Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:20:54 -0500
From: obando <obando@rogers.com>
Subject: Roses are Red chapter 8.

<disclaimer> 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:

obando@rogers.com