Chapter 19-The kids are alright

Peter spent the rest of the day dwelling on the fact that he had not had a chance to speak to Lara Jean and that no one had seen her.

On his way to the cafeteria he stopped at her locker but no one was there. He then continued towards the cafeteria where he bumped into Chris.

"Hey," he said to Chris who just frowned, "Have you seen Lara Jean?"

"Not since this morning no." Chris shrugged and as Peter was about to walk away Peter stopped him, "Peter Wait!"

Peter turned to look at Chris.

"Look," Chris sighed, "I'm not going to pretend like you and I have had the most amazing relationship in the world...despite the fact that you dated my cousin for two years and had sex with her in my moms basement-"

"Wait you know about that?" Peters eyes are wide.

"Oh please," Chris snaps, "My grandmother knows about that. It's not like you were being quite." Chris then sighs, "Point being is is...when you with Gen you were almost unbearable. I used to talk shit about you to anyone who would listen at least once a freakin day." She then steps closer to Peter and Peter can genuinely see the sincerity in her eyes, "I wasn't jumping for joy when you and LJ started but I wasn't mad either. You made her happy. You made her have more fun. You made her go to parties. You made her just want more out of life than just sitting in a corner and reading a book." Peter smiles a little, "I don't know if you've noticed though all of those things go away if you take my vindictive cousin back."

"Why don't you say what you need to say to my face!" Someone snaps from behind Peter. Peter turns to find an angry looking Gen and confused Emily standing in front of a now shell shocked Peter and an annoyed Chris.

"Ok sure." Chris shrugs and steps up to Gen, "You're a vindictive bitch. Feel better now that you know how I feel?"

"Oh my god Chris!" Gen snaps, "When are you going to stop being jealous of me?"

"Why would I be jealous of you?" Chris asked, "Aren't you going to jail for releasing child pornograpy on Instagram."

"I don't know what you are talking about?" Gen snapped looking around at the people who have stopped to look at the encounter.

"Oh please Gen," Chris rolls her eyes, "Spare us the please I'm innocent look. The only guy on this planet earth to love you and tolerate you starts to love someone who is directly the opposite of you and then all of a sudden there's a video on that stupid page of them making out!" Chris huffs, "Seems a little too convenient in my opinion!"

"How would I have released that video," Gen flips her hair, "I was with Emily the whole night."

"No you weren't." Greg says from behind Emily and comes into view, "Emily was with me all night."

"I meant at the party!" Gen snaps at Greg.

"But-" Greg begins But Emily snaps at him and says, "Can you shut up!"

"At the end of the day Gen," Chris shrugs, "You can clear your name all you want and attempt to make sure that your tracks are cleared...but I know and deep down you know that...Peter knows too." Chris then looks at Peter and then back at Gen, "And you also know that he loves Lara Jean more than he will ever love you."

Peter doesn't know if it's the love comment or the fact that Chris called her bluff, but Gen then jumps for Chris who just laughs as Peter quickly grabs her before she can hurt Chris.

"Ok, whoa whoa whoa," Peter says pulling her into the nearest classroom, "Calm down Gen!"

"Did you not hear what she said to me!" Gen snaps looking at Peter with nothing but rage.

"Every word," Peter says and then sighs, "Gen I need to know...was it you?"

"No!" Gen snaps and then tears fill her eyes, "But I'm glad they did because now you can see how she's not so innocent since you have a type."

"Gen I was in the hot tub with her!" Peter says, "You didn't prove anything to anyone but that you are vindictive."

"I didn't fucken post it Peter!" Gen snaps and then turns away to the door she breaths and then looks at Peter, "I hope she's enough. Because I clearly wasn't."

"You were everything Gen," Peter says, "Until you left me!"

Gen looks shell shocked as Peter walked straight past her and out the classroom.

That afternoon Peter walked into the locker room to find that the tension between Greg and Trevor had still not subsided.

