Chapter Thirteen: Everyone's Got a Secret or Two
Marco
"What do you mean you've known?" I asked. I wasn't sure what to say.
"I know that when Rex isn't with me then he's with Alyssa. It goes back farther than you think," he said.
"Do you think you could explain it for me?" I asked. "How can you forget to mention that you know your boyfriend is cheating on you? With a woman! I thought he was gay!" I exclaimed.
"So did I," he sighed, leaning back against the wall. "Okay, I guess I should tell you the whole story." He paused, and didn't go on.
"I'm listening," I told him, leaning back next to him. He took a deep breath, and started his story.
"Rex and I have been together since 9th grade. We met on the train on the way to school, and have been inseparable ever since. At least, that's what I thought. I guess some time in 10th grade, he started doubting his sexuality. He liked boys so he thought he was gay. But then he took an interest in our English teacher, Mrs. Skye. When he asked me about it, I suggested that he might be bi, and that's why he liked her. I never thought that he'd start something with her.
She was pretty stupid to get into things with a sixteen year old, but she did. I think at the time, she was twenty-five. Anyway, I saw that he was slowly becoming more interested with her than with me. I wanted him to be happy, so I told him that if he thought he might not be gay, he should experiment and I wouldn't get mad. But I warned him not to do anything with that teacher. I told him he should just try something with one of the girls from the dance…"
"What dance?" I asked, interrupting him.
"Oh, every year, around Valentine's Day, there's a dance here at school with the all girl's school that's a few blocks away. So anyway, on Valentine's Day, Rex disappeared from the dance. I didn't mind. I just hung out with Nate since he didn't have a boyfriend. Thomas was off with Theresa…"
"Who's Theresa?" I asked.
"Could you stop interrupting?"
"Sorry."
"I'll tell you about her later. So Rex was gone the whole night and Nate and I just went back to my room and watched movies. Rex returned later the next day, way after dinner. I was suspicious since we had an English substitute. He confessed to me that he was with her. They met up at the dance because she was a chaperone, and he snuck off to her office with her.
He still swears that they stayed up all night and then the next day talking, and they farthest they got was kissing. I'm still not so sure about that, but there's nothing I can do about it. I told him to go with a girl and see if he liked it.
Well, after that night, and for awhile after, he continued to see her. He told me that he still wasn't sure about his sexuality. But about three weeks after their affair started, Mrs. Skye ended it. She explained to him that she had a husband. They'd been married for three years and she didn't want to jeopardize her marriage.
Rex took it hard, but then he came to me and confirmed that he was gay. He told me that he didn't feel anything when he kissed her, and he felt everything when he kissed me. I was so happy that day. I never thought that he'd do anything like that again. I was wrong. Really wrong.
I thought I'd been right because every night after that, he was always with me. Until October of the next year, that is. They made a huge mistake. Mrs. Skye came back to him and said that she'd been thinking about him. She told him that she wasn't in love with her husband anymore and that she loved him. At first, I thought he'd turn her down, but he didn't.
They slept together on Halloween night. The night of our costume party.
She kept seeing him for a month after that. Every night, after we had sex, he went off to her. But shortly after that, she broke it off with him again. She told him that she'd been having a fight with her husband, but it was over, and she didn't want to hurt him. But she was lying to him. He knew it, and I knew it," he stopped talking.
"That's it? Wait…I don't get it…"
"There's more…"
"What's wrong?" Jesse asked Rex. He looked upset.
"Oh Jesse, I know this hasn't been easy for you. She broke up with me…again," Rex said, sighing.
"It's okay. I told you that girls cause nothing but trouble. You're better off with me," Jesse told his boyfriend.
"You're right. I love you so much and I'm glad you've stuck by me through all of this. Not very many guys would do that."
"I'm doing this because I love you, and I want you to be happy no matter what," Jesse said, kissing him.
"I'm happy with you. I just want you to know that."
"So what happened next," I interrupted him for a third time.
"Well, nothing happened for a good five months. But then Rex noticed something. He became even more suspicious of the break up and he followed Mrs. Skye after class one day. I tagged along, but stood outside her office while he went right in."
"Alyssa…" Rex trailed off as he followed her inside and closed the door.
"Rex! You startled me. Why did you follow me like that? Someone could see you," she said, sighing.
