Title: Episode Guide - The Fall Session
Author: Aussie Chick Fan aka AussieChick
Email: pike03@iprimus.com.au
Rating: PG-13, but it will have a bit of sex in later parts!
Category: Every one, but mostly Jake and Hamilton. Plus Ryder and Morgana.
Disclaimer: I don't own them, except for Mr Fujiwara, Morgana, Yuka Higashi and Ken Sanigi but I wish I did.
Summary: What I would have like to happen in the Fall season of YA, read it and find out what might have happened! Oh, Sean has left the show in my mind. Sean's grandmother had died and left her estate to his parents, so they had decided to leave New Rawley and move to California, where his grandmother had lived.
Spoilers: The entire first and only season of the best show I've ever seen.
Thanks: To my muse! And anyone who is obsessed as I am about Young Americans.
Feedback: Yes Please, this is my 1st fanfic and I would love to hear from you. I hope to make this fanfic an ongoing storyline, so if there's something you would like to see happen, or you think should happen just drop me a message via my email.
The Fall Session
*Part One*
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JAKE
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I got off my bike and pushed it into the hiding spot that Hamilton had shown me only a few months earlier, I smiled when I thought of Hamilton. I couldn't wait to see him; it had after all been almost a week since he came to New York for a visit. As I walked up towards the boy's dorms I rolled my shoulders, trying to shake off the tension left behind from the long drive from New York. I wondered briefly if my stuff had arrived at the dorms yet, but mostly I worried about seeing Finn for the first time since the showering incident. I had waited all summer break for a letter or a phone call telling me that I couldn't come back to Rawley boys, but it never happened.
I was surprised to see the door to my room open, but as I got closer I could see Hamilton inside pottering around. I almost broke out into a run, when I realised that he was so close to me but I managed to control myself. Hamilton turned around at that moment and spotted me hovering outside the door. "So are you gonna come inside or are you going to spend the whole Fall session out there in the hall?" his rude question was softened with a wink and a smile, which he tossed in my direction, before he walked forward and pulled me inside the room closing the door behind me.
"I missed you so much!" I said before bringing his lips down on mine, our noses squashed together, as the kiss became more passionate.
Hamilton kissed me back with so much love and passion that I was kind of hoping it would never stop, but the I remembered the need for oxygen. Gasping for air I pulled a way, "So I see you've already moved your stuff in." I looked around my once single room and took in the extra bed and desk.
"Yeah, well you said you wanted me to...." Hamilton looked unsure of himself for a moment. I felt bad; I hoped he wasn't remembering the last time moving in had come up. I had been such a bitch, but it seemed like a lifetime a way and when Hamilton was leaving to catch the train back to New Rawley last week, I felt like I would never see him again. The past week had been so amazing and I had realised that what I had been worried about the most, about not being able to come back to Rawley boys, was not being able to spend time with Hamilton. I wanted to spend every minute of everyday with him, so I asked him if he still wanted to move in with me. He said he did and he left with biggest smile on his face.
I must admit I didn't expect him to move in so quickly, but I definitely still wanted him here. I quickly reassured him that he was more that welcome, wanted even. "I see my stuff arrived safely,' I said seeing the boxes that covered my bed and desk. 'I had to pack heaps more stuff this time."
"Why ?" asked Hamilton, turning his head on the side a looking closely at me patiently waiting for my answer.
"Well I have two identities now, I had to bring clothes for Jake, and Jacqueline. Plus Fall session is longer than summer!" It was a relief in a way that Scout and Will knew my secret. I knew I could trust them to keep it safe, and it meant that I got to be myself a little more often.
Hamilton looked around our room; he appeared to be counting all of the boxes that covered almost every available surface in the room. He smiled, "I see, so as much as I want to spend the day alone with you locked in this room unpacking...'he raised his eyebrows in mock horror, 'Should we go see if we can find the others? I know that you're dying to see Bella." Hamilton touched my face with the tips of his fingers as he asked me my preference for the day's activities.
"You know me so well. Do you mind if we go see the others?" I asked him as I leaned up to kiss his lips. I was already gathering up the keys to my bike before he could answer but his hand was already on the door, so I knew we were of the same mind. As much as we missed each other, we had also missed our new friends.
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BELLA
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I wiped my hands on an oily rag as I walked out of the garage. I couldn't believe it was still ours, the bank had given us a loan and we had been able to purchase it. Everything was back to normal, but my relationship with my mother would never be the same again. She had already broken my heart twice in my lifetime and I didn't think I could stand it a third time.
All in all it had been a pretty eventful summer. I longed to see Scout to tell him that we're not brother and sister. I wondered if I would see Jake again soon, she did say she was coming back but I had yet to see her, and I wondered what was going to happen with Will. Would he get his scholarship funding back? I also wondered if he knew about Sean.
I had just finished fixing a car when a bus stoped at the bus stop across the road, in front of Friendly's. I waited impatiently for it to leave so I could see whom it had stoped for. I started to cross the road just as the bus took off, I smiled when I realised that the bus had left behind Will and Scout. "Well, it's about time you two were getting back, school starts tomorrow!" I laughed as Will rushed forward to sweep me off my feet in a big bear hug.
"Yeah, well we're back now so no need to call out the National Guard!" Scout replied taking over when Will had let me go.
God, I had missed this, having his arms around me. I couldn't wait to tell him the truth, yet in a way I was scared. Did he still feel the same? I guess I could tell him now before I chicken out, but I really should wait until we are alone. The decision was taken out of my hands when the roar of Jake's motorbike reached us from across the street. Both Jake and Hamilton joined our group. After exchanging hugs and greetings, I suggested that we go over to Friendly's so we could all sit down and catch up.
I took Jake's hand and led her to a table at the back of the diner, leaving the guy's to order. "I'll have a Chocolate Thick-shake Boys, and Jake will have a...." I looked at her expectantly, "I'll have a Cherry Spider, thanks." She finished watching the guy's head towards the counter.
"Do you think Scout will start working here again?" Jake asked after we had sat down, her eyes still locked on Hamilton.
"I don't know. Hey Jake, can I tell you something?" I asked, I looked over at the guys and noticed that Hamilton was busy watching Jake as well.
"Sure, is it about the garage? You know I was so happy for you when I got your letter telling me about the loan." Jake turned and looked at me, waiting patiently for my reply.
"No, I asked my mum about my father and she told me that it's not Scout's dad. It was one of Charlie's friends." I held my breath, waiting for her reaction to my brief but informative statement.
"Well, that's good news right?" Jake asked, turning her attention fully on our conversation. "I mean now you guy's can be together, that is what you want isn't it?"
"Yeah I guess but what if Scout's feelings for me have changed. Besides I don't know if we could ever be together, after all we did spend the whole summer thinking that we were brother and sister." My voice faded to a whisper, when I noticed that Scout, Will and Hamilton had almost reached our table. This conversation would have to put on hold until Jake and I could be alone again.
