Chapter 14

Fox didn't seem to feel it this morning. He felt more groggy than usual on Saturday morning. For some reason he couldn't remember what happened last night. He figured it was a long night, then he remembered last night was the homecoming dance. 'that's right' he thought. Then he remembered why he didn't want to remember about homecoming.

"Krystal" was all he could say. He just didn't see it coming, he may have had it coming with what he had done with Fara, but he never would have imagined Krystal to be one to take revenge. He just didn't know what was going on anymore, sure his dad had talked to him about all of this but, his thoughts seemed to overpower the words of wisdom his dad gave him.

He realized that it had taken it's toll on him, and he realized that it was noon that he had slept to. He thought for a second, and realized that Krystal had come to his house last night and she needed something. Who's to say she wont try that again today?

Fox quickly scrambled to his phone, he sent out a message out to Bill Slippy and Falco saying they needed to hang out. He said they should go to Bill's house and they all agreed to meet up there in an hour. He scrambled to get his clothes on and groom himself, trying to get out of his house as fast as possible, he wasn't ready to face Krystal if she came, and he didn't want to either. It was 12:30 when he was ready, he poked his head out the door and looked both ways before James put his hand on his shoulder.

Fox turned around to his dad " Remember, you cant do this forever." He then let his son go and Fox sprinted out to the convertible and turned it on as fast as he could. As he backed out he looked in his rear view mirror, and his fears came true.

He saw Krystal walking down the street towards his house. She looked up and noticed his car backing out and he heard a "Fox!" as she started to run towards him.

He knew not to turn around, because then she would know for sure he was trying to get away from her. He stomped the pedal without looking back at her and he was gone. She stopped her running and sighed. "He got away." Was all she could find to say.

He pulled up to Bill's house just as everyone else did. They all greeted each other and walked in and took their seats. They didn't have anything planned for the hanging out so there was a cloud of awkward silence hovering above all of them. Falco had enough of it and broke the ice.

"Sooooooo foxie, what's up with calling this together all of a sudden?" Fox was afraid of this, but not near as afraid of it as the confrontation with Krystal.

He sighed heavily "I knew it was only a matter of time before someone asked. I….. I'm trying to get away from Krystal." Bill shook his head "Fox,man, we know you're nervous and all but you cant keep this up forever." The bird and frog agreed. "Well it's not so much that, did you guys know she was at the dance last night?"

Everyone was baffled, they never even knew. "Whoa whoa, she was there? I didn't even see her there." Slippy said. "Well if she was at the dance then you got nothing to worry about, so what if she was there?" Falco said, obviously not thinking about it.

" So what? Dude you aren't thinking about this! She was there with panther!" He was yelling at this point, the frustration was starting to surface. They were quiet. Falco had a look of concern on his face now.

"Dude….i…. I'm sorry. I mean I didn't think about that or know" Fox held up a hand, signaling him to stop. "It's okay man, I should have just said it. I didn't mean to yell at you." They felt so bad for their friend, they had completely abandoned him when he needed them the most.

"I saw her last night and went to talk to her. She said she was there with him and then he came back with drinks for him and her." They couldn't believe it, they could tell she wasn't happy about Fara, but they didn't think she would try and spike him like this. "Then I left after that. Later when the dance was over she came to my house but I just didn't want to talk to anyone."

Slippy patted his friend on the shoulder "Don't worry Fox, we're here for ya buddy." "I just knew that I didn't to deal with her and I couldn't run the risk of her coming to my house. She tried to catch me when I left today, but I was already in the convertible so I made it out."

They chuckled a little at the last story. "Maybe the best way to resolve this really is to talk to her man. I hate saying it but I think that's the only way." Words that you never would have heard Falco say in a million years had actually come out.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Bill's face lit up. "Oh no." was all you could hear the canine say. "Who's that?" Fox asked his alarmed friend.

"Uh Fox you'll need to forgive me for this, but I completely forgot I invited Lucy over today." Fox's face lit up now, clamoring to find an exit besides the front door. "Calm down man, maybe she can help some too" Slippy said, trying to be a voice of reason.

'Just calm down, you'll be okay. Lucy is your friend.' He thought to himself.

Bill let her in and the guys had calmed down and sat back down. "Hey Bill! Thanks for inviting me, I saw outside there were some more cars outside, whose are tho-" She didn't finish. She walked in and saw Fox, remembering what Krystal had told her.

"Oh. Um hey guys. Fox, Krystal wants to talk to you." He hung his head. "I know, she came to my house last night after the dance." Just as he said that, his phone went off. Someone was calling him. Of course, it was Krystal. He denied it and realized apparently it had gone off plenty of times without him knowing. He had missed six calls from her within the past hour.

"You should have answered that." He looked up and saw Lucy beaming down on him. "She really wants to talk to you, you know? She's not too happy right now." The words seemed to sting him a little.

"Yeah Fox, come on man go get her!" Falco gave his friend a motivational shove. "She asked her parents to leave so you could talk completely alone." She added.

He sighed again, "I really don't want to, but it has to be done. I'll see you guys later." He stood up and they all patted him on the back as he walked out. He got into the convertible and took off towards Krystal's house. On his way there he pondered if he really could follow through with this. But when he thought he could answer it was too late, he was there.

"Here we go" He said as he knocked on the door. She answered the door with a happy face.

"Hey Fox, come in." He did so and took a seat.

"I know you've wanted to talk, so here I am, let's do this." She sat down beside him. "So why did you do it? Why did you go to the dance with panther? I mean, after a little while I figured that you may have been pretty mad about Fara but, I never thought you were one for revenge." She looked a little upset at this comment.

" Fox, I didn't go with Panther to get back at you. I was upset about you and Fara, but I would never do anything to hurt you like I did last night. I was hoping you would ask me to the dance, and I felt so crushed when you didn't. it was Friday before I left that panther asked me. I really didn't want to be mean about it and I couldn't say I had a date, because I didn't. It really meant nothing to me, I wanted to go with you, I was hoping that you didn't come so you didn't have to see it."

Fox couldn't believe himself, all this time he thought she was trying to get back at him, but she was trying to protect him. "Krystal…" Was all he could say before she leapt on him for a hug. He returned it, and the two became happy with each other again.

"I would never want to hurt you Fox." She said as she looked into his emerald colored eyes.

He looked into her sapphire eyes and said "I would never want to hurt you either Krystal."

After about an hour of talking Fox went home. 'I should have known she wasn't up to anything bad, I still have a chance after all' Were his thoughts as he smiled driving back home.