*Hide*

"Jonathan, thank you for meeting me here," Lily stated as she got to her tree house.

"You sounded upset on the phone. Is everything okay?"

"My dad was upset when he learned that you walked me home from class yesterday. He doesn't think that you've changed. He doesn't want me to see you anymore," Lily explained.

"Does this mean...does this mean that you can't be my girlfriend?"

"My dad's wrong about you Jonathan. I know that you've changed. We just...we'll have to hide our relationship from him until we can come up with a plan to convince him that you've changed."

"Lily, I'm not sure that lying to your father is a good idea."

"Why not? He lied to me...he told me that he wants me to be happy more than anything, but if he did then he wouldn't try to ban me from seeing you. I don't like the fact that we have to hide either, but it's just a temporary solution until I turn eighteen," Lily explained.

"I...I don't want you to get into trouble because of me," Jonathan stammered.

"I won't...we'll be careful, but I don't want to lose you."

"You can't, you won't. We'll hide our feelings for one another until you turn eighteen next month and then no one will be able to keep us from being together," Jonathan declared.