Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 00:14:25 -0400 From: Seth mace Subject: Senior-Itis Chapter 3: Perfect Match "They have ten minutes to get here before I am gone Cameron. I don't care what you and Susan talked about last night. Why did she call back anyway?" Seth inquired as he paced in front of one of the many wooden benches that were scattered throughout the park. Well actually it was more like a small grassy undeveloped area in the midst of cookie cutter neighborhoods and apartment buildings with a few small patches of trees and bushes sprouting around the paths. "She wanted to talk to you about exactly what time to be here. She said 10 am so I am surprised she isn't here." Cam responded as he watched his brother pace. "Calm down this isn't a date." "Yeah I know. I'm not nervous because of that. I feel like there is something else going on. Remember what we discussed! If it looks like things are going bad bail me out please!" He practically begged his brother who just grinned wickedly at him. "I guess I could do that. How long do you think we are going to be here? I had plans today you know." Cam was sprawled out on one of the benches himself and the actually looked a bit alike today. At least in dress. They were both wearing cargo jeans and some sort of simple shirt. Cam's shirt stated he was 'The Smart Twin', and Seth never denied it, and Seth's shirt was the same black in color but his read 'I tried to be good but I got bored'. It fit him perfectly too, the quote I mean. "What going to go find yourself a nice married-" "Shut it Seth that only happened one time. I seriously didn't know. There was no ring in sight." "Whatever home wrecker." Seth teased as he stopped his pacing and leaned against the side of the bench tapping his foot nervously. "Why are you so worked up? You don't even like Susan, who could possibly go wrong hanging out in the park?" Cam asked exasperatedly, feeling absolutely fed up with his brother's taught nerves. "I don't know I just am. I get the feeling that I'm being set up. Here she comes!" He practically squeaked as Susan walked into view. Tight blue jeans and a tight shirt, the normal Susan dress to show off herself. Cameron rolled his eyes at his brother and got up from the bench Susan reached the pair. "Hey Seth, hey Cam. I didn't expect you to be here. I thought you were going to go hang out with my sister today?" Susan had the biggest grin on her face as she gave them each a hug and took a seat on the bench. "I'm just leaving you have fun you two. I'm guessing Samantha's still home?" "Yeah. Bye Cam." She waved him off as he disappeared down one of the paths. Seth clambered onto the bench sitting on the back of it and looking down at Susan. "So what did you have planned for today? I hope you didn't call me out here to listen to the birds." Seth quirked an eyebrow at her as he said this and felt a bit of nervousness at the smile that flashed across her face. "Don't worry I have something fun planned, or at least I hope its fun. We just need one more person. A friend of mine I managed to talk into coming." Susan sat back on the bench and leaned her head off to look up at Seth. "So how did you talk Cam into being your little wingman for this rendezvous?" Seth blushed at that and laughed nervously looking down at his hands. "I just asked him. He owes me after I saved him from that bad date with Sammy's friend Crystal." Seth laughed shakily in remembrance of the crazy night out. "Oh yeah...that was bad. Sammy doesn't even like to think about that one. So what is Cameron hiding and waiting to save you when things go bad?" Why are things supposed to go bad?" Seth asked with just the slightest hint of paranoia in his voice. "I hope you're not trying to set me up!" "Oh see...In a way I am." Susan muttered and now looking quite flustered herself as she averted her gaze from Seth's now fuming gaze. "Susan I told you I don't need your help finding dates. You don't know what I am into anyway." Seth told her very matter-of-factly. "Remember 9th grade." "This is going to be different I promise, and it isn't the kind of set up you're thinking. Or at least I don't think it will be. Not unless you're hiding something from me." At this they both gave each other weird looks and were quite intent upon each other's own gaze and trying to decipher hidden meanings behind the other's brown eyes when Damien round one of the paths and came into view. Now if Susan had been looking she would have thought he was showing off. Jeans that weren't too tight but not too loose, a white undershirt again but this time visible as the rest of his torso was covered by light blue shirt that hung unbuttoned from his shoulders. It all really looked good on him, especially with his hair actually taken care of. It was trimmed a bit and gelled back into a messy, spiky look. As his booted feet crunched on the gravel in front of the bench both looked up. Susan's eyes went wide and she couldn't help but smile knowingly and Seth nearly fell over backward at the sight of the tall guy there looking all made up. "Oh fuck no! You invited this...this...thing?" "Excuse me? Thing? Susan you better stop him. I said I would do this but I also said I would no be responsible." "Both you calm down! What are your issues? Seth I invited Damien because we need to have a bit of an intervention here. I am tired of the fighting between you two. I am stuck being around both of you and I am not going to be ripped apart with this childish bickering." Seth just sat there glowering at Susan and Damien and finally got up. "You know what we weren't friends before you lying bitch and we aren't friends now." Seth began walking down the path not expecting anymore than Susan yelling but when Damien grabbed the back of his shirt and yanked him on this back on the gravel path he was definitely