Jake must have spotted the guy's about the same time as I did because she leaned over the table and hissed, "You need to tell Scout, no matter what. He has a right to know." She sat back a quick smile coming on to her face, I was a bit surprised to see it, after we had just been having a pretty serious conversation. Maybe, I thought to myself she had heard one of the guy's say something funny. I had just decided that this must be true, when she stood up and raced to the counter. Hamilton and the rest of us were left standing, watching her from across the room. We could only speculate on what she said to Brian the owner of Friendly's, but none of us really had a clue. At the same time Jake turned to face us, her face lit up, her eyes shiny and bright, Brian reached under the counter to fiddle with the volume knob on the radio.
I laughed when I heard the beginning notes of a favourite song of mine, and it hit me what Jake was up to. "Oh you and your ABBA obsession,' I said as I danced my way over to where she was singing the first few words of 'Dancing Queen', 'I still blame you for me trashing my dad's truck." It was said with a smile, so that she would know that I was joking.
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HAMILTON
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It was good to see my friends again. I was eager to find out about their trip to St. Martin, but I kept missing bits and pieces of what they were saying due to the fact that I couldn't keep my eyes of my beautiful girlfriend. At times it still amazed me that I could have ever thought that she was a boy. Everything about Jake was so slender and just screamed 'girl'. Watching her now anyone could see she was all girl. I tried to swallow as I watched Jake and Bella sing and dance around the diner, it was getting hard for me to breath as my eyes attached themselves to the sensual movement of Jake's hips swaying in time to the music.
I had to shake my head to clear it. I noticed that Scout appeared to be suffering from the same love struck symptoms as myself, so I ignored him and spoke to Will. "So, I guess you know that my dad convinced the board of trusties to fund your scholarship." It was a statement not a question, I assumed he already knew so I was kind of surprised when he start jumping around like an idiot. "I'll take that to mean that you had no idea." I said when the jumping had stoped and the girls had joined us again.
"No, I had no idea. I guess no one knew how to contact me. Oh, man this is so cool, I thought I would have to wait until next year for a scholarship to come up." Will's smile covered his entire face. "This is going to be so great all us together this Fall..." Will said.
"Not all of us." said Bella cutting Will off.
"Yeah but even though you don't go to Rawley you still a part of this, a part of us." I said trying to express how we all felt. Bella looked at me and smiled.
"Thanks Hamilton." she said, giving me a quick hug.
We all sat down finally, Jake slid in next to me and put her hand on my knee. I wanted to kiss her sad badly, but I understood what the hand on my knee meant. Jake was telling me without words, that she wanted to be close to me and touch me but she had to hide the impulse because we were in a public place. So instead of giving into my impulse and kissing her, I put my hand on her knee. I had lost track of the conversation again, so when Will leaned over and punched me in the arm to get my attention I was at a loss, as to what he wanted from me. "What?" I asked, rubbing my arm damn that hurt.
"I was trying to ask you if you enjoyed your trip to New York to visit Jake, but I'm guessing from the way your brain has forgotten how to function, now that Jake is sitting next to you, that the answer to that question would be an enthusiastic 'yes'". Will said, not even trying to hide his amusement.
I had to admit he was right, only my brain didn't cease to function, when I was around Jake; it just ceased to recognise anything but her. Even now she was running little circles on my thigh with her fingers, driving me insane. With a strangled moan I announced, "You just wait until some girl gets her hands wrapped around your heart Krudski, you won't stand a chance!"
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SCOUT
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I tried not to stare at Bella, but I had really missed her over the summer break and it had been tearing me up, thinking about her spending all of her free time with Sean. I couldn't stop thinking about her the whole time Will and I were in St. Martins, and even now when she was right in front of me I just wanted to reach out and touch her. I needed to know that she was real. It was slaying me trying to listen to everyone's conversations and stories, all I wanted to do was be alone with Bella so I could find out whether she asked her mum about us or not.
It was the laughter that got my attention; everyone was going crazy over something amusing. I was sorry that I missed it; I could really do with a good laugh. I wanted to ask what had been so funny, but then everyone would know that I hadden't been listening. And they would all know why, so I said nothing but I forced myself to pay attention to the conversation going on around me.
"Is that so?" Will asked, looking at Hamilton.
"Yeah, and I hope I'm there to witness it." said Hamilton in reply.
"Me too." said Jake, nodding her head in agreement.
I couldn't understand a word they were saying so I decided to let my mind wander. I wondered when Bella and I would get a chance to talk alone. Maybe I should ask her if she wants to do something after this? Maybe not, but before I could lose my nerve I was asking her if we could talk privately later. All of our friends went suspiciously quiet, as I waited for her answer.
"I umm....I can't Charlie has to got to Carson later to pick up a special part and I promised him that I would watch the garage." Bella's response was a bit rushed and almost audible, but I knew she wasn't ready to be alone with me yet. It hurt, it really did but my pain was eased because I knew she hurt too. At least we could have that in common.
Almost straight away I felt like a snake, I never wanted her to feel pain, what was I thinking? As much as I wanted everything to work out between us, I knew that it probably wouldn't. After all this was real life, not some dumb teenage show on TV. I wanted to get up and leave sitting here was killing me but I didn't want to upset my friends, so I stayed and I listened.
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WILL
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Bella looked like she wanted to say something so I thought I'd break the ice, "So I got a letter from Sean, telling me about his Grandmother and everything. Are you okay with all of it?" I asked her trying to read her facial expression; it wasn't one that I had witnessed before.
"Yeah, we decided to give the long-distance relationship thing a miss." Bella replied with a shrug of her shoulders. "He didn't want to leave, I think he was scared of being so far away from New Rawley and us but his parent's had already made up their minds about going and they wouldn't back down."
I saw her look quickly over at Scout, for the briefest of moments before turning back to me. Scout had been watching her too, ever since we stepped off the bus, he looked like he wanted to ask her about Sean but he wouldn't let himself. Must be true what they say about 'absence making the heart grow fonder', it would be obvious to a blind man that they were still in love with each other. I didn't envy them for their struggle to do the right thing, the moral thing. I did wonder briefly if Bella had asked her mum about Scout's dad being her dad, while we were gone, but I figured it she had and the news had been good then she would have told us straight away, when she met us at the bus stop. So I concluded that it must have been not so good.
I tried not to smile but I couldn't help but be a little excited I had somewhere to live again, somewhere to fit in or try to fit in again. I could believe that Hamilton's dad, the Dean and gone to bat for me, so to speak. I knew that Finn must have had something to do with it, and I made a mental note to say thanks to him later.
Unfortunately, Hamilton's other comment, the one about my love life now had me feeling a little disturbed. Why? I wasn't sure, but I wished that I had someone special in my life, who I could fight with, be in love with and who could drive me a little insane some times. Hamilton and Jake had one another and Scout and Bella at least shared a love for one another even if they couldn't be together, but what did I have? Nothing, a few dates with the occasional girl but nothing, or know one had a hole of my heart.
I looked up it was dark outside and my friends were getting ready to leave. As I opened the door to the diner and waited for my friends to file out past me, I wondered momentary if I would ever find love. After all my own father didn't even love me, how could I even begin to hope that someone else might?
