A/N: Hey y'all! So thanks for all the reviews! Y'all are the best! I'm sorry for all the errors in the last chapter. I typed it on my iPod and since it was late I didn't have time to check. Anyways, enjoy!

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[Zander]

I heard the clacking of combat boots coming down the hall so turned around to see Stevie walking by without even acknowledging me. Normally when she's down this hall, Stevie will stop by my locker and talk if I'm there or wait if I'm not. I shut my locker, slung my bag over my shoulder, and jogged after her calling, "Stevie! Steves! Hey, Baskara!"

I finally caught up with her as she was stomping to home room. I asked, "What's going on with you?"

Staring straight ahead, she responded, "Nothing, Rags."

I groaned, shaking my head, and questioned, "When and how did you find out?"

Still not looking at me, she explained, "Same eyes, same shoes, and same ability to suck at lying. I put the puzzles together when Kacey and I were heading back to her house. You know you could've told me."

"No, I couldn't. Stevie, I'm sorry. I just...I didn't want things to be awkward and weird between the both of us. Stevie! Come on, just look at me!"

Stevie just kept walking with her eyes staying the same. She asked, "How would it be weird? Am I just so below your type that you'd be so embarrassed to dance with me?"

"No! Stevie, you know that's not it. I just didn't want to change our friendship! I mean, you never see Joey and Phoebe slow dance, right?" (A/N: Shout out to whoever catches my _ reference!)

Stevie just kept stomping to class. I went on, "Stevie! Steves, please! I'm sorry, I was going to tell you!"

She stopped, moved in front of me, and for the first time today, she spoke to me saying, "Before or after I figured it out?" I was silent. She continued, "You of all people know that I hate it when my so called friends keep secrets from me."

She turned around and kept on walking. I sighed and yelled, "If it makes you feel better, I had fun last night!"

Stevie called over her shoulder, "That makes one of us!"

Then she turned the corner and was out of eyesight. I looked around and saw a bunch of people staring and whispering.

"What happened?"

"Do you think he cheated?"

"She's not even his girlfriend."

"Haven't they been dating since he got here?"

I looked at everyone saying, "Don't' you people have lives to get to? Come on, this isn't Degrassi!"


I strummed the chords on my ukelele on the couch in the band room. The only other person there was Kevin who was sitting on the other end. Apparently Nelson had "stuff" to do.

I put down my ukelele and asked him, "Do you think she's really mad?"

Kevin put down his video game and replied, "She's Stevie. If you keep a secret from her, especially if the secret is about her, prepare for painful bruises and sharp silences. You and Stevie are way too close to stop being friends because of you not telling her something. Besides, she'll probably forgive you in no time. Everyone knows you're practically the only person Stevie will soften up to."

I furrowed my eyebrows and questioned, "What do you mean?"

Kev looked at me like how Kacey looks at all of us when she's talking about brand names and we've blanked out. He replied, "Dude, she danced. Not only danced, she slow danced. Stevie hates dancing and, yet, she danced for Rags. You make her dance."

I sighed and shook my head whining, "This is so messed up!"

I put my head in my hands. Kevin joked, "Rags? What kind of a name is that?"

I lifted my head to give him a look, and he just raised his hands in surrender.


After Stevie opened the door to her house and saw me, she stepped outside and shut the door while questioning, "Are those flowers?"

I handed her the tulips in my hand saying, "Um, no…there just…colorful grass."

She took them expressionlessly and asked, "So what are you doing here?"

I put my hands in my jean pockets answering, "I came here to apologize."

She looked at the flowers in her hands, behind me to her yard, and teased, "For stealing these from our garden?"

I laughed and restated, "Okay, I came here to apologize for two things."

I expected her to laugh, but instead she raised her eyebrows. I continued, "We just wanted to say sorry for not telling you."

"We?"

I nodded and explained, "Kevin and Nelson would've tagged along because they knew, but your mom scares them."

"You mean my dad."

"Nope, I mean mom. Apparently, according to them, she can slam someone twice as bad and hurtful as you can, mentally and physically."

Truly surprisingly, she laughed. She laughed! Stevie looked to the window next to the front door and whispered, "I would let you in, but my brothers in college are home."

I did what I did best: Persuading. "Come on, I've already met your parents and the other half of your brothers."

She scoffed and replied, "You met my 10 year old brother who was just happy you didn't beat his Furious Pigeons high score like Kevin and Nelson and my 19 year old college drop out brother who was drunk at the time."

I smiled and backed up with my hands up like Kevin did before saying ,"Alright, alright. Fine. I'll see you at school tomorrow?"

She nodded and walked back to the door. I turned around, hopped off the steps, and started walking down the lawn until Stevie called, "Robbins!"

I turned around and said, "Yeah?"

She joked, "Phoebe and Joey kissed, like, five times."

I laughed and walked to my car.

Woo hoo! I wrote the part where Zander's at Stevie's house a couple weeks ago, waiting for an excuse to put it in this story, and now I have! Hope you enjoyed and please tell me in your reviews what you thought, what you think will happen, what you want to happen, and what other couples you want to see!(:

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