"Hey, Sophie!" Fitz exclaimed, shining his bright smile at her.

Sophie reciprocated and patted the spot next to her for her friend to sit down.

Fitz sat down next to her and gave her a grin that reminded her a little too much of Edaline. "So..." he said. "Keefe?"

Sophie glared at her best friend. "What about him? Keefe, I mean."

"Well, I learned from sources that a certain blond prankster has feelings for you, and from what I can see, you seem to return those feelings."

Sophie blushed and smiled. But then remembered something. "But we..."

Fitz placed his hand over hers and gave it a friendly squeeze. "Sophie, we dated. And it didn't work out. And while I felt bad about it, I realized that we aren't meant to be. That's. When I started to notice that Keefe Sencen had feelings for you, and you might return them."

Sophie raised her head to look at one of her best friends. "I love you, you know that right? Because you are one of my best friends, and probably the closest thing I have to a brother. Apart from Dex."

Fitz grinned. "I know."

"Besides," Sophie smirked. "I seemed to notice that you have your eyes on a certain, green eyes blond girl!"

Fitz turned red and threw a pillow at Sophie, who in turn threw three pillows at him.

"Foster." Keefe deadpanned. "Fitzy has a crush on the human girl Vannessa!"

Sophie looked at Keefe, trying to calm her heart which went into a frenzy. "I know."

Keefe looked surprised at that. "Really? But I thought you and Fitz would be all 'smoochy smoochy' 'lip-on-lip' with each other."

The brown-eyed, Elvin girl skewered her crush with a laser glare. But her eyes twinkled with excitement. "Just like Fitz has a new crush, I do too!"

Keefe smirked, "I wonder who it is."

Sophie gave him a smug grin. "I'll tell you right now! Spare my friend the torture."

"Foster, you—" Sophie kissed him, a gentle press of her lips and his. It was over too soon.

"So, Sencen. You know who I like now?"

has crashed.

Sophie burst out laughing as she frantically hailed her friends on her imparter to show them Keefe's stunned reaction.