Thanks for the reviews, favs and follows, guys :D I've been working on this forever, wanting to get it just right for my readers. I think I've done a decent job, but you should tell me yourself if you like it, if my writing sucks, or if you have any ideas for plots pertaining to the prompts that can be found on my profile. They're the list just under the 'Favorite Quote' thing. Okay, I did lie, though. This is part one in a three-part three-shot I call 'Just Go' because of- well, that'd spoil the surprise, wouldn't it? Anyway, it kinda starts at the very end of Big Time Surprise, but like I said before, I'm re-writing it. So enjoy! :3

- Shadow


When she says that she likes you, she really does more than you could understand…

Kendall skidded to a halt next to Lucy on the elevator, having just been shoved aboard by his overly helpful friends. Shooting a sharp glance at them as the doors slid closed, he turned around to stand beside Lucy. They both had a small smile on their face, each waiting for the other to say something.

"That was… really sweet, what you did for me," Lucy said earnestly, looking up at him, her smile almost turning shy before she glanced away.

The grin on Kendall's face grew. "Listen, um…" He scratched his head and looked down before he leveled his gaze with hers. Lucy was already looking at him, a patient expression on her face though her stomach was being pelted with butterflies.

His eyes darted away from Lucy's, nerves getting the best of him. He was looking everywhere but at her. "If you're not doing anything tonight," his words were hesitant, "I can get us on the guest list for this…" he searched for the right way to describe it, "cool… party… date…" he sighed a laugh and focused his eyes on Lucy once again, his smile renewed as he settled on the word. "A date."

./..\.

"So what'd you say?" Camille leaned closer to Lucy. They were at a table by the pool, spending time together while the guys were at the studio for the afternoon. They had previously possessed all intentions of working, but Camille's script and Lucy's song book lay to the side, forgotten. Any pretense of productivity had been abandoned as soon as Lucy said the words "so Kendall asked me out," though her guitar was still setting on her lap.

"I… didn't actually say anything," Lucy confessed after a pause, strumming a chord on her guitar. She was looking at her hand as she pressed the strings down on the neck, trying to avoid the other girl's glare.

Camille sighed dramatically. "What does that even mean? What happened?"

There was a tune stuck in the back of Lucy's head, bugging her like a bothersome fly. "It means," Lucy replied, her fingers dancing over her guitar as she played the song, "that between the words 'date' and 'see you tonight,' there wasn't a lot of talking."

Her friend gasped in exaggerated shock. Lucy felt her cheeks burn in a blush.

"Awe, that is so cute." Camille laughed through Lucy's glare, until the other girl was laughing too.

"I don't do 'cute'," Lucy argued, though she was still smiling.

Camille looked at her skeptically, but let it go. She had a feeling that 'cute' would be done multiple times over before the night was through. "What's that you're playing, anyway?" she changed the subject. "You're getting it stuck in my head. It sounds familiar. Is it one of yours?"

Lucy forced her hands to be still on her guitar. "No, it's just this song I heard Katie playing the other morning. It won't get out of my head." She tried to suppress another smile, but Camille saw it.

"What song is it?"

Lucy shook her head. "Doesn't matter. It's stupid."

"Come one, just play a bit of it," Camille pressed.

"No, it's okay."

"Pleeaaasssee?"

"Um…"

"Dude!"

"Fine!" Lucy crinkled her nose and shot a glare at her friend before playing a piece of the song, this time adding the words.

He's the sweetest kind of guy
The sweetest kind of guy
The more I get to know him
Well the more I cannot hide
That he's on my mind every single day
Hope he never goes away

She looked away when she finished with the verse, feeling a blush creep up on her again. "See? Stupid."

Camille shook her head, a teasing smile on her face. "No. That song's very… cute."

Lucy groaned and put her head in her hands, but through her fingers she was smiling. "God. It's been like, what, two hours, and he's already turning me into a mushy mess," she complained.

"Oh it's only going to get worse from here," Camille warned with a giggle.

"What's going to get worse from here?"

Lucy raised her head at the familiar voice, earning herself a peck on the cheek. Kendall laughed at her surprised expression.

"Economic recession," Camille improvised smoothly with a smile as she stood to gather her stuff.

"Mm… hm." Kendall raised an eyebrow at Lucy, who laughed and got up to get her own things.

"Oh, yeah," she went along with Camille's story. "Looks pretty bad this time around." She couldn't keep the serious expression on her face and broke out into a smile, winking at Kendall before Camille grabbed her arm and dragged her away.

