The next day...

Crystal decided to go meet up with Luke, since he had the day off at the surf shop today. She decided to meet up with him at the mall, as she asked Luke to go and do just that. Thankfully, Summer is going off to work while the rebel girl has enough time to hang out with Luke so that she can express her true feelings for him.

So Crystal stood by the goth store, as she was leaning on the side of the wall. She doesn't really know why she was even there to begin with, considering her group was ending, but she still liked going to this store regardless. Good enough to hang out around there anyway. So Crystal stayed there by the store, waiting for Luke to finally get to the goth store, waiting for him to arrive, as she heard 'Waiting on the World to Change' by John Mayer playing on the mall's radio above.

The rebel girl waited, until Luke finally arrived at the mall. He had his hands in his jacket pockets, looking around the place as he entered. The rebel took notice of Luke entering the mall area she was at, than stood up from the wall.

"Luke, you're finally here." Crystal said, walking up to him. "I was wondering where you've been." Luke shrugged his shoulders, looking at his friend.

"I had to take the bus here." Luke said. "Sorry about being late."

"Oh don't be sorry dude. It's totally alright." Crystal and Luke began walking down the street, heading off to who knows where. "I was wanting to talk about us being friends, and you being married to Summer and all of that stuff. I don't mean to sound like a chump saying this, but...doesn't this feel pretty, um...awkward to you?" Luke shrugged his shoulders, hands still in his pockets.

"Not awkward to me. Not as far as I'm concerned anyway."

"I was curious what you were going to say there. I mean...keep in mind, dude...you and Summer are married and...I just feel like you'd think it's weird."

"It's cool. It's totally cool." Luke said, smiling at his friend. "Besides, I don't see the big deal of us just hanging out as friends, you know? You're still a pretty cool girl to me, Crystal." The two went up to the side of the fountain that was inside of the mall building, stopping right next to it. "So what do you want to talk to me about out here? You never exactly say what you wanted to talk about."

"What?" Crystal sat down, realizing what she wanted to talk to Luke about. "Oh yeah, I almost forgotten what I invited you down here for. Sit down with me."

"Okay."

The surfer sat down next to the rebel girl. It was silent between the two of them, leaving Crystal to wonder how to tell the guy how she feels. The girl had no idea what to even tell him, as she felt like anything that would be said, would be completely embarrassing for her to even say to him. Giving it her best shot, the rebel girl continued to speak.

"In the past, you know me and Summer still have a bit of a rivalry, right?" Crystal asked, causing Luke to nod. "Well, I was giving it some thought, and I wanted to tell you...perfectly honest, that I am in love with you." Luke raises an eyebrow, before Crystal continued to talk. "I mean...you being married or not, I felt like there is romantic feelings towards each other, even before this day."

"What?" Luke asked. "Crystal, that was in the past. Me and you just had a moment together. Me and Summer are the married ones now..."

"But I love you, Luke. I had feelings for you back than, and I still do now." The rebel girl scratches the back of her head, before scooting closer to the surfer. "Didn't you have the same romantic feelings towards me back there when we had that picnic?" Luke stared forward, not even sure what to even say to this girl. "Luke, I need to tell you right now, my entire life is falling completely apart...I mean, the goth group of mine is no longer friends with each other, Katie wants nothing to do with me, Goth Boy and Winter hates me, I lost Yuki, and now...I'm working at a job I hate..." The rebel girl looks down to the ground, before looking at Luke again. "It seems like the only person who doesn't hate me right now, is you. I don't want to destroy my friendship with you, Luke. I really don't. But at the same time, I have...feelings for you, feelings that I never was genuine about until...I met you." Luke was still speechless from everything that he was hearing, but Crystal continued to talk. "I know this all seems kind of crazy for me to say now, but...I just...really want to be with you, Luke...I have nobody else to turn to anymore..."

"Not even your family?"

"My cheerleader sisters and parents hate me, no way in hell am I telling them my feelings about how my life has been!" Crystal sighed, before looking over to the surfer again. "At least tell me if your feelings back then was true or not?"

The surfer sat there silently, not even sure what to say at this point. He was very shocked by all of this that's coming from the rebel girl right now. The guy than looked over to the girl that was next to him, as she was waiting for Luke to say something to her. The surfer sighed, before finally speaking.

"I...actually did have feelings back there, towards you." Luke confesses to her. "But at the same time, I was still in love with Summer."

"Do you still have feelings for me now?" Crystal asked. "Because for the longest time, I still have feelings towards you." Luke blinked a couple times, before Crystal scoots closer to him. "If you actually still do have feelings towards me...would you kiss me to...prove to me that you do?"

It was silent between the two of them after that was said. The two stared at each other in their eyes as they sat there, not sure what to even do now. It was just than, something happened to the two of them that they would never end up forgetting.

Without a second thought, Luke and Crystal leaned into each other, kissing each other on the lips. It felt like a completely romantic moment for the two of them. Luke wasn't thinking about it while he kissed the rebel girl, but he felt like it was the heat of the moment that made him do what he did. It wasn't until the kiss ended that he realized what he did.

"W-What just happened?" Luke asked, rather breathlessly. Crystal blinked a couple times, before slowly smiling at him.

"I...think that's all I need to know that there's hope for the two of us..." Crystal said, smiling at him. She then frowned, knowing he might be furious with the fact that this kiss happened. "Uh...are you okay?" Luke stood up, as he looked down to the floor, unsure what to even think of the moment. He looks over to Crystal.

"Uh...dude, I think I need to go home to lay down for awhile...I think I need some rest because...now my head is all over the place after that just happened."

"Okay...you do that than..." Crystal said, feeling like she really screwed up there. "Yeah, I think I'm gonna go too. Bye."

Crystal walks away from Luke, holding the side of her head as she was walking away from him. She had a look of guilt and humiliation on her face as she walked away. 'I honestly feel like I want to die right now...' Crystal said in her thoughts.

As the rebel girl was walking away from the fountain, somebody actually saw Crystal kissing Luke right there at the fountain. She has extremely messy red hair, with a white t-shirt with a black jacket wrapped around her waist, as well as baggy dark blue jeans. She pulled out her Smartphone after she saw Luke and Crystal kissing each other at the fountain.

"Hello, Annie babe, what's up?" Chaz said on the other line.

"Hey Chaz, it's been awhile since me and Katie have been hanging out with each other. Mind if I join you guys on whatever you two are doing?" Annie said.

"Sure. Me and Tim are just hanging out at the beach right now. Katie's on her way, since she wants to talk to Summer." Annie smiled, nodding her head at that idea. "Why do you ask?"

"Oh, I've been busy, with life and shit, and it's been awhile since me and Katie hung out, you know? Also, I need to talk to her about something after the hangout is over." Annie shrugged a shoulder. "I'll come over now if you really want to. Besides, me and Katie haven't talk to each other in awhile anyway."

"Okay, whatever. See you when you get here." Annie nods her head, before looking over to the store where Crystal was entering. "That girl...seriously has some nerve trying to get together with Luke behind Katie and Summer's back. Katie's really going to hate hearing what she's been doing lately if that's the case." Annie places her phone back into her pocket, before looking off to the distance. "Oh well, at least I'm not dealing with that annoying Candy girl and that girl she's been dating. Techno is better than rock and metal music...bitch should shut up about that bullshit." After Annie muttered all of that, she started to make her way out of the mall to go find Katie and Chaz at the boardwalk.