Callie
				     Chapter Five
				      The Couch
	Taylor and I sat on the couch for a while while he played some video
game. Zac and Ike had gone to lay down on some beds near the back of this
big concrete room. At least I'm with people I know. After about fifteen
minutes of playing the game Taylor turned it off.  He looked at me with his
solumn blue eyes then he put his arms around me. By this time I had come to
terms with my prediciment.
	"Taylor, it's fine, I'm okay."
	He pulled his head up and stared into my eyes. "You're sure?"
	"Yes, i'm fine, still a bit shook up, but I'll be fine."
	"I'm gald." He pulled his hand out from behind my back and gently
grabbed my chin. He turned it in his direction he leaned foreward and placed
his lips on mine. He was so kind, so gentle, treating me as if I was an injured
kitten. I had never had boyfriend. I was more of a tomboy which of course
was because for along time my best friends had been Ike and Tay. When they
went off and started recording their music I had to find new friends, so I made
friends with girls at my school. At first the incredible amount of time,
attention, and effort they paid attention to guys stunned me. now I have come
to accept it, but I still think it works better if you try to be friends with them,
rather than suck face. I have lots of female friends now like Jackie, Jenna,
Rachel, Megan, Kate, Jessica, and others. What made me friends with them is
that they are alittle bit weird. This doesn't bother me because I know that they
will never be boring people. I also believe that ecentricity bulids character. I
also have guy friends like Brendon, Eric, Josh, Andy, and Jordan, but I would
never dream of going out with one of them, personally I think that they're not
encredibily handsome. This situation was somewhat akward. I wasn't sure if it
was Taylor being a friend or something else. I decided that I would take it as
being a friend because if it wasn't something else that it would be embaresing.
	I put my arms around him and held him tight, thanking him for being so
nice. He assured me that it was part of beinf friends. He hugged me back, so
far nothing unusual. Then his arms started to move up and down my back and
he grasped and handful of my thick hair, his head still loooking over my
shoulder. then he started kissing my neck with lips that felt like satin. I wasn't
sure if I wanted this to go on or to get anexplanation. His hotbreath on my
neck made me shiver with excitemnet. He slowly travelled up my neck like a
bloodthirsty vampire and veeered toward my lips. He placed a large kiss on
my lips, if it wasn't for curiosity I would have let this go on. Curiosity got the
cat.
	"Taylor, I need to know something. What the hell is going on?!?"
	"I...I well I love you."
	"Um, couldn't you have told me this before you, uhh, you know."
	"Sorry, I just got carried away. It's just that I love you. I love you like
Jom loves that vet in Garfield."
	"It's okay I understand."
	"Is this okay with you, I mean are you okay with this move in our
relationship?"
	"Look Taylor I care about you alot but not alot in the ways you mean. i
love you as a friend and I would be really upset if this affected our friendship.
I'm just afraid something will happen and we will hate each other and I could
never survive like that."
	"I'll make sure it never happens. I swear I will put our friendship before
our relationship."
	He leaned pver and sealed my lips with a kiss. Then the people that
took us here came barging through the door. The blond was carrying a set of
keyboards, the other an acoustic guitar. Ike had also informed us that the
reason we were here was so the Hansons could help then write songs. the
datk haired man, whose name was Sam, instructed them to come over and i
followed behind. He told me to go sit where I was and that he would deal
with me later. I wasn't sure what he meant so I sat back down on the couch
and played video games. After an hour and a half of getting nowhere they
calle dit quits. Jake lef to go get something.
	That's when Sam came over and grabbed my wrist.
	"Come on girlie, we're going to have some fun."
	From the expression on his face I could tell what he was up to. I pulled
away trying to avoid being sexually assulted my this pig.
	"do what I say, or else!"
	"No, don't touch me, leave me alone!"
	"I wonder what it'll be like to screw a Hanson."
	"If you're going to do that you'll have to screw one of them."
	"What?!" Sam asked with disbelief.
	"I'm not a Hanson, I'm just friends with them. You didn't even let us
explain."
	"Some one thinks they have all the answers. She'll have to be taught a
lesson."
	I couldn't stand it anymore. I twisted aroundand kicked him in the balls.
	"You little bitch. you're violent like you godamned so-called friends.
I've had it with you." he screamed as he pulled out the shiny black revolver.
	The bullits rang out like bells out of tune. the first hit me in the stomach
and I doubled over. I could hear Taylor yelling for him to stop. It sounded
like it was coming from far away. The only thing that seemed relevant was
the pain in my abdomen. Pain shot through me and I twisted on the floor in
agony. the next bullet went into the area right below my collarbone. another
shot of pain seered my skin. Taylor was knealing down beside me, holding
my hand. He was talking to me. but I all I could make out was the last he
thing he said.
	"Callie, I love you."
	He bent over and placed a kiss on my lips. I tried to press back, trying
to let him know that I reciprocated his feelings. With my last breath I uttered,
I love you too." Then my eyes closed and everything went black and life
receeded.