Sorry for the long wait, but there's only going to be maybe one or two more chapters of this story and Choking should be updated tomorrow with it's final chapter.

Megan walked in to the Premiere with Janie, who she had rung earlier and asked to come with her. Janie had told Megan that she was meeting Wendy there any way, so Drake just picked them both up.

Megan was extremely nervous about her plan, however she thought that she was doing the right thing even though there was probably a better way of doing the right things than the way she had chosen, but Drake had agreed to the idea willingly to the plan.

"See you later Megan." Janie said as she walked over to Wendy, so that the two of them could see that new movie that they were here to see.

"Bye Janie." Megan replied with a small wave. She could see Cory watching her out of the corner of her eyes. She felt her nerves rise increasingly as she saw Josh selling candy and popcorn, however she quickly allowed her self to regain her composure and walked over to where Josh was.

"Hey Boob." She said before walking over to where Cory was stood out of Josh's eyes sight. Josh just looked around for her, however he couldn't find her any where. That was Drake's cue.

"Hey Brother." He said announcing his presence as he walked over to Josh and picked up a bar of candy before starting to eat it.

"Hey, hey Drake you have to pay for that before you eat it you know."

"Yeah I know," Drake replied, "But I don't care." He added before eating more of the candy bar and receiving that normal look from Josh that he always got given when ever he did this.

"So what are you doing here tonight?" Josh asked his brother already finding the answer pretty guessable.

"I've got a date." Drake replied as he started looking around the Premiere for any sign of his date.

"Who are you dating now?" Josh asked this must be Drake's tenth or eleventh date this week and it was only Friday.

"Oh you know my ex girlfriend Tori," Drake started waiting until Josh nodded before he continued with his sentence, "I've got another date with her."

"I thought that you and her broke up and she was dating some other guy now?" Josh asked curiously.

"Yeah she's still dating him at the moment, but we might date each other again after tonight if all goes well," Drake told his brother before picking up another bar of candy to eat, "Hey can I have two soda's?" Drake asked.

"Sure." Josh replied before turning to get Drake what he had asked for.

"For free?" Drake asked.

"No way Drake I can't give you any thing here for free and is that another bar of candy?"

"Yeah why?"

"Stop eating the candy." Josh said pulling the bar out of his brothers hands.

"Dude?" Drake half questioned his brothers actions before he saw Tori walk in to the Premiere, "Oh got to go Tori's here."

"Wait Drake." Josh said before his brother had walked away.

"Yeah?" Drake asked.

"How are you going to pay for the tickets?" Josh asked and before he gave Drake any chance to reply to that he spoke again, "Because I am not paying for them."

"Oh you don't have to." Drake replied with a smile.

"Why not?" Josh asked confused.

"Helen's giving me free tickets to any movie for a whole month since I helped her out the other day, so see ya later brother." Drake told Josh before he and Tori walked out of Josh's eye sight and in to the theatre's.

As soon as Drake was sure that Josh could no longer see them he handed Tori two tickets to the movie that he had told Josh that they were seeing. Tori's current boy friend came over to the pair and gave Drake a small smile although Drake could see that he was annoyed that Tori had agreed to help him.

"Thanks for helping Tori."

"That's aright Drake," She said giving him a big smile, "Thanks for the tickets." Tori finished before she and her boy friend walked away from Drake and in to the theatre to watch the movie. Drake sighed still not believing that Josh had actually believed his rubbish excuse.

Tori was not his date for tonight. She was faking it and it was all a part of Megan's plan. The point of having Tori help by playing the part of Drake's girl friend was to make Josh suspect nothing different was going on and it had actually worked. So far.

Megan and Cory walked past and Drake quickly and carefully moved to get out of their line of eye sight.

It was about one hour later that Drake found him self still trying to hide from Josh who would occasionally walk around the theatre's doing other jobs that Helen wanted him to do.

Another fifthteen minutes later and Drake was getting bored and was beginning to wish that he had some thing to do other than keep moving out of the way of certain people. Fifthteen minutes after that Drake's phone beeped.

