Grace is lying on the couch in the family room, pretending to read a magazine and occasionally looking up at the tv. Every few minutes she quickly glances over at the door to the garage and bites her lip. She is waiting for Eli to come home from rehearsal so that she can make a point of being mean to him, while really all she wants is for Eli to wrap his arms around her so that she can press her head against his chest.

Over the last two weeks Grace has noticed a change in Eli. Sure, before that incident she already had a thing for Eli, but then when he told her that he was working on his music, it reminded her why she fell for him in the first place.

Whenever Eli played his guitar and wrote lyrics, his brovado went out the window and he opened up his heart. His true thoughts came out and he didn't seem to care that his friends found it a little girlie. He would discuss his lyrics with Jessie and would share his new tunes with Zoey when she went to bed. This was the Eli that Grace had fallen in love with.

But this Eli never stuck around for long. Whenever he met a new girl he would lose interest in writing new songs and would stop talking to Jessie, Zoey and Grace. He would spend all his time in the garage with the girl, playing loud music and doing God knows what. He would pin the girls photo up on his bedroom wall and when he wasn't with her he would be in his bedroom, listening to loud music and doing God knows what on his own. He would take the girls to school in the morning but would always forget about them in the afternoon and just assumed Grace would look after Zoey even though Grace sometimes had to stay back for play practice.

This was the Eli Grace couldn't stand and she would avoid him like the plague. But when he broke up with the girl, out would come the guitar and he would notice the girls once again. Two weeks ago in his bedroom when Eli and Grace had that moment, she remembered why she liked him and was willing to give him one last chance. Then again, seeing those photos on his wall reminded her that he would never really leave the old Eli behind.

Grace hears the garage door slam shut and she quickly looks at the magazine. Eli walks into the room, notices she is lying on the couch and he hesitates before he sits down on the seat next to her. Neither of them say anything at first and Eli looks at the screen. Grace continues to look through the magazine and they both wait for the other one to crack.

Eli coughs but Grace makes a point of not looking up at him. He coughs again and starts to splutter. She finally cracks and looks over at Eli and he can't help but smirk.

"Jerk," she mutters.

"You know you love me," he laughs.

Grace gets up from the couch and starts to leave the room. Eli jumps up after her and grabs her arm.

"Wait..."

"What is it, Eli? Grace barks as she turns to face him. His hand is still holding her arm and it is taking everything that she has inside her not to stroke his hand.

"It's just...it's just that I hate us not talking. It's killing me, Grace," he whispers.

She lets her eyes look into his eyes and she begins to let her guard down.

"It's killing me too," she admits reluctantly.

Eli moves his hand down her arm and takes hold of her hand. Grace sighs and squeezes his hand.

"Can't we work this out?" he asks.

"I don't know..."

"What can I do?"

Grace shrugs and they stand facing each other, looking into each others eyes and they can see the longing that they are both feeling.

"Can we do this?" she whispers.

Eli pushes a strand of her hair behind her ear and looks into her eyes.

"We can try..."

Ge leans down towards her and she closes her eyes. Their lips meet and Eli can feel Grace shiver against him. He wraps his arm around her back as he lets his tongue enter her mouth.

Grace allowed herself to forget about the Eli she didn't like and focused on the Eli she could respect and love. As she felt his tongue touch hers she let out a sigh of excitement.

This was the sort of moment Grace had been hoping for for such a long time that she felt like she was in one of her dreams and any moment now some other chick was going to walk in on them, wink at Eli and he would run after them.

"Eli..."

Eli murmurs a response as he continues to kiss her.

"Eli..."

He places his hand under her chin and looks into her eyes.

"This isn't you..." she whispers and sighs.

"It isn't?"

Grace looks at him and she runs her hand through his hair. Then, stepping away from Eli, she sighs again.

"This is the Eli who has no other girl to turn to. This is the Eli who is just filling in time until another hot chick comes along."

"What are you talkin' about?"

"You would never consider me as a potential girlfriend, Why would you when you could have anyone you wanted?"

Grace turns away from Eli and heads towards the staircase.

"That's not true," he says as he quickly catches up to her.

"If it's not true, you have to prove it to me, Eli. I won't let you hurt me."

Eli takes hold of one of her hands.

"Then I won't. And I will prove to you that you're the one for me."

Eli's phone beeps and Grace looks at him, daring him to look at his message. He hesitates for a moment and then throws his phone on to the couch.

"I promise," he whispers and then kisses Grace on the forehead.

Grace shrugs her shoulders and walks upstairs to her bedroom.

Turning to the couch, Eli picks up his phone and looks at his message. Of all the moments in his life, why did he have to receive a message from Stacey? Why couldn't it have been Coop or Dave asking about the gig? Why wasn't it Jessie asking for a lift to a friends? Why did Stacey have to message him asking him for some "help with her car"? She knows that Eli is terrible with cars. She knows that he rejected her once before. When he said to Grace that she was the one for him, he wasn't lying. He really did believe that he was ready for a girl like her. A girl who could support him, care about him, respect his music and his dreams. All those other girls just wanted him so that they could make the other girls jealous and improve their popularity.

Then again, Stacey was known for having "no strings attached," and while Eli was ready to commit to Grace, she obviously wasn't ready, so why not have some fun in the mean time?

Eli presses the reply button and types "I'd b glad to help. B there soon."

With one quick glance up stairs, he pleaded for Grace to change her mind. He shrugs his shoulders and walks towards the garage.