Chapter Six: Getting over it

'How do I confront him. It all just sounds so stupid. It'll be even worse if I'm wrong. But what else can I do. I just have to talk to him. I cant let this get dragged out till tomorrow.' Ryo lay in bed pondering as a groggy Dee plopped down on the bed. Marilin lay between them at the foot of the bed it had taken for ever to get her to sleep.

"Look Ryo I think we need to talk."

"Yah I think that's a good idea. I can tell something's been bothering you today."

"Something's been bothering me?" Dee said getting upset. "Of course something's been bothering me. What did you think I would never find out?"

"Dee what are you talking abou…"

"Don't play dumb with me Ryo I know." Dee chocked out raising his voice between sobs. He was finding it hard not to cry.

"Dee what brought this on?" Ryo reached out for Dee, but he pulled away.

Dee stood in the door way he couldn't stay here. He couldn't watch Ryo lie to his face. "About Danny you idiot I heard you, you … how could you do this to me?" Dee said walking out of the room.

"Whooa" Ryo exclaimed practically tripping over the rug to catch up to a very confused Dee. "Dee wait"

"Why, so you can lie to me some more?"

"Dee I never lied to you. You got it all wrong I love you. Danny is just a friend."

"A friend … A friend. Then how come I've never met him I thought we had the same group of friends."

"We do for the most part." Ryo said feeling slightly ashamed that he had never taken the time to introduce Dee to any of his friends. He met a few of them at one on Aunt Ellen's Christmas parties, but most of his close childhood friends were a mystery to Dee. "I did have friends before I met you."

"Of course you had friends then, but this is now, and right now I've had enough. I'm leaving."

"Stop being like this. Why would you even jump to this conclusion. What did I do to bring this on?" Ryo pleaded.

"You've been acting weird this whole week, running off to do more errands. You've been hiding something. I'm not sticking around to wait for you to hurt me more then you already have. I can't believe you had to go behind my back like this, and telling Drake, I'm honestly dragging my best friend. Asking him to lie for you."

'What do I say to that, I can't tell him I told Drake I wanted to propose, this definitely isn't they way I wanted to ask him'

He made his way to open the apartment door when a little hand grabbed his.

Marilin had snuck in on them again. Ryo was kneeling on the floor she took his hand and put it in Dee's looking up at him with the most innocent face. "Kid don't do this to me don't get involved in things you don't understand. Ryo will take care of you tonight. I'll come back for you in the morning." Dee said turning away again.

"Wait" Ryo said barley above a whisper. "You're right. I'm hiding something from you."

"Ryo I already know it does not matter what you say."

"Yes Dee it does, because you don't know."

"That's right Dee if you would just open your eyes you would see that Ryo would never do anything like that to you." Bikky said emerging from his room.

"Stay out of this" Dee said

"No he's my Dad I'm not going to let you hurt him."

"Bikky I think it would be better if you went back to bed, take Marilin with you." Ryo said rising to his feet to look Dee in the eyes. Bikky just shrugged and did as he was told it was probably better not to stand in the line of fire. "Dee just listen to me you don't know what you're talking about."

"I don't know what I'm talking about" Dee practically yelled.

"No!" He yelled back "you don't" Ryo added matter-of-factly "So just listen to me"

"Fine Ryo I'll indulge you." Dee said sitting in the nearest chair right onto a pile of old newspapers.

"Fine be that way; just don't leave until you've heard me out then you can decide if you really think I'm lying" he said resting up against the wall. "You're right I've been talking to Danny about, about stuff … okay about you and me stuff." Ryo said not knowing exactly how he was going to do this with out hinting at what he'd really been up to. Dee just grunted he was still too fuming to look at Ryo. "But you're wrong about our relationship. For one Danny lives in Main he moved there after he married Maggie in 96. That's why you've never met. So it would be pretty hard for me to have an affair with him, because he's straight, married and lives in Main. Two, I could never see Danny that way, He's like my brother. He lived in my neighbor, we went to school together elementary through high, we were on the soccer team together, and rented the same limo for prom the whole jazz. He's my best friend Dee, I've been talking to him a lot, about you in particular, actually it's more like bragging. You can call him If you want he's number 5 on my cell." Ryo said in a defeated tone.

"Ryo are you telling the truth?" Dee asked in an apologetically.

"No Dee I'm making the whole thing up, oh and he's number 7" Ryo said getting really impatient with Dee. What had he done to deserve his kind of blow up?

"Ryo baby I'm sorry I don't know what got in to me." Dee said slouching, across from Ryo, against the wall. He still was not looking at him. But now he was avoiding his lovers eye's out of shame. How could he ever think that Ryo would do something like that?

"It's okay Kiboto" Ryo said sinking down to the floor so that there toes were touching.

"No it's not okay" Dee said shaking his head. "I don't know what's wrong with me. I guess being an orphan I've built up walls that are to big for me to break. Things have just been going so great I was setting myself up for disappointment." Dee sighed "I can't believe I'm making excuses for my behavior."

"No Dee I understand, really I had a hard time getting close to people after my parents die I was always so worried they were going to leave to. That part of why it took me two years to for me to admit my true feelings about you."

"Well I guess as long as I don't die and you don't find some one else we'll be alright." Dee said looking over at Ryo smiling.

"Dee there's no one else who would put up with me. We're made for each other. Here I was thinking that you wanted to settle down and have kids, something that you use to worry about me wanting. And there you were worried that I was going to cheat on you, something that I use to worry you would do. Can you image in a better pair of psychos." Ryo said looking back laughing at Dee.

"Wait kids!" Dee said looking mortified "ME"