Chapter 3

Rosie's POV

Only a week has passed and the boys and I got along great, we did lots of things together. We would play hockey, have food contests, play at the arcade, and even prank with them. I got closer with all of them and especially with a particular guy who I never thought I would like, Kendall. Kendall was my hockey teacher/trainer since he was the only guy in their group who took hockey way too seriously. I can see he's really passionate about it because he looked so focus every time we would play a small game. For instance, there was this one time the guys and I were playing at their school's hockey rink. We were divided into 2 groups: Kendall and I while the other one was James, Carlos and Logan. It was a bit unfair for Kendall and my side but we actually won by 3 points. Logan couldn't even comprehend why they lost while Kendall and I won, which they were implying the fact that I sucked at this game. Kendall and I just shrugged and would sing We Are the Champions expressing our victory. Kendall really takes this seriously and I somehow admire his passion and determination. But as the days passed me and Kendall got so close, we would sometimes text or call each other at night like what Logan and I would do. Soon, the admiration turned to infatuation every time I would look at him and instead of making a comment on his nose or eyebrows; I actually started to like them and would often find his flaws actually adorable. And as a month passed, I was pretty sure I really liked Kendall since I would blush every time he would smile at me or just look at me. And my stomach would just flutter with butterflies when he makes even the slightest physical contact with me. I'm pretty sure he got my heartbeat running away every time he talked to me. It was so crazy and the last time I felt that was when I had a crush on the school's Golden boy, Daniel Rhodes.

Since there was only a month left before I leave Minnesota, I decided to make the best of it. I spent a lot more time with the guys and Katie, while my mom hung out with Mrs. Knight and the other mothers. Sometimes my brother, Luke would join us but he was sometimes missing in action, like he had a hidden agenda or something. The remaining month was surely lived to the fullest because I've never had that much fun back in L.A. We got to play laser tag, play hockey, prank some more, have sleepovers and play some more hockey. It was a fun-filled summer that I'm definitely not going to forget. Unfortunately though, time flies when you have fun and the months quickly went by quickly and there was only a week left before my departure. I decided to make the most of it since I wouldn't be seeing them for a long time. So I made Operation FUN, and it would commence starting tomorrow, since tomorrow is the 1st day of the last week I was staying here.

Operation FUN: Day 1/7

I woke up at 8am that morning and chose an outfit. I took a bath and headed straight for the kitchen, I made some cereal and left a note indicating that I was leaving to go to Kendall's house since his house was close to mine. By the time I arrived it was already 9am and I was pretty sure they were awake so I knocked on the door. I heard someone shout "Hold on!" so I waited and Mrs. Knight opened the door she smiled and greeted me sweetly "Hey dear, come on in Kendall is in his room, go ahead if you want. Did you eat breakfast already? I made some; just get some if you want." I smiled at her sweet motherly actions and said "No thanks, Mrs. Knight, I already ate. I'm just going to Kendall's room." She replied sweetly "Okay, no problem."

As I made my way up the stairs I swore I heard someone sing, I traced the location of the singer out of curiosity and it lead to Kendall's room. I knocked and Kendall opened the door wearing only some khaki shorts with no shirt. I looked at him then to his body, he certainly has a body but not as perfect as James's. He had abs but not washboard but it's still perfectly toned.

When I noticed I was staring I looked at his face and saw him looking at me with a slight smirk on his face but nevertheless he greeted me with a small smile and asked "Hey Rose, what are you doing here?"

"Well, Kendall, I wanted to have fun so I decided to go to your house and have fun since I'm leaving in a week."

"So, why my house, you can always go to Logan's?"

"Well, I have no car and my mom or brother certainly won't take me since they're still sound asleep and since your house was the nearest I decided to come here. Is there a problem?"

He smiled and stated "No, no problem at all, just wondering. Come on in." I entered his sky-blue room and saw that it was super messy, his shirts everywhere, unorganized books and school utensils. He probably noticed that his room was messy so he said "Sorry if my room's messy, you know us guys. Um, why don't you sit down? I'll just wear a shirt." I sat down on his soft bed and looked around his room; just by entering his room you would know he was a hockey addict. I guess he also likes singing because there are some posters of some bands hanging up on his wall. A thought suddenly wandered on my mind, Maybe he was the one singing a while ago. Kendall came back in wearing a dark gray t-shirt and a pair of jeans instead of his shorts a while ago. He looked at me and said "So, what do you want to do?"

