Name: Carried Away
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I don't own Zac

Kirsten smiled as Josh leaned over the table kissing her on the cheek after handing over one of his letters along with a red rose. When he sat back down she couldn't help but notice the familair faces passing them.

Zac didn't notice her at first he was being distracted by a little kid waving over to him at the table next to them, then he spotted her like a diamond in the sand sparkling in every way, everything that he liked about her shined.

When she noticed him she smiled but she turned away shyly seeing that his hand was attached to Cameron's who was too busy talking to notice.

Josh grabbed on to her hand as she stopped all eye contact with Zac and soon enough he was gone from her peripheral vision.

As Cameron went on with her conversation Zac kept Kirsten in his thoughts, the way her eyes sparkled when she looked up at him. Her face was tanner than usual and her hair fell over her shoulders making her look alot oulder and sophisticated and then he remembered th enight that happened about a month or two ago.

The way he left her, half naked and crying and he hated himself for that. He could of comforted her but he didn't he was angry at the time.

A week after there first encounter Kirsten bumped in to Zac agin (literally) she had been waiting in the coffee line and when she turned around to leave she ran right in to him almost spilling her coffee over the both of them. Kirsten stepped outside after one of the employees shooed her away saying she would clean up the mess. She stood outside waiting for her hands to stop shaking and her heart to slow down.

She heard the small ring of the bell on the coffee's shop door and no sooner then a second later was a coffee being handed overe to her
"I think you deserve this" she heard zac say as she took the coffee from his hand "I have a feeling we're going to keep bumping in like this" she said with a smile taking a sip of the coffee.

Zac started to walk away "Zac" Kirsten said trying to make him stop but he just turned around walking backwards "I got to go" he said before turning around not giving her a second glance.

She took a deep breath feeling the cafine surge through her veins "he's still upset" she mumbled to herself before walking back to her apartment.

Friday night rolled around and Zac was going to be alone tonight. Cameron had left for the weekend to visit her parents and he had no plans. He walked down the apartment complex's hallway and when he got to his door he tore off an envelope taped to the front.

It was adressed to him and once he walked inside he opened it, he tossed it on the counter on the way to his fridge. It was from Kirsten asking him for a favor that he wasn't going to do even if he really wanted to see her he was still mad.

Kirsten sat in the theater waiting, she waited for one hour and then another and pretty soon she got the hint and left sulking. As she walked down the streets she came up with a few conclusions of why he didn't show:
the envelope obviously must of fallen and someone picked it up
he was one his way over and got hit by a car
he was attacked by a mob of fans and is now in the emergency room
or he's still pissed at her and there's no hope for their relationship to be mended

Kirsten layed down in her bed watching the rain hit against the window, she would grimace everytime she heard the clash of thunder, she hated thunder. Her bed was warm and comforting and when she turned to look at the clock the comfortbalness was gone.

She tossed and turned trying to get back in to her spot and a she russled the covers she heard a knock on her door or atleats she thought it was a knock. It could of been a multiple of things, the thunder outside, the covers she kicked, the poeple downstairs (god knows what they're doing) or it could of been simply a knock.

She laid still for a second trying to listen for it but it never happened again, she did spring up from her bed when she heard the apartments forn door below her open and close.

She grabbed a sweater off the ground and put it on keeping warm. she slipped on some flats and hurried downstairs, she had put some hope in her heart and she could of sworn it must of been Zac at her door.

She jumped over the last few steps and landed in the lobby with a thud, the rain was htting the windows hard and there was another clash of thunder but she ignored it, she was ignoring it for him.

She saw a lone figure walking down the path and through the courtyard. Once she took her first step outside she landed in a puddle but she kept going "wait' she yelled over the rain and the wind "wait!"

The figure stopped as she caught up "I knew it was you" she said grabbing his arm to trun hima round and when the lightining flashed it revealed an unfamilair face, it was a guy but ti wasn't the guy she was hoping for "Oh sorry, I thought you were someone else" she stepped away from him hugging her arms to her soaking wet chest.

She was an idiot for even thinking it would be him, she started to back away after the guy took the turn out on to the sidewalk now it was just her now alone like a loser standing in the rain under the flashing and thunderous sound that came along with it.

she stpped in to another puddle but she ekpt on pushing back but she stopped when she felt someone come up in like one blow to the side taking her face in to there hands kissing her, she felt the rain dripping from the other person's hair. It happened in one foul swoop like a hawk to his prey and then they attacked.

Kirsten pushed the person away ready to run wehns he notcied who it was"you scared me half to death" she yelled over the thunder but then began laughing with relief

Zac stepped forward and pulled her by her shirt bringing her in to him again except this time she kissed back. He lifted her up as she locked her legs around his waist running her fingers through his hair. he held her close to him not wanting to let her go and when she pulled back sucking in a breath of air she ran her hands along his arms the muscles defined through his wet shirt.

He dropped her letting her gently touch off on the ground, he kissed her soflty again and she ekpt her hand on his arm "what are you doing here?" she asked as he brushed back her hair with his fingertips
"I screwed up"
"how did you screw up?" she asked biting her lip
"I almost let this amazing girl slip by me"

"oh really' she said giggling as she wrapped her arms around his neck twirling the ends of his hair in her fingers. He had his arms around her waist pulling him up against her
"I'm an idiot Kirsten I should of showed up tonight I just..."
"you don't need to explain" she said shuting him up
" I should of told you about Josh from the beginning I guess I was afraid I would lose you but I did, I lost you"

Zac shook his head "you never lost me, I've always been yours and i always will be"
he leaned in and kissed her again feeling her place a hand on his cheek, the rain was dripping down from his hair as another strike of lighting hit the sky

Kirsten started to talk tickling his lips as she did "I think we need to settle some unfinished business" she said with a wink before laughing as he picked her up carrying her through the threshold of the lobby's door
she kissed his neck as he set her down on the bottom of the stairs he stopped her by lifitng up her chin with his finger so that she was facing him

"I love you Kirsten and even if I didn't say it back to you that night I felt it"
"you don't know how long I've waited to hear that" she said sticking her hand underneath his shirt smiling as she fooled around with his buckle
"c'mon" she said grabbing on to his hand leading him upstairs "this is long overdue"
he smirked and hugged her from behind kissing her neck as they made there way down the hallway and once they stepped out in front of her door Kirsten started the infamous teasing

"don't do this to me now" he said with a groan as she dragged him by the collar inside shutting the door behind them.

-End