well you all know about the disclaimer and what you can't do ..etc. so please . If you haven't read the disclaimer check the previous chapters. I want to thank again to my fans for enjoying my story up until now. I know I take long to post the next chapter but I got school and work so bare with me. Enjoy chapter 8.
Roses are Red by: Monchito
Chapter 8.
I was so happy to finally see how Alex really felt about me. All the anger and frustration I had really made me think that I had lost him and would never get him back. But he was always there waiting for me and I....well I was in love. After we had our moment in the rain we began to head back to his place to dry up. While I was holding his hand and walking side by side I felt something strange. I looked around and began to think that everything looked so familiar. I started to feel a little nervous as I stopped. Alex turned around and looked at me. I began breathing heavier and I could hear my pulse so loudly. Alex came close to me and put an arm around me.
"Is something wrong?" he said as he placed a hand on stomach and began to massage it. I grabbed his hand firmly.
"Alex." I said but no other words came through my mind. I began to hug Alex and I grabbed him firmly close to me.
"I feel something is gonna happen but I don't know what. Maybe something bad." I said as I stuck my face into Alex's neck.
"Hehehe...well yeah. If we don't get out the rain we'll get really sick. Come on." he said and then we resumed heading back to his house.
We finally reached his place safe but soaked like no tomorrow. When we got in front of his door I leaned against the wall and exhaled strongly as a sign of relieve. For a moment I thought about Hector and what he would think about this. Both Alex and Lucia said that he was bad but I didn't see that. He was really good to me and was there for me when I was down. But I don't love him. I can't love him. Alex is the one for me and that's never going to change. Now that we know how we really feel about each other, I hope nothing fucks up again.
"Hey, is anybody home?" I said as Alex put the key in the lock and began to unlock it.
"No my parents are out. They always go out on Saturdays but I don't know what time they'll be back." he replied as he opened the door. We walked in and it became very quiet as he shut the door. We heard the rain hitting against the near by window. I wipe my face with my hands to rub of the water.
"Let's go into the basement and take off our clothes there." said Alex. He began to walk and I followed him. We went down into the basement and when we got there we immediately took off our clothes. We undress down to our underwear as those were still dry. I looked at Alex and saw him smiling. I gave him a look as saying what.
"Heh..nice underwear." he said as he giggled in his smile.
"Oh it's Gucci!...not." I said and we both began to laugh. He came up close to me and kissed me on the check and slapped my ass. I jumped when he did that.
"What was that for?" I asked. He looked at me as if I was weird.
"Do I really need a reason?" he said. Oh he's too cute.
"Heh..no you don't." I replied and then came close to him and kissed him on the lips. When I let go he pull me back towards him. He hugged me and then kissed me aggressively. I kissed back of course.
We went up to his room to get into dry clothes. When we got into his room I sat down on his bed and he opened his closet to look for what to where. I began to stare at him and looked at him up and down. Then I thought about what we said to each other in the rain which made me smile. This is all I ever wanted...him. No money, no lifestyle, and definitely no one could replace him.
"Here you go." said Alex as he give a pair of sweat pants and a black shirt. He grabbed a pair of blue track pants and a white t-shirt. We dressed up and then I suddenly began to feel a little chilly so I pulled over the bed's comforter and climbed in.
"Oh so cold." I said as I wrapped myself with the comforter. I saw Alex smiling and then I blew him a kiss. I moved over so there could be room for him.
"Care to join me heh..amor." I said. With no hesitation he got onto the bed next to me and we got comfortable as we adjusted each others positions. He stretched his arm across as I lay on my side and rested my head on his shoulder. I rubbed his stomach as I kissed his neck.
"So can I ask you something?" said Alex as he turned over and faced me.
"Yeah." I said as I touched his face and moved my hand gentle down his cheek.
"Why did you get with Hector?" he asked. That completely got me off guard and I didn't know what to say. I thought for a moment and then I answered him.
"Because....I was hurt. I was caught up in this emotional ride and I got very confused...I ..didn't know what I could've done." I said as I turned over to lay on my back.
"So you got with Hector because you left that he could make feel all better." said Alex as he turned over as well to lay on his back. I stared up at the ceiling and for some reason I wanted to get mad at Alex.
"Well...I was feeling better until..uh..never mind."
"What?" he said as he turned over again and faced me. I looked at him and then I smiled.
"I had a talk with Lucia today and well..she told me some interesting things." I said.
"Oh yeah. What...did she say how much I was a jerk and that you should start hating me." he said as I began to laugh.
"Hehehe..no Alex. Hehehe she said what you said. That hector was bad news and that I should be with the one ..that I should be with." I replied.
"Really! I'm surprised."
"Alex. I realized something today that kept telling me how I really felt but I could never figure it out." I said.