He knew what that meant. Megan had finally texted him. He opened the text and read what his sister had said.

Drake,

Cory's left now to get more popcorn for him self. Now's your chance.

P.S. I love you brother.

Drake smiled at the text before putting his phone away. When he looked up he spotted Cory instantly and quickly followed him, however Drake took a small detour. He knocked on the door of Helen's office.

Helen came out and followed Drake already aware of what was happening with this plan, however she only knew the part of helping Drake. She walked in to the main part of the Premiere already knowing what to say.

"Josh," She shouted making Josh visibly jump at the tone of her voice, "I need you to clean the bath rooms for me."

"But I-"

"Clean!"

"Yes Helen." Josh said before running off to do as he was told to do.

"Thanks Helen." Drake said.

"Oh your welcome Drake." Helen said as she walked back to her office. Drake quickly got in to Josh's usual place behind the counter and a moment later Cory appeared walking over to the counter and Drake could see that he almost instantly seemed to recognise him, however he didn't say it straight away.

"I'll have a large popcorn Drake." He said placing the money for the popcorn on the counter.

However Drake wasn't in the mood for popcorn giving.

"Sure Cory, but if I give you the popcorn then you have to give me back my sister's safety and freedom. My guitar and you have to tell the principal at school, Mrs Hayfer and my parents that you made Megan wreck Mrs Hayfer's car and that she didn't do it just because she wanted to."

At this point Cory still seemed to be smiling, however Drake wasn't finished.

"You will stop dating Megan just to get things from her because she is not going to do what you want her to do any more she is better than that and she is not willing to do some thing that she'll regret and you will never lay another hand on her ever again."

"Or what." Cory replied almost slyly.

"Or you deal with me." Drake growled back.

"I'll take my chances." Cory replied seeming unfazed by Drake's words. Drake was very willing to move to Megan's next idea of for the plan if the first one didn't work and that was to attack Cory. Which Drake would have done if he hadn't seem Josh coming back. Damn it.

"Here's your popcorn." Drake said through gritted teeth handing the popcorn to Cory before running out of the main part of the building. As soon as he was out of the Josh's sight he quickly texted Megan back.

Hey Megs,

I tried with Cory, however he wants to take his chances. I'll be waiting in the car for you.

Drake sighed and put his phone back in to his jacket pocket before heading out to sit in his car and wait for Megan out of the way of Josh.

After sitting in the car in boredom for just under half an hour, just to show how quickly Drake got bored, Megan finally came out of the Premiere and from what Drake could see not all that happy either. She didn't look good as she was approaching the car, however she looked worse when she had climbed in to the car where Drake could see her clearly.

Megan had tear tracks running down her face and also her left cheek was very red in colour. To be honest Drake really didn't need to ask Megan what had happened after he had texted her, however he felt that he needed to do so.

"Megan, what happened?"

"Cory hit me again nothing serious though." She replied sadly and Drake could tell that she was only crying, because she hated what she had managed to get her self stuck in.

"Megan why didn't you tell me that you were dating Cory when you started dating him nine weeks ago?" Drake asked.

Megan looked at him with her tear coated eyes, "I thought you wouldn't help me. That you would laugh at me and say that I was stupid or some thing like that." She replied.

Drake sighed. "Megan you can be the most annoying little sister ever, but I would have helped you," Megan didn't seem convinced, so Drake decided to continue speaking, "If your boy friend, or girl friend in my case, doesn't want to come round to your house and meet your parents than there is defiantly some thing that is going to go wrong at some point."

"Oh." Megan said quietly as she listened to Drake's words.

"Come on let's go home." Drake replied starting the car and driving home feeling even more relief that mum and Walter had gone out to dinner with Walter's boss and his wife.

When the pair arrived home they decided to watch the TV. Half an hour later Josh arrived home. He shut the door behind him and looked at the pair sat on the sofa.

"Hi, Drake, Megan, having fun?" Josh asked.

