Hello to all my lovely readers once again! I hope you are all having a lovely day! Anyway, for those of you who have not yet, read the review response I posted at the end of last chapter just to clarify some aspects of what I was going for in that chapter explaining my particular take on Roz's particulars, I encourage you to do so just so you know your voices were heard and I did respond to clear things up. :) So, to continue, this chapter is a return to Tony's POV and will be continued on from the last Tony centric chapter. This time, he is going to be taking Kala to an Earth high school house party that he invited her to in their previous one-shot. So, without further or do… Enjoy!

(Tony's POV)

I was rolling up the sleeves to my elbows on my button-up shirt again when I heard Kala ask, "Hey, my clothes are okay for the party, right?"

I looked next to me and saw Kala in her usual stressed jeans but she was wearing this pretty cool green t-shirt with this crazy graphic lined pattern on the front of it. "Oh yeah, trust me, house parties are pretty casual." I said, thinking it was weird why she was asking if her clothes were okay.

She looks pretty awesome to me and… I shook my head and looked back over at Kala as she said back, "Well, I wasn't sure since you seem more decked out than usual and I only have 3 different sets of Earth stuff to wear."

I didn't know what she was talking about since I was still wearing jeans like usual, but… then I realized she was looking at my orange button up shirt that my parents got me for my birthday a couple months back.

It's not that crazy fancy or anything, but I get where Kala was coming from since she's used to seeing me wearing t-shirts.

I smiled and rubbed the back of my neck as I motioned my shirt before saying, "What, this? It's just my lucky party shirt. Haven't had a bad party yet this year since I started wearing it. You can say I'm kinda superstitious."

"Well, lucky or not, I think it… hey is that it?" She said, looking in the direction of Alex Zimmerman's house already going up.

I could hear the music file I sent Alex yesterday going and I am pumped to get this started.

"Yeah, that's my buddy Alex's house. His parents go out of town a lot so his house is one of the regulars. That and he's one of the guys in our grade with a backyard pool." I said and then I heard, "Hey, Tony! Where the hell have you been?!"

I looked across the street and saw Jimmy standing outside of the house in his letterman jacket, no surprise, with Amanda right next to him and also wearing her letterman jacket, again no surprise. I opened my arms out as I said, "What?! You could see me from there?" "Seriously man?! Like that stupid bright orange shirt isn't enough to make anyone see ya? The only way I could see you more is if you just lit yourself on fire?" He taunted back, but I knew Jimmy was just messing with me and I know he thinks my superstition with my shirt is pretty stupid.

I just smiled and shook my head as I shot back, "C'mon dude, don't knock the lucky shirt!"

We pulled each other in for a bro-hug and I had to strain myself when Jimmy slapped his hand between my shoulder blades since it usually knocks the wind out of me, no surprise considering he's the top conference linebacker and can knock anyone out. But, this time… not feeling too bad.

"Hey Tony, what's going on?" I heard Amanda say and she gave me a hug too. Then I looked behind me to see Kala just smiling and just hanging back a little bit. I looked back to Amanda and Jimmy as I said, "Oh yeah, guys, this is Kala. She's from out of town and she was down for hanging out tonight."

"What's up?" I heard Kala say as she walked closer and put her hand up in a half-wave to say hi. But, they seemed to think Kala was pretty cool, even Jimmy seemed pretty cool with her and he usually doesn't like a lot of people.

We just kind of hung out by the stoop for a couple seconds until Amanda and Jimmy went inside.

I felt Kala lean next to my ear so I could hear her over the music that just got louder, "Was that your cousin?" I nodded and smiled as I said, "Yeah, Jimmy's my cousin, but he's also pretty much my best bro. Trust me, I couldn't ask for a better dude to have my back. But, Amanda's pretty cool too. Even before her and Jimmy got together, she would hang out with us all the time."

I barely had time to react or do anything else since I saw Kala's face light up as she looked inside before she caught me off guard when she grabbed my wrist and started pulling me along as I heard her say, "C'mon, what are we waiting for?! Let's go have some fun!"

I just smiled and let her drag me inside.

