Part 31
Wes was technically not supposed to be on the roof. He was technically supposed to be inside and not out on the roof. But he was. It was the middle of January and he needed some space from the Warblers. He loved those guys to death but they were driving him crazy, with "they" he meant Otto and Nathan. The two of them were still jealous of him whenever he hung out with the twins and it was making Wes crazy. He didn't get why they were glaring that way at him. Were they jealous because they wanted to befriend the twins too? Did they think Wes was ruining the two new pranksters like Nathan and Otto used to claim Lucas and Jerry ruined him?
"Wes", he heard someone call from his window underneath his current location. He recognized Lucas' voice so he rolled over on his stomach and crawled over to the edge and looked down.
"What", he asked and heard Lucas fly around and then the older boy stuck his head out the window and stared up at him.
"What the hell are you doing", Lucas yelled in worry. "Get down from there you crazy kid!"
"Why", Wes asked and grinned.
"You can fall!"
"No I can't."
"You don't know that!"
"And you don't know I will."
"Wes please just come down."
"Why?"
"I need to talk to you."
"About what?"
"About… " Lucas sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Will you just come down from there?"
"Okay", Wes said and stood up. "Just move back."
"Hell no!" Lucas yelled. "Take the door and stairs!"
"Killjoy", Wes grumbled and walked up to the door and pulled on it, it was locked.
"It's locked", he called with a sing song voice. He heard running feet and then the door opened and Nathan grinned at him.
"Lucas said there was someone on the roof", he teased as he let Wes inside. "But I thought it was the fiddler."
"Ha ha ha", Wes said and walked past him.
"How'd you get up there anyway", Nathan asked as they walked towards Wes' room. "Your room is on the second floor. The junior and seniors are rooming above your room and then there's the roof."
"I climbed up the vine", Wes said with a shrug and shocked Nathan into a stand still. Wes ignored him and walked on, after all…Nathan and Otto was ignoring him so why shouldn't he do the same? Wes walked down the stairs to the seniors and juniors' floor and the boys that saw him looked at him curiously. Why would their baby-Dragon walk past them in a coat, boots, cap and gloves? Where had he been? Wes just smiled and when he got to the staircase he jumped onto the railing and slid down. The boys that saw him chuckled and Wes walked on to his room, that still had a spare bed. On which Lucas was sitting. Wes took off his jacket, boots, cap and gloves and grinned innocently.
"What", he asked and Lucas sighed.
"Why do you always have to make my heart stop?" Lucas asked.
"Me", Wes asked innocently.
"You do martial arts against boys much bigger than you", Lucas started. "You climb onto roofs, you talked about going with Austin and drive dirt bikes… and you hang around with the Warblers."
"Oh so dangerous", Wes said sarcastically.
"It is, you could hurt yourself."
"Why don't you talk with your brother of his crazy stuff instead?"
"I do, I just know he won't listen to me because I'm he's brother."
"Well you're mine too so why should I listen to you", Wes teased. "But something tells me this discussion is not why you're here for."
"It isn't", Lucas admitted and then smiled. "It's about Otthan."
Wes sighed and plopped down on his bed.
"So", he asked watching the roof. "What did I do this time?"
"Nothing", Lucas said with an amused smile. Wes tuned his head to the side so that he could look at him.
"What", he asked dryly.
"It's the twins they're jealous of… not you."
"What?!" Wes sat up.
"They are jealous about the twins spending so much time with you and that you play pranks on them and not Otthan."
"But that's because Otthan are the prank kings and knows every kind of prank I'm trying to pull", Wes whined. "Every time I try to pull something on them they know about it!"
"Well that's how it is", Lucas said and shrugged. "They are not jealous of you, but of the Everetts."
Wes got up with a sour face.
"I'm not gonna stand for this", he growled and stormed out. Lucas looked worried.
"Oh shit what did I let loose now", he asked and flew up and ran after the younger teen with a shout of:
"Wes wait up!"
Nathan had returned to his and Otto's room. The duo was sitting Indian-style on their floor and the bruntte was telling the blonde about how Wes had gotten onto the roof and they were eagerly discussing on how to use that to their advantage. They were also plotting on how to state to the Everetts that Wes was their boy and not theirs. They'd expect some fight of course and they expected some tension within the Warblers. But what they didn't expect was their door slamming open and a tini-tiny Dalton boy storming in and knocking both boys' foreheads together. Both boys yelped in pain and dropped back onto their backs. They continued to wail a bit and they ehard running feet, a few of them.
"Dude?!" they heard someone exclaim. "How did you knock them to the floor?"
The guy that asked got no answer and Otto squinted up at the person next to him and saw one angry Wes Montgomery glare at him.
"Uh oh", Otto said. "What did we do?"
Wes was practically boiling with rage and Otto kicked Nathan in the shin and the brunette looked at him and then Wes.
