Heavier Things

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OK... So this is my new story.. hehe. I just can't saty away from them. LOL. So check it out and let me know what you think!

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I paid for our two pizzas and then quietly closed the door and locked it as I made my way to the kitchen to relieve myself of the two cardboard boxes. I smiled to myself as I heard the loud sounds of different pieces of music playing back in the basement.

I quietly walked down the carpeted stairs and paused at the bottom as I watch him run his fingers through his hair in frustration. He was so cute when he was frustrated. I walked closer, not trying to be quiet since he was now wearing headphones. The sound of his piano could be heard coming out of the speakers.

I put my hand on his shoulder and he jumped slightly, not expecting me to be there. He took the headphones off and sat them lightly on the table as I ran my fingers through the back of his hair.

“Pizza’s here.” I informed him as I kissed his neck.

“Hmmm. Maybe we should let the pizzas cool down first and continue this… this event you seem to have started here.” He suggested and I giggled.

“No. I’m actually pretty hungry right now. So it would probably be best if we head upstairs,” I smiled to myself as I walked off, despite his child-like complaint.

It wasn’t very long ago that I could barely stand the sight of him. He made me so angry that I just wanted to push him off a giant cliff where I would never have to hear his voice or see his face ever again. I wasn’t a very angry teenager, but he really knew just how to push my buttons back then.

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“Oh June!” She called into my bedroom as she climbed the stairs that led up to my room, which was conveniently placed away from everyone else’s rooms.

“Oh Ashlyn!” I called back in the very same tone as I finished straightening my hair. She burst through the doors dramatically and I couldn’t help but laugh.

“I’m here! No autographs, please!” She laughed before plopping down on my bed and hung her head off the edge, upside down. “So are you ready to go? I’m starving!”

Every Friday night, she and I met up with our friend Jason and got us something to eat. I rolled my eyes. “You’re always hungry. You’re, like, four feet tall and eighty pounds… but yet, you eat like a pig.”

“I’m almost five feet, thank you! And I weigh ninety pounds!” She stuck her tongue out at me as we climbed into my black Jeep Wrangler.

“So what is Landon up to tonight?” I asked curiously. “He’s not sneaking around again is he?”

“He never snuck around on me!” She said, astonished that I would say something like that about not-so-perfect Landon.

“Right, and Carly James was just a figment of everyone’s imagination.” I rolled my eyes. “The whole time she’s been holding you up in those… pyramid things she hasn’t really been there. She’s the invisible woman.”

“Ok, ok.” Ashlyn stopped me. “So he did sneak around a little, but nothing happened. Everything’s good now.”

Ashlyn was a cheerleader for our school, who was always somewhat of an outsider with them, even though she was way better than all the rest. Carly hated her for the most part, simply because when Landon moved to our school, the only girl he had interest in was Ash.

“It’s six o’ clock. Do you know where your boyfriend is?” I asked in a goofy television voice and she rolled her eyes as we pulled into Taco Bell.

“Jason’s not here yet,” She quickly changed the subject as we sat in my Jeep waiting for him to arrive. My phone began to ring.

“Hello?” I asked curiously.

“Hey… It’s Jason.”

“Hey.” I said quickly.

“I’m not going to be able to get there tonight,” He informed me. “I uh… I’m stuck at the mall with my Mom… I swear if she makes me try on one more pair of pleated slacks for that stupid job… I’ll…”

“You’ll what?” I asked curiously and laughed.

“I’ll die my hair purple.” He laughed. He had recently gotten a job answering the phones and working at the front desk at his uncle’s insurance company. Needless to say, he wasn’t too thrilled that he had to wear navy blue slacks and a white polo shirt every day.

“Does that sort of thing fly with Uncle Bill?” I asked curiously and I swore I could hear his eyes roll.

“Sure…”

“Well, I need to get off here before Ash looses one more pound.”

“I’m not anorexic!” She yelled at me and laughed.

“I’ll see you guys later.” He laughed and hung the phone up as we climbed out of my vehicle and headed inside to place our orders.

We took our seats with our tray of food and began talking as we ate.

“So did you see the new dye-job Tasha Stanford got on her hair?” Ashlyn laughed about a fellow cheerleader. “I mean seriously… What would make you want to make your hair look like a skunk died on it?”

I laughed at her and she stuffed her face with a taco.

“Oh! And Amber Talley’s eye make-up today in fourth! Oh man… I thought I was going to need sunglasses to hand her that worksheet.” I laughed and Ash almost shot her soda out her nose.

Her eyes got wide as someone walked in the door. “Ok, so don’t look now, but the object of your undying affection just walked in.”

