"Kentucky, and please. Anyone could have easily made the mistake that the equator was a visible line at our age."

"Perhaps. Assuming that someone did not have my intelligence. Yorkshire." Jimmy replied as he tinkered away at his watch.

Cindy narrowed her eyes at Neutron as they both sat in the cramped closet together. The only light they had provided was the single old light bulb that stood above them flickering slightly. The pair resorted to playing a game of Atlas (A/N: It's a game where you have to name any place in the world starting with last letter of the previous place) as well as continue to banter at each other's past mistakes.

"Ethiopia. At least I was not the one to think that Australia was a country and not a continent."

Without looking at her, he raised an eyebrow and replied, "Amsterdam. Touché." He withdrew from his work and placed his back full against the wall in his lazy sitting position as his hands were placed over his head with ease.

Cindy could not help but marvel how relaxed he looked with the entire situation. He was dressed in a casual red sweatshirt and some Adidas sweat pants with a pair of tennis shoes to top it all off. His hair was messy but in a good way and even though their only light source was a tiny light bulb, Cindy could see that youthful gleam in his eyes.

"Merced."

Jimmy yawned after a few second and complained with furrow in his brow, "This game is not agreeing with me."

Cindy smiled in victory, "You mean you cannot think of another place?"

Rolling his eyes, he replied nonchalantly, "Delhi. I mean that I do not want to waste my existence playing some juvenile game." He slowly sat up and devilishly smiled as if an idea just came to him.

Cindy was worried. The only time that she would ever see that face was when he cooked at an invention that would let him manipulate people and get his way; such as when he hacked into the news channel and made their teachers disappear for a week in cyberspace.

What did he have in mind?

"Truth or dare."

Shit.

Cindy looked up to glare at her opponent with a heavy stare and retorted, "I thought that you said you wanted to stop playing such juvenile games."

"Humor me."

Something in her mind told her that this would only end badly. Things always ended badly when it involve a certain big-headed genius. But to her, things really could not go that much worse than they already were. Her being stuck in this small closet with Neutron only with a flickering bulb as their light source and the fact that Dee is taking his long freaking time trying to "contact a blacksmith" so that they could get the door open. Besides, Cindy was tired of being scared and nervous about Neutron. To hell with their history and her premature feelings coming back to haunt her for what they were and weren't. All her dignity had been long shut away at this point.

Probably in a closet.

Hoping her voice was not betraying her actual emotions, she narrowed her eyes and said, "Truth or dare, Spewtron?"

"Truth."

She rolled her eyes at him and sighed out, "Boring."

"You asked."

Pursing her lips and grinning devilishly, she asked, "Did you really wet yourself at Nick's party in sixth grade?"

Cindy could not help but laugh to herself as she remembered that joyous night when Neutron was accused of wetting himself by Nick and the whole crowd had started to laugh. It was needless to say that Jimmy left the party soon after.

The expression on his face faltered as he was asked the question. Instead of trying to recall the memory, he looked like he wanted to forget it entirely.

Cindy looked at him innocently and replied, "What? I thought you wanted some of your youth back. The cliché embarrassing moment at the first boy-girl party of the year was bound to happen."

"It is not a memory that….is the most pleasant."

"Spill."

Sighing and running a hand through his messy hair, he recounted, "Before that time, Sheen had drunk five cans of Purple Flurp and eaten all the ice cream he could lay his hands on. Him, being the over-hyper rodent that he is, kept moving and bouncing around the walls. It was inevitable for him not to..er..discard the waste somehow."

"What do you mean?"

Jimmy opened his mouth a few times unsuccessfully before saying, "He threw up all over myself. Well, at least the bottom half of myself. The best way I could get all the substance out was with water, but even then I think it just made the perception worse in the eyes of others. I left soon after so I could take the weak Sheen home after he pretty much puked his entire organ system out."

Cindy tried to stifle a laugh out of pity, but Jimmy still glared at her nonetheless before repeating the same question to her, "Truth or dare?"

She smile disdainfully and replied, "Truth."

"And you call me boring."