"Come on, we're stopping at my place, then going to yours. We have three hours till the party tonight. It may be just enough time."

.:.:.:.

Kendall watched the girls leave, barely aware of the goofy grin plastered across his face. The exact same goofy grin that practically forced Gustavo to call it quits after only an hour of rehearsing.

./..\.

"Waddup with Kendall?" Gustavo asked the other three guys after trying, and failing, multiple times over to get the fourth singer's attention.

"He just started dating Lucy," James answered him, his tone holding a small tinge of bitterness.

They were seated around the table in the conference room, discussing a new song Gustavo was working on. Or, at least, trying to discuss it.

"The Lucy who said your music didn't rock?" Kelly wanted clarification.

Carlos nodded his head. "Yup. Though," he added with a laugh, "it looks like she thinks Kendall rocks."

Logan snorted. "Dude, that was so cheesy."

"This," Gustavo said loudly (as was normal) "is stupid. He's no good when his heart's broken, and he's no good when it's full of mushy happiness and joy. You teens need to calm your hormones!"

All four of them had jumped when he had bellowed the last part, and Kendall seemed to be shaken out of his daydreaming, if only partially.

"What's Gustavo yelling about?" he whispered to Logan.

Gustavo had overheard. "Get OUT!" he shouted. "OUT, OUT, OUT! I'll write the song on my own!"

./..\.

So the guys had fled the studio, all agreeing to meet up in the Palm Woods lobby at eight thirty with their dates so they could head to the party.

Kendall stuck his hands in his jeans pockets and slowly made his way to 2J, still unable to hide his smile. He had a date with Lucy Stone. Tonight. It would make their relationship officially official. He couldn't wait.

"Well you look happy," Mrs. Knight commented when her son entered their apartment. Kendall turned towards the living room as he closed the door. Jennifer Knight was sitting on the couch, leafing through a magazine. "Good afternoon, mom," he greeted her, his voice a bit sing-songy.

"You had better not be like that at the party," James complained from the kitchen, "or I'll claim that I don't know you."

"Speaking of the party," Kendall's mom raised a hand to stop him from shooting out a comeback, "I want you boys home by midnight. Not a minute later." The glare she shot at the two of them left no room for negotiation.

"Fine," James groaned.

Kendall nodded, but was looking at his phone. Lucy had just sent him a text.

Camille is going to kill me -_-

He chuckled and typed a reply before stuffing his phone back into his pocket.

I'm sure you're going to look beautiful :)

Looking up, he met the teasing expressions of both his mom and James.

"What?"

"Oh, nothing," James shrugged, picking up the remote to flip through the channels.

Kendall looked at his mom, who turned her gaze nonchalantly back to her magazine. His phone vibrated in his pocket with Lucy's reply.

You bet I am ;)

.:.:.:.

"Does my hair have to be up?"

"This is your first real date. You have to do something."

Lucy groaned. Her hair was pulled up into a high ponytail, with her would-be bangs let out and curled to frame her face.

"Can I at least wear my jacket?"

"No."

"This is ridiculous," she informed Camille. "So is this shirt. I'm fine with wearing my cammi shirts and tees, Kendall's fine with it, so why do I have to wear this?"

This was a very thin, rosy pink blouse sporting a black floral pattern on the left side and short, very frilly sleeves. "I look like a freaking Valentine's Day card threw up on me," she added, referring to the pink shirt and her red-streaked black hair.

"Well that's your own fault," Camille responded. "Besides, you look hot. Mysterious hairdo, dark makeup, fishnet gloves, black jeans, combat boots..."

"And the lacy frills," Lucy added scornfully, pulling at the blouse's sleeves.

Camille rolled her eyes and swatted at Lucy's hands. "You're fine. Now come on, the elevator's here."

Lucy sighed and followed her friend on the elevator. "I'm not happy," she informed her as the elevator doors whispered shut. She knew her discomfort was more so due to nerves than the shirt, but she wasn't going to admit she was nervous.

"Oh yeah?" Camille smiled to herself and tugged at the bottom of her own shirt, a yellow blouse with long sleeves pushed up to her elbows and frills along the button-line in the front. She got it to lie just right against her flared blue-jeans as the doors slid opened.

"No, I'm not." Lucy remained adamant, but her focus wasn't on Camille anymore. Because they were just rounding the corner into the lobby. Her eyes were instantly snagged by Kendall, who was already looking at her with an easy grin on his face. She felt a mirror of it slide across her own, the tension she had previously felt pushed away. It's Kendall, she told herself, why did I expect this to be weird?

