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March 2004

AJ and Dean were walking home from school with her babbling about her WWE nonsense crushes and how selfish her dad was to not buy her birthday present when all of her bestfriends did. She gradually skipped giddily while he was kicking pebbles on his way. He wasn't actually completely listening to her as of what happened earlier at school.

Kaitlyn had asked him out for a date and first things first, it was a shocker. He was quite sure he never paid attention to her so it was a complete wonder how she gotten to like him in the first place. Besides, it was really rare for a girl to ask a boy out. Shouldn't it be the opposite? He didn't want to say yes but he felt sorry for her, as Kaitlyn seemed to be a lovable sweetheart. But he was just not into her. He had his eyes set for someone else truth to be told.

"NACHO CHEESE!", AJ suddenly screamed in his ear, making him to stop his steps and rubbed his ear in irritation.

"What the fuck is wrong with you, AJ? What's the matter? You're still hungry?", he hissed.

She ignored his question and a full grin formed on her lips, "Nope! But that's going to be the puppy's name!"

He turned away from her and muttered under his breath for her name choosing, "Weirdo".

"So what?", she stuck her tongue out at him and continued her skipping on the way home.

Dean stayed at where he stood as he was still disturbed with Kaitlyn's action during lunch. He had no one to turn to for help other than AJ. Those two were bestfriends so who's the best to convince Kaitlyn to have a crush on someone else other than AJ herself?

Realising that AJ was quite far ahead from him, he huffed and started to chase her.

"AJ, wait!", he ran and caught up but she wasn't going to stop anytime sooner as she continued to her skipping ritual.

"Yes?"

"Can you at least stop for awhile?", he was out of breath, trying to reach her.

"I'll stop when we reached home, okay, Dean my darlin'?", she grinned and breathlessly spoke loudly and Dean was lucky that they were just seconds away from the Mendez.

AJ finally stopped and turned to him for whatever he had to say. "Okay! Speak!"

Dean was putting the palm of his hands on both of his knees before he stood up straight and faced her, thinking that she didn't know. "Kaitlyn... she asked me out!"

She launched herself towards him, grabbed his collar, making him to crouch down a bit as she clenched a fist in front of his face. "And you say what to her?"

"I-"

"Don't tell me you said no and made her cry!", she made her jaw stuck out in threatening manner.

"Let go of me!", Dean slapped her hand off him before continuing, "I haven't give her an answer yet!"

"Stupid! What else to say? Just say yes, even when I doubted Kaitlyn's taste in boys", she kinda whispered the last part.

Dean chose to ignore her, not wanting to start an argument at times like this. He simply sighed in disappointment and soon he spoke, "I can't. It's not like I have feelings for her"

"And it's not like you have feelings for someone else, don't you?", she retorted.

He quickly avoided her intense stare meant for him. She had this specialty where it seemed she could read him so well.

"Oh my god! Did you?", she asked in disbelief as a smirk plastered on her face. "Who's that unlucky girl, huh? Is it someone I know? Tell me, Dean, come on", she teased him and by now, she was pinching one of his cheeks playfully.

Dean in return rolled his eyes before gripping her wrist tightly in anger, "This is not funny matters, AJ! Just help me out of this!"

Caught off guard and shocked by his outburst, AJ was silenced and slowly, she pulled her hand away from his hold. She was just trying to tease him and it went wrong. Dean must be serious of this girl that he liked. With a slight regret, she made a straight face and looked up at him.

"What do you want me to do then?", she asked seriously.

"Do anything to make Kaitlyn give up on me"

December 2020

"Is she alright?", Roman with mouth full of fries, asked the rest of the gang about AJ's wellbeing at that time.

"How would I know?", Seth replied, also staring at her in puzzlement.

After she went inside her room angrily earlier in the night, she suddenly walked out exactly 30 minutes later, skipping around the living room happily.

Right now, the others had their eyes following AJ's track while eating their dinner. Since AJ and Kaitlyn had retired from their professions and became a writer and owned a clothing company respectively, they could eat whatever they wanted, unlike how they were supposed to be couple of years ago, where every calories counts.

Currently, they were still questioning of AJ's sudden change of mood. She was still skipping like there was no tomorrow and she usually did that out of character only if she was in a happy mood or something.

Meanwhile, Dean was just walking out of the kitchen with a baby drinking bottle filled with lukewarm milk and he stared at AJ's action boringly before he walked to his already awake son in the crib. He lifted him up and brought him to the rest of the guys and sat next to them. He settled the toddler in his lap and gave the bottle to him. In a swift move, the boy gave his father a toothy grin before grabbing the bottle hungrily and started to put it in his mouth as his eyes turned to the cartoon show on TV.

Dean could only chuckle at his son's action and gave him a kiss on his hairs that were just like his lovingly. He then grabbed the burger on the table and when he was about to take a bite, unknowingly AJ snatched it away and stopped skipping as she sat next to him.

"Woah, you said McDonalds stupid earlier and now, you're eating their foods?", Dean asked her, amused.

"Who cares? I'm just happy right now!", AJ ended her answer with a dreamy sigh and a glow on her face, before she started to dig in with the food.

He just shook his head and laughed at her, at the same time wondering what made her to be like that. In fact, he wasn't the only one to wonder about AJ. The others were just the same.

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