Halo III
Marco

By: Micah Diablo
(© 2010-2011 by the author)

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Chapter 6

Scene A 

"Dad," Nick said nervously as John Pagan got out of his car. Anthony rushed out of the car and stood behind his father, unsure of what was about to happen.

Ky was scared. John was staring at him with a deadly glare in his eyes. He reached into his back pocket.

"Dad, no," Nick yelled out.

John pulled out his wallet and handed Nick two hundred dollars. "I was coming back home because I realized that I hadn't given you money for dinner tonight if you wanted to go out," he said, still eyeing Ky. He turned and got back in his car and drove out just as Josh and I drove up toward the house.

"I tried to stop him, but he was so dead set on coming back," Anthony said to Nick, who looked scared.

"Who died?" I asked them as Josh and I got out of the car.

"Nobody yet," Ky said. "But you and Anthony might be only children pretty soon." 

Scene B 

Carmen and Giselle watched as their boyfriends got popcorn for the movie they were going to see.

"So, did I tell you I talked to Josh and Coy today after school?" Carmen asked her.

Giselle gave her a hurt look. "No, you didn't tell me that," she said, pouting.

"Oh, shut it, I am telling you now," Carmen said. "I just really wanted them to know that before any of us dated each other we used to be best friends. I wanted my friends back."

"Carmen, please tell me you didn't tell them that," Giselle said shaking her head.

Carmen looked confused. "What? Why? What's wrong with that?'

"Because by accepting their relationship, you accept the basis of their relationship as right," Giselle replied. "Coy and Josh did a grimey thing by dating. God! And they say you're smarter than me."

"It doesn't even matter because I have Nate now, and Josh is just too complicated for me to try and date," Carmen said with a sigh. "Besides, truth be told, they make a hot couple. They almost look better than when Coy was with Matt."

"Speak of the devil; is that Matt on a date with Emily?" Giselle asked as Matt and Emily walked into the theater. "MATT! EM!"

Matt and Emily walked over to Carmen and Giselle. He gave them both hugs. "I see enough of you guys at school," he joked. "You following me?"

"Yeah, you wish," Giselle said. "Did he beg you to come with him to the movies, Emily?"

Emily grabbed Matt's arm. "Yeah, he kinda did. But he's so hot, it was so hard to resist him so I had to say yes."

"I got that effect on women," Matt said with a laugh. "You remember; right, Giselle?"

Giselle flicked him off and laughed as Nate and Darek walked over with the popcorn and candy and drinks.

"Dude, we're gonna see a romantic comedy—not a horror movie," Darek said to Matt. "Please bounce, dude."

"Yeah, I should do that because I got a date," Matt said throwing his arm around Emily.

Nate smiled. "Wow ... so you actually went on and switched teams."

Matt's heart skipped a beat while Emily gave Nate a confused look.

"What do you mean? Switched teams?" she asked him.

Nate and Darek laughed. "Oh, Matt here used to be a Colt's fan; now he likes the Steelers," Nate lied.

"Oh, same here," Emily said with a smile. "Well, I'm gonna use the Ladies Room. Matt, I want something gummy, if possible."

"Okay," he said, watching her walk off before he wheeled on the boys. "What the hell, man? I don't want her to find out about Coy right now."

Darek rolled his eys. "Oh, come on. She'll find out eventually."

"Yeah, and if I can help it, on MY terms," Matt said, leaving the couples standing there.

"You guys always wanna instigate something with him," Giselle said, grabbing her boyfriend's arm.

"Yeah, he's our friend which means—like it or not—he is both of your friends," Carmen said to Nate.

Darek and Nate looked at each other with a grimace. "Fine, we'll go easy on him," Darek said to the girls.

"But that doesn't mean we're friends," Nate added, as the foursome headed toward the theater in which the movie was being shown.

Scene C  

Ky and Nick sat across from each other in the living room.

"So why exactly are you afraid of your father?" Ky asked his boyfriend.

Nick looked down, not sure where to begin. Anthony walked inside the living room and took a seat beside Ky.

"I think I can explain that," he said, throwing his legs over Ky's lap. "You don't mind if I make myself comfy do you?"

"Actually, I do," Ky said knocking his legs off of him. "Now tell me."

Anthony looked over at Nick, who shrugged and nodded. "Okay, well 'Daddy Dearest' has a lot of connections that are tied into things illegal," he began. "He works for a major company that deals with government money, and his endeavors stem from his work at his office."

"How illegal are we talking?" Ky asked, uneasy about the conversation.

"Let's just say he's a step above your average illegal trafficker, and a step below a drug lord," Nick said with a sigh. "I just don't want him going ballistic and doing anything drastic."

"Like shoot Ky?" Anthony asked, but cringed from the dark look Nick gave him. "Sorry; that isn't helping is it?"

"Not really, no," Nick said, shaking his head at his brother before turning back to Ky. "What's that look for?"

"I don't know ... it's just..." Ky began, but got up and headed toward the door.

"Ky, where are you going?" Nick asked as he frantically rushed after his boyfriend.

Ky shook his head and walked out of the house. Nick turned and looked at his brother, who shrugged back at him.

"Great, just great," Nick said as he banged his head repeatedly on the wall.  

Scene D 

"Coy," a voice said from behind me. It was Carmen, who was walking up to me with her arm around Nate.

I swallowed the urge to roll my eyes and forced a smile on my face.

"Hey, best friend. Hey, best friend's boyfriend," I said in a mock cheerful mood. "What's up?

