Author's note: I know this is unusual for me to write a note at the top of the chapter, but don't worry, there's another one at the end XD So, well... I actually never planned for any of that to happen in this stage of the story, but well, it already did...
Chapter 10 – Breath Before The Kiss
Meanwhile, in the town beneath the airship, Carolina and Nathan were enjoying their lazy, hot summer day, at Nathan's place.
They were in his room, he was playing some video games, and she was just enjoying the air conditioning.
Taking a sip from her apple juice, Carolina began to talk.
"Oh, you'll never guess what Maurizio told me today when I ran into him this morning at the grocery store!" she laughed.
"What did he tell you?" he asked, still facing the video game.
"He... He told me that... Robbie came to his shop yesterday, and... He told him and Riley that he's thinking that Sportacus and I are together!" she laughed so hard, but Nathan wasn't laughing. He stopped the game and sat next to her on his bed.
"Why would he say that?" he asked concerned.
"Apparently he was spying on me and Sportacus, when he was just chasing me as a game, but his mind went way too far," she laughed.
"But why do you ask it that way? Is everything ok?" she looked at his concerned face.
"Nathan?" she asked, and his only response was to kiss her.
Back at the airship, Sportacus was about to draw back, but instead, Riley instantly kissed him back.
When they both realized what they were doing, they separated immediately and just looked at each other in shock.
"What did we just do?" she asked.
"I was about to ask you the same," he said.
Then Riley just stood up and walked to her bag, and Sportacus stood up after her.
"I think... I should leave," she said as she picked up her bag.
He wanted to say something, but Riley stopped him and said, "This never happened, ok? This," she motioned with her hands, "never happened."
Back at Nathan's place –
"Nathan, what the hell?!" Carolina yelled at him.
"I know, I'm sorry, but I can't help it anymore!" he told her.
"What? I-I thought you still love Riley!" she kept yelling at him, as she was going to the door.
"I know, and I thought so too, but... Being next to you in the last months, I guess... I guess I turned all my feelings I had for Riley towards you," he told her.
"Do me a favor – forget that this even happened. Don't say a word about it," she slammed the door of his room.
Carolina ran down the LazyTown streets to find Riley as fast as she could. She ran so fast that she bumped into someone – it was Riley.
"Oh my god Riley, I was on my way to find you!" Carolina told her.
"I was doing the same! I have to tell you something!" Riley told her.
"Me too! Um, you go first," Carolina said.
"No, you go..." Riley said and they began to fight.
After a couple of minutes of fighting who will go first, they decided to say it together.
"Ok, ok, enough! We'll just say it together!" Riley said and Carolina nodded.
"Ok, 1, 2, 3 – Sportacus kissed me!"
"…Nathan kissed me!"
Both of them were shocked.
"Nathan kissed you?" Riley asked in horror.
"Sportacus kissed you?" Carolina asked with joy.
"Yeah, well... And the worst part is that I kissed him back," Riley confessed.
"Oh my god, you kissed him back?" Carolina asked with a huge smile on her face.
"Yes. But you didn't answer my question. Did Nathan really kissed you?" Riley asked.
"Yes, he did," Carolina's mood changed from joyful to sad.
"Did he say that he loves you?" she asked.
"...No. He said that he thinks that he turned all the feelings he had for you towards me," Caro explained.
"Oh..." was all Riley could say.
"I'm really sorry. I know that you still have some feelings for him, but..." Carolina said and Riley cut her off.
"Some feelings?"
"Well, yeah, since you kissed Sportacus back, I thought..." Caro said.
"I didn't mean anything. And why do you even look so happy about it?" Riley asked suspiciously.
"Well, do you remember that yesterday, um, you found me and Sportacus talking in the park?" Caro asked.
"Yeah..."
"Well, that's when he confessed to that he actually... Loves you," she told her friend.
"What?" Riley couldn't believe that.
"Yes. So that why I'm happy for both of you," Caro said.
"Do me a favor, don't ever tell anyone that Sportacus and I kissed, I won't tell anyone about you and Nathan!" Riley told her friend and left.
Sportacus couldn't stop thinking about the kiss.
On one hand - it felt so, but so good!
On the other hand – he couldn't imagine what Robbie will do to him if he heard that he kissed his little sister!
But wow... He had never felt anything like that toward a girl before.
Sure, he had been in a couple of relationships when he was younger, back at the island in the north, but he never felt anything like his feeling now for Riley.
But now she probably hates him.
And it is pretty much true.
Since Riley came home, she hadn't spoke to her mom or Robbie, and her mother didn't even dare to ask what happened.
In fact, the one thing that she told her mother is that she doesn't want Sportacus to be her private teacher for next year.
Author's note: The other note, as I promised XD I have a confession to make: This was not the original idea for the story. The original idea was a story called "Mistake out of Love", where Sportacus and Riley end up together after getting drunk in Riley's graduation party, and he's the one who gets her pregnant, and Sportacus, Riley and Nathan try to work this whole thing out together. Then I regretted, and decided that this story would be much better because of all the drama.