Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:29:23 -0600 From: Lasertech <lasertech@storylover.us> Subject: Hackers' Revenge Chapter 2 THIS STORY IS Copyright 2008-2008 Lasertech, All rights reserved. DISTRIBUTION FOR COMMERCIAL GAIN, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, POSTING ON SITES OR NEWSGROUPS, DISTRIBUTION AS PARTS OR IN BOOK FORM (EITHER AS A WHOLE OR PART OF A COMPILATION) WITH OR WITHOUT A FEE, OR DISTRIBUTION ON CD, DVD, OR ANY OTHER ELECTRONIC MEDIA WITH OR WITHOUT A FEE, IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S WRITTEN CONSENT. YOU MAY DOWNLOAD ONE (1) COPY OF THIS STORY FOR PERSONAL USE; ANY AND ALL COMMERCIAL USE EXCEPTING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS REQUIRES THE AUTHORS WRITTEN CONSENT. THE AUTHOR MAY BE CONTACTED AT lasertech@storylover.us This story has sexual content, however sex is not the major topic of this story. If it is illegal for you to read such stories where you are, please leave this page immediately. This story is a complete work of fiction. Any resemblance to real people living or dead are purely coincidental. Now that all that stuff is out of the way, on with the story. Hackers' Revenge by: Lasertech Chapter Two Once I got home, I knew what I had to do. I looked at the clock, "5:55". I didn't have a lot of time because mom would get home in about an hour. I didn't want mom to have a chance to talk me out of it. I quickly sat down on my computer and began to type away: Dear Mom, I love you so much, I'm sorry for what I've done, but I can't live with myself and what I've become. I'm gay. I've known for a long time, and now something has happened where the whole school is going to find out. I couldn't live with that. I'll never have any friends for the rest of my life. My world has suddenly spiraled so far out of control that there is no chance of saving it. There is nothing you've done that caused this, it was all my own doing and my fucked up life. Tell my friends I love them, especially Ryan. Tell him that although he never would have wanted me, I have wanted him as my boyfriend for a long time. I just need to end the pain. I hope to one day see you in the afterlife. I'm so sorry, Alex With that out of the way I ran upstairs to my mom's medicine cabinet. She had some sleeping pills and some Norco, so I grabbed both bottles. I then went to the kitchen to grab Mom's bottle of gin from the cupboard. After retrieving these items, I made my way back to my room. I set everything down on my nightstand and took a good look around. With a deep breath, I popped the lid off both prescription bottles. With the gin in one hand and a handful of pain pills in the other, I downed the pills followed by the gin. I quickly grabbed some of the sleeping pills and downed them as well. 'It's only a matter of time now' I thought. Soon I felt a heaviness beginning to come over me and a feeling of peace knowing that shortly I would never have to feel the pain again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile at Ryan's House: "Why won't Alex answer his phone?" wondered Ryan aloud. "He couldn't have forgotten about our project due for History next week. He said he'd be here at six o'clock." He looked up at the clock and it was 6:20. "Maybe I misunderstood him and I was supposed to go to his house today." Ryan was soon on his way out the door with his backpack and some poster board. He was relieved to see Alex's car in the driveway as he approached his house and so he parked on the street. He rang the doorbell and waited. Nothing. Ring. Nothing. 'Maybe he has headphones on and can't hear me,' he thought. Not one to stand on ceremony, he turned the knob and let himself in. He worked his way past the kitchen towards the hall that leads to Alex's room. He lightly knocked on the door before opening it. "Hey Goofus, what are you.......Holy Shit!!!!" Ryan screamed seeing Alex sprawled face first across the floor. He ran over to his friend and rolled him over on his back. "Alex! ALEX!" he shouted and lightly slapped his face, trying to wake him. When he looked up he saw the open bottles of prescription drugs and gin, he panicked even more. "Oh my god!, fuck, fuck, uh..." and he tried to remember all those emergency room shows his mom watched about what he should do. Suddenly he remembered the episode where they reached in the persons mouth and hit their gag reflex to make them throw up some poison. He did the same thing to his friend in hopes of bringing up the pills. Once he had purged some of the pills. Ryan grabbed the phone and dialed 911. He kept trying to wake up his friend but to no avail. After the paramedics arrived, they injected him with something and took him to the hospital. Ryan was left crying in Alex's living room. Just as he was heading out to drive to the