Chapter 25

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"I TOLD YOU WE SHOULDN'T COOK WHEN MOM AND DAD ARE GONE!" Joe was yelling.

"You're fine." Kevin promised. "You burnt your hand a little bit."

"Yeah I mean what kind of idiot do you have to be to touch the pizza pan with your bare hand." Nick laughed.

"It was going to be burnt. I had to take it out fast." Joe whined. "It hurtss."

"Put butter on it." Lilly told Joe.

"Ew gross." Joe complained.

"Joe, it'll make it so it doesn't burn anymore." Lilly replied laughing.

"This isn't funny." Joe said.

"Yeah I'm just going to cut the pizza." Nick pulled out the pizza cutter.

"Do you guys have butter?" Lilly asked Kevin.

"Yeah it's in the fridge." Kevin brought Lilly the butter.

Nick brought the pizza in the living room and Miley, Kelsy, and Kevin followed him.

"Now sit still while I do this." Lilly put some of the butter on his hand.

"It still hurts." Joe said when she was done.

"Yeah but I bet it hurts a lot less." Lilly said knowingly.

Joe smiled. "You might be right."

"I'm always right." Lilly grinned. She leaned in and kissed him. "You're so cute."

"I know." Joe laughed. They went back into the living room with everyone else.

"Is the baby all better now?" Kevin asked.

"Ha ha you're hilarious." Joe replied sarcastically, sitting down with Lilly.

They all finished up the pizza and the movie. "Hey, Kels, want to go get your stuff before it gets late?" It was only 8:00pm, but he felt like getting out of the house.

"Yeah sure." Kelsy followed him to the door.

"See you guys a later." Kevin called. They went outside and got in the car. "So I'm excited to be going to your house. Someone hasn't had me over yet." He pretended to be hurt.

Kelsy laughed. "Well I promise you can have the full tour."

"Thank you." Kevin joked. He drove to her house.

They walked up to her door and she opened it. "Welcome." Her and Kevin walked in.

Kevin looked around. It was a normal house, just like he had expected. "My room is upstairs." Kelsy led him up the stairs.

"Should I brace myself?" Kevin joked.

Kelsy laughed. "What?"

"Nevermind." Kevin laughed.

They walked into her room. It was clean, not too big. "Let me just get some clothes together."

Kevin sat down on her bed. "I like your room."

"It's ok, kind of boring." Kelsy shrugged.

"It isn't boring." He layed back on her bed. "I'm tired. Your bed is really comfortable."

"It is, isn't it?" She set her bag down on the floor next to the bed. Then she layed on her stomach next to Kevin. She leaned in close until their lips met. It was different than any other time, though. They could both feel it. They pressed their bodies together. Neither one could say anything, it felt so right.

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Joe, Lilly, Miley, and Nick sat in the living room. "We should play a game." Joe said.

"What game?" Lilly asked.

"I don't know. Let's go look in the game closet." Joe replied. "You guys will play, right?"

"Yeah sure." Miley said.

Lilly and Joe were looking at the games. "Jeez, you guys have a ton of games."

Joe laughed. "I know. We grew up on them. We had even more back in New Jersey."

"So what do you want to play?" Lilly asked.

"Life?" Joe grabbed the game.

"Yeah I haven't played that in forever." Lilly followed him back to the living room.

"We're playing Life!" Joe yelled.

"We're all right here." Nick replied.

"So?" Joe questioned. He set the game on the coffee table and started setting it up. "I'm going to be so rich."

They started playing the game. Joe was the first one to the reach the spot to get married. "This is my little pink wife. Her name is Lilly."

"Aww." Lilly laughed. It was her turn to spin and she reached the spot next. "Here's my little blue husband." She joked. "I'll name him...umm..."

"Joe?" Joe offered.

"I don't know." Lilly giggled. "Ok I suppose."

They finished the game. "Can I have one of your boy kids?" Miley asked Nick. "I only have one girl and a husband. You have three boys."

