Hi everyone! I'm back from my choir tour, which means I can answer reviews and PMs now!

Anyway, hope you enjoy this update. Review if you can!

I knocked lightly on Emmet's door.

"Can I come in?"

Almost immediately, I heard a crashing sound, some quite loud cursing, and then Emmet saying, "Yeah!"

I pushed open the door to see Emmet carefully picking himself up from where he'd fallen off the spinny office chair in his room.

I raised an eyebrow. "Need any help?"

He laughed. "Nah, I'm fine."

He then continued to struggle to get up.

I just stood there, a small smile on my face.

"Uh, can I use that help now..?" He asked after a few more moments.

I smirked. "You had your chance."

"Whaat?! No fair!"

I grinned. "Don't worry." I grabbed his hand, tried to ignore the tingly feeling I felt, and helped him up.

We stood mere centimetres apart, and I noticed for the first time how much I'd grown in the past months; I used to be almost a head shorter than Emmet, but now we were roughly the same height.

Emmet started to giggle nervously, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Ahaha... I- I'm fine now- "

Before he could finish his sentence, before I even knew what was happening, before the voices could even start telling me it was a bad idea-

I grabbed him by the shoulders and kissed him.

I could feel his whole body freeze with shock, until the moment passed and he relaxed into it.

My head was screaming; so many different things were being shouted at me by familiar and unfamiliar voices.

'WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!'

'WHAT ABOUT BATMAN?'

'YOU GO, LUCY!'

I felt my heart almost explode. This was happening. It was happening. After all this time fantasizing the moment our lips finally met, it was just as good as I thought it would be.

A few more moments passed until Emmet pulled away and stared at me.

"Wha- are- why..."

I leaned my forehead against his, breathing heavily.

"Because I wanted to."

He smiled giddily and started to laugh quietly. I grinned with him.

After a few seconds, Emmet asked, "Why did you come up here anyway?"

"I was going to get my bag and go," I said, leaving his side and picking up my rucksack from the floor.

Emmet nodded. "Ok. It-It might be a good idea t-to do that," he stammered, still caught off guard by my actions.

I was, too.

I stood for a few seconds, before opening the door and walking back out.

I ran down the stairs and back into the kitchen.

"I'm off," I said to Benny and Rex.

"Ok, see you on Monday!" Benny answered cheerfully.

"Nice talking to you," Rex smiled at me, and I returned the gesture.

I turned around, shouted "Bye!" over my shoulder, and made my way to the door.

Emmet was at the bottom of the stairs with a key.

I smiled at him cheekily. "Thanks," I murmured as he unlocked the door.

He grinned back. "You're welcome."

As he was about to open the door, I hugged him around the waist.

"I'm sorry we can't be together."

"It's ok."

I looked up at him.

"No, it's not."

I quickly kissed him, before opening the door and stepping out.

When I got to the end of the driveway, I turned around, half expecting Emmet to be gone. But he was still there, the same dazed look on his face as when I first met him.

As I waved goodbye, I thought back to my first day:

Meeting Sweet and Watevra, who were fast becoming my new best friends (obviously I was still BBFs with Unikitty, Nya and Richard, but I could have more than 1 best friend.);

Being introduced to some of the other people in the class like Liberty, Flash and Michaelangelo (both of them);

And of course that twist of fate that was Emmet choosing the seat next to me.

Who would have thought I'd be stuck in a sort of love triangle?

"I'm home!" I shouted as I unlocked the door.

"Hi, darling. How was it?" Mom asked, coming out from the lounge into the small space where the bottom of the stairs met the front door.

"Pretty good. Where's Dad?"

"Oh, he's, uh, in the kitchen." She smiled knowingly. "He's got something to tell you."

I frowned. "Good or bad?"

Her lips quirked into a smirk. "Go find out."

I sighed and made my way to the kitchen, eyes to the ground. It was only half 1, but I was

"Hi, Dad-"

I was caught in a massive bear hug the moment I walked in.

"D-Dad?" I stuttered, caught off guard.

"I got a new job," he whispered. "Everything's going to be ok."

I gasped. "What do you mean? Wh- Everything would have been fine anyway!"

He looked at me kindly. "No-one takes a bag that big to a one-night sleepover."

I sighed. "I'm sorry."

"No, don't be. And, hey, we'll all be able to eat now." He smiled. I tried to say something, but he put a finger to my lips.

"I've got something to show you," he said quietly, pointing to a paper bag next to the sink.

I frowned. "What is it?"

"Have a look."

I walked over to the bag and picked it up. When I looked in it, there was an envelope.

I opened it...

And gasped.

"Really?" I asked, turning around.

Dad nodded. "Really. You've been asking for one for ages, so we thought we could do it as an early Christmas present."

I grinned.

'We're going to the kennels next weekend! They don't just have dogs, so if you change your mind, it's ok. Happy early Christmas!'

So, what did y'all think about the first bit? I was originally going to have that in a later chapter but I just thought 'Screw it' and wrote it in XD

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

~Dyphen