Author's Note: Sorry if chapter five is kind of short. Enjoy, though!

Chapter Five: A Relationship At Stake

"Guys, we have a problem!" Ryan said as he burst through the kitchen double doors, and the Wildcats looked at him curiously.

"What is it? Isn't my picture good enough?" Troy asked jokely, and Ryan rolled his eyes.

"Yes, it is, but that's not the problem. Connor is back."

Silence followed the boys that were in the kitchen, and Chad spoke up to break it.

"You don't mean Connor O'Malley, do you, Evans?" he asked, and Ryan nodded.

"Yeah. That's who I mean." Ryan responded.

"Evans, this is not good! I mean, if one crazy boyfriend is enough--"

"Chad." Troy told him sharply, and Chad closed his mouth.

"I agree with Chad. This is not good, Ryan. If Connor is here, who knows what kind of choas he will strike up with next."

"I know. That's why I'm worried. He shouldn't be here in the first place."

"Why? It's not like he was liked before." Chad explained, and Troy glanced at him, then the jock turned to Ryan.

"Or maybe he isn't here to cause choas. Maybe he's just here to patch things up?"

"Troy, what does the word, crazy mean to you? He doesn't want to patch things up. He wants to create a streak between me and Haylie when it had happened to many times!"

"Just tell the dude off." Jason suggested, and Ryan glanced at him.

"I tried, and what does he do? Come back the next day!" Ryan explained, and Troy shook his head.

"You need to try something else..."

Ryan widen his eyes, and Troy frowned.

"No. I don't mean fight with him. Remember the last time you did that?"

"What? It was all I could do!" Ryan replied.

"You know, talking to him always seems to work. It did the last time he came." Zeke explained.

"Yes, but that was when Haylie and the girls made it through the door." Ryan responded.

"So? My mom always said that communcation is the key to any relationship: enemy, lover, or friend. It doesn't hurt to try it." Zeke annouced as he took off his chef hat, and headed out the door with his bag.

"Don't you guys have anything else? Talking isn't going to work!" Ryan stated.

"Ryan, we can work together on this...if it's one thing the Wildcats are good at, it's mending broken relationships before they totally fall apart." Troy told him, as he, Chad, and Jason got up to go meet their girlfriends.

What if the plan that they all had in mind didn't work?

What if Connor did something so radical that even the Wildcats couldn't fix?

Ryan looked around the kitchen for the longest time, and turned off the lights, the door swinging behind him.