Ok so this chapter is set 5 months after the previous one so by may calculations Sam is nearly 8 months pregnant and drum roll please...due to popular demand I have chosen to sort out the Cassie/Charlie relationship, well kinda.

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Charlie collapsed on a grass verge in the park, breathing heavily. Dom and Mac, his best friends (other than Cassie) collapsed next to him, all three exhausted by the friendly game of basketball that had quickly turned serious.

"Good game Charlie." Mac said when they had all finally recovered enough to sit up. Charlie grinned at his friend; his long black mane of hair was slick with sweat and sticking to his face many were scared of the 6 foot 4 lump of muscle but Charlie knew he wouldn't hurt a fly, unless of course his friends were in danger.

"Don't worry one day I'll let you win." To which Dom began snorting with laughter.

"Yeah? Not likely Charlie, what's than 472 games to you and none to us?" Dom was visibly shorter than his two friends at only 5 foot 8 but he could hold his own against either one of them, often using his speed and agility to his advantage. He also happened to be a maths genius, not that he reminded them of it…much. Not that he looked like a conventional maths genius with short spiky black hair, earring and small tattoo on his shoulder, despite only being 15.

"I think you'll find if you do the math correctly that its now 472-0." Charlie said grinning at the annoyed look his friend gave him.

"Don't worry Dominic I'm sure he wasn't insulting your mathematical abilities," Dom said laughing at the look on his friend's face, "But it does seem that our good friend Charlie is getting a bit big for his boots."

Dom started nodding whilst smiling wickedly, "Yeah, maybe we should call a certain Cassandra Fraiser and get her to sort you out."

Charlie was suddenly very defensive; both his friends knew this was a rather delicate subject. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"I think judging by that reaction you know exactly what its supposed to mean man." Mac said trying to diffuse his friend slightly.

"Enlighten me" Charlie almost growled.

"Look dude, everyone knows how you two feel about each other, and by everyone I mean even people outside of our group. I mean sure you get girls falling at your feet you're a captain it comes with the territory but you've never really connected with any of them. And then if a guy so much looks at Cass in a way you don't like you make your objections known and she listens to you."

"Yeah, I mean no disrespect but Cassie is hot, if she looked at me the same way she looks at you whenever she sees you just once I'd die a happy guy." Dominic said tossing his two cents into the conversation. "I know her mom's like your aunty or something weird like that and you don't wanna screw up what you've got, but if you don't do something soon you're going to loose her anyway."

Charlie looked at his two friends, unable to find any words to express what he was feeling. "You really think I could loose her?"

"Sure, one of these days a guy is gunna come along and sweep her off her feet and there won't be a thing you can do to stop it. Who knows it could even be Dominic, I mean weirder things have happened." Mac said grinning as Dom hit him effectively breaking the tension.

Suddenly Charlie grabbed Dom's wrist and jumped up swearing under his breath. "What's up?"

"I told my mom I'd only be gone an hour, that was 2 hours ago."

"So? That doesn't normally bother you."

"Yeah, but it's my little sister's birthday today and my mom's 8 months pregnant, she can't exactly get the party sorted on her own. I was supposed to meet Cassie ages ago." He glared at his friends knowing glances as he pulled his helmet onto his every unruly hair and jumped on his BMX. "See you guys tomorrow." He called over his shoulder as he cycled away.

"Yeah bye Charlie." They said in union, once he was far enough away they looked at each other and grinned, "So do you think our little talk's gunna work?"

"If it doesn't I think Cassie will personally kill us." Mac said causing them both to laugh, if not slightly nervously.

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Charlie skidded to a stop on Cassie's driveway, causing gravel to fly everywhere. Cassie had the door open waiting for him, judging by the look on her face she was not happy. "Cass I can explain." Charlie said rather breathlessly, she just gave him the look he'd come to relate to 'yeah right!' "I was taking a shortcut through the park to go get the cake so we'd have one less thing to do when I saw Dominic and Mac playing some ball and one game kinda turned into a full blown tournament." He said not stopping for breath.

"And how exactly did you plan to carry a cake and your bike back to your house without destroying the cake?" Cassie said, her eyes sparkling with amusement, betraying her angry poise.

"Well…I hadn't quite thought that far forward." Charlie mumbled, his face turning slightly redder and this time not from exercise as he looked at his feet.

"Well luckily for you your mom called and said that Daniel called just after you left and said he'd pick up the cake on the way from the base and we haven't gotta pick Sean up for another half an hour or so." Cassie said, a smile playing on her lips as Charlie looked up at her and glared.

"You made me think…" He said advancing upon her slowly, an evil glint in his eyes, "…that I'd done something terrible." He said advancing further causing Cassie to take a step back until she was trapped against a wall, then giving her an evil smirk advanced upon her, tickling her relentlessly.

As Cassie shifted against his body he was instantly aware of how close they were to each other. She shifted and looked into his eyes at his pause, already breathing heavily from laughing so hard. Suddenly throwing caution to the wind Charlie kissed Cassie. It was all he remembered of their previous kiss many months before but so much more as his lips gently massaged hers. Trying to convey the depth of feeling he had towards her in that on kiss whilst she did the same. When they finally broke apart Charlie found one of his hands was now round her waist whilst the other was gently stroking her cheek. Her arms were round around his neck, her fingers playing with his hair and the sensitive spot on the back of his neck.

"Hey" He said softly as her eyes finally opened.

"Hi" She smiled back at him.

"So you ok with this?" Charlie asked, uncertainty clouding his voice.

"It took you long enough, didn't it?" She joked lightly before pulling him down for another sweet kiss. When they pulled away again Cassie crinkled her nose slightly, which Charlie found very cute. "Hey Charlie I don't mean to be mean but you stink."

Charlie flashed her his 'hurt puppy' look causing her to dissolve into fits of giggles. "You really should think about your personal hygiene now that you've got yourself a girlfriend."

"Oh I have a girlfriend now do I?" Charlie joked as Cassie whacked him on the head, probably slightly harder than necessary, "Sorry, sorry…it was a joke." Charlie said defensively, "So do you think my girlfriend would let me borrow a shower whilst she went to got my little brother?"

"I think that could be arranged." She said grinning as she stole another kiss from him before reluctantly pulling away from his warm embrace.

"So do you think that maybe…"

"We should keep this between ourselves for a while." Cassie finished for him to which Charlie nodded thankfully. "Yeah I'm not sure how Jack would react to the news or even my mom for that matter. Now shower." She said as she left, a smile plastered on her face that she couldn't and wouldn't get rid of.

'Well I guess I know who the boss of this relationship is' Charlie thought, shaking his head slightly before going inside for a cool shower.

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Ok so I'm not too sure if I like the eneding of this chapter as neither of them are 15 yet I didn't want it to get to full on. So in the next chapter it'll be Joey's party and a certain someone may make a surprise entrance.