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FINN
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My hand was on the doorknob, when I heard someone knock on the door from the other side. I open the door not really knowing what to expect, and found the Dean standing there getting ready to knock again. "Oh, you are here. I thought I might have missed you." Dean Flemming said instead of a greeting.
"No, but I was just on my way out. Will this take long do you think?" I replied, unsure of what he wanted.
"Not at all I just wanted to talk to you about your class plans for the Fall session, and tell you about our new Japanese teacher, mr Fujiwara. The board has decided that it would be a good idea to introduce the students to another language. The classes will be Co-Ed offcourse and you will need to organise to take several classes together, both English and Japanese. We will also be having two Japanese exchange students coming to Rawley. One to Rawley girls and one to Rawley boys. We also will be sending two students to Japan. Unfortunately, I had to find students who already had an understanding of the Japanese language. So I had to send two girls." The Dean paused his speech to look down at a piece of paper that he held in his hand. "A miss Paige Bennett and a miss Caroline Busse. Our Japanese exchange students are a miss Yuka Higashi and a mr Ken Sanigi. It will be your job to instruct them on the joys of our English language and our written word." When he was finished the Dean stepped inside the room. I gathered that this was going to take awhile.
I sighed; finally I had thought my life was getting back to normal. The affair with Kate was over and the business with Will's scholarship had been resolved, but I guess I was wrong. Life still had some surprises in store for me. I followed the Dean over to my desk and waited for him to continue.
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MORGANA
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New Rawley was different from what I thought it would be like, I mean dad had been so desperate to get away from here, but it really was a nice place. As I watched the towns people laugh and smile, as they went about their everyday routine, I wondered why I couldn't have been born here. Sure they were all basically lower class and they had worked really hard all their lives, but the people who lived here seemed happy.
I wondered then if dad had ever been happy, he left here in search of something better and then when he finally got it he decided he didn't want it any more. Unfortunately for me when he decided he didn't want the life he had obtained, it meant he left me behind, so he could come back to the one place he had been so desperate to escape years earlier.
It wasn't long before I reached Rawley Academy for Boys and after asking someone for directions I found my dad's room. The door was open so I just walked right in; straight away I noticed how small the two room teaching suit was. It was just a small main room, that consisted of a lounge, two chairs and a desk. There was also a small bar fridge over near a connecting door which must lead to a bedroom.
The next thing I noticed was my dad, he was standing over near his desk talking to a good-looking older man. Another teacher maybe? I cleared my voice; they still had not noticed me yet. "Dad?" I asked, drawing both of the men's attention towards the door. My dad looked star-struck, I wondered briefly if he recognised me. I knew I had changed a lot in the past twelve years since he last saw me, it was funny he looked the same to me, it was as if he had not aged a bit. The only thing that was really different was his hair, it was longer than I remembered and it looked kind of greasy. When neither man spoke, I thought to spur them into action, so I walked over to the desk. As I neared the desk I looked at my father and asked, "What's with the hair Dad? Trying to look younger?" I had his attention now; he leaned towards me as if to get a better look.
"Morgan,' he said in a warning tone, not answering my questions. 'What are you doing here?"
"Well Mum's gone on holiday with husband number six and she'll be gone for over eight months. So, thought it might be a good time to get to know you again after all it has been twelve years since I saw you last!" I was pissed off with him but I quickly forgot my anger when the man standing next to my dad cleared his throat. How embarrassing, I had totally forgotten about his presence. My dad turned to look at the man as if her didn't know where he had come from; obviously he had forgotten he was there also.
"Dean Flemming, this is my Daughter Morgan.' he introduced me to the Dean before turning to me and saying, 'Morgan, this is my Boss Dean Flemming." There was something in his eyes as he looked at me but I couldn't read what it was.
"Nice to meet you Morgan, have you come to join our school then?" The Dean had a kind smile that reached his eyes, I wondered if he had any kids. I knew that he would never leave them behind, in search of a better life.
I was unsure of how to go about answering his question, because I really didn't want to lie to him. "I have all my things out in the car, but I'm not exactly enrolled. I was kind of hopping that I would be able to stay here with Dad and take classes here with him." My voice was full of hope when I said those last few words, because they were as honest as I could have been.
My Dad was shaking his head when I looked at him. "I don't know Morgan, where are you going to sleep? My rooms just are not really big enough for the two of us." He stated his voice sounded strained to me.
"I guess I could sleep on the couch...." I started to say but Dad interrupted me.
"No, that won't do at all. Morgan you're a sixteen year old girl and you wouldn't get any privacy living like that." He looked at a loss and for a moment I began to hope that he might actually want me to stay.
"She could go over to the Girls campus, but it defeats the purpose of you spending time together. I know! Morgan could move into the room next to Mr Pratt, it's just across the hall. You know the one Finn, it used to be the old storage room, but I had it renovated over the Summer break, because Kate and I thought Hamilton might like to move in there but he told us that he wanted to share a room with Jake. So that leaves the room free, what do you think?" Dean Flemming asked, coming to my rescue. I knew that I was going to end up liking him and I couldn't wait to meet his son, he was a lucky boy to have the Dean for his father. I wondered if he looked like his father.
"It could work. What do you think Morgan?" Dad looked at me and kind of smiled but it didn't really reach his eyes. "Now what are we going to do about classes?" he asked.
"I think it's a great idea. When can I move in? Classes? Can't I just go to the classes here, rather than have to go cross the two campuses to get to classes everyday?" I smiled back at Dad, at least he was trying. After I finished speaking I waited for some one to answer my questions.
"You can move in today if you want Morgan, all the furniture is already in the room. I'm not really sure what to do about the classes though. I think the board of trusties might make an exception in your case due to the fact that Finn is your father but I'll have to run it by them first. I don't see why it will be a problem for you to attend classes here on the Boys campus, as long as you are enrolled in as many of the Co-Ed classes as possible. The only problem that I can foresee is the physical education aspect of the curriculum, due to you being a female you really can not take part in the crew team." The Dean looked at my father when he finished his little speech and waited for a solution to reveal itself to us.
"Morgan runs. Cross-country, that kind of thing. She could run after the English part of the lesson is over and the rest of the class is crewing." I was shocked when my Dad mentioned my running; I wasn't aware he even knew I existed, let alone that running was my passion.
"That would work out nicely. Actually our track team is always short a Cross-country runner for all of the meets, maybe this year we can win some races with Morgan on the team. What do you say Morgan are you interested?" The Dean looked relieved that everything had worked out; he looked at me expectantly waiting for my answer.
"I would really love to." I replied, watching him smile.
"Well, I have lots to organise before classes start, so I better be off. Morgan it was very nice to meet you and don't worry I'll go ring the board of trusties now and make sure everything works out.' he finished talking and looked at my Dad, 'Finn the class plans for this Session look fine. I'll see you both later." and with that he was gone.
I turned back to look at Dad, "So, I guess I'll go move in. It was good to see you again Finn." I said and then I turned to leave, we'd both had enough family bonding for one day I'm sure tomorrow will be soon enough for part two of our reconciliation. I was almost at the door when Dad said my named once, his voice was low and serious, obviously we were not quite finished yet. "What?" I asked, turning to face him once again.