I mean c'mon, let's be real. I want to go into the party just as much as her right now.

We got in we had to weave in and out of people, but… I'm am in my element right now! I may not get straight A's in school, but if there's one thing I know and totally rock at… it's parties.

Especially these kinds of parties where we just invite the usual top 50. I know, 50 close friends sounds like a pretty big number of people for a house party, but one, I have a lot of friends, and two… these people are not party amateurs and they know what's up.

Heck, we even always help cover for each other by helping clean up the house after the party before whoever's parents this house party was at come back. Besides, with 50 people, cleaning up is pretty much a snap.

"Hey! Tony!" I looked over and saw Alex waving me over, knowing what he wanted me to do, but… it's tradition and this was my duty as pretty much the master of ceremony when it comes to parties. Even at other house parties outside this, people always ask me to kick things off and give the low down just in case any new people show up or forget what to do.

I just gave Alex a thumbs up before leaned over to Kala, who I could see was trying to figure out what's going on. I just leaned over and said, "Just hold up here. I'll be done in like a minute."

After that I just ran up to the kitchen table and climbed up on it to face the living room. I cupped my hands around my mouth while I heard Alex turn down the music before yelling, "HEY DUDES, LISTEN UP!" Then like usual everyone got quiet and I got into my routine as I started, "Okay guys, before we get this party started for real, I got a couple things for ya! One, snacks and stuff are in the kitchen! Two, enjoy the tunes! Three, if you hear anybody yell 'scatter', then one of the neighbor's probably made a noise complaint to the cops and be ready to get the heck out. Cool? Alright, turn it back up!"

I looked down and saw some room in front of the table… why not?

I'm up here.

I turned around and did a back flip off the table and I saw Kyle and couple other people saw me do it and yelled in the best approval I can possibly get for my favorite party trick. I decided to just finish it off with a quick bow.

Hey, I can be a klutz, but I'm pretty good at flips and stuff.

I looked back over at Kala and saw her just leaning against the doorway of the dining room, crossing her arms and giving me this smirk. I walked back over as she said, "Nice trick." I smiled back as I said, "Hey, thanks. Ya know, just one of my usual party tricks."

I looked around until I looked in the living room and saw Jimmy and Amanda already dancing together, but… that's not surprising.

I looked back at Kala and said, nodded my head toward the living room, "Hey, want to go in and dance?" Kala smiled and said, "Yeah, sounds cool."

Then I felt her grab my wrist again as we managed to find a space and I just immediately started to get in my usual rhythm. Not gonna lie, dancing is probably one of my favorite things right next to listening to music/remixing my own tracks and also probably acting.

I was almost so zoned in that I forgot that Kala was even here or if she was getting into it. But, not surprised, Kala was totally just rolling it like she usually does.

She caught me looking at her and she moved closer to me a little bit, looking like she was giving me the hint to dance with her.

Even though I'm pretty used to girls asking me to dance with them since I'm probably the best dancer in my grade if not the whole school by now, but… I'm definitely not going to pass up dancing with Kala. I took the opportunity as I got a little closer and we started to just settle into a pretty good dance rhythm together.

Kala leaned a little closer to me and said over the music, "Hey, you're really good at this!" I smiled back, glad I wasn't totally blowing it right now and that she seemed like she was having a good time, "Thanks, you're pretty awesome at this too."

Kala snorted out a laugh as she said, "Well that's good to know. Considering I'm totally just winging right now."

I smiled and gave her a look as I asked, "Why? You guys don't dance like this where you're from?"

Kala let out a full laugh this time before saying, "Well, we dance but not like this. Trust me, if a group of adults were to look at us, they'd think we were a total mess and my parents would totally flip if they saw something like this." "Why? Are they that up tight?" I asked, really wanting to know.

It's weird because every time I try to ask Kala about what it's like on her planet more than what she does for fun. But… she always doesn't really want to talk about it too much.

And I could tell she wasn't game to do that now either.

Then again we're at a party with a lot of people so I don't blame her. I decided just to drop it and just keep going with what we were doing. We were probably out dancing for at least an hour and a half straight and I knew what was coming since I was the one that set up the tunes.

