Happy Halloween my lovely readers!

This has been in the works for a while now. I was curious on how Wade and Zoe would react to their little kiss and this came out. I hope you guys like it. Enjoy.


"What's going on with you and Wade?" Annabeth asked on the walk home from school the following day.

"Nothing, I have no idea where you ever got that there was ever anything wrong," Zoe replied fidgeting with the straps on her backpack. She had tried to act cool that morning when Jesse and Wade showed up at her house to start the trek to school. Awkwardness had ensued.

"Because you two are always glued together and today you wouldn't even look at him, heck you wouldn't even talk to him," AB pointed out. "Was it a fight?"

"We didn't fight," Zoe replied, shaking her head, chewing on her lip.

"Then I don't get it," AB huffed, stopping in front of Zoe's house. Zoe looked around before she grabbed her best friend's arm and pulled her upstairs to her room. Zoe shoved AB onto her bed shutting the door after she made sure that her dad hadn't followed her upstairs. "Zoe, you're starting to scare me here," AB said frantically all while keeping a very close eye on her best friend.

"We kissed," Zoe blurted out. "And now things are just weird between us," Zoe sighed falling back on her bed looking up at that ceiling.

"You kissed Wade?" AB squealed, turning to look at her friend. Zoe nodded her face red. "Why?" AB asked seeing Zoe wasn't as thrilled with the whole kissing thing as she was.

"I made him read me the paper he wrote about what he wanted to be. And in the paper we kissed and that brought on the topic of kissing and we just kissed to get it over with. And now I realize just how stupid that was because we're only in the fifth grade," Zoe ranted. She had more to say but AB laughing made her stop. "I'm so happy you find this whole thing funny," Zoe snapped with annoyance at her friend.

"You like him don't you?" AB asked. Zoe shook her head.

"He's my best friend, has been since he pushed me in the mud when we were 5 and I threw mud at him. There is no way that I like him more than a friend," Zoe replied with a sigh.

"There is," AB declared.

"Not possible," Zoe stated. "Could there be?" She asked after a long silence.

"Yes," AB told her. "He's your best friend Zo, that doesn't mean you can't have a crush on him. George and Jesse are your friends but do you have the need to kiss them?"

"No, but I didn't have the need to kiss Wade until he read that stupid paper," Zoe huffed. "Besides a first kiss should be special not a kiss just to get it over with," Zoe sighed sitting up.

"You may not see it yet Zoe, but your kiss with Wade will be special," AB assured her. Zoe looked at her friend like she didn't believe a word she had said. "You'll see," AB said getting up. "Now I need to get home."

"AB, promise me you won't say anything to anyone about my kiss with Wade?" Zoe asked in a pleading matter.

"I promise," AB said, flourishing out the door. Zoe sighed falling back on the bed.

Across town Wade was about ready to not only punch his friend but find something to use against his brother to get him grounded. They just wouldn't shut up. Jesse knew the second he saw Zoe exit her house, blushing like a mad woman seeing Wade who seemed to be more interested in the ground than his best friend that something had transpired between the two of them. The whole walk to school before they parted ways was Jesse finding something to talk about.

"Would you two just shut up," Wade growled. "I didn't get into a fight with Zoe," he hissed, eating a fry off the plate sitting in the middle of the table at the Rammer Jammer.

"Something is going on with you two," George mussed. "So what is it?" He questioned taking a fry himself.

"You guys never shut up in the morning on the walk to school and this morning I had to come up with every topic discussed and neither one of you were even paying attention. I could see the awkwardness a mile away. What happened last night in your room?" Jesse questioned, looking at his little brother. Wade glanced out the window.

"Nothin'," he said.

"Oh no," Jesse said, leaning on the table. "Everything was good and when she had to leave last night, you two gave one of the weirdest most awkward hugs I've ever seen," Jesse chuckled.

"Now we're getting something," George said. "Did you notice anything else?" He asked, looking across the table at Jesse.

"Nope," he said popping his 'p'. "But it had to be something major," Jesse mussed, pointing a fry at Wade.

"We kissed," Wade muttered, keeping his gaze out the window.

"What?" George asked, choking on his soda, which he had just sucked through the straw.

"Sweet innocent Zoe kissed you?" Jesse smirked.

