After the hangout...

Katie didn't really tell Chaz anything after Annie told her what Crystal was doing. The last thing Chaz really even wants to talk about is Summer, so there's no way Katie's going to sit there and talk to her boyfriend about his exgirlfriend, especially her new husband. So it looks like Katie and Annie were going to try to talk some sense into Crystal by themselves.

The two tomboys arrived at the coffee shop that the group usually hangs out at nowadays. The two sat down at one of the random tables, waiting for Crystal to arrive so that they can talk. They got themselves some coffee before sitting down. Once they did, they waited for the rebel to come by.

Katie kept her eyes out the window as she was still waiting for her former best friend to finally arrive at the coffee shop. Hopefully, it's not too much longer for them to wait. After a couple more moments, Katie noticed that Crystal was finally here now. The rebel girl entered the coffee shop, looking for Katie and Annie around here, as she got a text from them to come over here. Katie waves at them.

"Over here!" Katie shouts, waving at the rebel girl. Crystal smiled, as she walked over to the two tomboys at the table. She sat down with them.

"Hey guys. It's been awhile since I talked to you guys..." Crystal said. "...What's up? I wouldn't expect you guys to come down here so that we can hang out or something." The rebel girl felt more sheepish than ever, due to the time she no longer hung out with Katie, but was happy that she was near her again. "So...what's up?"

"Oh, nothing much." Katie said, taking a sip of her coffee. "But...we need to talk Crystal. That's kind of why me and Annie invited you down here."

"Really? What do you want to talk about?"

"Well, just one thing that Annie ended up discovering moments ago." Crystal looks over to the girl to the tomboy's right, seeing her sitting there next to Katie. The rebel girl raises an eyebrow, wondering where this was even going.

"Should I be worried about this?"

"Depends...if you really don't want Katie to be too upset with you, than I'd probably be honest with her." Annie said. "Please, continue Katie." The tomboy nods her head, making Crystal even more confused by what is even going on right now.

"Okay...so Annie was actually at the mall today, and in an odd twist of fate...she saw you and Luke kissing near the fountain." Katie explains to Crystal.

"Annie saw everything?" Crystal asked, shocked. Annie nods her head, as Katie sat there silently. Crystal was at a lost for words, until she tried to speak her side of things in this situation. "Okay, it doesn't seem like I changed at all. But come on guys, have you seen Luke? He's a total hunk. How can I not go for a guy like him?"

"Total hunk, but forget that he's married." Annie said. "I wouldn't even go for my own boyfriend if I found out he was married. But still, really not cool of you to go and do this, Crystal."

"Okay, you...shut up. Katie...I'm sorry, but my entire life has been falling completely apart after Yuki died, Luke is the only person left in my life who doesn't hate me. He might be...pretty bothered by the fact that we kissed, but I still love him." Katie looks down at the table they were sitting at, hearing Crystal out on all of this. "Believe me, if Luke wasn't married, I still would've kissed him. He is just a good guy to me, and he hasn't turned his back on me yet. I don't want to lose him like...I lost everyone..." Crystal leans forward, rubbing her own head. "...You gotta believe me at this point, because literately, everyone in my life hates me." Katie frowned, before looking at Crystal again.

"Deep down..." Katie started off saying. "...I still wished that me and you were still friends." Crystal looks down hearing that was said. "You might have done extremely bad things around Simport, but I still wish I was your friend. Parts of me wants to give you the benefit of the doubt and hope that you'd actually change. So far, you doing this to Luke and Summer's marriage isn't proving to me that you have."

"Maybe not by a long-shot. But I...really want things to be before the whole ordeal with me and the SPA Agency happened. Before Goth Boy and I were thrown in prison for destroying the junkyard." Crystal rubs a hand down her face, keeping herself from tearing up. "Wishing that things were normal again isn't too hard to ask, right?" Annie shrugged her shoulders, before shaking her head.

"Just in my eyes, dude...sometimes people actually do want things to be make to where they were. But sometimes, things can't end up back to where they were." Annie said.

"I...was about to say that..." Katie said to herself. "But even than, I still wish deep down, we were friends again." Katie looks at Crystal, sighing to herself. "Look, I'm not stopping you from destroying Luke and Summers relationship, but you got to ask yourself, is this really worth it?"

Crystal opened her mouth, wanting to defend herself in this, but in the end she knew Katie was right. Shaking her head, Crystal closes her mouth, deciding to let Katie be right instead of defending herself. The tomboy sighed, looking at her former friend, not really wanting to say anything else after what she had said moments ago. Katie just hoped that Crystal learned something out of this whole thing.

"Well, I believe we're done here..." Katie said, standing up. "Uh, Crystal, as much as I would like to stay here and try to talk to you some more, but...Chaz is expecting me at his house after I talk to him." Katie pulls her cell phone out of her jacket pocket, standing up from the chair she was sitting. "Anyways, later guys."

Katie left the coffee shop, pulling her skateboard out of her backpack. Crystal watched her friend leave, as she sat there. She then looks over to Annie, who was just sitting there, eating her bread that she bought here. Once she noticed Crystal looking at her, she stops eating, acknowledging the rebel girl looking at her. She glares at her.

"You think I'm on your side on this one? Don't even..." Annie mutters, before standing up. "Besides, I got to go back to my boyfriend's house so that we can listen to more music. Later." Annie walks off leaving Crystal by herself at the table. The rebel girl sighed.

'Alone once again...just wonderful...' Crystal said in her thoughts.


