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Ch. 30 So Tired I Couldn't Even Sleep

(SEAN)

I wake to the ringing of my phone Friday morning. It's only six, I can't imagine who'd be calling this early, Em is in bed next to me and Fitz is with Clare of course. I'm surprised he doesn't just move in, although they aren't actually dating yet. I doubt anything happened to Fitz so early this morning, but when I look at the phone I see it's Jay calling. I yawn and grab my phone, Emma groans and rolls over.

"Hey what's up?" I question still half asleep. I'm used to waking up early to open the shop but Emma woke me when she came home from work at two this morning and we were up for a little while.

"Dude I feel like death; I think I have the flu I can't go in can you open?"

"Yeah I'll open get some rest," I reply and hang up.

"What's up?" Emma questions.

"Jay's sick he sounded terrible on the phone, anyway he needs me to open," I tell Emma kissing her temple as I get out of bed.

"Poor guy, I'll take him some soup before I go to work," Emma says.

"That would be good but he thinks he has the flu so be careful."

Emma nods and starts to fall asleep again. I get up and start getting ready, the garage doesn't need to open until eight but I think I'll grab breakfast on the way and eat there. I kiss Emma before leaving and go to the garage. There's a game tonight and it's also Owen's birthday. Em has to work but the rest of us were all going to the game, guess Jay won't be going now either. Drew's birthday is Monday and as it usually happens they're having one birthday party for the two of them at the Mason's on Saturday.

When Tony gets in just as we're opening I tell him that Jay has the flu so he won't be in for a while and Tony puts him on sick leave. It's a pretty busy day at work, Fridays usually are because anyone that's going to be driving this weekend, especially in the snow, is coming in to make sure their car is in good condition. When I finally get a lunch I call Jay.

"Hi Babe," Emma answers Jay's phone.

"How is he?"

"He's asleep but it looks like the flu to me. Don't worry I was careful and I had my flu shot anyway. I brought him soup and he ate it, his fever is pretty high. I gave him some medicine to reduce his fever and I'll call his doctor between classes to get a prescription for flu meds I can fill it at work tonight. I have to get to school, have fun at the game tonight and tell Owen Happy Birthday for me. I love you."

"I will and I love you too," I reply and hang up.

I eat lunch and go back to work. Since I opened I'm off before closing and have some time before the game so I swing by Jay's place after cleaning up from work. I have a spare key to Jay's place so I just let myself in.

"It's me," I call in so he doesn't think I'm a robber or something. I don't hear anything so I go back to the bedroom and peak in. Jay's in bed and looks terrible. "You look awful," I comment.

"Yeah I feel awful, don't get too close I don't want to get you sick."

"I had my flu shot."

"So did I but apparently it didn't work," Jay groans.

"Emma was going to see if she could get a prescription filled for you so she'll probably be over tonight or tomorrow morning. If it gets much worse you should probably see a doctor."

"Dude if it gets any worse I won't be able to drive."

"Do you need anything before I head to the game?"

"No I'm just going to sleep, Em brought me soup and stuff and there's leftovers in the fridge. All I wanna do is sleep anyway but I won't make it to the party tomorrow will you take my gifts? They're in the living room."

"Yeah no problem Buddy, get some sleep and if you need anything call one of us," I tell him.

"Yeah," he nods.

After making sure he has lots of water I grab the presents from the living room and leave for the game. It's not hard to spot our gang in the bleachers when I get to the game. Clare has herself wrapped in a blanket with Fitz, Johnny and Bianca to keep warm. Maya is cuddled up to Adam and Spin is wrapped in a blanket with Paige, Jenna is wrapped in two or three blankets it looks like. Lucas is here, Mia is on his lap and they're wrapped in a blanket together. Joey and Caitlin are also here wrapped up together.

"Jay's sick he won't be able to make it, he won't make it to the party either but I have his gifts for Drew and Owen," I tell them.

"I hope Jay's okay," Paige says.

