"Hey coach, how's it hanging?" Shannon smiled as he walked in the gym not wearing his gym shirt and a pair of black shorts.

"Moore, why aren't you dressed?" my uncle asked as I came up from behind and put my hands on Shannon's hips.

"Hey uncle Bruce, what's up?" I asked smiling and putting my chin on Shannon's shoulder.

"Why are neither of you dressed properly?" he looked at us.

"Well, I'm taking your niece this afternoon," Shannon and I laughed "Take her home with me."

"I don't think that's such a good idea, Mel, how long have you known him?" my uncle asked.

"Only a few hours, is that bad?" I questioned helping Shannon put his shirt on.

"Melanie, I'm not your father, so I'm just going to let you do what you want, so go ahead and go home with him. But you better be at school tomorrow."

"Yeah, yeah, so can we just go now, and you give us good participation grades?" I laughed.

"Give me three reasons why." My uncle said as we went into his and the other coach's office.

"We'll do something naughty when the principal comes, and yes I know she's visiting this block, you told me last night at dinner." I stood over Shannon as he sat at the table the coaches do.

"Yeah, naughty." Shannon buried his face in my stomach and I giggled like an idiot. Coach Dallor looked at us with hatred in his eyes.

"Oh don't look at us like that, we won't if we're allowed to leave." I stuck my tongue out at Coach Dallor. It was obvious, my uncle was annoyed.

"Go, now, get out of my office, here's a pass." Uncle Bruce wrote a pass that said I was sick and Shannon was escorting me home. we had to stop at my locker to put my school books away. Shannon slipped a note in Jeff's locker.

"What did that note say?" I asked. He smiled at me and said "It says we're going to my house and I put the time we're leaving on it."

"So how far away do you live?" I asked as we left the building. We were about to round the corner when he stopped me.

"Are you sure you're ok, I mean you threw up all over the bathroom walls," The principal walked around the corner and I leaned up against the brick wall holding my stomach.

"Young lady are you alright?" I looked up at her with a blank stare.

"Hello Dr. Grant, she's not feeling well, Coach Bruce is having me take her home, since he likes me, here's our paper." Shannon handed her the light blue slip of paper.

"Shannon don't lie, you know coach Bruce hates you, he sends you to my office at least twice a week. Well what do you know, this is actually his signature. Take her home now, it's ok."

"Thank you Ma'am." I slowly stood up and stumbled away. As soon as the principal was gone we bolted, we ran as fast as we could, and didn't stop until we passed McDonald's.

"Let's get food, I'm hungry." Shannon panted. We decided to go in and sit for a little while. After twenty minutes we decided to leave.

"Well let's walk the rest of the way, I've still got a lot of drink left." I said as he held the door open for me. We only had a little way left to go. Shannon asked for some of my drink, I gladly gave him some.

"Thanks baby." he said putting his hand on the small of my back. I giggled like an idiot. Just then an old couple walked by. She was glowing like a new bride.

"Excuse me, you two look very happy, how long have you two been together?" The old man smiled at us and his wife said that they'd been together for sixty years. I almost started crying.

"Young lady what's wrong?" the old man asked.

"I want that someday, sixty years of marriage, that's the most amazing thing I've ever heard." I said taking Shannon's hand. The old woman pulled me aside.

"Do you know what our secret is?" she asked, I shook my head no. she leaned closer to me and whispered, "Fake it, as you get older, it gets older too, so you fake it, it makes him feel better, and you get more time to do what you want to do." my jaw dropped, I couldn't believe what she had just told me.

"Well we've got to get going, it was nice meeting you." Shanon pulled me down the street and told me what the old man said to him. The old man told him to cheat, and I told him what the old woman told me. we laughed the rest of the way to his house. He unlocked the door and we rushed up stairs.

"sweet room." I said as I flopped down on his bed. Shannon laid down next to me and put his hand on my back.

"Thank you babe." he went to kiss me, but I blocked him.

"No, I don't know you that well. I am hungry though." I crawled over him to see what he had to eat downstairs. Before I made it to the bedroom door, it flew open and Matt, Jeff's older brother tackled me.

"Sorry cutie, didn't mean to knock you down." he helped me up and brushed me off.

"Matt, what's up? How'd you know we were here?" Shannon stood up and came over to us.

"Jeff, he called from that nasty payphone in the cafeteria, and said you two went to your house." Matt began walking down the stairs followed closely by me and Shannon.

"So Mel, how have you been? I haven't seen you in forever." Matt asked helping himself to a bologna sandwich.

"Better than some worse than others." She snatched the sandwich from him and took a huge bite out of it.

"Nice Bret Hart shirt by the way, Shawn Michaels is better though."