My prime list for house parties is to start upbeat and then slow it down toward the end a little bit. And right now… right then the last upbeat track ended and then the first string of slower music I put in started playing out.

Kala stopped and just looked at me, noticing everyone around us slow dancing.

Usually, I don't even hesitate about this, but… I just kind of awkwardly took a step closer to her and held my hand out to her with an equally awkward smile on my face that made me want to slap myself.

I mean… what's up with me?

Kala looked around really quick before looking back at me and smiling like she usually does as she got closer to me and put her hands on my shoulders, knowing she was probably copying whoever was around us.

Still, I got mad respect for the way Kala just always rolls with stuff, kinda like how I usually am… except now for some reason I just settled into it as I put my hands on her sides as we started slowly moving in a circle.

Honestly, as one of if not the shortest guy in my grade, I've always been pretty used to girls being at least a little bit taller than me and I didn't really care about it. But, this was kinda different to be dancing with a girl that was actually shorter than me… by a lot, right now.

But, whatever, not that any of that stuff even matters to me right now anyway.

I looked down a little and just saw Kala giving me a smile as we just just kept dancing.

Actually, this was just pretty sweet. Not gonna lie.

"So, is there anything else to this, or is this it?" I heard her ask. I smiled a little and shrugged as I said, "Eh, pretty much. But, this isn't too weird, right?"

Seriously… I had no idea if she was even fully okay with this since I didn't really tell her a lot about the party or the stuff we'd be doing here or anything. Kala looked down as I heard her laugh before she looked back at me up at me and said, "Seriously, what is with you and thinking that I'm never having a good time hanging out? This party is so awesome!"

I gave her a confused look before I just flat out said, "But, why? I'm surprised you think any of the stuff I show you is fun."

Kala looked away and bit her lip for a second before looking back at me and saying, "Tony, just trust me, you guys have it so good here with how relaxed and totally chilled out everything is. It's so uptight where I'm from compared to here, just believe me." Even though I still want to know why she doesn't tell me a lot about Neutrino, because I totally want to know, but I just don't want to ruin anything right now.

I told her we were going to party and have a good time, and she's having fun so… hey, I'm just feeling good with how everything's been going so far.

The two slow songs I put in the set ended and I really wanted to go raid the kitchen really quick for a soda.

I leaned over to Kala and yelled a little bit over the music so she could her me, "Hey, want to go get some drinks?" Kala just smiled and shrugged back as she said, "Yeah, cool. Besides, I'm like dying right now."

We both wove through the people again and I thought we could just chill in the kitchen for a while and maybe be able to hear each other… until we got to the doorway leading into the kitchen and it was PACKED.

I was trying to find a path to get to the counter when I think Alex saw us standing there and just moved past a couple people and gave me two cans saying, "Yeah, man, trust me, you are not getting in here right now." I just shrugged and said, "It's cool. Thanks."

Hey, I was just totally good with the fact that he gave us some sodas so I didn't have to crowd surf or something to get there… even though that would be awesome.

Crowd surfing is on my bucket list for sure and I almost got close during the homecoming dance last year when I got Jimmy and a bunch of other guys from the football team to lift me up, one of the upsides to being a smaller guy, but after 10 awesome seconds of almost crowd surfing… the DJ stopped the music and wouldn't start up again until I was put down.

Lame.

I opened up Kala's soda before handing it over to her and saying, "C'mon, I know a good place to hang out here."

"Alright, cool." Kala said before we both went out into the backyard and it was cool outside and definitely A LOT more quiet out here.

"It feels so good out here. Don't get me wrong, it's really awesome in there, but I was dying in there from the packed heat." I knew she was talking about the cool air since its Fall right now and too me this is prime party weather.

As much as I want to stay inside and party the entire time, I start sweating it up pretty fast and I like to go outside to just cool down for a bit. For me, Winter is way too cold out to just hang out outside for too long, Spring is okay but it rains a lot and it's still too cold sometimes like winter, and then outside during the summer is always boiling hot and you're better off just sweating your butt off inside.

