FINALLY, I will admit, this is my favourite chapter, and I have no shame in admitting that! I have been waiting for this chapter and I feel so happy to be putting this up. So, this is set a year and three and a half months after they both met, and I even got Lucas in this one, overjoyed! I'm just going to dedicate this to everyone on the forum because they all coped with the spoilers, I just didn't tell them the surprise.

I don't own anything, I don't want to, so there, don't sue me!


Jase's Point of View:

I sighed as I looked up at my ceiling bored, there was nothing to do and I doubted Riley would be up for anything, I noticed the date was the one year annerversary of the date she recieved the letter from her parents, I didn't think today was the day to go and bug her. So, try to imagine my surprise when Lucas called up the stairs.

"Squirt! Riley's here." I shot up into a sitting position, I held my breath for five seconds. "Squirt, if you are asleep I'm sending Riley up!" Lucas warned, my eyes widened. "Okay, that's it!" Lucas yelled up. "Go on up Riley, third door on the right." Lucas said, I heard Riley's footsteps thundering up the stairs and I bolted out of bed, I could not let Riley see my room. I rushed out of my room and managed to slam my door behind me as Riley reached the top of the stairs.

"Hey there stranger, you're up." Riley mused as she walked over to me. I flashed her a nervous smile. "What are you hiding..." She asked suspiciously, I grimaced, of course Riley could see through me. "Tell me or I'll force it out of you..." Riley warned, I shuddered, Riley was violent when she wanted to be.

"My rooms messy." I admitted, Riley raised an eyebrow.

"You expect me to believe that..." She said as she pushed past me, I closed my eyes as she opened my door. "Holy Pikachu!" I heard her exclaim. "This isn't a mess, it's a neuclear hazard!" Riley shrieked, I turned around and winced as I faced the challenge head on.

"Hows about we go downstairs to hang out..." I offered, Riley nodded and backed out of my room slowly, we closed the door and headed down the stairs, I took care to make sure Riley was fine, she looked okay, her hair was pulled back into a high, wavy, midnight ponytail, with her side fringe sweeping over her forhead and the ends brushed the nape of her neck. Her obsideon eyes shone with happiness as she looked over and smiled at me, gosh, when did Riley get so beautiful?

"Do I have something on my face? You're staring at me..." Riley informed me, I found myself blushing as I looked away.

"No, I was just seeing if you were okay..." I mumbled lamely, Riley sighed.

"As well as I could be, given the date." Riley muttered, I tried to give her a smile, but it came out as more of a grimace.

"You want some ice-cream?" I offered, Riley made an attempted smile as well, hers came out better than mine.

"Sure, ice-cream sounds good right now." Riley said, I led her to the kitchen and grabbed a tub of toffee ice cream out of the freezer, then I grabbed two large spoons for us and we sat across from each other at the kitchen table, we stabbed our spoons into the ice cream with a couple of laughs as we had to wrench them out again. After a while the ice cream had softened, so it was easier to eat.

"Where did my brother go?" I asked when I realised we had been downstairs for a while and Lucas wasn't around.

"Probably to see Sierra..." Riley suggested, I laughed.

"There's no probably about it." I countered, Riley laughed and I took the time to appreciate her beauty, when she become the most important person in my life?

"You're staring again, seriously, what is wrong with my face?" Riley exclaimed, I blushed again.

"Nothing, is there something with mine?" I asked nervously, Riley seemed to ponder it as she stuck her spoon in her mouth, she let go of the handle to cup both my cheeks in her hands.

"Eh... your hair's grown out nicely, so you don't have that pretty boy anymore, so, your good." Riley mumbled as she released my face, but with the spoon in her mouth it came out rather weird sounding, I just guessed she said this, but I knew Riley, she probably said: "It's your face, what isn't wrong with it pretty boy." I'm just going to favour my interpratation because it sounds nicer.

"So, what should we do after the ice cream is finished?" I asked, Riley took the spoon from her mouth and pondered this.

"We should probably get more." She decided after a few seconds, her spoon, on the other hand, was pointing at me, leaving no room for mistaking what she meant when she said 'we'.

"I'll get out another tub when we've finished this one." I agreed, Riley beamed and made another spoonful.

"You're learning." She teased, I pulled a face and made my own spoonful of ice cream, we sat in a comfortable silence as we ate and I basked in my best friend's happiness.

"What should do now?" I asked when we finished up the tub, Riley raised an eyebrow and pointed to me then the empty tub, then the freezer with her spoon. "How did I forget that?" I sighed jokingly, making Riley laugh again. I walked over to the freezer and leaned over so I could search through the desserts compartment for more of the toffee ice cream, then I had to bite back a curse as I stood up and closed the freezer.