hospital, Alex's mom entered the house. "Hey Ryan," she said, then seeing he was sobbing quickly ran over to him. "What's wrong, Ryan, where's Alex?" He told her what had just transpired and she immediately grabbed him and they left for the hospital. Once there, they went to the emergency entrance and tried to find someone who could help them. "They are finishing pumping his stomach right now," said the nurse behind the desk. "They should have him out of the emergency room soon." Ryan was pacing back and forth through the waiting room worrying about his friend. Alex's mom was seated pondering the same thing with a slow but steady stream of tears flowing down her cheeks. After about 45 minutes of waiting an orderly appeared saying we could go back and see him. They both rushed after the orderly and followed him back to a room. The doctor was still in there and he turned towards us to explain what was going on. "He's lucky. He seems to have ingested a large amount of both pain killers and sleeping pills along with a heavy dose of alcohol. Each of those are bad enough, but all three can be a particularly deadly combination." The doctor continued "luckily he was found quickly enough that the full dosage wasn't absorbed into his blood stream. I injected him with some strong stimulants to stabilize him and he should be coming around soon." With that, the doctor made his exit to allow the two of them some time with Alex. After about half an hour, Alex began to come around. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Back to Alex's point of view I opened my eyes to see some bright white lights. 'Ahh, I've made it off this world for good' I thought. I sighed in satisfaction and then heard what I thought was my mom say, "He's waking up." I turned my head to the side and saw Mom and Ryan standing next to me. "Damn!" I said realizing that I had failed to shuffle off this mortal coil. "How ya feelin, baby," mom asked. "Like a failure," I said. "Hmm?" "I couldn't even commit suicide properly. I just wanted to finish it so I didn't have to face the world anymore." I began to cry. Ryan started; "What happened man, what could have happened that made you want to do this? I was with you in 6th period and you were laughing and having a good time." "It was them," I said coldly. "Who?," mom asked. But Ryan knew whom I was talking about. "I can't say, it will get even worse," I said with a shaky voice. "What!? How could things get any worse? You're not making any sense, Alex," she replied. "I... I can't say, you just have to trust me. Definitely don't call the cops, I can't have them get involved." "It was those boys from school, right. The ones you thought beat you up last time, isn't it?," she stated more than questioned. "We can stop them, honey. They can't escape the police. The administration may not do anything, but the police can." I just started crying shaking my head no. "Could I have just a few minutes, Mrs. Drummand?," asked Ryan. She turned her head to him, looked back at me, and shook her head. She walked out the door and turned around to say "I'll be right outside the door, Sweety." Once the door was closed Ryan picked up my hand and gently held me. It sent and electric spark through my body giving me a tremendous sense of warmth. 'If only you meant that the way I wanted you to' I thought. "I won't tell the cops, Alex. I promise. But you have to tell me why you did this. I've known you for four years and I never would have seen this coming. What did they do?," he said looking at me with those piercing eyes of his. It was a look I couldn't deny. "Okay, but you can't tell, because it would get worse." I then proceeded to tell me what transpired in the horrific hours after band practice. We were both sobbing heavily by the time I had gotten to the part where I went home to commit suicide. Mom heard and stuck her head in the door, but I shooed her away as fast as I could before she could hear anything. Once the door was closed, Ryan unexpectedly reached across me and gave me the most loving, warm hug I have ever felt. I could feel his tears begin to soak into the scrubs I was wearing before he released me and stood up. We smiled at each other. "Thank you, Ryan. I lo... uh, trust you." 