Author's Notes: This week is a double post because I wont be able to post next week. Florida with no comp access. Reviews are enjoyed.

It was about 20 minutes later when I woke up. I looked over and saw Landon still asleep, still holding me. "He's so cute like this." I just stayed there and waited for him to awaken. About five minutes later, I felt someone kissing my back, "Are you awake Landon?"

"Yes I am. How do you feel, Ryan, are you in any pain?" He hugged me tighter to him, hoping I was actually still there.

I tried to move my legs, but as soon as I moved them, a twinge of pain ran through them. I winced, "I'm in pain. Could you help me get my clothes?"

"Of course." Landon gave me another squeeze and grabbed our clothes. He dressed himself first and then came over to help me. "Can you prop yourself up on your elbows?"

"I think so." I used my elbows to lift my torso up off of the ocean floor.

Landon slipped my shirt over my head and I put my arms through the sleeves. "Ok, now comes the hard part." Landon grabbed my green boxers and slightly lifted my right leg.

I winced in pain, but it wasn't as much as before. "Landon, could you lower my leg just a little bit?"

Landon looked up and smiled nervously, "Sure." He lowered my leg to where it was just elevated enough off of the ground to put my underwear on.

My face softened, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." He smiled and slid the underwear on one leg at a time. He ran over and grabbed my jeans, "Putting these on is going to hurt Ryan."

I smiled nervously, "That's ok, I think the pain is starting to subside." I was a terrible liar, but I think he believed me because he smiled.

"Ok then." He slowly lifted my leg and put my legs into my jeans.

I laid back down when he was done and buttoned and zipped myself up. "Ok, now that I'm fully dressed, can you help me stand up?"

"Are you ready to stand up?" Landon was obviously still worried about me, and it made me feel loved.

"Yeah, I think I'm ready."

Landon grabbed my arms and slowly hoisted me onto my feet. The pain was excruciating, but I smiled and kept up my façade. When I was finally on my feet, the pain started to fade, but trying to move my legs was still hard to do.

"Do you want to practice walking down here before we head up? I think it's almost dinner time and we never got to do our chariot races."

Landon was right, the sun had set and I could tell it was almost eight o clock; dinner would be in less than half an hour. "I think practicing would be a good idea. We don't need people asking questions about why I can't walk right." I laughed slightly to lighten the mood.

"Ok then," Landon let me go and walked five feet away from me, "walk over to me. If you can't do it, I'm close enough to where I'll be able to catch you."

I lifted up my leg and the pain came back, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. I made it three feet when I couldn't walk anymore. "Landon, I can't walk anymore." I started to lose my balance and fell.

Landon ran over to me and caught me before I hit the ground. "Is there anyway we could help heal you lower back before we go up."

With that said, I came up with an idea. "Landon, would you mind it if you got wet a little bit?"

"No, but what are you planning to do?"

"Hold on, the bubble is going to start fill with water." I made a little hole in the bottom of the bubble to let the ocean water flow inside.

"Our bubble sprung a leak!" Landon started to worry.

"Relax Landon, we didn't spring a leak, I'm allowing sea water to enter the bubble to heal myself."

Landon looked at me confused, "Sea water heals you?"

"Yeah, that's why I asked if you minded getting wet." I stopped the water flow when we were waist deep in water. The water instantly started healing my lower end and after about five minutes, I could move my legs without feeling any pain. I made the bubble float up to the surface, where there was nobody on the beach.

"That was a fast heal Ryan. Are you sure you can move alright?"

I opened the bubble and we stepped outside. When we were on the sand, I jumped up and down a few times to prove I was fine. "There, does that prove it to you?"

Landon kissed me once again, this one full of thanks and joy. "That proves it. I'm just happy that you're not in anymore pain." He hugged me and I deepened our kiss even more.

We stood there for a few minutes, unaware of the rest of the world until we heard the conch signaling us that it was dinner time. "I think it's time we go see the rest of our friends."

"I agree Landon." I grabbed his hand and we walked over to the dining pavilion to meet the rest of our friends.

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We arrived at the dining pavilion and found all of our friends waiting there for us.

"Ryan, Landon, where were you two?" Arista came up to us and gave us each a hug. "You were gone for almost an hour."

"Yes Ryan, where did you go?" Cathleen came up to us with a raised eyebrow and a grin.

"We just went to the beach and fell asleep." I lied, again, terribly.

"Oh that's bull shit and you know it Ryan." Arista looked at me like Cathleen was, skeptically. "Ryan, go walk over to that column over there and back please."

