chapter 12

"Amy. The game's cancelled! Can you believe that?! I was going to tell Angela I liked her tonight." whined Shannon as he and Jeff came up on Amy's front porch, soak and wet due to the heavy down poor that was pounding its way down.

"What a shame." replied Amy in a trance as she continued to watch the rain to fall.

"Are you okay Amy?" asked Jeff concerned.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be?" she asked, looking at the boys, pain relevant in her eyes.

Before the boys had a chance to respond back, a black car pulled into the drive.

"Amy, are you okay? Matt said something was wrong." said Shane concerned, as he ran through the rain and up the steps of her porch.

"Matt?!" asked Shannon and Jeff shocked.

"Nothing's wrong. I'm tired." said Amy as she stood up and went in the house.

"Um, okay." Shane said confused. "Where's your brother?" he asked Jeff.

"At the house." replied Jeff.

"Okay." said Shane as he made his way over to Matt's, with Jeff and Shannon in tow.


"Matt, dude, why'd you call me over? What is going on?!" asked Shane storming through Matt's room.

"Shut the door." said Matt seriously, causing Shane to oblige immediately.

"What's going on? What's wrong with her?"

"Okay, I'm gonna tell you something, and you're going to fuckin freak out, but you got to promise to keep it cool around Amy, okay?"

"Okay, what is it?" asked Shane impatiently.

Matt rubbed his face. How was he gonna tell his friend this?

"Um, today, after practice, um I guess Amy decided she was going to uh, go break up with Rick you know? Well I found Rick on the field, rapping Amy."

"WHAT?!"

"I'm sorry Shane. I know you care for her a lot, but no one was there until I got there, and then I beat the shit outta him, but it was a little too late. The damage was done."

"GOD DAMN IT!" yelled Shane tossing stuff around in Matt's room. "How could this happen?!"

"I don't know man. I'm sorry."

He couldn't take it any more. Shane bolted out of Matt's room, down the stairs, outside, and found his way on Amy's porch.

"Amy open up now!" he pounded on the door. "Come on Amy!"

He waited for about two seconds before the door slowly opened, and a crying Amy appeared.

"Oh baby." he sighed as he grabbed Amy in his arms and refused to let go. "Everything's gonna be okay. I'm gonna kick his fuckin ass. He'll never even look at you, okay?"

All Amy could do was nod before she started to sob into his chest.

"Shhhhhh." he said before both him and Amy dropped to the ground, crying. Refusing to let go of each other.

END OF CHAP, WHATCHA THINK?