"Why did you break up with me?" he asked, walking close to her.
"I told you! I was just getting back at my husband for upsetting me. We shouldn't have done any of that," she said.
"Tell me the truth Alyssa. You told me that you loved me. Did you just fall out of love?" he asked, holding back tears.
"No…of course not. This just isn't right Rex. You have a boyfriend, I'm married…I'm your teacher for God's sake!" she burst out and started to cry.
"Don't cry," Rex said, hugging her. He kissed her on the lips but she pulled away.
"Rex, we can never be happy together. Never," she whispered.
"I saw you today…by your car…before you put your sweater on…oh Lyssa," he said, using his nickname for her.
"Rex, don't," she said, stepping back.
"Are you pregnant?"
"Was she?" I asked when he stopped telling the story.
"Yes. She pushed him away for good that day. Well, for the time being really. She told him that she didn't want him breaking up her marriage. That she and her husband were finally going to be happy because their first child was on the way," Jesse explained.
"But…whose baby was it really?" I asked.
"No one was really sure. Rex stressed all summer about it. She had one of those baby ads in the newspaper, announcing their first child. They had a daughter…Isabella Grace Skye. As soon as we saw the picture, we knew. She has his eyes, and his nose. The blonde hair comes from Alyssa, and so do her lips. But everything else…she looks so much like Rex," Jesse said, choking back tears.
"I'm sorry," I whispered, leaning my head on his shoulder.
"When Rex started disappearing again, I knew it was to see her. She started bringing the baby to see him. She still hasn't admitted to him that he's her father because she can't let anyone find out. But she knows that he can tell."
"And her husband doesn't suspect a thing?" I asked. "Can't he tell that the baby doesn't look a thing like him?"
"He just thinks that she looks like her mother. And he's convinced that the nose and the eyes are from his own father. I feel really bad for him. He has no idea at all…Rex has even met the guy and talked with him. He's gone to her house to baby sit, and Jeff still doesn't suspect a thing."
"But you've known all of this, and you still stay with Rex. Why?" I asked.
"Because I love him. I always have and I always will."
Andrew
"Good evening ladies," Remy said as he walked into our room. Rory and I were just starting a movie. Classes were over for the day, and Remy hadn't shown up in any of them.
"Where have you been?" I asked him suspiciously.
"I have a new…acquaintance," he said, smiling.
"What's her name? And why do you insist on cheating on Theresa?" Rory asked.
"Well, since I can't be with Theresa here, I have to make up for it somehow. Besides, she cheated on me with Thomas, remember," he said.
"Yeah, but that was back in 10th grade! It was because she found out about your year long sexcapades with guys the year before. I don't blame her," I said, laughing.
"Screw that," Rory said. "What's her name?"
"Kelly," Remy said.
"Where'd you meet her?" I asked.
"That's not important," he answered.
"How's the sex?" Rory asked. I smacked him, but he still wanted to know.
"Hasn't happened…yet," Remy said truthfully.
"Wow, taking it slow for once? Are you in looooooove?" I joked.
"Hardly. You know I've been with Theresa since 8th grade. I wouldn't do anything to permanently ruin things with her like falling in love. This is just temporary. I gotta have sex some time you know. I don't throw myself at every person I see like you two," he said.
"I do not do that!" I protested.
"Neither do I!" Rory argued.
"Oh, yeah right. You both just changed your ways because of Marco," he said.
The room was silent. Not cool.
"Let's just watch the movie," Rory said, turning it on.
A/N: Wow, I didn't expect Jesse's little story to take up almost four pages! What I'm going to do next chapter is take all the people that didn't have POVs this chap, and put them into the next one. So anyone who had a POV this chapter will most likely not have one in chapter fourteen. So that would be Marco and Andrew. They'll be in the next chapter, just not POV wise. Tell me what you think.
azure: As for your question about who Kelly is, he IS Mr. James! Kelly is his first name. When Remy first went to get 'help' he said 'you can call me Kelly, that is my name,' etc. Just trying to clear that up.
MrsPatrickStump:About the Mr.James (Kelly) POV, I am actually going to write onein chapter19 (the next chapter thatI'm writing) So you'll have to wait a bit..but hopefully that'll be ok.
