Chapter 26 - Liz's Secret

The next day, Sabrina, and Liz both invited Adam, Shane, Luke, Daniel, Sakura, and Amber over. The four couples hadn't gotten together in awhile, so they planned to go to the mall that day.
Sabrina had a Pink Hollister shirt, dark blue jeans, and pink DC shoes. Liz wore a pair of ripped up blue jeans, a tight white Bob Marley shirt, and a pair of black Kswiss's. Sakura and Daniel showed up five minutes before Amber and Luke did. Once they were all together, they got ready and went to the mall.
Once at the mall, a few of them split up, and a few of them stayed together. Adam and Luke wanted Cds, and Amber and Sabrina wanted clothes, so they went in their separate directions. Shane and Liz went off, as well as Sakura and Daniel.
Shane and Liz walked along slowly, talking.
"Listen, I've been thinking about you and I.." Liz said, leaving her sentence in mid-air.
"And?" Shane asked, worried that something bad was going to happen.
"I think that we need to take it one step further." Liz told him.
"Yeah, me too." Shane told her. He put his hand on her shoulder and stopped her from walking. She turned around and faced him. He put his lips to her lips and closed his eyes. Liz put her lips on his, and closed her eyes.
They both opened their eyes and looked at each other in the eyes after the deep, passionate kiss. "I love you." Shane told Liz.
" I love you, too." They both went hand in hand, and walked along again, after having that romantic scene in public.
Meanwhile, Sakura and Daniel were having a good time, looking around at everything, and talking. They didn't do much physical things, they just liked to be around each other and talk a lot. Adam and Luke were looking at the Greenday, Trick Daddy, T.I., and Eminem Cds. They both liked a wide variety of music, and loved to blast the music in their cars. They bought three Cds each, and then went hunting for Sabrina and Amber.
They finally found Sabrina and Amber at Hot Topic, and they both had found some cute clothes to buy. Sabrina and Amber paid for the stuff, then went and followed Adam and Luke. They met up with Sakura, Daniel, Liz, and Shane, at the food court. A couple more hours passed by, and they decided to go home, after a long day hanging out at the mall. Luke and Daniel took both of their girlfriends home, while Adam and Shane went back with Liz and Sabrina to their house. The girls wanted their boyfriends to hang out for a bit, and luckily, they didn't have to work the next day, so they were able to come over.
Shane and Liz decided to go up to hers and Sabrina's room, they wanted some private time alone. Meanwhile, Sabrina and Adam stayed downstairs on the couch. Jesse was playing PS2, and they were watching him play against Leon.
"C'mon, Leon, you should know how to beat Jesse by now." Sabrina told him.
"Nope, no one can beat me, I'm the best at video games." Jesse said while smiling like a fourteen year old.
"Realllllly?" Adam said, standing up and not believing him.
"Oh no, here it goes." Sabrina said, as she stood up and went to go find Letty. She knew Adam loved video games, and he was going to be there all night.
Adam got down on the floor and took over Leon's controller, only to find out that he could beat Jesse.
Sabrina came back into the living room a few minutes later with Letty behind her. Sabrina and Letty had come to be pretty close, even though she could be mean because she was pregnant. Adam, Jesse, and Leon were having enough fun at the Play Station 2, and Sabrina and Letty were having just as much fun watching them.
Meanwhile, Liz and Shane were in the bedroom. They were talking, and Shane noticed the whole time that Liz kept hiding her arms from him. "What is she hiding?" He thought to himself. He kept starring at her arms, hoping she'd notice, but she just ignored him. When he pulled her into his arms, he looked down, and saw one cut mark on each arm. He asked her softly, "Liz"
"Yeah baby?" She responded back, softly and sincerely.
"What are those on your arms?" He asked her, curiously.
"I don't want to talk about it." She told him, boldly and sternly, loosing her soft voice now.
"Well I do." He said to her, standing up off of the bed. "I know what those are, and if you don't explain, I'll get Brian up here, better yet, Dom." He said to her, grinning, knowing that she would give in.
