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Now that all that stuff is out of the way, on with the story.
Hackers' Revenge By: Lasertech Chapter 4
After one of the most restful nights of my entire life, I began to stir from my slumber. As I opened my eyes, I remembered once again where I was, the hospital. I turned my head and was greeted by the sight of my new boyfriend with his head resting gently against my bed. He had slept in the chair beside my bed overnight. He looks so peaceful as he sleeps, even the little drool puddle that formed on the edge of my mattress is just adorable (giggle). I hate to wake him but he is impeding my access to the bathroom that I so urgently need to use right now. Carefully, I reached over and gently shook Ryan's shoulder to wake him up. Slowly but surely, he began to regain consciousness.
"Good morning, babe," I said, giving him my best smile to go along with it.
"Mmm... it's good to see you too, love," he sighed as he returned the smile.
I leaned over and kissed him. "You know, there's only one thing in this world that I need more than you right now, Ryan. Any guesses as to what that is?" The puzzled look on his face was all the answer I needed. "For you to move so I can go use the bathroom before I explode," I managed to get out before bursting into laughter. It took him a second, but he started laughing along with me and got up out of the chair to allow me access to the porcelain throne. Once I had finished my business I came out to the room to find my love doing some kind of happy dance (must be glad to see me).
"It's about time you got out! Now I got to go, bad!" Ryan exclaimed as he maneuvered around me almost jumping into the bathroom. I guess it wasn't a happy dance after all.
By the time Ryan emerged from the bathroom (looking very much relieved, by the way), an orderly had delivered breakfast. He brought two in knowing that Ryan had spent the night. "Come eat, Ryan. I know you're as starved as I am." He happily took his place next to me as we proceeded to devour our food. We had just finished eating when my mom knocked on the door and came in.
"Good morning sleepy heads," she said smiling at us. "It looks like you two just woke up."
"Yeah, we slept in a little," I groggily answered.
"I brought you two your stuff. Your mom came by last night, Ryan. She said to be good and brought a bag of clothes and stuff for you. She also said she would call school for you so you don't get a truancy on your record," she said looking at my boyfriend.
"Thanks, uh, Mom," Ryan said, still struggling with calling her Mom.
"No problem. Did you guys sleep well?" she asked.
"Oh yeah!" I exclaimed, remembering how rested I was after the wonderful nights sleep.
"Okay," replied Ryan with a groan. "I slept in the chair and my back is killing me."
"I'm sorry babe, you should have slept on that other bed over there," I sympathized with him.
"Yeah, but I wanted to be near you last night," he said finishing with that trademark smile.
"You two are just too much," she sniffled, a tear forming in her eye.
After a few minutes of conversation, the doctor entered the room. He asked how I was doing. "Fantastic!" I exclaimed to the surprise of the doctor.
"That's not quite the response I expected from someone who tried to commit suicide yesterday, but I'm glad to hear you're doing so well. Let's just check you out." He did all the usual stuff, and asked a bunch of questions and before I knew it, he knew about me being gay and that was part of the reason I tried to commit suicide and that Ryan was my boyfriend and all that. I left out the rape and Ryan didn't contradict me. The Doctor smiled and told me not to worry, there was Doctor Patient Confidentiality and it looked like everything was settled just fine. He left, but just seconds later the nurse came in and was taking a blood sample. "We're going to do another toxicity test to make sure everything is getting out of your system," she told me. When she inserted the needle, I automatically winced in pain. Ryan instinctively grabbed my hand to comfort me for a couple seconds before he realized what he'd done and released it. I know the nurse noticed, but didn't say anything as she finished up and left the room.
"Whoops," Ryan said with almost a giggle.
"You have to be careful, babe," I responded with a bit of a smirk.
"You certainly do," my Mom added. "There are a lot of people out there who aren't going to be very understanding of you two being a couple. Just be careful, I love both of you and I don't want to see either of you get hurt again. It would kill me to see you in pain because of some hateful person."
The hours passed and in the early afternoon my Mom asked if it would be okay for her to return to the office so she could have a teleconference with some people down in LA. I told her "Of course, I have Ryan here to take care of me," as I stared at him with a smile.
"Alright, I guess I'll make my exit then."
Once she left, my love approached the bed and passionately kissed me as if I had just returned from a three month trip. "Whoa, what was that for?"
"I haven't been able to give you a proper kiss all day, my love. Your mom walked in during breakfast and has been here since. I didn't think she wanted to watch us frenching each other," he answered with a wink.
