Chap. 4 Fast Forward

*2 months later*

James and Carlos had been together for 2 months now, and things were going great. Carlos had found a strange love for corn dogs. Also, all of James' popular friends learned to like Carlos, and Carlos finally came out of his shell. He stopped hiding beneath hats and hoods. He didn't sneak around using secret short cuts. He stopped walking with his eyes downcast. But even better, Carlos wasn't beaten up by Craig anymore.

Sure, he still received little comments, like sometimes he would hear Craig whisper, "Stupid queer." as he walked by. Sometimes Craig's friends would shoot spit balls at him or "accidentally" hit him with a football, but Carlos never noticed. He was always so caught up with James. James was his entire world now. Another big part of his life was Kendall and Logan, but they just didn't love him like James did.

Sometimes James would be really sweet, and he would leave notes and poems and flowers outside Carlos' locker. One time, Carlos left his locker unlocked, and when he came back he saw that James had decorated Carlos' locker with a full out love shrine. Carlos was touched.

And they never really got into fights. Sometimes Carlos would get a little irked if James forced him to watch scary movies just to get a scared little Carlos snuggled up in his lap. Or sometimes James would get upset if Carlos did something stupid and dangerous that almost got himself killed. But they loved each other either way.

But their first big fight started now, two months later. Carlos was walking through the hallway by his locker when he heard some commotion around the corner. Carlos peeked around the corner to see a big crowd. They were surrounding someone. Craig. Before Carlos could run away, the crowd parted a little and Craig pointed towards him.

"Hey, Carly!" Craig barked towards him. "See what I brought?"

The crowd parted more and Carlos gasped. He saw James, with his hands held behind his back by Craig's friends. But that wasn't why he gasped. Behind Craig, there were big pictures being projected onto the wall. Big pictures of him and James. Carlos was shocked. The pictures were of him and James in the park, random ones of them holdings hands, kissing, and just having a great time. But the majority of the pictures were of he and James making out against their favorite tree, the tree where Carlos hit his head the day they met.

But even worse, he and James were wearing only their boxers. Craig stepped forward out of the crowd and smirked at Carlos. Then, he turned to James.

"So. Diamond." Craig said, stepping closer as James squirmed under the two guys' grasp. "How'd you get so good at leading people on like that, huh? You always been a player? You know, this makes you cool in my book. Any one who pulls a prank like that on this wimp is awesome."

James gave him a hard, cold stare. "I don't know what you're talking about, Craig. I'm in love with Carlos." James stated proudly. This drew laughs from the crowd.

"Hah! You might be able to fool a stupid gaywad like Garcia, but you can't fool me Diamond. I know people like you. You get pleasure in breaking people's hearts. That's what's cool about you." Craig hissed, winking at him. "But you're still a gaywad, too."

Carlos felt tears stinging in his eyes. He glanced at James with a hurt expression and then stepped into the middle of the circle in front of James. "What's he talking about James?" Carlos asked softly, holding his urge to cry. "You-you said you it w-wasn't a prank. I-I-I thought you were differe-" Carlos choked. He looked at everyone staring at him. At James softly shaking his head, saying "no, no." At Craig laughing and high fiving his friends. It was too much. Carlos turned around and ran down the hallway.

"NO! CARLOS, baby, it's not true!" he heard James call, but Carlos ignored it.

He ran to the nearest supply closet and shut the door, locking it. He didn't bother to turn on the lights, he just sat down against the door and cried in the dark. My life is so stupid. I'm so stupid, Carlos was thinking. I knew James was too good to be true. Carlos felt miserable, alone, pathetic. He wanted to melt into the darkness and stay there forever.

Carlos started thinking about the pictures. He remembered that day, one and a half months ago, like it was yesterday. Carlos closed his eyes and went back to that day.

"Come on Carlos. Let's go to the woods. I want to be alone." James whined, pulling at Carlos' hand. Carlos giggled and trudged behind him.

"Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming! Why so impatient, Jamie?" Carlos said, trying to catch up.

James squeezed Carlos' hand and continued walking. "Because I want to be alone with my little Carlitos." James said kissing his head and dragging him to their favorite tree.

Carlos could only vaguely remember this part, because it had been a scary experience for him. He remembered James had somehow convinced Carlos to strip down to his boxers and James has done the same. And then, well, James had tried to do him against the tree. Carlos went back into the memory.

"James!" Carlos had exclaimed, squirming as James pushed him against the tree. "I've never, you know, had you-know-what and I definetely won't do it in public against a tree."

James gave in, thinking it was cute how Carlos was so scared. James pushed him against the tree again. He leaned in and planted a simple kiss on Carlos' lips. But, James continued on. He ran his tongue over Carlos' lip begging for access, and Carlos opened his mouth for him.

Carlos opened his eyes in the darkness, trying not to remember. But he still remembered how James had made out with him for 10 minutes. Tears came back to his eyes. "It was all a lie." Carlos whispered to himself.

Note: Aww! This chapter's a little longer...I hope you liked it. It's very sad, right? Well one more chapter! Might be added later!

-datsRUSHERiffic