saying anything. After we turned around all we could hear from the living room was loud over exaggerated kissing noises. We deiced to go down to the basement; the basement wasn't much different from the living room more family stuff and big sound system and TV, only slightly smaller than the up stairs one.

'Well that was interesting.'

'Yea, my brother is a giant ass' Adam seemed much less tense when we weren't around the guy's upstairs.

'He certainly is charming.' I settled myself down on the sofa across from the TV.

'What do you want to watch first?' Adam said holding up the movies.

'It doesn't matter, surprise me.' Adam stuck a random movie in the DVD player, I had the sneaking suspicion that it was "Red Dragon" but that didn't matter. I hadn't seen it yet, because when I watched "Silence of the Lambs" I kept flinching and had to be told when to close my eyes, and I was watching it in the day. I don't know, I don't mind blood or anything, like stuff from Mel Gibson movies but seeing someone being eaten and skin bits everywhere, isn't really my thing.

'Wait, I should phone home and tell people that I won't be home for awhile.'

'Oh yea, here's the phone.' Adam handed me the cordless phone and opened the bag of candy.

I got medium grilling on who I was with from my mom, but once she found out it was Adam all was good, she thinks that he is this perfect gentlemen.

'My mom thinks that you're a gentlemen' I pinched his face.

'All mom's do, but what they don't realize is I'm a crazed sex fiend, waiting to take their daughter's virginity.'

'A clever discuses indeed.'

We started watching the movie, it was scary, and I ended up using Adam as an object to shield my eyes. 'Don't tell me your scared'

'I'm not as scared as I am discussed.' I have a weak stomach; I get motion sickness on a swing. Luckily it ended and Adam's arm was unharmed by the time the movie ended it was 10:43. The disk skip switched to "Rules of Attraction" which was more my style. I was still clamped onto Adam, because he gave off an abundance of heat.

'Adam, do you have any blankets? I'm cold.'

Adam got up from the couch, and I was left curling up in his leftover heat. 'Yea, hold on.' Adam returned with a black fleecy blanket. I curled up on his lap and I think I fell asleep because it was 12:14 when I woke up and the movie was just finishing.

'I feel like I haven't been sleeping at all, I wasn't snoring was I?'

'No' Adam was half smiling.

'I think you better drive me home.'

'Why don't you stay, sleep here tonight.' Oh god I would love to, but alas, no.

'I wish I could, as much as my mom thinks you're perfect gentlemen she would freak out about me sleeping here.' 'Yea I suppose your right.'