I actually had no idea what to do so I just shrugged. He sighed and said "How about we'll go to the movies, is that okay?" Another thought came into my mind, is what he thought we were doing was a date? I wanted to know for sure and asked him directly "Is this supposed to be a date?" He somehow blushed under the Minnesota cold and looked nervous for a while but asked "Do you want this to be a date?"

I truly didn't know so I stated "I don't know, it can be anything at all, I mean I just wanted to have fun before I leave, so I don't really know." He pondered that thought for a moment and said "Okay, how about we make this a date? Just us two, is that okay?"

I smiled and replied "It would be perfectly okay, so what are we going to do?"

"How about let's go to a carnival and have fun?"

"Sure, let's go." With that said we left his house and walked to the said carnival. It was a short walk to the carnival and from afar you can hear the scream of the riders of the rollercoaster and it filled me with excitement. I felt giddy and child-like as I dragged Kendall all the way to the entrance of the carnival. He and I both reached for our wallets as we are about to pay for our tickets, but Kendall said "Two tickets please," The guy selling the tickets indicated that it was $10 for the both of us, I was going to give my share but Kendall already paid for mine. It was so sweet even if it was a friendly gesture. I thanked him and said I was going to pay him back, but he just shook his head and stated "A true gentleman never lets the lady pay." I smiled at his chivalry and got on one of those game booths that you need to knock down all the bottles to get the prize. I paid for my game and Kendall paid for his. There were 6 bottles and I only had 3 balls to knock those down. I grabbed the first ball and threw it at the bottles but managing to knock down only one bottle. I grabbed another ball and aimed it at the middle in order to knock down the others, and I threw it but only knocked 3 bottles in the middle leaving the other 2 bottles separated. I sighed in exasperation and Kendall looked my way and saw how exasperated I was and laughed. I looked at him with an annoyed face and still threw the last ball at the bottle near to falling. It fell but there's still one left, the man who managed the game booth looked at me at one of those fake sorry-you-lose faces and arranged the bottles I threw at. I sighed and stated out loud "Ugh! I wish I had that I huge cute teddy bear holding a hockey stick.

I looked over at Kendall's game and saw he was just starting, he grabbed one ball and threw it aimlessly at the bottles and sure enough it knocked the upper half down. He grabbed another ball and threw it at the bottom half and of course it hit all the bottles down. The man smiled at him and stated "You win, good job! What prize do you want?" Kendall's eyes roamed over the prizes and his eyes landed on the cute teddy bear I was talking about. He pointed to the bear that I was talking about and the man got his prize and gave it to Kendall and told him to come back and play again. He and I began to walk another booth game when he suddenly extended his arm out and gave the teddy bear to me. I looked at him in awe and said "Really? You're giving it to me?"

"Yeah, why not, a cute teddy bear for a beautiful girl," I instantly blushed at his statement and took the teddy bear from him shyly and what I did next was unexpected for him and I. I actually kissed him in the cheek. I blushed at my sudden boldness and I'm pretty sure he blushed too. We walked around and played some more games causing us to have more prizes. It was around lunch time that we decided to eat some lunch so we went to a near hotdog stand. We ordered some hotdogs and drinks and sat down, after eating we went to a really high Ferris wheel; we sat down and made ourselves comfy. When the ride started I squealed because it was really high. He put his arm around me protectively as if stating that I'm going to protect you, don't worry. I snuggled into his arm and enjoyed the view the Ferris wheel gave us. The view was really beautiful, the town was covered with light snow which made Minnesota look like a Winter Wonderland, the view was really breathtaking. As our seat stopped at the highest point, me and Kendall looked at each other and as if gravity was pulling us to each other, we leaned in to each other. I can feel his hot deep breath near my lips and we were about to close the gap when the ride moved again, in an instant we broke apart and continued with our business.