"The talk of this gay group you and Josh are starting up ... what's the truth?" she asked.

"That Josh and I are starting up," I said to her as I turned and headed toward my locker.

She looked at Nate before they followed after me. "Coy!! Wait."

"Carmen, what is it?" I asked, annoyed. "I'm kinda busy."

"You're lying," she said, folding her arms. "You don't have a lecture or Lab this hour. Coy, we already have the Rainbow Soldiers. What do you think your group can do that they aren't doing?"

"How about fight?" I asked sarcastically.

"You mean violently? They're fighting, hon," she said with a look of concern on her face. "Violence and bloodshed doesn't make peace; it just brings in more trouble."

"Peace and Serenity is just a weak man's attempt at trying to hide the fact that he is not strong enough to fight," I said to her. "I am no Martin Luther King, because I don't do the whole peace thing and marching. Personally, I hate marching, because I hate walking long distances, and I'm not too big on having people mock me and view me as weak. Violence is the answer, because if they're not gonna give us our respect, we have to take it from them and make THEM fear US."

"Coy..."

"Look, Carmen, I don't have to explain myself or what I do, to you," I said adjusting my backpack. "Stay my friend, and let's compare all the cute boys we'd do if we didn't have boyfriends, and stop trying to be my mom."

I turned and walked off leaving a speechless Carmen standing there, looking at me. "There's just something strange about him," she said to her boyfriend.

"Aye, I gotta head to a meeting with Coach, babe," he said, kissing her on the cheek. "I'll catch you at lunch."

They kissed briefly before Nate took off running in hopes of finding me. Carmen sighed and turned to head toward the library.

"Coy," he called out as I headed down the steps.

I pretended as if I didn't hear him, and kept walking on toward where I was headed.

"I hate being ignored," he said as he ran to catch up with me and stood in front of me.

"What, Nate?" I asked, folding my arms. "What can I help you with?"

"Haven't seen much of you around here," he said to me, and I rolled my eyes.

"What's your point?" I asked. He sighed and looked down at his feet.

"I miss you," he said. He pulled me by my arm and took me to an empty classroom.

"Look, Nate; I got stuff to do for..." I began, but he stopped me by kissing me on the lips.

I pushed him off of me. "What the hell? Josh will kill you if he found out you killed me."

"That dude ain't gonna do shit but snort some coke," Nate said with a scoff. "You know you want it, Coy."

"What about Carmen?" I asked, trying to appear to be a good friend when in reality I wanted to fuck Nate right there in the room.

"What about her?" He asked as he kissed me softly and pushed me up against the wall. He was a lot shorter than I was, therefore he was standing on his tip-toe, kissing me hard and passionately.

"No," I said shoving him off of me. "Look; I'm nobody's piece of ass. I met you first, and you're already dating my friend after only two weeks?"

"And you're dating your best friend's ex and your ex-boyfriend's ex best friend," he countered which made me smile.

"How do you feel about Carmen?" I asked him. "Do you love her?"

"Look, I do love Carmen," He said. "Do you love Josh?"

I nodded. "I love him with all my heart."

"But I feel this connection with you ... purely sexual energy … when I see you," he said. "With her, I connect with her mind and soul, but you..."

"Purely body," I finished for him. "I feel the same way."

"I want to do ya right here, right now," he said as he grabbed me and pinned me to the wall, ripping my shirt off.

"Gee, Nate ... my ... shirt," I said, as he kissed all over my body.

"Dude, you like muscle shirts ... I'm shorter than you, so my shirts will look like muscle shirts," he said as he pulled a condom out of his bag and some vaseline. But then he turned and looked at the door. "What about teachers?"

"You chicken?" I asked him with a smile.

"Nah, I just don't want your screams to alert them when I fuck the hell out of you," he said as he unbuttoned his pants. 

Scene E 

Darek sat inside the new guidance counselor's office trying to figure out what exactly he was doing here. It wasn't like he got into trouble very much in college; outside of school was different, and he actually made pretty good grade averages. So he couldn't understand why he was there.

"Hello, Darek," a familiar voice said from behind him. He turned around to see Reverend Taylor standing behind him.

"Oh, God," Darek said with a sigh. "Well, what do you know? I guess the rumors are true. You're still around Jersey."

"Of course, I am," Reverend Taylor said as he smiled and shut the door behind him. "After one of my star recruits just ups and leaves Christian Soldiers, I had to return."

"Well, things change ... people change," Darek said with no emotion. He was still shocked to see the man that he spent the last few months trying to avoid.

"Yes, they do, Darek, yes, they do; but people like you ... you don't change," Reverend Taylor said to him. "Last year, you were so dead set on wiping out the homosexuals and you even demanded that you lead up the Atlantic City chapter, and now this year..."

"This year, I like a girl and I really don't want to mess it up like I did last year," Darek finished for him. "Like I said … people change."

"Giselle Santos," Reverend Taylor said looking back at him. "Yes, she is a remarkably attractive young lady. It'd be a shame if something were to happen to her."

"How did you... You've been following me?" Darek asked,angrily.

Reverend Taylor chuckled to himself. "Look, I get the fact that you're wanting to start over and be a saint, but do you actually think I would allow you to walk away from us that easily. I run the Atlantic City chapter. I can't have my investments all spread out willy nilly. Hanging with these demonic people, if you can even call them people."

"They really aren't that bad, a little dramatic but that's expected," Darek replied. "But they really aren't that bad."

