Chapter 11. The next six years.
Frannys and Lewis's relationship grew during the next six years. Lewis, at age 16, decided to stop school and won the Nobel Prize after making the first working robot. Franny, then 12 but older then her years, attended it with him as his 'arm-candy', as the tabloids put it.
Franny got worked up about it, and went back into girlfriend mode, hanging out with him at all hours. Lewis put it to a stop, when Frannys 13th birthday came. He, then 17, took her aside from all her friends and talked to her.
"Listen, Franny." He said. "You have to stop, move on for awhile."
"Stop what, Cornelius?" Franny asked.
"Stop pretending to be my girlfriend. We're not together, and you know it. Plus, I am 17 years old. Way to old to be a boyfriend to you."
Franny sighed and stared at her feet. "But, I...I love you."
"No, you don't." Lewis said, heaving a huge sigh. "You think you do. But, believe it or not, its just a crush. Maybe one day you'll love me, for real."
Franny nodded and hugged him tightly. "I'm never going to stop loving you, because I know I really do love you. No matter what you say."
Lewis sighed and went back to the party with Franny.
Franny and Lewis hung out with each other alot, in Lewis's workshop, in her apartment, which she had decorated better and made it a little grown up.
When Franny was 15, and Lewis 19, Lucille and Bud decided to fix the house up.
Franny came over often, helping Lewis and his parents add new rooms, a big basement, and they added onto the backyard.
Once the house was finished, it was bigger then big.
Bud and Lucille has the garaged fixed and improved, and the basement was now bigger then ever.
Before Lewi's 20th birthday, he left the state for six months and came back with a new invention.
They were tubes you could stand under, and it was transport you to wherever the other tube lead.
Lewis built more and connected them to the house. Lucille and Bud were thrilled.
On Frannys 16th birthday Lewis gave her a science set.
"Happy sweet 16, Franny." He told her.
"Oh Cornelius!" Franny gasped. "I know just what I can do with this." She said with a twinkle in her eye.
Lewis smiled and kissed her cheek and walked away.
Then and there Franny fell for Lewis, clutching the science kit to her chest.
