A/N: I think I am only gonna have maybe another

five chapters at most. I'm not sure about a sequel.

It just depends on how I end this one.

Chapter 6

Another week and a half had passed and Ray had kept his promise. He had made everything up to me. He had taken me on a few dates, and gave me a beautiful bracelet for my birthday. I would hang out with him after school everyday and then until nine o'clock. Which was when I had to be home.

However, it was Friday and I didn't have to be home until eleven. We went to his house for a little bit. "Maybe next week we can go to the game Heather...I just..I'm not ready to go yet. I'll go next weekend though. I promise."

I smiled at him. "Okay." We were laying in his bed talking. "Ray?"

"Yes, sweetheart?"

"I actually have a question for you."

He smiled at me. "What would that be."

"When you get mad are you always like that? I mean how you were that one night?" I had wanted to ask so bad.

"Let me put it like this, you were the first girl that's ever seen me that mad. I rarely ever get that bad. I have a temper, but its never that bad."

"Really?" I was happy to hear that.

"Yeah, I would never intentionally hurt you, I hope you know that. I felt horrible every time I saw that bruise on your forehead. I felt like I had hit you or something. Now, can I ask you something?" He was hesitant. "Are you completely done with Sunshine?"

"As a boyfriend? Yes, I have been since I started seeing you. Sunshine and I had something. But that was in the past and I, at least have moved on."

He smiled. "We've been dating for a month now, and it seems like so much longer. I can't believe its only been a month though."

I smiled at him. "I can't either, I have completely fallen for you, it happen so hard and so fast. It has never, and I mean never happened like that."

"I know, same here, no girl has ever made me feel like you do. I love you more then anything." He kissed my forehead.

Our relationship was still very innocent. After a month, we had only kissed on the lips. Just pecks, nothing more. I liked it. I looked at the clock, it was almost 11. "Honeybee, we have to get going soon."

He looked at the clock and groaned. "I don't want you to go."

I smiled. "I know, but I can't be late. Colonel is really strict. It comes from being in the military."

We got up and we walked to his car. "Ray, does it bother you that we haven't done anything?"

"Like more then kiss? NO! Not at all, this is how I want it, I want us to go slow. That was something me and Megan didn't do, I want us to be ten times better then me and her, and we already are."

I smiled. "It took me and Sunshine almost six months to get to this point, it only took us a month!"

He smiled. We were at Sunshine's. "I love you Heather."

"I love you too Ray!"

I kissed him and went inside. When I got there Colonel was sitting there with Sunshine. "Well, Ron I am going to bed." He shook his sons hand and then hugged me.

I sat down next to Sunshine. "Did you win?"

"Yeah I did. Titans are 5-0."

I smiled at him. "Congratulations."

"So, I didn't see you at the game. The last two to be exact."

I looked down. "Ray, wasn't ready to go. He is still upset that he got kicked off the team. I'll be there next week though. He promised we could go."

He nodded. "You guys spend a lot of time together." I shrugged. "I never get to see you, you should spend some time with me and my dad, instead of using our house to just sleep at."

I looked at him. "I like spending time with him, just like I spent time with you. We were inseparable too, ya know!"

"I know, but my dad really cares about you, he wants to see you a bit. All we ask is for one day alone with you and then Ray can come over a few days a week."

I nodded, "I think I can do that. I will talk to Ray about it. I think he feels weird around us."

"Why?"

"He thinks you still love me and want to be with me."

"Is it that obvious?" He asked.

I jerked my head up to look at him. "What?..."

"I do. I do still love you, and I do still want to be with you."

"Then why did you say all of that? What was really out there?"

He paused. "I was interested in a girl, I thought that we were on the verge of dating. I didn't want to hurt her."

I looked at him in disbelief. "So you would rather hurt someone that you dated for almost two years?" He didn't say anything. "I loved you more then anything. Sure I'd already met Ray, but I would have dropped him so I could have had you back!"

He sat there, he wouldn't even look at me. "Our relationship wasn't good in the end..." Was all he could say to me.

"Because of you! You slept with Natalie! You were the one that ruined our relationship!"

"Heather..." He paused. "I thought we had broken up. Honest..."

"I don't believe you!" I was close to tears. "I told you I was leaving and wouldn't be back for a while...I didn't mean that we were broken up, I can't be with you now."

"You were so willing a month ago." He said. "I love you, more then anything. I still want everything. I want our life together! Our kids, James and Tara...I want all off that back more than anything in this world. I just need one more chance! Just one."

I sighed. "I can't, Ray has never hurt me like you did. I cried night after night because of what you did, every time we fought after that you had to say something about what happened, it was like you just had to put it in my face. I am not going to take away Ray's chance for someone that cheated on me."

He looked down. "I didn't want to say anything to you, I really didn't...."

"Then don't, I know its about Ray and I don't want to hear your lies!"

"They aren't lies. Gerry told me out of concern, I wanted to tell you, you need to know."

I walked towards the door. "I can't listen to you talk about Ray like this. I'm leaving."

I walked out the door and towards Ray's house. I heard a honk behind me. I turned around and saw Julius and Gerry. "Get in," I heard Gerry said. I did.