"Oh", Nathan said. "Hi Wes I didn't hear ya come in? What's up?"
"What's up", Wes asked angrily, his tone was of ice. "What's up?! Since Thanksgiving you two have been giving me the stinkeye, have ignored me, have been glaring in my direction and have been short in your tone whenever I'm around you. I spent every day since Thanksgiving and up until know wondering what the hell I'd done to be treated like a gay guy by a homophobe! I had no idea why you treated me as such… until now!"
"Oh", Nathan said and looked at Otto. "I thought this was about using our spider monkey here for a few pranks."
"Stop your stupid jabbering and listen to me!"
Everyone in the room stared at the angry little Asian in confusion and some in awe. Wes got angry at times but he never yelled with such rage as now. His face was red in anger and his eyes stormy and icy at the same time.
"Wes", Otto began.
"Shut up!" Wes yelled. "For months now I've been trying to work out what I did to make you two despise me so much and today I finally hear what's really behind it! You're not despising me or being jealous of me! You're being jealous of my new friends!"
Otto had helped Nathan up and now both of them stared at the fuming Asian.
"Huh", Nathan asked.
"You're jealous of Eric and Brett", Wes yelled. The room was completely quiet and then Otto sighed.
"It's just-"
"You're not even denying it", Wes cut in furiously. "So then it must be true!"
"Of course it is", Nathan hurriedly said. "But it's just because you're our little buddy."
"You don't have an 'all rights reserved' when it comes to me! I have more friends than just you two! Grow up and let me hang out with the people I want to hang out with! Lucas told me you're jealous about me pulling pranks on the Everetts and not you!"
Lucas shrunk back a bit from the door when Nathan and Otto glared at him.
"That's because I can't pull pranks on you", Wes yelled. "You're the prank kings so whatever I try you already know about! How do you prank someone that knows every prank in the book?!"
"You… don't", Otto said but it was more like a question and Wes' eyes narrowed. "Oooooh."
"Yeah", Wes spat. "Oh."
"Okay", Justine cut in and took Wes' hand in hers and pulled him back slightly. "Let's go to the mall for a bit okay darling? Get some pause from all these boys."
"Fine", Wes grumbled and interlaced his fingers with hers. He then let her walk him out of the room and left a bunch of confused boy behind them.
About 40 minutes later Wes had started smiling again. Justine was nearly skipping through the mall in Westerville and Wes smiled looking at her. She caught a few eyes as they walked through the place. Wes was still around 152 centimeters and Justine was 172 but she was petite in her frame. Today her hair was long and chestnut colored and she was dressed in her Dalton Uniform.
"I like it better when you are blonde", Wes said when they were in a clothes' store and she was looking among the dresses. "It makes you look like an angel."
"Oh but darling I'm not an angel", she teased and winked. "I'm a devil."
"No you're not."
"You're too kind."
"No I'm not", Wes teased and she kissed his cheek and went into the changing room. Wes waited outside to give her grades on her clothing. Thanks to Mitch and Justine he had started to evolve a really good fashion sense. He was also getting better at seeing what would fit a person or not. Justine pulled the curtain back. She was wearing a cardigan that was meant to keep your shoulders bare, it was white knitted and a bit baggy looking. Too it she had tight linen pants in a beige color and white shoes.
"Perfect for an evening on the beach", Wes told her. "But would suit you better with blonde hair."
"Dully noted", she said and smiled. "Any suggestions darling?"
"Um…" it was a test and he knew it. "I think something dark red or dark blue… maybe even navy blue would actually look good with it."
"Go find me something."
Wes nodded and hurried off. He searched the racks for something and found an almost wine red blouse and black tight trousers, as well as a pair of black stilettos and hurried back to the changing room. He knocked on the wall and reached in his hand behind the curtain.
"This", he asked and the clothes and shoes were taken from him.
"Perfect darling", Justine said and handed him the other clothes. "You're a quick learner."
"I have great teachers… oh no."
"Hm?" she opened up the curtain just a little. "What?"
"Becca is here", he said. "I saw her looking at me through the window."
"Ignore that bitch", Justine said and Wes smiled at her and then waited for her to change. They found two more outfits together that Justine decided to buy and then they left. They went through quite a few stores and at everyone Wes would notice Becca watching him and Justine noticed it as well. They went to a café and sat down to have a cup of coffee in Justine's case and Wes drank a soda. They talked about regionals which was coming closely… and about Wes' birthday. Justine asked what he wanted for his birthday and he just said:
"If it's anything like last year that will be just enough."
Justine smiled and blew him a kiss. Wes "caught" it and put it in his chest pocket.
"I'll keep that close to my heart", he said and Justine laughed.