"Maybe we should do that again now that I'm expecting it," I said while raising my eyebrows. He didn't need a second invitation and we wrapped our arms around each other and kissed just as passionately as yesterday. It progressed even further and soon Ryan was lying on top of me, our bodies entwined and grinding against each other. We were completely lost in the kiss, the whole world seemed to go away for a while. That's probably why we didn't hear the door open.
"Whoa!" was heard by the two of us. Ryan blocked my view but he flipped his head back to see who it was. "Oh shit!" and Ryan scrambled off of me like his pants were on fire. He panicked and ended up falling off the bed, hitting the floor with a "THUD," followed by a groan. I was petrified by the sudden action and by the figures standing by the door. It was Sarah, Paul and Dennis, from the computer club.
Ryan had finally gotten up off the ground and was able to regain his composure before I could. "What are you guys doing here?" the panic clearly visible on his face.
"Well, we came to see Alex to make sure he's okay. We didn't mean to walk in on you guys. I mean, we knocked, but no one said anything so we thought Alex must be sleeping or something. We just wanted to say hi," Dennis said looking at the ground, kinda shuffling his feet while he talked. I think he was blushing as much as Ryan and I were.
Sarah on the other hand, was grinning from ear to ear, staring at us with a knowing look. "It's about time you two got together," she said to us joyously. "I could see the way you two looked at each other all the time, you were both just too shy to do anything about it. I was trying to figure out a way to be matchmaker for you guys, but I guess that's not necessary anymore."
"Umm, thanks, I guess," I mumbled. "Listen guys, you can't say anything, okay? I mean, this would be the last nail in the coffin for us."
"Don't worry, Alex. None of us are going to say anything. We're your friends and will always protect you guys. I'm glad you could find someone to love, too," Paul piped in.
Both Ryan and I were relieved to hear those words, I could finally breathe again. "How did you guys find us? We didn't tell the school I was in the hospital."
"Well, today we were supposed to have our club meeting at lunch in Mr. Lyter's room, but neither of you showed up. After school, we realized that none of us had seen you in any of our classes. We called your mom, Ryan, and she told us you were in the hospital looking after Alex. She wouldn't say why you were in the hospital though, so what's up, Alex. You seem healthy enough for certain PHYSICAL activities," Sarah said before giggling slightly.
She didn't realize at first, but I had started to cry during that last part. It was soon replaced by a light sob as I covered my face with my hands in a futile attempt to hide my reaction. Ryan pulled me into a hug, holding me tight. He whispered, "I'll tell them." I could only nod as my crying had quieted, but didn't stop entirely as the horrible events of yesterday after school were flashing through my head again. Ryan stood up and motioned everyone to leave the room and he followed. Before he closed the door, he turned to me and said "I'll be right back, love."
Outside the room, the other three had gathered around Ryan with looks of concern clearly visible on their faces, but afraid to ask because they didn't want to say the wrong thing again. "Look guys," Ryan started, "Alex had something really bad happen yesterday, he tried to kill himself." He could have knocked any of them over with a feather.
"What! Why the hell would he do that?" questioned Paul. The others still in a stupor from Ryan's statement.
"Well, it's really personal, but I think I can trust you," Ryan said. "You have to promise to not tell anyone else, especially the police." The others nodded their head in agreement. "Ricky and his guys threatened to kill him and... and... raped him!" He had to take a moment to calm himself before he recounted the whole tale to the others. By the end all four of them were crying, but were also completely pissed off that someone would do that to another human being, especially their friend.
"Well, even if Alex didn't want to tell the cops, we should because there has to be some DNA evidence," said Jesse.
Ryan just shook his head no. "They used condoms when they violated him, and any DNA in his stomach was either thrown up or pumped out in the hospital. They didn't know to keep it for evidence. Then anything left afterward would have been washed off when they tossed him in the shower. God Damn pricks."
"We have to do something!" Dennis said out of the blue, holding back his tears momentarily.
"We can't do anything, it's kind of a 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' situation," said Ryan.
"Look, if we could get those pictures, they wouldn't have any blackmail material. That would solve one of the problems," Paul stated in a flash of brilliance.
They all agreed on that, but were at a loss as to how to accomplish it. Finally, after a few minutes of quiet contemplation, Ryan piped in; "I've got it! We need to do two things. One is we need to somehow get the camera from Zack, so we can erase the memory card. Second, in case he has already uploaded the pictures to his computer, we need to route all his web traffic through a filter, so nothing gets out."