"What's with the tattoo Morgan? Trying to piss me off?" He asked his face stormy. It was so like him to use my own questions against me.
"Not really, careful Dad I might begin to think you actually care." I turned and walked to the door. As I reached for the doorknob he spoke again.
"Is it real?" he asked clearly trying to keep his cool.
"It bloody well better be, it cost me five hundred dollars!" I answered and before he could say anything else I opened the door and ran down the hall towards the parking lot.
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RYDER
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Bloody wonderful, I was back at this shit hole for American brats for another whole session. Now that I had successfully alienated the whole population of Rawley Academy, I wondered what more damage I could possible do. I mean Will Krudski and his little group of friends had been most entertaining last session but they also seemed to stick together, so causing trouble in the group wasn't going to be easy. Why, you only needed to look at how they delt with Hamilton and Jake's homosexuality, they didn't even care.
My mind was full of plots and schemes as I entered the dorms, so I didn't see her right away. I walked straight into her, and she was not impressed. She leaned forward and pulled my earphones from my head before rattling off a list of obscenities that even I don't dare to repeat. I smiled at her; she was full of spitfire, a red head she-devil with the greenest eyes that I've ever seen and a body that could make even a dead man happy. She turned then as if to walk away and I noticed a tattoo on her lower back about the size of my hand, it was of a fairy.
I didn't want her to leave yet; I wanted to know whom she was, and what she was doing in the boy's dorms. "Another fine American specimen, are all American girls as slutty as you?" I had barley finished my sentence when she turned around a look of fury etched upon her beautiful face. "British, I should have known!" Was her retort, just before she slapped my face. The sting of her palm against my cheek didn't surprise me as much as the expression on her face after she realised what she had done.
This little princess was trying to be a dragon, but I could see her softness. I looked more closely at what she was wearing, she had one the tightest, smallest pair of denim shorts that I had ever seen on a girl and a pink bikini top, made from leather. Didn't the girl realise that it was Fall? She stood looking at the damage she had inflicted, before shocking me once again. Her eyes lit up as she smiled, and she again reached for my face. I tried not to flinch as she brought her hands up to my face; only inflicting pain wasn't her purpose this time. I barley felt it and it was over before I knew it but she had licked my face where just minutes earlier she had slapped it, as if trying to take the sting inflicted by her hand away. She smiled at me again before saying, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." then she just turned and left before I could stop her.
I stood there in the hall dumbfounded, who was that girl? And what did she mean about us being friends? Her kiss, or her lick had shaken me, I wondered briefly if I had finally met my match.
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HAMILTON
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I had been dying to be alone with Jake all afternoon, but now that we were finally alone I was at a loss. This living together thing was a little strange and would probably take a while to get used to it. I looked around our room and took in all of the chaos that surrounded us. I smiled in Jake's direction before saying, "I really want to make out with you right now but do you think that we could Fung Shi our room first, just to be careful and get the positive Chi flowing? I don't want to tempt fate or anything."
Jake leant against her desk and smiled back at me, "Sure, just tell me what to do, what to move where. I want good Chi too, but let's do this quickly 'cause I want some kissing and snuggling too." she said. We started moving furniture around and before I knew it the room was as Fung Shi, as I could make it. I looked around; the flow of chi would be constrained by my bed. I smiled a solution in mind.
"We should get rid of one of the beds, it would give us heaps more space to move around. Plus it would mean I get to fall asleep every night with you in my arms." I winked at Jake as she crossed the room to her bed; she looked scared all of a sudden I hoped she didn't think I was trying to force the issue of sex. I really just wanted to fall asleep with her in my arms and I want the flow of chi to be natural.
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JAKE
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After I got into bed I turn to face Hamilton, I felt like I wasn't sure what should happen next. I knew that I wasn't ready for a sexual relationship yet, not that I didn't want to be with Hamilton because I really did. I'm just not ready. "Ham,' I said gaining his full attention, 'I still don't think I'm ready to you know, but if you ever just wanna snuggle...." I lifted the edge of quilt in welcome.
I don't think I've every seen Hamilton move as fast as he did in that moment, before I knew what had happened he was jumping in to bed with me. The next thing I knew he was pulling up the covers and he had tugged me into the circle of his arms. At first I thought he had gone to sleep because he was being so quiet, but the he said, "I guess it would look pretty suss if we only had one bed in here, everyone already thinks that we are gay." I looked up at his face to see if he was bothered by the fact that most of the student-body thought that we were gay, but he just smiled at me and kissed me on the forehead.
"I love you Jake. Now go to sleep." He sighed and before I could repeat the vow of love he was fast asleep.
I feel asleep with a smile on my face that night. If I had learned anything over the summer and in the last few weeks, it was that things change. Nothing stays the same forever, and with Hamilton and my friends by my side I wasn't afraid to face what ever was in store for us all next.
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MORGANA
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I wasn't looking where I was going as I stormed through the hall of Rawley Academy for Boys; all I could think about was seeing my Dad again. It had been weird and a little bit painful. At least he kind of acted like he cared. I wondered again how he knew about my running. I also thought about how he'd called me 'Morgan', he was the only one in the family who didn't call me Morgana. Yet it was ironic because he chose my name when I was born. My Mother had wanted to name me Annabel, but Dad loved Morgana because it was from Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur', one of Dad's favourite prose. But he'd always called me Morgan, I didn't know why he couldn't use my full name and it upset me somewhat, that I had begun to suspect that it was his way of keeping himself and his life separate from me and mine.
I was mentally evaluating the meeting I had just had with my father when an obnoxious, but extremely good-looking guy barrelled into me. He had short blond hair and blue (?) eyes. He was lean and muscular and he moved with the grace of a jungle cat. He had quick reflexes too. When he launched himself at me he knocked me off balance but he was quick to steady me. His strong hands with long graceful fingers grabbed a hold of my upper arms to stop me from my descent towards the floor. He wore an annoyingly smug smirk on his face, as if he was privy to all of the worlds and my private secrets.
My annoyance quickly turned to rage, no doubt he was going to blame me for his lack of attention in the halls and I had already had one hell of a day and it wasn't looking like it was going to get much better anytime soon. I decided to get in first, with a string of obscenities that would impress a sailor, I let him have it. Then I turned to leave but I stopped when he said, "Another fine American specimen, are all American girls as slutty as you?"
"British, I should have known!" Was my retort, just before I slapped his smug face. Oh, my god. I just hit him, how could I have done that it must have been left over anger directed at Dad, after all this poor guy did was has the misfortune to run into me. It was probably mostly my fault any way I wasn't paying any attention.
Unsure of how to continue, I remembered a book that I once read about this girl who fights with a stranger in the middle of the street and slaps his face. The girl in the book realised what she had done and reached over and kissed it better, then she said, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." With that memory in my mind, I leaned over and licked the place of his face, where I had hit with my hand, as I drew away from him I whispered in his ear, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." I saw his look of confusion and tried not to laugh the boy didn't know what had hit. It looked like a bit of an asshole to me but then I always did like a challenge.
