Zack slowly woke up to the sound his alarm blaring. He turned it off and slowly sat up and yawned. After getting dressed he made his way downstairs to what seemed like an empty house. That's weird. It's Thursday, everyone should be awake by now. Right as he was thinking that all the lights turned on.

"Surprise!" His family shouted as they all popped out from where they were hiding. "Happy Birthday Zack!"

"Wow, it's my birthday already?" He said with a giggle.

"You say that every year." His mother told him.

"And it gets less and less funny every time." Ashton added.

"Fifteen, you're going to be able to learn how to drive soon." His fathered mentioned.

"Also terrifying," Ashton chimed in again.

"Ok, that's enough from the peanut gallery." Zack said before taking a bite out of his breakfast.

"Now you come straight home after school so we can all go out to eat tonight as a family." His father told him. His mom fake coughed next to him. "And you can bring Freddy." Zack perked up when heard that bit of information before he continued to eat.

He was walking his way to school, humming along to the music playing in his headphones when he felt a soft kiss planted on his cheek. He looked over to see the face of his boyfriend walking beside him carrying his skateboard still wearing his dad's old hat. "Hey Babe," He said talking his headphones off.

"Hey, so how's the birthday boy?" He asked in a teasing voice.

"Pretty good, but I bet he'll be better once he sees what his boyfriend got him." Zack said back.

"Good one, but it won't be that easy. You'll see after school Babe." He said, wrapping his arm around him.

"Oh, I almost forgot my parents said you can come to our family dinner tonight."

"Sweet. Your dad terrifies me, but I'll go because I love you." He said before kissing him again.

"I love you too."

When they arrived at school the two went their separate ways toward class. Zack ran into Gordon since they had first period together.

"Morning Gordon,"

"What's so good about it?" He asked, his head resting on the desk. Gordon wasn't really a morning person.

"You forgot it's birthday again didn't you?" Zack asked. Gordon looked at him straight faced and slowly reached into his pocket and pulled out a twenty dollar bill. "I'm only accepting this because you're tired." Zack said, taking the money.

"What'd Freddy get you?" Gordon asked.

"He hasn't given it to me yet. He said he'll give it to me after school." Zack told him.

"Oh my God, he forgot to get you something." Gordon said with a gasp.

"What? No he didn't." Zack argued.

"Why else would he not give you your present yet?"

"Because he wants it to be special." Zack said with a bit of hesitation.

"You know who your dating, I'm surprised he's been good to you this long." Gordon told him.

"Ok, Gordon you need to shut your mouth. You don't know Freddy like I do." Zack said very aggressively.

"Ok, didn't mean to step on your toes." Gordon said turning away.

"Oh Freddy, you'll be mine soon enough." Taylor said aloud to herself as she watched Freddy entering his second class with Zack in his arms. "And you'll finally ditch that boy toy of yours.

"Who are you talking to?" Her friend Marcy asked from behind her.

"Quiet, I'm monologuing." She tells her. "Now come on, we need to go over my brilliant plan for later." She said walking off down the hall.

Later at lunch, Zack was eating with his usual group of friends.

"Here you go Zack, this is from me and Tomika." Lawrence said handing him a box. Zack opened it to find a new guitar strap with a red petal pattern on it.

"This is sweet, thanks guys."

"It was my idea." Lawrence said. Tomika kept smiling, but kicked Lawrence under the table. "Our idea, both of us, together." He said trying to mask the pain.

"This is from me," Katie handed him another present. "I hope you like it." She said. Zack ripped this one open as well and pulled out a dream catcher. "My Gran Gran makes dream catchers and gave my family one each, then I remembered you said that you have trouble sleeping sometimes, so I hope this'll help."

"Thanks a ton Katie." He said with a smile. "Hey, where's Frankie? He's usually here by now." Zack asked.

"Oh he's sick today Babe." Freddy said next to him.

"Is it serious?"

"Nah, just a stomach ache."

"Really? Because when I talked to him, he sounded like he was dying." Katie said.

"Katie, every guy acts like they're dying when their sick, especially to the girls they like." Gordon explained. "I remember when Marta talked to me when I had a cold for a few days I-"

"Now, why would you bring up Marta?" Zack asked with a smirk.

"W-what? Nothing, I just, uh…" He blushed and began to eat to get out of answering. Everyone else began to laugh.

"C'mon Freddy, just tell me what you got me already." Zack said pulling on his boyfriend's sleeve.

"Sorry Babe, it's a secret." Freddy said still not agreeing to tell him.

"At least give me a hint?" Zack asked.

"Nope, not gonna happen."

"Not even for me?" Zack asked in a seductive voice before he started to lightly bite Freddy's neck. Freddy sat still trying not to break, but even he knew he couldn't say no to Zack when he bites his neck.

"Ok, just a hint, but please stop it." Freddy moaned out.

"That's power," Zack said to the rest of the group.

"Right on," Katie and Tomika said in unison.

"Now, what's my hint?" Zack asked.

"Ok, my gift will let us do more stuff together." Freddy told him.

"I still have no idea what it is." Zack admitted.

"Sorry, that's all you're getting from me." Freddy said turning back toward his food.