Peter sighed and thought that fixing things with Lara Jean was the soul mission of today but he supposed that amending the ties with the two people who always had his back could be a better alternative. In that they could also fix Shit with each other.

"Ayo Pike," Peter said walking to his locker and opening it, "Do you remember when you and I became friends in the sixth grade?"

"Yeah." Trevor grumbled But still didn't look at Peter. Greg was pretending to busy himself with his shoe laces.

"How we said that we would be the most popular kids at school and we didn't make it so." Peter chuckled a little. Trevor said nothing, "But then this weird kid from Charlottesville transfered here."

"Weird kid," Trevor starts to chuckle a little, "That weird kid was only weird cause he was so damn loud."

"But you still went up to him and made him come sit with us!" Peter said putting his lacrosse t-shirt on.

"He had cold fries for lunch." Trevor said then looked at Greg who was staring at them, "Girls always laughed around him."

"Girls still laugh." Peter turns to see his friend looking at each other and then try to look away. Peter takes this chance, "You even went quoting Ludacris. What was that song again Trevor?"

"Lifestyles so rich and famous, Robin Leach will get jealous Half a million for the stones…" Trevor said smiling a little and Peter continued by saying, "Takin' trips from here to Rome…" They looked at Greg who just smirked and together they shouted, "So If you ain't got no money take yo' broke ass home!"

They start laughing and Peter high fives Greg. Greg then looks at Trevor and says, "Man Pammy is great."

Trevor smiles a little.

"I didn't mean to make you feel like crap Pike," Greg said, "Honestly Shit has been changing so much couldn't keep up." Greg sighs, "Between the new house, and Audrey and college and my familyhaving difficulty with her coming out-"

"Wait what?" Peter and Trevor say together.

"Yeah," Greg sighs, "I mean I always knew but I never asked. She came out as lesibian to my mom and my dad and my grandma…and it didn't go well."

"But she was over there for break?" Peter said.

"Yeah But she would avoid anything and everything family related," Greg sighed, "Didn't you notice she didn't want to watch the game. When have we ever known Audrey to skip out on hanging with my old man." Greg looked defeated, "she even left early and shit back to New York. I mean I love my sister and I just want her to be happy. And she came out to me officially first and I was happy because I knew that she could be happy with someone you know." Greg sighs, "But I never thought my parents and my grandma never thought like that."

"Man," Trevor says sitting next to Greg and patting his back, "I'm really sorry man."

Peter looked at Greg and then said, "Your parents will come around G. It's Audrey. They love her too much to not come around." Peter then says, "Everyone should be allowed to love who they want."

"You sound like Lara Jean." Trevor said and then asked, "Was it really Gen?"

Peter knows exactly what he is talking about gaging from his voice. But Greg answers from him, "Of course it was her. Who else takes videos of people making out in a hot tub and posts it without an agenda."

Peter scratches his forehead before sitting next to Greg and saying, "Man I loved that girl so much."

"You did!" Greg and Trevor said together.

"Now I don't even know what that part of my life looked like." Peter sighs.

"You went through all the trouble of trying to get her back only to fall for Largie," Greg grins, "Baby that's Jesus."

They all laugh as that was something that Audrey and Greg's mom would say.

"What are you gonna do?" Trevor asked.

Peter shrugs and looks at his friends, "She won't even talk to me." Peter sighs, "Today was the first time we spoke since the ski trip and the only thing she could say is she is going handle the video personally."

"I heard about that!" Greg sighed, "Apparently Gen was tripling there too."

"I don't even want to know." Peter sighs and then looks at Trevor and high fives him, "Good for you for making it official with Pammy."

"It seemed like the right thing to do." Trevor smiles, "And she genuinely gets me." Trevor then stands up, "You're Kavinsky, you know what you need to do with Lara Jean."

"He's right bro." Greg said standing next Trevor, "She's makes you happy."

"And smarter." Trevor Grinned.

