Ok so I was just rereading the last bit of my last chapter and after I did I was like "Oh my what's going to happen next?" but then I realized "I already know! You wrote it!" So I thought that you should know about how crazy I am. Now that is said...It's going to be a shorter chapter then usual. Sorry. But I hope you like it anyway.

CakeEater'sGirly99: I am so glad that you didn't abandon reading this story! You were with me from the beginning!!! *Tears of joy*

26: Wow 'great' eh? I thought that you would enjoy that there was a chapter for them.

27: Damn you packing!!!!! Just kidding! And Charlie won't be very happy.

Natasha Hyatt: You are the only one who answers my questions at the end of the chapter! So THANK YOU!!! Hee hee Portman's a hard ass...ahem. Ok I am so happy with your review 'stress, tension, augh' that's what I was going for.

Banksiesbabe99: I'm very happy that you didn't forget about this story.

26: You've got a lot of sympathy for Guy and Connie!!!

27: Whoa!!! Anger towards Paige! Which for now I'll let pass but tell me what you think by the end of the chapter.

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Paige swiftly and forcefully pushed Portman away from her while saying "Stop I can't" almost as soon as he kissed her. She didn't quite know where that had come from. He was probably just rebounding from Julie. But Charlie, would she tell him?

"Why not?" he asked they still didn't know that they had an audience consisting of their Captain.

"Because I don't want to and-"

"Charlie" he interrupted

"How did you kn-" she began to ask confused but then she saw him staring at something she followed his gaze and saw Charlie standing at the door.

"Dude do you mind?" Portman asked he didn't really want Charlie to watch as he was being rejected.

The shock from seeing them had gone as soon as it came and was replaced with relief when he saw that Paige push him away and now he was just angry. "Actually I do mind" he started to come into the room with clenched fists.

Seeing this Paige got up saying "Can I talk to you?" She pulled Charlie out of the room and into another.

She closed the door behind them and leaned against it watching him fume pacing the room.

"This is why I think we should come out and tell people about us" Charlie said crossly stopping in front of her. "That way things like this will have a less likely possibility of happening"

"What you don't trust me?" Paige asked calmly.

"I know that I can trust you because of how I saw you push Portman away so quickly. I just don't trust the male population," he told her cooling slightly.

"You're part of the male population" she pointed out teasingly.

He couldn't help but smile a little "The rest of the male population" he corrected.

"Oh" she nodded with mock understanding.

He tried to stop his grin from widening "Hey I don't want to be happy. I am pissed and if you would just move to the side I'll be going to punch Portman into a pulp" he said motioning her to move away from the door she was against and walking to one side of her to reach for the doorknob.

She stepped in front of him blocking his way "Why would you do that?"

"Because he made a move on you" he told her trying to get around her but she kept on stepping in front of him.

"But I don't want him or anybody else for that matter. I just want you," she said earnestly a little nervous about telling him this. He halted his attempt to get around her.

The music from downstairs stopped and they heard "CHARLIE CONAWAY!"

He frowned "That sounds like my mom"

"CHARLIE YOU HAD BETTER SHOW YOURSELF!!!!!"

He groaned "Shit that's her"

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Paige broke their kiss "What's your punishment?" she asked Charlie it was the Monday after the party.

"I don't know yet they are just forcing me to wait for the inevitable dreadful sentence," he complained and gave her soft kiss.

"Well it can't be that bad. It's your first big offence right?" she wondered out loud as she moved her hands along his muscled arms.

"You haven't met my mom yet," he said running his fingertips along the bottom of her back slipping them under her shirt

"Not officially" she confessed as he began to kiss her neck "but I know what she looks like when she's angry which I think is a good way to first see someone because then when you see them again they're usually calm and so they seem even nicer"

"Hopefully I'll be alive to introduce you properly," he said between kisses.

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In a noisy shop class the boys were having a little luck with building their latest assignment.

"Where's Charlie?" Guy asked as his fumbled with a piece of wood.

"Who knows" Portman scoffed as he started to hammer

"So where were doing at the party I hardly saw you?" Luis asked as he started to measure incorrectly.

"I was making out with a girl," he answered as nonchalantly as he could muster.

"What I thought you said that P-" Fulton began to ask

"After that" Portman said truthfully "It was Sandy"

"Sandy?" Guy asked slightly impressed. It wasn't that he wanted to make out with anyone besides Connie it's he's seen the blond and heard that she wasn't an easy catch.

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Adam sat in his dorm holding a velvet-covered box in his hands contemplating whether or not to give it to the girl of his affections. He didn't know if it was too soon or not. There was a knock on the door he put the box under his pillow and answered the door and let Julie in taking some of the books that were weighing her down.

"You ready to get to work?" she puffed as she put the rest of her books onto Adam's desk.

"Sure" Adam smiled. Just being in her presence made him joyful as it did for her as well.

A few hours later Adam was sitting on the floor surrounded by books and Julie was lying on his bed writing in her binder when her let go of her pencil to scratch her neck. The pencil rolled off of her paper and slightly under the pillow that was propping up her book. She reached under but instead of feeling the stick of wood she felt the box. She closed her hand around it and pulled it out. She opened it carefully after giving a slight look to Adam who was enthralled in his text. The inside was lined with white silk and there was a stunning silver necklace with an oval locket attached to it. She opened the locket and found on one side there was a small picture of her and Adam and on the other an inscription saying 'This is for you Julie to keep forever so no matter what you'll remember what we have. Adam'

"Oh Adam it's beautiful" she exclaimed holding the locket in her palm open.

"What?" he asked looking up "You found it" he stuttered.

"Yes and I love it, was I not supposed to find it?" she asked tearing her gaze away from the trinket.

"No it's good that you have I just thought that I would have given it to you after I asked the question" he said getting up to go over to her to by first kneeling on one knee.

"Um Adam I think we're a little young for marriage" she said embarrassed and was about to babble when Adam stopped her.

"I wasn't going to ask you to marry me I was going to ask you to be my girlfriend" Adam stated shocked and amused.

"Really?" she asked happily

"Yeah" he confirmed

"Yes" she smiled widely and hugged him causing her to fall off of the bed on top of him.

"Great" he grinned "May I?" he inquired as he got the necklace and undid the clasp. She moved her hair to the side and let him to put it on her. When she knew it was on she went over to the mirror and smiled.

"It's so pretty" she said examining the reflection.

"You're prettier" Adam stated as he got up from the floor. She went over to him and kissed him gently.

"Thank you" she said holding the cool silver.

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"This is sick" Averman claimed as he turned off the television. He was watching some soup opera. "What is with this whole love craze?"

"It's not a craze it's what people want when they mature" Goldberg answered grabbing the converter and turning the television back on.

"Let me modify the question. What is with the drama that goes with love? Check it out one couple is hiding their relationship, with the other the guy isn't sure if he should ask her to go steady, stressing about giving jewelry, others are 'painfully' lonely and then there are the one night flings" he said looking at the screen.

"Averman it's not real. It's not like that sort of stuff it happening all around us" Goldberg scoffed rolling his eyes.

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