So… yeah, Fall is the best too me hands down.

Me and Kala walked off the back porch that we usually hang out on during the summer when the pool is still going and just leaned against the house as I said back, "Yeah, trust me, fall gives you prime weather for party cool down."

We were quiet for a little bit until I decided to point out, "So, guessing Dask and Zak weren't really down for tonight? You told them they tag along, right? Or did they just really hate it here and not even want to come to the party."

Kala let out a breathy laugh as she looked at me with this playful smile that she usually has and said, "Yeah, I told them and it's not that Dask and Zak don't like it here, but they just aren't as into going to Earth as other places we've hung out at before. Besides, they were hanging out with some other guys we go to school with on one of our neighboring planets, can't really remember which one though. But, don't get me wrong, I think they liked it when you hung out with us that time. They thought you were pretty cool."

"Sure about that?" But, then my eyes went wide and I bit my lip when I realized I actually said that out loud.

"What are you talking about?" She asked, sounding very confused, I whipped my head back over at her, knowing my face was probably red since I'm really embarrassed about just totally blurting that out and definitely about to make everything totally awkward probably.

I rubbed the back of my neck and bit my lip again, really not wanting to explain what was going through my head to Kala right now.

"Tony?" I whipped my head back over at her. I kept going back and forth, but… I knew I was busted and had to come clean.

"Well, and really, don't get me wrong, I had a lot of fun hanging with you guys the last time and the guys were really cool, but… is… something up with Zak?" I asked, knowing I should just be straight up with this; especially since what Dask was trying, I guess, to tell me didn't really help me either and just made me way more confused than I already was.

But, Kala just gave me this confused look as she asked, "Tony, what do you mean? What would be up with Zak?"

Oooookay, somehow I kinda saw that coming.

I saw her face toward me as she leaned against the house, waiting for me to tell her what was going through my head.

Well, I've been real with her so far, right?

I let out a deep breath before saying, "Well, I don't know, I just noticed him looking at me weird, like especially when we were in the car and stuff. Like… does he really not like me or something? Like did I do anything to completely tick him off that I don't know about?"

But, seriously, I am still so confused and I just really want to know what the heck was actually going on?! Kala was still looking at me like she just thought I was crazy and had no idea what I'm saying. But, then I saw her eyes go wide as she put her hand on her face for a second and her her muffled voice go, "Ugh, I should've known."

Then she took her hand away as she looked back up at me and kept going, "Look, Tony, I'm really sorry, for real. It's just something I've just gotten used to that I just try to ignore it by now."

"Yeah, but… what is it?" I said, even more confused now than before.

I saw Kala roll her head back for a second and sighing before looking back at me and saying, "Well, look Tony, I'm just going to be straight up with you. Honestly, even though at times like this he irks me, but I've probably known Zak since we were really, really little and we've always been really good friends, like we are with Dask. But… that's also kind of the problem. I mean, I do like Zak and I know he has my back just like I have his, but… a couple years back I kinda started to notice that Zak and I weren't quite there like we used to be and I kinda figured out he liked me a little more than I did and… yeah let's just say things started to get pretty weird."

Kala stopped, looking kind of awkward just thinking about what she said as she grabbed her left elbow with her right hand and looked down a little as she bit her lip a little.

But, right now, after thinking back on what Dask said, I get it now about what he was talking about since Kala pretty much said her and Zak were in the friend zone, or Zak is. Also, sure, I'm pretty much the president of the friend by now after the crazy amount of times I've been rejected, so I can totally relate to Zak right now.

Also, not that I can blame him for liking Kala like that. I mean, c'mon Kala's awesome.

She's just really cool and fun and... cute… wait, uh… I shook my head a little to get that out as she kept going, "I even just straight up told him once that I didn't think like that about him and I thought it just wouldn't be a big deal and I still don't get why he has to be so whacked out sometimes. But, whatever, let's just forget about it." She actually did look really sorry and that kind of made me feel a little bad for bringing it up as I put my hands up and said, "Oh, no it's cool, Kala. I just wanted to know what was up. No worries." She gave me a smile and I just smiled a little back as we just went back to chilling out.

