Well, here's the first chapter of a short story of maybe only four chapters (well, that's if I include Lilo's POV, but let's see what happens) It's not a master piece, but at least I think you'll enjoy it. Hope you like it

BECAUSE OF LOVE

"Wise men say

Only fools rush in…

But I can't help…

Falling in love with you

Shall I stay? Would it be a sin?

If I can't help… falling in love with you…"Click!

"All that I want is to be near to you
To spend my life making it clear to you
You are my heart, my soul, my dream come true
All that I am, I am because of you

Because of you
Because of…" Click!

"And I love you so,
The people ask me how,
How I've lived till now
I tell them I don't know…

I guess they understand
how lonely life has been
but life began again
the day you took my hand…" Click!

Stitch moaned as he dropped on his cot after he changed that song to the next. All those Elvis' songs he was listening had a lot of true on his own life, and that's why he was listening them (besides it was Valentine's day), because they reminded him a lot of things and thoughts he had passed through… he didn't mean to do it at first, but loneliness forced him to seek for something to do… Jumba was fixing or inventing some stuff on his room, Pleackley was watching a gossips program on TV and Nani had gone out to date David… oh, and Lilo had went out too an hour ago.

"Lilo..." that thought made him to forget everything else he was thinking about. He thought on that little girl he had met 10 years ago, and thought about how that little girl became a teenager quickly. Her chubby and short shape of a little girl had been replaced for the slim and well-formed shape of a teen. His best friend wasn't a little girl anymore… on a few years more she would become a beautiful woman… indeed, she was beautiful: black, silky hair that cascaded down her shoulders, large, slim legs, thin waist, soft and tan skin, flushed cheeks, a tall, thin body… of course, he liked her looks, but he had started to feel something especial about her before her teenager features appeared, when she was still ten or maybe eleven… at his eyes, she was indeed beautiful, but there was a reason she didn't think she was a pretty girl : she hadn't got the attention of her biggest crush since childhood: Keoni Jameson.

Stitch growled at the thought of the red haired boy… that lucky jerk had gotten all the attention of his best friend, and he just wanted to hang that…blitznac surfer boy every time Lilo talked about him; whenever Lilo talked about him, a strange sparkle appeared on her eyes, revealing she was thrilled… some days ago he had invited her to the Valentine's ball and she had left the house so thrilled… he didn't really know why he was so jealous, it was a strange sensation he hadn't felt before, not even when male experiments used to stare at Angel when they were fiancées… that was the reason he started to feel something about Lilo… Angel had started dating with someone else, or at least that was what Stitch thought, and that made him jealous and mad at Angel. Angel got mad at Stitch too and agreed with Sparky to make Stitch believe they were dating. Stitch realized of that and tried to make the same thing with Lilo. They were pretending during a long time they were closer than just friends and pretended to be dating too… he still could remember that time when he saw Angel kissing Sparky and what happened next: his first kiss.

FLASHBACK

Angel was talking with Sparky calmly on one of the streets of the small town when she saw Stitch approaching with Lilo. She growled at the sight of Stitch's arm wrapped around Lilo's waist, but she wouldn't let him to get what he wanted, so she waited him to approach.

When Stitch saw Angel, a lot of minutes before she made him out, he just moaned and stared at Lilo worriedly:

-What's going Stitch? —Lilo asked when she noticed Stitch's troubled face and his samples of uneasiness.

-Isaka Angel!!! Angel with Sparky!!! —he growled, not because of jealousy, but because he thought Angel was offending him with that attitude.

-Oooh, I know… put your hand on my waist…hey, that will make her believe that we're together as a couple! Besides, that's what couples do on the programs Pleackley use to watch —she explained when she saw a startled Stitch staring at her confused.

After the explanation, Stitch eased his face and wrapped firmly his arm around Lilo's waist. He noticed her waist was getting slimmer as he tightened his grip on it. For some weird reason, he felt awkward when he wrapped his arm around Lilo's waist, but he thought it was completely normal, due it always happened since they started pretend they were dating: he always felt that strange sensation whenever he even touched her. After they were ready, he smiled timidly at Lilo, and she did the same. He didn't know why, but something compelled him to smile at her like that, but he thought once more it was normal, even though he hadn't ever felt something like this on his life. They started walking towards the street where Angel and Sparky were eating shaved ice while talking.