"Funny, I seem to remember three years ago you're parents divorcing because your brother was fucking around with your high school teammates, and your father was bringing you into my office," Reverend Taylor said with a grin. "Your mother said it was nothing to make fun of, and tried to help you out and understanding, but your father..."

"My father brainwashed me," Darek said to him. "Look, I still find it nasty, but I really don't care what goes on in their bedrooms, and how they like do it up the butt, but I really don't care anymore. My brother seems happy."

"But I'm not happy, Darek," Reverend Taylor said. "Two of my investments—you and Coy—are rogue, and you two were supposed to be lifelong members. We're trying to get God into these people's heads and hearts, or we're going to have to do God's work and destroy them."

"You think this is what God wants? Another holocaust?" Darek asked. "This is NOT what God wants. God gives people the right to choose if they want to follow his word or not. I'm done with this."

"Like I said, it would be a shame if something happened to that beautiful girlfriend of yours," Reverend Taylor said, as Darek froze at the door.

Darek turned and looked at him with a dark look on his face. "I swear … if you touch Giselle..."

"We won't have to touch Giselle," Reverend Taylor said with a smile. "Just ... we need your allegiance."

Darek looked him into the eye. He really did care for Giselle. But he didn't want to do this anymore either.

"What do you need from me?" he asked him with a sigh.

Reverend Taylor smiled at him as Darek took a seat back in front of him. 

Scene F  

Ky grabbed Giselle's arm and pulled her outside into the quad area.

"Ky, what the hell are you doing?" she asked, annoyed and massaging her arm.

"I gotta talk to you," he said with a sigh. She gave him an amused look. "Yeah, I know, shocking. It's about Nick."

"Oh, my God, is he okay?" she asked, getting worried. Ky sighed, annoyed.

"Yes, Giselle; he's fine ... he's fine," he said to her. "I just need to ask you a few questions."

"Okay, shoot."

Ky looked down at the ground. He couldn't believe he was there talking to his ex-boyfriend's girlfriend, the same girl who knew he was in danger and yet did nothing to prevent it, the same girl that he really hated. Yet, there he was.

"Ky? You there?" she asked, softly drawing him out of his thoughts.

Ky looked up and just swallowed all those thoughts and smiled softly.

"What do you know about Anthony and Nick's family?" He asked her. She looked down and blushed slightly.

"You know about the porn?" she asked him, embarrassed.

"What? What do you mean, porn?" he asked her, shocked.

"You know, on top of all the illegal activities he does, their father has his porn studio and company..." Giselle began, but noticed the disgusted look on Ky's face. "You didn't know?"

Ky grabbed his bag and walked off and bumped into Nick who was on his way out.

"We've been together for almost a year now, and you couldn't tell me your father was a porn mogul and freaking drug lord?" Ky asked him angrily.

"How did you ... Look, Ky..."

"Nick, what other secrets are you hiding from me?" He asked his boyfriend. "Do you star in the porn movies, too?"

"Wha... KY! Now you're being freaking ridiculous," Nick said, getting annoyed. "I don't star in any of the movies my dad makes. He doesn't even film them in this country."

"I have known you for a few years, started fucking you when we were high school Seniors, and fell in love with you shortly after that, and I never knew this stuff," Ky said shaking his head. "I just ... I can't deal with this right now."

"Ky ... wait..." Nick began, but Ky walked off leaving him confused for the second time in a matter of twelve hours.

Giselle walked over to him and patted him on the back. "You okay, hon?"

Nick shook his head sadly. "No, I'm not," he said sadly. "I don't know how to fix this and make my boyfriend trust me."

"Why didn't you tell him way before now?" she asked.

"Shame ... Fear ... Now, I'm fearing losing him," He said, depressed. 

Scene G 

Matt headed toward the lockers rooms in the gym as he'd been jogging during his lunch period and wanted to get a quick shower and change before his next lecture.

"Matt," Emily called out to him as she saw him jogging past her, toward the locker rooms.

He jogged over to her and smiled and gave her a hug. "Sorry, I'm sweaty."

"Just the way I like my men," she said with a laugh. "I wanted to know … could I talk to you for a minute?"

Matt looked down at his watch but noticed how she looked like she had something important to say.

"Sure," he said as they headed toward the bleachers for a seat. "What's on your mind?"

"I was thinking about the two guys from last night," she said, and his heart skipped a beat. "What did they mean by you switching teams?"

Matt laughed uncomfortably. "Um ... they explained it to you last night, Em. I used to be a Panthers fan, and now I'm a Steelers."

"It was Colts," she said with a small sigh, "It was the Colts you used to like and then you became a Steelers fan."

Matt looked down uncomfortably as he realized he'd been caught. Emily placed her hand on his and held it in hers.

"Tell me about Coy," she said softly to him.

He looked at her face. Searching for disgust ... searching for anger ... she knew his secret, and he wanted to see the very emotions he expected to see coming from her. But there was nothing. She had a warm smile on her face, and it was like she wanted to hear about him, genuinely wanted to hear about him.

"Um ... ahem, well this is kind of awkward," he said with a nervous chuckle. "I don't know where to begin."

"Try the beginning," she said with a small laugh.

Matt sighed to himself and prepared himself to tell the story. "Coy and I met at the beginning of our junior year in high school. He had gotten into a fight with the guy he's dating now. Well, I was going out with Giselle and I wasn't sure of how I was going to break it off with her, but of course, I eventually broke it off and Coy and I became an item. Well, I was a dickhead and I didn't know that Coy had suffered a rape, and I was hurt that he wouldn't get too intimate with me, and I was jealous of his friendship with Anthony, and I cheated on him with this annoying girl from … a year or two ago..."

