"Burgers are done!"

The stampede of the kids' excited feet scamper to Raymundo with the plate of cheeseburgers. They each grab a burger and sit down on the table outside the Rocket house. Jorge slowly walks over, waiting for everyone else to grab theirs before reaching for his. His appearance seems sluggish and dull. His face cold and facing the ground. His posture stiff. He walks towards the group, who sit at the table near the back door of the Rockets house. As he sits down, he sees Reggie stand up in front of the group.

"Yo! Before we eat, I gotta say something."

Everyone looks up to Reggie. She takes a deep breathe and looks at Rick. She smiles. Rick slowly smirks, yet seems puzzled by what is happening. As she begins to speak, his head looks at the ground. Reggie can barely contain her excitement in her words.

"So. Me and Rick...are..."

As she states Rick's name, his eyes grow large. As his mind begins to put the pieces together in between pauses, his face turns into one of quick confusion before masking it with one of joy when he notices Reggie looking towards. She nods her head as she finally releases the word from her mouth.

"Dating!"

Rick tries to steady his emotions as he stares at his food. He can't contain what he's thinking without keeping himself active. He begins to bite into his cheeseburger. As he looks up, he realizes the majority of the group is looking straight at him. His eyes wander. He can feel the sweat falling from his head fast as he tries to act. Before he can do anything, Harm comes from behind him and gives him a hug, as everyone begins to laugh and celebrate. Rick quickly adjusts his attitude to fit the rest of the group. He breaks the silence once he calms down.

"Thanks guys."

Rick and Reggie begin to laugh as they talk with Otto, Twister and Harmony. Jorge stays quiet, and notices Anna is gone and Sam is walking away. Sam's steps are strong and forceful. It's clear he's angry. Jorge slowly follows him. Jorge's mind is already filled with thoughts, yet his worry for his friend trumps his own. Sam plops himself out of sight of the rest of the kids near the corner of the house, and begins to clench his fists. As Jorge gets closer, he uses more and more caution with each step. He eventually sits down next to him. He takes him time to collect himself before speaking.

"You alright?"

Sam continues to shake his head as he stays quiet. Jorge looks around, making sure no one is unexpectedly near. As he goes to rest his head on the house behind him, Sam strongly, but quietly speaks.

"It's not fair."

Jorge looks over at Sam, who is starting at the ground, still clearly in an angry state. Sam continues.

"It's not fair he gets to have her. It's not fair."

Jorge scoots over to Sam and puts his arm around him as he answers.

"You should say something. Don't let her go without a fight."

Sam barely moves a muscle as he continues the conversation. He's still in anger and enraged inside, composing himself by keeping his body in a frozen state.

"I've been friends with Reg for so long. Years. Waiting. Now he comes along for a few weeks and she's fallen for him. How in the world does that happen? Why?"

Jorge looks to Sam in concern. He continues to be slow responding to Sam, trying to find the way to say things without setting him off. Jorge knew Sam was in a sensitive position and he had to tread lightly. Almost like doing surgery. Very carefully. He chooses his next words with caution.

"You're right. It's not fair. I wish I knew what to do."

Sam looks at the ground completely dejected.

"Me too."

As they sit on the ground, they look out into space in silence. After a solid minute, Sam gets up, seemingly in control of his emotions, yet still subtly furious. He looks down at Jorge.

"I'm gonna go take a quick walk around to calm myself. Wanna tell them I'm okay?"

Jorge nods his head and Sam slowly walks towards the street. Jorge thinks about trying to join him, yet walks back towards the group, realizing Sam needs the time to himself. Jorge is about to turn the corner to the yard with the table when Harmony suddenly appears right in front of him. Jorge nearly falls over avoiding running into her. She quickly goes to grab his arm to help him up. Her voice cracks with worry.

"Oh my God. Are you okay?"

Jorge grabs her arm softly as she helps him up.

"I'm fine Harm. Just took me by surprise."

Harmony softly giggles, putting her hand over her mouth slightly embarrassed before responding.

"I tend to do that a lot"

As the both collect themselves, they walk over to the back, which is clear of all the other kids. Harmony explains to Jorge that most of them were inside helping Raymoundo with something. She walked him over to the table and they sat down. Harmony seemed shaky. Much more nervous than Jorge had ever seen her before. Seconds before he could ask her what was wrong, Harmony posed Jorge a question.

"Okay. Honest opinion. Do you think Rick and Reg are gonna work out?"

Jorge looks up at her eyes wide open and face shook. Harmony's face shows clear worry and doubt in what she just spoke. She continues to press her lips and play with her hair, occupying herself from the stress. Jorge opens his mouth a few times, yet hesitates to release any words in the first few tries. After a solid 30 seconds, he answers.

"It could work out..."

Harmony's face turns to one of disbelief.

"Really, Jorge? They don't really compliment each other at all, and Rick didn't even look comfortable with the idea. I could see it."

Jorge begrudgingly nods his head in agreement.

"I saw it too, Harm. I didn't want to be too honest..."

As they speak, the door to the back opens, and they quickly look over to see Otto walking towards them. They try to hide their awkward faces from Otto. He walks over to the two with a confused look, making the already concerned faces of Harmony and Jorge even more awkward. As Otto stares at the two of them, he continues to squint his eyes, wondering what the two were so nervous for. He then utters a question.

