Chapter 18

Steph looks out of her window as she hears a motorbike somewhere in the distance slow and stop, she pulls the curtains closed again and goes back to flicking through her magazine not paying any attention to it at all. Chris pushes his bike the rest of the way up the drive so she doesn't hear it and leaves it next to the garage, he walks round the back of the house where Steph's window is, he gets his cell phone again and rings her.

"Guess where I am" Chris laughs down the phone as she answers.

"At the arena?" Steph says obviously thinking that he's just asked her the stupidest question possible.

"Nope guess again" Chris chuckles, he picks a flower out of the flowerbed and puts it in his mouth.

"Ok, erm..At the hotel?" Steph asks a little more interested now to know where he is.

"Nofp, ofems pyoug fignwdpw" Chris mumbles finding it very hard to talk with a flower in his mouth, he pulls it out "Sorry, I had a flower in my mouth, I said nope, open your window" Chris watches as Steph's silhouette appears at her window as she pulls back the curtains again and looks out. He stands on the lawn waving to her. She hangs up the phone as does he and opens her window, leaning out of it.

"What are you doing here eating my moms flowers?" Steph laughs.

"I wasn't eating the flowers, I would have used a rose but then it would have hurt my lil mouth so this flower had to do, I was trying to be all romantic and surprise you. Can you go and open the front door?" Chris says sticking the now wilting flower back into the ground and rubbing his arms from the cold.

"No way, if you were really trying to be romantic you'd climb up that tree and climb through my window" Steph laughs watching as Chris sighs and rolls his eyes.

"But it's really high" Chris whines, Steph puts her hands on her hips and looks down at him "Ok, ok I'll climb the stupid tree!" Chris walks towards the tree and grabs the lowest branch swinging his legs up and pulling himself up. He starts climbing up higher till he reaches the same level as her window "Now what do I do?"

"I dunno, you should have thought of that before you climbed the tree Romeo" Chris just looks at her and gives her a 'Your dead when I get out of this tree' smile. He edges himself slowly along the branch and jumps at the window.

"This is the stupidest thing you've ever made me do!" Chris yells pulling himself up through the window and landing on his back on her bedroom floor. "That's changed my ideas of romantic forever!" Chris climbs to his feet. Steph grabs his hand and drags him downstairs.

"Don't worry, no ones home" Steph says noticing Chris looking around for anyone else in the house, she walks into the lounge with Chris following and sits down on the couch crossing her legs and flicking on the TV. Chris sits down next to her and she lets him lay down with his head on her lap while she plays with his new style of goatee beard.

"Remind me when im not feeling so comfortable that I need to kill you for making me climb that tree" Chris yawns, Steph gets a pillow and props it under his head and crawls down next to him laying her head on his chest and her arm draped over him. She sits up and climbs over him and disappears upstairs before coming back with a duvet and pulling it over them.

"Are you watching this?" Steph asks picking up the remote, Chris shakes his head and cuddles in closer to her. She flicks the TV off and reaches over Chris to put the remote down on the floor.

"I'm going to fall asleep like this in a minute" Chris mumbles his eyes already closed, Steph props herself up on her elbows and kisses him softly making him smile. She lies down again and switches off the lamp so the only light comes from the hallway.

"It doesn't matter if you fall asleep, i'm used to falling asleep with you. Makes me feel safe" Steph says neither of them hearing the front door open and close softly with a click and then the sound of it being locked.

"But what if your dad comes home and i'm still here, he'll be really mad and I really don't want to make him angry. He's the one person I know can split us up" Chris says opening his eyes and looking at her. Vince stands by the doorway listening in.

"Goodnight you two" Vince says quietly, just loud enough so they can hear him. Steph sits up and sees Vince disappear from the doorway and up the stairs; Chris looks at her and then to the spot where Vince had been standing. He hadn't said a word to them about Chris being there, he didn't sound angry or anything.

"We're going to be fine," Chris says happily. Chris lay there trying to understand in his head what was going on, one minute Vince was shouting at him and forbidding him to see his daughter and the next he hadn't said a word about them. Chris guessed they'd just have to see in the morning, Steph was now asleep curled up next to him. He picks her up and carries her upstairs to bed.

A.N: I am going to finish this story here, I started a couple of other stories (big mistake) and I think this one has got to a point where I should end it. I may think about doing a sequel in the future if I get some requests for one, who knows =)