"Let me stop you right there," she said, holding her hand up. "You say you cheated on Coy? I heard he's a sweetheart … and he's really hot."

"Yeah, he is," Matt said, blushing. "But I was a dickhead back then."

"Do I have to worry about you cheating on me?" she asked him seriously.

He looked at her. "You... Does that mean you want to keep on dating?"

"Of course, silly," she said with a smile. "You think because you have sex with guys, that'll turn me away from you. I've dealt with worse. Besides, I have been kind of bi-curious myself."

"Really?" Matt asked her, intrigued.

Emily rolled her eyes. "Continue with your story about Coy."

"Well ... I eventually stopped cheating when I realized I was in love, and Coy got kidnapped by the guy who raped him ... But Anthony and I saved him, but then we broke up," Matt said, frowning at the thoughts of the last couple of years. "Well, about a few weeks later, I was searching for a way to win Coy back, and I enlisted the help of Anthony's twin bro, Nick, and he convinced me to come out to the whole school declaring my love for him."

"Aww, that's so romantic," she said with a smile on her face.

"Well, the romance didn't last much longer, because after we finally got to make love ... his parents sent him and Ky away to this twisted hospital where they almost killed Ky and tortured Coy to the point that ... that..."

"That what?" Emily asked, noticing Matt's pained look. "Matt?"

"That Coy wasn't Coy anymore," Matt said, as the tears streamed down his face. "Coy changed ... into a darker and colder and crueler person. He changed into Marco. Some kind of psychotic breakdown inside of his head caused him to create Marco, so he started dating Josh without even giving us a proper ending, and then Coy came back, no more Marco ... but it still was over. He didn't want me. He wanted Josh ... I loved him ... still do ... but he doesn't want me ... Nobody wants me."

"I want you, Matthew Gleisner," she said, laying her head on his shoulder. "Matt, some things aren't meant to be. We want them so bad and sometimes ... sometimes what we want isn't what we really need. If Coy has changed from the person that you fell in love with, that isn't what you need. What you need is..."

"You," Matt said suddenly. "I need you."

Emily lifted her head up and looked him in the eye. "What are you saying?"

Matt was confused and sure at the same time. He knew he could never forget the love he had in his heart, because he felt like the guy he loved was still waiting for him out there, somewhere. Somehow his true love would come back to him.

'But before Coy ... I wasn't some emotional wuss,' he thought to himself. 'I was a badass dude ... but Coy ... Coy made me ... sensitive ... vulnerable ... It's his fault that I'm hurting so bad. Because he makes me feel these emotions.'

"Matt?" Emily asked, unsure of what was going through his head.

"I'm saying that I want us to really make it official and become a couple ... Not this … friends who go on dates, and friends who flirt ... I want you to be my girl," Matt said and then shocked her by kissing her.

Matt was tired of feeling alone, tired of feeling not wanted. He wanted to be touched. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be wanted.

Unbeknownst to the two, I walked past as I saw them passionately kissing. I felt a strange feeling in my heart.

Jealousy...

But I wasn't attracted or even interested in Matt, enough to get jealous. Then that's when it hit me.

"Coy," I whispered to myself.

Somehow, my other half was still struggling to hold on and I could still feel him inside of there ... I could feel the jealousy coursing through his veins ... through our veins. 

Scene H 

Ky drove inside our subdivision and headed toward our street. He was tired ... upset ... confused ... There was so much about Nick he didn't know, and he wondered if it really was true love that he didn't know everything about his boyfriend.

He turned onto Santiago Court, heading toward home when he saw a familiar SUV sitting in front of his house.

"Here comes, Drama," Ky said as he turned into his driveway and climbed out of the car. "Nick, what the hell do you want?"

"I want to talk to you, Ky," Nick said, walking toward his boyfriend. He tried to grab his hand, but Ky dropped it.

"I don't wanna talk because you had a long, long, long time to talk about you and your family," Ky said bitterly. "I feel like I don't know you."

"Listen; this is some bullshit," Nick said angrily. "You sold your own brother out by outting him to your parents and even impersonated him and outted me, my brother, and his ex-boyfriend to the school, and on top of that you were a part of the same organization that made your brother into what he is now, and somehow I forgave you and looked past it, and you can't do the same for me?"

"Because those are two totally different things," Ky said folding his arms. "Because at least I was upfront with my shit and not hiding stuff."

Nick shook his head at his boyfriend. "I swear, you are the biggest idiot in the whole world."

"Oh, fuck you, Nick," Ky said, getting frustrated.

"No, fuck you, Ky," Nick said angrily. "I have always stood by you since I've known you, accepting your lame-ass shit and fuck-ups, and I make one fuck-up, one ... and you treat me like an ass. You want to know my biggest fuck-up? Was ever believing you're the one for me."

"What are you saying?" Ky asked him, hoping it wasn't what he was thinking.

"That since you want to be a hypocrite, and that you don't want to talk ... fine, don't worry about talking, because I don't want to talk anymore, either" Nick said angrily. "Because I'm done with you, and I'm done with us."

Nick really didn't mean that but he was hoping from some kind of response from Ky, and instead, he was met with a shrug.

"Whatever," Nick said turning to head back toward his car.

