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I woke up this morning to Stuart staring above at me. That little creep.

I screamed, and pulled my blanket over my head. Now I'm gonna wake up and it'll all have been an awful dream.

I opened my eyes and the creep was still there.

"Good morning darling." Stuart said, trying to use a flirty voice. Jared barged into my room, shirtless, carrying a baseball bat. OMG, he looked so hot like that. His shoulders were tense, and his teeth were gritted.

"Em, you alright?" Jared asked, pecking my lips.

"Why is this buffoon kissing you?" Stuart asks,

"It's called love Junior." Jared said, patting Stuart's head. Take Stuart, multiply him by two, and you get Jared. Except for the fact that Jared's cute.

Stuart looked like he had his heart broken. (This is when stuart had a sort of crush on emma and was staying with the rosses)

"I'm sorry, this is my boyfriend Jared." I said, hugging Jared's bare upper half.

"You're dating Bigfoot's little brother?" Stuart asked,

"Yeah, he's tall, cute, funny, smart, makes amazing pancakes, loves me and, well yeah. He's so perfect." I said, as Jessie walked in.

"Jared, out! Out! Out!" Jessie said, pointing to the door.

"C'mon Jessie. Give me a break. I miss her." Jared pleaded,

"You saw her yesterday. And you live with her." Jessie said, not changing her mind.

"Jare, I love you." I said, blowing him a kiss.

Jared caught it, "Love you more." He ran out, and probably went downstairs.

"Emma, I don't want you to get hurt. Jared will drop a girl like a fly if he doesn't like her." Jessie tried to reason. Key word, tried.

"I love Jared, and he loves me." I said, stating the obvious.

"Look,Emma, this is the first time he's ever told a girl he loves her. But just watch out. And you can start being around each other. Luke and Ravi told me that he wouldn't stop whining about how he can't make out with a picture of you." Jessie explained. Towards the end, I started to blush. Like a lot.

"I'll wait for ya babe." Stuart said, throwing a wink at me. Jessie and I shivered, as he left my room.

"You better be happy you're getting paid to take care of him." I muttered to Jessie and then screams came from the kitchen. Jessie and I ran from my room, and saw Stuart attempting to scare Jared. It was actually really funny. Jared is so much taller than him, and Stuart has his hands on his hips and is looking up at him screaming. Stuart stood up on his chair, and wagged his finger in Jared's face.

"Get out of my chair," Jared said,

"You will talk to me with dignity and respect!" Stuart screamed,

"Yeah, that'll happen. Get out of my chair before I make you.

Stuart yelped, as Jared picked him up over his shoulder, and plopped him on the ground.

"So, I was thinking we could go on a date today in the park." I said to Jared.

"I'm up for it, will Stuart be there?" Jared asked me, his blue eyes flickering from me to Stuart. Stuart tried to beg me with doe eyes, but they weren't as cute as Jared's.

"No," I said, ruffling Jared's hair and kissing his cheek.

Jared pulled me closer to him, and he smelled a little bit like his cologne, Axe, and Old Spice shampoo mixed together. He took a huge breath of air in, once I was snuggled into his side.

'I want to stay like this forever.' I thought to myself, but the scent of Bertram's God awful cooking brought me back to life.

"NO! I want Emma to sit next to me." Jared whined playfully to Jessie when she sat down.

"Someone's having a bowl of Whiny Puffs." Jessie muttered and sat next to Stuart,

"There's a violent draft, so I'm going to need to switch seats with you." Stuart complained, using obnoxious facts. Cool, you speak nerd, go speak it with Ravi.

"I'm gonna skip breakfast, Jared, we'll have brunch in the park." I said, pushing my quiche away from me.

"Agreed," Jared said, spitting some of his quiche into the napkin.

About an hour later, Jared was in khaki shorts and a light blue Abercrombie shirt. I wore a pink and black sundress, black polka dots on pink, and a pair of Greek style sandals.

Jared grabbed my hand gently, as we walked towards Central Park.

"I love you." Jared said to me, stopping us towards a patch of grass. There was a picnic blanket and a wicker basket.

"Can I, can I be honest with you?" I asked,

"Yeah, that's what relationships are about, right?" Jared said, opening the basket to reveal a couple of sandwiches, some oatmeal raisin cookies, and three bottles of water. He also had a loaf of bread. Not a couple of slices, but a loaf.

"Jessie was talking to me earlier, and she said that you played with girls heart's for fun." I said, hoping not to ruin our date. I really did love Jared. And I do, I'd say it a million times and the meaning wouldn't change.

"I changed, a lot. I'm getting serious about my feelings, and Emma, if I didn't love you or care about you in the slightest bit, I probably would've been flirting with the supermodel downstairs." Jared said, reassuring me completely.

I took Jared's hand,"Sometimes, I'm scared that I'm gonna lose you, or that you might not love me."

Jared chuckled, "Nothing but death will take me from you Emma Ross."

Jared's lips crashed onto mine, and I had no clue what he was doing. And I didn't care, because I liked it.

A giggle escaped my lips and soon enough, we were in the middle of a tickle war. Jared hung over me, tickling me like crazy, and there was nothing I could do about it, because it tickled so much.

"I am the king." Jared stated, while tickling me.

"No you're not." I managed to get out,

"And you are my queen." Jared said boldly, like he was daring anyone to disagree with him.

"Alright, maybe." I giggled,

"Together we will rule Central Park as king and queen of tickling." Jared said, getting some older couples to coo at us.

An older lady, came up to us and pat Jared's shoulder, "You two remind me of my husband and I when we were young."

"Thanks." I breathed out, panting from all the tickling.

"Young man, you're very lucky. Treat her well, and maybe one day she'll say yes to you. Stay together you two, promise me that. I can see a lot of love." The lady said,

"I don't plan on leaving her, anytime soon." Jared said, putting his arm around my shoulder. He pecked my forehead, and I gave him a huge hug.

"You better not plan on leaving either," I said, getting onto my tip toes to kiss him. It was heaven.