I probably looked ridiculous with that huge, goofy smile that plastered my lips. My hands were still trembling, and my stomach had a cage, filled with a thousand butterflies, waiting to burst free. I gripped hard onto Barry's hand as we both stood up from the side of the church. It had stopped raining recently and both of us had to return home. As soon as we stood up, we let go of each other's hands, blushing. It was hard to walk around without getting looked at funnily. There really shouldn't have been a problem. No one was outside at this time, but it was good to be cautious.

It was night. What time? I couldn't say. All I knew was that Darry was going to be pissed. We were closer to my house, but I insisted that I walk him home. During the time, Barry laced our fingers together. I looked at him incredulously, surprised that he would do this in public—to be fair, no cars even passed us yet. I could hardly see Barry, but I could tell he was smiling contently. I gave his hand a little squeeze and pulled him closer until our shoulders were pressing together.

When we reached his house, Barry let go and gave me a quick peck on the lips, freezing time temporarily. "Thanks for walking me home…"

I pulled him in a tight hug, sighing in content. Our wet bodies pressed together for a short moment before I pulled away, kissing him shortly to unfreeze time. Our hands were linked for a moment before we pulled apart and I walked home, cringing at the light in the window. The smile that laced my lips disappeared.

Darry was sitting in his chair when I walked inside. He stood up and marched to me. "Where were you? You're soaking wet!"

"I was working on a project with Barry. It started to rain during the testing and we had to wait until the rain stopped. Besides, I made it back before…" I glanced at the clock. "…ten o' clock."

He looked at me disapprovingly, but he relaxed. "Next time, call to let me know that you're going to be out late, and to get a ride. You could have been jumped."

"But I wasn't. I'm fine, Darry. I'm going to take a shower now." I left the room and into the bathroom. I slowly peeled off the clothes that stuck to my body. I stepped inside the warm water that fell from the showerhead. My mind kept wandering to Barry, making my body feel hot (or maybe that was the fast change of body temperature). Subconsciously, my hands touched my lips, causing me to lightly flinch. I could still feel Barry's soft lips lingering on mine. My cheeks were warm and I couldn't place if it was from the water, Barry, or I was actually sick.

I stepped out of the shower and walked back to my room to do my homework. Soda wasn't inside, but I didn't question it. Once I took out my notebook, the door opened ad my brother, Soda, strolled in. He instantly turned to me, a playful smirk playing on his lips. "Why are you smiling? Did something good happen?"

I didn't know that I was still smiling or if Barry would want to make our relationship public yet, but I didn't like to lie to my brother. "Yeah, something really good happened."

"What?"

"Come on, Soda…"

"Come on, tell me."

"Alright, but quit your griping." Both of us chuckled. I looked down, biting my lip whilst smiling. "Barry and I are a couple now."

Soda's contagious smile grew. He ruffled my hair and I playfully slapped his hand away, fixing my hair.

o-o-o

I sniffled, rubbing the bottom of my nose with my sleeve. I felt like crap. I really hoped that I wouldn't catch a cold. Sneezing, I flung the backpack over my shoulder and walked out of my house without breakfast. Two-Bit was supposed to drive Johnny and me to school today, but I just wasn't feeling it.

Along the way, a heavy weight pressed down on my back. "Hey, there!" Barry's pipped. He wrapped his legs around my torso for a second before jumping off. I spun around, sheepish smile on my lips. He looked like hell spun him over. His clammy skin made him look as dead as the living could be. He was knackered and sick. "I'm not doing that again for a while. You sick too?"

"Yeah. Did you guess from how bad I looked?"

Barry hugged me. "How bad you looked? No. You look just as good as you always do."

I raised my eyebrow. "Are you saying that I look sick all the time?"

He recoiled, blushing when he realized what he said. "No, no! You don't look sick all the time! I just—"

I chuckled. "I knew what you mean. Let's be sick together." We pulled apart and I grabbed his hand, giving him a look to ask if this was okay. Barry squeezed my hand as an answer and we walked towards the school, ignoring the looks that people gave us when they passed by. Barry stopped when we could see the school peeping over the distance. I looked at him quizzically. "What is it?"

"What do you suppose we do?" he asked.

"What do you mean?"

