Secret Desires

[Roccoluver]

"What's going on here?" she demanded.

"I was hot, Brad was helping me take my top off" Milly lied.

"And the kissing?"

"You call that kissing, he fall on me when he was helping me"

"Fell" Brad corrected.

Rachel stared at them for a minute before looking at her chart, tapping it with her pen she looked over to Milly.

"Well Milly, you free to go, but no strenuous activity for the next week or so, that includes sex" she said pointedly, looking over to Brad. She shook her head and walked out of the hospital room before collapsing in the staff room, what was she to do?.

Rocco walked down the halls of Summer Bay high, he felt a light tap on his shoulder.

"Hey Roc"

"Hey Cassie"

"Hows Milly, I hope she's okay"

"Yeah she is"

"It's terrible what happened"

"Yeah"

Cassie smiled at him and nodded.

"Well I have to get to class"

"Cya Cas'

"Bye Roc"

Sally bumped into Brad causing both of them to drop their books and papers.

"Oh for fuc..udge sake" Brad swore bending down to grabbed the books.

"What's wrong?" Sally asked grabbing her pieces of paper.

"Rachel caught me and Milly at the hospital, this happens and you and me might of done you know what last night" Brad shouted silently.

Sally sighed "Rocco and Milly must never find out about that"

Brad glared at her "Oh yeah, because I was like, totally going to tell her"

Sally snatched up her books and stomped off down the hall to class, Brad sighed and walked off to the office. Rocco swallowed as he walked from his vantage point into the space just vacated by Brad and Sally.

[Sally_Fletcher]

thanks for all the comments, here is an update:

"Martha… can I ask you a favour?"

"Sure, Sal, anything."

"Could you… keep Cassie and Ric away from the house tonight?"

Martha smiles.

"Okay, what are you planning?"

Sally blushes.

"Oh… just… Rocco and I haven't had a lot of time alone lately and…"

"Say no more. I'll make a plan."

"Thanks… Would you mind keeping an eye on Pippa? I could ask Leah if you can't…"

"Don't worry about it, I'll take Pippa with me."

"Thank you so much…"

"Anytime…"

"Welcome home."

"Thanks…"

Milly walks into Brad's apartment slowly and he puts her bag down on the couch.

"I wish we could celebrate properly…"

She laughs.

"Well why can't we?"

"Millz! You know you should be… taking it easy."

"So let's get a DVD and some popcorn… Then we can spend the whole night talking about how much you missed me."

"Yeah… eh… that sounds… great."

She bursts out laughing and hits his arm.

"You're a terrible liar, do you know that?"

"Yes! Well, if that's what you want… let's go get that DVD…"

She pushes him onto the couch.

"Change of plans…"

She falls downs on top of him, kissing him tenderly.

Brad puts his arms around her, pulling her close.

"I love you so much, Milly."

"I love you too."

"Hey… why are you so late?"

Sally stands up when Rocco finally enters the house. He walks past her and she grabs his arm.

"Rocco?"

He looks at her in furiously.

"Why are you dressed like that?"

Sally puts her arms around him, smiling seductively.

"I asked Martha to get rid of Cassie and Ric… so we have the house to ourselves."

Rocco's face breaks into a smile and he pulls her closer.

"Well why didn't you say so?"

"Are you sure…"

Milly laughs, slowly undoing Brad's jeans.

"I'll be fine! Rachel just said that to let you know she's onto us."

"Yeah… what are we going to do about that?"

"She's your sister, Brad. It's not like she's going to dob you in. And if she does… I'll still come and visit you in prison."

"Very funny!"

He pins her body down under his and kisses her fervently.

Rocco rolls to his side, and Sally wipes some sweat away from her forehead.

She looks at him, astonished, when he lights a cigarette.

"You're smoking?"

"I need one."

She tries to cuddle up to him but he pushes her away.

"Rocco, what's going on?"

"What do you mean?"

"You're acting strange."

"So tell me, Sally. How do I compare to Brad?"

She gasps and he looks at her.

"Oh, don't play dumb. I know the two of you…"

"Where did you hear that?"

"You should talk softer if you want to keep secrets from me."

She grabs his hand.

"Rocco, we were drunk, we didn't know what we were doing. You have to believe me, I would never have done that if I was sober. I love you…"

"Right. Whatever."

