a/n: Well this chapter has a nice twist and I have my first day of not so nice High School tomorrow. Freshmen RULE!

Such A Simple Thing

I step back, feeling that I've pushed some invisible boundary.

"Otto?" she looks more hurt than confused.

"I shouldn't do things like that, say things like that, I'm sorry, I mean, you must have a boy friend," I think I hit a nerve.

"I thought I did," she answered.

"How could you not be sure? Does it feel like love?" I pray her answer is not the obvious one.

"I did love him and he does love me, but it would never work," she buries her face in her hands, out of frustration or to try and stop herself from crying I can't tell.

When she emerges nothing has changed and she looks better.

She looks up at me and smiles and I smile back, my tentacles elated that we're both happy. During the days that she was at my house they seemed to grow a bit attached to her, as if it were her that they were attached to and not me.

When she's happy they like that, and if it stays that way then I have no complaints.

I turn as Sarah goes over and grabs her hand, yanking Mary Jane off the ground and forcing her toward me.

Sarah then turns toward me and seeing my scolding eyes moves aside.

I look at Mary Jane and she looks back at me, a sort of longing in her eyes. I know that look, I've seen it in another's eyes, and I remember that look perfectly enough to know what comes next.

Our lips are locked in a soft kiss, neither of us forcing the other, instead enjoying the time in each others space, not minding the sudden intrusion. The tentacles are with me, but in the time the kiss lasts I don't even realize them talking.

The kiss is quickly broken and we're left looking into each others eyes. I only stay for a moment more and then quickly dismiss myself with a soft and fast 'good bye' and then leave before she answers.

What was I thinking? She told me herself that she had a boyfriend that she loved.

But she kissed me didn't she? She enjoyed it just as much as me!

"That's right."

"It was only natural."

"Her fault entirely!"

"If she's mad she's mad at herself!"

I know that they wouldn't lie about this. And I also know that they for sure aren't lying. I can't believe that I'd be upset.

But would Rose have approved? My heart still belongs to her. But then again, she's gone, she won't come back from the grave, and I need this.

But still... I do love her.

I don't get how this small thing, a simple kiss, could complicate life so much. The world never made sense, ever since I was a kid, and that's why I became a scientist and have tried to be one since I was five.

I had a hard childhood and my parents only made things worse most of the time. I couldn't stand how they always seemed to be fighting, my dad always being so violent. Ever since then I always saw the complication in a situation. But scientists solved these problems, they knew all the answers, and that's what I wanted. I tried from an early age to do especially well in science, and I had amazing grades in math and science. Never in anything else though, I was practically failing in English from the start. I always looked forward to science. I never could have predicted what happened and the way I am now, but I would never go back and change what I was then, never! I was too happy-go-lucky back then to care for all the problems I do now.

I realize finally the tentacles have already taken me inside the lab and have busied themselves while I was deep in thought. I look around and see all these memories of Rose, but all seem distant, faded, or painful. I can't stand it. I know that things should never be the way they seem to have started going, but I'm not one to change such a big thing. To believe such a simple thing, a kiss, would ever be able to turn my life upside down and inside out.

It all hits me now. I really do love Rose and I have mad vows never to forget her and to never love another, even to the grave. But she's there now and that makes things a lot harder. I don't think it's right, but it's probably better if I moved on. I know that I shouldn't, but I must, and I find myself doing just that right now.

a/n: I know this chappie was a shorty but a start school tomorrow and it's already 8 o' clock and I have a feeling that the sooner I get to bed the better.

Wish me luck for my first day of school! Don't worry, just cause school is starting I won't stop typing, but it will be harder so updates might be more spread apart... hope that you keep typing even if school starts for you too! ;)

Hope you liked the chapter and the new twist... Please review!