"Hey Boob." Megan replied.

"Yeah you should join us." Drake added shuffling closer to Megan to male more room for Josh to sit next to them.

"Alright, yeah I'll come and join you on one condition."

"What now." Megan mumbled.

"Okay what condition Josh?" Drake asked standing up from the sofa and standing next to his brother.

"The condition is," Josh started in his normal tone before rising it up a level, "You and Megan tell me every thing that's been going on lately and why the two of you have spent so much time together, because I can swear that you two are out to get me and I don't want my brother to turn against me and leave me to face her alone."

"Look Josh I'll admit that Megan can be," Drake paused searching his mind for the right word as he looked at his sister, "A devil." He finished his previous sentence, however he couldn't finish what else he was going to say as Megan spoke first.

"I prefer devious." She said.

"Okay devious, but she's my sister Josh, so I do have to look after her and protect her."

"So tell me, I'm her brother too." Josh pushed as Drake sat back down on the sofa.

"It's not up to me, it's Megan's choice." Drake replied.

"Then I'll tell him." Megan said quietly that if the room wasn't silent the pair would have missed the comment completely.

"You will?" Josh asked.

"Yeah besides Drake and I could do with the extra help." She said indicating for Josh to sit down. So Josh did and Megan began telling the story of her and Cory all over again to another pair of ears.

Saturday morning Drake was at the Premiere. Josh was a little annoyed with him for lying to him last night about his 'date' with Tori that never actually happen, however Josh was busy this morning with Craig and Eric, so couldn't pick his pay check up from Helen who was going out salsa dancing later, so Josh couldn't collect his pay check.

That's why Drake was now looking around for Helen to get Josh's pay check and then probably go and spend it some where on his way home.

"Oh Drake your looking mighty fine today." Helen said as she walked over to him with her clip board.

"You two Helen." Drake replied.

"Oh you flatter me," Helen told Drake who just smiled, "Any way why are you here?" She asked.

"Oh I'm just here to collect Josh's pay check for him."

"Okay well here you go." Helen replied as she handed Drake and envelope with Josh's name on it.

"Thanks Helen." Drake said he turned around to leave, however Helen called him.

"Drake!" She called.

"Yes Helen," Drake answered as he walked back over to her, "What do you need?" He asked.

"Oh I need nothing I just wanted to tell you to take twenty dollars of Josh's pay check for you."

"Oh thank you Helen." Drake said.

"No problem." She replied as she walked back to her office to do some more work. Drake was just going to leave when he saw Cory with some other girl who he thought that he recognised.

"Come on Monica you have no choice, because if you don't then I will tell the whole school." Cory told her.

"You wouldn't." She replied desperately.

"I would."

Drake felt his blood boil at what he was hearing. It was crazy. Cory was completely using people. As he drove back home he thought of any thing but the road. He was pretty sure that he ran about three red lights on the way as well. When he got in to the house he saw Megan talking on the phone in the kitchen, but luckily she didn't notice him.

Drake ran up to his shared room and felt glad that Josh was out with Craig and Eric. He chucked the envelope on to Josh's bed forgetting to take out the money that Helen had told him to take out for him self.

He climbed up the ladder to his bed and sat on it pulling out the frame from yesterday when Megan had given it back to him. He looked at the frame admiring it's beauty. Megan was never the best with hand craft and hand made gifts, however the frame was beautifully made and Drake thought it was better than what he could ever do. He smiled again as he looked at the picture.

It was taken when he and Megan were a few years younger after there dad had left and every thing had been sorted out pretty well. They were at the park. If Drake remembered rightly his mum had taken it. Just thinking back to that day made Drake very happy. He remembered that they had all gone to the park with a picnic and had all managed to have a good time, but things change.

Drake felt a small tear run down his check. "Oh Megan," He mumbled, "What changed between us." If Drake had taken a second to look over his shoulder he would have seen the bed room door be pulled shut.

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Sorry again for the long wait for updates.

Sorry again for the late updates.