"Rocky? Rocky are you even listening to me?"

Rocky stopped daydreaming and came back to reality. She glanced up at her mother just as the doorbell rang. Rocky looked around and tossed her napkin on the table, "I'll get the door."

She pushed through the dining room quickly, heading for the door.

Rocky opened the door, she smiled slightly at the site of Gunther standing outside waiting for her.

"Hey Rocky." he spoke soft almost afraid to be heard.

"Oh hey Gunther." she pushed a few hairs out of her face and tucked them behind her ear. "What are you doing here?"

He ignored her question, "I heard you broke up with Deuce?"

Rocky hesitated a bit, "I'd rather not talk about that right now." she sheepishly smiled at him, holding her left arm with her right hand.

"You- you wanna go for a walk or something?" Gunther suggested pointing behind him into the dark, smiling weakly.

She turned and looked over, "wait a sec, I'll go grab my jacket." She turned on her heel and walked to her room where her jacket was laying. She tossed it on and patted her hair down, exiting the room. She popped her head into the dinning room, announcing to her parents, "Hey, I'm going out for a walk. I'll be back."

Rocky POV

Nervousness suddenly swept over me. What is happening to me? There is nothing special, I'm just going out on a short walk with a friend. Why am I nervous about it? We have been on many walks together before. But this is the first walk we take without Deuce and Cece with us. It was an awkward silence between us.

"I know it's none of my business but what happened between you and Deuce?" he said, breaking the silence.

"I told you I did not want to talk about it" I said irritated that he even brought it up.

"No, you said you did not want to talk about it then, you didn't say anything about now"

"Please," he said in a voice so soft and gentle that you couldn't say no to him.

"Okay, It all started yesterday when I was by the lockers talking with Cece. She mentioned that she used to be in love with Deuce. I gave her a shocked look because I couldn't believe it. She saw my facial expression, and added that she isn't in love with him anymore. I looked at her again and studied her face closely. I saw the sadness in her eyes and I knew that she was lying to make me feel better. How couldn't I see it? How couldn't I see she was in love? I must have been the worst friend ev-"

"No, Rocky, believe me Cece always says good things about you," said Gunther, interrupting me.

"How do you know that?"

"I've been with Cece very often when you are with Deuce, she only said good things about you and she has often talked about how she is no longer in love with Deuce because he's in love with her best friend," he said

"That's just it, he's not in love with me. I went to him after school to ask him if he was in love with Cece and he said yes.

"I'm so sorry Rocky," he said with a sympathetic expression.

"Don't be" I said with a smile. He smiled back and I continued to explain.

"I was shocked by his answer but I was quite happy for Cece. Me and Deuce decided therefore to break up and I promised him to help him get together with Cece. We're still friends, and our break up didn't complicate our friendship, it just restored it. When I got home, I was not even a little sad. Weird enough, I was glad because I now know I never was in love with Deuce. "

"Oh, so who are you in love with?" he said with a smile. I was just about to answer when I got a call. It was Ty.

"Hello?"

"Where are you? Mom is worried, you have to come home soon because I am can't keep her distracted anymore" Ty said. I looked at the clock on my phone. It didn't feel like me and Gunther talked that long but the clock proved me wrong.

"I will be home in ten minutes" I replied.

"Okay, bye," he said and hung up.

"I have to go home now, but I see you in school tomorrow" I said to Gunther.

"Okay, see you there, bye," he replied back.