"Have either of you seen Sam?"

They both look rapidly at each other, then simultaneously at Otto before Jorge responds.

"He said he wanted to walk around for a little bit. He might be down the road. I'll go look for him."

Jorge quickly bolts out of the situation and runs down the road. Otto and Harmony look in confusion at his rapid exit from the scene. Afterwards, they turn towards each other, and shrug their shoulders. Harmony soon breaks the silence.

"Wanna follow him?"

Otto looks back towards the house, then back at her.

"Sure."

They both get up slowly and walk towards where Jorge ran off to, however when they turn to the front of the house, no sight of Jorge or Sam is seen. Harmony glances at the street, slowly from left to right as Otto just seems to stare off into space. His thoughts are far from the task at hand. He tends to look back towards the house ever few steps. As he goes back to look once again, he is shook by Harmony's voice.

"Where in the world did they go?"

Otto looks back at her and just shrugs his shoulders once again. Harmony fires another question at him.

"Have an idea where they might be, Mr. Rocket?"

Otto looks as if he's deep in thought, when in reality he barely hears what Harmony even says. He continues to glance his eyes in the window of his house, as Harmony waits for a response. He looks over to see Reggie and Twister are chatting in the window. He tries to turn his head to get a better view.

"HELLO!?"

Harmony's voice causes him to nearly jump off the ground. He looks back to see Harmony with hands on her hips and a tone of impatience written on her face. She is not shy to voice her frustration.

"I asked you a question, Señor Rocket. Where do you think they could've gone?"

Otto tries to gather himself, however before they can, they hear the rustle of a bush in a house near the Rockets. It takes both Harmony and the extra jumpy Otto off guard quickly. They look to see someone moving over in the bushes, yet it is clear the person is too tall to be Sam, and the person is too skinny to be Jorge. Harmony looks over once again to the rattled Otto.

"Otto. Who is that?"

For the first time, Otto's shaky voice opens to respond.

"I have no idea, H."

They both look back at the house, then back at each other. Harmony is in a sense of curiosity, while Otto's is more one of being shook. It seems quite odd to Harmony that Otto, especially in recent history, had changed. Even though she had only known him for a while, this did not seem like the person Reggie and the others talked about so much. Harmony's curiosity got the better of her, as she briefly changes subject as they look on the bush.

"What's been up with you lately? First you act like you don't wanna chill with people, and now you're Jumping Jack Rabbit over anything that moves or makes sound. What gives?"

Otto wants to originally ignore Harmony's question, but then comes to the realization of his recent actions. He starts to deeply think about the way he's been acting, and how the others could be seeing what he's doing as suspicious. The realization causes him even more worry about people questioning him. He knew the secret he had only found out only a few days ago was something that could hurt people. He had to keep it hidden. But how? When it bothered him so much, and made him worry about his best friend and his brother? How?

He snaps back out of his thinking trance to see Harmony looking back at the bush, shaking her head. The noises from the bushes can still be heard, as she focuses on those. Otto doesn't know how long he dazed off in his thoughts once again. He quickly answered her original question.

"I've got a lot on my mind. The skating tournament is coming up and I can't lose that. And everything going on is just...freaky."

Harmony, originally shocked Otto actually answered her, starts to listen to what he says. While she knows he's hiding more in his answer, she could understand it may not be worth discussing now. She gives a smirk to Otto as she responds.

"I can understand that. "

Harmony then begins to tip-toe off towards the house the noises were coming from. Otto taps her arm to get her attention before she wanders off.

"The world do you think you're going, H?"

Harmony, clearly focused on her task, doesn't look back as she responds.

"I can't wait anymore, Otto. I have to figure out what is making that noise."

As she makes it halfway towards the house, she motions Otto to follow her. With a reactionary decision, Otto decides to follow her. They creep towards the house, trying not to trip on anything in the road. They stop every few steps, cautious as to whatever is making the sound. As they get at the house, Harmony looks over the fence, yet can't see anything. She motions Otto again to follow her, and while he is frustrated to not be in charge, he goes along with her plan. She follows the fence to the backyard, yet swiftly ducks her head when she spots someone. As she does, she pulls Otto down with her.

"Jesus H, you nearly broke my arm."

Ignoring Otto's frustrated tone, she looks over to him and whispers a realization.

"There are people here. In the backyard."

Otto thought to himself for a second before responding.

"At the Stimpleton's? Why?"

Harmony looks at Otto in a very serious face, which catches Otto off guard once again. She simple nods towards him, and waits for him to reciprocate the command, which he eventually does. As they both slowly peak their eyes over the fence, they both see something they were not prepared for.

It was Anna. She was standing right in front of Twister's brother, Lars. And they were...KISSING?

They both stare for a few seconds before falling back behind the fence, staring at each other in pure shock. Eyes widened. After a solid minute of silence, Harmony whispers to Otto.

"We should head back."

Otto gives her a thumbs up and they slowly tread back. In a day where feelings were expressed by many, the biggest ones were the ones that weren't said. All of the kids were dealing with secrets and emotions they knew, but couldn't express. It was a difficult time. Something none of them have handled before. What to do, how to explain it Each of these problems was something they didn't quite understand yet. And in due time, they would have to face the secrets and emotions they were holding in. Whether they had planned on it or not...