Ky couldn't bring himself to man up and tell Nick he didn't want to break up. His pride was in the way, and it was that pride that might cost him the one person he loved and trusted the most. He watched as Nick drove off ... wondering if this would be the last boyfriend type conversation they would ever have.

"Fuck," Ky said punching the side of his car out of anger, before walking inside the house. 

Scene I  

Josh watched as I sat talking with the group members.

"So, Coy ... when are we gonna start getting' down to business and getting' the respect we deserve?" a guy asked me as we sat in my living room.

"Yeah, I'm ready to run the school... We're just sitting around doing nothing is getting boring," another said, and I rolled my eyes.

"Okay, couple of things," I said with a tight smile. "We've been doing nothing because it's only been one day since the last meeting idiots. Second of all, We're just trying to make a stand against the Christian Soldiers and not trying to run the school. It's not like we're terrorists."

Josh snorted trying to hide his laughter. "So what exactly do you have planned for everybody? You seemed so eager today at school."

"Well, I have some really good news, guys," I said with a smile. "Ryan Kelley... You guys may know who I'm talking about? Sadly, he's a hottie with an ugly personality, and he disappeared and then returned back to Atlantic City this morning."

Josh looked closely at me, I tried to ignore his glance, because I knew what he was thinking. He looked down at my cell and saw it was vibrating.

"Coy ... your phone," he said, holding it up for me to see.

"It's probably Max, saying he can't make it," I said, waving him off and turning back toward the group. Josh opened the phone and saw it was from Nate. His face grew dark as he read the message.

"Okay, so what's special about this guy?" Christian Chambers asked me as we discussed Ryan Kelly.

"Well, we're trying to take down a lot of the Christian Soldiers' top dogs, and he's a high-up in their Atlantic City chapter," I lied. While Ryan did participate with Tony in that perverted kidnapping, he technically wasn't involved in the Christian Soldiers. But they didn't know that, and they didn't need to know.

"So what are we going to do?" one of the guys asked.

"We're gonna beat the shit out of him, till he wishes he were dead," I said with a dark smile on my face. "Well, I think that concludes our meeting for the night. I'll text you all the details and plans later tonight. See you guys in class tomorrow."

We all said our good-byes, and I watched as they all left. Ky walked downstairs and stood in front of me.

"Coy, don't do this," Ky said to me. "Revenge is a painful thing. For all people involved."

"Ky, shut up," I said grabbing Josh's hand. "Don't forget … you were a part of Christian Soldiers for a while. Be glad you're my brother, because, if not, you'd be one of the first people I'd destroy."

Ky sighed, annoyed as he watched Josh and me head upstairs to my room.

"So ... I can't wait to get things started and make a name for ourselves," I said to Josh, shutting the door behind me. "Since I'm so excited, I'm gonna ride the hell out of you."

"Why not ride the hell out of Nate?" he asked me angrily, as I sat on top of him. "Like you did this morning."

"Wha..." I began but he flipped me on top of my back and got up angrily. He threw my cell at me hard and I read the text messages from Nate. "Josh..."

"You fucking told me you loved me," he said to me, pissed. "How the fuck do you love me, and you fucked Nate at school this morning."

"Josh, it's just sex, baby," I said making a move to touch his arm. He grabbed it and slammed me into the door hard, causing me to wince in pain.

"Listen to me and listen to me very carefully," Josh said. "You are fucking mine. You belong to me. I better not hear of you ever … EVER! …touching a man and fucking somebody else, or there is going to be a prom."

"Josh...let go of my arm, please," I said to him as I tried to move. "You're hurting me."

He slammed me hard into the door and I winced in pain. "Do you understand?"

"Coy ... you all right?" Ky asked, knocking on the door. "I heard yelling and banging."

I looked at Josh in the face, his grip on my arm was like a vice grip.

"Coy?"

"I'm fine, Ky," I said noticing that Josh looked completely different. He had this empty look on his face. Like nothing else mattered.

"Okay then," he said walking away from the door and heading toward the stairs.

"You're mine, Coy," Josh said again. "Understand that ... I love you... You're mine."

He hugged me tightly, as if afraid to let me go. I could hear him sobbing into my shoulder.

I wasn't sure if it were me or the real Coy ... maybe a mixture of both … but I was getting a bad feeling about this.

For the first time, I was feeling ... fear. I was afraid of Josh. 

Scene J 

Anthony watched his father and brother as they walked into the kitchen, not acknowledging one another. Nick grabbed a muffin and took a seat at the table across from him, eating it and texting. Their father took his usual seat at the head of the table and read his paper. It was too quiet ... He was used to some kind of crude joke from his father, or of Nick farting and being dumb and making him laugh.

"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Nick and John looked at one another, and then at Anthony, with confused looks on their faces.

"It's too fucking quiet in here," Anthony said to them both. "Where's the noise? Let's be like Jennifer Lopez and Let's get loud. Somebody just talk."

"There's nothing to talk about, son," John said, returning to his paper.

"What he said," Nick said getting up to leave the table.

"No, Nick, sit your ass down, and Dad … pay fucking attention and listen," Anthony said, annoyed. "Nick … you shouldn't be afraid of telling Dad about your sex life, even if it is with a boy. Dad … you shouldn't hate your son because he is gay."

John Pagan laughed to himself. "I don't hate him because he's gay. I don't hate him at all."

Nick looked at Anthony, who motioned for him to talk to his dad.

"You don't hate me for being gay?" Nick asked his father, with a happy smile.

