"Bailey! Here. Now." Lexi boomed. bailey slowly walked over to Lexi and put her head gently down on the ground in front of her feet.

"No don't play innocent. Apologize to Rocky." She ordered forcefully.

"It's ok, Lexi—she doesn't-"

"No, no, no. she needs to apologize." Lexi wouldn't even let him finish. Bailey gradually walked over to Rocky and whined.

"Bailey…" Kayla urged. Rocky bent down and patted Bailey on her head.

"It's ok Bailey." Rocky said in the sweetest voice Kayla had ever heard from him. Bailey stuck her paw out, and shook hands with Rock as if to say "truce". Even though all was well with bailey and Rocky—rocky still had icing on his shirt. Everyone went back inside to watch TV but rocky and Kayla stayed outside. when Kayla was done putting bailey in her dog house, she walked over to Rocky apologized once more, took his napkin and began to wipe off his shirt.

"I'm sorry about Bailey." She said quietly while cleaning his shirt.

"Don't worry about it! I'm fine." Rocky assured.

"Man this icing really doesn't want to come out does it?!" Kayla yelled with slight frustration.

"Don't stress about it." Rocky assured her. Rocky grabbed her hand, and their eyes met. He looked into her sparkling brown eyes and said,

"I meant to tell you this earlier, but you look beautiful tonight."

"Um… thanks. You clean up well yourself, too." That made him laugh. They spent about 10 more minutes outside talking and by this time—everyone was upstairs in the attic window, or on the balcony to watch the romance brewing. The night went on—and at around 7:15—Riker, Rydel, Ross, Ryland, Emily, Mack, Michael, and Lexi were about to leave their eavesdropping places because nothing interesting was happening. That is until Rocky made Kayla laugh and she turned her head the opposite way. When she turned back—she and Rocky were face to face.

"WAIT, Rydel called out, I think they're gonna kiss!" Everyone waited and watched with big, fish eyes as Rocky and Kayla moved in close. Right when they turned their heads…

"A—AA—CHOOO!" RIKER SNEEZED! Of all the times and all the places, Riker had to sneeze on the balcony right when his brother was going to kiss Kayla. Kayla looked up and said,

"I KNEW IT! She screamed, I KNEW I HEARD SOMEBODY!" Kayla wasn't mad, she was laughing actually.

"Wow, guys. Good try." Rocky said while clapping.

"Did you guys really think we didn't know you were up there?"

"To be honest…yes. Ryland sassed, And ehh-hum..." Ryland cleared his throat.

"What?" Rocky asked confused. Ryland pointed to his hand. He didn't realize it, but he was holding Kayla's hand on the bench. His hand on top of hers. Rocky and Kayla looked at each other briefly then quickly stood up and cleared their throats like nothing happened.

The party ended and everyone said their goodbyes.

(*Author's note: I tried to speed things up again so I skipped all the blah blah in between.*)

"Bye Lexi."

"Bye Ryland." And Lexi gave him a nice, long hug. Ryland was so hypnotized, he couldn't move.

"We'll definitely keep in touch right?" Riker asked.

"Definitely." Emily agreed. They pinkie promised and Emily never breaks a promise.

"So this was a pretty interesting night, huh?" Kayla giggled.

"Yea, but really fun. Thanks for having us over by the way."

"Of course. Anytime. Just call and we'll be here.'' Kayla winked and gave Rocky a kiss on the check. Not a peck—a kiss. 3 seconds long.

Thanks for reading everyone. Next chapter coming as soon as possible. ;)