The next few minutes were spent formulating the plan. It was decided that Paul and his friend, Jonathan were going to sneak into Zack's house and steal his camera, at the same time installing a malware program provided by Dennis and Sarah onto his system. The program would be a key logger to know everything he typed, as well as route all his web traffic and e-mails through a proxy server that Ryan would set up on one of his computers. They would also hack into the other four of Zack's gang friends and install the same software to track what they're doing. Nothing sent by the Marquez Morons would get out until it was viewed by Ryan and his friends. They also agreed to not tell Alex because they didn't want him to worry.
Once they had agreed on the plan, they returned to see how I was doing. I knew that Ryan would tell them, I just hoped they didn't hate me for what happened or think I'm some horrible person for trying to kill myself. I shouldn't have worried though, just like Ryan, I only saw sympathy and love in their faces as they came towards me. They each hugged me and told me how sorry they were and they hoped I could get out of here soon.
As if on cue, the doctor returned to the room to tell me the lab reports look good and I would be able to leave this evening. He explained that in cases of attempted suicide they usually required a Psych. Evaluation and a course of therapy, but since I seemed to be doing so well and had resolved the issue, he had signed off on that but to let him know if I had any relapse into depression. He made Ryan agree too. That made me feel a whole lot better, I didn't want to spend any more time in the hospital for a very long time. I changed into my clothes that my mom brought this morning and waited for her to arrive to drive us home. After she arrived, we gathered everything together and made our way out of the hospital, but not without signing about what seemed like a whole ream's worth of forms.
Once home, Ryan made the announcement that he had to get home and finish up some stuff. I didn't want him to go, but he said he needed to and could probably make it back here in about an hour. That lifted my spirits a little. After I walked him out, I made my way back to my room, dreading the sight that would be waiting for me. Surprisingly though, everything was cleaned up already. Mom must have done it last night. The carpet had been cleaned, the bottles of pills and the gin were missing, even my bed was made for me. When I glanced over at my computer, I got out of the screen-saver, and instead of my suicide note, there was simply one sentence- "I love you." I immediately turned to go find my mom and give her a big hug of thanks. She just smiled and said, "I wanted to make sure you didn't have anything to remember that unfortunate event left in there. You have a new life to live, and you get to do it with someone you truly love."
I didn't have the words to thank her I was so overwhelmed, I just squeezed her tight to me letting some tears of joy escape the sides of my eyes. We held each other for what seemed like hours, but it was only a minute or so. The mood was broken when my stomach decided to make its state of hunger known by growling so loud I thought a dog had gotten in there somehow.
"I guess that's your subtle hint that you're hungry?" she laughed. I blushed and snickered at the embarrassing moment. "You go rest and I'll have dinner ready in a while," she said as she released me and gave me a gentle nudge towards my room as she made her way over to the refrigerator to get dinner started.
I lay on my bed for a while thinking of how lucky I was to have friends and a mom who accepted me for being gay, and on top of that, a boyfriend! The last couple days since that first kiss, I've never felt so alive or special. I want to spend all my time with Ryan, I never want to live a moment without him. I'm going to have to be careful though, out in public, a lot of people wouldn't approve of my love for another boy. Being discovered could mean some really bad things happening to me or Ryan, I don't know if I could handle it if something happened to him. Especially if we were discovered in school. Oh god, school. I still have to deal with THEM. They're going to want my ass or mouth a lot and I'm going to have to give it to them or else everyone will know I'm gay. I began to cry again at the thought of how the rest of high school is going to be so crappy. I was in such a state of despair that I began to feel ill to my stomach. I'm sure that if it wasn't so empty, I'd have thrown up. That's exactly how Ryan found me. He rushed over to my bed and sat on the edge as he took me in his arms and held me gently rocking back and forth. This had an immediate calming effect on me to where I was only somewhat distraught. Once I had achieved a mild amount of cohesiveness in my thoughts, I was able to relay my concerns to him.
"It's going to be okay, Alex. It's going to be okay," he said as he continued to rock me.
"No it won't! I don't want to be their sexual plaything! And I certainly can't come out to the school. They'd have a field day with that. I'd get beaten and picked on by everyone and their grandmother," I cried to him.
"What if those pictures never existed?" he asked calmly.
"But they do!" I continued to cry.
"But what if they didn't? They'd have nothing on you, right?"
"Yeah, I guess," I resigned, not seeing how this is going to make me feel any better.
"Well, they don't anymore," he said to me very matter of factly.
"What?" I said, looking at him in the face for the first time.
"We took care of them."
"We???"
