Co-written by RatedrKjErIcHo.
Mike sat in the car but looked up at John. "Maryse admitted to the affair with Evan. She admitted everything. I told him he could have the cheating whore. I just wanted to thank Charlie for letting me know the truth."
"She's not here. She's at her boyfriend's house." John said rolling his eyes. Mike laughed.
"You really don't like Phil do you?"
"Can't stand him. You wanna come in and study?" Mike shrugged
"Sure. Why not? Heard you and Ziggler got into it after school. What happened there?"
"Nothing. He was just being an asshole."
"About Jaycee?"
Charlie walked in the house and up to Jaycee's room. She knew Phil would be practicing. "Here are your assignments."
"Thanks. I don't want to fall behind."
"Are you going to come back tomorrow?"
"Honestly, I don't know. I don't want to go back at all. I'm already talked about because I'm a nerd and now I'll be like the other girls. Talked about because your brother told everyone we slept together."
"My brother is a jerk. If he was any kind of normal person, he would tell the truth."
"I don't see him losing his reputation for me. He obviously doesn't care about me or my feelings. He was so different at the party. Now, it's like he doesn't care. He wouldn't do anything for me other than ruin my life."
"I'm sorry." Charlie sat on the bed and hugged her. She really thought her brother was better than this. He had known Jaycee since they were little. He had to care a little about her.
"She's my sister's best friend. I like her." John said as he looked at Mike.
"Like you LIKE her like her or you like her?"
"A little of both I guess." John said as he sighed. "I don't know."
"I've never seen you like this before. It's kinda nice to know that you do have a heart and don't just solely think with your dick." John looked at him. "I'm serious. Being popular in high school helps. That's true. But at the end of the day, you gotta like who you're looking at in the mirror."
"Yeah I guess."
"So let me ask you something….did you really sleep with her?" Mike asked.
"What?"
"Did you really sleep with her?"
John looked at Mike and sighed. He had to tell the truth to someone and Mike was his best friend. He knew Mike wouldn't tell the others. "No, I didn't sleep with her. Nothing happened. We were talking outside and I suggested we head in. We talked about colleges and things. Then we were making out and I stopped things. She wanted to be with me. But I just couldn't do that to her. I couldn't let her first time be like that. So I stopped and we left the room. I guess you guys saw us and just figured we slept together."
"You're a fucking idiot." Mike said. John looked at him.
"Thanks for that."
"I'm serious. If you didn't sleep with her, why'd you say you did?"
"Because I'm a fucking idiot." John said sighing.
"SO now what are you going to do?"
"I don't know. She hates me, Phil hates me even more and now Charlie hates me too."
"You have to come clean."
"You're not serious."
"I am serious. Secrets hurt John. Look at my situation with Maryse. She was banging that geek behind my back and I was almost stuck raising a kid that wasn't even mine. Just….think about what you're doing okay?" John nodded at his friend.
"So, why aren't you downstairs listening to Phil and the guys practice?" Jaycee asked Charlie.
"I wanted to come up here and see you."
"And I appreciate that but you should go downstairs and watch Phil."
"If you come with me." Charlie smiled. Maybe Randy could help Jaycee over John.
"I don't know. My parents sound proofed the garage so I wouldn't have to hear them." Jaycee laughed.
"Come on, please?"
"Alright." Jaycee said finally relenting. She got up and followed Charlie downstairs. They got comfortable on the sofa that was out there and watched the band rehearse.
Phil smiled at Charlie and winked at her. Jaycee rolled her eyes playfully and laughed. She looked over at Randy who was looking directly at her. She had never noticed before exactly how hot he was. Chris finished the song.
"Alright guys, good practice. Don't forget we have the gig next weekend in Ft. Lauderdale."
"We know Jericho we know." Adam said smiling. "Later guys." Adam said as he, Chris and Natalya walked off. Phil walked over and kissed Charlie.
"You guys were awesome as always."
"You spent way too much time tutoring Mike." Phil laughed. "So, listen...Randy and I were thinking of going camping this weekend. Would you like to come?"
