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"Can't believe we're finally done with this school." Kieth says. "Remember when we all met in elementary? Those were the days."

"Yeah. Naps and free time on the play ground. The easy days." Alex speaks.

"Gonna miss you guys." Bob says, looking down at his feet.

Kieth and Alex nod and the three teens all exchange smiles. It felt different that Zack wasn't included in their circle anymore. Ever since Alex stopped hanging out with him, Kieth and Bob told him how difficult he had become. He stopped taking his school work seriously and they weren't sure whether he'd even be graduating with them or not. He fell behind on a lot of his work. Alex felt a little remorse for him. He was the one to let Zack copy his homework and assignments and even scolded him for being too lazy to do his own work. Alex knew his laziness and lack of trying would come back to bite him one day. Even though they still weren't on speaking terms, Alex hoped he got his act together before it was too late. That was his best friend for years after all.

The bell rings and Kieth, Bob, and Alex all say goodbye. Alex makes his way to his last class for the day where he woud take his last final exam. He sees Zack already in his seat and they catch one another's eyes. Zack nods and Alex returns the gesture. Taking his seat, he waits for their teacher to start handing out the exams so he could leave and catch up with his girlfriend Norma. He starts smiling at the thought of her. Yesterday was probably the most amazing day he ever had in his entire life. He worships her. He wanted her to be happy all the time if he could help it.

Alex finishes his exam pretty quick. He's finally done with high school and he graduated this weekend. It was unbelievable. He walks out of his classroom, heading to Norma's locker. He sees her chatting with Rebecca and starts making his way towards them when he stumbles into someone. It was Maggie, his friend Kieth's sister. He was surprised since he never really sees her around school. He forgot all about her existence. It wasn't like Kieth mentioned her a lot.

"Hey Alex." she says, acting a little tense.

"Hey Maggie. Haven't seen you much. You been alright?" he replies. She nods her head and kept looking over her shoulder as if she was hiding from someone. Alex thought she was weird as hell. He felt uncomfortable in her presence now.

"Well. See you around." He lightly touches her shoulder as he walks past her. He looks up and sees Norma looking dead at him. He smiles at her but she doesn't return it. He frowned as he closed in on her and Rebecca.

"Hey." he said.

"Hi."

"How'd your exams go?"

"Good... Who's that? I've never even seen her." Norma questions. Alex turns his head in the direction of Maggie.

"Maggie? Oh that's Kieth sister." It was the truth. He shifts on his feet, looking at her then at Rebecca who stood there awkwardly.

"Since when does Kieth have a sister?" she squints her eyes.

"What do you mean since when does he have a sister?"

"I have never seen or heard him mention a sister. Especially one that goes to the same school as us?" she says.

"It's not like you know everything about Kieth Norma..." Alex doesn't really know how else to respond. He can tell she feels some type of way about his interaction with Maggie. "We barely said anything. I just happened to bump into her. I actually haven't seen her in-"

"Okay! You ready to go Becca?" Norma interrupts him and turns her full attention to an uncomfortable Rebecca. Alex is stunned. She was just getting on his case yesterday about cutting her off and she just did the exact same thing to him. She acted like she wanted to rip his throat out and he didn't understand why. Is she...jealous? Over Maggie? Out of all people. He didn't want to flat out ask if she was jealous because he didn't know how she would take it.

"Uh yeah. Are you gonna ask him about dinner tonight?" Rebecca says hesitantly.

"Actually Rebecca. Why don't you and I just go by ourselves?"

"You sure? You said you wanted to go there with Alex the other da-."

"I changed my mind." Norma quickly responded.

Rebecca nodded her head and kept looking back and forth between Norma and Alex. Even with their stubbornness, they still looked perfect together. She knew Norma was mad about seeing Alex touch Maggie's shoulder like that. Rebecca didn't think it was a big deal at all. Norma seemed to think differently. She knew Norma had a jealous side from first hand experience. It wasn't that long ago when Norma accused her of messing around with Alex behind her back. They were past it, surely, but it still made her kind of uncomfortable to be around Alex if Norma wasn't there. She recalled the conversation they just had before Alex walked over to them.

