A.N: Thank you so much for reading and reviewing you rock for that! I like how this chapter turned out, I was nervous at first but then I thought dude this is ok. So here it is. Hope you enjoy it. Lighter. I can't wait until Top Chef comes back this August- watch it, just watch it. ^_^

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Rocky's destination was strictly to Ellis' room. He didn't plan on going anywhere else tonight, even though his feet keep trying their hardest to move him along to Robbie's room he isn't going to make the mistake of going to the male and end up having sex with him because his body aches for the male, mostly his mouth. He wants so badly to kiss him, to be made to feel that everything is going to be alright and who cares what everyone is going to be talking about around campus for probably a good long month until lack of proof bores them away. Rocky kind of wanted to see some of that lacking proof himself as he can't get the Canadian out of his head no matter how hard he tries; so naturally the best solution is to patch things up with Ellis so anytime his kissing urge acts up he can simply lay one or fifty on his girlfriend. Girlfriend, which is what men should have, not boyfriends. Why is it that morally he doesn't want anything to do with the male, but emotionally he can't stay away from him. Maybe remaining friends with Robbie was somewhat a mistake and he should tell his friend in a kind way that they should avoid each other like the ick. ....He couldn't do it. Robbie just makes him feel so damned good.

'Damned.' He snickers at the choice of word. 'That's more true than it needs to be, ....I can see if Robbie and I had just kissed a few times, but we had sex, dated- sort of ....Why am I so stupid... why am I so messed up? I may forgiven her of her crime but... I can't be kind; I hate Maria for doing this to me, and I always will but no... I guess she didn't really do this to me, I did it to myself because of the fear she instilled in me of women, I could have chose to be alone or something but I chose Robbie and now I'm stuck in all the problems that come with it because I can't let go. Hn. I don't think I'll ever let go.'

Realizing he's made it to his destination, Rocky lowers his fist without even knowing when he'd raised it. He can't do it. He can't- its either Robbie or nothing, but he can't be in a relationship and have to be guilt stricken everyday because he can't properly love her. Its rude to the girl and he can't do it. Turning away, he starts back to his room.

"Rocky?" Says a voice he's never heard before.

"Yes?" Turning he waits for the person to come from the shadows.

A girl about his height maybe just an inch off, approaches him. He's practically struck down by her beauty: brown hair dark enough to look black lays in a braid behind her head between her shoulders with a sweep of bangs covering her forehead, her skin is naturally tanned and her eyes are slit so its hard to say for sure what color they are for sure but they look dark brown like her hair, slender but not overly thin as to expose bone through the skin.

"I'm Talisa Trang." She holds out her hand.

"Nice to meet you," He shakes her hand. "don't think I'm being rude but did you just want to introduce yourself."

"No. I um.. actually have something to ask you."

"What is it?"

"I'd rather talk in private. Do you know where we can go?"

"I.. I don't know, maybe the library."

Nodding, the girl walks passed him with Rocky coming along beside her. The walk was in relative silence for them and neither seemed to have the need to say anything. All around them the campus was still buzzing about the fight as they wondered and made really out there guesses as to why it happened. Rocky's keen hearing did pick up someone saying that it had something to do with Robbie and that Darren seemed to know. He wondered for a moment if he should go over there and stop them but decided against it. Last thing he needs is to give them word of mouth so that it can be picked apart and twisted.

Opening the door for Talisa, Rocky walks in after her being led to the very back shelves where there's a line of pushed out wall that creates a bench. No one knows if it were intentional or not but people slip back there and sit on it mostly because the light doesn't really reach and you can make out without being seen- at least for a while, because the librarian often comes to check shooing people away whether they're just trying to do a quick read from a book they took from the shelf or they're actually kissing. He and Talisa take a seat and before she can say anything Rocky holds up a hand to silence her speaking before she can.

"If you're gonna ask me out, then I have to decline because I just broke up with someone and I'm not really ready for another relationship yet, so-..."

The girl laughs. Its a sweet laugh, heady and heavy. Grabbing his arm, she says. "Rocky, come on, you didn't even let me talk and you're turning me down."

"Oh... I'm sorry. Go ahead."

"I do wanna date you, but" she raised her hand to silence him this time. "hear me out, its only to help us out."

"Us? Us as in you and me, I don't understand."

Scratching behind her ear, she glances around to be sure no one is listening to them beyond the shelves but the place is practically empty anyhow, so chances of being heard are slim. Thank goodness for the distraction of the fight.

"Rocky, I've seen you around campus with Ellis- my best friend knows her, you don't love her- romantically you don't even like her and I know why."

Shaking his head, Rocky defends himself readily. "No, its not what you think, though."

"It is what I think, I've seen that look because I've made it myself a few times." Clearing her throat she says. "Rocky, I'm a lesbian."