I turned to look and immediately turned around to throw a nacho at her. “Are you serious? Teddy? I can’t stand that…” I stopped what I was saying. Teddy and I had been really good friends and I had played with him a few times at a few local shows. He had even told me that as soon as he got big I would tour with him. But as soon as the record label met him, they changed everything about him, it seemed.

“Ladies…” He greeted us as he took a seat in the booth across the isle from ours. He looked right at me as if he was checking me out. “June…” He didn’t just say it in any kind of tone. It was that tone that said ‘I’m sorry and I want to talk to you.’ I couldn’t deny it in my mind, but I would to anyone who asked. I couldn’t break my gaze away from him.

“June!” Ashlyn broke my gaze. I looked at her questioningly. “Are you done?”

I looked down at my half-eaten crunchwrap and shook my head as I took the last few bites and washed them down with my Pepsi.

We walked out of the restaurant and I realized I had left my purse sitting in our booth. “I’ll be right back, Ash. I left my purse.” She rolled her eyes and laughed as I walked back into the restaurant.

“Back for seconds?” Teddy joked as I reached to my purse. He was way over-confident sometimes.

“Was that referring to you or the actual food?”

“It can swing both ways… much like your friend Jason.” He joked.

“Just so you know… Jason is much more straight than you’ll ever be… boy band Teddy.” I rolled my eyes and quickly turned to leave him.

“She wants you man,” His friend joked and I looked back to catch a small smirk he had planted on his face.

“Just wait…” He smiled as he took another bite of his food and changed the subject.

[Carie]

wow the begging is great!
i can't wait for what's in store!

[ohhh ashley]

Ahh. Good already. I cannnotttt wait.

[Durr Its Lizzz]

yay! another tedfic!!
i love it already.
cant wait for more
(:

[Jeni]

hahahaha... oh no...

[[.j.a.i.m.i.e.]]

wow...teddy's kinda jerky :S
i'm liking the way this is starting!

[Meredith]

ahh, this is so good! can't wait for more

[kellylovesteddy]

i like it so far =]
cant wait to read more.

[Jeni]

wait.... can we use this on so-unpredictable?!

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^^ yeah you can use it on the site.

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I was completely bored. Jason was working, Ashlyn was out of town with her parents; Something about her great-uncle's fourth cousin's sister's husband dying. I stared at the ceiling of my room after having finished studying for every subject I could possibly come up with... twice.

I heard the phone ringing somewhere in the house, followed by what sounded like a stampede of elephants running to answer it. I laughed and rolled my eyes as I heard the doorbell ring and the unusual sound of silence followed. Usually my two younger siblings, Brooke and Josh raced each other to the door while my two older siblings, Bree and Hayden beat them to it.

I sat up and made my way to the door. I pulled it open and instantly wished that someone else had raced to open it.

"Hey, June..." Teddy greeted me in a somewhat awkward tone. He was uncomfortable for once. Before he left, I had been the one who never knew what to say to him and now it was his turn. "I uh..."

"What?" I asked curiously.

"Why do you hate me so much?" He asked curiously. "Ever since I left you've..."

"Changed?" I finished his sentence. "I haven't changed, I've moved on since you ditched me for what your record label said was best."

"Do you still play?" He asked curiously. I shut the door in his face and re-climbed the stairs to my bedroom.

I hadn't picked up my guitar since the day he left. It made me think of him and I just got so angry.

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"Did you see who goes to our school now?" I heard Stacey Jacobs ask one of her friends as I passed them in the hallway with Ashlyn.

We stopped at my locker, our usual meeting place every morning before we all had to make our way to our classes.

"I just don't get it." I told her as Jason joined us. "He comes to my door thinking that he can just be friends with me again and asks me if I still play."

"We're talking about this again?" Jason asked. "Come on, June. Let it go. Sure, you used to turn into a spineless jellyfish everytime he came around unless you were playing guitar, but now you're not that same person."

I looked at Jason. He acted jealous.

"He promised her she would get to tour with him." Ashlyn said. "It's not as easy as you put it, Jase."

He rolled his eyes. "Whatever."

The bell rang and we all made our way to our classes without another word about our previous conversation.

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I sat alone at lunch, once again, like I did everyday since they changed my schedule and gave me first lunch instead of third like all my other friends had.

"Well, well, well," Teddy said as he sat down next to me.

"What do you want now?"

"I never got to finish last night." He told me

"Ok... Finish."

"Ok. So I was asking if you still play because they let one of the guys go while we were on tour, and I told them I knew someone who could really play." He told me.

"I don't play anymore," I told him shortly as I stood to leave.

"You never even think about picking it up?"

I looked at him and rolled my eyes. "Everytime I look at my guitar I think of how you ditched me. And honestly, if playing reminds me of someone who isn't worth even knowing anymore... I'd rather not play." I could tell my voice was rising, and I was almost positive we were getting a small audience.

