Right now it's 3:00 AM and I can't sleep. I twist and turn under my covers and sleep still eludes me, I turn and look at the clock, 3:15.

"Great." I huffed as I got out of bed.

Fighting aliens all day keeps me up all night, I know it shouldn't since I've been doing it for years but it still unsettles me. I walked over to my window and opened it, the cool night air swirled around my face and I took a deep breath. For the end of spring it sure was cold, but that's probably from the thin veil of fog covering the streets.

"I wonder what Ben and Kevin are doing right now...most likely Ben is sleeping and Kevin is slipping in from some late night party." I thought with a giggle to myself.

Just thinking of Kevin trying to go in some small bedroom window to get into his house was hilarious, that is, without his mom waking up. If she did wake up it would end in her lecturing Kevin on how worried she was or that he could have at least called her.

I smiled; Kevin always knows how to get into trouble.

I yawned and walked back over to my bed and grabbed my phone, I scrolled through my contacts and found Kevin's number. I looked at it and smirked; let's see if he's up.

I went to a new message and sent him my message, "Hey, you up?"

After I sent the message I waited for him to reply, three years ago I would have been dead scared to send him a message this late...or early depending on how he looks at it. I looked back on just only three years ago, so much had changed; Kevin had joined us in our search of Grandpa Max, Ben and I became friends with Kevin, we saved the world and found Grandpa Max, Kevin got mutated from the Omnitrix, he got cured when the Omnitrix blew up, Ben got the Ultimatrix, we saved the world again, Kevin and I started dating, and my personal favorite we kissed. 'Wow, what a year'. And yet that was only the highlights in that one year, I had been happier than any other year of my life and it was all because of Kevin. Who was now my boyfriend of three years.

That was when Kevin texted me back, "Yeah I'm up but that's nothing new...why are you up Gwen?"

I then replied, "I couldn't sleep and I had a feeling you were up."

Of course Ben really didn't like that Kevin and I were seeing each other, but that's just the way it is so we told him to deal with it. We really like each other so we really don't care what anyone says. Of course it's hard to date Kevin when he's so cryptic but that's just one of the many traits of Kevin.

There was a bing and I looked at Kevin's reply, "So when you can't sleep you text me? Why? It's not like I'm anything special and what are you going to do if I'm actually sleeping for once?" I nearly burst out in laughter, he is so dense.

I then replied, "Well, I like to text you, and if you are getting sleep for once I would clap for you. And you are more special than you think."

When he acts stupid it's funny and annoying at the same time, it's almost like he try's to get on my nerves. What's funny is that if my parents caught me texting Kevin at...oh, wow 4:00 am, they would ground me for life. That's probably because they really don't like Kevin that much.

I looked back at my phone, "Special in what way? Like special E.D.?"

I sighed in annoyance. "Wow, it's almost like he makes me spell out things for him." I thought. "No silly, your special to me like important. But you texting me has made me sleepy, I'll see you tomorrow." I replied.

I yawned once again and got under my covers, maybe now sleep will come. When Kevin replied I was slowly slipping into sleep, the last thing I saw before my eyes closed was "Kay I'll see you tomorrow, sleep tight Gwen. I love you." I smiled and whispered to myself, 'Love you too.'

The Next Morning

When I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock at 7:30 am, I wanted to throw it at the wall. I was lucky I had good restraint or else the clock would have been reduced to a pile of broken gears, wires and other parts.

I stumbled out of bed and went into my bathroom that was connected to Ken's room, since Ken's in college I have the bathroom to myself. I turned on the shower and waited for the water to heat up; when it was ready I got undressed and stepped in.

The warmth of the water was a great feeling after a night of practically no sleep. I washed my hair and face vigorously to get the sleep out of my eyes and get my red mane of hair clean. I then turned the water off and grabbed two towels off the shelf and wrapped them around myself and my hair and walked back to my room.

I went and rummaged around through my closet to find a suitable outfit. I grabbed a long sleeve white T-Shirt and a black camisole and some dark blue skinny jeans. When I was done getting dressed I went and blow dried my hair and put on some light make-up.

That was when my phone rang; I picked it up and answered, "Hello?"

"Hey Gwen its Kevin, you doin' anything today?" He asked.

I smiled and answered "Don't think so, why?"

He answered after a few seconds of silence, "Well I wanted to know if you wanted to go out to lunch or something…"

His sentence ended in a whisper but I could hear it.

I walked downstairs and opened the refrigerator, "Sure I'd love too, when?"

"Really!" he exclaimed. "I, I mean um, we could um, go um one of your favorite food places, what do you feel like eating?"

I thought for a moment before I suggested we went to one of my favorite Italian places called Sparta's.

"That sounds great Gwen how bout I pick you up at 11:30 am, is that ok?"

At this point I was ready to do cart wheels, "Oh sure, that's perfect, I guess I'll see you then Kevin."

The conversation was coming to an end so his reply was short, "See you soon and I'll be there on time for once."

I could practically hear his smile through the line. "Kay Kevin, bye." And with that his line went dead. For a few minutes I stood in the middle of my kitchen absorbing what just happened. "He asked me out...HE ASKED ME OUT!"

I almost flew up the stairs too look for the perfect outfit to wear on this outing; I did this with brightened spirits. Even though we had been dating for three years he was still very shy, if he asked me out it was a blessing.

I was so happy I didn't even realize that there was someone standing in the corner of my room.