Author's Note: Sorry I haven't updated in SOOOO LONG ... been busy ... and stuck ... hope you like ... Oh, it's like a month later ...

Chapter 10

Rae sat in her Drama the following day, watching as her flamboyant teacher, Rico, was acting out a scene with Charlie Haas. Rico, well, he didn't want his students to call him anything else. Rae and Shelton Benjamin were sitting in their seats, snickering as Rico was flailing all about with a little too much enthusiasm. Charlie on the other hand, seemed very nervous about being up there. Charlie was finally finished with the scene and quickly hurried back to his seat, which was between Rae and Shelton. Rae grinned and pocked Charlie in the ribs,

"You're a born actor."

Charlie smirked and looked at Rae,

"And you're full of sh ... "

"Charles," Rico's voice cut off. Charlie looked up, nervous as the rest of the tried to stifle their laughter. Rico put his hands on his hips,

"That language is NOT allowed in my room, unless in a script."

Rae smirked,

"Charlie looked at Rae, offended, and said ... " she looked at Charlie and he smiled in realization,

"And you're full of shit, Rae."

The started laughing, Rae cocked an eyebrow and smirked at Rico. He laughed and nodded,

"Very clever Ms. Calloway."

Rae grinned and shrugged,

"Thanks."

Rico motioned down toward him,

"Raechel, I would like you to act out Myrrhine and," he looked around the room and his eyes fell on Dave who was somewhat asleep,

"Dave, you shall act as Cinesias!"

Dave sat up and looked around,

"Huh?"

Rico smiled widely and waved down to the floor where he and Rae were standing. Dave walked down to them. Rico pointed to where he wanted them to begin and Dave hesistated for a moment,

"Quick, oh! be quick! Life has no more charms for me since she left my house. I am sad, sad, when I go indoors; it all seems so empty; my victuals have lost their savour. And all because of this erection that I can't get rid of!"

Rae bit back a grin and read her lines,

"I love him, oh! I love him; but he won't let himself be loved. No! I shall not come."

Dave rose his eyes from the script and looked at Rae before looking back down,

"Myrrhine, my little darling Myrrhine, what are you saying? Come down to me quick."

Rae shook her head quickly, and her voice was firm,

"No indeed, not I."

Dave really got into his part and his face grew frustrated,

"I call you, Myrrhine, Myrrhine; won't you please come?"

Rae got into her character and pouted slightly,

"Why should you call me? You do not want me."

Dave's eyes went wide as he approached Rae,

"Not want you! Why, here I stand, stiff with desire!"

"Good-bye."

She turned as if she was going to leave, but Dave grabbed her shoulder,

"Oh! Myrrhine, Myrrhine, in our child's name, hear me; at any rate hear the child! Little lad, call your mother."

Rico called off from the side,

"Mamma, mamma, mamma!"

The snickered and Dave continued,

"There, listen! Don't you pity the poor child? It's six days now you've never washed and never fed the child."

Rae walked over to Rico and gently stroked his cheek,

"Poor darling, your father takes mighty little care of you," she finished and shot a harsh look back at Dave. Dave walked over to Rae and gently touched her biceps,

"Come down, dearest, come down for the child's sake".

Rae nodded and turned back to Dave,

"Ah! what a thing it is to be a mother! Well, well, we must come down, I suppose."

Dave grinned as he looked down at the script, but Rae stalked toward him,

"Why, how much younger and prettier she looks! And how she looks at me so lovingly! Her cruelty and scorn only redouble my passion."

Rae turned from Dave and went back to Rico,

"You are as sweet as your father is provoking! Let me kiss you, my treasure, mother's darling!"

Dave walked toward her and his voice was now frustrated,

"Ah! what a bad thing it is to let yourself be led away by other women! Why give me such pain and suffering, and yourself into the bargain?"

Rae pulled back as Dave went to hold her,

"Hands off, sir!"

Dave groaned,

"Everything is going to rack and ruin in the house."

Rae shrugged and turned from Dave,

"I don't care."

Dave now tried to sound convincing,

"But your web that's all being pecked to pieces by the cocks and hens, don't you care for that?"

Rae's voice was now indifferent,

"Precious little."

Dave continued pressing, "And Aphrodite, whose mysteries you have not celebrated for so long? Oh! won't you please come back home?"

Rae shook her head as she turned to look at Dave,

"No, least, not till a sound treaty puts an end to the war."

Dave smiled,

"Well, if you wish it so much, why, we'll make it, your treaty."

Rae smiled and nodded as she glanced up at Dave,

"Well and good! When that's done, I will come home. Till then, I am bound by an oath."

Dave stepped closer to her,

"At any rate, lie with me for a little while."

Rae shook her head quickly,

"No, no, no," she hesitated for a moment,

"But just the same I can't say I don't love you."

Dave smiled at her as he inched closer to her,

"You love me? Then why refuse to lie with me, my little girl, my sweet Myrrhine?"

Rae's jaw dropped,

"You must be joking! What, before the child!"

Dave looked off to the side for a moment,

"Manes, carry the lad home."

He looked back at Rae,

"There, you see, the child is gone; there's nothing to hinder us; won't you lie down now?"

Rae groaned,

"But, miserable man, where, where?"