"Looks like the flu, Em is getting him a prescription. I told him to call one of us if he needs anything. Warm enough Jenna?"

"No I'm still cold," she pouts.

"Here we brought lots of blankets keep her warm since Em isn't coming and K.C. is on the field," Spinner tells me handing me a blanket. I sit down with Jenna and put the blanket around both of us.

The band plays the anthem as the teams come out to the field and then the game begins. Even though we want to stay huddled together in the blankets we still jump up to cheer when DeGrassi scores or when Owen, Drew or K.C. makes a great play. At halftime a few of us get snacks and drinks from the snack stand. DeGrassi wins in the end and we all cheer in celebration, Jenna and Bianca go to the field to kiss their boyfriends. The rest of us walk out slowly to congratulate them, the team is going out for pizza and to celebrate, most everyone is headed back to the Mason's.

"You sleeping at Clare's again?" I ask my brother as we're preparing to leave.

"Yeah," he replies looking over at her. She's on the bleachers just staring at the field, she hasn't moved much since I got here.

"She'll be okay she just needs some time," I assure my brother.

"Yeah I hope so, I'll probably come over tomorrow or maybe Sunday for some clean clothes and stuff."

"Sounds good, I'm going to swing by Emma's work and see if she got that prescription filled for Jay. If she did I'll take it to him and see how he's doing."

"Cool tell him I hope he feels better," Fitz replies.

"Yeah I will. Bye Clare," I call to her but she doesn't seem to hear me. I give my brother a sympathetic smile and go back to my car. The all-night pharmacy Em works at is in an all-night grocery and it's pretty safe. I wasn't thrilled about her working nights but she was determined to go to school and work which meant working nights. "Hey Beautiful," I grin kissing my fiancé over the counter.

"Hi how was the game?"

"DeGrassi won, almost everyone is out celebrating. I thought I'd swing by before going home, see if you had that prescription for Jay?"

"Yeah I do, I took his insurance card earlier so I could run it, I told Jay but he was pretty out of it. His insurance card is in the prescription bag you can take it back to him," she says.

"Yeah I will," I nod as she hands me the bag. "Have a good night I'll see you at home," I tell her kissing her again before I leave.

I drive back to Jay's letting myself in again and calling that it's me. I look at the prescription bottle to make sure he doesn't need to take it with food or anything. He doesn't it just says to take one pill and a second no less than twelve hours later. I write it down on paper and take the pills and some water into Jay.

"How was the game?"

"We won, here take this," I tell him handing him the pill and some water. "There's one more pill take it tomorrow after nine in the morning I wrote down the instructions."

"Thanks, I feel terrible, I hate being sick."

"It won't last long. You need anything?"

"No going to sleep again."

"Get some rest, we'll swing by tomorrow," I tell him and put his insurance card back before I leave and drive home.

I did have a flu shot but I still wash my hands well and take some immune boosters before I shower and go to bed. Emma comes home at two and I wake up just long enough to kiss her and tell her I love her before falling asleep again.

(CLARE)

I wake with a gasp after a nightmare. A nightmare that ended not with an image but a sound, a terrible sound that echoes in my mind. Fitz is sleeping heavily, his arm draped over me and he's snoring lightly. I lift his arm off me gently and get out of bed going to the washroom. As usual our house is filled with people so there really isn't anywhere to be alone aside from the washroom. After the football game tonight most of us came back to our house, Owen returned with Drew after the team went for pizza. I close the washroom door, keep the light off and turn on the sink splashing some water on my face but I'm awake now and I can't get the dream out of my head. I walk quietly out of the washroom and down the hall going out to the back porch. The crisp icy winter air bites at my skin, it's almost painful but it's a welcome sensation. I lean on the railing and look at the moon and the stars, zoning out on the night sky.

"Clare what are you doing?" Johnny demands walking out. I hear him but I don't move or respond. "You're going to freeze out here. Your brothers'll kill you if you die," Johnny says going inside again and returning with a blanket. He wraps it around me and picks me up.

