A/N: Hey, there! So glad to be back! here it is, the sequel to State of Mind. This picks up right where that left off so you should definately read that first. I started to write this as just a 2 part series and it's develpoed into a 3 part! So, look out for that too. When it's more develpoed, I'll let you know. Ass you know, I don't own anyone. I wish I did, but I don't. Also, all of the opening quotes are Peace of Mind by Nonpoint.
Chapter 8: Secrets, Lies and Mischeif Pt. 5
"Trapped inside
Places I'm starting to hate
Stuck inside
Wasted I fall into place
Watching the world
And waiting for something to change"
Saturaday, 10: 10 am...
Carter, Susan, Luka, Lucy, Abby and Gallant sat quietly waiting for their instructor to show. Lucy had moved back to the windowsill and continued to look out the window silently, arms wrapped around her knees while her head restedagainst the wall behind her.Susan turned to Gallant and asked him how he got the combination to Kerry's locker, she wasn't going to stop until she knew who did it.Gallant, again, denied putting the dildo in Kerry's locker. Abby asked Susan where she was living before and Susan told her about living in Phoenix, Arizona, "Land of Sun."
"And you decided to move back to Chicago?" Abby asked incredulously.
"Bitter cold and overcast skies better suit my temperament." She joked but then she got serious and admitted that she was really running away from her ex-boyfriend.
"Chemistry?" Abby asked. "Tanker truck full too much?" Susan nodded and agreed. She told Abby about Dix, an honest to God cowboy. Abby asked why they broke up and Susan begged off saying she'd rather not talk about it and Abby nodded in complience.
"Cowboy?" Abby asked with a smile and both women snickered asGallant asked Luka about being in the Army.
"You see some action?" He asked curiously.
"It's not what you think it is." Luka told him quietly without looking up.
"What do you think I think it is?" Gallant asked.
"Noble, romantic, a crucible upon which to test your young manhood." Luka said softly.
"No, I'm not that naive." Gallant assured him as he got up and walked away.
"Sure you are." Luka whispered. Abby suddenly turned around and faced Luka.
"How old were you when you became a man?" She asked not caring if she made everyone uncomfortable-the only ones uncomfortable being the guys.
"When did you lose your virginity?" Susan chimed in. "How old were you?" Abby explained that she and Susan were playing a game, that she and Susan made a bet as to who lost their virginity first. Luka smiled and refused to answer, so Abby volunteered that she lost hers at age 16.
"I was terrified, so was he-it was the longest 20 seconds of my life!" She and Susan dissolved into laughter, Lucy chuckled and the men all smiled, even Gallant.
"Twenty seconds?" Susan asked shocked at the time.
"Well, if you count foreplay." Abby replied with a chuckle. Susan went next saying she was 15. They then asked Gallant, who told them he when he lost his virginity when he was 14 in the balcony of his church after choir practice. Abby then moved on to ask Carter.
"I was 11." Both Susan and Abby repeated the age as if they heard wrong and when Carter confirmed it, they busted out laughing in digust, as did Lucy from the window. "She was one of the maids. Twenty-five, I think." The fact that she was 25 casued Susan and Abby to laugh, but Carter didn't seem proud or happy about what happened.
"Did you pay her?" Susan asked with a devious grin.
"My parents did." Carter said nonchalantly.
"To have sex with you?" Gallant asked shocked that anyone would do that.
"To be a maid." Carter responded at how Gallant could think that. But, it wouldn't surprise Carter at all if his parents had paid her to have sex with him.
"Eleven." Susan said to Luka. "It's going to be very tough to beat."
"You don't have to tell us what age you were, just that you were older than Carter so we can award Carter the prize." Abby told him and she and Susan laughed.
"My wedding night." Luka told them softly. "I lost my virginity on my wedding night." No one said anything, so Luka filled the silence by continuing. "It's okay. It's a good memory. I hadn't thought about it in years. We were very young and she was religious, so we waited. We loved each other very much." He added wistfully. "It's okay, it's okay." He insisted wiping his eyes. They then decided to move on to Lucy before giving Carter the money.
"What about you, Lucy?" Susan asked as she and Abby turned to look at her.