Nick laughed. "It's a game." He stopped. "Ok, fine." Nick handed her a boy. "You can have Eddie."

"Joe and I have eight kids." Lilly started laughing.

"We're going to need a really big house." Joe replied. "And a really big car."

"Well it doesn't help that you didn't go to college and became a salesperson." Lilly said.

"And I repeat. It's just a game." Nick stated.

"No-it's LIFE!" Joe replied.

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Kevin and Kelsy were laying on her bed. "I love you." He whispered.

Kelsy looked at him. "I love you, too."

Kevin smiled and put his arm around her. "I should give you something, though."

Kelsy instantly realized. She had been thinking about it but didn't expect him to bring it up.

Kevin pulled the ring off of his left hand.

"Kevin I don't know..." Kelsy said.

"I want this, Kelsy." Kevin stated.

"Are you sure, I mean what will people say?" Kelsy asked.

"Remember, I don't care anymore." Kevin replied. "I'm tired of trying to hide things and care what people think." He put the ring in her hand. "It'll probably be big."

"That's ok. I've got a necklace I can put it on." Kelsy said. "As long as you're sure."

"Stop." He laughed. "I'm positive."

"As much as I don't want to leave you right now..." Kelsy began. "I need to take a quick shower and then get dressed. It is getting late."

Kevin looked at his phone. It was 8:45pm. "Yeah, I'm guessing my parents are back by now."

"Ok, I'll be back." Kelsy grinned. She kissed him one last time before leaving the room. She went in the bathroom and showered. Then when she got out, she put on the ring and got dressed.

She went into her bedroom. Kevin was dressed and sitting on her bed texting on his phone. "Sorry, you could've gone downstairs or something. It's boring in here."

Kevin smiled. "It's fine. I just got a text from Joe. He said they got back like 10 minutes ago."

"Oh ok." Kelsy grabbed the bag she had put clothes in earlier.

"Are you ready to go?" Kevin asked.

"Yep." Kelsy replied.

"Ok." Kevin got up and walked down the stairs with Kelsy.

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Lilly and Miley waved bye to Joe and Nick who were standing on the front porch. Robbie had just gotten there to pick them up.

"Today was fun." Lilly said.

"I know, the best part was probably the song, though." Miley replied.

"Yeah, the fair was fun too, though." Lilly added.

"I liked it, it was nice spending such a long time with just Nick." Miley said quietly.

"And then when we played Life. That was great." Lilly laughed.

Miley laughed too. "It really was. You and Joe had so many kids."

"Yeah and we were poor." Lilly added.

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Nick and Joe went upstairs with Frankie. Their parents and him had just gotten back a few minutes earlier. "So how was that camp thing?" Nick asked.

"Awesome." Frankie replied. "I can't wait!" They went into his room to play a game.

A couple minutes later, Kevin and Kelsy walked in.

"Hey you two, I think your brothers are upstairs playing games." Denise said, she was doing some work at a desk in the living room.

Kevin put his hand in his pocket. "Ok, we're going up there then." Kevin had already mentioned that Kelsy would be staying over. He had already mentioned the problem to her.

"Ok, night, Honey." Denise replied.

"Night." Kevin headed upstairs with Kelsy right behind him. They got into his room and she set her stuff down. "It should be fine if you sleep in here tonight. My mom hasn't gotten the chance to set up a guest room or anything like that yet."

"Ok." Kelsy sat down on his bed. "I'm really tired." She looked at the time, it wasn't really late.

"Yeah me too. I just have to go talk to Joe, he said he wanted to see me when we got here." Kevin went into his closet and quickly changed into a pair of sweatpants and a t-shirt. "I'll be right back."

Kevin went down the hall and into Frankie's room. "Hey, what's going on?"

Joe looked up. "Hey, bro. Just seeing whats up." Suddenly he nudged Nick. "Hey uh Kev, come to my room for a sec."

"Ok." Kevin replied, a little confused.

"Come on." Joe went to his room with Kevin and Nick. "Umm Kevin? What happened to your ring?!" Joe whispered loudly.

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