He looked around at the ten or fifteen faces that were now giving us their undivided attention. He looked up at me sadly as I stood, and for a second I almost felt sorry for him.

His eyes really did have their own personality. It was like they were having their own seperate conversation with me.

I left to cafeteria and sat on a bench in the hallway as I waited for the bell to ring.

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"So, a little birdy told me that you completely told Teddy where he could shove his guitar at lunch today," Ashlyn told me as we stood by my car before she had to head to practice.

I rolled my eyes. "He asked me if I still play again. And I just told him that playing reminds me of a certain someone who I'd rather not be reminded of."

"We're still talking about him?" Jason asked as he walked up to us.

"Maybe..." I laughed.

He rolled his eyes. "Why do we keep talking about him?"

"Because once upon a time, our little June was infatuated with Teddy." Ashlyn answered for me as Teddy walked out to his car, which was parked within hearing distance of mine. "Hey Teddy!" Ashlyn called in her perky cheerleader voice and waved.

He raised his head and waved as he smiled and climbed into his vehicle and pulled it next to mine. "Ladies... Jason." He eyed Jason curiously.

"Theodore." Jason said as he climbed into his own vehicle and said goodbye to us before driving off.

"Ashlyn... June... what's going on?" He said confidently.

I rolled my eyes as Ash continued talking to him quietly by his car as Landon walked out of the building and I waved.

"Hey Landon." Ashlyn wrapped her arm around him and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Want to walk me to practice?"

"Sure. See you later, June." He waved at me as he walked off and I began unlocking my car.

"So June. I couldn't help but overhear what Ashlyn said..."

"Oh?"

"Yeah." He said. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"Tell you what?" I asked curiously. "You honestly believed that? She was joking."

"Oh." I hoped he bought it. "Well I'll see you tonight then." He drove off.

I climbed into my Jeep and drove off slightly confused. Why was I seeing Teddy tonight?

[Carie]

i hate cliff hangers...post more soon!!!

[[.j.a.i.m.i.e.]]

oh no!
why is june seeing teddy tonight!?
maybe teddy is a stalker!
gasp!
haha ok, most likely not :S
i sorta feel bad for teddy but june does have a point...

[beckitaann]

MORE MORE!!! lol I'm really into it!

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I entered the kitchen to find that my Mom was already working on dinner. "Hey Mom." I greeted her as I searched through the fridge for a Coke.

"Hey June." She turned to look at me as if she was checking to make sure it was me and not another one of my sisters. "Oh. The Geigers are coming over for dinner."

I grunted slightly as I opened my can. My Mom and Teddy's Mom had been friends since they were, like, still in their mother's wombs, it seemed.

"You know I can't stand Teddy anymore." I whined.

She threw her hands up. "I'm sorry, but you're going to have to grin and bear it for a few hours." She told me as I rolled my eyes and made my way up to my room, passing Bree and her boyfriend, Michael on the way.

"Get out of my way," She told me when I barely brushed against her arm.

"Why don't you finally move out, you twenty-five-year-old moocher," I shot back at her and she flipped me off.

I continued my way up the stairs and decided to see what Hayden was up to. The door was cracked slightly, so I peeked in to see that he was sitting in the floor with Brandon, teaching him something on one of his video games. I smiled to myself. Hayden always got along with all of us.

My phone began ringing, so I went to my room.

"Hello?" I asked curiously.

"Hey. It's Jason."

"Hey. What's up?" I asked.

"Well, I was just wondering if you'd like to come over here tonight and keep me company since my parents have a business dinner to go to."

I grunted. "I can't. My Mom is having the Geigers over, and I have to play nice."

He grunted also. "Well... if you can come over when they leave," He began. "I'll still be here. Alone. Bored out of my mind. Looking for ways to make my cat walk on two feet." I laughed at him. He always came up with random things to say that would keep someone entertained.

"I'll call you later and let you know what's going on." I told him as we said our goodbyes and hung up.

I turned my stereo on, which was now playing my Spill Canvas cd. I grabbed my notebook and began working on a report that was due sometime next week.

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"June..." A soothing male voice said as they entered my room. I must've fallen asleep, because it felt like the wire from my notebook was leaving prints on my face.

Whoever it was came closer and sat on the edge of my bed and tucked my shoulder-length blonde hair behind my ears. I gave in and cracked my eyes a little to see that Teddy was the owner of the soothing voice.

I sat up suddenly and eyed him curiously. "What are you doing in here?"

"Just seeing what you're doing." He answered, as he looked around my room, which was painted a turquoise color. "I like this color. And this song. Who is it?"

