Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:55:31 EST
From: Gaddamaj@aol.com
Subject: walking by 4

This is my fourth installment but I'm going to start a little different and
start 2 weeks from where I left off. I'm only doing this because it helps
the story. Don't worry it will explain it self and it works better. As for
the legal stuff we all know the drill.


Matt

It all happened to fast. He lay there bloody and torn. The love of my life
was in pain and I was tied to the back of a car looking at him
helplessly. He came back and kicked him across the face again. I started to
cry at the horror I just witnessed. He got back in his car and started to
drive away. After that it was all in slow motion. Andy got further and
further away from me, and my pain increased. I looked up and the light
faded from my eyes. The last thing I heard was a man yell "my son ain't no
queeeeeeee."


Andy

I saw him drive away with Matt tied to the back of his car. Matt was
yelling, then I saw the trail of blood, which he left behind. I yelled and
then Matt somehow got loose. I tried to run to him but I tripped and Hit
myself hard. All I remember after that was police sirens. I woke up in the
hospital on a bed with flowers all around me. A nurse walked by and said
that she was glad to see me awake. I asked her what happened. She told me
that my father had come back to find me somehow and that he beat me up when
he saw me with Matt.  I asked her where Matt was all she said was that he
was in intensive care. My mom walked in looking worried but she smiled when
she saw me awake. Except her smile looked like that of a clown.

"Hey honey " she said

"Hi mom."

" How are you feeling."

"Mom where is he? Where is he? I stood up on the bed and started to run out
of the room to the dimly lit corridor of the hospital. I ran to the
receptionist office and I asked her where Matt was. She told me the room
number it was on another floor. So I ran downstairs to where it was and
that's when I saw him he was there. My father looked at me and started to
walk forward. He was growing bigger as he chased me. I ran as far as I
could then I ran right into a room locked the door and started to cry. Why
was this happening to me? I woke up in a cold sweat and I couldn't move
anything in my body and I couldn't see out of my right eye. All I heard
were people saying to me that I was going to be all right. I felt movement
we were in an ambulance. "Where is my father?" I asked.

"I don't know. They never found him but they did find out that he was
tipped off about you and your mothers location." The paramedic said. The
ambulance stopped and I was pulled of the ambulance they dropped the wheels
on the gurney. And rolled me inside the automatic doors. Somebody screamed
my name. All I saw was the ceiling; it is kind of depressing to see the
ceiling from this perspective. I felt the pain coming back to me and I
started to cry. I saw my mom's face come into view. It was happening so
slowly. I saw people come in to view and then leave. I almost forgot about
Matt. "Where is Matt?" I yelled but nobody answered.

Matt

I was having the best dream. I was with my parents and they both told me
they loved me when I fell and woke up in a hospital. I looked up and saw
strange people that I have never seen before in my life. There was a man
that look to be in his forties, And some girl that looked exactly like him
with the same hair and there was two guys one blond and the other with
brown spiky hair. They were all sleeping and then a nurse walked in I asked
her who were those people were sitting there. She said that they were my
friends and family. "I don't remember them I said to her." She gave me a
look and then she left. A few minutes later a doctor came in, sat down next
to me and asked; "do you know what happened to you?" I said no and he gave
me another look then he said " you have been in a coma for about three
weeks now. Matt you where attacked and tied to the back of a truck and
dragged. Some how you managed to get loose from the truck. That was a
blessing because that is what saved you." I looked at him like he was lying
because I don't remember any of this. I stood up and I felt all the
bandages on my back. I asked the doctor if we could go for a walk. He said
sure. I started to walk for the door when he said that I should use my
wheelchair. I looked at him and said no. Even with all the pain on my back
I wanted to walk. The doctor said "ok." I stumbled out to the end of the
corridor and looked out the window. I looked at the doctor and said, "what
is my name?" he said my name was Matthew Rodgerson. I heard him say that
but it didn't fit somehow I don't remember anybody calling me by that
name. I started to cry I felt alone. I am afraid. The doctor told me that I
had amnesia. After that we walked for a long time. He seemed very concerned
about me. We walked to a room where there were a lot of people waiting and
the blond guy that was in the room I woke up in gave me a hug and he said,
"I'm so happy that you are ok." I asked him who he was. He looked very
confused at me.

Andy

Matt has been in a coma for three weeks. I got out of the hospital a week
after what happened. Matt had amnesia and it was driving all of us
crazy. Jed and I became good friends and I met Matt's other friends. My mom
and Matt's grandfather got close too and they started dating. Yeah I know
what a surprise. They found my father and they arrested him. After all that
I feel alone without him I know that we just met a Little over a month ago
but without him I am lost. After three weeks of being in a coma he woke up,
but he had amnesia and he decided he didn't want to talk to anyone. We went
to see him a couple of times but he always turned us away. I miss him so
much.