"Son, I love you both, and if you want to sleep with men—I'd prefer you didn't—but I'll never stop loving you for that," John said to his son.

Nick smiled at his father before turning to Anthony and giving him a knowing stare.

"Okay, fine," Anthony said, annoyed. "I'm..."

"I already figured that out when I learned about Nick, here," John said to his other son.

Anthony was shocked. He tried to move his mouth but couldn't speak. Nick laughed at his brother's shocked glance on his face.

"But why were you so upset last night when you saw me with Ky?" Nick asked after the laughter stopped.

Anthony figured it out before his father had a chance to respond. "Um ... Nick, maybe we should just cool it and not worry about that."

"No, I want to know," Nick said looking directly at his father. "Tell me, what's wrong about Ky and me being together?"

"It's because he's black," John said, shocking Nick, and Anthony shook his head when he realized the conversation was only getting worse.

"What?" Nick asked, not wanting to believe this. "Dad, you don't approve, because of his race?"

"Nick, I can find you a very handsome Italian male ... hell, I'd rather he be Irish, Polish ... something other than black," John said.

"Well, I'm sorry to say this but I am gonna keep dating Ky," Nick said defiantly.

Anthony was shocked at his brother. Nick had always been the more reserved twin out of the two. While Anthony was more vocal with his beliefs and opinion, Nick was more shy and tended to rely on Anthony for the strength. But now ... NOW Nick was his own person and standing up for what he believed in.

"Not living under this roof you won't," John said to his son.

Nick turned and looked at Anthony, expecting him to stand up for him, but Anthony sat there with an apologetic look on his face.

"Well, fine, you don't have to worry about me staying under this roof and dating Ky," Nick said jumping up from the table. "Because I no longer plan on living here."

Nick left a stunned Anthony and John sitting there at the table, surprised at his sudden aggressiveness.

"Gotta say ... I didn't see that coming," Anthony said, not sure if his brother was serious or not. 

Scene K 

Darek watched Giselle as she interacted with Matt, Emily, Carmen, and Nate. She looked so happy, and he loved seeing her smile.

It was true ... He had been brainwashed into believing that being gay was wrong, and even though he didn't quite understand it, he didn't really care about it. He promised Giselle that he was going to be different ... Going to be the man she deserved; she'd been let down so much, but now he was going to have to break the promise. To save her life....

"Hello, anybody inside that pretty head of yours?" Giselle asked, waving her hand in front of her boyfriend's face.

"Sorry, I was lost in thought," Darek said with a small chuckle. "What are we talking about?"

"Just talking about how crazy life has changed for all of us in a couple years' time," Emily said gripping his arm. "Somehow, I have you to thank for causing Matt and Coy to break up. I don't know exactly what you did..."

"Yeah, I don't know exactly what happened there, either," Nate said to his best friend.

"You don't want to know," Giselle, Darek, Matt, and Carmen said in unison. Emily and Nate looked at each other and shrugged.

The damned buzzer sounded again, signaling that we needed to head elsewhere. Carmen kissed Nate on the lips and said her good-byes, while Matt and Emily did the same.

"Well?" Giselle asked looking at her boyfriend expectantly. Darek kissed her on the lips.

"Are you okay?" she asked him softly. "You know you can tell me anything, right?"

He touched her cheek and realized he was in love with her. "Yeah, I know, baby."

They shared another kiss before breaking apart. Giselle grabbed Nate and drug him toward their lecture, but Josh stood in front of them.

"Hey ... Josh," Giselle said taking a step back surprised to see him. "Um ... can't talk … Buzzer, ya know..."

"Giselle ... shut up," Josh said, eyeing Nate dangerously. "I need you to go away now. I gotta talk to Nate."

"But..."

Josh's glare silenced Giselle, who looked at Nate, unsure of what to do.

"Go ahead, babe," he said realizing what this was about. "Be there in a sec."

Giselle flicked Josh off and walked off toward the lecture hall.

"Let's see, you're mad because I fucked your boyfriend ... Right?" Nate asked Josh with a challenging glare.

Josh sighed heavily and chuckled. He didn't come here to fight Nate because Josh had nearly a foot of height on Nate, although they were built about the same.

"Stay the hell away from Coy," Josh said to him. "He's mine."

"He isn't an object, Josh," Nate said, amused. "You don't own him. All you own is the title of his pathetic boyfriend."

Josh grabbed Nate by the shirt and lifted him off the ground. Nate wasn't afraid, he was used to being the shortest dude in his class ... But he was known for fighting and winning against guys Josh's size and bigger.

"I'll let you get in a freebie during the season, dude," Nate said to Josh. "But after the season, karma comes right back around and I'll beat your ass."

Josh threw Nate to the floor. "Stay the hell off of him ... I protect what's mine."

Nate watched as Josh walked down the hall.

"That is one psychotic boy," Nate said, getting up and heading toward his lecture hall. 

Scene L  

Carmen and I walked out of the lecture hall together. She had been acting really weird all period long. Quizzing me on questions about our friendship and past experiences.

"Carmen, why are you asking me all these questions?" I asked her as I headed toward my locker, "It's really annoying."

Carmen had been sensing something wasn't right with me. She didn't recognize me even though I had the same face she had seen for years.

"It's just so good to have my bestie back," she said with a smile. "I've missed our connection and conversations."

"Yeah, so have I," I lied as I shut my locker door.

She pulled out a pack of skittles. "Here have some," She said opening the pack up.

"Ew, no, I hate skittles," I said as we began walking down the hall.

