Here's the third chapter. I am pretty sure that I have found and fixed any obvious mistakes grammatically, but I can't say for sure. Hope you guys all like it!

Thanks again for taking some time to read what has been on my mind for quite some time.

CHAPTER 3

"What does it mean when when you are dating someone, but that someone has a stronger connection with someone else?"

"What are you talking about Will?"

"I don't know Kyra, it's just ever since Kate and Rick started to become friends, I feel like she is more occupied with him than her own boyfriend." Will says rubbing his hands over his face before looking up at his own best friend. "Kyra what do I do?"

Looking up from the open books on the living room table, Kyra thinks for a moment before saying, "The only thing we can do. Separate them."

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Weeks have gone by since Kate and Will's first date. Weeks have gone by since Kate decided that having Rick in two of her classes wasn't all that bad. Weeks have gone by since Rick and Kate had become friends. Weeks have gone by since Kyra and Will had their talk. Weeks have gone by since Rick and Kate have hung out like they used to.

But only days have gone by since Kate almost kissed Rick.

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"Rick, come on be serious!" Kate says giving him a slight punch on the arm to get him to stop messing around. She shoves the Spanish book into this hands, already flipped to the right page and says, "Please Rick? Our menus are due on Monday. We need to get this done."

"Uggh, fine. What do you want me to do?" Rick asks adjusting his placement on the couch so that he is sitting upright and a little closer to Kate.

"Type out the menus in Spanish. I am almost done with the boarders. Then we just need to print out the words onto my drawings and then laminate them. Okay?"

"Okay Miss Bossy Pants." Rick jokes by gets to work on the translations.

Twenty minutes later, the borders are finished, the translations have been written, and printed onto Kate's drawings.

The living room floor was cleaned up within a matter of minutes which made Kate a little sad. Since she started having more dates with Will, her and Rick haven't actually seen each other outside of class as often as she would have liked.

But when she came back in from the garage where she put the supplies away, she found Rick in the kitchen cooking.

"I thought you left. Don't you and Kyra have a date?" Kate asked with a slight shudder at Rick's girlfriend's name. She didn't really like Kyra, but Rick did, so she put on the face of a good friend.

"Yeah I do. But I have some time. I just thought we could spend a little time together. We haven't really had any lately."

"I know, and I'm sorry." Kate said finally eyeing all the ingredients Rick had out on the kitchen counter. "Are you making your snowballs? But it's only October!"

"Yeah well I know how much you and your mom love them, so I wanted to teach you how to make them." Rick said pulling the eggs out of the fridge.

"Really?" Kate says surprised.

"Yeah. I trust that even when you know how to make them, you still look forward to when I make them every winter." He smirks, pulling out the last of the ingredients from the pantry.

"Always." Kate says, and like always, her breath catches when she uses their words.

"Then come on. We have some baking to do."

Half an hour later, the snowballs were ready to go into the oven. After closing the oven door, Rick pulls the oven mitts off and starts to help Kate clean up. However, Rick decided to have a little fun first.

Creeping up behind her with a palm full of flour, he tops her on the shoulder, and right when she turns to face him, he tosses it on her face.

"RICK!" Kate screams, "I can't believe you!"

"Do you really think I wouldn't do something like this? Come on! You should know me by now!" Rick joked, slowly backing up when he saw the look in her eyes.

"Well then you should know how much I enjoy seeking revenge." She says slowly approaching him, backing him up until he hits the sink. Reaching just to his right, Kate picks something up, but Rick is too focused on the scary look on Kate's face to notice what it was.

Rick didn't even have a chance to open his mouth for an apology before Kate grabbed his belt, pulled it towards her, and dropped the cracked egg into his boxers. Then with a smirk on her face, she cracked one on the top of his head before walking away saying, "Payback's a bitch."

"Oh no you don't." He says grabbing an egg, running after her, but slipping on the first step while trying to catch her going up the stairs.

Kate stops running when she hears the thud behind her. Turning she sees him holding his hand over his left eye. Getting him back into the kitchen and up on one of the stools next to the kitchen counter, Kate grabs a bag of frozen peas from the freezer and gently holds it to his face.

"Are you okay?" She asks as he winces at first touch. He pulls away at the coldness, but Kate won't have any of it. "I know it's cold, but it will help."

She puts one hand on the bag of peas and the other on the back of his neck to hold him in place. When she puts the bag of peas back on his eye, his hands instinctively grab on to what they can. At this moment it just so happened that Kate's waist was at the perfect height for his hands.

