Author's Note: Oh my gosh guys! I am SO VERY sorry I hadn't updated in so long again. My mother and I have allowed a friend of mine to move in with us because he had nowhere to go and needed to leave his abusive roommates. I've been busy with trying to make him feel at home.

Chapter 38

"Took a bit of time to find her, don't you think?" Dawn giggled as Scott was still catching his breath.

"It wasn't really," Scott replied, thinking he actually had some pride left.

"So, is there anything you want to ask her?" Dawn asked as she crossed her legs so she could use them as arm rests. "Because she's waiting."

Scott gulped, unsuccessfully attempting to ask the blonde to actually be his girlfriend. "Uh," was all he could manage.

"Close enough," Dawn accepted. "and my answer is yes." She stood up. "Can you drive me home?"

"Uh," Scott was still at a loss for words.

"I will take that as a yes," Dawn sang and pulled the ginger by the hand and outside.

Scott managed to convince his sister to lend him her car, although Dawn thought it looked more like a tractor, and drove the blonde home.

Dawn smiled as the ride was awkward and silent; but it was pleasant for her.

"We're here," Scott managed to stutter quietly, still processing on the fact that Dawn was now his girlfriend.

"Thank you," Dawn responded by kissing him on the cheek, which made the ginger tense up even more so than he already was. "See you at school tomorrow."

"Yep," Scott laughed, completely red and watched Dawn prance into her house. "Bye," he whispered right before he drove himself back home.

"FINALLY!" Gwen exclaimed once Dawn and called and told her the news. "Do you know how long I've been waiting to see you two go ANYWHERE?"

"I," Dawn didn't know how to answer her friend. "I think it is time to start talking about you now."

"Like what?" Gwen said as she stretched out her limps and let out a yawn.

"You drama with Courtney and Duncan," Dawn said. "Has that been settled yet?"

"I guess," Gwen said. Dawn could FEEL her shrugging. "I've started to forgive him for being a total jerk those last moments in our relationship."

"That's good," Dawn sighed in relief. "I was hoping you would find a way for let him back in."

"What makes you say that?" Gwen said. "Please tell me you don't think I should get back together with that guy?"

"I think you should follow your heart," Dawn clarified. "But I was saying such things because Duncan isn't a complete jerk; he's just oblivious."

"That, I agree with," Gwen admitted, letting out another yawn. "It's pretty late, isn't it?"

"Time to go to bed, I guess," Dawn spoke as she realized the time.

"Yeah," Gwen said with an exhausted giggle. "Goodnight then, I guess."

The two women hung up their respective phones and decided to go to bed.

Scott on the other hand was being mocked by his sister as she took notice of the lipstick that was now imprinted on his face. "Will you shut up already!" he yelled.

"You look so stupid!" Albertha cackled, enjoying every minute of the taunting actions she metaphorically inflicted upon her brother.

"SHUT UP!" Scott snapped. "It's not like YOU look any LESS stupid than I do anyway!"

"HEY!" Albertha snapped back and the siblings glared at each other until Albertha burst out into laughter again. "I can't be serious with that thing on your face! haha!" she clutched her sides. "Wash it off, wash it off."

"No way," Scott scoffed. "Especially not after you telling me to!"

"You are so LAME," Albertha huffed.

"YOU'RE MORE LAME THAN ME!" Scott snapped.

The sibling fight lasted all night; the two REFUSED to back down, not wanting to have a hurt pride.

The fight lasted the entire night. Bickering and shouting continued to grow even more rapid with each word they spoke. It even lasted when Scott was heading out to school. Hell, it was STILL going on when Scott was GOING to school; they had ended up trading insults through their hand-me-down cellphones. "Do you EVER SHUT UP?" Scott eventually exclaimed as he was at the peak level pissed off.

"If you don't want to talk then you could always hang up the phone, my dumb brother," Albertha meant this as a teasing action to CONTINUE the conversation, but she isn't exactly the brainiest character.

"FINE!" Scott exclaimed and ended the argument by turning off his cellphone. "LOSER!" he felt the need to deliver the last insult; although Albertha was currently cursing his existence as he arrived to his school parking lot.

"Hey!" Duncan met up with the ginger with Gwen and Courtney with him.

"Sup," Scott decided to try to act cool; it wasn't working.

"Hey, what's that?" Duncan said as he focused on Scott's face.

"What?" Scott asked, wanting Duncan to clarify his words.

"Your face," Duncan said. "Is that..." the punk took a closer look. "Is that lipstick on your face?" the punk burst out into a fit of laughter. "Way to go Romeo." the darker haired male decided to use the oldest nickname in the book.

"You are so lame," Courtney muttered and shook her head in disappointment. The CIT ended up wrapping her arms around one of the Goth's arms in an effort to tell Gwen to support her idea.

"I am not," Duncan rejected Courtney opinion.

"You kind of are," Gwen quickly got the hint. "like REALLY lame." the female best friends began to remark Duncan's past actions and called him a stalker.

"Besides," Gwen decided to end the teasing of her ex. "I think it's sweet that he kept it on."

"It's kinda creepy to me," Courtney whispered, still holding Gwen's arm.

"It's sappy," Duncan muttered.

"You're sappy," Gwen and Scott grumbled in unison.

"Hey! I thought Justin to supposed to be the butt of the insults?" Duncan did NOT like being verbally abused.

"Guys!" Dawn was then spotted skipping over to them along with B and Lightning silently following in a slower pace.

Scott then desperately tried to hide the fact he left her lipstick stain on his face.

"I think it's time to go to class," Gwen said. "Scott, you DO plan on walking your girl to her first period, right?" the Goth sounded more demanding than questioning.

"Yeah," Scott said, easily getting the hint.