Nikki and Derrick were sitting in their house watching a movie together when their aunt walked up to them.

"Have you seen your brother?" she asked.

"He's with Kaitlin," Derrick said.

"Don't you think that they spend too much time together?" Ava asked.

"No," Nikki said looking at her aunt, "Why? Are you trying to do something to what they have?"

"No-"

"Bradin warned us about this," Nikki said standing up, "Don't try to ruin his happiness or his life! He loves her and they will marry! You're not going to stop them!"

"Nikki-"

"NO!" Nikki yelled, "You are not going to tear them apart like you've done before! They're strong! This is what they want!"

"They're young," Ava said, "They don't know what they want."

"You don't either," Nikki said running out of the house.

"Nikki!" her aunt yelled.

KAITLIN'S HOUSE

Kaitlin and Bradin sat on the couch looking through music channels to find videos to watch. The doorbell rang. Kaitlin got up and answered it.

"Nikki?" she asked. Nikki walked in and threw her arms around Kaitlin. "Nik, what's wrong?"

Bradin walked up to them. "Nikki," he said.

"Aunt…Ava…" she cried.

"What?" they asked.

"She thinks that… you two are too young… to marry and feel this way about each other."

"Talk to us," Kaitlin said.

"She asked where Bradin was and told them that he was with you," she told Kaitlin, "She asked if you two were spending too much time with each other."

"Did she say anything about breaking us up?" Bradin asked.

"I don't know. I was too busy yelling at her. Then, she said that you two are too young to know what you want."

"Nikki!" someone yelled. The three looked and saw Derrick running up to the door.

"Hey, D," Bradin said, "what's going on?"

"After Nikki left, Simon walked in. Aunt Ava walked up to him and they began talking about you and Kaitlin," he told Bradin.

"What did they say?"

"They're going to send do something to break you up for good."

Bradin looked at Kaitlin. She looked at him and shook her head.

"Kait," he said placing his hands on her arms, "are you ready?"

Her heart rate increased when he asked that question. She wasn't ready at all.

"We don't have to do it tonight," he said, "We can do it tomorrow."

"I need to do some thinking," she said.

"Okay," he said.

"I need to think alone," she said.

"Okay," Bradin said. He kissed her. "Call me when you're done," he said before kissing her again.

The Westerly's left and Kaitlin sat in her kitchen thinking about what was going on. Tears formed in her eyes as she thought about the choices she had to choose between. She knew that either way, either she or Bradin would get hurt. She got up and walked to her friend's house.

"Kaitlin!" Amanda yelled, "How are you?"

"I need help," she said, "It's important."

"Come in," Amanda said, "What's going on?"

Kaitlin began to explain to her friend what has been going on since she moved back to Playa Linda. Amanda listened attentively and thought.

"I don't know what to do," Kaitlin said, "We agreed only a week ago to elope if someone tried breaking us up. I didn't think that it would be this soon. It's all moving too fast."

"You need to talk to Bradin," Amanda said, "If you're not ready to elope, then he should understand. Explain everything to him and how you're feeling."

"I don't want to hurt him again," Kaitlin said, "You don't know how many times we've broken up and gotten back together. You don't know how many times I made wrong decisions and he got hurt."

"Talk to him," Amanda said, "If he loves enough to marry you, he should understand."

BRADIN

Bradin paced around his room waiting for Kaitlin to call. It's been three hours since he left her house. He didn't want to disturb her while she thought. He was getting worried, though. He sat down on his bed and covered his face. A knock sounded upon his window. He looked up and saw Kaitlin.

"Baby," he said hugging her after stepping outside, "So?"

"I need to talk to you about this," she said.

Bradin led her into his room and sat her on his bed.

"I can't elope yet," she said, "I know that I promised you that I'll elope with you if someone tried breaking us up. But, that was a week ago and I didn't think that anything would happen this early after the promise. I'm not ready."

"I thought about that, too," he told her, "Do you want to see what happens within the next few weeks and maybe do it then?"

"You'd do that? You seemed so happy yesterday to be doing it now."

"I was. But then, what you thought about entered my mind. I wasn't ready yet either and need more than a week."

She placed her forehead on his shoulder and sighed. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and kissed the side of her head.