Chapter Six: No One Mourns The Wicked.
The glorious sun shined into the room on the naked and sweaty forms of the two lovers in a deep peaceful sleep: Fender slowly stirred and slowly sat up and looked over his shoulder at IQ sleeping next to him: Fender sighed as knew their love was now cemented, and if IQ even questioned his position being Fender's number one, he was completely crazy. Fender stood and slowly dressed and made his way down the stairs to cook himself and his love some breakfast. IQ slowly began to awake to the smell of cooking food from the kitchen: IQ stretched and picked up his clothes, which had been worn and creased for they had been worn the day before and grabbed his glasses from the side table. IQ stumbled in a lovely sing-song way down the hall and down the steps, more floating than walking. Fender turned as IQ sat down at the table, which he had set for them. "Morning baby." Fender said as he kissed IQ on the lips and took the plate from in front of him and put some eggs and bacon on it and placed it back in front of IQ. IQ smiled and slowly dug into the breakfast as Fender joined with a similar plate. The duo smiled and talked through breakfast while just enjoying each other's company, love had bloomed and was in full flourish.
IQ and Fender spent the rest of the day listening to 45s and just enjoying the bliss of their love by kissing and dancing cheek to cheek to the tunes of Elvis, Connie Francis and many others, but also shaking their tail feathers to the jams of the day: IQ finally left Fender's house in a cloud of bliss all the way back to his home. IQ walked into his room and fell onto his bed with a love filled sigh: IQ loved Fender and Fender loved IQ, and they were passionate about it, obviously from the passionate sex the two had the night before. Fender had been straightening up the house for when his parents returned from their European vacation when the door bell rang: Fender opened the door and Tammy stood doe-eyed in front of him.
"Hey Fender Bender." Tammy said in a sweet and perky tone as she made her way inside the house and smelled the instant smell of flowers: "Oooh. Fender did you buy me flowers?" she said looking all around for the flowers that Fender must have bought for her. "Eh, no, I just through out a vase of old flowers that my Dad bought my Mom like a month ago, that's the smell." Fender said covering his tracks. Tammy sighed as she fell onto Fender's coach, where she and Fender had spent plenty of nights of passionate kissing and even some hot nights of sex. Tammy smiled remembering all the times this coach had brought back: "So, Tam. What brings you here?" Fender said putting the candles back into the holders. "Well, Fender Bender, I am feeling we need to talk about us." Tammy said picking up a copy of a magazine on the table flipping passed pictures of celebrities like Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Fender looked at Tammy with a sideways look: "Tam, we're not together, we aren't a couple. "He said attempting to break it to the blissful strawberry blonde.
Tammy stood and looked Fender with hurt in her eyes: "What do you mean, Fender?" Tammy asked making her way over to Fender: "How can you stand there and deny what we have, this connection. How can you do this, Fender!" exclaimed Tammy glaring at Fender.
"Tammy, just leave." Fender said with an anguished sigh as he turned to put more candles in their holders: Fender wanted so badly to break it to Tammy about him and IQ, but he couldn't, it would destroy their bliss by telling one of the Queens of Gossip anything in private that he didn't want the other two to know. Fender took Tammy by the hand before she left and looked her in the eyes: "Tam, listen to me, you're an amazing girl, and out there is some guy who will be able to give you all I could only dream of giving you. Find him. Find your bliss." Fender said as he kissed her on the cheek and smiled hoping this settled it all.
"God!" exclaimed Tammy as she ran out the door slamming it behind her in anger. Tammy walked down the street popping her gum with each step trying to find a way to figure out why her Fender, the boy she had loved with all her heart had suddenly grown up almost and began to THINK. Thinking was something that Tammy only did when she was involved in a gossip hunt or when she HAD to pass a class in school or something. Tammy sighed and walked over to Patterson Park and sat down and sighed as she watched the blue sky and white clouds pass by. Tammy's eyes slowly filled with tears and she put her hands over her face and let all the sadness from this whole Fender situation coming out. All Tammy had ever dreamed was to marry Fender in a lavish wedding with Amber and Shelley as her two head bridesmaids and they would be married to Link and Brad respectively. Tammy sighed imagining all the things she and Fender would do in life from traveling to Europe to having children and enjoying life.