I complied, knowing what she was looking for, either a limp of a face in pain. Luckily, we had already fixed that problem under water. When I got back she looked disappointed.

"Landon, go do the same thing please." Arista was being persistent to prove we did something, but we had already fixed any loose ends that could have given us away. Landon walked over to the column and back.

"Arista, we just went to the beach to relax and accidentally fell asleep." I figured if she wouldn't listen to us now, she was just stubborn.

Arista almost gave in until she saw the bottle of lubrication sticking out of Landon's pocket. She grabbed it out and smiled winningly, "And what do we have, a bottle of orange-scented lubrication."

Landon tried to grab it out of her hand, but she was fast and threw it to her sister. "Sis, this is definitely a bottle of lube. But what would they need it for?" Ashley thought about it for a minute and her eyes widened, "Wait, did you two?"

I kissed Landon, "Maybe we did, maybe we didn't. Either way, you'll never know."

Shane and Stephanie looked at each other and smiled, "Shane, could you make Ryan go temporarily mad so that he'll tell us if he did it?" Stephanie was just as bad as the rest of the girls, which was a bad thing due to her being the daughter of Athena.

"Sure." Shane raised his hand up to me and after that, my brain went nuts.

"Now, Ryan, did you sleep with Landon?" Arista asked me, knowing that now I couldn't lie or weave around the question.

"Yes I did." I went into the fettle position and started rocking back and forth. "But why do you care Kristen, you just want to kill us all." I looked over and saw Mason standing over where Shane had been standing. "Look out everyone, Mason is right behind you!"

Cathleen turned around and looked right at Shane, "What did you do to him?"

"I made him go crazy so that he couldn't lie. Don't worry; he's imagining everything he sees." He looked over at Arista, "Ask any more questions quickly, I don't like doing this on friends."

Arista nodded, "Alright Ryan, I have another question. Who was the bottom?" Arista wanted to know all of the details of our recent activities.

"That's none of your damn business Arista." Landon was now embarrassed and worried that I was now insane.

"Stop Landon, I just want to know why neither of you seemed to be in any pain." She turned back to me, "Answer the question please."

"I bottomed." I kept rocking, wondering why Kristen, the empusa, wanted to know about my sex life.

"Thank you Ryan." She turned to Shane, "Ok, fix him."

"Ok." Shane lifted his hand and next thing I knew, I was staring at all my friends and a very worried Landon.

"Hey guys, what just happened?" I looked around nervously, "Where did Kristen and Mason go?"

Cathleen came up to me and hugged me, "Ryan, they never came back." She looked at Shane, "Don't EVER do that again. That was just cruel."

"Do what Cathleen? What did he do to me?" I looked over at Shane and Arista and they were both sorry.

"Shane made you go insane because Arista wanted to know more about the sex you just had with Landon." She looked over at Landon who was about to cry, "Landon, I'm sorry they did this to you and him. Come over here."

Landon came over to me and hugged me tightly, thankful that I was back to my somewhat normal self. "I'm so glad you're back to normal." Landon started crying into my shoulder.

"It's ok Landon, I'm ok now." I looked over to Arista and gave her an evil glare. "Why did you do that to me? We weren't ready to tell anybody yet but you just couldn't wait."

Arista started to tear up, "I was just curious as to why neither of you had a limp. I had a gay friend back home and when he lost his virginity he was limping for about two days." She ran away and her sister followed after her. Shane and Stephanie followed Ashley, afraid of what I might do to them.

Jeremy had watched the whole thing and was crying into Amber's shoulder. "Jeremy, why don't you go over and see him. He's back to normal now." Amber gave him a hug and he smiled.

"Ok, and thanks Amber." Jeremy walked over to me and gave me a hug, "I'm glad you back Ryan."

"It's ok Jeremy." I hugged him back.

"Cathleen, do you want to get dinner now." Amber came over and hugged her. "Jeremy, you come too." Jeremy got up and walked over to the dining pavilion with Cathleen and Amber.

I looked over at Landon and smiled. "I'm ok Landon, really."

He looked up at me and smiled halfheartedly, "I know, but I'm not. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you that easily." He started to cry and I gave him a loving hug.

I lifted his head so that he was looking me in the eyes. "Landon, I love you, always remember that. No matter what happens, I love you." I gave him a kiss that made us both feel much better.

He seemed to calm down, "Thank you Ryan. I love you too, more than anything else in the world right now." We got up off of the ground and walked over to the dining pavilion to get some food.