Nope, I do not own W.I.T.C.H. - and they are just unreasonably refusing to even discuss it!

Irma's POV

I missed my next class, sitting in the nurse's office. But it was the best hour I ever had, as the nurse left as soon as I had a icepack and reclined on the table, heading for the teacher's lounge. So Caleb and I spent the entire hour trading hot kisses while I held the ice pack in place. Good thing I had the icepack to cool us down...

When we left the nurses office it was time for lunch. We walked hand-in-had to the food line and got our lunches. To my surprise, Caleb stopped me from paying and said, "That's my job from now on."

When I started to speak, he hustled me along saying, "Don't hold up the line." And then my mind shifted on to the task of finding a place to eat at since I was sure we would be eating with the other Guardians anymore.

I felt like the three-legged freak at the circus side show the way people stared at us, but Caleb just took my hand and towed me along. We ended up sitting at a table by the start of the food line, never too many people at this table because of the line bumping into them. Caleb put down his tray, then very smartly, grabbed the table and moved it away from the line by about two feet and then we sat on the other side.

As we ate, Caleb asked me what I wanted to do after school, and I remembered what my dad had said as I was leaving. I was pretty sure my dad wanted to review the rules about boys. Even though my dad's known Caleb for about a year, we've never been anything more than friends, that plus Caleb's dating Cornelia made him a low risk in my dad's view,up until now that is. So I told Caleb I had to go straight home, he shrugged," then laced his fingers through mine and leaned over and stole a kiss.

I stared with a silly grin at this new Caleb, "Aren't you the guy who didn't like PDAs?" (He had stated this frequently while dating Cornelia, we all new he was a very 'private' kind of guy.

"That was in my past relationship, old news, definitely not how things will be with us", he said smiling into my face.

"Oh," I said, "Can I ask, why weren't you happy with Cornelia?"

"Why do you want to know that?" Caleb answered suddenly very serious.

I cast my eyes down then looked up at him through my lashes, I think I really put my foot in my mouth. Why did I ask that stupid question? "You know what it doesn't really matter," I replied.

Caleb leaned in and touched my face, "If you want to know, I'll tell you...

Caleb's POV

"First, I was always attracted to you but I was really flattered by the way Cornelia threw herself at me. The needy act can be compelling for a short time. But the longer I was with her, the more I saw how bad a match we were, she liked things too much, needed to be seen and complimented all the time. I was turned off by her and realized I didn't want to kiss her or be near her. That's when the onion bagels started, it was only out of guilt that I didn't eat a study diet of them, I mean like she said, her reputation means everything to her and having a boyfriend that didn't want to be near her would have 'lowered her stock' as she says."

"The more I pulled away, the more she tried to impress everyone with how great our 'romance' was. But I was no longer moved by her throwing herself at me. Add to it the constant arguing, the mean way she treats people, her trying to get me to participate in her shallow pastimes or my trying to get her to make meaningful contributions here and on Merida and basically, you have the recipe for a bad boyfriend-girlfriend match. I really felt like I was mostly a trophy to her, she didn't listen to my saying it wasn't working."

Irma had been chewing on three bean salad, stopped, stared at me and said, "Wow, you never really know what's going on in a relationship looking in from the outside. I thought you would be just marvelously happy with her uber-beauty and the way she fawned over you."

"The funny part is how she is so upset now and she cheated on me like three times."

Irma's eyes lit up with shock, " I knew about Peter, but there were others?!"

"Yeah, two other guys, Kyle from my class and some older guy I don't know from her church. I actually caught her with them and it wasn't pretty. But it never really bothered me much because I knew I didn't love her and we were just going through the motions."

Timidly, Irma asked, "Did you ever cheat on her since you were so unhappy?"

"Yes, yesterday with you. But I don't see it as cheating, I'd made up my mind Cornelia and I were through. Any more questions , because lunch is almost over. It's okay to ask me anything you want, I'll always tell you the truth."

That's when my girlfriend put her fingers around my neck and kissed me passionately in front of the whole cafeteria. When she pulled back and she said, "I love you, Caleb," in such a sweet way, I almost didn't hear the jocks two tables over hooting their approval.

"I love you too, Irma." And kissed her again.

But no good thing goes on forever, and sure enough Martin walks up intent on ending ours.


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