I'm back! Sorry it took so long to get this out, but having writer's block really SUCKS. Anyways, over the past two months I somehow came up with a way to continue this story. I didn't want to do this story the exact same as From the Ground Up; I had to throw a couple of twists and turns in there to keep interest. Hopefully you all enjoy this chapter that is a combination late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year gift.
Friday had finally arrived and Kaitlyn was in the bathroom getting ready to go to Evan Bourne's house to hang out with a bunch of friends, watch movies, and do who knows what else. After finishing in the bathroom, Kaitlyn knocks on BB's door to see if he is ready to go.
"BLAINE! ARE YOU READY YET?" Kaitlyn yells while banging on the door.
"I'm not sure if I want to go now." BB says on the other side of the door.
"NOT GO!" Kaitlyn yells as she storms into BB's room. "What in the hell do you mean that you don't want to go now?"
"Well…I mean there are going to be a lot of people I don't know, and what if they don't like me. What about…." BB says before Kaitlyn cuts him off.
"Come on, Blaine. You'll have me and Seth there. Hell, Evan INVITED you so he must like you. What are you so worried about? It's just a fun night of friends watching movies and eating pizza until we pass out." Kaitlyn replies.
"You know how I do with a group of new people. I'm not exactly the most sociable person out there." BB says.
"OH Bull…." Kaitlyn says before stopping herself. "Hold on a sec. I can't just fly off the handle and yell at him. That might lead him to locking himself in the room for two days." Kaitlyn thought before trying a different strategy.
"Blaine, it'll be fun. Who knows? You might have fun. So stop worrying and come have a good time with a bunch of weirdoes and eat a bunch of pizza. What do you say?" Kaitlyn asks. BB thinks about it for a second before giving his answer.
"You're right. I need to get out of my head. It does sound like a blast." BB replies as Kaitlyn yanks his arm to try to get him off the bed.
"Glad you came to your senses. Come on and get ready. Seth will be here anytime." Kaitlyn says as she leaves and BB gets ready.
Ten minutes later, Seth has arrived as BB and Kaitlyn head downstairs. Mike stops the cousins before they walk out the door.
"Hey you two. Make sure you both are home before midnight." Mike says as Kaitlyn rolls her eyes.
"Yes, dad." Kaitlyn replies as they walk out the door, but before Kaitlyn leaves, Mike grabs her arm. She tells BB to go on ahead and she will be there in a second.
"Kaitlyn, keep a close eye on Blaine tonight, ok?" Mike asks.
"Duh, dad, but why are you so worried about Blaine? Sure he's shy, but I'll work on that; Evan's house isn't in a bad part of town or anything so we aren't gonna get mugged getting out of the car." Kaitlyn replies wondering why her dad is being paranoid.
"Just promise, please?" Mike asks.
"Yes, dad. We will be home before curfew. See you later." Kaitlyn replies as she walks out the door.
"God I wonder what has Dad so worried. It's probably because it's Blaine's first time out in Houston." Kaitlyn thought as she got into Seth's car.
Twenty minutes later, the three teens arrive at Evan's house—which wasn't hard to find because the logo for their comic book shop is also on the front porch. Seth finds a spot to park—in between the other vehicles that are parked there—and they walk into Evan's house.
The party looks to have already started with music playing and BB could hear people yelling in a room.
"Looks like they're already in the basement. This way, Blaine." Kaitlyn says motioning to a staircase leading to Evan's basement. When they reach the basement, the trio are met with hollers and cheers.
"About time you guys made it. Pizza will be here shortly." Evan yells from across the room. "Blaine! I'm glad that you came along. Kaitlyn, you can take care of introductions, will you?" Evan asks running upstairs as Kaitlyn nods.
"Fine fine. Alright let's start with the two crowding the couch. You already know who AJ is, but the guy sitting next to her wearing the tattoo gallery is her boyfriend Phil—but he prefers everybody to call him Punk." Kaitlyn says motioning to the couple on the couch.
"Sup?" Punk says looking over at BB and throwing up a hand.
"Sup?" BB replies throwing up a hand as well. Meanwhile, AJ skips over to BB and puts him in a big hug.
"BB! It has been so long since I've seen you. Do you remember me?" AJ asks not letting BB go. BB doesn't have a clue who this clingy girl is until he looks down at her Harley Quinn necklace.
