Thank you to those who reviewed the last chapter.

I was amazed that I managed to re-read a few chapters and get this chapter written and up so soon afterwards. There's not as much drama as a wanted, but it flowed which is why I didn't change it. I hope you enjoy it anyway.

Boarding School Hell

Chris sat on the chair and kept his eyes on Patty. How did he tell her this? How was he meant to start this? Did he just come out with 'I cheated on Wyatt with my ex-fiancée'? No, then she would shout, and then EVERYBODY would be outside to find out what it was all about, Wyatt would then find out the truth and then he would be out of the house on the streets for 6 days until he got back to school. That would not be so good.

Patty looked at the Perry carefully, trying to figure it all out just by his expression. At first he looked like a deer caught in headlights, but now there seemed to be worry and panic, what could he be so worried about? What could be so bad that he was not going to tell Wyatt about? He still loved Wyatt, and Patty knew that, not just from what he was like, but the present he got Wyatt and the fact he still had the dog tags still hanging from his neck. He would have found a reason not to wear them if he did not love Wyatt anymore. So what was it?

"Chris?"

"It's nothing," Chris shook his head, trying his best to get out of telling her this, "Really, just something to do with a friend at school."

"Chris, I'm not that stupid," the 20-year-old rolled her hazel eyes, "You were saying something about your head all over the place. You're hiding something."

"What's it got to do with you, Patty?" Chris asked with a laboured sigh, "This is my business, not yours."

"When it concerns Wyatt, it's mine. Especially if it's something that could hurt him."

Chris shook his head, with a slight scoff, "Patty, this is between me and Wyatt, alright. There's no reason for you to know." But he knew how protective she was of her family, just like Wyatt and Parker both were, they looked out for each other.

"Chris, what is it?" Patty's voice softened, seeing something in his sea green eyes that told her there was something he was worried about, whatever he was hiding he was having trouble with in his head.

"Any chance we can get away from the house for a while?"

This was bad. Patty knew that Chris would tell her here and now if it was something small, but this was big, big and bad.

"We could probably go for a drink or something," Patty nodded her head, was this something to do with Bianca, or maybe Bianca's mom…now that she knew the whole truth about Chris and Bianca, the whole relationship, their friendship beforehand, and now how her mother had helped him deal with his parent's death, this could have something to do with her that he was worried about telling Wyatt about, "But what are you gonna tell Wyatt?"

"I'll think of something," Chris nodded, "If you can say something to Piper and everyone…"

"Sure."

As Patty walked to the sitting room where all the parents were, Chris walked to the dining room to se Hope sat on his lover's knee, playing the board game. Once again Hannah was winning, although Phoenix did not seem too far behind.

"Hey Chris." Hope smiled up to the 18-year-old, making Wyatt smile at the brunette as he took Hope from his knee and hugged her.

"Hey you," Chris smiled, "How you doing?"

"Me and Wyatt are in jail." Chris instantly knew what she meant, after all he had played his game lots of times with his parents growing up, though until Christmas Day he had never played it since their accident. He looked to the board and saw the dog playing piece in the jail.

"You're the dog again?" Chris asked her.

"That's Roofus," Hope laughed her innocent laugh, "I'm always Roofus, silly. Roofus is the best piece in the whole wide world." Chris just agreed and passed the eight-year-old back to his blonde lover.

"You ok?" He smiled as Wyatt, thinking of what he could tell the 17-year-old to get out of the house.

"Course," Wyatt nodded, "How's Speedy?"

"He's fine," Chris rolled his eyes with a smile, after all it was actually Speedy who called him, since he had not spoken to Chris the whole vacation, "Just got shouted at by his mom for being on the phone too long."

"I'm not surprised, calling you on your cell. He should have called here." Chris just laughed slightly.

"Anyway, I'm just nipping out to get some more 'you know whats'," Chris finally thought of an excuse, but dared not to say anything in front of the young cousins in case Wyatt wanted some cigarettes too, "You want anything."

"I'll come with."

"It's ok," Chris shook his head, to stop Wyatt standing up, "You stay here and play your monopoly, Patty's giving me a lift. You want anything?"

"Nah, I'm ok," Wyatt nodded, "Don't let Patty drive you too crazy." Chris rolled his green eyes again with a smile playing on his face, at least Wyatt had not questioned the fact that he had only bought some the other day.

"I'll see you in a bit." Chris smiled and kissed Wyatt, while all the girls sat around the table screwed their noses up, luckily Parker, Jackson and Peyton were all outside so there were no rude comments, where Hope could learn any new words.

As Chris left the house, Wyatt watched carefully. He knew that Chris had only bought a new packet of cigarettes yesterday after he ran out the night before, had he really gone through them all so soon? Was his guilt over hitting Bianca really that much that it was causing him to chain smoke so much?

Chris sat in the car on the way to wherever Patty was taking them. She had never said were they were going, and he knew most places would be closed today with it being New Years Day, so there were not many possible choices. He soon realised where they were possibly going as Patty turned a corner and he could see the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance, there were only two choices, where he and Wyatt went the night that Wyatt lashed out at Parker or to Golden Gate Park, and Chris hoped for the latter.

Patty turned another corner and pulled up at the side of the road, not too far from the entrance of the park. She knew that this would be the best place, hardly anybody would be around so Chris would openly tell her anything, and it was open today. She climbed out of the car, and walked with Chris in to a secluded area of the park, with stone benches and a stone angel between to archways. The infamous red coloured bridge stood just off from the park, glowing in the winter sun. The 20-year-old sat on the one of the stone benches, making sure her coat was between her and the bench to add a little warmth, even though it was not freezing cold, there was a cool winter breeze.