Double taking he shakes his head, and to make sure he'd heard right he asks. "I'm sorry?"

"I am a lesbian, I love women and I've never been with a boy once." She laughs. "I can tell by that look you're wondering why I would tell this to you. Its because I have a girlfriend and I've been with her for four weeks secretly, but lately its hard to act like a simple friend to her- the voice change, you know when you love someone it goes up a notch higher, well, I saw how you looked at Robbie that day in the library and I wanted to ask you to be my boyfriend."

"I don't.. understand..."

"If I date you, and Robbie dates Eureka we can double date every time meaning I'd be with Eureka aaand-..."

"I'd be with Robbie." He can't help the feeling of his cheeks rising at the prospect of that.

"You do like him, right? Because if you don't than I can just find someone el-..."

"I'll do it!" He cuts her off.

Grinning from ear to ear she gives a little shimmy shake of joy before throwing her arms around him receiving a hug in return.

"This is so great I can't wait to tell her!" The woman cheers into his shoulder.

"I can't wait to tell him, this is gonna completely blow his mind."

"Ahahaha. I hate it, though, how they do this to us." She sobers up releasing him. "Always acting cute like they can't avoid it."

"He does!" Rocky agrees. "I'll be completely nuetral towards him all day then suddenly he'll laugh that snicker of a laugh that he has and I'm sent right back to the little room in my mind where he's all mine."

"You do not have a room, too?" The girl insist in disbelief.

Nodding, Rocky says. "I do. We're just in there, enjoying ourselves without anyone to tell us to stop. I love it in there."

Smiling, she nods. "Me too. ...Is this your first boyfriend?"

"Hn. My last, I'm not gay."

"You're bisexual then?"

"No." Rocky shakes his head. "I'm just me, who happens to have fallen for a guy this time. But there isn't going to be anyone else if things don't continue with Robbie and me, I'll be right back to women if anyone at all."

"That's heavy, you must have it worse then if Robbie is all that much of an exception to your normal schedule."

"Honestly, I think I do. He's everywhere to me, and half the time all I can think about doing is kissing him." He lowers his gaze feeling an uncomfortable raise in his cheeks admitting that outloud. He can't believe he's talking about all of this, truthfully. Its scary and yet exciting to be able to get it all out. "Whenever I'm hanging out with people I start wondering what excuse I can come up with in order to ditch them so I can hang out with Robbie."

Talisa listens quietly to him with a smile on her face. She's been in the same place before with her first girlfriend all she wanted was to talk to someone that would understand and as Rocky's... well, skirt, she felt that listening is what she would do for him.

"We were a couple for only a week in September because he and I left the state, he thought it would be a good idea to just be out there and have a nice time together. I think that only made my condition worse."

"Did you sleep together?"

"Well..." Rocky was hesitant; this isn't the sort of conversation you have with a lady present, she did ask, though. Paige doesn't count, its hard to tell what that little blonde monster is sometimes. Rocky's only seen her in a skirt maybe once or twice out of the entire time his younger brother dated her, other than that she dresses like a stray from a rap video- from the boys section. "At first I slept with him to cure my itch that was back... I don't before summer started, other than that its only really been two other times."

"Did you always like him?"

Rocky shrugs. "Not like I like him now, he made the first move I didn't think twice about him as anyone other than my friend." He smiles from the memory. "I had a headache and he gave me a massage, then he started kissing me on the neck and I kissed him back then I left and...." He trailed off shrugging a hand as anyone could guess the rest.

"Mmm. I first knew that I was a lesbian when my best friend Deb' helped me get dressed for a date with some guy that asked me out- first timer, I was 16 and my parents wouldn't let me date until then so I was very much isolated to women and, I don't know, somewhere along the line I developed feelings for Deb' so when she helped me dress I whispered to her to kiss me, she laughed and said "don't be weird", but I said I was serious and so she did. We ended up making out on my bed that night, I canceled my date when he came over and the two of us have been secretly together for a while but we broke up when I wanted to try sex."

"She didn't know how far the relationship would go for her?"

Nodding, Talisa taps Rocky on the thigh. "What about you? Did you make the offer or did Robbie?"

"I forced myself on him, no dating, no kissing, I just attacked him and he didn't reject me" He readjust his sitting position, turning a bit more to face the girl. "After I was found from the kidnapping everyone started to look at me like I'm fragile or tainted, they wrote me some sick mail asking me for dates and making suggestive comments about what we would do to keep my mind off what happened..... I don't get the logic of them but Robbie, he just was there and I needed that."

"Top or bottom for you?"

"Bottom, always." He couldn't believe he'd said that, as if he and Robbie had some glamorous future planned out. What is this girl dragging out of him, she could easily be working for Darren. "I mean..."

Talisa chuckles. "Its okay, I think I understand. Its different for women, though."

"Hey Talisa, can you answer something for me- if you know?"

