In this chapter I have used quotes that I have heard and my experiences as a teenager. Enjoy!

I still don't own them.

"Gordon Cooper Tracy!" Jeff bellowed, "Why do you insist on winding your brother up?"

"Because, Dad, he is so easy to wind up AND what makes it more fun is he makes it easy for me to wind him up!" he said looking really pleased with himself.

"What the hell do you get out of it?" Jeff continued to shout.

"Grandma," Gordon shouted back to her in the kitchen from the living room.

"Yes Dear?" she replied

"Dad's cursing!"

"No I am not, Mother!" he said defensively.

"He said hell and Damn!" Gordon grinned.

"I did not say 'damn'!"

"You did now!" Gordon said looking cheekier than ever.

"Jefferson Grant Tracy!" she said sternly "you are supposed to be setting an example for your sons!"

Pinching the bridge of his nose he thought 'five sons, FIVE! This is the only one that can manage to wind the whole family up single handedly!'

"Okay, Gordon just go to your room. I am sure you have some homework or something you have to be doing,"

"I've done all my homework!"

"Gordon!"

"But Dad….."

"No more but's Gordon, now go to your room!"

Gordon had left the room and made his way upstairs periodically complaining on his way up. Grandma entered the lounge with a drink for her and coffee for Jeff.

"Thanks," he said as she handed the mug to him. He took a sip and flinched. His Mother watched him get up and walk over to the cabinet where he kept his scotch and poured a generous helping into his coffee earning a 'tut' from his mother.

"Do you blame me?" he snapped instantly regretting it "I'm sorry Mother,"

"Look, Jeff you have to ask yourself, how do you prevent sibling rivalry?"

"Only have the one child?" he said feeling clever.

"You need to give those boys something to do with their time," she said ignoring his comment, "so their efforts aren't wasted in teasing each other all the time," she said frowning.

'Something for my boys to do? Hmmmm' he thought. This is going to take some thinking about.

A short time later after having dropped Katherine's bag off at her house, she and John were walking arm in arm across the fields that surrounded the Tracy household. After the events of that morning she was still giggling.

"I really don't know why you find it so funny, Kat!"

"Because it is!" she turned to see his face starting to look cross. She loved it when he was cross she thought it suited his features, his eyes and jaw really stood out. Biting her lip as she looked at him, the afternoon sun made him look so handsome.

"You know!" he said suddenly making her jump, "you ring me up this morning and tell me you fancy my brother and you haven't stopped laughing at me since!" pulling his arm from around her and stuffing his hands into his pockets. "Are you trying to tell me something?" he said looking down and mumbling.

"No, John….." she trailed off and sighing, she had been worried she had gone too far with the teasing, "I'm sorry," she said feeling guilty, "I really didn't mean to upset you," she stopped noticing that they had walked into the shade of the nearby woods. John had kept walking then stopped when he noticed she had.

"Why have you stopped?" he asked looking questioningly at her.

"We are in the woods," she said looking like a deer in headlights.

"So…." He said shrugging then he had a second thought, "You're not scared are you?" walking back to her smiling.

"Not much, just gives me the creeps,"

"There is nothing to be scared of Sweetie, come on I will show you round, my brothers and I used to play here when we were little," putting his arm round her and kissing the top side of her head.

She felt safe in his arms as they continued to walk through the woods. He stopped and leant up against a tree.

"See that tree over there? That's where Virgil lost a tooth. We had been playing tag and he had tripped over that root over there," he said pointing to a huge root bulging out of the ground.

"The terrible two climbed that tree over there," he said pointing in the other direction, "which resulted in them falling out of the tree and Alan being taken to hospital with a broken arm and Gordon with a concussion," remembering what had happened earlier he added, "which I don't think he ever really recovered from!"

Katherine started to giggle.

"And Scott, he has loved flying since forever, he tied a rope from that tree and swung on it just to see what it would be like to fly,"

"What happen to him then?" she asked loving the way he told stories.

"He got a broken nose, from swinging from that tree," he pointed "And into that one!" he said pointing at another tree across the clearing.

They both started laughing, eventually they had forgotten what they were laughing at and were laughing because they were laughing.

"So, Stargazer, what is your memory from this place?" she said wiping a tear away from her eyes.

"I never used to do anything as daring as my brothers," he said almost regretting it.

"Well maybe I can give you a memory so you're not left out," she said standing in front of him looking into his eyes.

"You aren't going to hurt me are you, Kat," scared she was going to end in between them.

"No, I'm not," she said as she started to kiss him on the lips gently at first then using her tongue, pushing herself up against him. Her sister had taught her a few things one evening with different fruit when she found Katherine crying into her pillow. She was upset because she didn't understand why John kept making excuses not to be around her sometimes. Her sister simply smiled after a small interrogation and said 'boy things'.

John suddenly pulled away.

"Kat, I got to go," he said.

"I don't think so Stargazer," Knowing full well what was up with him – literally.

She pushed herself against him again, kissing him and allowing her hands to wander. She started at his butt squeezing it gently, moving them up to his waist slowly un-tucking his shirt from his jeans, round to his tummy and moving them up his body to his neck where she pulled him in for a deeper kiss.

"Kat…." He said not expecting her to be so passionate with him, "I really gotta go," letting out a small groan as she breathed onto his neck.

"Why?" she asked.

"Something has errrrr….come up," he answered quickly in no more than a whisper.

"I know," she responded kissing him down his collar bone, his chest and down to his belly button. Getting onto her knees she undid his trousers.

'Oh my God' he thought as he watched her, playing with her hair. After a couple of minutes he groaned as a sign that it was over.

"Wow," John breathed heavily "Where did you learn to do that?"

"I guess I didn't," she said standing up again "I had a few tips off my sister, but that was about it," she watch him get himself dressed properly again. "Did you enjoy it?" she asked hoping that he did.

"Yeah," he nodded "feel free to do that whenever you want!" pausing he added "But I didn't think you were….ready?"

"Put it this way my parents have had a 'talk' with me too, it made me realise that I am maybe more ready for you than I first realised."

She smiled as he put his arm around her.

"Well Stargazer, I don't know 'bout you but I am starving!"

"Me to, let's go get something to eat."

Gordon is a little monkey, don't you think? He's starting to bug me! However lots more sibling rivalry to come!