"I like it out here."

"You're going to freeze, you're barely wearing anything," Johnny replies carrying me to my bedroom. He opens the door and sets me on the bed which wakes up Fitz.

"What's going on?" Fitz questions sitting up quickly and looking at me.

"Warm her up," Johnny tells him before leaving my room and Fitz touches my cheek.

"Clare you're freezing what happened?"

"I was outside," I reply as Fitz gets me under my blankets and next to his warm body. "Why didn't you wake me when you woke up and why didn't you put any clothes on?" He questions as he starts rubbing my arms to warm me up. I simply shrug in response.

He pulls off the nightshirt I was sleeping in and keeps rubbing my skin to warm me up. I know a way I can get warm so I take Fitz's boxers and tug at them. I reach in scratching my nails through his pubic hair, my fingers drifting to his shaft I curl my fingers around the shaft. Fitz moans gently and I attack his lips with mine catching the end of his moan on my tongue. He's stopped rubbing my skin now, frozen by licentious desire. I stroke him again, twisting my hand gently around the shaft and feeling him grow at my touch. At the same time my tongue tangles with his and they fight for dominance. Fitz gets his boxers down kicking them off and his hand slides down my panties, softly rubbing my clit evoking a moan from my lips to his.

His hand rubs over my pussy lips and they tingle anticipating his penetration as I ache to be filled. Still rubbing him with one hand my other hand caresses his chest softly. My fingers slowly drift over his skin feeling every muscle, every hair, his nipples, his ribs when he sucks in a breath as he moans. Fitz stops rubbing my pussy lips, removing his hand from my panties he pulls them down. I lift my legs to help him take them off, releasing his throbbing erection and we break from the kiss.

I bend my knees and open my legs inviting Fitz in, an invitation he readily accepts, spreading my pussy lips with two fingers he thrusts in. A breath hitches in my throat; I arch my back releasing the breath as a purring moan. I grip the back of his neck, my other hand caressing his chest as our lips lock together again. Fitz supports himself on one hand and the other gently squeezes my breast and fondles my nipple. I nip softly at Fitz's lower lip as he thrusts in a little further before stopping and beginning to pull out. I buck my hips, my nails scratching at his chest.

Fitz makes a couple of slow thrusts before speeding up with each thrust. When he's all the way in I moan and briefly break the kiss before attaching my lips to his again. My body trembles while my hips buck in rhythm with his thrusts. Every time he thrusts in I feel his body quiver and he makes a quivering moan into the kiss. I moan in an endless chain mumbling Fitz's name breathlessly against his tongue as we kiss. I'm no longer shivering from the cold, I'm no longer cold I'm warm, almost sweating. My body feels electrified, that deep tickling that builds to orgasm quickly becomes nearly unbearable. I move faster spurring Fitz to move faster and it isn't long before the two of us reach climax. Stifling our moans in the kiss as we both explode in orgasm. We slow down and he pulls out, lying next to me and breathing hard.

"I'm warm now," I comment after a moment rolling over into his arms.

"I should hope so; can you get back to sleep?" Fitz asks holding me close and stroking my back with one finger.

"I'm still not tired," I shake my head.

"You want to go for a drive?" Fitz offers and I nod.

"Put some clothes on then," he replies.

"Don't want me walking out to the car naked or the living room naked? You know Owen's already seen me naked."

"Yes I'm aware but it's freezing outside, get dressed," he responds kissing my nose. We get up and dressed including jackets and go out my window so we don't wake Johnny and Owen. "Should we leave a note or something?"

"Adam will know," I reply closing my window and we go to Fitz's car.

We spend a couple hours driving around, we go through an all-night fast food drive-thru for drinks. When it's after six and I'm sure some people at my house will be awake we go back to my house. Fitz parks and we go in through the front door waking up Owen and Johnny.

"When did you two leave?" Owen yawns.