"And what's that."he said. I took a moment to exhale and looked at Alex. My heart began to race and I started to breathe a lot quicker. I grabbed his hand and placed it on the center of my rib cage to make him feel my heart beat.
"You feel that? That is showing you that you have my heart and your in my heart always." I said as I moved in closer to him and kissed him passionately on the lips. He then smiled and climbed on top of me. We were both covered with the comforter and I felt his warm body against mine. He began to rub my head gentle and brushed my hair with his fingers.
"Ben I'm so sorry really I am. I'll never do that to you again I love you to much to let you go." he said.
"I love you too. I was in a total breakdown but my love for you kept me strong and I'm sorry for what I did...it just happened."
"Huh? But you didn't do anything it was me." he said. I looked at him straight in the eye. I needed to tell him about Hector.
"sigh don't get mad at me." I said.
"Okay what?"
I exhaled, "I .... I had sex with him." I said. It was silent for a moment. He just looked at me not saying anything.
It was still silent until he got off of me and sat up. I sat up as well and sat right next to him. I put a hand on his shoulder.
"Are you upset?" I asked. He was looking down and sighed as put my arm around him.
"Did...sigh..well...why?" he said.
"Well how did you think I felt when you told me you slept with Brenda?"
"Well....ok...I guess I shouldn't be mad because I did you wrong and that caused you to do that... Right?" he said. I rested my head on his shoulder.
"In a way... but let me tell you something ..ok." I said as I held his hand facing him. "I didn't make love to him. I ..we ..just had sex and that was all." he looked at me with a small sad look.
"Um...well I'm a little upset because...I wanted to be your first." he said. I smiled and rubbed his back. He can be so cute sometimes. This might sound corny but what he said touched me. It touched me because it came from him.
"Listen. Love can over come anything. Shit happens in life and it doesn't matter how hard someone tries to separate us we know who we are and how we feel about each other. And that, is our stronghold." I said as I started to kiss his neck.
"So...what are you gonna say to Hector." he asked. I stopped kissing him as now I was to think of what to say to Hector. For a moment I completely forgot about Hector.
"Uh...I don't know what to say or what to do because I think he'll get really mad." I said.
"So what tell him. I hate that guy he's no good."
"Lucia says the exact same thing. But I don't see how he's no good. It's not like he gonna plug my ass." I said. Well he kind of did in way.
"Ben don't leave me hanging. Just tell him that you can't be with him anymore."
"But baby look..you and him have fire between each other. Either you two will fight each other or he might come after me." I said.
"If he fucking touches you I'll kill him." he said. I got up to stretch. I yawned as I stretched my arms out but then felt a poke on my side which made me jump.
"Aah..you bitch! hehehe." I said as I slapped his shoulder. Then he got up as well.
"Okay so what's gonna happen now." said Alex.
"Well then...let's think of a plan." I replied. I stayed at his house for a while. We discussed about how I was gonna tell Hector. We talked about other stuff and fooled around a bit. I wanted to be with him all night but I had to go home. Everything was so special and made me happy that Alex had come back to me. But now, needing to tell Hector was like another test. A test for me and Alex to go through and to see if this love is true.
When Monday came around, I was a little nervous about going to school and seeing Hector and Alex which made wanna runaway but I just could not do that. But it can't be so bad if I tell Hector that I can not see him anymore. Besides it was only for a while ..it wasn't long. I was walking down the hallway heading to my locker when all of suddenly everything felt slow. I looked around and people were walking slowly and everything moved slowly. I could hear my heart beat so loud that I began to sweat. I felt very nervous as I finally reached my locker. I leaned against the locker and then I started exhaling. 'Ok......ok...' I said to myself as I began to open my locker. As soon as I opened it a piece of paper fell down. It was folded and the outside had a picture of heart on it. I picked it up and opened it. There was something written on it.
'Roses are red, violets are blue. Sugar is sweet, but not as sweet as you.'
When I read it I smiled and thinking it was Alex but at the end it said Hector on it. That little note was touching but at the same time it broke my heart. I still couldn't see how Hector was a no good. I didn't even knew what Alex and Lucia meant by 'no good'. I stood there reading the note over and over and at each time it mad me feel good. Of course I did stop reading it after a few times and then put it in my locker. I got my books and went to class.
The morning class flew by like a bird. I couldn't pay attention in both classes because my mind was filled about the two guys in my life. It was like I was sitting in my desk and Alex was standing on one side and Hector on the other. I would look at both guys and struggle to decide who was right for me and what was right. I love Alex but hector was so good to me. Man oh man, who to choose? When it was lunch time I met up with Lucia at her locker and when I got there I didn't say hi I just leaned against the wall. I saw her checking herself out on the mirror that she had on the locker door. Through the reflection she saw me.
"Oh! Hey ..uh you could of said hi." she said as she was getting stuff out of her locker.
"Sorry....hey." I said as I gave a tiny giggle. She looked at me with a suspicious look.