"And late!" They turned to see coach gridding at the door way, "Kavinsky the boys still haven't started their laps! Now because of you they can run three extra laps." Greh and Trevor groan until Coach snaps, "PIKE! STANFEILD! Why are you still sitting there! Our first game is next week! Get your asses up and starting running."

Peter closer his locker and starts jogging out the locker room with his friends, "You won't believe this But I have two little brother called Everett and Clayton."

"Why do they sound like little shits." Greg says and despite the fact that they have to run, they laugh.

After practice, Peter moves the goal post to the side as he always does and he feels her before he sees her.

When he turns, he sees her walking slowly towards him. Peter's heart beats faster than it ever has in his life.

"Hey." Peter said.

"Hi. I have to tell you something." She said in the most blaze and casual way.

Peter begins walking towards her and says, "Okay."

"I drove here." She said simply.

Peter stops and looks at Lara Jean in shock. "Really?" For as long as he knew Lara Jean, she hated driving. The first time that Kitty met him, she was pulling out the lot and that seemed to be the beginning of all their story, "Wow, that's... that's… that's great, congrats."

"Thanks." Lara Jean says and turns. As she turns Peter sees a piece of paper in her hand.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." He says and she turns to look at him. Peter slowly walks towards her and asks her, "What's in your hand?"

"Oh, uh," She stutters and looks at her hand, "nothing."

"Oh, it's nothing?" Peter is now in front of her and she smiles as she tries to fight him playfully. Peter eventually gets the paper and opens it.

Dear Peter

I want you to know…

Peter than thinks, this whole thing started because he read a letter he was never meant to get. It started off rocky and fake and then questionably real. Neither of them knew that it would lead them to this moment and neither of them knew it would be so difficult. Peter wanted them to start right, with both of them giving each other real and a fair chance at love. Without the fake and without the terms and conditions.

"Um you know what," Peter said, "If you want me to read that," he hands it back to her, "you need to give that to me."

"Um…" Lara Jean looks shy but all too willing to oblige to his request which gives Pete hope until she says, "Can you turn around?" She looks down before looking into his eyes and saying, "Please."

Peter smiles a little but turns around. He feels a little stressed as Lara Jean begins reading, ""Dear Peter,

I need you to know that..."" she stops and Peter gets nervous more so when she taps him on his shoulder so he can turn around. Peter turns to look at her, "I need you to know that I like you Peter Kavinsky," she looking deeply into Peter's eyes as she says the words that make Peter's heart beat even faster, "And not in a fake way. And so I guess that's all I came here to say."

She tries to turns but Peter stops her by saying, "Whoa, whoa, whoa...Don't I get to say something?"

Lara Jean looks shy but she stays put and looks at Peter through her long lashes. So Peter continues, "The reason that I went to Gen's room that night,

was to tell her that it's over, because…" Peter breathes hard before he says the words that he should have said a long time ago. He doesn't care if she says it back. He doesn't care if she responds badly to it. All he knows is that he was going to tell her the truth no matter what and he was finally relieved, "because I'm in love with you, Lara Jean.Only you."

Lara Jean blinks and smiles a little and looks at Peter as she says, "You're what?"

Peter can't help but smile at Lara Jean before stepping forward to try and kiss her before she stops him.

"Wait... How do we do this?" She asks sincerely.

This confuses Peter, "What do you mean?"

"What do you put into a contract for a real relationship?" She asks innocently which Peter finds cute.

"Nothing." Peter laughs and then says in a serious manner, "You gotta trust." He moves closer to her and hold her waist bringing her a little closer, "You gonna break my heart, Covey?"

And the reality was that if she ever did, he doesn't think he would be able to handle it. But here in all her glory, Peter know that this was more endgame than he could have ever imagined with Gen.

They didn't need a contract because you don't fall in love with someone and contractualise this love, you go with it and hope that one one else or nothing else can come in between him and the girl he now loves.

Peter leans down and kisses her and all he sees is fireworks.

Authors note

Don't fret...I have a bonus chapter for you lovelies!! So stay tuned.