"I do! Rocco, please."

He blows some smoke out in her face and snickers.

"Save it, Sal. I don't even care."

She pulls the covers tighter around herself.

"But… we just… you just… why did you…?"

"Why did I come to bed with you right now? Oh, Sal! If it's going to be offered to you on a plate, you're going to take it."

He stands up, getting dressed.

"Talking about offering… Cassie seems rather keen on me… I'll see you around."

He leaves and Sally falls back down on the bed, her heart breaking…

[Roccoluver]

Did someone say more soon? Thanks for your comments, we do loved them so much and keeeps us writing

Rocco kicked a clump of dirt with his foot outside the surf club. He lit a cigarette and breathed in the dirty fumes.

“Are you trying to kill yourself, you idiot”

He spun around to see Milly staring at him, she reached over and grabbed his cigarette and stomped it out.

“Hey”

“Shut up, now what’s so important you had to see me right away”

“Sally and Brad had sex”

Milly rolled her eyes. “You and I had sex”

“That was ages ago”

“I wonder if you’ve gotten any better..”

“Hey” Rocco shouted.

“Oops, did I say that out loud”

“Why aren’t you mad”

“It wasn’t your fault you weren’t…”

“Not that, Brad and Sally”

“Oh, Brad told me already, They were drunk and they may not of done anything. Seriously calm down”

Rocco stared at the ground, fist clenched. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out another cigarette.

“Give them here, pull yourself together”

“She wasn’t going to tell me, she was going to act like it didn’t happen. I can’t go back to her, I won’t”

Rocco shook his head and punched the wall of the surf club before sulking off down the path. Milly sighed and rubbed her forehead.

“Men really are more girl than girls”

Cassie sat down at a table in the diner, she felt a little sad and jealous, Ric had Matilda and Lucas had Belle. She drank her orange juice slowly as Rocco walked in, he smiled at her and sat at her table.

“Hey Cas”

“Hey Roc”

“Wazz up”

She smiled “Nothing much, I’m really bored”

“Where Ric and co”

“He took Matilda on a picnic and Lucas and Belle are do some photo class”

“Kay, Wanna catch a movie”

“I would but I have no money”

“That’s okay, my shout”

Cassie grinned “Thanks Roc”

“Who are we waiting for” Sam asked, yawning.

Johnny hopped back in the car and checked his cellphone.

“Some one who will be of great help to us”

Sam leaned against the car “If they get here”

“If who gets here?” a male voice replied from the shadows.

Johnny smiled and held out his hand.

“Thanks mate, glad you could make it”

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world, so you say you get me in with Sally”

“Yeah, of course man”

Johnny, Sam and the guy hopped into the car. Sam looked in the rear view mirror. “So who are you?”

“Just call me Diesel”

[Sally_Fletcher]

Thanks for all the feedback!

Rocco looks at Cassie with a smile.

"That was so much fun! I like hanging out with you."

"Thanks, Rocco. I like… oh no…"

Cassie freezes when she sees the familiar guy who is standing next to the tree.

"Cassie? What's wrong?"

"It… it's Diesel…"

"Diesel? You mean…"

"He was obsessed with Sally… he…"

"Yeah, I know… Sally told me…We should go to the police…"

"We have to get to Sally first, Rocco! We have to warn her!"

"Cassie just…"

"Come on!"

They start running to the house. Diesel smiles and picks up the phone.

"Johnny. Diesel. They saw me."

He puts the phone back in his pocket, grinning.

Brad looks at Sally silently and Milly sits down next to her.

"Sal, I know Roc… he'll get over it. I know he really loves you… he's just hurt. And that's what Rocco does… when he's hurt, he hurts back. That's the way he deals with it."

Brad sits down and puts his arms around Milly's shoulders.

"Yeah, but that's not right."

"But that's the only way he knows."

Brad kisses Milly on her cheek.

"You are too understanding."

Sally checks her watch.

"I need to get home… I'll see you two later."

She walks out, looking down.

Milly sighs sadly.

"I want to kill Rocco right now."

"Yeah, I know."

Brad pulls Milly closer and they look on helplessly as she walks on.

Sally looks up when she bumps into a hard body.

"Oh sorry… Diesel!"

Diesel smiles.

"Surprise!"

Acting impulsively, she throws her arms around his neck, hugging him.