"What are we going to do about the school?"

It occurred to me that he wasn't out of the closet to anyone besides me and his parents. He was scared. "What do you want to do?"

"I don't know."

"It's okay, everything's going to be fine. We don't have to show them that we're together right now if you're not up to it, but it's not that different than walking down the street just then."

Barry looked down ashamed. "I want to walk in with you."

Letting go of Barry's hand, I spun to face him. "Can I try something?" Without even seeing if he agreed, I leaned forward, ghosting my lips over his. I hesitated, not quite used to making the first move. Barry understood what I was thinking, and closed the short distance between us. Again the kiss was short and soft, but I wasn't expecting it to go any farther. A blush spread across our already red faces as we pulled away.

Time froze for us. I grabbed his hand again and we walked inside the school, swerving around all of the frozen people. We got to my locker and again we kissed shortly to unfreeze time. Students and faculty buzzed around us, unaware at what happened.

"I still can't get over the whole 'stopping time' kiss fiasco," said Barry as he looked around him.

"I can't either," I replied.

"But this happened to you before!"

"Shawn and I swapped bodies. This is entirely different. Even when Shawn and I have kissed a lot, I still wasn't used to it." Come to think about it, I've never had a normal kiss in my life. The realization made me break out in laughter, which earned me crazy looks, but I disregarded them.

"Hey, it's Ponyboy and his friend with benefits—I mean, friend," Two-Bit said as he joined us, Johnny right behind him.

"He's not that kind of friend," I interjected, rolling my eyes as my ears reddened. Barry was just as bashful.

"Oh, you want to be more secret about this. I got you." Two-Bit winked at us. It was Johnny's turn to roll his eyes.

"No! We're—" I looked at my boyfriend who gave me a short nod. "—boyfriends."

"You're finally together? Watching you two together was like tension on a stick."

"I'm happy for you, Ponyboy," Johnny said.

"Thank you, Johnnycakes," I said, relieved that we were escaping Two-Bit's dirty jokes.

"Hey, I'm happy for you too!" Two-Bit practically screamed.

"Thank—"

"You can't spell 'happiness' without 'P-E-N-I-S'."

I groaned. "Two-Bit?" He hummed. "Shut up."

"What's your name, again?" Two-Bit asked Barry. "Er… Richard, right? Ponyboy, you like Dick a lot?"

"His name's not Richard."

"No matter how I look at him, I see a Dick."

"Two-Bit, his name's Barry."

"Really? Well, I bet, deep down, you are a Dick." Two-Bit placed his hand on Barry's shoulder as if he was trying to be sentimental. Barry leaned away, unsure of how to react. I moved Barry out of his grip and he visibly relaxed. "Golly, Ponyboy, you don't have to be all sensitive about it. It was only a joke. Besides, Pony, you're the one's who's going to ride—"

"Goodbye!" I dragged Barry away, face exploded in red.

Two-Bit called out to me, as if he ignored my introduction to Barry's name, "Yeah, you go get Dick!" Most of the attention to the hallway around us turned to look at Two-Bit, before looking at Barry and I and glowered. Barry dropped his hand from mine and looked to the ground.

"Come on, Barry, let's go," I muttered, low enough that only he heard me. He nodded and we walked to a new location.

o-o-o

Replies:

Meganova: Yeah, it's cute, but I had the urge for something sexy. I can't do that because it's rated 'T'. So, instead, I'll just make a lot of dick jokes, and hope that it will still be cute. It sucks because I really want to go far out and try something new, but not this story. Maybe I'll write a rated 'M' one-shot for this fanfiction :/ Thank you :)

Justslaygold: Haha, I was actually planning on going one or two more chapters with teases before giving into the relationship. Are you glad that I didn't do that? I'm actually quite happy that I didn't wait some more, because that would have been agonizing to me as well as you. xD

Blue eyed titan99: OMG, a love confession. I love you too! 3 ;)

Bnm: I almost forgot about adding the time freeze thing. It wouldn't be much of a sequel to Swap Kiss without it. Thank you so much .

White collar black wolf: Can you tell that this chapter was me pushing through a writer's block? I literally added all of the dick jokes because I didn't think this chapter was good enough. I don't know, what do you think?