Dave smiled suggestively at her,

"In the cave of Pan; nothing could be better."

Rae tried to stall,

"But how shall I purify myself before going back into the citadel?"

Dave chuckled slightly,

"Nothing easier! you can wash at the Clepsydra."

Rae continued her stalling,

"But my oath? Do you want me to perjure myself?"

"I'll take all responsibility; don't worry."

Rae nodded sharply,

"Well, I'll be off, then, and find a bed for us."

Dave shook his head as he ran his fingertops down her toned biceps,

"There's no point in that; surely we can lie on the ground."

Rae felt a shiver go through her body and pulled away,

"No, no! even though you are bad, I don't like your lying on the bare earth."

Rico stepped toward them,

"Great! You two that was, surperb!"

He looked at the rest of the ,

"Well, come on, give them a hand," he demanded and started clapping for the two of them. The slowly joined in. Rae and Dave exchanged amused glances. Rae got caught in his eyes for a moment, but quickly tore them away and looked down at the floor.
At the same time that Rae and Dave were acting in Drama , Heather was staring at her teacher for English with complete boredom. Her teacher was a fairly short man, Mr. Serenca. He was assistant defense coach for the football team and Heather found it amusing that the name embroidered on his jacket was "Tazz". Mr. Senerca was going on and on about an essay he had assigned for the students to write, about an event that changed their life,

"Now I know some of youse will find this easier than da rest of ya."

Heather smirked to herself, for an English teacher, Mr. Senerca had HORRIBLE grammer which Heather knew would drive Rae nuts 2nd semester when she had him. Heather leaned back in her chair and heard someone whisper her name. She looked back over her shoulder and saw Brock trying to get closer to her. She smirked, amused, Brock leaned forward in his seat,

"Do you think we could get togethre sometime," he asked in a low whisper. Heather shook her head,

"No, sorry."

Brock's face fell,

"You're still with Jeff, huh?"

Heather nodded,

"Yeah, we've been going out for like a good while now Brock."

Brock nodded and then sat back in his chair. Heather rolled her eyes and turned around to pay attention to her teacher.
Amanda and Randy sat in their Consumer Ed. , Randy was reaching forward and had a hold of Amandas hand. Amanda leaned back in her chair as Randy leaned forward on the desk. The was disturbed by yelling out in the hall, Randy immediately recognized the voice of John and jumped up from his seat. Amanda followed after him, wondering if the person John was yelling at was Rae. The ran to the door as Randy and Amanda walked out. John was yelling at someone, but it wasn't Rae, it was Dawn Marie. John threw up his hands in frustration,

"Bitch, I've got a girlfriend now! I don't want your skank ass!"

Dawn was persistant,

"John, come on, you know you loved it ..."

Amanda stepped forward,

"I highly doubt that."

John looked at Amanda, shocked that she had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Amanda glared at Dawn,

"If Rae were here right now, you know you'd be unconscious, right?"

Dawn scowled,

"You think that slut could ... " John cut her off and stepped toward Dawn, forcing her against the lockers,

"What did you call her," he screamed in her face. Dawn whimpered and shrank down. John stayed right in her face,

"Don't you ever talk about her like that again! You're the fuckin slut!"

Randy pulled John away from Dawn,

"Come on man, let's get you some air."

Amanda looked down at Dawn who was now on the floor watching as Randy led John away.
Steve had come inside from doing some yard work. He looked around as he got a beer from the fridge,

"Heather!"

No answer, and Steve just shrugged it off. He opened his beer and went out the back door. A scream filled the house and Steve ran back inside. He looked around,

"Heather," his voice panicked.

He ran upstairs and found the bathroom door shut. He banged on the door, frantically, she remained quiet on the other side.
Heather blocked out the banging on the door as she stared down at the test in her hands. How? She and Jeff were being careful. She then remembered a time about a month ago, it was just a spur of the moment thing, in the bathroom at the mall. Heather sighed heavily, what was her father going to say? What was JEFF going to say?! Heather opened the door of the bathroom and stared into the scared blue eyes of her father,

"Daddy," she began. Steve looked at his daughter, she was so white, and her eyes seemed distant,

"What's wrong," he asked, completely concerned for his daughters health. Heather swallowed and let her eyes travel down to look at the floor,

"I'm pregnant," her voice was barely audible, but Steve heard her regardless. His face showed the shock he was in. He swallowed,

"Are you happy about it?"

Heather shrugged,

"I mean, I've still got school and all, but yeah, I'm happy."

Steve smiled and hugged his daughter tightly,

"Then I'm happy too."

Heather closed her eyes as she returned her fathers strong embrace. Steve felt ters coming,

"I love you."

Heather allowed tears to run down her cheeks,

"I love you too daddy."

She pulled from him,

"I need to call Jeff, and have him over."

Steve nodded and watched as his daughter walked away. He sighed heavily, true, she was still young to be having a kid, but Steve was happy for his daughter. He knew how much she loved kids and she would be a great mother. Steve swallowed a lump in his throat, she had a great mother herself. Steve leaned against the wall and allowed the tears to fall.

Author's Note: Well, Heather is pregnant! :scream: Okay, enough of that ... next chap ... Sarah will be back, as will Rena ... For the most part, I want to concentrate on the three main relationships ... in the mean time ... REVIEW ...