"What are you doing?" Lily shrieked as she saw Ray's fist rapidly hit Travis's jaw.
Ray stepped back to look at what he had done "Travis, man, I'm sorry" Ray said softly looking at Travis.
Travis's jaw felt numb, almost as if he couldn't feel it anymore. He looked down at the ground and suddenly he looked up at Ray. His jaw was throbbing and he couldn't talk, but he could make some noises. He shook his head and went to fire his own fist back at Ray, nailing him only in the shoulder.

"C'mon Swami! You can do better then that!" Ray said chuckling to himself, secretly hoping that Travis wouldn't try to hit him again.

Travis looked at Ray, who at this time felt like he was towering over him. He took all of his energy and looked at him "You shouldn't have said that." Travis said as his own voice echoed in his head. Travis looked at Ray. He seemed to be sweating, and looked like he was possessed, standing still, making direct eye contact with Travis. Travis laughed inside his head and lunged his fist towards Ray's face, knocking him slightly off balance by hitting him in the cheek.

"Guys, guys, stop" Lily said looking at the two of them. Travis's jaw hanging lopsided, and Ray standing against a wall to keep his balance.

Ray looked at her sideways through the corner of his eye. He could see her standing there, in all the natural beauty he thought she had. He wondered what he was really fighting for. If it was for Lily's love, or just to fight with Travis, for as long as he had wanted to. He finally caught his breath and took another good swipe at Travis, this time hitting him directly in the eye, and with enough force to knock him down to the ground in a sitting position.

Lily looked at Travis and Ray. Ray's shoulder was starting to swell where Travis had hit him before, and his cheek was starting to bruise. Travis's jaw was swollen and looked like it was hanging on one hinge, and around his eye had turned a purplish blue colour and was probably on his way to being a greenish yellow colour. She pulled her cell phone out of her pocket right away and began to dial Robbie's number.

"Robbie, the phone is for you" Robbie's dad said as he sat back down at the dinner table.

Robbie got up, cursing in his head at whoever was calling him during dinner because he liked what he was eating.

"Hello?" Robbie asked shockingly into the phone. He didn't know who was calling but all he could hear was muffled noises and noises that sounding like banging off of something hard, or something hard ricocheting off of something soft.

"Robbie… it's Lily! I'm so sorry to bug you, I know you're eating dinner, but Ray and Travis… they're fighting, like fist fighting. Ray already got Travis good, and he looks like he's almost dead, that's how good Ray got him." Lily said as quickly as she could trying to get all of the details out so Robbie would understand what was going on.
"What? Why are they fighting?!" Robbie asked suddenly, even though he felt he already knew the answer without even having to ask.

"It's a long story, I'll tell you when you get here. But Robbie, seriously, I can't break them up, only you can. You're way stronger then me and they'll listen to you" Lily pleaded over the phone.

Robbie looked at his parents with a worried look on his face and sighed "I'll be right there" he replied as he hung up the phone.

"Where are you going Robert?" his mother said looking at him with her fork close to her mouth.

"Lily just called and Travis and Ray seem to be in a fight, I'm not sure how bad, but I have to go and break it up because they wont listen to her" Robbie said as he put his shoes on and said bye to his parents and left his house.

Robbie walked as quickly as he could to the station. Lily had forgotten to tell him where they were, but he was guessing that was where they were. He couldn't see them right away when they got there, but soon he spotted them. Ray didn't look half as beat up as Travis did. Ray's cheek looked a little swollen and his shoulder looked to seem as if it was swelling. The back of his head, to Robbie also looked a bit bigger. Travis on the other hand looked as Lily had explained it, like he was almost dead. His jaw was hanging and bruising, his eye was a dark purple colour and even though Travis already had big muscles in his arms, they looked to be swelling. Robbie walked quicker up to them and looked at them.

"Guys stop okay. This isn't a game anymore" Robbie said going to step between them just as Ray swung and hit Travis in the nose, almost instantly making it bleed.

"THAT'S IT!!!!!" Robbie yelled throwing a small rock against the steel shed and listening to the sound echo off of it.

Ray and Travis looked up from where they were. Travis slowly planted his back against a wall trying not to hurt himself even more then he already felt hurt.

Ray sat over by the stairs to the station and looked at Robbie.

"What the hell has gotten into you two? And I want to know now! Lily called me almost crying… and here you two are, acting like big imbeciles. Now what's going on?" Robbie asked again standing almost directly between the two of them.

Even though Ray and Travis were a distance from each other, they could  still see the expressions on each other faces.

"Why don't you tell him, Swami?!" Ray questioned looking at Travis.

Travis shook his head and pointed to his jaw and shrugging.

"Ray, I think if he could talk he would, but obviously since he can't… someone else has to tell me" Robbie said pointing out more then the obvious.

"Why don't you tell him Lily. It's your story, not mine" Ray said with hostility in his voice.

Lily looked up from the focus point she had found on the ground. She couldn't stand seeing all of her best friends like this.

"It's my fault okay?" Lily said looking at Robbie.

Robbie rolled his eyes "I just want an explanation"

Lily took a big breath and sighed when she found out what she was going to say.

"Ray I guess somehow found out about me and Travis, which you didn't know either. Anyways, I guess he got jealous or something, because next thing I know… he starts hanging around Travis and me all the time, with no explanation, never leaving the two of us alone. So then today… he just started saying things to Travis after he supposedly left, and then all of this happened" Lily said as a small tear ran down her cheek. She had done such a good job of not showing any emotion up until that point, and all of a sudden the tears just started rolling out of her eyes, like a summer storm cloud on a hazy evening.

Travis looked at Lily with a sympathetic look in his eyes, even though he couldn't help her physically, he wished he could.

"Ray, were you seriously stalking them? Trying to break them up?" Robbie questioned looking at Ray with a concerned look on his face. He had hoped, for the sanity of his friends that that was not Ray's idea.