"A couple of hours ago, she couldn't sleep we went for a drive," Fitz explains as I lock the door.

Owen and Johnny get up while Fitz and I go into the kitchen and start some coffee. Spin and Paige get up after a few minutes and they start making waffles in honor of Drew and Owen's birthdays. It isn't too long before the smell of waffles brings everyone else out to the living room. Owen and Drew's party is tonight at our house, it's always at our house and they've been having their birthday party together since they became friends and found out their birthdays were four days apart.

We eat breakfast and hang out for the morning before getting the house ready for the party. People begin arriving in the late afternoon, our friends arrive first, all of them that didn't stay here last night anyway. Sean and Emma arrive first, Tris and his boyfriends next followed by K.C. and Jenna and finally Lucas with Mia. The rest of the football team comes in a couple of car loads, some of the basketball team and hockey team come as well and the house gets full fast. We have the backyard of course but it's snowing so no one wants to go out but everyone is crowded into the kitchen, living room and hallway. Not everyone stays of course, after all it is Saturday night. Drew and Owen open presents from people as they arrive. Our family gave Owen his presents on his birthday yesterday and we'll give Drew his presents on his birthday Monday.

People hang out and talk and eat, I stay in the living room for a while but don't mingle with anyone outside of our group. Drew and Owen seem happy which is good. Adam is talking with several different people; he likes being social. Maya stays with Tris most of the night. Adam forgave her for cheating but their relationship has remained strained. He forgave her so quickly because he's afraid no one else will be with him and love him for who is the way that he is. I'm sure that's not true but I know how hard it is for my brother in his situation and even though I think he forgave her a little quickly I understand why. Even though she's been here every night, and her guilt is evident in how she is constantly looking for something to do for him, their relationship has continued to be strained. I have to wonder how soon before they bend so much they break.

After a while of being in the crowd, of mostly teen alpha males, I decide I've had all I can take. I retreat back to my room but when I open the door I find one of the basketball team making out with a cheerleader on my bed.

"Gross get out of my room," I demand.

"Why don't you join us Baby Mason?" The guy smiles and he's so smashed I can smell the liquor on his breath from here.

"Get out of my room both of you, I'm going to have to burn my blankets just because you were lying on them."

"Let's go, give the baby her room," the cheerleader says.

"Aww come one let's make this a threesome," he slurs as he stumbles toward my door.

"I wouldn't touch you with a hazard suit on, I have actual standards," I quip.

The cheerleader sneers at me but the guy isn't listening and he attempts to lean down and kiss me. So I knee him in the nuts as hard as I can and he drops to the floor groaning like he got shot.

"What did you do that for?" The cheerleader shrieks just as I see Riley come back to use the washroom.

"Riley can you get him out of my doorway please?"

"Trouble?" Riley asks gripping the guy by the jacket and pulling him into the hall.

"He tried to kiss me," I reply shoving the girl out of my room before I close and lock the door. I take all the sheets and blankets off my bed, even take the pillows out of the pillowcases in case they touched those. Then I sit at my desk and grab my phone calling Jeff but get his voicemail, although it is Saturday night so he must be out. "It's me, just calling to…I don't know actually. Bored I guess too many people here. Look I wanted t…" I get cut off when the voicemail tells me I've run out of time and can keep the message or record again. I almost erase it to start over but a knock on my door startles me and I press the button to save it.

"Clare?" Fitz calls through the door. He finds it locked when he tries to open it and I don't move but he picks the lock of course. "Escaping the party? What happened to the bed?"

"I found one of Drew's teammates making out with a cheerleader and didn't want to lie on the bed after that. Those things need to be burned, or at least washed. There's too many people out there and I didn't feel like being in a crowd. Owen and Drew are having a good time and it's their birthday not mine I don't need to be out there."

"I'll get some different sheets and throw the blankets in the dryer to sanitize them. You want anything from the kitchen while I'm out there?" Fitz asks and I shake my head.