"Wes", a timid voice asked and the two of them looked up and Wes gaped. Becca was standing in front of him. But it didn't look like her. She was dress in a short, light blue skirt, leggins, a rather revealing white blouse underneath a pink jacket. With her were a few girls that giggled and blushed whenever Wes looked at her. Wes recognized the clothes… it was the same kind of clothes he'd gotten for Justine, but that she rejected. Becca was also having her chestnut hair loose and had some makeup on. Wes realized he hadn't seen her for about half an hour. She must've changed into this. Now what was she up to?
"What do you want", he asked her.
"I… wanted to tell you", she said. "That I am sorry and that I still love you… do you want me back?"
"No", Wes said and turned to Justine.
"Why not", Becca asked.
"Because you called my friends and brothers a terrible word and I am pretty sure you won't change your mind about gay guys."
"I… It's hard."
"No it's not. We're over Becca. Get it into your head."
"Not even if I sing for you?"
"Excuse me", Wes said and turned to her. She smiled and one of the girls started a boom box. The music started and it sounded Turkish or maybe Arabic, Wes couldn't really tell. The girls and Becca started dancing to it and then Becca sang:
I feel you moving on a different course
Making a way for a distant cause
You say you love me and you roll your eyes
Turn to stare at the empty skies
I thought it was over and we passed all that
All we've done is to pass back to frame number one
Come on, now, now
I wanna show you all again what it would be like
If you just let go and let me love you– She took off her jacket and handed it to Wes who looked uncomfortable.
Every way that I can
I'll try to make you love me again
Every way that I can
I'll give you all my love and then
Every way that I can
I'll cry, I'll die
Make you mine again
The girls started performing some belly dancing at the small instrumental part.
Hold me closer, oh, so good
You make me feel just like I should
I know what you're thinking: uhuh good
Now the rest of the world is overruled
Tell me what you see in other girls all around – Becca pointed at Justine and walked around the table.
Come on closer and tell me what you don't find here
Come on, now, now
I wanna be the everything you've been missing out
Just let go and let me love you
Every way that I can – She took Wes' hand and held it to her chest.
I'll try to make you love me again
Every way that I can
I'll give you all my love and then
Every way that I can
I'll cry, I'll die
Make you mine again – Wes pulled his hand loose and rolled his eyes.
I'm in love with you
I'll do all you want me to
You make me wanna huhuh
Make me wanna huhuhuh
I'm in love with you
I'll do all you want me to
You make me wanna huhuh
Make me wanna huhuhuh
Wes and Justine got up and was about to leave but Becca and her girls followed while she sang:
Nothing in the world that will stop me, no sir
Nothing in the world that will stop me, no sir
No, no, no, no, no
She put her hands to Wes' chest and stopped him while the girls danced around them. But now Justine had had enough.
Every way that I can
I'll try to make you love me again
Every way that I can
I'll give you all my love and then
Every way that I can
I'll give you all my love and then
Every way that I can
I'll cry, I'll die
Make you mine again
Just as the music ended Justine grabbed hold of Wes' shoulders, twirled him around and kissed him. Becca stared. She had never seen Justine in that hair color so she didn't recognize her. The kiss was very soft from Justine's side and Wes answered quickly and it was a bit clumsy on his part, but Becca and the girls didn't notice. When the duo parted Justine said to Becca:
"Keep your badly manicured hands off of my boy and move that horrible fashion catastrophe that is your ass and body away from us. Thank you." She then took Wes' hand and stalked out of the mall. Wes was still too confused to do or say anything.
When they got back to Dalton Wes was still confused and a bit shocked but Justine lead him to the Dragon and into his room… where Otthan was waiting for him.
"I wouldn't try to talk to him right now", she told them as both boys got up. "He's completely out of it."
"What happened", Otto asked worriedly.
"She kissed me", Wes said and looked at them. Justine smiled, kissed each boy on the cheek and hurried out with her bags.
"Who did", Nathan asked.
"Justine", Wes said. "Becca was bothering me and then Justine kissed me to shut her up and she told Becca to get her badly manicured hands off of me and to move that horrible fashion catastrophe that is her ass and body away from us… This is like when she kissed that guy and put his hand between her legs."
"She did what?!" Otthan yelled and turned pale in shock… and got huge eyes. Wes realized Justine never gave them any details about that.
"Put a guy's hand between-"
He was cut short when Nathan grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Justine kissed you", he asked and all Wes could do was nod.
"JUSTIN!" Otthan yelled in anger and left the room. Wes just shrugged and decided to call Mark. At least there would be one sane person to talk too.
"Darlings I hope you plan on having Wes' birthday party here again this year", Trixie told Lucas, Phillip, Mitch and Austin as they were at the Bean having a cup of coffee. "It is on the 9th right?"
"Yeah", Lucas said and smiled. "We'll be here if you want us too ma'am. The problem is he will probably expect it."
"True", she said and tapped her chin and then smirked. "I know what to do."
TBC Sorry for shortness but I was short on ideas for this chappie :S Song is not mine it is Every Way That I Can by Sertab Erener (winner of ESC 2003 I think).
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