Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:17:37 -0400
From: Steven Shaffer <lilbearshadows03@hotmail.com>
Subject: Love Hurts Chapter 2

A special thanks to my friend Luis, the editor of the love hurts series. To
anyone reading this story your feedback is welcome; you can email all
comments to LILBEARSHADOWS03@HOTMAIL.COM. You know the rest of the legal
mumbo jumbo, obviously if sex or love between two men offends you, then you
shouldn't be on the nifty.org website. This story is not to be copies or
redistributed without the authors consent.


As the club was closing, I settled the tab and we walked outside. There were
many taxi's waiting. We grabbed the next available one, and went back to my
house.

I gave the cab driver a twenty-dollar bill, my ID and told him to take us to
that address. By what seem liked 30 seconds, we were pulling up in my
driveway. I quickly swiped my credit card for the exact fair and gave the
driver thanks and that the twenty was his to keep.  He gave me back my id
with a shocked look on his face, he then got out of his car, came around to
the passenger side of the Crown Victoria and helped both of us out of the
car. As soon as I was standing, I was able to grab my keys out of my pocket
so I could unlock the house. I bide him thank you, then Jen and I walked
into the garage together. As we were walking through the garage, I hit the
button to make the door close and then we proceeded to enter the house.

I directed a very out of it Jen to the guest bedroom on the opposite side of
the house. Once she was comfortable in her bed, I walked towards Ted's and
my bedroom. I walked in and looked at the clock; it read 3:45 am. I was so
glad that it was Saturday. I could just imagine me trying to drive 68 kids
to school at 6:30 am. I set the alarm to stay mode from the keypad located
in the master bedroom, then climbed in bed and instantly fell asleep.

Jennifer's Prospective-

	I woke up to a bright light shinning in my face; I rolled over to face the
clock which read 10:30 am and then I looked around wondering where I was and
then it hit me, Steven and I went out the club last night. This must be the
guest bedroom, but for some reason I didn't remember coming back here last
night.

	I got out of bed, and walked to the door. I opened it to see the bathroom
across the hall. I went in and did my morning business. I decided that I
needed to go out to my car and get the spare set of clothes I always keep in
there, so I walked down the hall into the living room, to the door that led
to the garage. I opened the door and was about to walk through it when loud
sirens filled the air. I looked to my left and could see the alarm panel
flashing and making all the noise, then out of nowhere the siren shuts up
and the panel says: system disarmed. The phone started ringing and after 3
rings it stopped, then I heard a door open. I turned to look and saw Steven
in a bathrobe.  I looked at him very frightened and he just smiled at me. I
walked out into the hot garage, pulled my door handle to open my car and the
alarm goes off. I look through the window and saw the keys hanging in the
ignition. I turned around to see Steven staring at me, all the while
laughing his ass off.  It took me a second then I started laughing also.


Steven's prospective-

	I was sleeping so peacefully, and then out of nowhere I heard a loud
blaring siren. I looked up at the alarm panel on the wall and saw the
flashing lights. I got up, disarmed the alarm, and cleared out the alarm
codes. That is when I knew that Jen was up and trying to get into the
garage. The phone immediately started ringing and I knew it was ADT calling
to check out the situation. I answered the phone, gave them my information
and the secret alarm code, told them thank you and hung up the phone. I
threw on my bathrobe, opened the bedroom door and could see went to the
garage. I could see Jen standing at the garage door. She immediately turned
around, and I saw the horrified look on her face but I just smiled.  She
walked out into the garage and tried to open her car door, but it was locked
and the alarm was going off. I just started laughing and when she turned
around and saw me, a look of anger came across her face, then it soon melted
away and she started laughing too.

	After we were done laughing like idiots, we sat down on the couch and came
up with a game plan. She informed me that her keys were locked in her car,
and her alarm had armed itself.  I asked her if she had a spare key, and she
said that it was at her apartment in Spartanburg. I told her to give me a
second to get dressed, and I will take to her apartment where she could
change and get her keys, then we could go out to breakfast before coming
back here to open up her car. Now that we had a game plan, I got up to get
showered and ready.

Jennifer's Prospective-

	We were laughing like idiots, we just kept laughing, and then we setup a
game plan. Steven offered to take me to my house to get my spare car keys
and I could change, then we would come back to his house so we could unlock
my car.  Steven set off to go get ready. I sat there and watched TV.

Before I knew it, he was ready to leave, so we got up and walked to his
truck. On the way, he pressed the button on the wall to open the garage
door. We got in his truck, he rolled down his window, and I realized he had
no air conditioner. He tried to start the truck but it would not fire up so
he released the park brake and put the truck in reverse, pressed in the
clutch, and we started to slowly roll backwards. Once the back wheels left
the level garage we started to pick up speed. About halfway down the
driveway, I felt the truck screech then the engine fire up which sounded
like an old lawn mower. We backed out the driveway, he pressed the button on
his key chain and the garage door closed itself. I got very curious so I
asked him how that system worked.

Steven's Prospective-

	As we were walking out to my truck I pressed the button to open the door
and we climbed in my truck. I rolled down my window and attempted to start
my engine. It barely made a sound, my battery was just about dead and after
all, it had been parked for over a month. I released the brake and let the
truck roll back so I could pop the clutch. About halfway down, I noticed the
speedometer read 10 mph, I popped my clutch real quick and it fired up. It
wanted to stall back out so I gave it a lot of gas, and the truck sounded
like a lawn mower. I backed out of the driveway, and pushed the lock button
on my key fob. The garage door closed and the house was locked. I looked
over at Jen, who had a real curious look on her face; she then asked how my
key fob worked. I told her that it is connected to the alarm system. When I
press the lock button it sets the alarm to away mode with all motion active.
The garage is wired up to the alarm panel so when it arms or disarms it is
like you were standing in the garage pushing the button on the way to make
it open or close. It has a range of about 700ft, basically to the end of the
street.

	As we drove the engine worked itself out, started running smoothly again. I
knew that the truck was 18 yrs old. My uncle had driven the hell out of it
before I bought it when I turned 16, and now I am 23. I have never owned a
new car before except for Ted's infinity that I had just recently paid off,
but nobody knew that I had my mother's inheritance. Nobody knew that I had
over $900,000 worth of stock in my name, or that my current checking account
balance was over $6,000.00. I had always kept that part of my life a secret,
people just thought that I was a simple school bus driver bringing in
35,000.00 a year. Everyone thought that Ted was the moneymaker, and he was
if you looked at his W-2 he grossed over 80,000 a year. But he had declared
bankruptcy before we met 5 years earlier; it goes to show, without credit,
no amount of money car get you anything.

	I took Jen to her house to get cleaned up and we went out to breakfast. We
hung out all weekend, and even the entire next week while Ted was on his
trip. That next Friday night, I drove my ranger home, parked it in the
garage, and went inside to greet my lover, who was packing large moving
boxes. My whole world fell apart, I asked him why. He simply told me that he
was not gay anymore and he was not going to put up with my queer ass
attitude anymore.


This is the end of chapter 2, more to come very soon.