~Laura's POV~

"Have you seen this?" Maia asked me, showing me a magazine.

I shook my head and grabbed it from her. On the front is Maia, Ross and I with the words 'Love Triangle' written in large block letters. "Damn it," I mumbled. "Why do the media have to twist everything?!"

"Because they're idiots." Maia replied. "What do we do?"

"Uh, Ross and I could go out on another date tonight. I mean, we can show them that everything's fine between us and there's no love triangle." I suggested. "Besides, this time you won't bump into me and I won't break my fingers."

She cringed and I laughed a little.

"Just go and talk to Ross," She said, rolling up the magazine and whacking my head with it.

I laughed again and took the magazine from her. "See you later," I yelled as I left.

I walked to my room, assuming Ross would be there. It was only a couple of doors down, I had to knock since I'd forgotten the key.

"Who is it?!" Ross yelled.

"Laura. I forgot my key!" I yelled back.

I heard him groan and a couple of seconds later he opened the door.

"Do you always have to forget your key?" He asked.

"Do you always have to complain?" I shot back.

"Touché." He said.

"Anyway," I began. I passed him the magazine. "We have to set things straight. Maia isn't happy about this, especially since it'll look really weird if she starts dating Rocky and the whole world thinks she had a thing with you." I then decided to add, "And I don't think Jayden will be happy either."

"So, what do you want me to do?" He asked.

I rolled my eyes. "Well, we'll have to show them that there isn't a love triangle between us. I'm gonna get ready, where do you wanna go?"

"Are you asking me out?"

"Sure," I replied. "That's exactly what I'm doing."

He laughed making me laugh slightly too. "How about dinner and a movie?"

"Okay, I'll be ready for 7." I told him, heading into the bathroom to start getting ready.

I was finally ready just before 7. I decided to wear a black peter-pan collar dress with white flats. I curled my hair and made my make-up natural with smokey eyes and a light pink lipstick.

"Okay, I'm ready." I told him, grabbing my bag.

"Finally." He said, standing up and leading me out of the door. "I thought we'd go Italian tonight."

I nodded. "Sounds good." The restaurant was only down the street so it didn't take long to arrive. Once we did, we were seen to straight away and we both ordered.

This date was going so much better than last time. We were laughing and talking the whole time about random things. After dinner, we went to see 22 Jump Street and we laughed so hard during it because it was so funny. It was the most I've laughed in a long time.

~ Vanessa's POV~

"Hey," I greeted Riker, Ellington and Ratliff as Rydel, Maia and I walked into their room. "What are you guys up to?"

"We were just about to watch a movie," Rocky replied.

"Cool. Can we join?" Maia asked, sitting beside him.

"You already have, so yeah." Ellington replied in a 'duh' tone, causing Maia to glare at him.

Rocky put in a random movie and we began watching it. It was some comedy movie, but I found myself not being able to concentrate on it.

"Are you okay?" Riker whispered.

"Hmm?" I snapped my head towards him. "Oh yeah, I'm fine."

"Okay good. You hadn't blinked for like five minutes." He replied.

I laughed a little. "I was just thinking."

"About what?" He asked.

"Shh!" Ellington shushed us. "If you want to talk, leave."

I rolled my eyes and turned my attention back to the movie.

Eventually, the movie ended and everyone left apart from me and Riker. Part of the reason was because I was too lazy to move and this was Riker's room. Riker was busy cleaning up.

"I wonder where Ross and Laura have gone that keeps them out until," I checked my watch. "Almost midnight, jeez."

Riker laughed a little. "Maybe they're having fun."

I gave him a funny look.

"Oh god, not like that." He said quickly. "I just mean like, having a good time with each other. Oh man, no matter how you phrase it, it sounds wrong."

I laughed and stood up to help him clean up. "Hey so, do you remember after we kissed and we decided to just be friends?"

"How could I forget? You made it pretty clear you didn't want anything to come of it." He replied. "Where are you going with this, Ness?" He then stopped to look at me with a smirk on his face. "Also, as I recall you told Maia you thought I was going to turn back into a jerk if we dated."

I stopped what I was doing and gaped at him. "Maia told you that?!"

"Nah, she accidentally called Rocky while you were talking." He said as we went back to cleaning up.

I sighed and rolled my eyes, "Only Maia. Man that is so embarrassing. What else did you hear?"

"Nothing after you said you were going to let fate run its course. We decided to hang up because we're nice guys and that's an invasion of privacy." He told me.

"You mean, I'd stopped talking about you so you got bored." I clarified.

"No..." He scoffed. "Anyway, stop changing the subject. Why did you ask if I remembered that?"

I bit my lip. "I think it's pretty obvious."

"I know," He nodded. "I just wanna hear you say it."

"You're ridiculous." I rolled my eyes.

"Why are you so nervous?" He asked, smiling a little.

I glanced at him. "I'm not nervous."

"Yes you are. You always bite your lip and roll your eyes a lot when you're nervous." I rolled my eyes again. "See."

I struggled not to roll them again and sat down on the couch. "Okay, so maybe I was wrong about us being just friends. I mean, I have not been able to stop thinking about the kiss." I admitted. "Or you." I muttered, hoping he wouldn't hear.

"Oh really?" He smirked. Okay, so he did hear me. He sat beside me, "If it helps, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you or the kiss either."

I couldn't react as his lips came crashing down against my own. I felt his lips massage my softly, as my hands rested on either side of his cheeks and his rested on my waist. I felt him smile into the kiss as I did too.

He slowly pulled away and rested his forehead against mine.

"Listen," I began. "Please don't get mad. Can we keep this a secret? Just for a little while. I don't want everyone freaking out."

He breathed out a sigh of relief. "I was going to ask you the same thing."

I laughed a little. "We'll just have to be careful."

"Mhmm. It's not going to be easy though." He replied, kissing me again.

A key in the lock made us spring apart quickly. Ross and Laura walked in, laughing.

"Uh, hey guys." Riker greeted. "What's so funny?"

"It was a 'had to be there' moment," Laura laughed again, putting her purse on the table. "Vanessa? What are you doing here?"

I glanced at Riker. "We were watching a movie with the others but they left. What about you two? Shouldn't you be going back to your own room? I mean, it's late."

"I was just checking if Rydel was here." Laura replied. "And Ross needed to talk to Riker."

"Rydel went with Maia to bed." I told her. "I was just heading out actually. Are you coming?"

Laura nodded. "I'll meet you back in the room." She told Ross before following me out of the door. We made it halfway back before Laura groaned. "I left my purse in Riker's room. I'm gonna go back and get it." I nodded and waited while she headed down the hall.

~Laura's POV~

I reached Riker's room and was about to knock until I heard them talking.

"... I don't like her and I'll just be a jerk like I was when we first met. That it's all fake the way I'm nice to her and that I'm pretending to like her." Ross said.

"It doesn't have to be like that." Riker replied.

I gasped and headed back down the hall forgetting about my purse. I could feel tears rush to my eyes.

"Laura, what happened?" Vanessa asked, looking at me concerned.

"I over-heard Ross telling Riker that he doesn't like me and it's all fake the way he's been acting lately." I frowned.

Vanessa frowned too and wrapped me in a hug. "Someone needs to knock some sense into that boy. C'mon you can stay with me tonight."

I nodded and sighed, following her to her room. I really thought he'd changed.

A/N: I'm so sorry it's took me so long to update but thank you for all your lovely reviews, follows and favourites.