Author: Aussie Chick Fan aka AussieChick
Email: pike03@iprimus.com.au
Rating: PG-13, but it will have a bit of sex in later parts!
Category: Every one, but mostly Jake and Hamilton. Plus Ryder and Morgana.
Disclaimer: I don't own them, except for Mr Fujiwara, Morgana, Yuka Higashi and Ken Sanigi but I wish I did.
Summary: What I would have like to happen in the Fall season of YA, read it and find out what might have happened! Oh, Sean has left the show in my mind. Sean's grandmother had died and left her estate to his parents, so they had decided to leave New Rawley and move to California, where his grandmother had lived.
Spoilers: The entire first and only season of the best show I've ever seen.
Thanks: To my muse! And anyone who is obsessed as I am about Young Americans.
Feedback: Yes Please, this is my 1st fanfic and I would love to hear from you. I hope to make this fanfic an ongoing storyline, so if there's something you would like to see happen, or you think should happen just drop me a message via my email.
The Fall Session
*Part One*
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JAKE
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I got off my bike and pushed it into the hiding spot that Hamilton had shown me only a few months earlier, I smiled when I thought of Hamilton. I couldn't wait to see him; it had after all been almost a week since he came to New York for a visit. As I walked up towards the boy's dorms I rolled my shoulders, trying to shake off the tension left behind from the long drive from New York. I wondered briefly if my stuff had arrived at the dorms yet, but mostly I worried about seeing Finn for the first time since the showering incident. I had waited all summer break for a letter or a phone call telling me that I couldn't come back to Rawley boys, but it never happened.
I was surprised to see the door to my room open, but as I got closer I could see Hamilton inside pottering around. I almost broke out into a run, when I realised that he was so close to me but I managed to control myself. Hamilton turned around at that moment and spotted me hovering outside the door. "So are you gonna come inside or are you going to spend the whole Fall session out there in the hall?" his rude question was softened with a wink and a smile, which he tossed in my direction, before he walked forward and pulled me inside the room closing the door behind me.
"I missed you so much!" I said before bringing his lips down on mine, our noses squashed together, as the kiss became more passionate.
Hamilton kissed me back with so much love and passion that I was kind of hoping it would never stop, but the I remembered the need for oxygen. Gasping for air I pulled a way, "So I see you've already moved your stuff in." I looked around my once single room and took in the extra bed and desk.
"Yeah, well you said you wanted me to...." Hamilton looked unsure of himself for a moment. I felt bad; I hoped he wasn't remembering the last time moving in had come up. I had been such a bitch, but it seemed like a lifetime a way and when Hamilton was leaving to catch the train back to New Rawley last week, I felt like I would never see him again. The past week had been so amazing and I had realised that what I had been worried about the most, about not being able to come back to Rawley boys, was not being able to spend time with Hamilton. I wanted to spend every minute of everyday with him, so I asked him if he still wanted to move in with me. He said he did and he left with biggest smile on his face.
I must admit I didn't expect him to move in so quickly, but I definitely still wanted him here. I quickly reassured him that he was more that welcome, wanted even. "I see my stuff arrived safely,' I said seeing the boxes that covered my bed and desk. 'I had to pack heaps more stuff this time."
"Why ?" asked Hamilton, turning his head on the side a looking closely at me patiently waiting for my answer.
"Well I have two identities now, I had to bring clothes for Jake, and Jacqueline. Plus Fall session is longer than summer!" It was a relief in a way that Scout and Will knew my secret. I knew I could trust them to keep it safe, and it meant that I got to be myself a little more often.
Hamilton looked around our room; he appeared to be counting all of the boxes that covered almost every available surface in the room. He smiled, "I see, so as much as I want to spend the day alone with you locked in this room unpacking...'he raised his eyebrows in mock horror, 'Should we go see if we can find the others? I know that you're dying to see Bella." Hamilton touched my face with the tips of his fingers as he asked me my preference for the day's activities.
"You know me so well. Do you mind if we go see the others?" I asked him as I leaned up to kiss his lips. I was already gathering up the keys to my bike before he could answer but his hand was already on the door, so I knew we were of the same mind. As much as we missed each other, we had also missed our new friends.
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BELLA
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I wiped my hands on an oily rag as I walked out of the garage. I couldn't believe it was still ours, the bank had given us a loan and we had been able to purchase it. Everything was back to normal, but my relationship with my mother would never be the same again. She had already broken my heart twice in my lifetime and I didn't think I could stand it a third time.
All in all it had been a pretty eventful summer. I longed to see Scout to tell him that we're not brother and sister. I wondered if I would see Jake again soon, she did say she was coming back but I had yet to see her, and I wondered what was going to happen with Will. Would he get his scholarship funding back? I also wondered if he knew about Sean.
I had just finished fixing a car when a bus stoped at the bus stop across the road, in front of Friendly's. I waited impatiently for it to leave so I could see whom it had stoped for. I started to cross the road just as the bus took off, I smiled when I realised that the bus had left behind Will and Scout. "Well, it's about time you two were getting back, school starts tomorrow!" I laughed as Will rushed forward to sweep me off my feet in a big bear hug.
"Yeah, well we're back now so no need to call out the National Guard!" Scout replied taking over when Will had let me go.
God, I had missed this, having his arms around me. I couldn't wait to tell him the truth, yet in a way I was scared. Did he still feel the same? I guess I could tell him now before I chicken out, but I really should wait until we are alone. The decision was taken out of my hands when the roar of Jake's motorbike reached us from across the street. Both Jake and Hamilton joined our group. After exchanging hugs and greetings, I suggested that we go over to Friendly's so we could all sit down and catch up.
I took Jake's hand and led her to a table at the back of the diner, leaving the guy's to order. "I'll have a Chocolate Thick-shake Boys, and Jake will have a...." I looked at her expectantly, "I'll have a Cherry Spider, thanks." She finished watching the guy's head towards the counter.
"Do you think Scout will start working here again?" Jake asked after we had sat down, her eyes still locked on Hamilton.
"I don't know. Hey Jake, can I tell you something?" I asked, I looked over at the guys and noticed that Hamilton was busy watching Jake as well.
"Sure, is it about the garage? You know I was so happy for you when I got your letter telling me about the loan." Jake turned and looked at me, waiting patiently for my reply.
"No, I asked my mum about my father and she told me that it's not Scout's dad. It was one of Charlie's friends." I held my breath, waiting for her reaction to my brief but informative statement.
"Well, that's good news right?" Jake asked, turning her attention fully on our conversation. "I mean now you guy's can be together, that is what you want isn't it?"
"Yeah I guess but what if Scout's feelings for me have changed. Besides I don't know if we could ever be together, after all we did spend the whole summer thinking that we were brother and sister." My voice faded to a whisper, when I noticed that Scout, Will and Hamilton had almost reached our table. This conversation would have to put on hold until Jake and I could be alone again.