Diesel closes his eyes as he puts his arms around her waist.

"I'm so glad you're okay!"

"Really?"

"Of course! You're invited to dinner! Tonight."

Diesel frowns.

"But the last time I saw you… you said we could never…"

"Diesel… I was married and you were still a student… I had to deny what I felt for you!"

"So you pretended?"

"Of course!"

She softly kisses him on the lips.

"So dinner?"

Diesel grins.

"I can't wait."

[Roccoluver]

here the long awaited update.

“That was fun” Cassie said grinning as she and Rocco walked out of the movie theater, Rocco smiled a fake smiled back.

“Yeah it was”

She frowns at his less than enthusiastic response and narrowed her eyes to carefully gaze at Rocco.

“Are you alright, you seem kinda.. I don’t know..”

“I’m fine, I’m just a tad tried from that movie”

“Kay, I’m just going to go borrow the ladies room”

“Kay, have fun”

She hides her frown while dashing off towards the loo. A dark figure emerged from the shadows behind Rocco.

“Enjoying yourself?”

“Huh?” Rocco turned to see Ric grinning at him.

“Yeah, I am. I thought you were with Matilda”

“I am, she just sent me out to get some more popcorn”

“Oh”

“Yeah, so you’re here with anyone?”

Cassie arrives back from the toilet.

“Hey Ric”

“Cas, wait. You and Roc?”

“Yeah” She smiles at Rocco who returns a not entirely fake one.

Sally smiles sadly as she held a photo of her and Rocco, wiping away a tear she roughly shoved it into a draw. She looked down at her watch. 4.45, time to get dinner ready.

“So are we going to Sally’s for dinner”

Brad lift his head up.

“I was think a nice picnic on the beach”

Milly rolled her eyes and chucked a pillow at Brad.

“Oh yes, because that wouldn’t draw attention to us”

“We could say it was for school”

“Your just as bad as Sally and Rocco”

Brad laughs and chucks the pillow back at

Milly.

‘They couldn’t work their way out of a paper bag”.

Sally poked the piece of brad in front of her with a fork, her mind on a different planet. Diesel and school and her mixed up feelings, she didn’t notice the fire burning.

“Sally, am I to early” Diesel asked, standing nervously in the door way, Sally looked up at him.

“Huh, no no not at all”

Diesel sniffed the air and frowned.

‘What’s that smell”

Sally sniffed the air.

“Sal, your curtains are on fire”

Sally looked around at stared at the fire eating up the curtains, she stood in shock watching the bright yellow and orange flames dart up and down while Diesel grabbed the fire extinguisher from under the sink. Once it was out he turned to Sal.

‘Are you okay?”

She nodded weakly.

[Sally_Fletcher]

All is not as it seems -plays dramatic music-

Or is it??

Thanks for the feedback, guys - here is the next part:

Diesel hands Sally glass of brandy and sits down next to her.

"There you go."

"Thanks, Diesel."

He puts his arm around her shoulders.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm still a little… shaky. But I'm fine."

She shakes her head, her hands trembling.

"How could I be so stupid? We could have died…"

"But we didn't. Everything is fine."

"Yeah, thanks to you. I don't know how to thank you enough…"

Diesel smiles, wiping a stray hair out of her face.

"Sally, forget it, okay?"

She puts the glass down and pulls him closer.

"Are you sure you don't want me to thank you?"

Diesel grins, pushing her down on the couch.

"That would depend on how you wanted to thank me…"

Sally laughs, pulling him closer by his shirt.

"I'm sure you can guess."

"What the hell is going on here?"

Brad and Milly freeze at the front door, staring at Sally and Diesel in shock.

Brad rushes in, pulling them away from each other.

"Sally?"

Sally rolls her eyes, moving closer to Diesel.

"Oh, don't be such a bore, Brad! We were just having some fun."

"Get up!"

He jerks Sally up and pulls his head away.

"How much did you drink?"

"Just a bit!"

Brad rolls his eyes and turns his gaze to Diesel.

"And who are you to take advantage of a drunk woman?"

Sally pulls away from Brad and falls down on the couch, on top of Diesel.

"I want him to take advantage of me!"

She kisses Diesel passionately and Brad and Milly share a look. Milly walks forward slowly, kneeling next to them.