"Something wrong?" Riley asked as she left the table to stand behind me.

"We're out of toffee ice cream." I said apologetically, Riley placed a hand on my shoulder.

"Well, why are you worried, I think we filled up on enough ice cream anyway." Riley said brightly.

"Yeah, come on, let's go and watch TV." I suggested, Riley nodded and I laced an arm around her waist as I led her to the living room.

"What are we watching?" Riley asked, we sat down on the sofa and I switched on the TV, there was a movie starting, a Rom-Com.

"This looks good." I suggested, Riley nodded and we began watching it, a little while later I learned why it was a bad idea to watch a Rom-Com with your best friend who you had to notice was female sitting right next to you. It made me very uncomfortable and I kept trying to get comfortable without alerting Riley, but she eventually noticed, because she finally paused the movie and turned to me.

"Is something wrong, because you keep shifting." Riley asked, I gave her a nervous smile, I suddenly felt very self concious with her eyes on me. "You can talk to me, is the movie boring?" Riley asked, trying to help, my eyes flickered to the screen, where the two main characters were locked in their first kiss, then my eyes flickered back to Riley's concerned face, my mouth suddenly felt very dry.

"It's not the movie." I croaked, Riley's eyebrows furrowed disbelieving.

"Then what is it?" Riley asked bluntly, I took a deep breath as Riley placed a hand on my forarm to help. "You can talk to me, whatever it is, you can tell me." Riley promised, I sighed and let my eyes wonder to the screen, neither of us talked for a few minutes while I tried to gather my thoughts. "It must be nice to have a first kiss in the rain..." Riley mused, I took the time to notice that it was raining in the movie.

"You've never been kissed in the rain?" I asked disbelieving, Riley nodded silently, but her wistful look said it all. "Oh, yeah, Mexico, hardly any rain..." I remembered, Riley nodded again, I wondered how she could amend this, I looked outside, it was sunny, so that ruled out anything. "Come on, we'll improvise." I suggested, I stood up and grabbed Riley.

"Where are we going?" She asked as I pulled her towards the stairs.

"Getting you a kiss in the rain." I told her, when we reached the top of the stairs I opened the first door on the right, the bathroom and dragged Riley inside.

"What are you doing?" Riley asked as I released her hand, I turned to the shower control and turned the shower on before stepping inside.

"Trust me, please." I said softly, the water was cold and stinging my skin, but this was how it felt. Riley looked at me like I just might be crazy, but she stepped inside the shower and closed the door behind her, there wasn't a lot of space in the shower, so we were in limited space under the water.

"Okay, what's this brillient idea?" Riley asked amused as our hair and clothes began sticking to us.

"Close your eyes." I whispered, Riley looked confused, but she smiled as she closed her eyes, I gently cupped her face the way she did to me earlier and I leaned in slowly and kissed her gently, my eyes closed as our lips met. I'd kissed girls before, but Riley, wow, she could kiss, I was utterly mind-blown as she began kissing back, I forgot we were in the shower at my house, I utterly believed we were standing outside in the rain with just the two of us out in a deserted street. Eventually we pulled apart due to lack of breath, I found myself holding onto the wall to stop me falling to the ground, Riley looked pretty mind-blown too, her eyes were all glassy and her cheeks were as red as an apple.

"That was some kiss." Riley breathed, I nodded, that was just... wow. I sunk to the floor, trying to regain my barings, I think I lost them somewhere on that street, Riley soon joined me on the floor of the shower, both of us trying to get our heads around that kiss, all I knew was that I couldn't think straight at all.

"We should go back downstairs." I suggested, Riley nodded and we both managed to get up, I turned the shower off while Riley headed downstairs and grabbed us both a large towel each before following her. I passed her the green towel and wrapped the blue one around myself as we sat back down on the sofa, Riley pressed play before wrapping her towel around her, but neither of us talked much, the movie mocked us as the characters confessed their love at the end of a movie, I couldn't help but wonder if that could be Riley and I, but we were best friends, and we'd just kissed... I'd ask Lucas later.

"Hey guys, why are you wet?" Lucas asked as he entered the house and noticed us.

"Water fight out back." Riley lied smoothly.

"Oh, okay, I've got a date tonight." Lucas annonced, we both waved him off as he sprinted up the stairs. "Hey! Why is the bathroom wet!" Lucas called down.

"It's a long story." We yelled up, but we both blushed. I really needed to talk to my brother.


So I bet every one of you were surprised at that, I got them to kiss, epic high after that, and I'm not male, so, I don't know how they would feel. I feel not so productive now, so, I'm just posting this and doing my happy dance, I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did, because Jase and Riley are really fun to write, I feel like I could write them all day!

Thalia out!