Sidney's POV-

I can't believe Tony. He behaved like a complete child after I had told him about my brother's old best friend. It's not like I dated Marty, I have no clue as to why he was jealous. There was no way I could be with a guy that wasn't confident enough in himself that he couldn't even have a shred of trust in me.

“After all the time we've spent together, you can't bring yourself to trust me? To trust us? Maybe it's you who you can't trust?” I tell him. His face grew red with anger.

“What the hell was he doing talking to you?” He had asked.

“I'm not going to sit here and justify every conversation I have with another guy other than you, my brother and my father. It's just talking, it's all you need to concern yourself with. Maybe I should start worrying about who you're associating yourself with when I'm out of the picture?” I tell him flustered.

“You want to know if I've done another girl since we've hooked up?” He started. “Fine, yeah, I've slept with others.” And he started storming for the front door. I followed him out the front door mad as hell. Did I just here others? There's been more than one? “Oh, and another thing, I enjoyed fucking every one of them!” He yells at me, gets into his Jeep and starts it. Before he had the chance to speed off like a bat out of hell, I chucked a relatively large pebble at his vehicle, missing it by a couple inches as he drove off.

“What's up with the bad arm slugger?” I hear behind me and found myself cringing. Of all the people that could show up in this moment, it had to be Marty.

“Fuck off!” I tell him and I hear him chuckling. I try to walk back where I came from but he blocked my path. I try to walk around him and he grabs my arm to stop me.

“Pipe down.” He tells me and that only gets me madder. My other hand raises and I turn to try and get his grip to let go of me and he grabs my other hand, making me face him. “Feistier than I remembered.” He tells me.

“Let go of me!” I tell him all catty, trying to pull away from him as he kept maintaining his hold on me.

“Calm down and I will.” He tells me. So I take a few deep breaths and I feel him easing his grip on my forearms. “Now, what's got your panties all in a twist like that?” And just like that, one of my hands made it free from his and I slapped him hard, across the cheek. He let go of me entirely and reached up to rub his cheek. Judging by the shock displayed on his face and the fierce stinging of my hand, I had hit home. “I'm sorry.” He mumbled, turned and walked to his car. I watched him as he drove off. I found myself feeling guilty.

The next day, I drove Devon and I to school for our two exams of the day. After tomorrow, I can forget about exams for the rest of summer and worry about what I'm doing on graduation night. Do I go to Tony's party even though we're not together or do I just stay home? I wish I had a date.

Devon's POV-

We were heading out for lunch before our last exam of the day when I began to explain how I had met one of Shane's old childhood buddies. She didn't seem surprised and honestly, I thought I had detected a slight hint of annoyance in her gaze.

“I thought you liked Marty?” I told her.

“Yeah. The old one. Not the I'm sexy and you know it, Marty.” She tells me. I couldn't help the slight chuckle that escaped my lips.

“I got that self-assured kind of glimpse of him last night too when he stopped by but I didn't think anything of it. He sort of reminded me of your brother a few years ago before he moved away.” I tell her. “So, you mind telling me what happened with you and Tony?” My best friend looked at me and I could tell she was mad as hell.

“We broke up.” She tells me.

“What? But you guys were just perfect.” I tell her.

“Yeah, if I didn't speak to anyone else of the opposite sex.” She huffed and proceeded to explain the argument they had that let to his mistrust of her and his cheating side. I felt bad for her but then again, guilt wouldn't happen because I warned her to be careful after Jarred's stunt by the pool that day.

“I'm sorry.” I tell her. She looked at me and then laughed. “What is it?”

“I was so mad at Tony, Devon... You should have seen Marty's face when his sarcastic mouth opened up and I smacked him.” She tells me. I held my hand up to my mouth with an Oh no you didn't! look on my face. “He shouldn't have given me lip while knowing I was pissed.” She tells me as we get up to drop our lunch stuff in the trash and head over to our next exam room.

