Hardy Detective Agency featuring Hardy Boys Fan Fiction

Ding dong. Knock, knock knock. The loud sounds emanating from the front of her house woke Callie from her reverie. I must have fallen asleep, she thought. Looking at the clock, Callie realized that it was after 7:00. Could it be that in a few days she would never see this home again, or her family? Or friends? Or Frank? Frank. Callie groaned. She hated pretending to cheat on him, and she hated, above anything, not to be able to ask him for help, to throw herself into his arms and bury her face in his chest and just have him hold her. But.. she couldn't do that. And if it meant saving her friend and saving Frank's life, then there simply wasn't a price high enough for her to pay.

Ding dong. Groggily, Callie got up and looked through her door. Oh, God. Frank. She had created this argument, and it broke her heart to hurt him. Tomorrow was supposed to be the hardest day of all. Jeff had insisted that she break up with Frank that day. She wasn't ready. But.. she didn't have a choice. And it looked to Callie like this moment was going to be forced tonight, here and now. Trembling, Callie swallowed and mentally prepared her speech. When she opened the door, though, all words escaped her and she was hanging onto every moment.

"C... come in" she managed. Callie tried to avert Frank's eyes, but she did glimpse the look of pain on his face when he entered. "We need to talk, Cal, now" he said steadily. Head down, Callie led Frank into the living room and told him to have a seat. She couldn't speak.

Finally, Frank said, in a voice that was far more gentle than what Callie had expected to hear, "Callie. Baby, I'm WORRIED about you. You're not talking to me. I mean..." Frank faltered. "Callie, we've been together for a long time, and in that time, we've shared a lot of things. You mean everything to me, you know that. There's nothing I won't do for you. I LOVE you, Callie. What's wrong? Why won't you tell me?"

Callie couldn't help herself. She burst into tears. But, as Frank reached out for her, Callie did the hardest thing she ever had to do in her life- she turned away. It's now or never, she thought. "Frank.." she choked out, trying to control her tears. "I...I... I mean, I know we've been together for a long time, and you did mean everything to me, too, and.."

"DID?" Frank asked, shocked. He couldn't believe it. Everything Chet and others had been saying was true. Could it be over? His face devoid of color, Frank managed to blurt out, "Are you cheating? Are you and ... Jeff" (the word made him choke) "together? God, Callie, tell me I'm wrong here. We promised to never cheat!! How could you?!!!!" Frank was caught somewhere between rage, heartbreak, and hope.

Callie almost collapsed. She felt her world explode and he voice seem to separate from the rest of her body as she said the lines that she had been forced to say. "Frank." Her voice seemed cool and distant to Frank, and unearthly to Callie, herself. "Yes, it's true. Jeff is my new boyfriend. As a matter of fact, I'm planning on leaving on vacation with him next week and missing school as a way of getting to know one another. " She winced deep down at the worst part of this required horror. "And" she continued, "Since everyone who gets involved with you or Joe gets hurt somehow- like IOLA- I had to get out before you were responsible for getting me killed. You've hurt me so many times before, Frank, like Joe did to Iola. That's it. Goodbye."

Frank had never been so utterly shocked and horrified at the same time. Callie- how could she say that about Joe? Did she honestly think he ever tried to hurt her? She had cheated on him! He wanted to shout, hit something. He wanted to at once shake her silly and hold her one more time to pretend this never happened. He wanted to do something, anything other than what he did. Frank simply got up, went to the door and left.

Callie, incredibly drained, fell to the floor and sobbed. I hope you understand one day, Frank, she thought.

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The Hardy Boys belong to Simon and Schuster and the Stratemeyer Foundation. The Hardy Boys Fan Fiction authors of the Hardy Detective Agency have just borrowed them for an adventure or two. The authors promise to put the boys back when they are done with them. The authors do claim copyright to the original characters in this story. Please do not borrow original characters without express permission of the authors.

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