"Wow," he gaped as she approached him. "You look-"

"Cute?" Lucy supplied, crinkling her nose like she had at Camille earlier.

Kendall tilted his head. "Absolutely adorable," he teased.

Lucy swatted at his chest with a playfully irritated expression. Inside, her stomach was doing flips as the butterflies raced around almost painfully faster. It was just Kendall, but something felt different. She hoped the feeling wouldn't ever go away.

"Hey, are we going to go to the party or what?" Carlos interrupted them, the curly-haired Jennifer by his side.

James let out a sound of amusement. "Yeah, let's head to our cool minivan so we can go to the LA party."

His date, a wavy-haired blonde in a sky-blue summer dress, laughed. "Oh, stop," she responded in a chaff tone. "No one will be looking at your car when the four of you have such killer girls."

They all laughed as they headed out to the parking lot. Kendall put his arm around Lucy's waist and gently pulled her flush against his side. "You ready for some fun?"

Lucy felt herself shiver with excitement. She didn't want to admit that she felt as giddy as those giggly teens in the movies, but she smiled up at him anyways. "You think you can handle me, Knight?" she ribbed in her usual fashion.

Kendall gave her a chaste peck on the lips. "I think I can keep up."

.:.:.:.

The night flew by in a blur of colors and dancing and conversation. (Mostly due to the fact that the author got lazy.) It wasn't until 11:56 that the minivan rolled into the Palm Woods' parking lot, but no one was rushing.

They exited the vehicle, everyone talking and laughing, still exhilarated from the party. However, they eventually parted ways and Lucy found herself on the elevator, alone with Kendall for the first time since their date had started.

"I think tonight went very well," Kendall commented with mock gloating, "if I do say so myself."

Lucy laughed and took off Kendall's coat, which he had offered her as they left the party. "I had a lot of fun," she told him honestly, words accompanied by a warm smile.

"Enough fun to warrant a second date?" he inquired with a raised eyebrow, taking his coat back.

The elevator dinged and opened on the third floor and they walked out. "I think that can be arranged." she replied. They stopped at her apartment door.

"I had a great time, too," Kendall told her before kissing her lips, meaning for it to be a quick goodnight kiss.

Guessing his intention, Lucy wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss before pulling away herself with a cagy smirk. "That is a kiss," she informed him.

Kendall chuckled. "That wasn't a very long one," he mocked.

Lucy's eyes narrowed in playful acceptance of his unspoken challenge. Their lips met again, and Lucy let herself rock back that half a step until she was leaning against her door. Kendall's hands were on either side of her waist, his thumbs hooked through her belt loops. That kiss would have gone on for much longer than the few seconds it did if they weren't interrupted.

"Kendall?"

Kendall and Lucy broke apart and turned their heads toward the elevators and the voice, one that sounded bitterly familiar to the former.

"Jo?"

Lucy loosened her grip around Kendall's neck, the name he uttered familiar-sounding to her ears.

Standing halfway between the elevator and 3B, Jo Taylor was looking at them in a mixture of disbelief and what looked close to horror.

Kendall gaped with an expression that almost matched hers.

Lucy looked between them through the awkward silence before she stepped out from between Kendall and her door. "Uh, hi, I'm Lucy," she greeted Jo with her hand extended and an uncomfortable half-smile.

The other girl took Lucy's hand with her own and shook it. "I'm Jo," she said wearily.

Kendall didn't say anything. Lucy stomped on his foot and he snapped out of his frozen shocked state just in time for Jo to ask, "So, what was… that about? Are- are you guys… going out?"

Feeling unusually uncomfortable, Lucy looked at Kendall. She had heard all about Jo, most of it from Kendall himself, and had no idea how to handle this situation.

Apparently Kendall didn't, either. "We were- Jo?!" He had meant to say 'We were just out,' but he couldn't wrap his head around the fact that Jo was here, and not in New Zealand.

Lucy didn't know that. She narrowed her eyes. "We were? Gee, it was nice hanging out with you, too," she snapped.

It took a moment for him to catch his mistake, and it turned out to be a moment too long. "No Luce, I-" he tried to explain, but she had already entered her apartment and slammed the door in his face.


Darn you, Jo! Interrupting a Kucy moment like that, it should be against the law :/ Lol, the song Lucy sings at the beginning is a part of My Crush by China Anne McClain. I think it fits, but it is definitely a song Lucy would scorn.