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Pairings: C/E, snippets of C/W

1 Chapter Six

"Hey what's going on here?" Will's voice boomed over the crowd of people.

The crowd parted to reveal Will's muscular frame walking towards Griffin, Eric, and Caitlin. He seemed to stop short of arms length from Caitlin and the reunion. "Will!" Caitlin exclaimed, unwittingly blushing under Will's shocked stare. "Look who's come back!"

"Hey," Will grunted towards Eric.

Eric nodded towards Will. Caitlin felt uncomfortable caught between the two boys' stares. They seemed to pierce right through her and into each other. Griffin soon alleviated the situation by dragging Eric away to homeroom with him.

As the return of the school's star football player and class clown left, soon the crowd parted and went to their own homerooms. Caitlin remained standing in the middle of the hallway looking at Will. "Hey!" she eeked out. Caitlin forced a smile on her face. "Isn't it a surprise?"

"Yeah, a surprise," he mumbled. Suddenly a smile appeared on his face and he wrapped his arms around Caitlin's waist. "How are you today?"

Caitlin smiled as she looked into those chocolate brown eyes. "Good. What about you? Did you sleep well before your first day of school?"

"Yes," he smiled. "I had sweet dreams about you."

Caitlin felt herself involuntarily blush. She nervously tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Caitlin still felt awkward about the intimate proximity of Will's body to hers. "Did you, now?" she laughed nervously.

"Yeah. Do you want to hear about…" the homeroom bell rang interrupting Will. The bell signalled the start of the new school year.

"We'd better get going to homeroom," Caitlin suggested, pushing away from Will.

"Yeah, I guess," he sighed, looking at her strangely.

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Will watched Caitlin as she sat in front of him. She had been acting weird since he'd walked in the door of the school. Now every time he touched her, she jumped. What's with her?

His senior year hadn't begun the way he'd imagined. After the hard six months away from Caitlin that day she decided to stay with Griffin and Eric in the field had been hard, but they'd found their way back to each other and they were closer than ever. At least that's what he'd thought.

When the crowd of people parted and he'd first laid eyes on Eric, he had a sick feeling in his stomach. Not that it wasn't a natural reaction anyway, he chuckled to himself. But there had always been something about the threesome: Eric, Griffin, and Caitlin. They were close -- a tight-knit group. When he'd finally left when his parents had moved, Will was secretly overjoyed.

Now he was back.

The school year definitely hadn't started the way he imagined it would.

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