"Yeah, Sarah, Dennis, Paul, Jonathan and I. Oh, and a little extra help from Dimitri," the last sentence being finished with a chuckle. "Paul and Jonathan broke in and got Zack's camera, Sarah and Dennis wrote some malware for me, I set up a proxy server at my house to catch any outgoing e-mails from them."
"What about Dimitri? What did he do?"
"He used his Photoshop magic and...," he had to take a pause to laugh. "And he put Ricky's guys in some very compromising positions with various farm animals," followed by more laughs, some from me as well. "Anyway, they were sent using an anonymous e-mail account to everyone in school, even the teachers." This had us both rolling with laughter. "You'd be amazed how happy that sheep looked with Ricky behind it!" followed by even more laughter.
After I was able to calm down from the laughing session I turned to my boyfriend and said; "Thank you, I love you so much, how could I ever repay you?" and before he could answer I took him in my arms and planted another kiss on him. He returned it with pleasure and we just enjoyed the feeling of being with each other.
"Dinner!" we heard mom shout from the kitchen.
We both made our way from my room down the hall to the kitchen to meet Mom. "I thought it best to call you from here, I didn't want to interrupt you two doing anything," she said with a wink.
"Moooom!" we both yelled. This was quickly followed by the two of us looking at each other and then all three of us broke into laughter.
Dinner was great as usual and went off without a hitch, except the incessant giggles that kept escaping my mouth whenever Ryan decided to play footsy with me from across the table. It was great to be able to spend time with both my mom and boyfriend without fear of persecution. I felt so free.
After dinner, Ryan and I cleaned up the table and put the dishes into the dishwasher before retiring to my room. Once the door was closed, Ryan made his way over to me. He started "You know, it's too bad neither of us had the courage to tell each other we loved each other sooner. I've been in so much agony looking at your body but not being able to touch. I used to hate myself for wanting you and tried to do everything to lose my love for you. Nothing worked, though, my love just kept growing and growing and I was getting desperate as to how to hide it from you"
"Yeah, same for me. I guess it was pretty stupid to have hidden it like that, but I didn't want to lose you as friend if you found out. You already know how far I was willing to go to protect my feelings from you," I said with head leaning against his shoulder.
Ryan pulled me up so he could stare into my eyes while telling me, "Well that will never happen again, because we're going to be together forever." At that point, we kissed one last time and lay on the bed just holding each other. We fell asleep like that and didn't wake up until morning.
We were still snuggled against each other when the sun broke through the window, causing me to stir. I looked over at the clock and it was four minutes until my alarm would go off. I reached over and turned off the alarm and turned back to enjoy the view of my boyfriend sleeping before me. I shook him gently to wake him, and was soon rewarded by his gorgeous smile.
"We need to get up and get you back to your house to get you changed," I told him.
"Don't worry, I brought my stuff with me last night, in case of just such an emergency," he said with a wink.
"Hmm, you think of everything don't you?"
"I try," followed by another grin.
"Alright, alright, let's get ready then," I said. We then got out of bed a quickly got dressed before mom came in and saw us together. We had some cereal and juice while watching a little TV. Then it was out to the car to get to school. We drove together to have as much time as possible with each other. It was forming into a wonderful day.
Author's Notes:
I'm glad that Alex has some more friends who are accepting of him and Ryan. I think they will be a great asset when it comes to exacting revenge on the Morons. With any luck the Morons will find out they messed with the wrong kid this time. I really appreciate any comments on my story and look forward to hearing from you. You can contact me at lasertech@live.com. Also, I have more chapters posted at www.storylover.us. Click on the 'Hosted Authors,' then scroll down to Lasertech to find my story. Thanks, have fun.
Lasertech
Editor's Notes:
Okay, the animal pictures surprised me. Beautiful touch, and even the teachers, Hehehe. Do you think Ricky will act a bit 'sheepish' at school? I bet he's bullish and that should inspire the next set of pictures, just need one with a BIG smile on Ricky's face.
Now they need something to neutralize their protection in the front office. Maybe a new no nonsense, zero tolerance, gay, principal. Or maybe not. Lasertech has his own diabolical plan, I'm only editing.
Str8mayb
Associate Editor's Notes:
This story just keeps on getting better with every chapter Lasertech you are keeping me interested. I am very curious as to what is going to happen at school if the Marquez Morons ever figure out who wrecked their plans.
I am concerned about this story as it seems that Lasertech may be in cahoots with The Evil Author and Master of Misdirection and If that is true then this story can get very interesting. Okay Str8mayb where is my next chapter.
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