"Wow. Are we even going to a movie or are you going to a fashion show?" Clover jokes when she sees Alex coming down the stairs. Alex is dressed in a cute skirt and a white crop top that she just bought last week. It hugs her figure tightly making herself irresistible to Clover, she can't move her gaze away.

"Don't you always say fashion is the key thing in life?" Alex says while striking a pose

"You really took that advice to heart." Clover leans in to give Alex a kiss when she stops and gives her a peck on the cheek instead. She leads her to the car and drives them to the mall where they'll meet up with Sam.

When they enter the mall, both Clover and Alex have their heads up searching for Sam. They look around the first floor until Clover suggests they should try the newspaper stall but Alex insists on going to the smoothie bar. Clover follows suit. She doesn't want to lose the feeling of Alex tugging her by the hand, dragging her onwards. She doesn't want to let go of Alex's hand. They slow down and Clover spots the familiar red head at the smoothie bar talking to a guy.

"Looks like Sammy found herself a date at the math club." Clover says.

Alex ignores her comment and drops her hand; she walks up to the smoothie bar. It isn't until they are 10 meters away that Clover recognizes the guy Sam's with. Derek waves at Alex and Clover finds herself rolling her eyes at Alex who's blushing. This is why Alex is all dressed up.

"Woah you look smoking." Derek looks at Alex up and down, grinning at the sight.

Smoking. Clover can think of a billion words to describe the beauty that is Alex tonight yet, Derek chose smoking. She's upset by this as a friend, of course. Nothing more.

"What movie are we watching?" Derek asks.

"Only the hottest romcom right now, Insane Dumb Love." Clover says.

Derek frowns. "I thought we were going to watch the new Stars Battle movie."

"Yes! I wanted to see that movie too!" Alex shrieks.

Clover chimes in. "Great! Because that's what we're going to see."

Sam looks up at her in confusion. "You just said-"

"Let's go watch Stars Battle!" Clover ignores whatever she's going to say and leads the group to the cinema.

After two hours of indulging in the Stars Battle fandom, Sam is ready to kill Clover and Clover feels the same about Derek. She was barely watching the movie for she doesn't care that much about it and also she was distracted by Alex's giggles whenever Derek made some jokes about the movie. Clover was only keeping herself from strangling him.

When the movie was done, Alex wanted to go to the food court and get some ice cream so here they are. Clover and Sam are in line waiting while Alex and Derek are sitting at the table, talking about the movie.

"That movie was horrible and Derek wouldn't even stop talking for a second." Clover says when they're out of Alex's ear shot.

"He would've if we had gone to see Insane Dumb Love instead." Sam snarls.

"Please, you can just look at your own love life." Clover laughs.

Sam lightly punches her friend's arm. "That's rich coming from you."

"Subtle hint much? What's that supposed to mean?

Sam looks at her friend. Clover is smiling but there's something in her eyes that suggests fear and worries. "Do you want Alex to be dating Derek?"

"No!" Clover quickly changes her tone. "Saying as a friend, of course."

Sam smirks. "What about as a crush?"

"As a cr-wait what?"

"Oh you know, just talking about how you and Alex have been fooling around for months now thinking it's all harmless fun until you start to develop feelings and don't know what to do with them so you just box them up until they completely destroy you inside out." Sam spills all in one breath.

Her speech earns a shocked expression from Clover, leaving her stunned. After Clover has some time to compose herself, she stutters. "Wha-how-when?"

"I wouldn't be running a math club if I weren't the smart one." Sam shrugs.

"Actually, you wouldn't be running a math club if you weren't the lame one."

"Oh I'm sorry, do you have something to say to Alex or do you want m-"

Clover clasps her mouth as if Alex can hear them. "Got it, got it. What should I do?"

"What can you do?" They both turn their heads back to the table.

Alex and Derek are still there but they have long stopped talking. They're deeply into their kiss now.