"Ok what's wrong now?"
"Stress." I responded.
"Uh huh..hunny we all got that. It's the way the world works. But seriously what's wrong?" she said as she was brushing her hair.
"Well uh....I talked with Alex and we cool now but um...it's just..."
"Oh what? Hector?" she said as she rolled her eyes. I looked at her with a weak smile.
"Listen I told you already. I think you should be with Alex because...you guys have known each for a very long time and Hector is just a nooo...."
"Yeah yeah I know he's a NO GOOD! You know what, I don't believe you. I don't see that in Hector." I said interrupting her.
"Look. It's just how I feel about this situation but honestly it's up to you. I ain't gonna get in your way just...really think about this." she said as she closed her locker.
"I know and I have. So I decided that I'm going to break things off with Hector because..... well...hehehe..I love Alex and he loves me."
"Good! Well...I'm a catch up to you later I gotta go meet someone ok." she said.
"Coo...sure...see ya." I said as she walked away. I exhaled on breathe and then began to walk the other direction.
When I got to the front lobby they were playing music and a bunch of people were standing around near the speakers. It's just what my school does and since there's a lot of people that are into hip hop, which how it's supposed to be, they play music. I looked around to see if I could find hector but he was no where in sight. I walked into the cafeteria but they were too many people so I gave up. I came out of the cafeteria and headed through a hallway. I saw Lucia talking with Carlos so I went up to them.
"S'up guys."
"Oh hey Ben how you doing?" said Carlos.
"So what happened?" said Lucia before I could answer Carlos. I rolled my eyes.
"Nothing! I couldn't find him."
"Well keep looking I'm sure he's around."said Lucia.
"Is something wrong ese? You looked a bit gloomy in English class." asked Carlos. I looked at him as I thought of what to say.
"Uh...just something but anyways, if you see him tell him I'm looking for him." I said.
"Yo wait." said Lucia.
"What?'
"He's right behind you." said Lucia and with that I turned around. It was Hector. I smiled and when I saw him I smiled and he had already been smiling.
"Oh hey." I said as I padding his shoulder.
He greeted everyone but then I told that I needed to talk to him. So I said by to Lucia and Carlos and I left with Hector. We went to go talk outside where there was less people and so that I can get all the emotions out. We went to the spot near the gym where I had always talked with Alex. It felt kinda of weird now that I had hector come to this specific spot to talk with him about us. In way I felt like I was cheating on Alex. But I was not and I was gonna do was I was gonna do. Break up with Hector. We sat down on the steps and I began to talk first.
"So....so how you doing." I asked as I stuttered a bit.
"Good baby...so that important thing you had to do. How did that go?" he asked. I was talking to myself in my mind saying oh my god oh my god.
"Uh...y..yeah..it went good...um...hec..."
"Listen before you say anything I wanted to give you something." he said. He reached into his pocket and took out a small red box. When he held it in his hand I gasped.
"Oh no...Hector..no you didn't hehehe." I said. He opened it and what was in it was a silver bracelet.
"It's a bracelet." he said as he took it and placed on my wrist.
"Oh my god Hector it's so nice." I said. The bracelet was twisted and had a sliver plate connected to it. On top of the plate it read '143'.
"I thought it was really nice so I decided to get it for you."
"Hector this is to much you didn't have to." I said.
"But I wanted to and plus it's how I feel. I know you been hurt and went through something really tough but I just wanted to let you know that I would never hurt you." he said and with that he gave me a kiss on the cheek. In case you don't know what 143 is..it means I love you. I was all overwhelmed by this gift that Hector gave me and it just made things really hard. What was I going to now. I can't just break up with him after what he just gave me this gift. Great , just great.
"So what were you gonna tell me?" he asked. I looked down and took a moment to think. I couldn't think and I simple just could do it.
"Uh...that you're a great guy and um...I'm happy that your with me." I responded and with that I hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
I was gonna get up but before I could, I heard a voice from behind me. It sounded way too familiar. I got a little scared as I turned around. My mouth just dropped as standing behind me was Alex. I got up and looked at him. He looked so pissed off and looked like he was about to kill someone.
I gasped, "Alex!" I said.
"So this is how you gonna do me?!" said Alex as he looked so mad. Then Hector up and got in front of me.
"What the fuck do you want?" said Hector.
"I wanna know why the fuck are you messing with my business." said Alex. I moved around and got in between them and faced Alex.
"Look...Alex I can explain!" I said as I held my hands on both of them trying to separate them.
"Explain what!! Weren't you gonna break up with this mutha fucka?!" said Alex as he pushed me away causing me to fall down.
"Yo what the fuck Alex!" I said as I was on the ground. Then I saw Hector curved this hands creating them into fists. Holy shit was this really going to happen.
"Yo, don't fucking touch him BITCH!!" yelled Hector as he pushed Alex really hard.
