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"Good day Class; apologies for my being late. Alright today were focusing on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, the epic love story of two star crossed lovers. Before we begin, can anyone here tell me what love is?" Professor Rodgers asked. The class went deathly quiet. "Seriously, nobody?" he asked annoyed. The class was still quiet. "Fine let's see, Miss Rosetti. Can you tell us what love is?" he asked. Scarlet was chewing her gum, "Yeah love stinks" she smirked causing an eruption of laughter from the entire class. "Ha ha, very funny Miss Rosetti, but no" he smirked.
"Let's see, how about you Mr Buttowski? Can you tell us what love is?" the Professor asked. "Yeah, I have and idea" he smirked. "Care to elaborate?" Professor Rodgers asked sitting at the edge of his table. "Sure, love is a pain, no doctor can explain, it affects the heart and spoils the brain." He replied earning another eruption of laughter from the class. "Alright, quiet down, quite down everyone." He calmed the class. "You guys are a really something" he smirked.
"Okay let's see" he looked around the class and found Kendall staring outside the window, and then he smiled. "Miss Perkins" he called out startling the girl out of her thoughts. "Yes Professor" she asked. "Care to give us your insight on love?" he asked. She looked around and found all eyes on her, including Kick and Scarlet; "Well that depends sir. There are different definitions of love." She answered. "Fair enough, let's focus on the theme" he smiled.
She smiled at the Professor before answering. "Simply stated, love is the feeling that you feel for another, which comes from within. Love is the emotion that makes you blush and feel elated, makes you feel on top of the world and just not yourself anymore! Love is profound and shouldn't be treated lightly. It is a natural wonderful feeling, and so powerful that it can cause us pain. Love shared between two people creates an awesome feeling that wraps us and makes us very protective of the love we have. Sometimes love hurts because we stop thinking of ways to keep the fondness burning, to keep it safe. Love is not one-sided and you can never win in the game of love, which is the saddest part. Love between two people is a shared feeling about their interest in one another. It is not about jealousy, conflict, testing, instead love is a positive feeling." She said looking towards Kick as she continued
"It is the total surrender of your heart to another person when you have that confidence that they will treat your heart better than you will. Love feels good, not bad. It should want to make you a better person, not lead you to do something damaging. It makes you glow and soar in spirit. Love knows no limits, no boundaries, and no limitations. It is unconditional, limitless, and always flowing. We can't avoid getting hurt in love, but just as Tennyson said: "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." She smiled at Professor Rodgers. "Well done Miss Perkins." He applauded earning a heartwarming smile from Kick and an eye roll from Scarlet.
Kendall turned away and continued staring out the window as Professor Rodgers continued his lecture on the star crossed lovers. Her mind kept wandering to Kick, she couldn't deny it, she was indeed in-love with him. They have been through a lot together; they have built a solid friendship and she's not going to let that go. She was brought out of thought by the buzzer, signaling the end of class. She grabbed her bag and books and made her way towards the door.
"Hey you" Kick jumped in-front of her startling her. "Geez Kick, give a girl a heart attack will you?" she mocked. He smiled, "so were you headed?" he asked. "I'm heading out to the orchid, I have to study for the Analytics paper" she smiled. "Geez I forgot about that." He said stopping dead in his tracks. He smiled, "What would I do without you?" he asked. "Apparently a lot" she shrugged and walked off stunning Kick.
Scarlet met him at his locker, "Hey Kick, some of my friends from LA are coming down to see me and they want to meet you" she shrieked. "What?" he asked. "They want to meet you" she said. "Wow that's… wait, I can't. I have a Analytics paper coming up and I need to prepare." He said realizing that he has to study. "Oh, but if you change your mind, we'll be at the diner." She said walking away.
He took his backpack and headed to the orchard. When he arrived, he scanned the area looking for Kendall. He walked around and spotted her under the apple tree with her nose stuck in the book. "Room for one more" he asked causing her to look up at him. She smiled up at him and moved; "always" and then he sat down on the blanket besides her and pulled out his books. He pulled out a sandwich and a soda and handed it to Kendall, "here, I got this for you" he smiled. She looked up at him skeptically, "Your peace offering, Why?" she asked. "I don't really know I was hoping you could tell me why you're so mad at me" he said looking at her. Kendall could see the hurt was evident on his face. "I don't know what you mean." She said looking down at her hands. "Come on Kendall, you've been avoiding me for the past few days; I know you better than you think. You only do that if I've done something stupid. So spill" he said.
She looked down at her book and thought about it for second. "Well incase you haven't noticed Kick, you've haven't been around much. You're always hanging out with Scarlet doing what you like. I didn't want to tag along like the third wheel, sooo" she was cut off by Kick "so you thought you'd give me space" she nodded. He felt really bad that she felt this way. "I don't know what to say" he admitted. "Don't worry about it" she smiled waving her sandwich at him; which made him smile. "You know, do like hanging out with you" he said before opening up his book; which gave Kendall butterflies in her tummy. They spent the entire afternoon studying, as usual Kendall was assisting him with stuff and soon they found their rhythm as if nothing changed.
Night fell, "It's getting late, I think we should head back" Kendall said packing her books into her bag. "Yeah sure." He said following suite. They were so busy packing up that they didn't realize that they were about to collide. Kick was the first to look up and was taken aback to see just how close they where. Then Kendall picked her head up and she was face to face with Kick. His eyes where boring deep into her soul. He knows that she has beautiful eyes but now he was mesmerized by them. Kendall couldn't help the attraction that she felt for Kick and found herself drawing closer and closer to him. He closed the distance between them, when he crashed his lips on hers. After all their other kisses back in Mellowbrook, this was different. This kiss was tender, slow passionate even. Kendall felt like Juliet being kissed by her Romeo for the very first time. The kiss quickly became heated, until they opened their eyes and realized what at happened. Kendall was the first to pull away from Kick as she turned away to hide her blush. Kick on the other hand was gone to lala land again, this time he snapped out of it.
He pulled her into his embrace and kissed her again, she dropped her bag as she wrapped her hands around his neck, deepening the kiss. He picked her up as he kneeled down and lowered her onto the blanket. He kissed her jaw and down her neck, creating all sorts of feelings in Kendall she never thought she'd feel. Kick continued to assault her senses as she his. They spent what felt like an eternity to them just kissing until Kick made the first move by gently sliding his hand under her sweater, feeling her silk soft skin. His hand left a trail of fire against her skin causing her to moan into his mouth. She ran her hands on his back. He pulled away and looked deep in her eyes for approval for what came next. He found nothing but love in them and with that they began undressing and spent the night lying under the stars.
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