As Stitch expected, his arm around Lilo was enough to release Angel's jealousy, but for his surprise she did something he had never done with her, although they were fiancées: she closed to Sparky and placed her lips on Sparky's. Shock was all what Stitch felt: he had seen persons kissing only on the TV programs Pleackley used to watch and in some movies. The most he had done with Angel was licking her face, but he had never kissed her… he felt curiosity to know what it felt like, and after he saw that Angel and Sparky pulled away, he decided to do the same: soothingly and slowly, he closed his face to Lilo's. Lilo noticed Stitch getting too close and became nervous and got an awkward feeling:

-Hum, Stitch? What do you exactly want to…??? —Lilo's sentence was interrupted when Stitch's lips crashed against hers: he was kissing her!!!

Stitch didn't know at first what to do, so he had decided to kiss Lilo during just five or ten seconds to make Angel jealous… he just wanted to do it quickly, but when he whirled his head to kiss her, he stared at her eyes… there was again that awkward feeling, but there was something else he had never, never felt… that something made him to fall into some kind of trance, which made him to close his face to hers slowly and not as quick as he had planned to do…now that his lips were upon hers, his stomach just began spinning inside of him, and his heart beating fastened, and his whole body was practically out of control while this little girl had his lips on his…he didn't know what it was, but it felt so… so wonderful and magic. At first he noticed Lilo frozen under his lips, but after some seconds he noticed her relaxing, wrapping her arms around his neck and even pulling his face closer and kissing him back, and he didn't do anything but continue the kiss and tighten his grip on her waist… what he had planned to do during five or ten seconds lasted at least five minutes. Those minutes were almost the glory for Stitch, and there existed nothing else but Lilo and himself… finally, they pulled away when their lungs were demanding some oxygen inside of them. While their breaths were coming back to their lungs, they rested their heads on each other's while they remained embraced just like when they were kissing. Angel and Sparky were staring at them startled: it was all a show to see that strange scene.

-W-what was that for? —Stitch asked finally, after some minutes of recovering her breath.

-W-what?—Lilo lift her eyes to see at Stitch's.

-Why Lilo pulled Stitch closer?

Lilo dropped her head as she felt her cheeks burning, and noticed that Angel was now walking away furiously, with Sparky following her.

-I-I don't know… I just thought that if it seemed real for Angel, you could get her jealous, and I just did what I thought… what would make it seem more real.

Stitch dropped his hears and his head… he didn't know why, but he had expected Lilo to say another thing, like… he didn't know, just something… but she just had done it to make Angel jealous, just like he had wanted… if he had gotten what he wanted, then why does he feel so disappointed about Lilo's attitude?

-Ooh… well, meega… can understand —he said softly, trying to hide his disappointing and untied his arms from Lilo's waist.

After some seconds of uncomfortable silence, Lilo finally broke it to talk:

-Wow, you're such a great kisser, Stitch… seems like you've done it before —Lilo smiled at Stitch when she noticed his saddened expression. Stitch flushed:

-Lilo… good kisser too. Lilo has done it before???

Now it was Lilo's turn to flush:

-N-not actually. You're the first one I've ever kissed… I always wanted Keoni to be the first one… but after all, that kiss wasn't genuine… we were pretending, right?—Lilo dropped her head to stare at the ground… the last part went out her mouth with a sad intonation.

-Ih… pretending —Stitch said sadly too. He would have wanted his first kiss to be genuine… not because he wanted to make someone jealous.

-Well, let's imagine this never happened… you've already gotten what you wanted… if we continue pretending, all the others will think that actually we're more than friends, and I don't want Nani to think that… I don't know what her reaction would be like… then, just friends?—Lilo said as she tended her hand toward Stitch.