"There he is." Rebecca says. Norma immediately turns her head to see her boyfriend talking to some random girl she'd never seen before. He gently touched her shoulder and was smiling at her. Norma didn't like it. She didn't like this girl making Alex smile. She didn't like Alex touching her shoulder like that. She didn't like it at all.

"Did you see that? Did you seem him touch her shoulder and run his hand down her arm?"

"I think he just touched her shoulder didn't he? He touched her arm or something too?" Rebecca responded. Norma was exaggerating. Alex didn't even run his hand down Maggie's arm. "It wasn't that big a deal. Right?"

"Uh okay... So you just want to go back home?" Rebecca said. Norma looked and smiled at her friend. Norma liked how Rebecca referred to her house as her home. It made her feel good for some reason. Before Norma could answer, Alex spoke.

"Rebecca I'll drop her off in a few hours. I think Bob's waiting for you by your car."

"Sure. No problem. Later." Rebecca says as she walks out of the school and to the parking lot.

"I didn't agree to that." Norma turned her attention to Alex.

"We always hang after school. Why'd you think Rebecca was okay with leaving? What's wrong with you? Are you seriously mad right now about Maggie?" Alex asked her.

Norma doesn't say anything and just shrugs. She didn't want to admit to jealously. She felt silly now. She didn't know if this would make Alex less attracted to her if he saw how jealous she could be. Alex grabs her hand and walks her out of the school and to his truck parked outside. Before he opened the passenger side door, he places her against the door and settles his hands on both sides of her waist.

"Were you jealous?" he asks.

"Maybe."

"Why? You have no reason to be." He presses himself against her a little more so that there is no room between them, their faces just a few inches apart. Norma looks past his shoulder, trying to avoid eye contact.

"Of course I have a reason. Have you seen you?" She finally looks at him.

Alex smiles and wraps arm around her waist. She still is not touching him back. "Thank you for the compliment beautiful. But you have nothing to worry about. I'm all yours." He reaches up and caresses her soft face.

She finally smiles and grabs onto his forearms. "Sorry. I don't know what was wrong with me."

"It's fine. So what's this dinner Rebecca was talking about that you suddenly didn't want me to go to anymore."

She rolls his eyes at his playfulness, but loves it nonetheless. "Something she wanted to do to celebrate us being done with school and graduating this weekend. It's supposed to be at that new restaurant that was built in town."

"Sounds great. What time?" he asks her.

"Seven."

"Okay." he leans in and quickly kisses her. She relaxes and is under his spell once again. She runs her hands up his biceps and runs one hand through his hair and pulls him in for a more passionate kiss.

"You know what you're doing to me..." he whispers into her ear while still wrapped up in her.

"What am I doing?" she asks. He grabs one of her hands and places it on his erection covered by his dark jeans.

"Alex... we're still in the school parking lot." Norma says as she rubs him.

"Then why aren't you stopping?"

"I don't know... I like it." She replies. Alex moans softly before pulling away from her.

She steps in his truck and Alex jogs over to the driver side and hops in as well. He starts his truck and drives them to their spot at the lake. Norma tells him to park on the secluded side of the lake before he could find a spot. He finds it a little odd but doesn't question her about it.

"There's an ice cream truck. You want any?"

"No." she simply says.

Alex smiles as he knows what she wants. He is instantly reminded of what happened the last time he offered to get her something to eat and she just said no.

"Not here..." he says.

"Why not?" she asks.

"Because it's bright as hell outside and anyone could sneak up on us. We can go back to my place. I'd want you to be comfortable."

"I just want to touch you that's all." She starts rubbing him again.

"Why here?" He grabs her hand that's rubbing him to stop her.

"Ughhhh Alex. Because I'm in the mood." She groans as she places both hands in her lap. Alex looks at the disappointment in her face. What she was just doing was turning him on, but he didn't feel comfortable being this intimate with her in public. He was being really bold in the school parking lot earlier, but having sex in broad daylight in his truck was doing too much.

"You're in the mood?"

"Yeah."

"Well I can take care of that babe. But why didn't you just say that? We could've went straight back to my house instead of here. You know my dad doesn't get home til late tonight." He tells her.