"Yeah, when did you lose your virginity?" Abby chimed in. Carter grunted in disgust saying her didn't want to hear about it. "Oh, but you had no problem hearing us talk about ours?"
"Grow up, Carter." Lucy said rolling her eyes and leaning her head toward the ceiling. "Fine. I'll tell you." She looked at them and smiled softly. "Technically-Technically, I'm still a virgin."
"What!" Abby gasped in shock. Carter looked at her amazed and Luka just smiled at her. He wasn't the only one to hold on for a long time now, Lucy was well into her twenties and still "pure," as priests would call it. "What about the whole Exam 6 ordeal?"
"Can we not get into that agian, please?" Carter begged.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. "Exam 6 ordeal?"" Susan asked as Carter put his head in his hands.
"Yeah. About 2 years ago, Lucy and Carter were caught in a compromising position in Exam 6 while she was examining his head for a concussion after she beat the snot out of him." Carter groaned from inside his hands as Lucy jumped off of the windowsill and walked over to sit with them.
"We were not caught in a "compromising position!" Nothing happened!" Carter said through his hands.
"That's not what Chuny said." Luka piped up suddenly.
"Since when do you listen to the Nurse gossip?" Carter asked practically shouting.
"I don't." He replied with a big grin. "I just happened to be at Admit desk when Chuny was telling Haleh and everyone else that she saw Lucy leave the Exam room with her shirt backward, and that you two locked the door in her face."
"You and Carter-" Susan started but Lucy stopped her before she could even finish, knowing what she was going to say.
"Like Carter said, nothing happened. Nothing at all. Truth is, I was practicing a move that one of the patients, a Tae Bo instructor, was helping me learn and I kicked him in her stomach causing him to hit his head on the wall. Add that tothekarate classes I took as a kid and I thought he might've had a concussion."
"So if it wasn't Carter you lost your virginity to..." Abby said chuckling at the thought. "...Who was it?"
"Like I said, technically...I'm still a virgin." She repeated.
"Well, explain the technically part then." Abby pressed on. "Then we can all laugh about it like we did with Carter."
"Why don't you go screw yourself, Abby?" Lucy said forcefully, now extremely annoyed with the conversation. "Or, better yet, go get the dildo from Kerry's locker and take it home?" Carter chuckled under his breath at this. Abby was about to defend herself as Lucy walked to sit on the table again when Susan calmed her down.
"What were you in?" Susan asked Luka needing to break the moment. "You said you were an actor in college, what plays were you in?"
"We did Hamlet." Luka replied.
"I did Hamlet." Carter chimed in eagerly. "I played Horatio."
"Who did you play, Luka?" Abby asked ignoring Carter like all of them had been doing.
"Um, Hamlet." He replied modestly earning a snort from Carter.
"In English or Croatian?" Susan asked.
"Why would we do it in English?" Luka asked rhetorically, he'd been in Coratia in college.
"Were you any good?" Abby asked.
"My Mom thought so." Luka answered modestly with a shrug.
"Do you remember any of it?" Susan asked but Luka just chuckled.
"It's been a long time."
"I think I remember some of it." Carter offered and he started to do the "To be or not to be" in an exaggerated fashion complete with a phony English accent. He didn't get far before he forgot the words. Luka joined him, then continued alone first in English, then in Croatian.
"To je ono sto trpnju nasu strpljivom. Tako cini, jer tko bi podnio. Bic I katno vremena, zlocinstva silnika. Prezir oholica, bol neuzvracene ljubavi. Bezobzirnost vlasti, sporost pravde. Kad bi sam uzmogao sve to skratiti. Tek jednim jedinim ubodom. Al strah od onog poslije smrti, od onog putovanja..." Everyone listened, clearly impressed by the emotion Luka brought to the speech. He finished saying the last line rather self-consciously in English. The moment was broken by the arrival of John Taylor, the Sexual Harassment lecturer. Luka, Carter and Gallant grabbed their things and moved down to the front as Lucy hopped off the table and sat down next to Luka after moving her things away from Abby. Once everyone was settled in the front row for Taylor's lecture, he began and the rest of the day dragged on.
Chapter 9: Secrets, Lies and Mischeif Pt. 6
Preview: Saturday evening...