Matt

After I woke up from the coma things happened slowly. After a few weeks I
started school again at a very weird school. I didn't talk to anybody and I
secluded myself. I stayed in what they said was my room. I found a guitar
in there and I found books of music. After reading them I asked the music
teacher at school to teach me how to play. I practiced at home and
practiced alone at lunchtime at school. He said I was a natural at playing
guitar. One day I was walking by this bar and I heard a girl sing. I walked
into the bar and sat down while she sang. She sang beautifully and after
she sang three or four songs she stopped and looked at me.

"Hey man can you play?" she asked

"Yeah a little."

"Then come up and play with me."

I went up and sat next to her she told me her name was Leigh. She was kind
of short but she wore very big platform boots. She had short blond hair
with red streaks that matched her red outfit. I started to play a soft
tune. She immediately took the tune and made it hers. She started to sing a
very sad song. I looked up at her and as she was singing she started to
shed tears. It was almost like she understood my pain as I played. Her
crying inspired me and I played like never before. After the song was over
everybody in the room was also crying or was about too. I started to
remember something but it quickly faded. I looked at my watch and realized
it was late and I had to go home.

"Hey Leigh I have to go home but I'll see ya." She looked at me and then
said, "hey where's the fire. Hold on I'll give you a ride. I need to talk
to you anyway." She went to the bar and said goodbye to the bar tender and
then we went outside. We got into her car and she asked me "where did you
learn to play like that?"

"I don't know."

"You played so good that I cried. The song I sang was a song my mother sang
to me before she died. I've never had the courage to sing it till tonight."

I looked at her and I told her my story all that I could remember. We got
along really well. She told me she went to Westport high and that she has
been singing since her mom died five years ago. She asked me if I would
play with her every Thursday night at the bar and I said I would. I looked
at her mirror and there was a rainbow bracelet hanging from it. Why did I
know what that meant? I asked her what it meant and she told me that she
was a lesbian. I looked at the street and it all hit me like a truck.

2 weeks before Matt and Andy were attacked.

Matt

After art I headed outside too see if Jorge was all right. He was outside
on the paint wall where all the artists hanged out at. The paint wall was a
wall for everybody to paint on it was cleaned every weekend and it always
attracted a crowd. There was my crowd all except Jed. I wonder where she
was. I walked over and saw that Jorge was drawing an ugly picture of the
art teacher. Veronica said hi and Craig came over to me.

" Hey man can I talk to you?" He asked.

Craig was one of the popular people in the school we where too, but I hated
that and so did Jorge and veronica.

" Yeah off course." I said and we walked over to one of the giant board
game sets the school had outside. Like I said it was a weird school.

"Hey man I need to ask you a question." He said.

" I heard you met somebody this morning and I was wondering if you were
going to get together?"

Craig was gay like me but I am openly gay and he isn't. He is afraid of
what his parents might think and that he would lose his friends.  He told
me last summer at the beach. We went to the beach with our parents for the
4th of July and we decided to take a walk on the boardwalk. I started to
look at all the hot guys outside and was getting horny he just turned
around and planted one on me. I pushed him away and told him I could never
like him that way. I guess he's always had a crush on me.

"I don't even know if he's gay." I said to him.

"But if he is, you guys aren't getting together right?"

I got mad at him and I walked away. He did this every time I talked to a
guy I liked. It was getting tiring. I hate it and he knows it. I already
told him that I didn't like him that way. After that school went by really
quickly and I headed to the ice cream shop walking because Jed was nowhere
to be found. I walked a couple blocks and then Jed showed up. She beeped
the horn and stopped at the curve I got in and we were off. She seemed
happy for some reason so I asked her what she was happy about.

"I'm not happy about anything," she said.

"Then what's with the smile."

She kept quiet and I realized that she just passed the ice cream shop. Hey
where are we going? I asked she gave me a smile and we drove up on the
highway. I kept asking her but she wouldn't let on. We drove off the
highway, she turned into a street and we pulled up to a house. The
neighborhood looked poorer than the one I lived in. It had a lot of older
looking houses that had some disrepair. The one we pulled up at had a waist
high chain link fence. It was white and it had roses that looked like they
just bloomed. We walked up to the porch and we rang the doorbell. After a
few seconds Andy opened the door and my jaw dropped as well as his. "Uh hi"
he said and I gave Jed the look. You know the look that you give somebody
when you want to kill them.

"Andy this is Matt and he likes you a lot. Matt this is Andy and he likes
you a lot too. Now you guys are going on your first date. I am going to
drop you guys both at the movies. Where you guys are going to sit together
and hopefully not see the movie."


And this is where it ends for now next time I'm going to write in the first
sex scene. Email me your suggestions. gaddamaj@aol.com