"Listen you fucking pendejo! Ben is mine not yours!!" said Alex as he grabbed Hector's shirt. Then Hector grabbed Alex's shirt.
"Yours!! Fuck you ...he's mine and will never be yours pasmado!!" said Hector.
"WHAT!! ..say that again. Say that again!"
"He's mine!!" replied Hector and with that Alex punched him in the face. Hector returned with a punch as well. Then they were punch each other in th face and still grabbing each other by the shirt. Alex tripped Hector down to the ground and then climbed on top of him and began to punch him even more.
"YO ALEX STOP!!" I said as got up and went towards Alex and tried to grab his arms so that he would stop but he was too strong for me. At one point I held them and then Hector grabbed Alex by the shirt and pulled him down to the ground. Now Hector was on top of Alex and punching him out.
Then all of a sudden these people came from nowhere and were surround Hector and Alex and began to watch them fight. Both Alex and Hector were rolling around in the ground while trying to choke each other to death. What is it about fights in school that immediately attracts people to come and see. They stop at whatever they are doing and run towards the scene. Anyway, there was a huge crowd standing in a circle surrounding Alex and Hector as they continued fighting. I broke through the crowd and began to yell at Alex and Hector.
"YO STOP FIGHTING!!!" I said but they didn't listen. I saw Alex bleeding from his nose and so was Hector.
"YOU FUCKING IDIOTS STOP FIGHTING!!" I yelled out as I struggled to break loose of them but they were too strong for me. I couldn't believe it came down to this. Were they actually gonna kill themselves for me. Man, I certainly was not going have it like this. I kept watching as they continued punching each other with their faces all read and blood dripping from their noses staining their shirts.
As they were down on the ground and hector on top of Alex, these teachers sudden appeared out of no where and stopped the fight. One teacher grabbed Hector and pulled him away. Then Alex got up and came after Hector but I grabbed him by the stomach and used all my power to stop him.
"You fucking bitch!!" said Alex as I held him tightly trying to stop his attack. Then another teacher grabbed Alex as well. Now Alex and hector were swearing to each other in English and in Spanish.
"Okay it's over now people move on!" said Mr. Peterson the principle of the school. Of course the faculty always know when to show up. Just right before they kill each other or get seriously injured. Of course I wanted them to stop but all the other people wanted some more action. Damn teenagers crazy as hell.
"YOU TWO!! In my office now!" said Mr. Peterson as the teachers that held Alex and Hector took them back into the building. I watched as they both walked away and being held by the arm by the teachers. The principle turned around and looked at me.
"Are you all right?" he asked. I nodded him yes then he walked away. I wanted to cry but I couldn't. I was so shocked at what happened. I kept asking myself why oh why is this happening. I always gotta have problems. I can't have peace. I went to go sit down on the steps but I heard someone say something to me. I turned around and guess who it was? ....Brenda. I rolled my eyes at her and thought to myself 'I don't need this shit right now.'
"Oh what do you want?!" I said in a really bad attitude.
"It's because of you that they're fighting!" she said.
"Excuse you!! And what the fuck do you know?!"
"I know that you can't make up your fucking mind!" she said. She had nothing to do with this and yet she acts like it's her business.
"Listen bitch I don't got time for you okay...you man stealer...who the fuck you think you are?!" I said as I was really getting annoyed by her.
"A faggot like you has a man? Don't make me laugh you cock sucker." she said as she rolled her at me.
"You know it's fucking funny how people want what they can't have. And you just fucking mad that I have Alex and you don't. Your just a piece of ass to him and that's all. So step off and face the fact that you can't have him bitch!" I said. It felt good to bitch at that Brenda. I guess she knew that me and Alex were a thing and she couldn't handle it and think that she could take him away. No way in hell could she do that. Well I thought she succeeded but I was wrong. I won't be wrong again.
"And were you watching them fight!" I asked.
"Yeah I was ....so!"
"What the fuck and you just let them fight. If you want Alex so bad, which again ain't gonna happen, you could of at least tried to stop them." I said but she didn't respond to that. She had her fun with Alex but now... she won't get in my way again.
"Well whatever!! You'll see!" she said as she turned around and began to walk away. I was watching her walk away but then spoke out loud.
"See what!! Do you even know why they were fighting!! Hahaha...they were fighting because they both want ME!!" I said and she immediately turned around. She had a huge shock on her face.
"WHAT?!!"
"HAHA YOU HEARD ME!! Who do you think gave me this?!" I said as I held my arm up showing her the bracelet.
"That's right Hector did!"
"OH HELL NO!!" she yelled out.
"OH HELL YEAH!!
Okay that's chapter 8. Well now ...they finally fought. But now what's Ben going to do? I think he's gonna have to make a choice and it'll probably going to affect someone. Look forward for chapter 9 and please send any comments to:
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