"You're nervous about something," Patty noticed as she saw the Perry still stood, taking the packet of cigarettes out of his pocket and lighting one. Chris just sighed as he took a drag from the cigarette, of course he was nervous. He was going to have to tell Patty the worst secret he had ever kept. At least she got points for stating the obvious, "Chris, sweetie, what is it?" That just reminded Chris of Piper and Prue, their voices were always soft, especially Piper's unless she was angry, and Patty scarily sounded so much like her. The brunette male found he could hardly look at her now, the fear of being scolded like a little boy, mind you he knew he deserved it and even worse for what he had done.

"This is something you can't tell anybody, nobody at all. Not even Wyatt," Chris explained to the Trudeau as he paced, smoking his cancer stick, while thinking more, "Not until I find the right way to tell him anyway." He knew he would have to say something after telling Patty. As soon as she knew the truth, Wyatt would need to find out, otherwise eventually she would tell him. Chris knew that nothing in the Halliwell household stayed quiet.

"Chris, what is it?" Patty asked, her eyes questioning the brunette's in front of her, "Has something happened? Is there something wrong?"

"There's a lot wrong," Chris replied, "Just, please promise me you won't tell Wyatt until I find a way to tell him myself. This is something I seriously need to tell him, he can't hear it from anyone else, it wouldn't be fair on him. But I need time to tell him."

"I promise, I won't say a word about this to him." Patty nodded her head, watching Chris pace in front of her. He seemed so troubled and so confused. A little like he was when he first found out about Caitlin.

Chris Perry finally sat down on the stoned bench and turned to Patty, looking deep into her chocolate covered eyes, wondering just how he was going to tell her this.

"I…erm…I did something stupid."

"Something stupid as in…what?" Patty asked but then twigged what he was talking about as his eyes closed and he breathed out heavily, "You've cheated on Wyatt, haven't you?" Her calmness turned to shock as she watched him nod his head slowly, and soon that shock turned to anger. How could he do this? He loved Wyatt, did he not? Why would he cheat on Wyatt now? "Please do not tell me it was with who I think it was. Don't tell me it was Bianca."

Chris opened his eyes, but kept his gaze away from the Trudeau as he nodded his head again. Maybe if it was someone completely different it would not have been so bad, but the fact that it was his own ex-fiancée made everything worse.

"Oh my God, Chris!" Patty shouted, hitting Chris as hard as she could on his arm, but it did not seem to cause any pain, either that or Chris was hiding it, "This is what you're hiding from Wyatt! Are you stupid? What were you thinking? You better have only kissed her otherwise I'm gonna kill you!"

Chris wished that he could just say it was just a kiss, but he hated lying and would not start now. He slowly shook his head and felt tears forming in his eyes as he told Patty what happened with the 19-year-old girl. He winced as Patty slapped him again, this one felt harder, probably because she was angrier now.

"What were you thinking Chris?" Patty asked, what was she meant to do now? She had already promised not to tell Wyatt, but did she really need to keep her promise to this 18-year-old male in front of her? He did say he would eventually tell Wyatt, but did Wyatt really need to know this? This would completely crush her eldest cousin, the blonde-haired Halliwell would kill Chris as soon as he found out.

"I wasn't thinking at the time," Chris said, "I was just so angry at her…"

"What? That's a reason to sleep with her? I don't think so," Patty shook her head, "You know as soon as Wyatt finds out he's never gonna trust you again."

"I know."

"Didn't you think about him at all before you did it?"

"I don't know what was on my mind before it," Chris cried, trying to stop the tears from falling from his eyes but it was no use, but one thing he did not want was Patty's sympathy, he did not deserve it, he had brought this on himself, "One minute we were arguing and the next we were on the bed."

"When was it?" she asked, biting her lip, wondering if he really wanted to know.

"The day I went to her house, just before New Year." Patty frowned, she did not even know he had gone to her house, "Patty, she's out of my life, it's never gonna happen again. It would never happen again even if she was still in my life. And I'm not gonna sleep with anyone else. I love Wyatt, ok, I really love him. It was the morning after I found out her mom had gone into hospital, I wasn't myself and…"

"That's no excuse Chris."

"I know, and I'm not saying it is," Chris answered, "I'm gonna tell Wyatt, I will, I have to now I've told you anyway…"

"Don't." Patty shook her head.

"Don't what?" Chris asked, confused at what the 20-year-old was talking about.

"Don't tell him," Patty replied, quietly, as if she was telling herself, "Don't tell Wyatt about you and Bianca. Bianca was to you like Caitlin is to Wyatt, and if Wyatt slept with Caitlin would you want to know…"

"Not unless there was a chance it was gonna happen again." Chris shook his head, "And not if he knew how much of a mistake it was and that he knew he would never do it again. I would break me too much."

"And you know it's a mistake."

"Yes, Patty, one horrible mistake that will never ever EVER happen again."

"Then don't tell him," Patty repeated, "It will only break him and end your relationship and you both make each other happy. I won't say a word to him, but I'll tell you now, if I find out you've done it again, you won't just get a couple of slaps from me, it'll be a hell of a lot worse."

Nodding his head, understanding what Patty was getting at, Chris thanked her for her advice. That was two people who had told him not to tell Wyatt and for the same reason.

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