A/N: wow, I haven't updated this since like forever…

This was actually requested like three or four times and I've had it planned for a while now, but really, I haven't had much time for actual work now… it's all quick sketches on my iPod Touch. So here's this.

Disclaimer: own nothing at all. Don't doubt it.

Gwen dropped into the green and black leather passenger seat of the muscle car, tears rolling down her pale and depressed face. "Just take me home today, Kevin," she said to her boyfriend, not even looking at him but just staring out the window. "I'm skipping karate. And the garage. And I'll probably be grounded for the rest of my life, so don't bother coming to pick me up for school tomorrow. You'll just be sent home by my dad and I know how much he scares you."

Kevin raised an eyebrow, his curiosity now piqued by her strangely out of character behavior. "Gwen…"

"Don't ask." The reflection of her tears racing down her cheeks was the only thing she could see in the window's dark tinted glass.

"Then don't make me force it out of you." Kevin didn't even put the car in gear. He leaned over to the redhead and put his warm and muscular arm around her, pulling her away from the reflection of the window so that she was facing him and couldn't pull away. "I hate making you do things, Gwen." A grin crossed his lips, but it vanished as quickly as it had come.

She pulled away from his touch and turned back to the window, not wanting her raven-haired boyfriend to see her crying like this. "Kevin, please just take me home. Please." Her voice was pleading, nearly begging for his mercy. "I really don't want to talk about it right now. Especially not with you." Her voice quivered as she said, "You wouldn't understand."

He touched her shoulder. "Gwen, you do realize who you're talking to, right? I don't understand anything, except for weapons and cash, but yet I listen to you because I love you more than anything else in the entire universe and all the other dimensions that we haven't been to yet."

The phrase "I love you" hadn't come from her beloved dark teen in a while. Especially in so many words. Gwen had to turn her emerald stare on him as her green orbs flooded with more tears. But not tears of sadness this time. "Kevin…" She leaned into him and balled her hands up in his black shirt as she leaned into him to cry, his arms lacing around her waist comfortingly.

The redhead just cried for the longest time, Kevin whispering soothing words to her, knowing that she needed him now more than ever. But he still wanted an explanation from her. Nothing would stop his curiosity from getting the better of him. After all, it did kill the cat. He stroked her mane of fiery scarlet and kissed her forehead over and over again, finally calming down her tears to a dull roar.

"You know I'll always be here for you, Gwen," he whispered in her ear, finding his voice lower as he knew she needed it.

"I know," she breathed back, "but you wouldn't understand. It's about my grades…"

"I literally failed school, but that doesn't mean I won't understand and it definitely doesn't mean I won't listen to you, babe." He kept his hand in the small of her back. "Just tell me what it is."

"I failed a test."

Kevin fought his jaw as it tried dropping to the floor of the car. "I don't believe that for some reason," he said, pulling her closer to him with a hug so that she couldn't see how hard it was for him to fight off an irresistible smile.

"Well, I did," said Gwen, the tears spilling over into Kevin's shirt again. "I'm scared to show my parents." Her breath was coming in gasps. "It'll be on my GPA and I'll never get into Yale or Harvard now." Her fists were clutched to Kevin's shirt for dear life. "I just want to go back and retake the test."

One of his eyebrows raised as Kevin asked, "They don't let you retake it? They always let me retake it in first grade." First grade was as far as he had gotten. It was a miracle he even lasted that long before running away to the streets and subways of New York City.

"Not in high school," she answered, finding his touch a comfort and a luxury. "They don't let you do anything over again. I'm screwed. I'm never getting into college now. They'll all reject me because I got a B+ on my stupid test."

Kevin burst out laughing at that.

The redhead stared at him, fuming with anger as he could blow off something like that so simply, without another thought about it. "Kevin. Ethan. Levin."

"Gwen, I failed tests with Fs! Be glad you had a B+! I got kicked out of school for having low grades!" He kept on snickering until she was just staring at him with sad eyes and a quiet smile. "Trust me, if either of us isn't getting into college, it's me. I don't have a single doubt about that."

She stared at him, eyes glittering with joy of having someone as special as him for a boyfriend. "Thanks, Kevin," she breathed, leaning in to hug him again, her arms lacing around his neck so that her fingers tangled in his raven-colored hair. "I love you."

"Love you too," he replied with a smile still on his lips as he kissed her crown of crimson hair.

A/N: haha. Fluff, and funneh. Although I was hoping it would turn out better. I'm on a fluff streak, srryz…. But that still means you have to review!

~Sky