Jake must have spotted the guy's about the same time as I did because she leaned over the table and hissed, "You need to tell Scout, no matter what. He has a right to know." She sat back a quick smile coming on to her face, I was a bit surprised to see it, after we had just been having a pretty serious conversation. Maybe, I thought to myself she had heard one of the guy's say something funny. I had just decided that this must be true, when she stood up and raced to the counter. Hamilton and the rest of us were left standing, watching her from across the room. We could only speculate on what she said to Brian the owner of Friendly's, but none of us really had a clue. At the same time Jake turned to face us, her face lit up, her eyes shiny and bright, Brian reached under the counter to fiddle with the volume knob on the radio.
I laughed when I heard the beginning notes of a favourite song of mine, and it hit me what Jake was up to. "Oh you and your ABBA obsession,' I said as I danced my way over to where she was singing the first few words of 'Dancing Queen', 'I still blame you for me trashing my dad's truck." It was said with a smile, so that she would know that I was joking.
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It was good to see my friends again. I was eager to find out about their trip to St. Martin, but I kept missing bits and pieces of what they were saying due to the fact that I couldn't keep my eyes of my beautiful girlfriend. At times it still amazed me that I could have ever thought that she was a boy. Everything about Jake was so slender and just screamed 'girl'. Watching her now anyone could see she was all girl. I tried to swallow as I watched Jake and Bella sing and dance around the diner, it was getting hard for me to breath as my eyes attached themselves to the sensual movement of Jake's hips swaying in time to the music.
I had to shake my head to clear it. I noticed that Scout appeared to be suffering from the same love struck symptoms as myself, so I ignored him and spoke to Will. "So, I guess you know that my dad convinced the board of trusties to fund your scholarship." It was a statement not a question, I assumed he already knew so I was kind of surprised when he start jumping around like an idiot. "I'll take that to mean that you had no idea." I said when the jumping had stoped and the girls had joined us again.
"No, I had no idea. I guess no one knew how to contact me. Oh, man this is so cool, I thought I would have to wait until next year for a scholarship to come up." Will's smile covered his entire face. "This is going to be so great all us together this Fall..." Will said.
"Not all of us." said Bella cutting Will off.
"Yeah but even though you don't go to Rawley you still a part of this, a part of us." I said trying to express how we all felt. Bella looked at me and smiled.
"Thanks Hamilton." she said, giving me a quick hug.
We all sat down finally, Jake slid in next to me and put her hand on my knee. I wanted to kiss her sad badly, but I understood what the hand on my knee meant. Jake was telling me without words, that she wanted to be close to me and touch me but she had to hide the impulse because we were in a public place. So instead of giving into my impulse and kissing her, I put my hand on her knee. I had lost track of the conversation again, so when Will leaned over and punched me in the arm to get my attention I was at a loss, as to what he wanted from me. "What?" I asked, rubbing my arm damn that hurt.
"I was trying to ask you if you enjoyed your trip to New York to visit Jake, but I'm guessing from the way your brain has forgotten how to function, now that Jake is sitting next to you, that the answer to that question would be an enthusiastic 'yes'". Will said, not even trying to hide his amusement.
I had to admit he was right, only my brain didn't cease to function, when I was around Jake; it just ceased to recognise anything but her. Even now she was running little circles on my thigh with her fingers, driving me insane. With a strangled moan I announced, "You just wait until some girl gets her hands wrapped around your heart Krudski, you won't stand a chance!"
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I tried not to stare at Bella, but I had really missed her over the summer break and it had been tearing me up, thinking about her spending all of her free time with Sean. I couldn't stop thinking about her the whole time Will and I were in St. Martins, and even now when she was right in front of me I just wanted to reach out and touch her. I needed to know that she was real. It was slaying me trying to listen to everyone's conversations and stories, all I wanted to do was be alone with Bella so I could find out whether she asked her mum about us or not.
It was the laughter that got my attention; everyone was going crazy over something amusing. I was sorry that I missed it; I could really do with a good laugh. I wanted to ask what had been so funny, but then everyone would know that I hadden't been listening. And they would all know why, so I said nothing but I forced myself to pay attention to the conversation going on around me.
"Is that so?" Will asked, looking at Hamilton.
"Yeah, and I hope I'm there to witness it." said Hamilton in reply.
"Me too." said Jake, nodding her head in agreement.
I couldn't understand a word they were saying so I decided to let my mind wander. I wondered when Bella and I would get a chance to talk alone. Maybe I should ask her if she wants to do something after this? Maybe not, but before I could lose my nerve I was asking her if we could talk privately later. All of our friends went suspiciously quiet, as I waited for her answer.
"I umm....I can't Charlie has to got to Carson later to pick up a special part and I promised him that I would watch the garage." Bella's response was a bit rushed and almost audible, but I knew she wasn't ready to be alone with me yet. It hurt, it really did but my pain was eased because I knew she hurt too. At least we could have that in common.
Almost straight away I felt like a snake, I never wanted her to feel pain, what was I thinking? As much as I wanted everything to work out between us, I knew that it probably wouldn't. After all this was real life, not some dumb teenage show on TV. I wanted to get up and leave sitting here was killing me but I didn't want to upset my friends, so I stayed and I listened.
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Bella looked like she wanted to say something so I thought I'd break the ice, "So I got a letter from Sean, telling me about his Grandmother and everything. Are you okay with all of it?" I asked her trying to read her facial expression; it wasn't one that I had witnessed before.
"Yeah, we decided to give the long-distance relationship thing a miss." Bella replied with a shrug of her shoulders. "He didn't want to leave, I think he was scared of being so far away from New Rawley and us but his parent's had already made up their minds about going and they wouldn't back down."
I saw her look quickly over at Scout, for the briefest of moments before turning back to me. Scout had been watching her too, ever since we stepped off the bus, he looked like he wanted to ask her about Sean but he wouldn't let himself. Must be true what they say about 'absence making the heart grow fonder', it would be obvious to a blind man that they were still in love with each other. I didn't envy them for their struggle to do the right thing, the moral thing. I did wonder briefly if Bella had asked her mum about Scout's dad being her dad, while we were gone, but I figured it she had and the news had been good then she would have told us straight away, when she met us at the bus stop. So I concluded that it must have been not so good.
I tried not to smile but I couldn't help but be a little excited I had somewhere to live again, somewhere to fit in or try to fit in again. I could believe that Hamilton's dad, the Dean and gone to bat for me, so to speak. I knew that Finn must have had something to do with it, and I made a mental note to say thanks to him later.
Unfortunately, Hamilton's other comment, the one about my love life now had me feeling a little disturbed. Why? I wasn't sure, but I wished that I had someone special in my life, who I could fight with, be in love with and who could drive me a little insane some times. Hamilton and Jake had one another and Scout and Bella at least shared a love for one another even if they couldn't be together, but what did I have? Nothing, a few dates with the occasional girl but nothing, or know one had a hole of my heart.
I looked up it was dark outside and my friends were getting ready to leave. As I opened the door to the diner and waited for my friends to file out past me, I wondered momentary if I would ever find love. After all my own father didn't even love me, how could I even begin to hope that someone else might?
