10 Erosion

Marco has had a pretty good week at school; he got the lead in the play and was doing great in all of his classes. Outside of school his week had sucked. His dad was hounding him about a girlfriend again, and anytime he called Dylan he either didn't answer or would answer but be too busy to talk. Marco had a growing fear in his stomach that Dylan was cheating on him again. He is sitting in his room doing his homework like any other night, but he wasn't concentrating on his homework like he should have been. Instead his focus was on Dylan. Marco picks up the phone and dials Dylan's cell number.

"Hey, its Dylan, leave me a message," Dylan's recorded voicemail service had picked up rather than Dylan.

Marco hangs up without leaving a message and tries Dylan's dorm.

"Hello," Someone answers the phone..

"Hi, is Dylan there?" Marco asks not thinking anything of a different voice on the other end, after all Dylan did have roommates.

"Nope, I'll tell him you called, Marco," The guy says into the phone.

"Thanks," Marco says before hanging up.

Something wasn't right about this. Dylan never shut his cell off. Marco is slightly angry by now, but still doesn't jump to any conclusions. Instead he tries to finish his homework. When that doesn't work he calls Paige.

"Hey Hun," Paige says answering the phone cheerfully.

"Hey," Marco says gloomily.

"What's wrong?" Paige asks changing her tone of voice to concerned friend.

"Nothing really, um have you talked to Dyl today?" Marco asks trying not to seem too sad.

"Nope, why?" Paige asks in a why would I sort of tone.

"No reason, he isn't answering his cell and I thought he might be talking to you," Marco says and you can tell he is growing sadder as he says it.

"Sorry Hun, but I haven't talked to him since the other night at Craig's," Paige says trying not to sound to worried, "I'm sure he's just studying or something."

"Yeah, you are probably right," Marco says trying to convince himself.

"Well Alex and Jimmy are here, so I'll talk to you later," Paige says hanging up.

"Great," Marco says out loud to himself.

Marco decides to go wait for Dylan at his dorm, to find out what is going on. HE grabs a jacket, and tells his mom he is leaving. Marco gets in his car and drives to Dylan's dorm. He spots Dylan's car in the parking lot. He parks a few spots down from Dylan's, and is getting out when he sees Dylan walking hand-and-hand with Mike, the guy from the party that was going to show Marco his dorm. Marco gets back in his car and decides to follow them out of the parking lot, and see where they go. He sees Dylan backs up and after he is pulled out Marco backs up and follows them out of the University parking lot. They first stop by a building and Dylan runs in and comes out holding hands with another guy.

"What the fuck?" Marco says out loud to himself.

As they begin to drive off Marco dials Dylan's cell number. Dylan answers,

"Hey babe, how are you?" Dylan says cheerfully.

"Don't babe me. We are so over," Marco says before hanging up the phone.

He turns down a side road and ends up at the beach. He gets out of his car leaving his cell phone on the seat where he had thrown it after hanging up with Dylan. Marco walks to the rocks he and Dylan sat on at the end of Pride Part 1. Marco looks out on the water as tears begin to stain his face.

How could he do that? How could Dylan just rip my heart out like that? Why was he the one everyone took advantage of?

These are the questions that ran through Marco's head as he sat upon the rocks crying.

!SCENE CHANGE!

Dylan is sitting in his car and keeps dialing Marco's cell number, but just keeps getting the voicemail.

"Hey its Marco leave mea message," Marco's recorded voice repeats for about the sixteenth time in an hour.

"Hey, its me again. Please call me back. We really need to talk," Dylan says confused.

After he hangs up he wipes a tear away from his cheek. He decides to take a drive. Dylan ends up at the beach as well. He parks his car and realizes that Marco's is also parked there, and that his cell phone is lying on the passenger seat. Dylan automatically knows where Marco is and that is right where he was heading. Dylan is walking towards the rocks, and sees Marco sitting upon them. He looks at Marco, his lover, weeping and he has no idea what is going on with him. Dylan makes his way over to Marco. He sits down next to him and runs his hand along Marco's back.

"I love you," Dylan whispers.

Marco turns and sees Dylan sitting next to him. At first he smiles, but then he remembers what he saw earlier.

"Why?" Marco asks with tears continuing to flow from his eyes.

"Why do I love you?" Dylan asks confused.

"No, Why did you cheat on me again?" Marco asks.

"Cheat on you!" Dylan says in shock," When did I cheat on you?"

"This afternoon, I saw you with Mike, and then that other guy," Marco says.

"Mike is just a friend, and the other guy is his boyfriend. We were actually on our way to pick you up. We thought you might want to go to a club with us for awhile," Dylan says.

"Uh huh, then why were you holding hands with them?" Marco asks.

"I was trying to get them to hurry up. I missed you," Dylan says.

Marco doesn't say anything he instead gets up and walks away from Dylan. Dylan runs after him.

"Marco I swear I didn't cheat on you. Pleas just believe me," Dylan says grabbing Marco's hand in his own when he catches up to him.

"I can't. I don't trust you. I don't believe you, and I can't even attempt to try to believe you. I loved you, but I realized some things are better off not turning out how I would like them too," Marco says tears running down his face the whole time.

"Marco, I love you. I never meant to hurt you. It was a stupid thing to do, and I swore to you I'd never do it to you again.," Dylan says as tears begin to fall from his own eyes.

Marco looks up and lightly wipes at tear from Dylan's cheek.

"I still love you," Marco whispers before turning and leaving Dylan standing on the beach alone.

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