She stopped suddenly behind me.

"Um ... you sure you hate skittles?" she asked with a confused look on her face.

It was then that I remembered that Coy loved Skittles ... Skittles and French Fries.

"Um ... sorry, I'm so absent-minded," I said with a nervous laugh. "Sure, gimmie some."

She poured a bunch in my hand and watched me as I tossed them in my mouth and started walking down the hall.

'That's not Coy,' she thought to herself. 'Oh, my God! He's still Marco.'

I turned to face her. "Are you coming?"

"Nah, I gotta get something from Giselle," she said, turning and walking away.

"Weirdo," I muttered as I headed toward the gym for class. My cell vibrated for a text message, and I checked it to see it was from Christian.

* He's alone at his house. Parents are gone. I checked and verified that they wouldn't be back till after 3. No neighbors ... No witnesses *

"Showtime," I said with a smile as I headed toward the parking lot and my car. 

Scene M 

Carmen grabbed Matt and pulled him into a corner. "We gotta talk."

"Well, Carmen, I kinda gotta get to class," he said to her. "Big test..."

"It's important," she said to him. "It's about Coy."

"What about Coy?" Matt asked her.

"What is Coy's favorite candy?" she asked him.

Matt looked at her bewildered. "Um ... I don't know ... Skittles?"

"Right, and what is the one ODD thing Coy does when he's eating them?" she asked him.

"Sorts through them all and picks out the yellow ones, and the deformed looking ones, because he hates them both. Why are you asking me this?"

"Because ... Because I gave Coy, or whoever we call Coy, some Skittles," she said. "At first he denied them when I offered them to him ... Since when does Coy turn Skittles down? … and then, when I gave them to him, he didn't sort through them. He just ate them. Point blank."

"What are you saying?" Matt asked her, unsure of what was happening here.

"I'm saying, that I don't think that is Coy," she said to him. "I think he is still Marco. That would explain this secret organization thing and the fact that he is still with Josh. Matt … Coy is still trapped inside of Marco. We have GOT to do something."

"No, we don't," Matt said to her. "Because I don't care."

Carmen was confused. "What? What do you mean you don't care?"

"Just what I said," he said with a sigh. "I spent a greater part of a year devoting myself to Coy and trying to become the best thing for him, and look at where it got me in the end. Alone and hurt ... I've got Emily now. Coy is no longer my problem."

"Matt..."

"No, Carmen; he is not my problem anymore," he said to her. "I gotta get to class."

He left her standing there, feeling alone and powerless, not sure of what to do at the precise moment.

"Maybe I am reading too much into it," Carmen said, trying to reason with herself. "Maybe he changed after the incident. Maybe Marco is gone ... for good." 

Scene N 

I knocked on Ryan's front door. I couldn't believe I was doing this. It was what I wanted. Revenge. I wanted to cause destruction. I wanted him destroyed.

"Coming, I'm coming," Ryan yelled out as he walked toward the door and opened it. His face was a mixture of surprise and worry. "Coy?"

"In the flesh," I said with a seductive smile. "Are you gonna invite me in?"

He seemed unsure, but he allowed me inside. I made my way inside of his living room and looked around at the pictures around the place.

"What are you doing here?" he asked me nervously. "I don't want any trouble."

"I am not here for trouble, Ry," I said as I pulled my shirt off.

"Coy, what are you doing?" he asked.

I walked over to him and grabbed his crotch. "Ha, Ha, you seem afraid but your dick is telling you that you want this," I said to him. "Let's skip all the questions of what's going and why ... let's fuck."

Ryan looked at me, still unsure, but I could sense that animalistic lust coming from him.

"I promise I wont bite this time," I said kissing him softly on the lips. "Does it still work the same?"

"Hell, yeah," he said, picking me up and tossing me onto his couch.

"Wait a second," I said as he unbuckled his belt. "Condoms? We do it safe, here."

"Shit, they're upstairs," he said. "Will you wait right here?"

I nodded at him and waited as he rushed upstairs. Then I ran toward the door and unlocked it. I grabbed my cell and texted Christian.

* Fifteen minutes ... Door unlocked. *

Ryan rushed back toward me and I closed my cell and began to strip for him. His eyes watched as my hips gyrated and I dropped my pants.

"Coy ... you know I'm not gay; right?" He asked me unsure of this. "It's just pussy isn't as tight as an asshole, and most girls don't..."

"Ryan ... shut up and just fuck me," I said as we began making out.

After some heavy duty oral and kissing he began fucking me. I had to admit ... this dude knew exactly what he was doing.

I moaned as he thrust deep inside of me, he was hitting it hard ... hard and fast and rough. Just the way I liked it.

I could here Coy screaming in pain. It's funny my pleasure ... his pain.

The door busted open and Josh ran inside.

"What the..." Ryan began, but didn't have a chance to finish as Josh picked him up and slung him into a wall and began beating the shit out of him.

"That was longer than fifteen minutes," I said to Christian as he and four members walked inside the house, shutting the door behind them.

"Hey, I understand that you meant a little bit longer than fifteen minutes," he said with a laugh. "You look good naked."

"Don't try hitting on me," I said, pushing him playfully. "Go have your fun. Josh, baby, share the fun."

I dressed myself and watched as they took turns beating the shit out of Ryan for about ten minutes. Funny, with six guys attacking him he still was managing to fight back and was actually holding his own until Josh started welling on him.