surprised. "I am going to kick your ass you little punk. No one talks to friends like that." He raised his fist to punch Seth when a body connected solidly with his side and he went rolling off. The two new combatants tussled on the ground. It wasn't until Cam had Damien down on his back that Seth was able to figure out what happened. Damien struggled as Cam held his wrists and Seth got up looking down at him. "I'm out of here." He grumbled leaving his brother to deal with Soccer player who had almost beat the living shit out of him. Susan just stared at all three before throwing her hands up in the air and muttering her own curses as she walked off. Damien watched this from the corner of his eye before looking up at the face above him. Cameron had a busted lip and Damien's nose was bleeding but besides a few other scratches from rolling in gravel neither were really hurt. "Who the fuck are you?" Damien spat angrily up at Cam. The twin released Damien's wrist one the other two were out of sight and stood up brushing himself off and put a hand to his slightly swollen slip. "Wow you got a hard head. I'm Cam that was twin you were trying to beat the shit out of. I would have let you but you know he's my brother." Cameron explained as he wiped the blood on his jeans. Damien just stared at the guy before him, as his mind seemed to reel. The guy was cute and so far he seemed like he might have a sense of humor. That was still up for question as was the idea that he might have the same attitude and personality as his brother. "Well I wish you had. He deserved a good ass beating after what he said about Susan." Damien grumbled as he lifted himself up and brushed off his pants and shirt. "You must be Damien. The guy he got into a fight with in class." Cameron smirked as he recognized this and shook his head at the thought. "You don't seem the ass hole type he makes you out to be." Cameron told Damien truthfully as he took a seat. "Then again Seth has been know to blow simple things way out of proportion." "Yeah tell me about it. Me and him were supposed to just talk and try to work out some kind of agreement over these things." Damien explained as he took a seat beside Cameron so far finding nothing bad about him. "Him and me." "What?" "Him and me. You said me and him. It should have been Him and me." Cameron corrected. "Sorry I want to be an English Major in college so I am constantly correcting grammar." Cameron muttered as he waved off the correction like it was nothing. Damien decided to drop it for now as he pulled off his torn blue shirt gazing sadly at it. Nice clothes for him were hard to come by since he had to buy them himself most of the time with his money from work. Sometimes he got money from his dad, a sort of allowance, or he was able to steal something from his mom's drinking money, but normally he had to earn it. "Hey dude I am sorry about the shirt, oh and your nose is bleeding!" The second was said with more surprise. Damien quickly touched his nose and cursed as Cameron practically pounced on him again. "Lean you head back. Come on lean it back." Cameron tilted Damien's head back by his chin and pinched the bridge of his nose helping to try and staunch the blood flow. Damien cast a look of confusion up at the blonde's face as the guy hovered over him, knees up on the bench and helped him take care of the nose. Damien began to notice small things about Cam in that moment. The heat from his body and how nice that body was, Cam's scent that proved he was an outdoorsy guy, and the gentle but strong hands that were helping him out. "Um...dude...I've had a bloody nose before. I think I know what to do." Damien stated though it was low, almost like a whisper. Cameron quickly stopped and looked down at Damien pulling back his hands, as he looked in the upturned face that was actually smiling at him. Then there were those eyes. Cameron blushed as he turned his gaze from the beautiful blue eyes. "Sorry I just felt bad. I think that happened when I tackled you. I thought I felt something hit my shoulder." Cam had sat back down by now and the blood had pretty much stopped so he lifted his head and turned his eyes to the blond beside him. "Well mother it is quite alright. I think I will just skip on home and clean up." Damien laughed as he spoke giving Cameron a goofy grin as he continued to hold the bridge of his nose. "Well if I am your mother then I should be able to order you to stay right here and hang out right?" He asked following off of Damien's joke. "You could but I am a rebellious teenager so I wouldn't listen." "Well then how about if I ask you as just a cool guy and a friend." "Hmm...I might consider it then." Damien grinned as he spoke to Cameron enjoying this bantering back and forth. "If you hadn't admitted to it I would have never thought you and Seth were related. You two are nothing alike." Damien confessed his thoughts as he removed his hand from his nose. "We're more alike than you seem to think. Or at least in one area or two. You know he couldn't stop talking about you that day after the fight. Had nothing but bad things to say. I was expecting some ass hole, or some large oafish jock. You are definitely not what was brought to mind though." Cam said, as he looked Damien over. "Well I'm glad to hear that I went above and beyond expectations. I should be getting him home though now that this park date is practically ruined. My drunken mother might be expecting me also. She'll probably need me to go get her some more cigarettes or something." Damien sighed as he spoke and stood up stretching his arms in the air to loosen the muscles. "Park date ruined? I thought it was just starting. I guess I was wrong." Cam mumbled as though he was talking to himself. The words made Damien spin around brow furrowed as he gazed at Cam. Blue eyes focused on green as the