Tammy stood up and walked through the small park and saw so many couples as she made her way, which only made walking through the park even more painful. Tammy stopped as she had found a bench and looked over at what was known by Baltimore as Lover's Lane. The sun had started to slowly set and Tammy had begun to feel completely numb from the cool summer night. Tammy stood when something caught her eye: Fender's license plate stood out like a sore thumb in Tammy's mind.
Tammy shook hear thoughts and slowly moved toward the car and noted the fogged windows and felt her heart breaking into two pieces: Tammy couldn't see much through the small windows, so she cupped her hands over her eyes and peered in: Tammy drew back in shock as she had just saw something so disgusting, she wanted to be sick. Her boyfriend, Fender was naked and making out feverishly with a boy: Tammy's heart slowed as she was determined to find out who was this new man in Fender's life and who was the one who had come between her and her Fender Bender.
"Oh. Fender. Oh god." moaned the voice from car that Tammy knew sounded familiar but Tammy could not put her finger on it. Then the whole world opened and screamed the answer in unison with Fender's coarse voice: "Oh IQ!" exclaimed Fender's voice from the car. All the wind felt knocked out of Tammy as she felt her whole world fall apart: Fender was in love with IQ, but how! Tammy turned on heel and ran, she ran from the horrible scene she had just witnessed. Her legs felt numb but Tammy continued to run until she arrived at Shelley's home. Tammy knocked and Shelley answered and looked at an out of breath Tammy.
"Wow, Tam. What's going on?" asked Shelley, who was joined by Amber who had come over to practice their new song for the show. "Fender." Tammy said taking a breath to hopefully catch her breath from the long run from the horror she had witnessed. "Yes, what about Fender? Come on Tam, Come on girl!" said Amber clapping her hands on the last part of it. "What the hell was that for Amber?" asked Shelley as she glared at Amber then looked back at Tammy. "It works on Lassie." Amber said with a shrug of her shoulders. Tammy looked at the girls as she had now caught her breath: "Fender is in love with IQ." Tammy said feeling hot tears begin to stream down her face.
"What!?" exclaimed both Shelley and Amber in shock. "No, that cannot be, are you sure?" asked Amber shaking the horrid thought of IQ's tall skinny body and Fender's strong muscular forms naked or worse, kissing. "I saw it with my own goddamn eyes, Amber!" exclaimed Tammy as she felt Shelley's arms around her. "Shh. What did you see?" Shelley said attempting to calm her friend, she had never heard of such a thing: Two men in love? Unheard of! She had heard of mix race couples, and she thought that was bad, but this was much worse.
"They were at Lover's Lane, having a session of... of..." Tammy couldn't even bring herself to say the word but the two girls got it and looked shocked.
"Golly, Tammy. I could not even believe that, what are you going to do?" Shelley asked with a soft tone in her voice, a very unusual tone to hear from bitchy Shelley.
Tammy sat up and stopped crying the only thought came out in only one word: "Revenge." Tammy said with a harsh tone which shook Shelley and Amber. "I'll make that goddamn nerd's life so damn miserable he will wish he were dead." Tammy said looking at Amber and Shelley. "And you two will help me. When I'm done with IQ, he'll wish he had never messed with us." Tammy said with a harsh evil laugh: Shelley's face brought up a sneer of pure pride in her friend and Amber smiled her pretty little devil smile. "We'll make those two pay." Shelley said laughing and rubbing her hands together in a scheming manner. Amber looked at the two and smiled: "No one crosses us." Amber said joining her two friends in scheming.