He grabs the blankets and leaves my room and then my phone rings in my hand and startles me. I look down and see that it's Jeff calling.

"Hi."

"You okay your message sounded odd?"

"Yeah sorry I was just bored. It's Owen and Drew's birthday party but there's too many people here and I didn't feel like a crowd. I'm okay and Fitz will be back in a moment, you should go back to whatever you were doing."

"I have to go anyway we're at the movies but I wanted to make sure you were okay after your message."

"I'm fine, sorry for calling."

"It's okay, I'll talk to you later," Jeff says before hanging up.

I set my phone down and Fitz comes back in with clean sheets. We make my bed and then lie on it together. Fitz goes out again to get us pop and cake, Drew and Owen haven't blown out candles and had everyone sing Happy Birthday to them in three years. Less to do with deciding they were too old and more to do with the number of people that began attending their party. We eat cake on my bed before lying down again, we don't talk much but I don't feel much like talking.

"I was thinking we should go on another date, you know dinner and a movie or something," Fitz comments.

"Next Friday after the last game," I reply.

"Sure," Fitz nods.

Even with the party in the house the two of us fall asleep after a while of lying there silently. I suppose the fact that we only slept a couple of hours last night has caught up with us. We fall asleep still dressed but I wake up shivering because it's cold and go out to retrieve my blankets from the dryer at which point I change into one of Fitz's shirts. We're the first ones awake the next morning and our house is fuller than usual. Half a dozen kids who don't sleep here on a regular basis seem to have passed out in the living room.

"You two are awake early," Spin remarks when we come out to the kitchen.

"We fell asleep early too," I reply.

"Clare put some clothes on," Spinner scolds me.

"These are clothes," I respond.

"No that's his shirt, go put on some clothes before other people wake up. The boys in the living room are not part of our group and I don't trust them," Spinner says.

"You don't think I can handle myself? I kneed a boy yesterday for trying to kiss me," I enlighten my brother.

"Knowing that you can handle yourself and trusting the boys in the living room are two different things. I'm sure they couldn't touch with all of us here anyway but I don't them to get the vision of you dressed like that stuck in their minds. Now go put some clothes on."

I give in and return to my room to get dressed, Fitz comes with me also getting dressed and says he's going to go home to get some other clothes and he'll be back later. Spinner has the day off today and once the other kids leave and it's just people in our group we hang out playing games and watching movies. Owen and Johnny slept over again but everyone else had gone home. Sean has work today and Emma is studying for a test, Jenna and K.C. are spending the day with Joey and Caitlin, Tris is with his boyfriends I'm sure. Everyone else is here and either hungover or tired, everyone but Fitz and I. Everyone kind of snacks through dinner, grabbing leftovers from the party. We're watching a movie I've seen and I get bored, so I start kissing Fitz.

"I think we should go back to my room," I whisper to him.

"We'd have to climb over everyone and they'd see us going back to your room," Fitz whispers back.

"I'm bored; I know something much more fun we could be doing."

"You can wait half an hour until the movie is over," Fitz whispers and I huff getting up and stepping my way through people. "Are you really that bored?" Fitz asks I guess he followed me.

"Yes I am; also horny I was going to fuck you on the sofa but you know my brothers are there an all. Come on," I smile taking his hand and turning back toward my room pulling Fitz with me, "let's go make love."

"No you don't!" Spinner's booming voice makes us both jump and we turn around. "You are not about to lose your virginity with all of us in the living room," Spin says.

"Please I lost my virginity weeks ago," I reply.

My oldest brother clenches his jaw and turns a deep red, you can practically see the steam coming out of his ears. He looks away from me and glares at Fitz like he's ready to kill.

"Hey don't kill me I was in juvie when she lost her virginity," Fitz says.

"WHO WAS IT I'M GOING TO KILL THEM!"

It's not a terrible cliffhanger however there is no chapter next Friday or Saturday. This story will return in two weeks picking up from right here. It will also likely include Drew's birthday and some more shocking news.