To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest route to a heavy heart- Warren Peace. What if when Gwen was talking to Layla, Will had listened in? How will this change the rest of the events?
He had just gotten an orange soda out of the ice box. It was put on the couch by one of the hero kids. He was about to walk over to give Gwen the soda but saw that she was talking to Layla. He looked so happy to see her.
"Look, Will knows that you have a crush on him." Gwen told her.
Will was shocked hearing this. What about Warren?
"He does?" Layla asked.
It was true? She did like him. Will stood where he was; still in shock taking all this news in. He continued to listen. "Everyone does." Gwen sounded like a snob. "Will's just too nice to say he's not interested. Not that you can take a hint."
He did not like the way Gwen was talking to her at all and began to wonder if this was why she asked for a drink. Because she saw Layla coming and wanted to tell her all this.
"I mean hello? He's going to homecoming with me." Gwen pointed to herself.
Not anymore. Will thought.
"He threw a party and didn't invite you, you're just embarrassing him, you're just embarrassing yourself."
He was upset as he saw how hurt Layla looked. "Okay, I understand and um when you see Will again, can you tell him that I never wanna talk to him again?" She asked.
Gwen smirked. "I'll give him the message."
Will immediately walked over. "You don't have too, I already got it."
"Oh hey Will." Gwen greeted, not detecting the anger in his voice or pretending not too.
"I heard everything." He informed her.
"Will," Gwen looked completely shocked and like her true colors have been discovered. Layla glanced up and could tell by her expression that she had lied.
"Now I see why you wanted me to get you a drink. How could you do this Gwen?"
Gwen placed her hands on his shoulders. "You're a hero now and she's just a sidekick. She's holding you back." She didn't stop there. "And you need to figure out whether you want to hang with us or with those losers." She glanced at Layla as she said 'Losers.'
Layla's teeth were gritted and Will held her hand. "Forget it Gwen, it's over. And you can just find yourself a new date for homecoming."
Gwen couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You're dumping me?"
Will just stared at her like she was insayin. She scoffed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's get something straight okay?" She got in his face. "You do not dump me! Not the night before the dance!"
"Sorry Gwen, I uh just did. You're dumped."
She rolled her eyes in disbelief.
"And my friends aren't 'losers' the term is hero support." He turned to Layla who was proud of him for sticking up for his real friends. He looked back at Gwen. "And I am interested." He said mostly to himself.
He had his attention back on Layla and sighed. "The truth is, I sort of liked you before I liked Gwen. And even when I fell for her, my feelings for you were the same. I guess it just took all of this for me to realize that."
"Really?" Layla asked surprised. This was too good to be true. Will actually had some feelings for her before he laid eyes on Gwen and those feelings never went away; they only grew without him realizing it. Will had loved Layla this whole time. The look in his eyes said it all. She couldn't take it anymore. She was touched. She just really wanted to kiss him like she had for quite a while and he clearly did too.
They shared a smile, then he wrapped his arms around her waist, she wrapped hers around his neck and they shared a kiss. It was a passionate and content kiss. Her first kiss! And with Will like she only dreamed until now. It was really happening!
As soon as his lips touched hers; he knew for sure that she was the one for him and it just felt so right. He felt sparks and she did too. The kisses he shared with Gwen couldn't compare to this cause it wasn't real. He just felt something wrong about the long kiss that he and Gwen shared in the secret sanctum. He just seemed hesitant to kiss her and was thinking about Layla and all his other friends the whole time.
Gwen was just frozen and unable to move as she saw this. She looked just like she did when he made it clear she was dumped. Penny however looked disgusted. After all she hated sweet. And some other hero kids who were close by had seen the kiss. But none of that mattered cause Will and Layla's main focus was on each other and each other only. They didn't care about the labels and Will didn't care what any of these 'heroes' thought of him locking lips with a 'sidekick.' They didn't know anything about her. Who were they to judge anyways? Just a bunch of jerks.
The kiss lasted for about six seconds or so until they finally pulled apart. Will turned from her. "Everyone out!" He had a smile as he yelled. He was happy about his kiss with Layla. No doubt about that. "Party's over!"
"Not on our account." Steve said.
Josie spoke. She was clearly upset. "Your father and I fly to Europe for two hours and you throw a party?"
"Unbelievable." Steve agreed. "On the count of three, I want everyone out of this house!"
Everyone left except for Layla.
Steve turned to Will. "Son, I'm only going to ask you this..."
"Dad, I swear, I didn't plan this."
His parents glanced at Layla surprised but Will stepped in front of her. "She has nothing to do with this. She just came a few minutes ago."
Layla nodded.
Will sighed. "This wasn't really supposed to be a party. It was supposed to be homecoming committee to help fix a fog machine but things got out of hand." He now knew that Gwen was just trying to take advantage of him and talked him into throwing a party.
"Alright." Steve turned to Josie and she nodded.
"Still you should have told us." She said.
Will nodded. "Don't worry; I'll clean up the mess."
"And I'll help." Layla said.
After they cleaned up, they went on the roof again. It was one of Will's best thinking spots and it became his favorite spot since Layla came up to comfort him. "So, the reason you asked Warren to homecoming was to make me jealous?" He asked.
"Yeah." She replied. "He's not really a bad person outside of school."
They shared a smile. "So, will you go to homecoming with me?" He asked.
"Of course." She replied.
They playfully bumped each other; smiling and scooted closer, their hands intertwined as they stared at the moon and stars in the sky.
