Quick Review: Don't own the characters, so don't bother suing me. Left off when Travis kissed Lily when he showed up in her room. What will Lily do?

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Chapter Three

Lily's eyes widen, not expecting Travis to be so forward like that. 'He's usually so passive…,' she thought, not sure if she should response to the sudden display of affection.

Before she could though, Travis pulled back and gave her an apologetic smile.

"I'm sorry, Lily. I do not know what came over me." He stood, letting her neck go and looked down at her still seated on the bed. "I should go."

Lily did not utter a single word as Travis walked out of her room and out of her home, into the night. She was too dazed, too confused to stop him. She simply looked at the partly opened door, no thoughts coming into her mind.

Following Day at School

'Math class sucks so badly today. This school really needs to hire better substitutes.' Lily thought as she sat at her desk in class the following day. She dully watched the substitute scribble equations on the board that seem to look awfully familiar. 'Wait a minute here, those equations is from last weeks notes.' Lily thought on, laying her head on her arms on the desk, not bothering to write down the notes. She sighed, wishing there was someone in the class she could talk to, or at the very least, give those knowing glances that the sub was boring. In her science class, she would usually write and pass notes to Ray if the lesson was boring, but that won't happen for another hour or so, since it was only third bell.

Her eyes lazily looked at the desk on her right, her mind wondering where the occupant was. 'Travis….He didn't show up this morning.' Lily thought back on what happened last night, which caused her to blush a little. She buried her head in her arms as she thought about how soft Travis's lips were, how gentle he was with her. 'I can't believe we kissed again. It's been so long...I forgot how nice a kisser he was. Soft and slow, not too demanding, but just right…' Her mind wander that way until the bell rang, signaling the students to go to their next class, which was lunch. Lily sat her head up and looked around the now empty classroom, noticing that even the substitute left. 'I wonder how that guy worked up an appetite, all he was doing was scribbling old notes on the board.' Lily thought, standing up from her seat, stretching a bit. She grabbed her backpack and headed towards the door. She was stopped short by a person standing in the doorway.

Lily's eyes widen as she drunk in the sight of Travis standing only half a foot in front of her. She looked at his outfit and noticed that there was something different about the way he was dressed. He had on a white button down shirt, which was opened, exposing his black shirt that laid underneath. Her eyes traveled down to his beige khaki pants, followed by his white Sketchers gym shoes.

"Um…How come you weren't here this morning?" Lily asked softly, looking up at his eyes with difficulty.

"I needed the extra hours of sleep, to help clear my mind." Travis answered, walking into the classroom a little while closing the door behind him. He leaned back against it and looked at her, his eyes searching hers.

Lily tried to hold the gaze. "Oh. You didn't miss much. We had a sub and he didn't really know what he was doing. He wrote up equations on the board from last weeks notes. I didn't bother writing them down, since I already had them, you know? A bit pointless." She knew she was rambling, but she had no choice. Lily knew she couldn't deal with another repeat of last night. A repeat of two years ago. Watching him leave the first time was saddening, but last night seemed worse. Like the kiss was a mistake. Like a regret.

"I see," was all Travis said before taking a step closer to Lily.

She took a step back. "Um…Are you hungry? Because it's lunch time and we really should meet up with the others…"

Another step.

Another step back. "Travis?"

Another step and he was only two inches away from her. "Yes?" he answered simply.

"Do you want to go to lunch? Meet up with the others?"

"No."

An awkward silence fell upon the two. Only noises heard were teens running, walking or talking in the hall. Little jingle tones and beeps from people's cell phones. The occasional rustle of leaves from the opened window on the other side of the room, paper flapping ever so lightly from the breeze from its seat upon the teacher's desk.

Lily took a step around Travis. "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to get something to eat." But before she could walk no more than three inches, Travis gently caught her arm and she turned to look at him once more.

"Please don't leave, Lily." Travis said sincerely, softly, letting her arm go slowly.

Lily blinked. "Is there something you need to tell me?" she asked.

Travis took in a deep breath and begun. "Lily, I've tried forgetting what happened those years ago. I've tried mediating your face, your eyes, and your smile out of my mind. I've tried stepping aside, trying hard not to get engulfed in my feelings for you. But none of it worked, apparently. I ended up kissing you again, completely getting controlled by my emotions." Travis stopped, looking off to the side before continuing. "I once heard that a man controlled by his emotions is a target and a fool. And he was right, I am a fool. And for that, I'm sorry," he finished softly.

Tears well up in Lily's eyes and she shook her head. "You are not a fool. And there is nothing to be sorry for. Don't make it sound like the kisses were a mistake, because they weren't. At least, not to me…I enjoyed them greatly, to tell you the truth. Today in math class, I was just thinking about how nice a kisser you were, how thoughtful your kiss was…" Lily looked down and blushed a scarlet red. "I shouldn't have said the last part."

Travis looked at her, watched how she bowed her head, her hair covering her face like a shield. Travis took a step closer, lifting her chin up slowly with his right index finger. He saw the deep blush, the unshed tears threatening to leak out from her eyes as she gazed up at him. "Lily…" he breathed before closing the inches up between them with a tender kiss. The tears spilled out of her eyes as she closed them, kissing Travis back. He gently wiped them away, cupping her face into his hands, laying them on her cheeks softly. He deepens the kiss just a tad, closing his eyes as well, not wanting the moment to end.

A bell rang, but the two didn't notice. The noise of pounding sneakers against the tiled floor in the hall, heading in various directions, didn't faze them a bit. They were so wrapped up in their passionate kiss, so lost within their own world that they were unaware of the audience that gathered outside the classroom door.

A cough sounded, soon followed by a male voice. "Mr. Strong, Ms. Randal, PDA's is to be held off of school property."

Travis and Lily pulled their lips off each other slowly and looked in the direction the voice came from.

"Principal Waller!" Lily squealed, covering her mouth, the blush coming back ten fold upon her face. Travis looked nervously at Mr. Waller, and then noticed the students that were behind him, who were watching the scene with gawking eyes. Among those eyes were Robbie McGrath's dark brown ones, which held surprised and a slight disappointed look to them.

"In my office, you two. Now." Principal Waller stated, turning around, shooing the students to go to class as he walked in the direction of his office down the hall.

Travis glanced at Lily, who looked nervous and tense. "I guess we better follow him…" he said offhandedly, walking towards the door, with Lily not too far behind. Robbie was still standing there as they made their way to the doorway, as a few students behind him made their way into class.

"You guys…" he started to say, not sure on what to say.

"Please, Robbie, let's not talk about it right now." Lily said softly as she walked behind Travis, who kept walking down the hall, avoiding Robbie and the other student's eyes as they watched him.

Robbie shook his head and headed inside the classroom while the two made their way to Waller's office.

'Instead of hearing them talk about their kiss, I actually witnessed it. Saw them in a tight lip-lock. I can't tell Ray, but what kind of friend would I be if I didn't?' Robbie thought, sitting at his desk in the back of the class. 'Not again…Why is this happening again?' He watched the substitute talk about some equations, but he was only half paying attention, his mind elsewhere. 'What should I do?'

TBC.

Well, I certainly made it longer, but is it better? Let me know. I really tried to keep them all in character and be true to the show as much as possible.

Sneak peek on the next Chapter:

…Mr. Waller's "sex talk"

…Ray loosing his cool once and for all. (Huge fight!)

…Lily crying while looking at a knife. Uh oh.

Stay tuned as more drama unfolds.