"Morning." Brendan greeted me.

"Hi." I greeted back before I returned to reading my book.

"Um...did you sleep well last night?" Brendan asked, probably wanting to make some small talk.

"Mmmmhmmm." I was only half-listening, since I was absorbed in my book.

"What book are you reading?" he continued.

I held back a sigh. "Clockwork Prince."

"That's cool."

This time I did sigh. "What do you want?" I pulled the book away from my face.

"I was wondering if you wanted to get out of the house for once. You know...go out."

"And?"

"It's been a while since you've been outside."

"How long?"

Brendan sighed, rolling his eyes at me. "It's February third!"

I looked at him, "Are you serious?"

"Yes!"

"Oh...whatever."

I heard footsteps walking towards me, suddenly my book was snatched out of my hands and thrown across the Library.

I got up from the beanbag chair, "What the hell!" I yelled.

"Stop ignoring me!" Brendan shouted back.

"Fine! What is it?"

"Do you want to go out tonight? With me?"

"Where?" I asked.

"To dinner."

"Sure."

He looked at me, "Really?" he breathed.

I ignored his minty breath.

"Just give me my book back." I sighed.

Brendan hastily retrieved the book from across the room, handing it to me and placing a quick peck on my cheek. I wanted to say something, but he already fled. I ended up rubbing my cheek with my hand, as if it would make the kiss go away.

"So where are we going?" I asked Brendan as he was starting to make an illegal u turn.

"Surprise."

"You don't remember where it is do you?"

"Whatever."

"And did you really have to bring Sunfire with you?" Brendan asked.

"She can't be left home alone with Anthony! God forbid if the guy saw a spider on the ceiling, he'd be screaming bloody murder, when Sunfire will just step on it with her paw!"

"You have a point." Brendan agreed.

"So why did you kiss me this morning?" I asked.

"What? Oh. Um...didn't you want me to?"

I felt my blood rush cold. I didn't notice I was petting Sunfire so fast that it hurt her until she yipped out in pain.

"Oh! I'm sorry Sunfire! Are you okay?" I asked her.

In reply, she looked at me and grumbled and jumped off my lap into the backseat.

"You going to answer my question?" Brendan asked me.

I realized we were in a parking lot to a restaurant called, 'The Downworld.'

"What restaurant is this?" I changed the subject.

"You'll find out in a minute AFTER you answer my question." he teased.

I desperately looked for another distraction point. The car was still on...

I turned radio all the way up.

"What are you doing?" Brendan yelled over the pounding music.

"Singing!" What you don't like Travie Mccoy?" I shouted back.

"I-"

"Yeah, I would have a show like Oprah, I will be the host of, everyday Christmas, give Travie your wish list, I'd probably pull an Angelina and Brad Pitt, and adopt a bunch of babies that ain't never had shit-"

"Stop singing!" Brendan shouted, turning the radio off.

"What? I'll turn on M and M if you want!"

I turned the cd on, the song 'Not Afraid' blasting in my eardrums.

Brendan snatched the keys out of the ignition, cutting off the song.

"Hey! I was listening to that!"

"Answer my question." he growled.

I frowned at him. Fine. I will.

"No, Brendan Ashford, I never wanted to kiss you!" I hissed. Okay, that was weird. I didn't even know how I knew his full name.

He looked away. "Fine. Let's go eat." Brendan slammed the door shut behind him, obviously pissed.

Sunfire whimpered, not wanting to be left alone in the car.

"Come here Sunfire, I'm not gonna leave you here alone."

The pup jumped in my arms. I scratched her head, shutting the car door behind us. I walked towards the restaurant, taking a good look at it. I instantly stopped short. It was the most ugliest thing I've ever seen! It had a sunken in roof, all the windows were smashed, the sign of the restaurant was burned out and it had the gross vomit color green painted all around the exterior. The place was a DUMP! But worse, it smelled of rotting garbage. I fought the urge to hurl.

"It's not as bad as it looks." a dangerously familiar voice said behind me.

Oh no

I turned around, and there he was, looking-

Better?

His skin was looking so tan it was glowing, his brown eyes were back to the same shade of chocolate batter, and his hair was still black as an oil slick.

"It's just a special cloak of magick to get mortals to stay out of the place." Drew told me.

"Yeah. I just hope it looks better on the inside." I replied.

Wait, why was I talking to him?

"Don't worry," Drew said, "Oh! May I pet her?"

I hesitated a moment, biting my lip.

"Sure." I decided, carefully handing Sunfire over to Drew.

He took the pup carefully in his arms, cradling it against his chest.

"So...how did you know it was a girl?" I asked.

"Hmm? Oh. Well, doesn't she look like a girl?"

"Of course!" I replied.

"Exactly how I knew." Drew smirked, placing the pup on the ground in front of my feet.

I was about to snatch her in my arms before she could dart to a different location, Drew said,

"She's not going anywhere."

Sunfire, surprisingly, padded over to me and sat on my sneaker. I frowned. She hasn't done THAT before.

"You look better." I said briskly.

"Yeah...I wasn't feeling really-"

"But you were healthy enough to stay at school?" I hissed.

"I wanted to apologize to you-"

"Then why did you make out with Hillary!" I spat.

"That's none of your business. And Hillary's a hoe! It doesn't make much of a difference between you and your boyfriend!" he hissed.

"That has NOTHING to do with this conversation! And second of all, Brendan is NOT my boyfriend! He was just happy enough to cure me of my illness, and let me stay at his house!" I shrieked.

His face softened immediately, seeing tears spill over. I stubbornly wiped them off my face.

"Hey, I'm sorry." he whispered.

I looked anywhere but at him.

"You know the time when we went to BlackWater Acres?" Drew asked.

"I remember that hellhole." I said bitterly.

"Well, that night in the stairwell, I was going to give you something."

Drew took something out of his jean pocket, holding it out to me. I grudgingly took it from his palm. It was a bracelet, a little locket dangling from the silver chain in the shape of a sunburst. I opened the sunburst shaped locket, seeing a tiny bare spot where you could put a photo in it.

"It's pretty!" I gushed.

"Just consider it as a late Christmas gift and an early Valentines gift."

I quickly took Drew in a bear hug, pecking a quick tender kiss on the lips for him. -Ignoring the pulse of electricity going through my body-. I laid my head against his chest, my arms still circling around him. He hesitated, thinking maybe I would probably wack him on the head and he would screw the whole moment up. He hugged me back, and I could smell the sweet scent of Axe coming from his leather jacket.

"I love you." he told me, kissing my hair.

"Love you too." I mumbled in his shirt.

"So you love him."

I bolted from Drew, almost stepping on Sunfire's paw.

Brendan didn't even notice Drew, he was just staring at me, like I betrayed him.

"I never-"

"Don't try to explain, I heard the whole thing."

I looked at Drew accusingly.

"You knew he was here the whole time and you didn't even tell me?" I screeched.

"It would've ruined the moment honey." he grinned.

"Brendan I-"

"I heard you say you loved him." Brendan interrupted me.

"I never-" I stopped short. I DID say I loved him.

I thought of something to say, ending up with: "Mother fu-"