'Whew, almost completely messed up there, nice recovery, Alex' I thought. I decided I had to get Ryan out of there for a bit before I get too caught up in my emotions and really let the cat out of the bag. "Hey Ryan, could you get my PSP (Play Station Portable for you old guys that didn't know. (Like me I had to ask)) from home so I have something to do while I'm here?," I asked with my best puppy dog eyes. "Of course," he responded never diminishing his smile. Mom came back into the room and I explained what I wanted Ryan to do. She remembered they had driven together, but she just pulled out her keys and handed them to Ryan. She trusted him enough to take her car. She told him to be safe and all the usual stuff. "Be back soon," Ryan said as he left the room. "Feeling any better?" mom asked. "Marginally. I have a monster headache and my stomach feels bruised from the inside out," I replied. We chatted for a while, I was trying to avoid the subject of how I ended up in the hospital and I guess Mom was willing to play along for now. We were talking about her and how her day went at work for about twenty minutes when suddenly I sat up in bed and cried out "Oh shit!" "What?" mom looked at me quizzically. "Shit! Damn! Fuck! How could I be so stupid!," I said. desparately "What?" she repeated, with a seriously worried expression. I started crying, I couldn't respond to her through my sobs. She just hugged me trying to calm me so she could find out what's wrong. After a couple minutes I had calmed down but I didn't know what to say. How could I say it. It would mean telling her the truth about me! I guess she's going to find out sooner or later, so now's about the time. "Mom. I... I..." she was lightly rubbing my arm to console me. "I'm gay. There I said it!" I turned my head away from her so she couldn't see my face and I wouldn't have to look at the disappointment in hers. I then felt her arms wrap around me and pull me into a big, warming hug. "Oh honey. That doesn't matter one bit. I love you no matter what. You're still my son, and I love you the same," she said with a few tears. The emotion had gotten to me. I just began crying again. She didn't hate me! I could be gay and still have my mom! Then I remembered that I have just lost my friend forever. I started sobbing even harder. "Is that why you're crying, Alex? Just because you're gay?" 'Just gay!? There's no 'just' about it!' I screamed in my head. "No. Yes. Well, Yes and No. I left a suicide note on my computer for you to find saying I was gay." I blurted out. "Okay. There must be something more to it, since you just told me that," she said. "I just sent Ryan home to get my PSP. It's on my desk next to the computer. He's going to see it!," I managed to get out between tearful cries. "I'm sure Ryan is very understanding. Ryan has been your friend long enough that it won't matter to him if you're gay or straight," she said in her best consoling tone. "But that's not all that's in the note Mom!" I really broke down at that point. I felt her hug me. After a few more minutes, I was able to continue. "Mom, I wrote you to tell Ryan that I love him and that I always wanted him to be my... boyfriend!" I was just barely able to finish the sentence before I just collapsed in the bed. I think I cried my self to sleep because I don't remember anything after that and I was in dreamland. As Ryan entered Alex's house, he made his way back to Alex's room to the desk where Alex's PSP and case were located. He entered his room and over to his desk carefully avoiding the mess on the floor. He placed it in its case and zipped it up when he glanced over to see Alex's screen-saver running. Something compelled him to take a look at the last thing that was on his computer. When the screen came up, he realized he was looking at Alex's suicide note. He immediately began to cry thinking of how he almost lost his best friend a second time. He continued through the note to the last couple sentences. He paused and reread them not believing he read them correctly. He immediately sobered up and just said "Oh." End Chapter 2 Author's Notes: Thanks for taking the time to read this. I really hope things work out for Alex and Ryan. We'll have to see what happens in the upcoming chapters. Drop me an email if you have any comments at lasertech@live.com or lasertech@storylover.us. Plus, more chapters are available at www.storylover.us. Lasertech Editor's Notes: Wow, that is quite a chapter. I'm certainly glad Alex survived bur now just how will Ryan react. I think there is more to come than just him saying, "Oh." Now they can talk about it. The words of another character in another story come to mind, "Sometimes bad things have to happen so good things can happen." It will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Although she didn't say it, I suspect mom had a good idea Alex was gay. Parents seem to know these things sometimes. Excellent story. I can't wait to get to the next chapter. Str8mayb Associate Editor's Notes: Well we did find out what Alex's third option was and it wasn't a good. Luckily for him it seems to be working out for him. That is not always the case that option is usually a final one. I hope we continue to find out that Alex does have more help yet to come. It looks like things are about to get real serious between Alex and Ryan, now about Ryan's Parents? The Story Lover