"Spill Canvas." I answered him shortly. He began walking around my room until he came to my acoustic guitar that I had saved up my money for when I was fifteen just so I could get it. Everyone had told me it was like I was a natural at it. I picked up on everything rather quickly, but that was just who I was. It didn't take long for me to understand things.

He looked at it and then picked it up.

"So you don't play anymore?" He asked curiously.

"I told you before." I reminded him and he made a face.

"So do you care if I mess around with it?" He gestured to his hands that were now holding my guitar. I shrugged and continued writing my book report while he tuned the guitar.

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A few seconds later, we were all seated around the dinner table, eating our food quietly while our parents conversed about high school. I tried my best to ignore him, but he kept looking up at me with those eyes. I would try my best to turn my head and watch someone else, but he would always catch me.

"What's that on your face?" Bree asked as I reached my hand up to touch my cheek. "You look like the side of the road or something."

"What?" I laughed at her.

"You know how they make those indentions on the side of the road so that if you start to run off, you'll realize it and then straighten up?" She sounded so dingy right now that I couldn't help but laugh.

"Don't laugh at me." She whined. "Mom she's laughing at me."

"June..." My Dad warned and I tried to hold back. "I know what you're talking about, Bree."

I rolled my eyes. Everyone always took her side because they knew if they didn't she'd whine until we finally couldn't stand it anymore.

"And June, If I see you roll your eyes one more time, I'm taking away your keys." My Dad said to me. I looked back down at my plate and began shoving my mouth full of broccoli.

I finished my dinner without saying another word and just watched everyone at the table have their own conversations. I like to watch people. It was even better when the person you were watching was watching someone else. I don't know why, but it intrigued me for some reason.

Teddy was watching my Dad and his Dad have a conversation about their jobs. His eyes seemed to light up when he was watching other people go about their lives. He looked away and back at me, catching my green eyes with his blue eyes.

"June, can you help me get some of this stuff off the table?" My Mom asked me as I stood up to help her. I grabbed two empty bowls and carried them into the kitchen.

"Mom, can I go over to Jason's since I'm done eating?" I asked curiously.

"June. We have company." She told me. "If you want to get out of the house, why don't you take Teddy for a drive or something. Maybe you two can find some sort of middle ground."

"Mom.." I whined. "Are you serious?"

I grunted silently to myself as I walekd back into the dinig room to fetch more dirty dishes to load into the dish washer.

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I didn't want to have to take Teddy anywhere, so I sat out on the porch, which was about as far as the Mom radar would let me go.

The air was beginning to get that feeling in it. Sure, it was cold, but it made you feel... something. It was like it let you know you were alive and glad to be alive at that. I wrapped my arms around myself as I shivered a bit. I heard someone open the front door to join me.

"Cold?"

I didn't answer him. He sat down next to me and wrapped a blanket from the couch around my shoulders.

"Why are you being nice to me?" I asked him curiously. "I mean. I can't stand to look at you for everything you've done - "

He interupted me. "You're the only real friend I've ever had. You and your family." He looked at me with those eyes again. This time they said they were lonely and longing for a friend.

I let out a small gust of air. "If I'm your only real friend, then why..."

He moved closer to me and pulled the edge of the blanket around himself.

"Do you even know how long I would just sit there in my room waiting for you to call to at least let me in on what was going on? I waited and waited for you to call me up and ask if I could join you at whatever venue you were playing. You know why? Because you promised. You promised me, Ted." I looked at him, to find that he was looking down at his shoes like he knew he was wrong.

"Teddy!" His Mom called from inside the house and he looked back towards the door. "We're leaving."

"I'll see you at school." He said as he stood, leaving a couple extra feet of blanket for me to wrap around myself.

I watched as their van pulled out of our driveway and pulled into the house next to us, that was seperate by two acres of vacant lot. I went back inside and called Ashlyn and Jason.

"So what's going on?" She asked curiously.

"Teddy and his family were over here." I recited the whole story to them.

"June. He sounds like he's sorry." She told me. "I have nothing against the guy anymore. All of this happened a year ago. Don't you think it's time to just let it all go?"

"I don't know." I told her. "I'm just so confused about everything now."

"Either you want to be friends with the guy or not," Jason said. "I don't like him."

"And why don't you like him?" I asked curiously.

"I know why he doesn't like him." Ashlyn said.

"Ash..." He warned her. "Need I remind you of the time you forgot your bloomers and you had on yellow underwear instead of the red bloomers?"

"Would somebody please clue me in?"

"No!" Jason said into the phone.

"Ok... well I'm going to bed now." I told them as we all hung up with each other and I laughed at my goofy friends.

I couldn't sleep, mostly because I was thinking too hard. What if Teddy really was sorry? And what was Jason's problem?