"So, has dancing always been your forte?" She asked. "Well, I like to think I'm a pretty awesome dancer. Although what you saw in there isn't my usual dancing. I'm a lot more into breakdancing type stuff, another one of my party tricks. Even though I can only do it at school dances or smaller parties since there is like zero room inside to do any of that here."

She gave me a look and said, "Breakdancing?"

Honestly, I keep on forgetting that she is literally from a different planet and sometimes has no idea what I'm talking about.

"Yeah, it's another type of dancing and it has flips and spins and… here, I'll show you." I said, looking for a flat area to try something.

Honestly I wish I had a smooth surface to do a head slide or something since that's one of my favorite.

But I walked out to a flat area a couple feet away and put both of my hands down as I did a couple baby spins for going right back to standing and looking at Kala, who was looking at me with wide eyes but she had this look on her face that I remembered from the first day Kala and I hung out and she ate a burrito for the first time and thought it was awesome… not that I blame her because they are pretty amazing.

"That was totally rad! Can you teach me to do that?" She asked, and honestly… I felt pretty proud of myself right now for nailing those baby spins on grass.

"Yeah, sure, but… how about later when we have an actual floor that's not grass covered in wet dewey stuff." I said as I wiped my wet hands on the back of shirt that was already kind of wet anyway from sweat. "Deal." Kala said as before we both leaned back against the outside of the house.

We were just chilling in silence for a second before I heard, "Hey… Tony?" I looked back and faced her again before leaning against the wall again, "Yeah Kala, what's up?" Kala did the same thing as me as she turned to face me and said, "Just, thanks, for being so cool and showing me around. Seriously, it's been really awesome doing all this stuff."

I smiled back and shrugged as I said, "Hey, no problem, why? Got any favorite Earth stuff so far or anything you wanna go out try next time?"

Kala shifted a little against the house and smiled a little at me before saying, "Well, pinball, skateboarding, pancakes, and the party and stuff are all pretty awesome. But… those aren't the only things I like about hanging out here."

I gave a her a look as I asked, "Really? Like what?"

I mean, as far as I know, Kala really seemed to like all that stuff more than anything.

Then, before I even knew what hit me, literally, my eyes shot open and I stiffened up as I was trying to process what was going on. All I got was Kala just pulled me down a little bit with a hand on the back of my neck and kissed me totally out of nowhere.

Wait… what?! Kala's actually kissing me, right now?!

But, before I could even do anything about it, she pulled back and completely stopped as she she just looked at me with wide eyes. Not that I wasn't doing the same thing right back at her.

Okay, it's probably pretty obvious, at least as far as I go, but… I like Kala… like I really like her and I still couldn't believe she actually kissed me right now.

But… the look on her face was not helping me right now, especially thinking back to how the other times I've kissed a girl ended up.

Well, technically I've only kissed two girls before Kala… and yeah, neither of those were really that great.

My first kiss was in 6th grade when I got invited to a Halloween party and we were playing truth or dare and one of my other friends dared me to kiss Hannah Burns, since he sucks and knew I had a crush on her for the last few years. I knew it wasn't gonna go well since I thought I was gonna puke out my heart and was sweating like all get out because I was so nervous, then right when we kissed I immediately passed out for like a minute, and when I woke up… let's just say that my crush on Hannah was pretty much done.

But, it turned out okay since me and Hannah stayed friends after that totally awkward situation and we're in Drama together now and we're usually paired up together if there is a couple in the play since we've always had good stage chemistry together, but we're just both on the same page and we're totally cool just being friends.

Then there was that girl I dated kinda for like 2 months, that I just like to pretend never happened after how awkwardly that ended up with her dumping me for that senior guy.

But, ya know, the few times we did kiss or make out a little bit were... okay. Like it was nice and stuff, but I just never really... felt it, ya know?

Sure Kala kinda freaked me out for a second when she kissed me out of nowhere for like 5 seconds straight just now, but… not gonna lie… I felt something. It was kinda too short to really get it but… it was pretty awesome whatever it was.