When Rick's hands gripped her hips, Kate let out a slight gasp, letting her eyes leave the peas and find Rick's other eye only to find it closed. She had put all her focus back on the bag of peas when she felt his thumbs moving. They started to make little circles on the small patch of skin her shirt had revealed.

Trying to suppress a moan that would reveal exactly how good his fingers felt, she accidently pushed the bag of peas a little too hard on his face and he winced, opening his other eye, their eyes meeting.

Unconsciously, Kate's right hand lowers the bag of peas, her left still on the back of his neck. Neither of them knew what was happening, but they didn't know how to stop it. They found their lips closing the distance and within seconds their lips would be touching. However, that moment never came. They both jumped apart quickly at the sound of the front door opening.

Johanna walked into the kitchen and found Kate at the sink washing dishes and Rick at the counter with the deer in the headlights look.

"Hello Katie, oh Rick! What brings you here?" Johanna asks setting her things down and giving Kate a kiss on the back of her head.

"He taught me how to make his snowballs mom!" Kate answers for Rick who finally moves.

"I should go." He says quickly, but quietly before getting up to leave. Right before he leaves the kitchen he turns back and says, "They should be done in a minute or two."

When they hear the front door close, Johanna asks, "What was that all about?"

"I almost kissed him mom." Kate says, turning towards her mom with tears fighting to spill over.

"Aww Katie-bear, come here." Her mom says wrapping her arms around Kate and letting Kate bury her head in her chest.

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"I can't believe you!" She yells at him, immediately stopping the car, "Get out!"

"Kyra please. Nothing happened. I left immediately." He pleads, "I love you, not her."

"Yeah Rick, you love me so much you tried to kiss your best friend, and then waited a week to tell your girlfriend." Kyra said, finally lowering her voice. "Just please leave. I need time."

"No." Rick states not moving an inch.

"What do you mean no?" Kyra says, ready to just get out of the car herself.

"I love you. So no, I'm not going to give you space. Kate and I never kissed." Rick says looking over at her to find her hands in her lap, her hair falling in front of her face, and tears dropping from her chin onto her shirt. "Kyra, I am so sorry. I never meant to hurt you. I don't even know what happened to be honest. But I know that the only person I want to be kissing is you."

"I still need time Rick. I'm sorry." Kyra pleads, "I just need a couple days, okay? Please, I will call you. I promise."

"Fine," Rick says unbuckling his seatbelt, opening the passenger door, and walking away.

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Can we talk?

I don't think that's such a good idea.

Please? Rick, just talk to me. Please?

Sitting on his bed, waiting for Kyra to come over, Rick looks at his phone, reading the texts that are coming from Kate.

Kate, I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry.

Hitting the send button, he locks his phone, and slips it in his back pocket. Making his way down the stairs into his kitchen to await Kyra, he feels it vibrate.

Can't do what Rick?

While trying to decide what to text back, the doorbell rings. Opening it to find his girlfriend standing there, he suddenly knows what he has to do.

Can't be friends anymore. Goodbye Kate.

Turning his phone off, and bending down slightly, he pulls Kyra in for a kiss.

"Well hello to you too." Kyra says, leaning back into him for another kiss, loving the way her lips feel on his.

"I'm really glad you called." He admits, dragging another, longer kiss from his girlfriend.

"Me too." Kyra nods before continuing, "Ready for our date?"

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Days later, Kate is still wondering why her best friend refuses to talk to her. She wracks her brain trying to go over everything that happened, but she still doesn't understand why he shut her out.

She was so busy concentrating on her thoughts, that as she rounded the corner to her health class, she suddenly hit a wall. Well, it was actually a person. It just felt like a wall.

"Rick." Kate says shocked. Looking up at him, her heart breaks just a little. He wasn't even looking back at her, he didn't even have his eyes open. "Rick?"

"I have to go." He says coldly.

"No." She says grabbing his arm and turning him around to face her again. "Not until you tell me what the hell happened. One minute we were best friends and the next, you say we can't even be friends at all. What the hell?"

"Fine, you want an explanation?" He says, and by the tone of his voice, she can practically feel his skin freezing over.

"I think that's the least I deserve."

"Because I don't love you. I love Kyra." He says, shaking away her grip and walking away.

All Kate can do is hold in her tears and walk into class. Sitting next to Lanie, all Kate can think about throughout the lecture was the empty seat next to her.

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Walking with purpose up the front steps to his house, Kyra pounds on his door. And she keeps pounding until the door opens to reveal Kate. The one person who would ruin everything.

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