"Okay, Sally, listen to me… let's go freshen up, isn't that a good idea?"

Sally pulls away from Diesel and looks at Brad and Milly.

"No. It's a sucky idea! I want to kiss Diesel again, it's fun!"

Sally and Diesel return to kissing and Brad pulls Milly to the side.

"She's wasted!"

"You're telling me? I can smell her from a mile, how much did she drink?"

"No idea. What are we going to do?"

"I don't know… We should… call someone…"

"Like who? Rocco?"

Milly shakes her head.

"No, he'll just want to get back at her and then they'll both end up hurting a lot of people."

She looks at Diesel with a smirk.

"She could have found someone better to get back at Rocco with though. That guy gives me the creeps."

"Yeah, well…"

Brad and Milly turn around when the front door opens and they are facing Ric, Cassie and Rocco.

"What on earth…"

Cassie stares at the couple on the couch and turns to Brad and Milly.

"Why are you just standing here? Do something!"

Milly frowns.

"You think we haven't tried?"

Cassie and Ric storm forward at once, each grabbing one of Diesel's arms and drags him out. Rocco walks up to Sally with a disgusted look on his face.

"You know, you really are a slag, Sally Fletcher."

He glares at her one last time before storming upstairs. Milly sits down next to Sally while Brad goes into the kitchen to make her some coffee. Sally looks at him with a grin when he returns.

"Oh hey Brad! When did you get here?"

Brad and Milly share another look before Sally falls backwards, falling asleep immediately.

[Roccoluver]

I meant to post this yesterday, but oh well here it is

Milly bits her lip and looks over at Brad.

"I should go talk to Rocco"

Brad places the coffee on the table next to couch and rubs his temple.

"Yeah you should"

She glances down at Sally sleeping body before grabbing the coffee off the table.

"I don't know if I can fix this one Brad"

Brad exhales loudly.

"Neither"

Diesel sulks into Johnny hideout, collapsing onto the couch with feet hanging over the edge.

"Your brother…" he started, looking around the room.

"Johnny!!!"

Muffled sounds float down the hall and a half clothed lady runs pass him and out the door before Johnny appears, hair ruffled and shirt half open with pants sagging.

"What are you doing back here?"

"Your brother ruined everything" he paused "Well him and half the town, but that's not the point"

Johnny rolled his eyes and glazed out the window.

'Which is?"

"She really likes me, I knew it all along"

Johnny cracks his knuckles.

"Sure she does"

Diesel lies on his back, closing his eyes and dreaming about Sally.

Till Johnny pushes him off the couch.

"Hey!"

"You can't stay here"

"Then where am I going to stay?"

"Not my problem, now shoo"

"Wow, big tough talk"

Johnny clenches his hands together and stretches, Diesel whimpers and runs off out of the house, Johnny frowns.

"But I haven't struck my frightening pose yet" He smirks and shuts the door.

Milly walks up the stairs and down the hall, she stops outside Rocco room and knocks.

"Rack off"

Rolling her eyes she opens the door and walks in, Rocco is lying on his bed. He glances up and glares at her.

"Don't you understand plain English".

'Don't you understand manner?"

"You're so funny"

She sits on the bed and smirks.

"I know"

He rolls over so his back faces her.

"Oh that's mature"

"Go Away"

"Grow up Roc, why don't you just get over yourself and get back together with Sally"

"She's a slag"

"So are you! Leading Cassie along like that"

"That's different"

"No"

"Go away"

"Fine!".

[Sally_Fletcher]

Thanks for the feedback, sorry for taking so long to update. Here you go.

"Anything?"

Milly shakes her head and sits down next to Brad, looking worried.

"I don't know what to do anymore, Brad… This is just so difficult…"

He pulls her close, kissing her tenderly. Milly puts her arms around his neck, pulling him down on her. She looks at him seriously when their mouths break apart.

"Do you think Sal and Rocco are going to be okay?"

Brad sighs.

"I don't know…"

"Diesel?"

"Sal!"

"What are you doing on the beach?"

Diesel shrugs.

"Just thinking. You?"

"Same."

She sits down next to him and he takes her hand. Sally leans her head against his shoulder, looking up at him sweetly.

"Sorry for everyone spoiling our fun."

"We could always continue right here…"

He falls back on the sand and pulls her close on top of him. Sally pulls away however, a strange light in her eyes.

