AN: A shorty, should've been tagged on to the end of chapter 2 but somehow got cut off and I didn't realize it.

Chapter 3

I wasn't sure how I felt about what she'd said after that. As we sat on the couch, her attention seemed focused intently on the movie she'd seen a million times before. Like she'd managed to just shove everything out of her head. I couldn't. I hadn't been expecting her to say she loved me, and she didn't. But now I was wondering if she did. She'd said 'she'd never felt this way about anyone before' or something to that effect... It was very possible she was in love with me, she just didn't know it yet. Nut then again, it was assumptions like this that ould get me hurt in the long run.

I leaned against her warm body, snuggling in a bit closer. She dropped her arm from the back of the couch and wrapped it around me, welcoming. But we didn't say anything. And I couldn't help but thinking of the problems we had in that department. The things I wanted her to say, she wasn't ready to say. The things I said, she may have not been ready to hear. Maybe it was all better left unsaid.

After the movie ended, she got up to leave, almost without hesitation.

"You're going?"

"It's late. I have a test tomorrow morning."

"It's Friday." I said, anger rising in me as I suspected, quite reasonably I thought, that she was lying to me.

"The SAT."

"Didn't you take that last year?"

"Yeah, but I want to try it one more time. See if I can do better." She said, without looking at me.

If it had been anyone else, I wouldn't have bought it. You don't get a 1500 on the SAT and then retake it. Unless you're Ren Stevens.

"I'll be back tomorrow, probably around 2 or 3. Ruby's out of town, but I don't think my parents know it. I'm going to tell them I'm sleeping over at her place, so tomorrow I can stay here." She squeezed my arm, sensing my anger. "Please don't be mad."

"I'm not." I said coldly, still not entirely sold on her excuse to leave at 11.

"Tawny," She sat back down beside me. "What's up? I already told you I couldn't stay over tonight anyway."

"Nothing. Go, you need to."

"My parents are getting suspiscious, I can't be here all the time. They'll find out."

I glared at her. "That would be because you tell them, right?"

She hesitated. "Right."

"Ren,"

"Look, you said we'd save this till Sunday, didn't you?" She asked, getting angry herself now too.

"Maybe I can't wait until then."

"Well, maybe I shouldn't come over at all then."

"You're the one who started this, Ren. You want it more than I do." I don't quite know why I said that.

"You're the one whose in love." She muttered before slipping out the door.