two athletes stared; one just waiting and the other trying to figure out what was going on. Damien sat back down still giving Cameron that confused look. "You know don't you?" "The moment Seth said you were friends with Sammy and Susan. I talked to her and asked about you and she said you hadn't dated either of them. I can't see any guy just wanting to be friends with a girl like her or her sister, not unless they weren't into girls that is." Cameron explained. Damien just laughed and shook his head as he focused on his boots and the gravel beneath them. Cameron put a hand on Damien's back and leveraged himself off the bed. "Let's had back to my place Damien. Hang out a bit. I had plans with Sammy today but we changed them and she went to school so I stayed with Seth again to watch him. Mom's orders. So it should be pretty quiet there. I doubt Seth will bother us if he is home." Damien didn't quite know what to say. He had come to make nice with Seth but was instead hooking up with his twin. He would have to thank Susan for trying this little intervention seeing as it paid off so nicely. "Sure dude lets go." Damien got up and the two set off towards Cam's house. It wasn't too long of a walk which explained why Cam and Seth were there so early. The pair walked through the door laughing and gesturing together happily as they discussed some of their finer moments in life. "Come on upstairs." Cameron led Damien upstairs to his bedroom. They passed by Seth's which was again back to one bed. The other visible beneath the taller one. Cameron's room, right down the hall, only had one twin sized bed. "Seth took the hide-away like you saw a few years ago because he always his friends over and they use the two beds when they want to stay all night." Cameron fell onto his bed as Damien admired the house. His small apartment was two bedrooms, one bath, a living area, and a kitchen. At this moment he was standing in a two story, four bedroom house, with a full kitchen, 2 and a half baths, and a living area along with an attic to boot. "This house is nice." Damien muttered having seen most of it coming up through the main room and up the stairs. He took a seat admiring the laptop on Cam's computer desk. "Yeah the place is nice." Cameron admitted as he smiled at the awe struck Damien. He had figured by this reaction that Damien's dress was to cover up a probably bad lifestyle. He had already mentioned his drunken mother after all and since it was only like 11 in the morning it meant she was probably an alcoholic. "Hey Cameron who are you talking to." Seth called from his room. Damien hadn't seen him there but he hadn't been able to see the whole room either. "It's Damien." Cameron called out and there was a snort from the other room and the door slammed shut. Cameron rolled his eyes as he got up and closed the door himself before turning to Damien. "Sorry man he can be a real asshole sometimes." "Don't worry. I should just go since it seems I am causing trouble." Damien muttered a bit disappointed as he stood up from the chair. "You are not going anywhere." Cameron ordered as he came and stood before Damien. They were only about an inch apart in height. Cameron stood there staring Damien down and Damien stood there looking a bit put off by the guy right in front of him. Before he could make a move to get around him though Cameron had leaned forward and kissed him. Damien was caught off guard by the kiss and actually pulled back from it. "Shit I-" Cam's words were cut off as Damien jumped back into the kiss and the two started up a mix of roaming hands and rubbing tongues. Seth got up from his desk and paced a moment lost in thought. He didn't know what to do. He clenched his cell phone in one hand and the other was balled in a fist. Susan refused to talk to him until he could act civilized around Damien. He couldn't though. The guy was a jerk and had been a jerk since the moment they met. Seth sighed and rubbed his temples as he thought of the soccer goalie right across the hall. He was hot, and Susan talked about funny and playful he could be, and how cool he was to hang out with. Seth never got to see that though and some part of him made him wish he could see that. "Alright I am going to do it." Seth decided as he stood up and opened his door walking down the hall. He was determined to talk to Damien, and make nice. He could handle friends with the guy. That would be good enough for him. Or at least that was what he though until he opened the door to his brother's room and spotted Cameron and Damien on the bed. They were both shirtless and Damien was on top of Cam and they were making out like they were determined to suffocate with their lips mashed together. "I can't get a break!" He hissed to himself as he slammed the door shut causing bother Damien and Cam to snap out of it. "Seth!" The pair thought at once. Damien jumped up and grabbed his shirt hurrying to get out feeling so embarrassed. Cam was hurrying for another reason. He was supposed to be dating Sammy not making out and almost screwing another guy in his bed. Cameron could not believe he hadn't locked the door. He darted out not even worried about his shirt as he chased down his brother. He stopped at the end of the hall banging on the locked door to his room. "Seth! Open the door Seth!" Cameron ordered not noticing Damien hurry by and leave until the front door had opened and shut. Cameron stood there patiently waiting until the door opened and Seth stood there almost in tears. "Bro what's wrong? It was just me and Damien why are you crying?" "I'm frustrated that's why. Can me and you talk?" "Yeah Seth sure what's wrong?" Cameron asked as he walked in and gave his brother a hug. "It's about Damien." He pushed the door behind Cameron closed and the lock could be heard clicking home as the two got ready for a nice long chat.