But, Kala was still looking at me with that wide-eyed and almost freaked out looking expression on her face and I was just thinking that she totally just hated it and that she was just going to run away from me or something.

I was panicking as I put my hands up, feeling really sorry for some reason even though she was the one that kissed me totally out of nowhere, "Look, Kala, it's okay. I…" But then before I could even keep talking, and making me even more confused about what was happening, Kala immediately pulled me back down a little bit and kissed me... AGAIN?!

I just froze up and I seriously couldn't move.

Well, part of it was because Kala had both of her hands on the back of my neck this time, but… dude, I just couldn't move since I still couldn't believe Kala was kissing me… FOR THE SECOND TIME!

Although, unlike the first one, Kala was just staying there and it didn't feel like she was rushing it. But, whether she was rushing it or not… I didn't want it to stop. Sure, I still don't think I'm that good when it comes to girls like this or kissing or anything but… dude, Kala is kissing me right now and I am going to enjoy it.

I inched a little closer to her and tilted my head a little more as I kissed her back.

I could feel my hands shaking a little bit as I hesitantly put my hands on her sides to pull her closer. At first I thought Kala didn't want me to do that since I heard her breathing stop short and that she pulled away from me for a second. Until she immediately pulled me back in and I felt her arms wrap around my neck.

But, I just shrugged it off as I went back to what we were doing.

I could feel her move one of her hands on the back of my head as she kept pulling me closer and I could feel her fingers going through my hair, practically making my eyes roll into the back of my head.

Again, I don't have a lot of experience with this kinda stuff, but… dude, this is SO awesome.

We kept doing what we were doing until I heard the sliding door fly open and Alex calling out, "Hey Tony, are… Oh." Me and Kala both stopped and looked over to see Alex just staring at us.

All three of us just awkwardly stood there until Alex just gave us this weird, awkward smile and defensively putting his hands up before saying, "Sorry guys. I'll just, uh… go back."

After Alex, just left, I looked back at Kala, knowing my facing was probably red as all get out since my face pretty much felt like it was on fire that Alex just walked in on me and Kala making out, even though I've definitely walked in on worse stuff that one time with my parents.

Ugh, dude, why am I even thinking about that right now after probably one of the most awesome things just happened to me?!

I looked back at Kala, and probably for the first time ever since I met her, looked kinda embarrassed and awkward. But, then she just smiled a little at me and said, "Well, that was… something."

We both let out a nervous laugh and I just looked back up to look at her and since I didn't want to say anything too stupid and ruin the best kiss hands down I've ever gotten in my life, I thought I'd just try to get back to make everything calm and cool again.

I just smiled at her and rubbed the back of my neck with one hand and motioned back inside with my thumb on my free hand as I asked, "Hey, wanna go back in and dance, we still got like 1 hour of partying left before we gotta wrap it up?"

Kala just gave me her usual smile before saying, "Yeah, sure, sounds cool."

We started to walk back in and I bit my lip as I looked down and I decided to just go for it as I grabbed her hand, having no idea what she thought about it. But, then I saw her grab my hand back and looked up to see her smiling at me. I couldn't even stop myself from smiling back at her as we went back inside.

Hey, I told Kala I was gonna take her to a party, and dude I am still keeping that promise. Also, I'm still trying to figure out what that was all about back there.

I mean, does Kala actually like me like that too?

Well, Tony and Kala are thing now! :D Again I totally loved Kala's character and since her and Michelangelo couldn't have worked out back in the original FWTE, but I still wanted her to have some time in the spotlight and why not have this steady building relationship with Tony? :) I really wanted to make Tony his father's son in many different ways of being a confident party guy, but I still wanted him to show his doubts about himself in some area. So, I thought it would be interesting to show that as outgoing, like-able, and confident Tony is, he is still pretty self-conscious and pretty awkward guy when it comes to girls he likes. Also, don't worry, you will get Kala's perspective on all this and more information on the progression of Tony and Kala's relationship soon enough. ;) Anyway, thank you so much for reading and reviews are always appreciated.

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