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FINN
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My hand was on the doorknob, when I heard someone knock on the door from the other side. I open the door not really knowing what to expect, and found the Dean standing there getting ready to knock again. "Oh, you are here. I thought I might have missed you." Dean Flemming said instead of a greeting.
"No, but I was just on my way out. Will this take long do you think?" I replied, unsure of what he wanted.
"Not at all I just wanted to talk to you about your class plans for the Fall session, and tell you about our new Japanese teacher, mr Fujiwara. The board has decided that it would be a good idea to introduce the students to another language. The classes will be Co-Ed offcourse and you will need to organise to take several classes together, both English and Japanese. We will also be having two Japanese exchange students coming to Rawley. One to Rawley girls and one to Rawley boys. We also will be sending two students to Japan. Unfortunately, I had to find students who already had an understanding of the Japanese language. So I had to send two girls." The Dean paused his speech to look down at a piece of paper that he held in his hand. "A miss Paige Bennett and a miss Caroline Busse. Our Japanese exchange students are a miss Yuka Higashi and a mr Ken Sanigi. It will be your job to instruct them on the joys of our English language and our written word." When he was finished the Dean stepped inside the room. I gathered that this was going to take awhile.
I sighed; finally I had thought my life was getting back to normal. The affair with Kate was over and the business with Will's scholarship had been resolved, but I guess I was wrong. Life still had some surprises in store for me. I followed the Dean over to my desk and waited for him to continue.
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New Rawley was different from what I thought it would be like, I mean dad had been so desperate to get away from here, but it really was a nice place. As I watched the towns people laugh and smile, as they went about their everyday routine, I wondered why I couldn't have been born here. Sure they were all basically lower class and they had worked really hard all their lives, but the people who lived here seemed happy.
I wondered then if dad had ever been happy, he left here in search of something better and then when he finally got it he decided he didn't want it any more. Unfortunately for me when he decided he didn't want the life he had obtained, it meant he left me behind, so he could come back to the one place he had been so desperate to escape years earlier.
It wasn't long before I reached Rawley Academy for Boys and after asking someone for directions I found my dad's room. The door was open so I just walked right in; straight away I noticed how small the two room teaching suit was. It was just a small main room, that consisted of a lounge, two chairs and a desk. There was also a small bar fridge over near a connecting door which must lead to a bedroom.
The next thing I noticed was my dad, he was standing over near his desk talking to a good-looking older man. Another teacher maybe? I cleared my voice; they still had not noticed me yet. "Dad?" I asked, drawing both of the men's attention towards the door. My dad looked star-struck, I wondered briefly if he recognised me. I knew I had changed a lot in the past twelve years since he last saw me, it was funny he looked the same to me, it was as if he had not aged a bit. The only thing that was really different was his hair, it was longer than I remembered and it looked kind of greasy. When neither man spoke, I thought to spur them into action, so I walked over to the desk. As I neared the desk I looked at my father and asked, "What's with the hair Dad? Trying to look younger?" I had his attention now; he leaned towards me as if to get a better look.
"Morgan,' he said in a warning tone, not answering my questions. 'What are you doing here?"
"Well Mum's gone on holiday with husband number six and she'll be gone for over eight months. So, thought it might be a good time to get to know you again after all it has been twelve years since I saw you last!" I was pissed off with him but I quickly forgot my anger when the man standing next to my dad cleared his throat. How embarrassing, I had totally forgotten about his presence. My dad turned to look at the man as if her didn't know where he had come from; obviously he had forgotten he was there also.
"Dean Flemming, this is my Daughter Morgan.' he introduced me to the Dean before turning to me and saying, 'Morgan, this is my Boss Dean Flemming." There was something in his eyes as he looked at me but I couldn't read what it was.
"Nice to meet you Morgan, have you come to join our school then?" The Dean had a kind smile that reached his eyes, I wondered if he had any kids. I knew that he would never leave them behind, in search of a better life.
I was unsure of how to go about answering his question, because I really didn't want to lie to him. "I have all my things out in the car, but I'm not exactly enrolled. I was kind of hopping that I would be able to stay here with Dad and take classes here with him." My voice was full of hope when I said those last few words, because they were as honest as I could have been.
My Dad was shaking his head when I looked at him. "I don't know Morgan, where are you going to sleep? My rooms just are not really big enough for the two of us." He stated his voice sounded strained to me.
"I guess I could sleep on the couch...." I started to say but Dad interrupted me.
"No, that won't do at all. Morgan you're a sixteen year old girl and you wouldn't get any privacy living like that." He looked at a loss and for a moment I began to hope that he might actually want me to stay.
"She could go over to the Girls campus, but it defeats the purpose of you spending time together. I know! Morgan could move into the room next to Mr Pratt, it's just across the hall. You know the one Finn, it used to be the old storage room, but I had it renovated over the Summer break, because Kate and I thought Hamilton might like to move in there but he told us that he wanted to share a room with Jake. So that leaves the room free, what do you think?" Dean Flemming asked, coming to my rescue. I knew that I was going to end up liking him and I couldn't wait to meet his son, he was a lucky boy to have the Dean for his father. I wondered if he looked like his father.
"It could work. What do you think Morgan?" Dad looked at me and kind of smiled but it didn't really reach his eyes. "Now what are we going to do about classes?" he asked.
"I think it's a great idea. When can I move in? Classes? Can't I just go to the classes here, rather than have to go cross the two campuses to get to classes everyday?" I smiled back at Dad, at least he was trying. After I finished speaking I waited for some one to answer my questions.
"You can move in today if you want Morgan, all the furniture is already in the room. I'm not really sure what to do about the classes though. I think the board of trusties might make an exception in your case due to the fact that Finn is your father but I'll have to run it by them first. I don't see why it will be a problem for you to attend classes here on the Boys campus, as long as you are enrolled in as many of the Co-Ed classes as possible. The only problem that I can foresee is the physical education aspect of the curriculum, due to you being a female you really can not take part in the crew team." The Dean looked at my father when he finished his little speech and waited for a solution to reveal itself to us.
"Morgan runs. Cross-country, that kind of thing. She could run after the English part of the lesson is over and the rest of the class is crewing." I was shocked when my Dad mentioned my running; I wasn't aware he even knew I existed, let alone that running was my passion.
"That would work out nicely. Actually our track team is always short a Cross-country runner for all of the meets, maybe this year we can win some races with Morgan on the team. What do you say Morgan are you interested?" The Dean looked relieved that everything had worked out; he looked at me expectantly waiting for my answer.
"I would really love to." I replied, watching him smile.
"Well, I have lots to organise before classes start, so I better be off. Morgan it was very nice to meet you and don't worry I'll go ring the board of trusties now and make sure everything works out.' he finished talking and looked at my Dad, 'Finn the class plans for this Session look fine. I'll see you both later." and with that he was gone.
I turned back to look at Dad, "So, I guess I'll go move in. It was good to see you again Finn." I said and then I turned to leave, we'd both had enough family bonding for one day I'm sure tomorrow will be soon enough for part two of our reconciliation. I was almost at the door when Dad said my named once, his voice was low and serious, obviously we were not quite finished yet. "What?" I asked, turning to face him once again.