"Maybe we should take this somewhere else."

"What's wrong with the beach?"

Sally just shakes her head.

"It's just a little weird for me…"

She leans closer to him, kissing him passionately.

"Come on… I know you want to stay somewhere where we could wake up in each other's arms…"

Diesel grins.

"What about one of the caravans?"

Sally nods.

"Yeah, let's go…"

"Rocco? Are you even listening to me?"

"Hmm? What was that?"

Cassie sighs.

"Are you here? I asked what you wanted to do."

Rocco suddenly takes her hand and grins.

"Let's go up to your room."

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah…"

"Okay…"

Sally lifts her head, kissing Diesel back with all the passion she has ever felt. He moans slightly, stroking over her hair.

"Sally…"

She kisses him to stop him from talking and he pushes her back.

"What's wrong?"

"Diesel, less talky more do-y okay?"

"Okay…"

Rocco takes a deep breath before falling back on the bed, his eyes closed. Cassie moves closer to him, softly kissing him in his neck.

"I love you."

He puts his arms around her waist, his eyes still closed.

"I love you too Sal."

"Sal?"

[Roccoluver]

As hard as it maybe to believe I have finally gotten around to writting something I think might be called a update...

Milly walked down the path leading from the Summer Bay carvan house to the road, the cold wind helping to clear her head. She slipped her hand in pocket and pulled out her battered mp-3 player.

She smiled at it, only god knew how it kept going. She search though the selection of songs till she hit coldplays "Fix you".

She wiped a loose tear from her left eye, the song always did that to her, she let a silent chuckle before her thoughts returned to Sally and Rocco. Maybe like so many couples they just weren't meant to be, maybe the age gap was to big, maybe… maybe there wasn't really a thing called love.

What did she have Brad, was it love? Or lust. Would they stick together or derail and crash in a horrible trainwreck of broken hearts. Her phone rang out in the quietness of the night, she reached into her pocket and pulled out the silver demon. It was Rocco. She

pushed the ignore button and slide it back into her pocket.

She had enough problems of her own without more of his, of Sally's, of Brads and Johnny and of the whole dammed town. She was sick of being the go to girl. She sat down on a bench and stare up the dark blue sky.

"He was obviously going to rape her"

Cassie shuffled in her seat, her eyes darting around the room.

"I don't…" she started cautiously "I just think, well he is a creep but I doubt…"

Ric threw his arms up in the air in frustration, pacing the room he ran his hand though his hair.

"You're not getting it" he declared "He got her drunk, the little bastard"

"Ric" Cassie pleaded, she knew from past experiences that Ric's anger was dangerous, Ric glared at her.

"When I get my hands on him"

Brad sat at his work desk, trying to accomplish something, anything but nothing can to mind. He was worried about Sally, sure Ric and Cassie where there to look after her, but he didn't trust the kid, what was his stupid name, Petrol? Whatever his name didn't matter, he didn't trust him.

But he was more worried about Milly who had stay to try and talk to Rocco. Right now he could strangle Rocco but that didn't matter, what did matter was Milly had left the Carvan park 1 hour ago and was still not back, her phone was off and it was after midnight.

He grabbed a beer and downed it. Just to top off a prefect week, he had to interview a new teacher, Naomi Preston.

[Sally_Fletcher]

Wow... so *gulp* here goes. I know that this fic has been dead for years, but for some reason I felt like visiting the site again after disappearing a few years back - it's such a lame excuse, but you know how it goes once you get busy with life and studies. So I honestly hope that the people who are still here and remember this will pick it up and that there are new readers who want to pick it up. I'm trying to contact Roccoluver to join me in finishing it, but until I do I will continue it... I honestly hope I hear from her soon! So after a horribly long authors note... Here's a very long overdue update.

"Hello love."

Milly stopped at the voice, turning around slowly.

"Oh come on, Johnny. Give it up, already."

The steely cold of the knife was cold against her neck suddenly. A stark contrast to his warm breath against her ear.

"I could rip your head off right now."

Milly leaned away from the knife, subtly pressing into his body. Johnny tensed, his one hand tightening around the knife while the other moved down to her familiar hipbone.

"It would be third time lucky, wouldn't it? But I can't help but think that if you already failed twice... it can only be because you don't really want to kill me."