"Sure."

"Robbie was beaten up around the time that I disappeared, did you ever see it going on or hear any of the reasons why?"

"Once," She nods. "some girls were chatting about it and I overheard. Anyone that liked you as a friend or former crush just went after him when they found out that he had kissed you and that's what made you take off."

"Do you know how they found out?"

She shakes her head.

"Oh."

"Why?"

"Just wondering, because it happened in our room- door closed and locked, and yet somehow everyone found out."

"Its not easy being into the same sex."

"It is for you, every guy loves a lesbian."

That made her laugh a little louder than she wanted to. "No, its not fun. I don't wanna be with my girlfriend and hear a bunch of sicko's calling out to us or getting off watching, I hate the women that turn their noses up and get disgusted or think we're doing it for mans attention. We just want to be in love." She rolls her eyes thinking about it. "My parents are really religious too and they hate me for it."

"You told them?"

"I had no choice, they caught me kissing one of my girlfriends."

"What happened after that?" He's very interested it might help him get some insight on what his fate will be if Colt decided to go home and run his mouth to their parents.

"My mom would not stop crying, my dad thought that I was corrupted by my girlfriend and I only needed to get back on the Lord's path. Anything they could say against her they said it, anything they thought would help me break away they tried it and in the end you can't change the pictures on a poster just because you have a magic marker."

"Yeah."

"Are you planning on telling your parents?"

Rocky instantly shakes his head. "I'm in the same boat you were in and I just can't face that when I don't even know if Robbie and I will work out; why worry them and go through all the drama when I've got enough of that just trying to recover from the events of last year."

"Got it." Touching his arm she stands. Leaning over she plants a kiss on his cheek. "We may well get used to it, right? I'm gonna tell Eureka that you said yes. Let me know with Robbie, okay?"

"Okay."

"See you around."

"Bye." Rocky remained seated as he thought. 'Robbie... he's taking so much grief because of me, should I really do this to him? He's already got something weighing on his mind that he won't tell me but now I'm gonna ask him to pose as someone's boyfriend, like myself, so that we can go out. Its not fair to ask him, but its worth a shot.'

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"Gotta tell you Douglas, this comes as a surprise to me." Darren leans his weight back in the seat of the desk. "You coming to me for help."

"What help?" Colt chides. "I came to ask you to do an assignment for me."

"Same thing."

Rolling his eyes, Colt was beginning to think this idea was stupid. It may not even work. "I hate the idea of my brother being gay, I can't fucking stand it- it makes me sick and..." He shrugs. "It needs to end."

"Ahaha are you admitting to me that your brother is a queer? You do hate it." The crude blond can't believe what he's hearing, he wanted to get Colt's reaction but this is far better than he expected, the boy actually has begun to hate his brother! Oh how the mighty have fallen.

"I do. But that isn't why I'm here... I want you to make Robbie suffer, make him suffer like you intended- but failed at, torturing me and my brothers. The guy is a push over, I slugged him right in the face and he didn't so much as cuss at me. It should be easy enough to make him back off my brother."

"Assuming I do it, whats in it for me?"

Colt scoffs. "What more can you want, you get to make someone miserable- I thought that was your whole reason for living."

"You would think so, but its not. I want.... I want you to do something for me in return."

He knew this was coming, although, he'd kind of hoped that Darren would be too amped up from the idea of making Robbie's life hell to want anything more. "Fine, what is it?"

"I want an errand boy."

"Forget it." He couldn't have stressed the words any clearer.

"I think its a pretty fair asking since your brother is probably gonna retaliate on anyone that fucks with his little chocolate factory."

"Don't be disgusting!" Barks the ninja, his brother instincts kicking in. "He's still my brother and I won't let you bad mouth him... As far as Rocky goes, I'll handle him."

Darren again thinks this over. "I almost do kind of feel like I'm robbing you in this deal, you'll keep your psycho brother off me while I make a pansy ass cry. Is there a limit or can I really make him suffer?"

"Do whatever it takes to stop them from so much as being friends. I want him humiliated and warded off." Colt stands. "When he tells my brother he can't be around him anymore, your work is done."

"Wait." He ceased Colt's trek to the door.

"What?"

"Gimme your phone number."

Raising a brow, Colt takes his cell from his pocket. "My number?"

"Incase I have to call you about something."

That seemed shifty but Colt handed over his phone so Darren can put his number into it. "There. Is there anything else?" Asks the fed up male.

"Yeah, say I'm doing shit to Ballerini and I may need to embarrass solid as a Rocky... you're cool with that?"

"My brother's a big boy, he can handle it- probably expects that you'd be pulling shit anyway. Do whatever you like."

Darren grinned from ear to ear. It was eerie, but at the moment Colt could care less, he just wanted his brother to get back to being himself. Good ol' straight-as-an-arrow, Rocky.