Meanwhile...

Deciding to let Chaz and Katie be by themselves this afternoon, Tim decided to go off to meet up with Pinky. He collected some flowers at Poppy's Florist in the process, wanting to surprise her when he gets to her house. After he bought his girlfriend flowers, he finally was off to her house.

Arriving at his girlfriends house, the boy approached the blue house. He knocked on the door, waiting for the girl to answer the door for him. Pinky opens the door, noticing Tim on the other side.

"Sweetie, I'm so glad you're here!" Pinky said, happily. "I have something I wanted to tell you." The girl notices the flowers in her boyfriends hands. She smiled. "Are those for me?!"

"Yep." Tim said, handing them to her. Pinky took the flowers, then they walked inside the house. "What do you want to tell me?" Pinky looks behind herself, carrying the flowers in hand.

"Oh...right, uh...I've been talking to my parents about you. They were quite surprised by the fact that I was dating someone."

"You told your parents about me?" The boy rubs the back of his neck. "Boy, I didn't say anything to my dad yet about you. But...then again, that's probably for the best..." Tim lowers his arm, walking over to Ounky as she placed the flowers into a vase nearby. "Anyway, I want to know, what did they say about me? How did they feel about you and I dating?" The girl in blue turns around, facing her boyfriend.

"They are actually proud of me for finally getting a boyfriend." Pinky said, before walking into the kitchen. "Me and my mom talked a little bit on the phone some more after I brought you up, and she and my dad both want to meet you." Tim's eyes widen in surprise.

"Really? Your parents want to meet me?"

"Yeah. They really want to meet my new boyfriend because...well...truthfully, I never had a boyfriend before..." Pinky cringed, rather nervously, before speaking her next words. "It's a rather long story there, but...between you and me, I think that we should save it until tomorrow night when you meet them with me." Tim blinked a couple times, before crossing his arms.

"I finally get to meet your parents?"

"Yeah."

"I...am a little nervous hearing that. What are they like?" Pinky held up her hands, walking up to her new boyfriend.

"They are very friendly people actually." Pinky smiled as she walked up to Tim, wrapping her arms around him. "I know they will just really, really like you. You are such a gentleman to me, and they always wanted to find that in a guy whenever I get a boyfriend." Tim blushes, almost giggling at what his girlfriend was saying. Nearly tugging on his own collar, Tim spoke up.

"I guess I should have time off of the auto-shop so that I can meet your parents." Tim smiled, before kissing his girlfriend on the cheek.

"It's this coming Saturday that my parents want to see you. They want to meet you at a house they own down in the forest that we use for our family gatherings."

"A house in the forest, huh? I guess that sounds like it'll be something worth enjoying." Tim crosses his arms. "So is this house like, at a camp or something? Because you know it's the summertime, and this kind of season would be the time for..."

"It's not at a campsite that it's at. It's only a house that the rangers know about, and allows people to borrow it at times." Pinky places her hands on her hips, before shrugging. "The only times my family has used it was for a wedding, and a graduation party. That's really it."

"So, now it's used to have us hang out, since we normally don't anymore because of work and stuff." Pinky pulls out a soda can from the fridge, before looking over to Tim. "Either way, it would be a wonderful time for them to meet you, and for you to meet them." Tim nods his head, before he and Pinky walked over to the living room to sit down at. "So, since you're still here. Want to watch a movie with me while we wait for the weekend to get here?"

"Sure, what movie do you want to watch?"

"Before you came here, I was actually going to watch the movie Notting Hill. Do you want to join me in watching it?" Tim nods his head, joining Pinky on the couch. "When I was a kid, my dad would always put this movie on, whenever school ended early for me." Pinky giggles. "It's fun thinking of the past, you know? Things feel so much...nicer back then." Tim nods his head, as his girlfriend turns the TV on.

"Well...with everything that's going on in Chaz's life, in Katie's life, Crystal...and...I guess I can't say I have any problems nowadays. But it seemed like everything was just so easy back in the day, you know?"

"I know."

"It...really feels like it was yesterday, me and Chaz were sitting in his living room, watching Ed Edd n' Eddy to ourselves. Then talked about how life will be easy for us when we get to middle school. Those years were...pretty fine to us, but then...Chaz met Summer, and then we're here." Pinky looks over to Tim, leaning her head onto his shoulder.

"At least his break up was two years ago." Tim nods his head.

"At least. As harsh as this sounds...I'm actually glad Chaz and Summer broke up. I've never trusted her one bit, the instant I laid my eyes on her." Tim said, continuing to watch the movie. "I felt like Summer wasn't as trustworthy as the other girls in the Royal Academy, and I hoped that I was wrong, and just assuming things. But then Katie and Crystal came along, and indirectly shown us that she wasn't trustworthy one bit. Boy, I thank the world for that, you know?" Pinky nods her head, looking down at the floor, before continuing to watch the movie. "But it still hurts to know that she really did this to him." Pinky frowns, before blinking a couple times.

"It still kind of hurts thinking that a girl like her dating Chaz would go and do that to him."

"Apart of me doesn't feel surprised that THAT happened...really..." Tim sighed, shaking his head again. "But whatever...Summer is no longer apart of Chaz's life, and she won't get him back after what she did to him. Now let's just continue being together and being happy, alright? Summer isn't worth our time talking about."

"Good idea."

Pinky and Tim continued to watch the movie to themselves, sitting there silently. It was true, they just wanted to sit there and be happy instead of dwelling about Summer. It was better this way.