Stitch lifted his hand reluctantly… the words "more than friends" had sounded so beautiful for him… finally he took Lilo's hand and shook it:

-Ih… just friends… achie-babas —he said as Lilo's hand escaped from his. Once more, he felt the same thing he felt whenever he touched her, the sensation that sends butterflies to his stomach, but it disappeared quickly as he remembered they were just friends again.

Lilo wanted to end with that subject, but no idea came to her mind…finally she got something that would make Stitch to forget all those events:

-Well, wanna go for some coconut cake?

Stitch perked his ears and widened his eyes:

-And coffee? —he said as his stomach started to growl inside of him. Lilo laughed happily:

-And coffee too. C'mon, let's go —she said and pointed to a near post of food. However, although Lilo's attempts to make Stitch forget the subject, the image of Lilo and himself kissing and the sensation of her lips pressed against his remained on his mind during all the day…

FLASBACK ENDS

… And during all those years too. He hadn't been able to take out the image of Lilo's face as he kissed her: that startled and confused look had remained six years on his mind, and since then his feelings were so confusing… about Angel, they talked after all those incidents and decided they were better like friends. Angel had fallen in love with Sparky during all their adventures trying to make Stitch jealous, and he had fallen in love with her too since she kissed him; now they're married and Angel is pregnant with his pups, and in a couple of months she'll give to birth them.

Stitch smiled at that thought. Angel was happier now with Sparky than she could've been ever with him, and that was good after all. He whirled tiredly his head to see why the record player wasn't playing any song. He stood up, realizing he needed to turn round the disc to listen to the side "B", and returned to his cot when it was done. The soft sound of an electric guitar filled the dome with its slow music, as well the sounds of a battery playing as slowly as the guitar. He dropped on his cot and glued his eyes on the ceiling, thoughtful, as the voice of The King started to sing:

"Am I ready, can my heart be true?
Am I ready to fall in love with you?"

As the guitar was playing a soft melody, his mind ran backwards to his firsts memories of when he met Lilo. He remembered when she went to the pound to adopt some animal to be her friend…. he would never forget that day. He knew Lilo was the first one that loved him and penetrated beyond of the hard armor that used to cover his heart and gave him the sensibility to take care about someone else than himself…

"One love, one girl, one dream shared by two
Am I ready to fall in love with you?"

His mind ran forward now. He remembered of when he died, and how he returned to the living world thanks to Lilo's love… his thoughts went slightly forward to their experiments hunters' days. He remembered how his love developed towards Lilo during all those years, and then he remembered how Angel entered on his life and changed the things, and how he talked to Lilo of how much he loved Angel, and she told him of how much she liked Keoni… they were each other's secret-keepers during a long time.

"I have touched your lips, and now I know
I would be a fool, to let you go"

While he was listening to the "I have touched your lips" part, his mind accelerated his memories to when he had his first kiss with Lilo. He could remember vaguely the sensation of Lilo's lips upon his, and how it changed some thoughts and doubts he had had before… he could live again on his mind that moment whenever he wanted to… he could feel Lilo pulling him closer to her face and intensifying the pressure on his lips, taking away all the oxygen of his lungs… but he remembered too the disappointment on his heart when she told him she had wanted Keoni to be the first one she kissed, but even so he was still feeling something strange about her…


"Should I, could I, how I wish I knew
Am I ready… to fall in love with you?"

"Am I in love? Do I truly love someone this time?" he thought doubtful. He hadn't loved anyone on that way before, so he had no way to know if he was feeling a genuine love toward Lilo. He was so hesitant…

"Should I, could I, how I wish I knew
Am I ready… to fall in love with you?"

He was so doubtful… how could he ever know what was true love like?

"Fall in love... with... you..."

Finally, the song ended. He stood up to change the disk and play another one, but something caught his attention… it was a soft noise… "Yeah, that must be Lilo" he said to himself when he heard some others soft noises outside. He rushed to the window to assure it was his friend the one he had heard, and in fact, it was her… but something wasn't right on her; something seemed to disagree with her, because she was… weeping?