"Alright fine. I got really depressed the other night and I cut myself. One time on each arm. Big deal." Liz said, acting like it didn't matter to her. She was hiding her feelings, and hoping he wouldn't notice, even though he knew her like a book.
"Yeah, sure, right, Big deal. It IS a big deal Liz! You are my baby! My sweetheart! The love of my life! And, you think, and I'm just going to shrug it off like this? I'm not! If you're not OK, then I'm not OK! I want you to be able to tell me anything, Liz! I would tell you anything! I tell you anything and everything about my life that you want to know, and I thought you did the same. I guess I was wrong." Shane told her, raising his voice a little more than he expected.
Liz started balling in tears, when finally Shane had realized that he really did raise his voice. He walked over to her, and held her in his arms, comforting her.
"Liz, Liz, Liz, my baby Liz, I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby, I didn't mean to hurt you, I didn't. It's just I'm really worried about you. Promise you won't do it again?" He asked her, looking into her beautiful eyes.
"Yeah, I promise." She told him.
"Good. I'm glad. And you know that you can't get anything past me, so don't try." He told her, grinning boyishly.
Liz laughed a little through her wet tears that were now stopping. There was still the wet marks of tears rolling down her cheeks. Shane felt really bad for her. He knew a lot had happened in her life, but he didn't know that she was this depressed about it, and he always thought that she would come to him about anything. He knew, after this night, that he was going to have to keep a closer eye on her. He grabbed his jacket off of the chair.
"My parents should be home soon, I have to go, my baby." He told her, kissing her cheek.
"Please stay." Liz asked him, looking into his eyes and giving him the "oh please?" look that could suck anyone into doing anything.
"Alright, fine, I'll stay." He told her. He took off his pants, only to leave his boxers on, and then his shirt, and crawled into bed with her. An hour later Adam decided to go home, and Sabrina went upstairs. She pushed open the door, and whispered to herself, then shut it quickly. She went to Jesse, who was downstairs wrapping things up.
"Hey Jesse?" She asked him.
"Yeah girl?" He replied.
"Mind if I sleep in your room tonight?" She asked him, sincerely and curiously. She put on the "Pleaseee" look that could suck anyone in, much like Liz's look.
"Fine, sure." He told her.
"Yay, ok, thanks." She said, running off to go brush her teeth and get ready for bed.
"Welcome…" He dragged off as he finished rolling up the controller for the PlayStation 2 and putting it on the TV stand. "Hey Jess?" Liz asked him when she came out of the bathroom and went into his room. "When do you think Dom, and Vince'll be home"
"Hard to say. Their working in the garage, race wars is next week, we have to get ready, you know?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I know. Just wondering." She told him, but her face said that she was hiding something.
"What is it?" He asked her.
"What is what?" She asked, trying to hide it.
"I know you're hiding something, Sabrina. I've known you for a long time now. Don't try to act like you're not hiding something, because I know that you are." He told her.
"Dangat," She thought, "He caught me." She simply stated, "Liz and Shane are in bed together in my room." "Oh shoot. They better not get caught." Jesse said to her.
"I don't think they will. Shane knows to leave early, and Liz knows that he needs to leave early, too, before anyone wakes up." Sabrina told Jesse.
"Yeah, you're probably right." He told her.
Sabrina climbed in the right side of the bed, while Jesse got in the left side. "Hey hey hey, c'mon, this is my bed, not yours." He told her.
"Where do you expect me to sleep? The floor?" She asked him, sarcastically.
He responded sarcastically, "Oh yes, the floor, an awesome place to sleep." He told her giving her the thumbs up.
Sabrina shook her head and got in. She laid on the edge of the bed, and in a few minutes she was fast asleep.
Jesse laid in bed for a few more minutes, thinking about all of his thoughts and how much trouble Liz would be in if she got caught. He fell asleep fast from all of the busy thinking.
As for Leon, he went to bed when Jesse did, in his room. Dom and Vince didn't get home till about three A.M. Brian stayed in Mia's room and fell asleep holding her in his arms, as well as she fell asleep in his arms. Adam got home and went into his bed, and fell asleep dreaming of Sabrina.