"Wait a second! I remember you! I was seven and you were the girl who tried to dye my hair green so I could be the Joker with your Harley Quinn costume." BB said trying to shake AJ off.
"You do remember me! Aww…that was such a fun time." AJ replied.
"No it wasn't. You had Kaitlyn hold me down while you tried to color my hair…with PAINT! The green didn't come out fully for almost a month. I looked like a faded Brussel sprout." BB said glaring at AJ.
"It came out didn't it? Oh well that was like nine years ago. Anyways, it's good to see you." AJ said patting BB on the back. Kaitlyn rolls her eyes and points to a sad looking guy sitting in the corner of the room.
"Alright that guy sitting over there with the bleach blonde hair is Dolph Ziggler. Wait why is Dolph looking like a lost puppy?" Kaitlyn asks.
"You didn't hear?" AJ asked as Kaitlyn shook her head no. "He just broke up with his girlfriend tonight."
"Oh, Dolph, I'm sorry to hear that you and Lana broke up." Kaitlyn says walking over to Dolph and giving him a pat on the shoulder.
"Don't be…I'm not. I mean yeah it sucks because I really liked her. If she wants to go back to Rusev and his Bulgarian brutish ways, then that is her loss." Dolph said with a solemn look on his face.
"Come on, Dolph, don't think too much about her. Today is supposed to be fun. Come over and meet my cousin, Blaine." Kaitlyn says escorting Dolph to BB. Dolph walks over and shakes BB's hand.
"Nice to meet you." BB says.
"Same here." Dolph says with a small smirk before walking to the couch. Kaitlyn walks over to BB and pats him on the back.
"Don't worry about Dolph. It hasn't been a good week for him. He'll bounce back. He usually does." Kaitlyn whispers in BB's ear. "Come on, time for you to meet the last person here." Kaitlyn says walking BB to a guy playing darts. The guy was wearing a shirt with a wolf on the front.
"Justin, come here for a second." Kaitlyn says as Justin puts down the darts and walks toward the cousins. "Justin Gabriel this is my cousin, Blaine."
"Glad to finally meet the Blaine that Kaitlyn has talked about." Justin says shaking BB's hand.
"It's nice to meet you, too." BB replies.
"Alright. Enough with the formalities. The pizza's here and we have movies to get through." Evan says walking down to the basement with four pizza boxes in his hand. "We have sausage, pepperoni, triple cheese, and supreme. What should we start with tonight? Raunchy comedy of Neighbors or intergalactic action of Guardians of the Galaxy?" Evan asks sitting the pizzas down and everybody comes around and starts getting slices to eat.
"I don't know about you, Evan, but I think that the new kid should decide what the movie is." Punk said smirking over at BB.
"Sounds like a plan to me. Alright, BB, what's your pick?" Evan asks showing BB the DVDs. As much as BB wanted to stall and make the best decision that would not piss the most people off, but one of the movies stood out from the get go.
"I mean since Guardians of the Galaxy is a Marvel movie, I bet it's really good, right?" BB suggests. Evan cheers and slaps BB on the back again.
"Yes! He is going to join us just fine. Which nerdy guy WOULDN'T pick Guardians first? Come on, let's start the movie." Evan said putting the movie in the DVD player as everybody started sitting down.
Three hours later, after finishing the movie and playing a couple games of Cards Against Humanity, the party ended and everybody was heading home.
"Did you have fun, Blaine?" Kaitlyn asks to her cousin in the backseat who was starting to doze off.
"Huh? Did I have fun? Yeah I did. It was pretty entertaining." BB replied waking back up.
"Most nights with them are entertaining to say the least. Wait until we have a movie or video game binge night. Then you'll see entertaining." Seth says.
"Sounds like a blast. I can't wait until the next party." BB says staring out the window looking up at the stars.
Kaitlyn nods and looks at Seth who smiles at her. "I'm just glad you're having fun. I don't want this to end for you." Kaitlyn thought looking up the stars with her cousin.
Ten minutes later, Seth drops Kaitlyn and BB off at their house and they start talking about something that happened at the party.
"I don't understand why Dolph thought what Evan said was funny. It sounded like a cheesy pun to me." Kaitlyn says rolling her eyes.