"What's going with her? Why is she crying? What happened?" he wondered as he exited through the window. He saw how Lilo lifted her hand to open the door and enter the house, but then she regretted it and ran toward the backyard. Stitch didn't last for too long upon the dome: he rushed to the ground and followed Lilo's steps. When he finally reached the backyard, he saw her upon the hammock, sitting cross-legged and bent down, hiding her face between her hands, trying to hide her tears. Her back was trembling repeatedly, on an irregular rhythm… a clear sign of her crying. His heart ached: he had never liked seeing Lilo crying, and he always felt bad whenever she cried. After some minutes of hesitating, he went out of his hiding place and approached to the hammock. He could hear her weeping, barely audible, and murmuring some things under her breath; he was now next to the hammock, and trying to understand what Lilo was saying, without knowing what to do. After some seconds, he climbed into the hammock and sat right in front of her, closing his hand to her face to dry a tear that slipped down through her cheek:

-Lilo?

Lilo lift her head when she heard that voice, so well known by her… she didn't bother herself to pretend she was right. It was too clear there was something wrong with her just to hide it like nothing. Stitch's hand reached her cheek and dried the tear he had seen; Lilo caught Stitch's hand with her tan one and held it close to her face as she smiled weakly at him:

-Aloha, Stitch. I thought… I thought you were already asleep. It's already late for you to be awoken…

Stitch stared into her eyes. There was an upset looking that made his body tremble and staring at her worriedly:

-What's wrong, Lilo? Why Lilo isa crying?

Lilo stared at him and dropped quickly her eyes.

-Don't worry about me, Stitch… actually, it's a non-importance thing… in fact, I don't know why I am crying.

-Naga. Lilo… strangely cries. Isa must be important thing. —Stitch assured as he closed to Lilo—Please, tell Stitch —he said as rested his head on his friend's legs. Lilo smiled weakly at him, but her smile disappeared as quickly as it came to her face:

-It's her entire fault!!! It was her… if it weren't because of her… after all, what does that Kayla has that I don't??? Why did he invite me to go out??? To scoff about me along with his friends??? To let me see that I'm not a pretty girl??? I'm not even close to be pretty!!!

Lilo couldn't hide her sadness as she said the last words, and her face became a sea of tears. Stitch stared at her. He felt how his rage started to grow inside of him, and how the blood on his veins started boiling; how could that stupid boy make Lilo cry??? Wasn't enough for her to know that he wasn't genuinely interested about her??? He felt once more that loathe against Keoni that made him think about tossing him to the sea, far, really far away from Lilo and him and not seeing him again on the living world.

However, his rage decreased quickly when he thought about Lilo, leaving a sadness sensation instead of rage. He could feel her pain and disappointing as he saw the way she was crying… actually, he had seen her crying on that way only when several years ago she thought he died. She had cried other times because other stuff, but never as intensely as those two times… and now it was the fault of Keoni Jameson Lilo was crying on that way. He desired deeply to comfort her, holding her on his arms and not to let her go for a long while… but he was starting to feel again the same sensation he had felt several years ago, that sensation he had just some seconds before kissing her, on that little street of the Kokawa town; he felt he just wanted to take her face on his hands and crash his lips against hers, just like that time, and felt nothing could stop him… except the fact that she still liked that… boy. If she was crying on that way, maybe she didn't just like Keoni… maybe she even…

His heart shrank when that thought hit his mind. Could be Lilo in love with Keoni?

-Why, Stitch? Why I cannot be at least slightly pretty, just like Kayla? I'm the only one who hasn't got a boyfriend on school, and everybody mock at me because of that… I think I'm the only one who has not got the attention of the one I like the most…

Lilo's voice shook his mind for some seconds, making him to get out from his thoughts and go back to real world. He stared at his friend during some seconds… he was still feeling awkward at her, and every second that past it was more hard for him to stop his urge to pull her face down to his face and kiss her…

-You know? I miss when I was on the hula school, because there I had friends… when I got to the high school, everything seemed to get really bad… I miss everything from when I was younger… there, we were Ohana, and nothing else was more important than that… on the high school, the most important is being pretty, because if you aren't, then nobody wants to be beside of you… I wish I was at least slightly pretty…

Lilo's tears seemed to have calmed down, but her eyes revealed that she was as sad as when she started to cry, but at least she knew there was someone listening at her, and that was really comforting for her.