"I will have to ask my mom but sure I'll come...as long as Jaycee can come too."
"Oh I don't know."
"Please don't stick me out in the woods with two boys by myself."
Jaycee looked from Charlie to Phil to Randy. "Alright. But Phil has to ask mom and dad to let me go camping with two boys and no parents."
"Piece of cake, sister dear. They will let you because your big brother is going."
"Yeah yeah. My fearless big brother beating up all the bullies."
"That's what a big brother does." He smiled. "Now, Charlie and I are heading up to my room to talk alone before dinner. Randy, are you staying?"
"Sure, I guess so."
"Great, you can talk Jaycee into coming back to school tomorrow." Charlie said as she and Phil headed to the door that lead to the kitchen.
"So, are you dropping out of school?" Randy asked sitting beside her.
Jaycee shrugged. "I don't want to. But I don't want to listen to those bitches harass me either." Randy laughed.
"I don't think I've ever heard you cuss before." She smiled. "I know Phil and Charlie would miss you." Jaycee nodded. "And I would miss you." Jaycee looked at him a little confused. "God, I told Charlie I couldn't do this...now I've ruined everything. Why did I listen to her?" It registered with Jaycee what he was saying and she leaned in and kissed him before she could stop herself.
She pulled away and smiled. "So I guess you're saying you like me right?"
"Yeah I do. But I don't know how you feel."
"I like you. I just don't know what it means." She smiled. "But maybe we could find out."
"Alright. So, how about you come back to school tomorrow? There is only two days left and then we have that long weekend break where we are going camping."
"I don't know." She bit her lip a little bit.
"People always talk you know that but eventually it dies down." He placed an arm around her shoulder. "You can't stay out of school forever."
"I know." She sighed. "I guess I'll just have to go back."
He smiled and leaned in kissing her again. "You'll have me and Charlie and Phil with you. It'll be fine. I promise. I won't ever let anything happen to you Jayc..." she smiled and nodded.
Charlie sat on Phil's bed looking through his sketch pad and giggling when he'd kiss her neck. "We need to study." She whispered as he leaned up to kiss her.
"You don't need to study. You and Jaycee have like the highest GPAs at school. And I would much rather kiss you than learn a bunch of bullshit stuff I'm never going to need anyway." He smiled as he leaned in and kissed her. She smiled when he pulled away.
"Why are most of these sketches of me?"
"Because you're my muse. And I can't think of anyone else I want to sketch." He leaned in to kiss her just as her phone rang. She saw it was her mom.
"It's my mom." Charlie pressed the answer button on the phone. "Hey mom."
"I'm calling to ask you to get home. We are having a family dinner tonight with your grandparents. So you need to get home."
"Alright. I'm on my way." She hung up and looked at Phil. "Can you drive me home? My grandparents are coming for dinner. Why don't you stay for dinner at my house?"
"Okay." Phil said as they got up. They headed downstairs. "Jaycee, tell mom I'm eating at Charlie's."
"Okay." Jaycee said as they walked out the door. "Oh this is going to be interesting." She said to Randy who laughed. It certainly will be.
"So since Phil and Charlie are heading to her house, why don't we go grab a burger or something?" Jaycee nodded.
"Give me a few and I'll go change." She said as she leaned in and kissed him. He nodded.
Charlie and Phil pulled up in front of Charlie's house and went inside. Her mother smiled at them.
"Hey sweetie. Hi Phil. Are you staying for dinner Phil?"
"If that's okay with you." He said.
"It's fine. John asked if Mike could stay too. Gram and Granpa are in the living room if you want to go and introduce Phil." Charlie nodded and walked into the living room holding hands with Phil.
Randy waited downstairs for Jaycee. He was glad that he took Charlie's advice and told Jaycee. But he was nervous too. She was still hurting from everything at school.
"Randy, are you staying for dinner?" Jaycee's mom said when she walked out of the kitchen.
"No, mom, we are actually going out. If that's okay, Phil is eating with Charlie." Jaycee said as she came down the stairs.
"That's fine. Have fun."
Randy turned to Jaycee and smiled. "Well let's go." She smiled and followed him out.
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