A/N: 69 reviews! Yay!!! Thanks you everyone!!! I love you all!!!

iluvmyface: Thanks! Yup, Filipina ako! (Buo aking loob...may agimat ang dugo ko...lol) Thanks much for the review! Yngatz!

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nise-anjel: oh go ahead torture them...I'm not stopping you. Just give them back to me coz I need them for my fic.

love2beME: Well...here's the thing...of course they'll be together again. I think you all will kill me if I don't do that. The Sam thing was just hormones. It was interesting for a while though.

So that's all...for all my reviewers who might die not knowing the ending...well...I'd hate to be the cause of death. Please do not kill yourself. Anyway...thanx for all the reviews!!! Yngatz!! So w/o further ado I give you...

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Apology Accepted

"Matt...I want to go home...it's been three hours and I'm hungry."

"Well...I brought a big picnic basket. Want to share? There's enough for everyone here."

Katie looked at him suspiciously. There was an unfamiliar glint in his eyes. Not maniacal but definitely happy, strangely, weirdly happy.

Reluctantly Katie agreed. She looked wistfully at Freddy and Carol. Carol's head was resting on his lap and Freddy was reading a book...wait reading a book? Katie rarely read a book. There was something apparently wrong but before she could decipher it Fred, Zack, Sharon, Carol and Matt were walking over.

"Hey Katie, I invited them over to eat the four of us, mind?"

She wanted to say something bitchy to her cousins but she swallowed her pride and plastered a fake smile on her sober face.

"Of course baby why would I mind?"

"Well, honey, let's eat."

Zack, as usual, looked like he was about to gag while Freddy looked angry. Sharon and Carol looked as smug as ever. Once Vaneza and Sam came over Zack began to tear up some more grass.

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-On the way home...

"So Vaneza how'd you like Sam...a.k.a. your former crush and my long lost brother?"

"He's really cool." Vaneza said without emotion.

"No really..."

Another blush began to creep up Vaneza's cheek.

"Well...he's fun, and he's cute. Nothing special, not like Zack." Once Vaneza had realized what she had said she buried her head in her hands.

"Vaneza?"

"It's nothing, really, it's nothing."

"Did anything happen between you and my brother?"

"No...not really, why should anything happen?"

"Because when we left I saw a really small tinge of gloss on Sam's lips."

"Really...I didn't even use..."

"Well?"

"Okay...I kissed him but please don't hold this against him, I was the kisser he was just a kissee."

"It's okay, don't worry...hormones happen." Katie stopped talking and laughed at her statement.

"He has a girlfriend anyway so maybe it was just a moment."

"Exactly."

"I miss Zack."

"I know you do...no matter how much you enjoyed that kiss you still like, no love my best friend Zachary Taylor Mooneyham."

"Uh..."

"Exactly!" Katie said triumphantly and marched home with Vaneza giggling at her side.

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Freddy was in Zack's house where they had locked Hunter out the room and Jesse was, once more, listening to his brother's iPod.

Zack was lying face down on his bed while Freddy was seated on a black beanbag.

"Dude, quit moping you've got Sharon now."

"Don't even mention that name. She's such a bimbo without an ounce of smarts in her head!"

"Yeah well you'll get back to Vaneza eventually when they have learned their lesson."

"Freddy! Hello wake up and smell the daisies they're women! They're three mental years older than men! Most of the time anyway but still! They're devious and clever and they're damn smart!"

"I know! I also want Katie back if you haven't noticed. Do you honestly think I like hanging around Carol? She's a narcissist fool all she thinks about is herself."

"So are we going to surrender?"

"Maybe...I don't know."

"Freddy, I give up on ya."

"Whatever...can I sleep here tonight?"

"Yeah, Sure."

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The Next Day...

Vaneza was walking down her street taking in everything she saw. She was so happy and she didn't know why. The kiss made her feel all tingly and special yet it was so wrong. She belonged with Zack and she knew it. Sam was just so...sexy and cute she couldn't help it. Neither could he.

She was on a cloud by that kiss and she was in bliss but a tiny part of her mind was telling her no...it was a very faint part and somehow...she didn't choose to ignore it. That part was telling her that Zack was for her, not Sam. But another part was arguing that Sam was really good at kissing and was really sweet. That part was getting slwly smaller.

She was walking home from Katie's house when she took a wrong turn and crashed into none other than Zack.

"Oooow...that's gonna leave a bruise."

"Zack? I'm so sorry."

"Vaneza! What are you doing here?"

"Walking home. You?"

"I'm doing the same thing."

"Well...now that you're here I want to talk."

"Sure."

Zack fixed his gaze on her.

"If it's about Sam...well you two looked happy together."

"Funny you should say that coz that's exactly what I wanted to talk about."

"Speak,"

"Zack I kissed Sam and you know it but that's not the point besides what's up with you and Sharon?"

"Nothing...I'm just pretending to like her. Continue,"

"Well honestly I really, really liked that kiss. He was sweet and nice and fresh and fun but he's not the guy. Sure he's a good kisser and a really good friend but he's not the one I love."

"Who is?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Well...if that's everything then I have to go. My brother is probably wrecking my iPod."

Vaneza watched as he walked away until it snapped in her. She couldn't wait to tell him how she felt. The little voices in her head both said "Aw forget Sam." She smiled gleefully and ran towards Zack.

"Zack!"

"Yeah..."

"Look you probably misunderstood [gasp...] what I was saying a few minutes ago."

"Well then what were you...oof!"

Before he could say much more she had kissed him with everything she felt for him. At first Zack was surprised but, not surprisingly, he had kissed her back. Once that was over she rested her head on his chest.

"I'm so sorry Zack...I really truly like you...no love you and I guess it took an awesome kisser to make me realize that."

"Sweet."

She had snaked her arms around his back when she bagan to speak again.

"If you don't feel the same way I'll leave...at least I got a real kiss this time."

"Hell no. Wait...okay, I really really loved you too since you sang that only hope thing during a concert."

She giggled.

"Well...I guess I do love you too Zack."

"Yeah...I guess. You know I can taste sugar on your lips."

"Must be you." She murmured into his ear.

"We have some unfinished business you know."

She let go of him.

"Oh yeah, damn, I completely forgot about Freddy and Katie. Are we going to help them? We really should get them back together."

Zack rubbed the back of his head.

"No babe, not that. They can wait. We do have quite a lot of making out to do."

She looked into his hazel eyes.

"You've never liked it when Freddy called Vaneza babe and now you're calling me that. You must like me. Do you really really want to?"

"Hell yeah."

"Well..." she kissed him long and passionately again.

"That was sampler."

"I really have to get to my room already if I want some more of that."

"I bet you do. Wait is this just a trick to get me into bed or is my apology really accepted?"

"Well..."

"Zack!" she punched him on the shoulder.

"Ow...hey! That really hurt"

"Answer the question!"

He also kissed her long and hard.

"Apology accepted."

He laughed and brought her to his house.

-TBC-

A/N: Wellz...did ya'll like it. For some reason I'm not writing long chapters. That was sweet though. Anyweiz people...I luv ya'll!!! Keep reviewing. I'm sleepy now. Yngatz!!!!