"Where are you going?" Gerry asked.

"Ray's I can't stay with Sunshine, he kept trying to talk bad about Ray."

They looked at each other. "Heather, Megan has been telling a few people that she's been going over to Ray's every night or he goes over to her house." Julius said.

I looked at them. "Let me out, I didn't want to hear that shit, because I know it isn't true."

We were at Ray's but his car wasn't there. I looked at the clock it was almost midnight. "Megan lives a few blocks away, lets just go check it out. That's actually what we were going to do."

I nodded. I hated this, I hated that I couldn't trust Ray at this moment. We drove by Megan's house and his car wasn't there either.

"Drive me back to Ray's." I said. They did, I got out at Ray's house.

"I'm glad that I was wrong," Gerry said. I nodded. I walked to the porch and sat down. I knew that it was after ten and he wasn't home yet.

I was freezing I sat on his porch and waited.

There is no way that Ray would cheat on me. I thought. No, he loves me. He wouldn't hurt me like that. I know that. He cares too much about me to ever do something like that. I knew that.

I sat at there for at least two hours. I saw Ray finally pull up. I stood up, he got out. He looked drunk. "Where were you?" I asked. I knew that I was on the verge of tears.

"Heather?" I smelled the alcohol on his breath.

"Is this what you do when I'm not with you?"

He looked down. "I went out to a party. I just hung out."

"I've been hearing things..."

He smiled at me, "Sweetie, you must be cold, come inside. We walked inside. "Ray..I heard something tonight."

He looked at me. "If its that stupid rumor about Megan, it isn't true." He looked me dead square in the eye. "She hasn't seen me happy and now that she does, she is jealous, and how would that be possible, I am with you ever single second of ever single day."

I nodded. "I just needed to be reassured. I love you."

"I love you too." He kissed me. "Let me take you home. I'll stay with you for a while, okay?"

I nodded. We drove to Sunshine's. I walked in Sunshine was sitting there. "Me and Colonel were worried. I'm sorry."

I gave him the cold shoulder. "Ray, why don't you stay the night?" Sunshine asked. "Colonel's rules are you can't sleep in the same room, but you can spend time together."

We both nodded. I walked up to my room. Ray laid down next to me. "Heather, I'm sorry that so much shit has been going on between us. I can promise you though, I haven't cheated on you."

I smiled. "I know, I know you would never do that to me."

"I'm glad you know that sweetie," and with that he planted a kiss on my forehead. I smiled at him.

We stayed in my room for a few hours and around three he went into Sunshine's room. I guess to talk to him. I fell asleep and in the morning, I woke up to Ray sitting next to my bed. I looked up at him.

"Wow, I love waking up to you!" I said.

"I know, I'm still on my football schedule. I was up by six, Sunshine got up not too long after, he's at practice now."

I nodded. "Yeah, I figured." We walked downstairs and started to eat breakfast. By then Colonel was downstairs.

"We were worried about you last night. I understand that you and Ron got into an altercation though." I nodded. "I know that sometimes you want to kill him, but remember he only wants whats best for you, he wants to protect you. All I ask is you try to just avoid him, instead of taking off and worrying the two of us."

I smiled at him. "I think I can do that for you."

He smiled back at me and left for work.

Ray and I hung out for a good part of the day. We went to eat at his favorite restaurant. We were in the middle of having a conversation. "Ray?!" I saw a girl with blond hair and green eyes walk up.

Ray looked down. "Megan."

"I haven't seen you in so long, how have you been?" She sat down next to him. Ray didn't budge. He didn't make any room for her what so ever. "Is this your new toy?" She pointed at me. I noticed she was looking at Ray's ring. "I remember when I use to wear that....It actually looked better around my petite neck."

I had, had it! "Listen, we're in the middle of lunch. Why don't you leave me and Ray alone, neither of us are interested!"

She got a grin on her face. "Hmm, thats not what he was saying last night honey!"

I was furious. "Listen, why don't you cut the bullshit, I know that Ray hasn't touched you, so just shut up and leave." She still didn't leave. "And another thing, I'm his girlfriend, not his toy."

She looked at me. "Wow, you really are dumb, Ray will just end up back in my bed, he always does."

I laughed. "No, he really won't,"

I wasn't letting her get to me, and that was what I wanted. She didn't quit, She kept going and going with it. "Ray, loved me more, I dated him longer. He still has feelings for me too, he even told me so!"

I laughed again. "I think that all this is in your head. Somewhere in that dumb brain of yours, you have told yourself all of this to make yourself feel better, and if you ask me that is a bit pathetic."

I had struck a nerve in her. She couldn't think of anything to say, so I watched her walk away in fury. I laughed. Ray just smiled at me.

"I'm glad that you know it isn't true, I don't know what I would do if I lost you."

I smiled at him. "I don't believe her, she is dumb. I love you."

"I love you too."

Ray dropped me off at the house and went home. I walked in, and there sat Sunshine, Gerry, Julius and Alan, I could tell they were waiting for me.

End Chapter

A/N: Yeah, this story isn't gonna be longer then

ten chapters, I may do a sequel, depends on how much

time I have.

READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!

Mary