Stitch was still struggling against his urges. Lilo's eyes were lost on the horizon, but her face was bowed still, not too far away from his face… maybe just two feet away. He turned his eyes away from Lilo's face on a last attempt to think about another thing instead of kissing Lilo. Finally, it seemed like he was getting back the control of his mind and body, letting him to focus on comforting Lilo.

-Lilo naga pretty, isa true... Lilo beautiful… —he said softly. A small smile appeared on Lilo's face, but her eyes were still lost on the horizon. Oblivious of his motions, Stitch lifted a hand and took Lilo's chin on his hand and turned her head softly, taking care not to hurt her. Finally, he got Lilo's eyes to stare into his eyes, as he wanted, and concluded his sentence —…if no boy realizes about that, then they blind… Stitch naga blind. Stitch realizes Lilo is beautiful… very, very beautiful.

Lilo smiled at him tenderly as she caressed his cheek. Her eyes showed a great gratitude at him —Thanks for listening at me, Stitch. I don't know what I would do if I hadn't you… you comfort me when you listen me, even if I still feel sad about this… thank you.

-Don't be sad, Lilo… Stitch doesn't like to see Lilo sad. Stitch likes Lilo happy —Stitch stared into her eyes as he talked. He thought Lilo was beautiful, but what he liked the most about her were her eyes… those eyes were indeed beautiful. They could easily change from a warm, loving glance to a burning glance of anger or a penetrating glance of sadness. She could say easily with her eyes what she couldn't say with words, like if she was sad, angry, happy, depressed or joyful, among a lot more of emotions and feelings.

Now her eyes were showing him that she felt sad, but comforted. She was staring at his black eyes intensely, making him to feel again awkward.

-I can't help to feel still sad, Stitch. What Keoni did to me isn't easy to forget quickly.

-If Lilo still feels sad, then Stitch has to comfort Lilo better, if you want.

-Yeah? What are you going to do, Stitch?

Stitch lifted his hand to reach Lilo's neck:

-I'm going to do… this.

The hand Stitch had on Lilo's neck pulled her down, on a fast, but gentle motion. His movement was so fast that Lilo hadn't enough time to process what was happening, but she could feel clearly how Stitch's lips pressed against hers as he didn't loose his grip on her neck. Her confused mind thought at first in pulling him away and run to her room, but inside of her, very, very inside of her, something was awakening… it was a feeling that she had felt several years ago, when she first kiss someone… when she kissed Stitch.

Stitch was scared. He didn't know how would Lilo react after they pulled away… he didn't know if she would accept what he was doing, but it was an impulse he couldn't stop. To his surprise, he felt how Lilo's hands ran through his ears, caressing them softly and even lovingly… he noticed that she wasn't trying to push him away, but her hands were running caringly through his ears and the back of his head, finally reaching his neck and pulling him closer to her body. Stitch rose from Lilo's lap, not letting of her lips go and lowered his strong arms to surround her waist. She brought her arms to his neck, wrapping it enough tight not to suffocate him. Stitch smiled to himself as he felt Lilo's lips brushing against his softly, not believing that this was happening, that actually he was kissing Lilo… it was too good to believe it. He raised one of his hands and reached the back of Lilo's head; he pulled her closer, like wanting to melt her inside his arms or her lips with his. They remained kissing for some seconds, and finally pulled away slowly, still hugging. Lilo pulled Stitch away softly and dropped on the hammock. Stitch smiled and approached her:

-You better?

However, Lilo didn't answer.

-Lilo?

Stitch touched her face gently. He started to get scared…

-Lilo? You okay? Lilo??? Lilo!!!

He shook her by her shoulders, but she wasn't responding, she just didn't open her eyes.

-Uh-oh…

Stitch took her on his arms and carried her to the spaceship. Something there was wrong, and he feared for Lilo and her life.

Hmmm... what do you think? It's going okay? Please, submit a review and tell me what you think about the story till now.