“So listen. I know Tony's having a party after graduation but Shane mentioned he wanted to have a get-together for all of us at the apartment if you're game. At least you don't have to worry about being around Tony.” I tell her.

“No kidding.” She says. “Sounds like fun. I'll mention it around.” I nodded at her.

Shane's POV-

I got home at six. It was a busy day at the office for me. They had put me to work straight away with various mini-projects before I had the necessary clearance that permitted me to access their files and help them out. I walked in to my apartment and found Devon, sitting on the counter-top, munching on some pizza.

“Your first night to cook on your own and you order pizza.” I laugh at her.

“But I didn't. Your sister did and then left some for you.” She tells me and hands me the beer she had just opened for herself.

“Taking up drinking?” I joked.

“Nah. I don't like the stuff. I just wanted to say I celebrated two exams being over and another two to go.” I chuckled. “How was your first day?”

“Long and lonely.” I tell her as I sneak a bite of her pizza while nestling myself between her legs, nuzzling her cheek. She laughed sexily.

“Well that can't be good. So, Sid told me something about Marty today.” She perks up.

“What's that?” I asked.

“Well, I guess, after he left here last night, he bumped into her in the driveway.” She began.

“And?” I said.

“Well, I guess your friend has foot-in-mouth disease because his sarcasm wasn't well received and she smacked him.” She tells me. “Oh, and Tony's a dirtbag and they broke up.”

“Wow! I sure don't miss high school one bit.” I tell her as I kiss her on the lips.

Sidney's POV-

The doorbell rang. Mom and Dad were working late so I had ordered some pizza and brought some over to Devon and Shane's place. I didn't stay for very long because I just wanted to study and get to bed and be done with this long day. After tomorrow, I'd be officially done with high-school work. I opened the door to find Marty standing there.

“What are you doing here? Did I slap you that hard that you lost your mind and forgot Shane doesn't live here anymore?” I say. I felt awfully proud of my efforts.

“Ouch! Touche!” He says and smiles as he lets himself in and walks to the living-room and sits himself down.

“Do you mind?” I tell him as I slam the door shut and follow him in.

“Not really.” He answers. “I would have thought that your panties would have been untangled by now.”

“Don't talk to me about something you don't know anything about.” I tell him.

“Then why don't you enlighten me?” He says softly. I saw a slight hint of honesty and compassion there. I took a deep breath.

“The guy you saw me go slugger on was my boyfriend. The bastard flipped out after seeing you and I talking last night.” I explained.

“Seriously?” He said and smirked. I nodded.

“And then that's when I told him that someone like him who has issues with his girlfriend talking to some other guy either had a low self-worth which, for a starring quarterback, that isn't the issue, or he looks at me as his property and he's been cheating.” I spill my guts.

“And he's been screwing around.” He finishes for me. I nodded and huffed. “I'm sorry.”

“Seems like you love to apologize along with driving me nuts.” I tell him. He smirked.

“Yeah, well, you're too much fun to piss off. In case you haven't noticed, you're cute when you're mad.” He tells me. That warranted a good blushing. “Look at that! Six years later and I can still make you blush.” He tells me.

“Don't think for one minute that...” My train of thought disappeared and I noticed that he liked that. He got up and came to stand in front of me.

“That what?” He paused. “That I don't have to kiss you to make you blush anymore? I'll see you at Shane's on Friday night.” And he kissed me on the cheek. “What would Tony think about that?” He says as he walked out my front door, to his car. I chased him down and stood at my door watching him drive off.

Marty's POV-

Well, at least I managed to put a smile on the poor girl's face. I couldn't deny that there was an attraction there on my behalf but there was an even larger past here at play as well. I was one of her brother's best friends. I've known her since we were really young. I drove off, noticing that she was watching me as I left. Perhaps I wasn't the only one with an attraction. I figured I'd put my impressions to the test on Friday at Shane's.

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