"All right that's enough," I said to them with a smile. "I'm proud of you boys. You did very well. Now hold him down."

Ryan barely had any energy in him to fight back as the six boys pinned him to the floor. "C.. Coy ... you're the nice one ... why..."

"Funny thing, because the Coy you know is dead," I said to him with a smile. "You and Tony and all these other people that I'll take down … you destroyed who I was. You helped kill me. Now ... I'm gonna show you who you helped create."

"You sure about this?" Josh asked, not sure if he wanted to go this far. He was okay with beating somebody up ... He was okay with torturing ... But what I was about to do...

"Josh ... remember, he fucked your boyfriend," I said taking the mallet from Christian. "Now Ryan ... I would tell you this won't hurt ... But I would be lying. Christian ... Music."

Christian turned up the radio playing some loud rock song. I smashed the mallet into Ryan's crotch, and I saw him yell out in pain.

"Aw, looks like that hurt," I said, handing the mallet to Christian.

I bent down to Ryan's level and motioned for them to turn the music down. Ryan sat whimpering in pain, like a severly wounded animal.

"Are ... Are you going to kill me?" Ryan asked.

I laughed and looked at everyone else who looked nervous. "Are we going to kill him? Of course not, Ry. I don't want to kill you. But I promise you, that this is going to be a long over-due lesson. When they asked who taught you this lesson ... Lie ... Tell them, Mexicans ... Some gang … What the fuck ever ... Lie ... Because if you don't ... Well, let's just say you'd better tell them to kill you if you cant lie."

I got up and headed toward the door and grabbed my keys.

"Break his legs," I said to them as I walked out of the door. I heard the music turn back up and I climbed in the car.

My head begin hurting and I noticed my nose was bleeding.

"Sorry, Coy, I know your tricks," I said with a laugh. "You can't beat me. You don't have it in you."

I wiped my nose and put the car in park and drove back toward school with a huge smile on my face. 

Scene O 

"What do you want?" Nick asked Ky as he walked toward his car and saw him sitting on the hood.

"Can we talk?" Ky asked him, scared.

"Oh, now you want to talk?" Nick asked, pissed. "Sorry, I don't got time right now."

Ky got off the car. "I deserve that. But please, just listen to me. We've been through a lot, Nick, and … I don't know … it scares me because I love you so much. Like more than life itself. You're all I need and all I ever think about. Without you, I feel ... half ... not completed. You make me better. It's just that with all the bad that we experienced in our relationship, things start going good for a change ever since I awoke from the coma, and it's like I'm waiting for the next bomb to hit and attack us and cause drama and put our relationship in danger and I..."

"Ky, shut up," Nick said cutting him off. "I know what you are talking about, and I know what you are going to say. Look; I'm sorry I didn't tell you about my dad ... about my family ... it's just, people fear Anthony and me because of our reputations ... because of a name, and I didn't want you to find out about the negative side of my family and the negative side of me ... So i..."

"Nick, shut up," Ky said with a smile. He grabbed his boyfriend's hand. "Can we just say that we both screwed up royally, keeping secrets and being a little too mad over something small, and just forget it and tell each other we love each other."

"I love you," Nick said with a huge smile.

"I love you, too," Ky said and they shared a kiss.

"Get a room, why don't you," Daniel joked as he passed by the couple.

Ky stared at Nick with a naughty grin. "So, it's been forever since we ... you know..."

"It's been like two days, loser," Nick said to his boyfriend with a laugh. "By the way, while we're trying to figure out whether we're gonna screw like rabbits or not, we gotta find a new place for me to stay."

"Your dad?" Ky asked sadly, and Nick nodded.

"Yeah, but you're worth it," Nick said, kissing his boyfriend. "Come on, let's go. I'll drive us to the field for practice."

"Oh, shit, wait a sec ... I left my cell in my locker; I gotta go get it," Ky said to Nick. "Wait for me."

"Hey, get me a Pepsi from the machine," Nick called out to his boyfriend, who ran back toward the college.

Ky rushed inside and said hey to a few people and then rushed toward his locker. After turning his code, he opened and grabbed his cell and shut the door. He walked over to the vending machine and got a can soda for Nick. He had to use the bathroom so he texted Nick and told him that he would meet him at the field. He rushed toward the bathroom, but stopped suddenly.

"Fuck," he said dropping the can of soda on the floor, causing it to spray all over his pants.

"Hello, Ky," Reverend Taylor said with a dark smile on his face. 

To be continued... 

Author's Note:

Okay this bring the end of Marco 6 ... I plan to have this installment ended after the next two chapters. As far as my Halo Series installment, I'm not entirely sure if I want the story to end after Marco series is over or not. I have so much fun writing it, but honestly, I want the story to end on a good note where I can still make it interesting and creative.

This was a pretty long chapter to write. Took me almost a week, although I procrastinated for most of the week (blame it on the alcohol haha). A lot happened in this chapter.

As of right now, our strongest couple to date is Nick and Ky. They hit a rough patch when Ky found out some info about Nick's family. But they pulled through. Now Ky is face to face with the guy who almost killed him and destroyed his brother's life.

Matt is desperately trying to close his feelings off for Coy and looks like he's succeeding and he's embarking on a relationship with Emily.

We learned more about Darek's character as well, and see how he truly feels about Giselle, who is still the usual Giselle.

Josh grows highly possessive of Coy/Marco while Marco takes his darkness to a whole new level ... and remnants of Coy are still there.

Will he be able to defeat Marco? What else does Marco have in store?