She spun round so quickly, he barely had time to register it before she was facing him - the knife still a barrier between their bodies.

"Go on, Johnny. Kill me. Don't you think I've already accepted it would happen at some point? Don't you think I've planned for it?"

"Planned for it?"

She moved closer to the knife, fingering the tip lightly.

"If I die... letters will be delivered to selected detectives, cops...gang members. Sharing all of your ugly secrets. Everything I know, Johnny. The only thing I left out was Brandon's whereabouts. Not his existence, though."

Pure fury shone in his eyes as his hand gripped around her neck.

"You have no right..."

"I am his mother! I have every right in the world to protect him from you!"

"He doesn't need protection from me! He's family, he's my son! And you took him from me."

"I gave him the life he deserved. Which is not a teenaged mom and a dad in a gang, getting his kicks out of killing and robbing... Your gang would have destroyed him."

He looked at her silently for a while. This was not a side he had ever seen and he wasn't too sure he liked it much.

"He could have saved me, Milly."

"That wasn't his job."

Johnny turned, his eyes closed.

"Fine. Just go. Get out of my sight. Go have your fun with Braddy boy. But don't think this is over. Not for a second."

Her feet carried her away speedily, the need to look back at him not even registering once. Only once she was out of the darkness did she stop, leaning against a wall and taking her phone out with trembling hands. Her fingers dialed the familiar number with difficulty and her breath hitched in her throat when he answered.

"Brad... it's me. Could... could you come and get me please?"

He was in the midst of kissing her passionately, when a stream of cold water crashed over his head.

"Sally, what the..."

Diesel sat up on the beach with a gasp, running his hands over his face.

Sally had disappeared along with the caravan. Instead, he was lying on the beach, the waves crashing around him.

"Sal?"

He stood up slowly, looking around carefully.

"Where did you go? Sally! Stop hiding!"

Anger bubbled in his insides when she didn't answer. She had better stop playing with him soon. It was real. She was begging him to take her, it was real. Now she was hiding again. She'd better realize that he wasn't going to stand for it much longer.

"Milz! What happened!"

Brad rushed forward, scooping the trembling figure into his arms in one large movement, not caring who noticed. She buried her face in his shoulder, her breathing slowly relaxing.

"You're here."

"I thought you were talking to Rocco."

She nodded against his chest dreamily.

"M...'was. But he didn't want to talk and then Johnny..."

Brad stiffened, his arms tightening around her.

"I'll kill him. If he hurt you, I'll kill him."

Milly pulled away, her hands finding the path to cup his face.

"Brad. I'm okay. Don't worry. I'm okay."

He bent his head down, his lips meeting hers feverishly.

"I love you. I couldn't bear it if anything ever happened to you."

She sighed contentedly.

"Love you too. And I'm done sorting out Roc and Sal. They can do it themselves."

Brad grinned, resting his hand against her cheek.

"I agree. To each his own. I'm going to worry about just you right now."

Their lips met again, only to be interrupted by a shocked outcry.

"Oi! What the flamin' hell do you two think you're doin'?"

"Sal?"

Sally turned around at the sound of Rocco's voice, wiping a few stray tears from her face.

"What do you want?"

"To talk. Can we?"

She sat up in her bed slowly and Rocco moved closer, kneeling down on the bed next to her.

"I'm sorry. For everything I did and said. Sal, I'm so sorry..."

She sighed, resting the palm of her hand against his face.

"Rocco, we can't go on like this. We can't."

Tears formed in his eyes as he grabbed onto her hand.

"I said sorry, Sal... what more do you need from me?"

"Trust, Rocco. You need to trust me. You can't get jealous everytime I talk to another guy, you can't say things like... You need to trust me."

"I do. Sally, I trust you, I just... the fact that we can't be together openly kills me!"

"You think I like it? You think Brad and Milly like hiding their relationship? Yet we deal with it. But you... everytime something hurts you, you lash out at me. I can't have that."

He dropped his head, resting it against his.

"I'm sorry. I'll do better, I promise."

She entangled her fingers with his, nodding slowly.

"We can try this, Rocco. But if you hurt me again... it's over. I'm not your doormat."

"I won't hurt you again, Sal. I promise."

Their lips slowly met in a tender kiss, sealing the promise they made to each other.