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Aimee, Karen, and Abby had been silent the whole time. "Some best friends you are," I muttered.

"Well!" Abby exclaimed, "You had James on your right side and Simon on your left! What else could we do?"

I smiled. "It's okay."

"Are we about to get going?" Simon asked calmly. "I have the plane tickets, bags, and car ready to go."

"Okay, but…where are we going?" I questioned.

"We're going to some small town in New Hampshire so that we can investigate this thing in peace." Simon smiled at his accomplishment.

"Wow!" Janis exclaimed, chuckling. "Sam, you've done some sort of magic. Ever since we got him here this morning, he's been grumpy and refused to go anywhere. And then you got here, and now he's planning this whole thing. Keep entrancing him, Sam!"

I blushed furiously and glanced over at James who was glowering at Simon's grin.

Simon held out his hand for me to take. I grasped his hand, electricity forming between us. "I don't like this Simon guy," I heard James say to Aimee.

My only best friend that had a giant crush on my brother said, "Oh, let her be just this once. You've never let her have a boyfriend. You guys are almost eighteen! Just give her a break!" I grinned at my best friend, standing up to the guy she had liked for seven years, just to defend her best friend.

"What exactly did you see in your FlashForward?" I focused again on Simon, and his beautiful, sky blue eyes and British accent nearly made me faint. He looked at me questioningly.

"I didn't see anything! I just heard this thing gaining on me. It didn't even sound like it was running; just casually strolling behind me, but it was quickly catching up to me. I could feel the ground under me…I-I don't think I had any shoes on. Wherever I was, it was pitch-black, even though I knew that light was somewhere nearby. Then it got me, like, it captured me, and then I woke up."

Simon smiled. "Why are you smiling?" I questioned with a frown.

"Because I met you." He ran his fingers through his almost-spiked, but not quite there, hair.

He squeezed my hand gently. "We're going to find that thing. I promise." Simon assured me.

I was giddy with excitement, but also nervous and scared. I sighed. Stupid conflicting emotions! It was like Simon could almost ready my mind as he said, "Conflicting emotions is just a part of being human. Even I am experiencing them! I'm scared, nervous, excited, and the strongest…in love."

I blushed. Shit! I thought. Now Simon knows I love him, too!

Simon smiled again and glanced at his watch. "Holy shit! We have to get to the airport!"

I giggled quietly at his cussing. "I'm sitting next to Sam!" James announced loudly.

"So am I," said Simon.

"You'd better not get any ideas, mister!" James stuck his first finger in Simon's face

"James! Just leave me be, okay? Just because you're six minutes older doesn't mean that I'm incapable of making decisions. We're going to be adults in three freaking days. You might as well get used to the fact that I'm not going to need my brother to do everything and go everywhere with me. Simon is already the most amazing guy I've more met, even though I've known him for twenty minutes, and I'm not going to let him fall out of my grasp. Not now, and not ever." I breathed deeply afterwards. I had never blown up at my brother like that before.

"Let's go." Janis pushed past a shocked James, a surprised Simon, and a furious me and through the glass double doors out into the bright sunlight.

Abby's long brown hair swept around her face as she quickened her pace to keep up with Janis. Karen followed her, her shoulder-length blond hair flying out of place and her brown eyes staring straight ahead. Aimee clomped past me in her high heels, and her green eyes gave away her intense feelings for James as she pushed past him, making him stumble backwards.

James shuffled behind them quietly, his head down. Janis had been patiently waiting for us, but motioned that she would wait for us in the car.

"Thanks for sticking up for me," Simon finally spoke.

"Yeah," I nodded, my voice caught in my throat, tears coming into my eyes. "It was no problem…" I pulled my hand from his as I wiped the tears from my eyes.

Simon gently dried the tears from my cheeks with his thumb. "It's going to be okay, Sam. I promise." He wrapped his arms around me as I cried into his shoulder.

"We have to go or all seven of us are going to miss the plane," I finally said, my first words in about five minutes.

Simon and I, with his arm around my shoulder walked outside into the now pouring rain, a drastic weather difference from what it had been just minutes before. Simon kissed my forehead gently. "It's alright, Sam. It's okay."