"Not even if I-" Zack started.

"Don't even think about it." Freddy said, covering his neck.

"When's your birthday Freddy?" Tomika asked.

"July seventeenth, I'm a summer baby." He told her.

"That explains the hair." Lawrence said.

"What?" Tomika asked.

"What?" Lawrence said back.

"So, is you family doing anything?" Katie asked.

"We always go out to eat on one of our birthdays. This year, since I'm dating Freddy, I can bring him."

"And your dad's ok with that?" Katie asked.

"My mom told him he is." Zack told her. They heard the bell ring and all groaned in annoyance as they each made their ways inside to their next classes.

Zack sat in his fifth period class and could feel someone staring at him. He looked around and saw a blond girl staring daggers at him. "Who's she? And have I ever done anything to her?" He asked Alicia who shared this class with him.

"Oh, Taylor? I don't think you've ever met her. She's one of Freddy's ex's. One of many."

"None of his other ex's look at me with murder in their eyes."

"She's still not over him like most of the other's are." Alicia explained.

"Should I be afraid?" Zack asked.

"Nah, she's all bark and no bite." She told him. Zack looked back and saw Taylor laughing now.

"Uhhhhh-"

"Just ignore her." Alicia told him.

Soon Zack. Soon you'll see Freddy's meant for me. Taylor thought to herself. Wow, I am really acting like a bitch right now. I kind of like it.

"Why am agreeing to this?" Zack asked with Freddy's tie tied around his eyes.

"Because you love me." Freddy told him, pulling him forward

"Well yeah, but that excuse didn't make me try rocky road." Zack told him.

"And you're still a fool for it." Zack heard a door open and the two of them walked into the room. "Ok, let's get this thing off." Freddy said, taking the tie off. Zack opened his eyes to see a dark and empty room before all the lights turned on and the rest of the band jumped.

"Surprise!" They yelled.

"Whoa, deja vu." Zack said. "Thanks guys, you really didn't have to." He told everyone.

"Nonsense," Summer told him. "We threw a party for everyone else's birthday, you're no different."

"Besides, any reason to party, is a good one." Chiaki mentioned. "I can't wait for you guys to turn twenty-one."

Most of the band members also had presents for him. Billy made him an outfit to go along with the song he wrote earlier that year. Zack completely forgot about the song since the band hasn't gotten a chance to sing it yet. Marco built him a recorder/metronome shaped exactly like his guitar. Summer got him a pack of mechanical pencils (Zack loses his pencils all the time.) Chiaki showed him some new guitar tricks. And the whole band played "I was made for loving you" with Freddy singing.

All in all, everyone had a great time. Freddy came up to him and tapped on his shoulder. "Meet me in the quad in five minutes, I'll give you your present then." He said before leaving the room When he got to the quad he was about to take Zack's present out when he saw Taylor also in the quad, crying her eyes out. "Taylor?" He asked, walked over to her. "What's wrong?"

"I-it's nothing." She told him.

"It's not nothing. Come on, you can talk to me. We're friends right?" He said with a smile.

"We are?" She asked.

"Of course. Now come on tell me."

"Ok," She said wiping her tears. "It's just that, my boyfriend is being so mean right now. I have alot of family stuff going on right now and he knows this, but he still is trying to make me choose between him and my family, but I don't want to choose between them you know?"

"Taylor, it's gonna be hard to hear this, but you need to break up with this guy." He told her.

"What?" She asked.

Zack looked up at the time and saw that five minutes had passed and left to make his way to the quad.

"Making you choose between him and family is seriously messed up. He obviously doesn't care about you being happy." Freddy told her.

"Are you sure?" She asked,

"I'm positive."

"Ok, thanks so much Freddy." She said, hugging him. Freddy was surprised but hugged her back.

Marcy, who was watching saw Zack getting close and walked through to quad.

*flashback*

"When you see Zack getting close, walk through the quad, that'll be my signal to go for it." Taylor told her.

*end flashback*

Taylor looked up, and smiled. She grabbed ahold of Freddy's face and kissed him. Freddy's eyes shot opened wide and he quickly pushed her off. "Taylor what do you think you're-"

"Freddy?" Freddy looked over and saw Zack standing a few feet away looking as of he was going to cry.

"Z-zack, wait this isn't...it's not…" He was panicking too much to form complete sentences. Before he could get the right words out Zack took off his necklace and threw it at Freddy before he ran off down the hallway. Freddy bent over and picked it up to see his own initials on the half heart shaped necklace. He pulled out his own with Zack's initials on it and held them together as tears began to form before he heard laughter behind him.

"Well, that went smoothly. Now, let's talk about us." Taylor said.

"You lied to me." Freddy said without turning around.

"Of course I did. I had to get you close to me. And now the two of us can be together again."

"Why the Hell would be with you?" He asking turning around, his face red with anger.

"B-but Freddy-"

"No, shut up. I don't wanna hear it. Why can't you just accept that it's over? Look, I love Zack and you just ruined it. Do me a favor and stay out of my life already." He said before he walked off. Once he was outside the school he sat down on the stairs and began to cry himself.