"Hey, Cat?" Beck jogged to catch up with Cat at the end of the school day.

She looked up at him expectantly. "Yeah?"

"Do you want to come to my house and study?"

"Now?"

"Yeah."

"Kay kay. Do you want to be partners in the script-writing project?"

"Sure. Come on, I'll drive you."

In Beck's RV, they settled on opposite ends of his couch. He dug out his laptop and pulled up a document-maker program.

"How about a sci-fi?" he suggested.

Cat crinkled her nose and shook her head.

"Okay."

"We could make an alternate ending to Twilight."

"That's all ready been done this semester. A historical maybe?"

"We could start with them getting an email that somebody died."

"Let's not do that."

"Maybe we could write a forbidden love."

Beck sat Indian-style, his laptop resting his knees. He swept a strand of hair out of his eyes. "Like the lady and the stable boy?"

"Or the lord and maid."

"That would probably be easier. Okay. When and where?"

"You have a good English accent." Cat pointed out.

Beck smiled anf demonstrated with a "'ello gov'ner." He was rewarded with a giggle from Cat.

"England then?" Beck asked.

"Yeah."

"1860s?"

Cat shrugged. "Sure."

"What are the characters names?"

"Lord… Beckham!"

"And?"

"You pick." She pulled her legs up under her and sat on them.

He thought for a minute. "Cate," He decided. "With a 'c'."

She clapped her hands with glee, then they got to it. They typed the whole script and did there other homework, just enjoying being together. By the time they had finished it all, it had gotten dark.

Beck set aside his book, asking, "Aren't your parents wondering where you are?"

"I called them on my way here. There's no time I have to be home by."

"In that case, there's microwavable burritos in the freezer if you want to stay and eat with me."

"Kay, kay."

"Great." Beck launched himself off of the couch and popped some burritos into the microwave. "There's some Dr. Fizz in the fridge if you want one."

She grabbed two and tossed him one. He opened it and took a long swig before turning his back to her to get the burritos from the microwave.

"What are we doing?" She asked the back of his head.

"We're having burritos." He answered, hoping to avoid the big picture.

"I mean this whole thing. Is this a date? We told Jade we're a couple even though we're not and not we're doing all of these things just the two of us. But we're not together."

"Aren't' we?" Beck asked, turning around. "What about the kiss-es?"

Cat blinked in surprise at him before saying, "You felt it too?"

Beck set the plate on the table. "Of course I did. Couldn't you tell?"

She shrugged. "We're actors. I thought…" she let the sentence trail off.

"Was I acting the day of the earthquake? Was I acting just now?"

Cat's brow creased. "Just-"

He cut her off with a long kiss. "Yeah, just now."

"No." she squeaked.

"So let's make it official. Do you want to be my girlfriend, Cat?"

"Yes." She rose onto her tiptoes and kissed him again.

Review, please, and check out my other stories and poll. Okay, you guys, here's the deal: I really feel like I need to finish "Last Chance", so I'm going to mark this story as complete and then make a sequel later, make a trilogy, I guess. Please don't be mad at me! :)