Okay, Chapter 8. Thanks to all the loyal fans out there that I always hear from. For the last chapter, I only got like 5 reviews and they are always from the same people.

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Chapter 8

"Troy?"

Mack stared long and hard at her brother, who was refusing to open his eyes. "Troy?" Still his eyes didn't open and Mack started to get scared. Normally, if she bugged him enough, he'd crack a smile or laugh a little. Now, he laid on his bed a serene look on his face.

"Mom!" She ran, as fast as she could, down the stairs and into the kitchen where were parents were seated. Her breathing was rapid from fright. This couldn't be happening. "Mom, Troy's not waking up," she whimpered as she ran into the kitchen.

Jack was the first out of his chair, followed closely by Elaine. Mack bit her lip and ran after her parents up the stairs. When Mack walked into the room, Jack was calling Troy, trying to get him to wake up.

"Troy, come on buddy wake up."

His eyes opened slowly and he looked confused. "Why am I on the floor?"

"Phew...are you okay," Jack asked.

"Why am I on the floor," Troy asked again.

"That's a good question. Do you remember anything," Elaine asked.

"I was talking on my phone...and then I hung up and now I'm on the floor, which isn't comfortable. Oh, I'm on something...ah," Troy said, grabbing what was under his back. "My phone."

"Troy do you feel okay now? Do you want some water or something?"

"I'm fine Mom."

"All right, but if this happens again we're going to the doctor," Jack declared, obviously scared for his son.

"Yeah," Troy said under his breath.

Jack and Elaine left the room and Troy half expected Mack to leave with them. But he wasn't surprised that she stayed either.

"This wouldn't have anything to do with that full container of medicine in the bathroom, would it," Mack said sarcastically.

"It's a refill Mack, that's why it's full."

"You've gotten better at lying I see," she said, her voice full of distrust and anger. "Check the date, it says you should be done with that bottle soon and getting a refill."

"Mack, just stay out of my business, okay. I've got it under control."

"Oh yeah, collapsing on your floor, is that under control? I don't think so."

"Just stay out of it!"

"I can't! I live here and I don't want my brother to get hurt, especially if he's going to get hurt by his own actions!"

"You know what Mack, if I got a dime for every time you got in my business when it didn't concern you, I could buy a in-ground pool and fill it with Dutch Chocolate."

"Well, you could buy it, but you'd drown in it because you don't know how to take care of yourself," she said. He glared at her and she stormed out of his room and out the door. Jack and Elaine shared a look as she slammed the front door shut. She pulled out the cellphone her parents bought her for her birthday and speed dialed Calum. "Hey Calum, can you meet me somewhere...how about the park in ten...okay see you then."

She stuffed it in her pocket and stormed off toward the park. On her way there she saw a boy teaching his little sister how to hit a baseball off a tee. She watched carefully. The girl didn't have a clue as to what she was supposed to be doing, but she was happy to be with he big brother.

"Be careful kid," Mack whispered. "Brothers start sweet, then they disappear."

She kicked a rock that was on the sidewalk. It sailed thought the air which such speed and grace, had she not know who she was, she would have thought that she was a soccer player. But she had never really liked soccer, she never tried to understand it because the only thing that mattered to her was basketball.

She sat on the swing in the park and thought about the week. She and Calum had both made Junior Varsity. It wasn't like people were surprised, she was Troy's sister, some of his talent must have rubbed off onto her. She didn't even go to tryouts, the coach had already picked her. Both her and Calum had had practice Wednesday, Thursday and Friday getting ready for the long season ahead of them.

Bailey had found out that Adam exploded on Nick. To make him mad, she did everything with 'her little Nicky' and most of it, she did in front of him. Chad was completely forgotten in Keisha's mind. Her new crush was Damien Reed Blair, the 18-year-old star of television movie "Killing Frankie Jones." She must have seen it about twenty times and it had just come out a few days ago. Teagan and Mikaela were the only ones that hadn't seemed to change in one way or another that past week.

"What's wrong?"

Mack looked up and smiled. Calum was so considerate, she felt like she didn't deserve him. "Troy hasn't been taking his medicine."

"Is that bad?"

"Well, he fainted on his floor and then blew up at me when I tried to tell him that he needed to start taking his meds again."

Calum stared at her, as if he couldn't form words. "It wasn't a big fight," she said. "But I feel like we're drifting apart, even more than we all ready have."

He walked over and enveloped her small frame in his tan arms. When he backed off, she looked up and he leaned in to kiss her. She didn't refuse and soon she deepened the kiss. Calum broke it off and gently picked her up so he could carry her over to a large tree. He laid her on the grass and he laid beside her, playing with a lock of her hair.

"Calum?"

"Yeah."

"Nothing, I just wanted to hear your voice," she said as she crawled over to him and placed her head on his chest. Before long they were both sound asleep.

Okay, this was a little short chapter for all the people out there who love Mack and Calum. It's really late and I'm really tired, so I'll end it here. Hope you enjoyed it.

Also, I need a few college ideas for the following people.

Gabriella

Cam

Ryan

And, remember that Troy wants to go where Gabriella goes, so I can't send her to Harvard or Yale or someplace like that because they only pick like 6 of the people who want to go and I doubt Troy would be in the 6, he's more in the 94 that get declined.

So, anyway. Tell me what you think and I'll probably have more up really soon.

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