"Because... I just wanted a different setting. I'm not saying I'm bored because I'll never be bored of you or the things we do... I just wanted to try something different. So you'd keep being interested in me."

"Norma. I will always be interested in you. You're the girl I've only ever been this interested in." He cups her face with one hand and rubs her cheek with his thumb. She breathes out a sigh of relief and nods her head.

"Alex you make me so crazy."

"Is that a good or bad thing?" he questions, worry in his voice.

"Oh it's good. It's good. Well, it kind of depends on you. Some days I want to cuddle with you and eat junk food all day on your couch and other days I just want you to run your tongue all over me." She sighs at her thoughts. Alex's heart is pounding.

"Norma if you keep talking like that..." he says as he feels himself sweating. She laughs and shakes her head at him. Yep. She likes to tease him.

"I've been thinking about yesterday all day. It was so amazing Alex. I can't stop thinking how good it felt to have you-

"Babe please..."

She giggles and kisses his cheek.

"Let's go get some ice cream." She opens the door and steps out, waiting for Alex to do the same.

"Becca this is too much. I don't think I need all this." Norma says as she looks in the mirror. Rebecca did her makeup for her and was putting the finishing touches to it.

"Norma. Your face is already so beautiful. But damn you look so hot now. With your eyes and this eye shadow. Wow. And now you just have to put on this dress." Rebecca chants. Norma looks at the dress hanging on the closet door. It's a thin strapped short black, lacy dress that ruffles out at the bottom and ends just above the knees. It was one of Rebecca's dresses and Norma loved it. Norma stands up to walk over to the closet and grabs the dress from the hanger. Rebecca starts doing her own makeup in the mirror while Norma changes into the dress.

"Holy shit Alex is going to melt when he sees you. You ready?" Rebecca asks once the two of them are dressed. Norma nods her head yes and makes her way out of the house to Rebecca's car. They decide to ride together and will meet up with Alex and Bob at the restaurant.

15 minutes later the two girls have arrived and see Alex and Bob waiting outside the restaurant. Alex is dressed in a light blue dress shirt tucked into his dark slacks and Bob has on dark slacks as well with a white dress shirt instead. Rebecca and Norma exit the car and walk up to the boys.

"Evening ladies." Bob says, reaching his arm out for Rebecca to grab onto.

"Hi Bob. Hi Alex." Norma greets. Alex is speechless. He is so used to seeing her wear her colorful sun dresses or her floral blouses with a skirt. He's never seen her in something like this. Her face looked beautiful as ever. She looked amazing.

Everyone can see how mesmerized Alex is and let's him relish in the moment. Rebecca giggles at how cute she finds Alex and Norma's relationship. She couldn't be more happy for her friend. Alex walks up to her and gives her a hug, finding her scent even more intoxicating. He can't help but rub his hands down her shoulders as he takes her in.

"You look beautiful."

Norma blushes and thanks him. The four teens walk into the restaurant and are hosted to a table. Norma and Alex are in one side of the booth while Rebecca and Bob are on the opposite side. They are surprised when their waiter comes up and greets them.

"Hey guys. How ya'll doing?" Zack says.

"Hey man. We're doing good. Didn't know you worked here." Bob says to him.

"Yeah. Needed a job to save up so I can get out of this town." Zack replies.

"Oh yeah? You plan on going to college out of White Pine Bay?" Bob questions.

"Yeah, I'm moving in with my cousins and uncle in Portland while I do that."

"Good to here man. Proud of you." Bobs nods as Zack does the same. Alex doesn't know what to say. He was proud of Zack figuring out a plan for his future, but he didn't know if the animosity between them had died all the way down yet. With him being there alongside Norma, he was very cautious of what Zack would do or say. He glanced over at Norma and sees she is calm and polite to him, congratulating him on the job and about making something of himself. Rebecca is friendly with him as well. Zack takes everyone's orders and tells them he will be back with them as soon as possible.

"He seems better." Norma says and everyone agrees. Alex still has yet to say something.

"You okay love?" Norma asks him quietly. He smiles and nods his head.