"Just shut up and ask the question."

"What happened to you at Nick's party after I left?"

Cindy paled a little bit and this comment and tried to avoid eye contact. Of course he would have to go there and make her look like a fool.

Judging by her reaction Jimmy replied, "So then what I had heard from Libby is correct then?"

Cindy did not really like to remember that day, well other than the whole Jimmy pee fiasco, because that was the day that she completely gave up trying to chase after Nick.

After what seemed like a million years of silence and contemplation, she opened her mouth and recounted that night.

"After your flee from the scene, well more precisely you pee from the scene, I had decided to take up the courage and ask Nick out to a date because I thought him and I would..um."

Jimmy looked at her intently and pushed on, "You would be what?"

She looked at his eyes and said back with her cheeks flushed red, "Perfect together."

Jimmy opened his mouth to say something but then thought better and closed it.

"He turned me down, of course. But he did so in front out entire class and that was um. Kind of embarrassing. So I guess you could say the party ended in a..drag."

If Cindy could be anywhere but here, she would. She looked down into her lap as she sat with her crossed-legged on the cold floor. Well she was wrong.

Things could get worse.

She coughed awkwardly and tried hard to change the subject as quickly as she could, "Truth or dare?"

Even though she was not looking, she could see from her peripheral that Jimmy had switched his position so that he sat up and was holding his hand in his lap.

"Truth."

She rolled her eyes again and replied, "Really? I literally just threw myself out here and you are again doing a truth? I thought you would have been bolder, Neutron."

"Patience is a virtue, Cindy."

She sighed and thought to herself. There was one thing that was bugging her since their younger years that she never had the chance to address. It was the year that Neutron left, so there was never really a time to confront the incident.

Funny how there was plenty of time now.

"Why did you stay with me during the dance in seventh grade?"

She looked intently at the young man so was sitting in front of her as the question escaped her lips. Cindy was slightly worried that he would not remember. It seemed so long ago to her. Almost as if it did not happen.

Jimmy looked up to the dark ceiling of the room, as if he was choosing his words very carefully. He scratched the back of his neck and replied in a soft tone, "What was I to do? I couldn't just leave you there."

"So I looked pathetic."

He looked at her with a shocked expression, "Not at all. I was you friend and you were mine. I was trying to help you out through a tough time. I could not bear to see you hurt." He scooted a bit closer to her and slowly smiled while he spoke again, "And if I do recall, that night is one of my better memories as a child. It was…nice."

She smiled at him and took in every detail of what was going on.

Jimmy slowly reached for her hand and held her fingers with a gentle grip. There was nothing passionate or bold about it, it was just to let her know that there was something. That he had cared at that moment of her life.

That he still cared.

At the worst part was, she was starting to feel like she did as well.

They sat like that for a few minutes in silence. Hand-in-hand, leaning against the wall, with their legs touching each other. There was nothing demanded and nothing taken. It was a silent comfort.

It was not until Cindy felt Jimmy stir next to her when he got closer to her face and whispered quietly, as if he were telling her a secret.

"Truth or dare?"

She whispered back, "Dare."

With his other hand, his brushed her jaw line and looked at her with both innocence and determination.

"Kiss me."

She felt a warm knot fill in her stomach and thought felt her heart overriding her mind for the first time in a long time.

She felt herself falling.

She leaned in and stopped when she was a breath away from his face. This was real and she was loving every minute of it.

She fluttered her eyes shut. His eyes were half-closed and his thumb stroked her cheek. As if he was making sure that it was really her.

She leaned in.

The door swung open.

"What are you doing here, Neutron? Come here to watch me suffer?"

"I am sorry that your date left on you."

"Yeah it kind of sucks when you see your date sucking some other girl's face. What a blast."

"Do you need anything?"

"Just..be here."

Well! It has been a while! I want to apologize for the super long gap, but hey applying for college sucks lol. But here is the latest chapter, and not going to lie I am kind of proud of it. Please tell me what you think because I love to read all the reviews. Thank you for everyone who has stuck around for the story and I will try my best to get this updated more.

Until then,

Mir