Once we touched land again, I dragged him to what looked like a Death Trap. The ride was a really fast and high roller coaster with far too many turns and loops that could make anyone who rode that puke. I decided to push that fear aside and made my way to the line that for the roller coaster. Kendall looked at me like I was a psycho and said "Are you sure you want to ride that metal death trap?" I laughed and stated "I said the same thing, but yes, I want to. I may seem insane but it looks really uh… fun?" He just laughed and we waited in line. In a span of 8 minutes, we reached the front of the line and it was our turn to ride. Once they let the previous passengers out, they let us in. I felt the adrenaline pumping through my veins as we sat down, I put on the belt for safety precaution and buckled it tight. In less than 5 seconds, the ride started to go up, I was getting anxious and Kendall noticed so he held my hand for reassurance. I smiled for a second but it was replaced by loud screams when the ride made a huge dive downwards. The ride went upwards in a fast pace and made a fast turn that almost made me fall. It made all these loops and turns that made me want to puke but I held it in. It did this one last final loop and a huge dive that has a height of at least 30 feet tall. It made this final drop before it finished and slowly landed to a stop and I unbuckled the belt, I stood up too fast and I landed on top of Kendall. He made an "oof!" sound and groaned in pain, I stood up slowly and got up from him and offered him my hand. He grabbed it and I helped pull him up, he stood up and we got out of the ride and left.

We laughed all the way to an empty bench where we sat there just saying that how crazy and fun the ride was. It was 2:45pm and we decided to play more booth games. We went to this basketball booth game, and we played, of course Kendall won and gave me a prize. It seems that every booth game we go to he always gives me his prize, it was really sweet that he would do that. We played more games like dart games, shooting games and other booth games. Soon enough it was 4pm and we decided to go to one last ride.

There were a lot to choose from The Metal Death Trap, the Ferris wheel, a gondola ride, or the Tunnel of Love. I wanted to go to either the gondola ride or the Tunnel of Love to make it a romantic ending. It's as if Kendall read my mind and we went to the Tunnel of Love, we were instantly seated without waiting in line.

The ride started and Kendall put his arm around me by instinct. The tunnel of love was full of romantic scenes around us like the scene to Romeo and Juliet and other cheesy love stories. It had romantic music surrounding us probably to work the mood. I snuggled closer to his arm and I looked at him, I just noticed how handsome he looks. How his beautiful emerald green eyes twinkled in the light and how his smile could light up the whole town and we leaned in closer to each other as if to continue what was interrupted a while ago. As I felt his hot minty breath on mine the gap between us slowly close as we locked our lips together. It was so heart stopping and it felt like I couldn't care any less to the environment around me. We moved our lips together for a minute or so before we pulled away, our cheeks painting itself a deep shade of red. We remained cuddling for the rest of the ride as we waited for the conclusion of the ride.

Once it fully stopped we went home, he walked me to the house. It was around 6pm and the sky was just beginning to darken, I invited him over for dinner but he said he has to go home. As we bid our goodbyes I walked up to the front door, I wanted to give him one last thanks for the surprises so I called out to him "Hey Kendall!" He stopped walking and turned around to face me. I walked to him and pecked him on the lips and said "I really had a great time, thanks! You definitely made my day." He smiled and said "Sure, anything for you Rose, how about before you leave let's go on one more date?"

"Sure. Can't wait! Walk home safely. Bye"

"Bye." With that we parted our ways and I was pretty sure I was still blushing. I opened the door of the house to see all the lights dimmed, I opened it and saw a note at the kitchen. It declared that mom and Luke just went to the Mitchell residence. I shrugged and took a glass from the cabinet I filled it with water and gulped it all the way down. I put it in the sink and went up to my room; I logged in to facebook and checked to see if I had any messages over the summer since I wasn't online a lot during the summer. I had tons of messages from all my friends asking me how my summer was and I had tons of friend requests and all sorts. I accepted the friend requests of people whom I knew and ignored the others, I also replied to each of my friends' messages and by the end of it I was really tired so I laid in bed for a moment to take a nap, but instead of a nap, I had fell asleep from exhaustion right there and then.