Author's Notes: Yeah Yeah, I know...it's super late. But better late than never right?! Real life got in the way of me being able to have these prompts done on time but I do plan to write something for every single one of them.

This goes with Prompt #2 -Sugar Cookie

It's hella cheesy and corny and fluffy! Hope you enjoy! As always, please hit the button and leave me a review.

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"Did you just call me, sugar cookie?" Loren Tate asked as she turned around and smiled at her boyfriend. He was sitting on the sofa in her dorm room leafing through a copy of the lastest People magazine. She moved from her seat at the desk to the coffee table and sat down directly in front of him. " So we are at the cute little nicknames stage now, rockstar?"

Eddie Duran looked up from the feature on Kate Winslet and smiled his most charming smile, "You can't come up with something better than rockstar?! I thought you were supposed to be this impressively smart college sophmore?" He tossed the magazine to the empty cushion next to him and leaned up to trap her legs between his arms. She peered down at him with the most amazing amount of love in her beautiful brown eyes that it nearly took his breath away.

"Well, I was smart enough to ask you out wasn't I?" She gave him an even bigger smile when he sighed and rolled his eyes. " You just didn't have a single clue."

Shaking his head, Eddie grabbed ahold of her legs and pulled her off the coffee table and onto his lap, settling them back against the sofa. " You will never let me forget how unbelievable clueless I was will you?"

She shook her head, " nope , never."

"I can't beleive that we were friends for all those years and I never knew that you were carrying a torch for me. " He really was an idiot all through high school to not realize that the love of his life was right there next to him in biology class. Of course he had known Loren Tate his entire life. She was the girl next door, literally. But he never thought of her as anything more than the girl who grew up in the house beside him. They were friends, in fact, she was probably his best friend, but he didn't have a clue the depth of her feelings or even his own.

She gave him a dazzling smile, " I was pretty good at hiding it, though, so the fault can't rest soley on you."

Except that it could because he was a moron. He was too wrapped up in airheaded cheerleaders to see what a treasure that he had always had. His other best friend, Ian had tried to tell him time and time again that he was looking in the wrong place but he was just too stubborn. " No it was my fault. You were, are, amazing, but I was a douchebag to you."

Loren tilted her head to the side, " no you weren't. You were always super nice to me." She couldn't remember a single time that Eddie had acted like a douche bag. Even though he hadn't known that she had a crush on him, he was sweet and always defended her anytime she was made fun of for being a "goody goody". He was always her friend. Her protector. Her inspiration. Her whole high school existence.

" I was a douchebag for never noticing how beautiful and smart and kind you are."

She rolled her eyes, " yeah because that's what boys notice. Come on Eddie, you were a typical teenage boy. You noticed Chloe Carter and Adrianna Masters because they were..." she searched for the right word but couldn't come up with one so she went for, " perky."

"And conceited, bitchy, greedy...the list goes on and on."

She laughed, " well at least you noticed that much about them. Most guys probably still don't." Chloe Carter and her possee which included her former elementary school best friend Adrianna Masters, had made it their mission to pick on and bully Loren every chance they got. To put it honestly, they made her high school years a living hell. And she would lying if she said she didn't take pleasure in the knowledge that Chloe was serving burgers and fries at a dinner in West Hollywood instead of modeling like she always planned and that Adrianna was the trophy wife of some middle aged tech guru who is banging his secretary. It was a nice little bit of karma. Especially when Loren was the one who not only got a full scholoarship to one of the west coast's best colleges but she also got the boy that the two of them had fought over all senior year. Yes, life was certainly better than good sometimes. And sometimes, the popular mean girls, got exactly what they deserved.

"Wanna know what else I notice?" He used his index finger to draw lazy circles on the arch of her back where her tank top had ridden up slightly. At her nod, he gave her a sexy smile, " I noticed that you are more beautiful than either one of them put together. You are smarter than they could ever dream to be, and neither of them came close to stealing my heart the way that you did."

She smiled that smile of hers again. The one that punched him straight in the gut. " I stole it huh?"

Eddie nodded, " Yep somewhere around the punch bowl." He smiled at the blush that crept up her neck and settled in her cheeks. It made her look even more beautiful. " Who knew that little Loren Tate couldn't handle a little spiked punch at the Prom?"

She picked up a black throw pillow and whacked him on the chest with it. " Shut it up, Duran. Maybe if your jock buddies hadn't spiked the punch I never would have told you that you needed to get your act together and you'd still be at Chloe Carter's beckon call."

Eddie visibly shuddered at the thought. He still to this day had no idea what ever attracted him to that girl in the first place. Hormones were the only answer he could come up with. Stupid teenage hormones. " Well then it's a good thing that I didn't get to you before you got to the punch bowl."

"Yeah because I loved being so drunk that I can't remember pouring my heart out to the guy that I had a massive crush since I was eleven. " She rolled her brown eyes heavenward, " If Mel hadn't told me what a fool I made of myself, I never would have believed it."

"You didn't make a fool of yourself. You were honest and told me that I was clueless. You told me that Chloe wasn't good enough for me and that if I would just open my eyes, I would see how much you cared about me. And I recall you saying something about the girl next door being everything that I could and would ever need."

Loren sighed, " I was such a geek."

"No you were amazing. After that night, I opened my eyes. " Suddenly it was like his brain kicked into gear and he realized that this girl was everything that he had always wanted. She was beautiful, smart, funny, kind. And with an intesne about of clarity, he realized that he had always held Loren to a higher standard than the girls that he dated because she was special and he had always known it. He never dated her because she was too special. After that night, though, he let himself truly see Loren and opened his heart to what he felt about her. It almost knocked him off his feet to realize that no matter how many girls he dated, he'd always held a part of himself back, a part of his heart back, and that Loren owned that place. It had taken him the remaining two weeks of the school year to get his act together. When Loren asked him to be her date to a graduation party, he wasn't stupid enough to say no. He accepted and later that night he kissed her for the first time and asked her to be his girlfriend. . It was the smartest thing he had ever done. And now, two years later, he was happier than he had ever been. " You know that I love you right?"

Loren smiled, " I do. I love you too. " She leaned up and kissed him. " I am glad that you finally got a clue."

"Me too, sugar cookie."

Loren laughed. " Seriously, why are you calling me that?"

"Don't you remember?" She shook her head to indicate that she didn't. " When my parents and I first moved in next door, you brought us over..."

Finally getting it, Loren interupted, " a plate of sugar cookies that mom and I made! And then you guys invited me to stay for dinner and you and your dad made the spiciest Chilli I have ever eaten."

Eddie nodded, " and your said that I would forever be known as the boy who spiced up your life." He rolled his eyes, " You were so corny."

"Says the guy that has decided that my pet name should be sugar cookie. "

Pulling her tighter in his arms, Eddie smiled as she settled in that spot just under his chin that he adored, " Corny or not, I love my little sugar cookie."

THE END