Chapter 34 *

In the morning;

Kirsten wakes up, looks around and totally doesn't recognize her surroundings. "uh...hmmm. Where am I?" She looks at the clock as it just turned 8:00 am. "oh god, I'm dead." She hears some light snoring, she looks over the edge of the bed to see Matt sleeping on the floor. "awww" she thought. "how cute is he?" She gets up and climbs next to him, kisses his cheek. He stirs but doesn't wake up. "figures" she mumbles. She shakes him lightly and his eyes flutter open. "good, your up."

"morning."

"you didn't have to sleep on the floor, ya know."

"yea I did."

"ok, if you say so. Now get up...If i'm not home in like 15 minutes, I'm a dead girl."

"we can't have that now, can we?"

"NO!" She gets up and puts on her shoes. "Hurry up. My dad is gonna kill me! This is high school all over"

Matt gets up and puts his shoes on. "ok, ok. I'm up"

"meet ya at the car!" Kirsten runs threw the kitchen where Mr.. hardy is eating. "nice to have met you." runs out of the house and is now buckled up in the passenger side of the car.

Matt walks into the kitchen yawning.

"she just ran out of the house. everything ok?"

"yea, i just have to get her home before her dad finds out she's not there."

*honk, honk*

Gilbert starts to laugh, "yea better get going then."

"right" Matt runs out to the car and heads for Kirsten's house.

They arrive to Kirsten's street and she tells Matt to pull over a few houses away. She kisses Matt on the cheek, gets out of the car and runs to the back door of the house. She looks in the window and sees Monique making breakfast. Kirsten knocks lightly on the window, Monique looks and sees Kirsten and lets her in.

"where have you been?" Monique whispers. "your lucky I told dad not to bother you cause 'your weren't feeling well'"

"Sorry Mon," Kirsten whispers back, "I fell asleep at Matt's"

"you went back to his place?!?!?!"

"shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Damn Mon."

"sorry. what the heck happened."

"I'll tell ya in a bit, I have to get showered first before dad sees me." With that said, she ran upstairs.

Monique said to herself, "that girl has alot of explaining to do."

Meanwhile;

Jeff had stopped by to pick up his car. he noticed that Matt's car wasn't there. He walks in and sees his dad still at the kitchen table. "where's matt?" Jeff poured himself a glass of milk and sat down.

Just as he's taking a sip his dad answered, "he had to drop Kirsten off." Jeff spit his milk all over.

"he what?!"

"First of all, clean that up. Second of all, he had to drop Kirsten off."

"She was here?!?! all night?!?!"

"Yea."

Just then, Matt walks in.

"you...speak...now."

"what's wrong bro?"

"Kirsten spent the night?!?"

"yea, she fell asleep while we were watching a movie. no biggie."

"so, i take it everything is better between you two."

Matt got this big smile on his face that says it all.

"I'll take that as a yes."

Back with the girls, their dad was playing with Nicole in the living room. So Monique took this opportunity to dig for dirt.

"what happened?"

"nothing, i just fell asleep while we were watching movie."

"that's it?"

"no, we got ice cream before he told me his ex was a total bitch..."

"he said that?!"

"no, that's a Kirsten-ism. she cheated on him with his friend...when he confronted her, she denied and lied."

"ah ha."

"yea...so I told him not to think he knows what I think."

"good for you. then what happened?"

"we kind of ..." mumbled the rest.

"what?"

Kirsten got all shy, and whispered. "kissed."

"did you just say kissed? you guys kissed?!?"

Kirsten just nodded.

"ahhhhhhhh!" Monique jumps up and hugs her sister.