"But that didn't stop you from cracking up whenever the Coke came out of his nose. It must've been hil…what are you doing here?" BB asks looking at a person who didn't expected to see at all. Uncle Steve
"Kaitlyn. Blaine. How are you guys doing?" Steve asks the teens.
"We're good, but what are you doing here so late? You just left a couple weeks ago. Aren't you going to get fired for missing so much work?" Kaitlyn asks.
"Not this time. I'm here on business this time around. Blaine, do you mind if we talk somewhere in private?" Steve asks BB. BB looks at Kaitlyn who nods to him and walks upstairs.
"Ok. We're in private. What do you need to talk about?" BB asks Steve cautiously.
"Blaine, what I am about to say to you is not good. You need to try to control yourself and not go crazy. Do you understand?" Steve asks. Blaine realizes he doesn't have much of a choice, so he nods the affirmative.
"Blaine…Mike and Cheryl have finished with their temporary custody of you as of midnight tomorrow." Steve reluctantly tells Blaine.
"Why? Did the court decide I need in a boy's home or something? I don't understand." BB asks trying to make sense of everything.
"Blaine, it's not what they did. Your aunt and uncle were happy to have you living with them, but your father is out of jail and he's coming to pick you up." Steve admits and BB's eyes grow wide.
"Out? Picking me up? When is he going to be here?" BB asks struggling to ask the question.
"…tomorrow." Steve says. At that point, BB has had enough.
"TOMORROW! What do you mean tomorrow? How did he get out?" BB asks in an almost panic.
"Blaine, we held him in jail for three days trying to find evidence that would we could charge him on, but we couldn't find any." Steve says.
"You couldn't find ANY?! Do my x-rays and my trip to the hospital not mean shit? Come on, the guy beat the hell out of me. Isn't that admiss…?" BB starts to ask, but then he catches on to something important he almost missed.
"You said you held my dad in jail for three days, right?" BB asks Steve, who nods. "I've been almost three weeks. That means that my dad has been release for over two weeks. How is it that he chooses now to come down here?" BB asks carefully.
"I was trying to stall him as long as I could to prevent him from coming down here until me and Mike figured out a plan." Steve says to BB, who glares at Mike—who realizes what is about to happen.
"You KNEW?" BB asks Mike who could only nod. "You mean you BOTH knew for two weeks and didn't bother to tell me ANYTHING? Mike, why didn't you tell me?"
"Blaine, I wanted to tell you. Believe me, I did. I just couldn't find the right time or way to tell you." Mike says with remorse.
"Yeah because finding out this way is so much better. Mike, I trusted you. Why is this happening? I thought I was free from this shit, but I guess I am wrong there, too. Were MY feelings or opinion considered?" BB asks angrily and getting into Mike's face.
"Blaine, they were considered. Me and Cheryl fought our asses off to keep you here." Mike replies.
"Bullshit! If you did, then I wouldn't be going back to him, would I? You wouldn't have lied to me, would you? I don't believe you…you bastard!" BB screams and starts to swing at Mike, who is trying to best to calm his nephew down.
"You should have fought harder. You should have fought harder, Mike. I don't want to go. Please don't make me go. Please?" BB says as his voice breaks and he starts swinging slower as his emotions go from anger to complete sadness and desperation as he starting breaking down and crying.
Mike catches his nephew in a hug as they both fall to their knees. Mike sees how much pain his nephew is in; he couldn't help shed a few tears of his own. Cheryl and Steve stand in silence knowing that there wasn't much they could do right now except let the teen come to terms of the news in his own way.
Here is the end of Chapter 3. As you read, I brought in Justin Gabriel, Dolph Ziggler, AJ Lee, and CM Punk into the story. To the guest who reviewed and wanted the Punk/Lee couple...you got it (haha). Anyways, I wanted to keep going with this chapter, but I've kept this chapter away from you long enough and this was also a good place to set up the next chapter. If it seems like I keep putting BB in really crappy situations, it isn't my intentions at all; sometimes you have to knock a character to their lowest of lows to make the good moments to happen to them mean so much more. Believe me when I say that BB will have really good moments coming his way throughout the story.
Thanks again to everybody who read this chapter and stay tuned for Chapter 4.