A/N I hope you enjoy my story! It is my first one so PLEASE leave reviews and leaves suggestions! Please forgive me if any of the characters are a little OOC. I'm still trying to figure out how to portray the characters correctly. :)

Disclaimer: I (sadly) do not own any of the characters or any of the text *inside the asterisks*

Rated K

Chapter 1

*"You know, I've been thinking," Fitz said, silencing her thoughts as he closed the memory log and set it aside for the day. "You owe me a favor."

"I do?"

"Yep! We made a deal - remember? If you didn't call in your favor from me in one month, the favor became mine. And I hate to break it to you, but it's been way more than a month."

Sophie sighed. "I knew that deal was going to come back and haunt me. I should've just made something up and gotten the favor over with."

"You probably should have. But you didn't, so... I win!" He shook his hair, flashing his most adorably confident smile, "And I gotta say, I kinda get why you hesitated with this. It's a big decision. I mean on the one hand, I could go for the obvious and make you share whatever secret you keep almost telling me."

Sophie's mouth turned to sandpaper.

"So that still freaks you out, huh? That might be proof it needs to happen."

His eyes locked on hers, refusing to let her look away. And when she swallowed, it was so loud, she was sure the entire world heard it.

"Or," he said. "We could skip the talking."

"And do what?" she asked, hating her voice for cracking.

"Any ideas?"

He was so close now, she could feel his breath warming her cheeks.

He leaned a tiny bit closer and* Sophie was proud of herself for squeaking out, "Go dancing with Sandor and Grizel?"

Fitz chuckled, "You know I wouldn't let you off that easily. He smiled at her.

She blushed and covered her face with her hair, "I know. But it was worth a try. But what ARE you going to choose?" She finally relaxed as Fitz leaned back onto the tree.

"I don't know. It's really hard to decide. Will you give me a little time?"

"Sure, but if you take longer than a month, the favor is mine again," Sophie said as she leaned back as well.

"Deal," Fitz agreed.

After Fitz left, it was getting dark outside, so Sophie walked back up to her house. Edaline was in the kitchen, making some mallowmelt. When she heard Sophie walk in she said, "Hi! What Were you doing out there for so long?"

"I was just talking to Fitz," Sophie replied.

Edaline smiled at her, and Sophie blushed. "It's not like that!" Sophie practically yelled.

"Okay. If you say so," Edaline said, still smiling.

"I'm going up to bed, but you better saveme some mallowmelt!" Sophie grumbled.

"Okay." Edaline was still smiling.

Sophie walked up the stairs to her room. Sandor assumed his place at the door when they got there and Sophie continued in. She got ready for bed and claimed into her bed. She hugged Ella, and closed her eyes to go to sleep, but all she could think about was what would come of the deal with Fitz.

A/N Thanks for reading! Please, please, please leave me some suggestions on what I can do to make this better!