"What's with the tattoo Morgan? Trying to piss me off?" He asked his face stormy. It was so like him to use my own questions against me.
"Not really, careful Dad I might begin to think you actually care." I turned and walked to the door. As I reached for the doorknob he spoke again.
"Is it real?" he asked clearly trying to keep his cool.
"It bloody well better be, it cost me five hundred dollars!" I answered and before he could say anything else I opened the door and ran down the hall towards the parking lot.
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Bloody wonderful, I was back at this shit hole for American brats for another whole session. Now that I had successfully alienated the whole population of Rawley Academy, I wondered what more damage I could possible do. I mean Will Krudski and his little group of friends had been most entertaining last session but they also seemed to stick together, so causing trouble in the group wasn't going to be easy. Why, you only needed to look at how they delt with Hamilton and Jake's homosexuality, they didn't even care.
My mind was full of plots and schemes as I entered the dorms, so I didn't see her right away. I walked straight into her, and she was not impressed. She leaned forward and pulled my earphones from my head before rattling off a list of obscenities that even I don't dare to repeat. I smiled at her; she was full of spitfire, a red head she-devil with the greenest eyes that I've ever seen and a body that could make even a dead man happy. She turned then as if to walk away and I noticed a tattoo on her lower back about the size of my hand, it was of a fairy.
I didn't want her to leave yet; I wanted to know whom she was, and what she was doing in the boy's dorms. "Another fine American specimen, are all American girls as slutty as you?" I had barley finished my sentence when she turned around a look of fury etched upon her beautiful face. "British, I should have known!" Was her retort, just before she slapped my face. The sting of her palm against my cheek didn't surprise me as much as the expression on her face after she realised what she had done.
This little princess was trying to be a dragon, but I could see her softness. I looked more closely at what she was wearing, she had one the tightest, smallest pair of denim shorts that I had ever seen on a girl and a pink bikini top, made from leather. Didn't the girl realise that it was Fall? She stood looking at the damage she had inflicted, before shocking me once again. Her eyes lit up as she smiled, and she again reached for my face. I tried not to flinch as she brought her hands up to my face; only inflicting pain wasn't her purpose this time. I barley felt it and it was over before I knew it but she had licked my face where just minutes earlier she had slapped it, as if trying to take the sting inflicted by her hand away. She smiled at me again before saying, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." then she just turned and left before I could stop her.
I stood there in the hall dumbfounded, who was that girl? And what did she mean about us being friends? Her kiss, or her lick had shaken me, I wondered briefly if I had finally met my match.
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I had been dying to be alone with Jake all afternoon, but now that we were finally alone I was at a loss. This living together thing was a little strange and would probably take a while to get used to it. I looked around our room and took in all of the chaos that surrounded us. I smiled in Jake's direction before saying, "I really want to make out with you right now but do you think that we could Fung Shi our room first, just to be careful and get the positive Chi flowing? I don't want to tempt fate or anything."
Jake leant against her desk and smiled back at me, "Sure, just tell me what to do, what to move where. I want good Chi too, but let's do this quickly 'cause I want some kissing and snuggling too." she said. We started moving furniture around and before I knew it the room was as Fung Shi, as I could make it. I looked around; the flow of chi would be constrained by my bed. I smiled a solution in mind.
"We should get rid of one of the beds, it would give us heaps more space to move around. Plus it would mean I get to fall asleep every night with you in my arms." I winked at Jake as she crossed the room to her bed; she looked scared all of a sudden I hoped she didn't think I was trying to force the issue of sex. I really just wanted to fall asleep with her in my arms and I want the flow of chi to be natural.
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JAKE
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After I got into bed I turn to face Hamilton, I felt like I wasn't sure what should happen next. I knew that I wasn't ready for a sexual relationship yet, not that I didn't want to be with Hamilton because I really did. I'm just not ready. "Ham,' I said gaining his full attention, 'I still don't think I'm ready to you know, but if you ever just wanna snuggle...." I lifted the edge of quilt in welcome.
I don't think I've every seen Hamilton move as fast as he did in that moment, before I knew what had happened he was jumping in to bed with me. The next thing I knew he was pulling up the covers and he had tugged me into the circle of his arms. At first I thought he had gone to sleep because he was being so quiet, but the he said, "I guess it would look pretty suss if we only had one bed in here, everyone already thinks that we are gay." I looked up at his face to see if he was bothered by the fact that most of the student-body thought that we were gay, but he just smiled at me and kissed me on the forehead.
"I love you Jake. Now go to sleep." He sighed and before I could repeat the vow of love he was fast asleep.
I feel asleep with a smile on my face that night. If I had learned anything over the summer and in the last few weeks, it was that things change. Nothing stays the same forever, and with Hamilton and my friends by my side I wasn't afraid to face what ever was in store for us all next.
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MORGANA
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I wasn't looking where I was going as I stormed through the hall of Rawley Academy for Boys; all I could think about was seeing my Dad again. It had been weird and a little bit painful. At least he kind of acted like he cared. I wondered again how he knew about my running. I also thought about how he'd called me 'Morgan', he was the only one in the family who didn't call me Morgana. Yet it was ironic because he chose my name when I was born. My Mother had wanted to name me Annabel, but Dad loved Morgana because it was from Sir Thomas Malory's 'Le Morte D'Arthur', one of Dad's favourite prose. But he'd always called me Morgan, I didn't know why he couldn't use my full name and it upset me somewhat, that I had begun to suspect that it was his way of keeping himself and his life separate from me and mine.
I was mentally evaluating the meeting I had just had with my father when an obnoxious, but extremely good-looking guy barrelled into me. He had short blond hair and blue (?) eyes. He was lean and muscular and he moved with the grace of a jungle cat. He had quick reflexes too. When he launched himself at me he knocked me off balance but he was quick to steady me. His strong hands with long graceful fingers grabbed a hold of my upper arms to stop me from my descent towards the floor. He wore an annoyingly smug smirk on his face, as if he was privy to all of the worlds and my private secrets.
My annoyance quickly turned to rage, no doubt he was going to blame me for his lack of attention in the halls and I had already had one hell of a day and it wasn't looking like it was going to get much better anytime soon. I decided to get in first, with a string of obscenities that would impress a sailor, I let him have it. Then I turned to leave but I stopped when he said, "Another fine American specimen, are all American girls as slutty as you?"
"British, I should have known!" Was my retort, just before I slapped his smug face. Oh, my god. I just hit him, how could I have done that it must have been left over anger directed at Dad, after all this poor guy did was has the misfortune to run into me. It was probably mostly my fault any way I wasn't paying any attention.
Unsure of how to continue, I remembered a book that I once read about this girl who fights with a stranger in the middle of the street and slaps his face. The girl in the book realised what she had done and reached over and kissed it better, then she said, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." With that memory in my mind, I leaned over and licked the place of his face, where I had hit with my hand, as I drew away from him I whispered in his ear, "You and me we're going to be very good friends." I saw his look of confusion and tried not to laugh the boy didn't know what had hit. It looked like a bit of an asshole to me but then I always did like a challenge.