"Mo, you didn't do anything wrong. You told him you couldn't wait for him and that's fine." said Laurel, sister of Monique.
"Mo, my brother's an idiot if he just left you to go to New York. I know he loves you." Cass, Monique's best friend, said.
"I guess", Monique said with her head down. Laurel said excited, "OMG! Mo, Nate Wilson is walking over and I think he wants to talk to you."
Monique sat up sharply and watched as he walked over. Nate walked up and said, "Excuse me ladies, may I borrow Monique for a moment?"
"Of Course, keep her longer." Cass said grabbing Laurel and walking off giggling with her.

Monique blushed and smiled at Nate as she says, "Hey". "So I was wondering if um, you would be my date to Homecoming." Nate asked sitting down nervously rubbing his neck.
Monique looked at him and replied, "Yeah. Okay." Nate smiled and kissed her hand. "I'll pick you up at seven okay?" Nate asked.
Monique nodded and he walked away as the girls ran back to the table and started jumping up and down.

Chapter 1

"What are you thinking about babe?" Nate asked stroking Monique's cheek. Monique smiled and said, "When you
asked me to Homecoming." Nate chuckled and replied, "I was so nervous. I thought you were going to turn me
down." Monique giggled and kissed his cheek.
Laurel, Cass, Ryan (Nate's friend), and Josh (Also Nate's friend) walked over to the lunch table and sat down. "Hey lovebirds", Laurel said after they sat down. Monique rolled her eyes as Nate chuckled.
"So, football party after we win tonight. Who's going?" Ryan asked. Nate said, "I don't know yet. I haven't decided." "I don't want to go alone", Cass said. Josh then looked at Cass and said, "I'll go with you Cass." Cass giggled and answered," Okay"
"But Nate, you have to go. You're the football captain and Mo, you're the cheerleading captain. It's like a rule for you two to go." Laurel exclaimed. Nate looked at Monique as she was shaking her head. Monique said, "Thanks sis. I haven't had a chance to tell him yet." Laurel laughed and mouthed sorry.
"I thought you hated cheerleading babe?" Nate asked. Monique smiled and said, "Well it seemed fun and it was. So I ended up making captain."
Cass said, "Finally, now she can take off that awful trench coat and show her beautiful body." Monique said, "But, b-ut, I don't want too." Cass and Laurel gave her a look and Monique stood up, took the coat off and sat down as Laurel took it and threw it away. Monique blushed as she felt Nate's gaze on her.
"Now c'mon let's go outside you guys." Laurel said, grabbing Monique's arm and pulling her out of the chair. Monique looked back at Nate's gaping mouth. Ryan and Josh laughed as Ryan said, "Hey loverboy, close your mouth before a bug flies into it."
Nate blinked then stood up and took Monique's hand and kissed it. "You look….incredible would be an understatement." Nate said. Monique giggled as he pulled her close into his arms. Josh said, "Alright, alright. I can feel the hormones radiating off you two. Let's go outside already."
But before he could even get half of his sentence finished, Nate kissed Monique ardently pulling her extremely close. Monique wrapped her arms around his neck and into his hair as they kissed. "Seriously, I swear they are going to have sex in a hallway someday." Laurel said walking away with the others.
Nate tightened his arms around Monique as she sighed into the kiss. They pulled away but left their foreheads touching. "Do you know what today is?" Nate asked. Monique smiled and said, "It's our two year anniversary." Nate smiled and kissed her head. "Do you really want to go to the party?" Nate asked with his head dipped down into her neck, breathing her in. "No not really. I was just going to go if you were", Monique said trying to slow down her breathing. "Good. Cause I have something planned." Nate said looking at her. Monique raised her eyebrow and answered, "Oh really now? Are you going to tell me?" "Nope", Nate said with an emphasis on the 'p'.
They then heard everyone talking and whispering. "I wonder what's going on." Monique said. "I don't know but let's go find out." Nate said taking her hand as they walked outside. To Monique's surprise, there he was. Trey Lindstrom, Cass's brother. His eyes caught sight of her and he smiled. Monique sucked in a breath and locked eyes with Cass as Cass shrugged not knowing what was going on.
Cass walked up to Nate and Monique. "Mo, I swear I didn't know", Cass said pleading her innocence. "It's okay. I'm okay. It's just seeing after two years brings it all back kind of." Monique said leaning into Nate who knew the whole story behind Trey.
Nate hugged her close and kissed her head. "I love you." he exclaimed. Monique looked at him and said, "I love you too." Trey started walking over to them as Laurel, Ryan, and Josh joined the three.
"Monique.", Trey said, saying her name like a prayer. "Go away you over-grown looking pimple. She doesn't want to talk to you.", Laurel said. "Why don't we let her decide that, shall we? Monique?", Trey countered.
Monique looked at him and said, "I bet you think everything is good between us don't you? You think you can just waltz back in here, back into our lives and my heart. Well you can't! You hurt me Trey and there's nothing you can do to fix it."
Monique stormed away with Nate going after her but Cass grabbed him and shook her head.
She then looked at her brother. "Welcome back brother." Cass said angrily. "Cass. I never meant to hurt anyone but this was about my future and I wanted to make sure I was stable enough for when we got out of high school I could have enough to just be with Mo and be happy. I'm sorry." Trey said.
Cass yelled, "YOUR FUTURE? Did you not care about Mo's feelings and how leaving for two years would affect her? She was in love with you for god sakes. She was willing to take a chance on you after being hurt so many times. And what do you do, you hurt her then leave. Did you even think about your friends? Most importantly did you think about ME? NO! I'M YOUR SISTER TREY! Because you had to get set up for your future. Trey, stay away from Mo and for the moment me too. She's happy, let her be."
Nate looked at Cass and said, "Cass, can I go find her now?" "Yeah, go and tell her I'm sorry." Cass said. Nate looked at Trey and sneered, "Stay away from my girlfriend.", then ran off to find Monique.

After finding her in a stairwell crying, Nate walked up to her. "Mo", Nate said quietly.
Monique wiped her eyes and said, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't be crying over him. I have you but-"Nate cut her off, pulled her face into his hands and kissed her.
Monique smiled and crumbled into his arms, kissing back. Nate pulled away and wiped her tears. "Baby, it's okay. I understand. He was the first guy you loved and it's okay to still hurt. I have you, I love you and that's all that matters." Nate said.
Monique kissed his cheek and said, "I love you too Nate" "Now let's go to the pep rally", Nate said grabbing her hand and pulling her up. Monique smiled and they left for the pep rally.