"Yes," Wade stated, looking at his brother. "Why wouldn't she?" He asked offended.

"Because Zoe doesn't go around kissing guys, heck you don't go around kissing girls either, you're a fifth grader," Jesse said.

"For like 7 more months," Wade stated.

Jesse laughed shaking his head. "Why kiss her?"

"That stupid paper and heck if I know," Wade said, leaning back in his seat. "It just felt right," he said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Neither one of you can be talking," Wade smarted off. George and Jesse looked at him with curious looks on their faces. "Jesse you kissed Emily in the fourth grade," Wade smirked.

"That was a dare," Jesse argued back, "it doesn't count." Wade rolled his eyes eating a fry, turning his attention on his best friend.

"What?" George asked, swallowing the lump in this throat.

"How old were you when you kissed Lemon?" Wade asked. "I believe if ask your brother he'll tell me it was when you were 5 playing in the kiddy pool in your backyard."

"Hank doesn't know anything," was George's rebuttal.

"Yeah, okay," Wade laughed getting up. "You losers can pay for the fries and the drinks, I'm out of here," Wade announced walking off. He had one place in mind and he needed to get this awkwardness between them squashed right away.

After a few quick words with Harley, he was let free to go up to Zoe's room with the promise of keeping the door open while they were inside her room. Wade walked into her room a laugh playing on his lips as articles of clothing came flying out of the closest at him. "What are you doing?" He asked some of his laughter coming out.

"Dad refuses to buy me another Halloween costume when I'm always the same thing," Zoe called back. "Said I could find a suitable one to wear in my closest," she added on walking out of her closest.

"By the looks of things, you can't find anything," he smirked. "I don't remember this?" He said holding up a shirt. Zoe rolled her eyes.

"That's because it's Lemon's," Zoe answered, tossing the shirt back into her closest. "What am I going to do? The Halloween dance is this Friday night and Saturday night we're going trick or treating and I don't have a costume. What are you going as?" Zoe asked walking around her room to pick her clothes up.

"FBI agent," he smirked. "You okay?" He asked seeing Zoe freeze.

"Uh yeah," she told him turning around slowly and giving him a fake smile.

"I know you better than that. What's wrong?" He asked, plopping himself down on her bed. "Is it the kiss?" He asked. Zoe nodded her head. "It really wasn't anything, Zo."

"That's where you're wrong Wade," Zoe huffed, tossing the clothes in her hand up in the air, making Wade laugh. "A first kiss is everything," she told him with a sigh. "I'm happy that it was you," she told him, sitting on her bed next to him. "I just hate how weird things are between us now."

"They weren't weird a moment ago, not until we think about the kiss," Wade told her. Zoe nodded her head.

"So what we don't think about the kiss?" She asked. Wade shrugged.

"I'm not really sure, Zo. I do know that I hate things being this awkward between us."

"Me too, Wade, me too," Zoe responded.

As the days passed them by, things got easier for Wade and Zoe. There were times that Wade would catch Zoe blushing when he looked at her. The more he thought about it the more he was happy that his first kiss was with his best friend, because to him and not that he would ever say anything to anyone ever, his kiss with Zoe meant something special to him.

The night of the dance approached quickly and Zoe smiled seeing the new doctor costume on her bed. 'Because you're gonna be the best doctor, like ever!' Zoe laughed at the messy note that was lying on top of the costume. Kiss or no kiss Wade was her best friend and she had no reason to have this awkwardness between them.

After getting the run down from her dad, she was free to go. Walking outside she saw that her group of friends with Jesse and Hank were waiting for her. Zoe ran up to Wade and hugged him tight, thanking him for her costume. Wade shrugged it off, saying that it was nothing even if he had spent all the allowance he had been saving up for to buy a new guitar on it for her.

They weren't going to let one little kiss that held so much keep them from being the friends they were before it ever happened. Tonight they were going to have fun and eat way too much candy and popcorn balls, they were going to bob for apples and they were going to hold onto each other when they went through the haunted house, Wade more so for Zoe than himself, and they were going to laugh when they just so happen to get lost in the maze. A kiss wasn't going to tear their friendship to shreds, no it was only going to make their friendship stronger and mean more to them than it ever did before.