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Glum N Dumb-I fixed the first chapter to the best of my ability. I know, I didn't proofread it last night before I posted.....but I did proof the rest! ^.^

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Here goes.....

The two boys raced out of the house through the garage and were past the next house before Zack was hit with a TOTALLY AWESOME IDEA!

"Hey, dude, wait up. I've got a totally awesome idea! The riding lawn mower!"

"Cool! Hurry up, let's go!"

They raced back into the garage which, in his haste, Zack had forgotten to close. Zack put the lawn motor into gear and they were off, driving down the middle of the street on Mr. Mooneyham's John Deer lawnmower.

"We must look like total idiots." Freddy whispered in Zack's ear. The lawnmower only has one seat, kind of like a motorcycle, and Freddy was seated behind Zack, while Zack drove. It took a lot of self-control from Zack to keep himself focused on the road and not on Freddy's arms wrapped around his waist.

"No shit we look like total idiots. Damn, won't this thing go any faster?!" Zack raged. He was almost to the breaking point. According to his watch, which was on Freddy's wrist, they were 3 minutes late and they still had to go to Freddy's house to get his backpack.

"It's ok, chill out man. My parents aren't home, your dad's not home. None of them will know we were late to school. Hell, we could skip school and they would never know."

"We could do that."

"Do what?"

"Skip school. I mean, when we get there we'd be late anyways, and then we'd have to explain why we where both late and why we came to school on a riding lawnmower. We for sure get sent to Ms. Mullin's office, where our parents would be notified, and my dad would....And, well, if we just skip no one would know....we could still go to band practice at Dewey's place tonight, and, well....Yeah."

"That makes perfectly good sense. But first, we'll have to return the riding lawn mower to your house before your dad finds out its missing.....He might get mad. Maybe you could stay at my house tonight, my mom went out of town this morning and it's just me, my dad, and my little sister."

"All right. But he won't let me stay if I call and ask permission and if I don't call...." Zack shuddered and Freddy's arms tightened around him.

"It's ok, I won't let him get you." Freddy said quietly. "I won't leave your side until something gets done about it. I promise. Zack, you should consider going to the police if it's that bad."

Zack nodded and tears started to form in the corners of his eyes. "Thank you, Freddy." He whispered. "For being here with me."

Soon they arrived back at Zack's house after they had decided to skip school. The streets were deserted as they walked to Freddy's house, a mere 3 blocks away. When they arrived, Freddy dug through his pocket and pulled out a key.

As soon as the door was closed and locked, Freddy took Zack's hand and gently led him up to his room, where they sat on the bed and talked about music and the band.

"How do you feel?" Zack asked, reaching for Freddy's hand.

"Better." He replied, kissing Zack's neck and moving up to his lips. They became so engrossed it was like they were in a different world, with only the two of them. So much that when the phone rang they both jumped and fell off the bed into a heaping pile of giggles.

When they had regained their sanity, the Freddy turned on the TV and was clicking through channels. There was nothing on and they were bored, and with another two hours before school was out, they had nothing to do. Freddy offered Zack some lunch and they went downstairs to eat. After that Freddy popped in his Metallica CD and they made out to that. They got a bit carried away and by the time Freddy's dad was due back, they were both half naked.

"Shit, they'll be home any minute." Freddy said, pulling Zack to his feet and scrambling to put on his school uniform.

*

"Freddy I'm home!" Mr. Jones deep voice bellowed from the hall.

"Hey, Dad, sup? Zack's over."

"Hey Zack, how are you?"

"I'm good, Mr. Jones, thanks." Zack replied. It was funny how much more paranoid you could be when you where guilty than you would be if you were innocent. Zack felt uncomfortable for the first time with Mr. Jones but he tried his best to keep it to himself.

"So, Dad, can Zack stay the night? We were going to go out for pizza, because I know you and Joan wanted to do one of those Father-Daughter bonding outings....."

"That sounds nice. Here's 20 bucks, be back by ten. I'll get a sleeping bag out of the closet for you, Zack. Does your dad know?"

"I'll call him on my cell later." Zack said, his face slowly turning red. "I told him I was coming over here for a bit."

"We're off to band practice and then dinner. Bye, Dad. We'll be back later."

"Bye Freddy, Zack." Mr. Jones said and disappeared into the kitchen.

"Let's just walk to Dewey's, it's not too far away." Freddy said, slipping on his coat and grabbing Zack's out of the closet.

"Alright." Zack said, pulling a hat out of his coat pocket and putting it on.

The boys walked out of the house and down the steps in unison. "You look so cute in that hat, I could just eat you up." Freddy said jokingly.

Zack was rather quiet the whole way, holding Freddy's hand and nodding in agreement to things Freddy was saying. His mind wasn't completely on Freddy, although he wished it was. He was thinking of what his dad would do when he didn't come home.

"Zack, man, you ok?" Freddy asked, glancing at the other boy.

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. Just thinkin' 'bout my dad. That's all. Freddy, do you think we could stop at the police station? I don't think he'll like it very much if I stay at your house without telling him. He might come looking for me or something..."

Freddy gave Zack's hand a reassuring squeeze and turned in the direction of the police station.

A/N: wo0t! Chapter 3! I probably won't be able to update tomorrow, since it's Easter, but I'll try and have another chapter up on Monday! Please Review! xxxxx I'm out-tay!