"I'm so hungry. Everything smells so good." Rebecca says.

"You're always hungry and everything always smells good to you." Bob replies. Rebecca swats his arm playfully and rolls her eyes at him before giving him a smile.

"Sounds like Norma." Alex chimes in.

"Really Alex?" Norma smiles and bumps his shoulder with hers lightly.

"Here you are guys. One Cesar salad with chicken, a double bacon cheeseburger with fries, one well done steak with mac cheese and green beans, and one grilled cilantro lime chicken with grilled asparagus." Zack places each meal in front of them. "Hope you guys enjoy. I'll be back to check on you all but you can just holler if you really need me."

"Thanks man." Bob says as Zack nods and walks away.

"Mmmmm. This looks so good." Norma says.

"Bob, I don't know why you had to get a burger. This is supposed to be a fancy restaurant and you're ordering mediocre food."

"If it's so mediocre and this restaurant is soooo fancy, then why do they serve it? You're the one ordering a salad and you know that's not going to fill you up. You know you're gonna' be picking the fries off my plate."

"Shut up." Rebecca says. Bob smiles at her and kisses her cheek.

"How's the chicken?" Alex asks his girlfriend.

"As good as it looks. How's your steak?"

"Good. Better than good." Alex answers. He looks at her, still taking in all her beauty. Her short bob is curled and she has it pinned down to one side. He doesn't know how she made a hairstyle look so sexy, but she succeeded in doing that. He boldly places his hand on her knee under the table and starts inching his way underneath her dress. She turns her head to him slowly and grins at him. Just as she thought he was making his way to her center, he stops. She squints at him, trying to read him but fails. For the whole dinner he leaves his hand centimeters away from her most sensitives area, rubbing his thumb along her soft thigh from time to time. Bob and Rebecca didn't seem to notice that one of Alex's hand was under the table the whole time.

"Here's the check you guys asked for." Zack sets the check on the table and starts walking away again. Bob pulls out his wallet and takes out a $100 bill to pay for their $78 check.

"Thought we were splitting it." Alex says to Bob.

"I got it."

Zack comes back and tells them he will be back with their change and Bob tells him to just keep it. Zack thanks them and tell them he will see them later. The four teens exit the restaurant and make their way into the parking lot. Bob and Alex walk in front of Norma and Rebecca.

"This was so much fun! I'm glad you stopped being mad at Alex and let him come with us." Rebecca says.

"Yeah. It was fun. I'm glad we all went together."

"You know Alex can spend the night at my house right? My parents don't care. Just don't be all loud when y'all are banging." Rebecca gives her a knowing smile.

"My God... you are so inappropriate sometimes. Does your parents let Bob stay the night?" Norma wonders.

"Oh Bob and I are taking this thing slow. I'm trying something different. I haven't slept with him yet. Can you believe that? I'm actually so happy about this."

Norma is surprised. "Not even yesterday after that party ya'll went to? I had a little personal fun with Bob." Norma mimicks Rebecca's words.

"Oh right. All we did was kiss but nothing beyond that."

"Well I'm glad you're happy and I hope it works out for you." Norma says with sincerity.

"Thank you." Rebecca hugs Norma and hooks her arm with hers. They eventually catch up to Alex and Bob who are waiting by the cars.

"This was fun. I'm glad you let me come." Alex says to Norma.

"Me too. Do you want to come over to Rebecca's house with me?" She says in her low flirty tone.

"I would love to but I'm gonna hang with Bob and we're gonna go pick up Kieth."

"Okay."

Alex looks at her. "Okay? What, no pouting this time?"

"I don't pout."

"You do and it's kind of cute." He reaches up and moves some of her hair behind her ear. "I'll call you later." Norma closes her eyes and waits for Alex to kiss her, happy when she feels his lips descend upon hers. They had to keep it PG since their friends where there. They pull away and Norma gets in the passenger seat of Rebecca's car. She waves goodbye to Alex and Bob as Rebecca pulls them out of the parking lot.

"You ready to start getting this all together now?" Bob asks.

"Yeah. She's gonna love it."

A/N: This is kind of a filler chapter but the next chapter shall be posted as soon as I get the chance.