soooo, this chapter felt WAY longer when I was writing it, but oh well.

As you can see, the title of the chapter is a movie, not a song this time. The background of "Pretty in Pink" is there is this girl Andie who is best friends with this guy Duckie. Duckie loves Andie, he cares about her a lot, but Andie just takes it as a joke. Andie falls for this guy Blaine, he's popular and rich. Duckie tells her she's gonna get her heart broken, but in the end Andie chooses Blaine over Duckie. The movie ends with her with Blaine, so you never really find out if in the end she gets her heart broken. Anyway, I leave you with that!

"This is an incredibly romantic moment, and you're ruining it for me!" Duckie

The phone interrupted them amidst one moment of clarity. Haley had put aside her fears for a moment, Chris was enjoying a moment of actually being able to take care of her. He actually felt responsible for once in his life. They were just enjoying being. For a moment neither even considered getting up to answer it, but Chris knew it was Jules, and knew he didn't want her to worry or anything. When had he become so damn sensitive, anyway?

"Hey Jules," he picked up the phone on what had to be the last ring.

"Hey, when did you get Caller ID?"

"I didn't, but I always answer the phone assuming it's you. It's worth making you happy, what can I say?" he jokingly replied.

"Woah, seriously?" She was feeling kind of flattered.

"Jules, it's 5:01, you said you'd call at 5. Who else would it be?" he laughed.

"You like making fun of me, don't you?"

"Yeah, but it's way more fun in person. You're almost more gullible in person, probably because I'm just so convincing."

"You're right, you smile and you can get me to believe anything." They were both silent for a minute, just enjoying the company. "So when are we meeting up tonight at the show?"

"Hold on." Chris ducked into the kitchen, he didn't really want Haley to hear him. "I got us out of playing tonight, Haley's going through some stuff right now. You mind if I just hang out with her for tonight, I wanna make sure she's ok…"

"Yeah…yeah, that's fine." She bit her lip, she couldn't believe she was jealous of a 17 year old. A married 17 year old for that matter. Chris could tell she was kind of let down. It had been almost a week since he'd seen her, he missed her more than anything, he'd just been so busy.

"I'm sorry Jules."

"No, it's cool. I'll be done with school soon too, so we'll be able to hang out more then too." She was trying desperately to cheer herself up.

"Well, as long as you're not crying or anything. I wouldn't want you to mess up the makeup you just spent an hour putting on before you go out with the drama girls."

"Stop doing that!" she laughed. "I swear if you keep guessing what I'm doing you're not always going to be too thrilled," she joked. She secretly loved how he could always guess what she was doing, she loved knowing he cared. They were both silent again.

"I love you Jules." He'd never said it before, but at that very moment it just felt right. It may not have seemed strategically like the perfect time, but he decided to go for it. He got a little worried for a moment when she didn't say anything back.

"I love you too," she broke the silence. He was secretly jumping for joy on the inside, she hadn't just said "ok" or nothing at all.

"Call me when you get home maybe?"

"Yeah, if it's not too late, you know the deal."

"Yeah, gotcha," he replied. He started to head back to the living room. They exchanged good-byes and Chris threw the phone down on the couch. He walked back to the hallway where he'd left Haley, she wasn't there. He glanced down the hallway to her room and saw her laying down on her bed staring at the ceiling, the door wide open. He walked in, and sat on the end of her bed.

"What if I told you I got us out of that open-mic the record company wanted us to do tonight?" He smiled coyly.

"I thought that was Julianna on the phone?" She sat up, she was clutching the stuffed rabbit she'd had since she was a little kid. She just couldn't bring herself to get rid of it, even though the ears were tattered and half the stuffing had fallen out long before.

"Yeah, but I cancelled it earlier. When…yeah…" he trailed off. He knew she'd get it, he didn't have to say exactly when.

"Thanks." She let her head slide back down to the pillow. She didn't want to move, she didn't want to cry, she just wanted to be numb. Chris laid down on the pillow next to her. He was going to get her out of the apartment tonight if it killed him.

"So what do you want to do tonight?" She just continued to lay their silent, it was almost like she wasn't blinking. "Haley?" He touched her arm trying to get her to snap out of it.

She blinked a few times. "Yeah? Sorry, I just drifted off for a minute."

"You want to rent a few movies and grab a pizza?" He was trying desperately to cheer her up, she just shrugged. "Come on, I'm not letting you mope here all night." He got up and grabbed her sweatshirt that was hanging off the back of a chair and threw it on the bed. "Come on!" She rolled over an looked in the other direction. "I'm not letting you stay here all night and mope."

"Well you can't make it all go away, can you?" she asked in an angry tone.

He just walked away, defeated.

"Wait." She sat up, her eyes were filling up with tears, but she was doing the best job she could holding them back. "It's not your fault, It just hasn't all sunk in yet."

"Are you going to enjoy your last night before it does sink in?"

She managed to at least get out a half smile. She felt her heart drop, she couldn't believe how quickly her life was changing. "Why not?"

They spent the night watching movies, mostly 80's chick flicks at Haley's request, and Chris didn't mind making the sacrafice for her sake.

"Hey Duckie, you wanna watch 'The Breakfast Club?'" she joked, laughing and throwing a pillow at Chris.

"Hey! I am much better looking than Duckie!" He threw the pillow back at her.

"Only some day," she laughed, sticking her tongue out at him mockingly. "But definitely not when your hair looks like that!" she joked.

"Hey I like it like this!"

"You like looking like you just got electrocuted? You know it didn't work for Duckie."

"Oh, but they didn't finish the movie, Duckie actually gets a prettier girl with much better hair," he replied.

"I guess Andi's the one that missed out then…" she trailed off. Some days she wondered what she was missing out on. She'd picked the Blaine before she ever met the Duckie.