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More chapters will be on the way after this!

Dedication: Madame Fist, it's been a year so you might have sorted it out, but this chapter is in honour of you

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Spinelli chewed her lip nervously. She felt so nervous, so vulnerable. What if he laughed at her? What if what she did would ruin their friendship forever?

No, she was going to tell him. She had waited too long and needed to say how she felt. It would be better than living a lie all of this time.

She watched TJ scramble over the dumpster and his freckled face beam at her when he got over. He motioned her over quickly and buried his face back behind.

Spinelli took a deep breath; her nerves were rising in the throat and shooting all over her body, causing her to shake. She ran over to the dumpster and jumped over, landing heavily on her arm on the other side.

'Ow!' she screamed. It stung, and she took it in her other arm and brushed the dirt off.

'Are you ok?' TJ asked, gently turning her arm over. Spinelli shivered when he touched her; recalling how she felt when he held her hand earlier. Scooping her pigtails behind her, Spinelli rolled up the sleeve of her jacket.

'Spin, you're bleeding!' TJ said, 'you must have skid when you fell.'

Spinelli looked at her elbow, it wasn't that bad, only a graze. But TJ took out a tissue from his pocket and dabbed her lightly with it, biting his lip in concentration.

'Listen, Teej, I have to tell you something,' she said. Looking down her arm at him while he still continued dabbing.

'Mhm?' he said, still biting his lip.

'This was it,' she thought, 'just tell him, the worst that could happen is he could turn me down and even then we can pretend it never happened.'

'Well…' she began, 'I know we've been friends for ages and-'

'Stop beating around the bush,' she thought.

TJ was brushing the dirt away from her arm now. Now he wasn't looking at her maybe it would be easier to say.

'Just do it before you miss your chance alone with him,' her head told her.

In a sudden rush, she decided just to do it. The words tumbled out of her mouth like it was a badly kept secret.

'Do you think we could ever be more than friends because I think I'm in love with you.'

Silence.

TJ stopped dabbing, he looked up at her smiling, but he stopped when he realized she was serious. He crunched the tissue up in his hand.

'Seriously?' he said, drawing back from her. Spinelli detected a tone of disbelief and denial in his voice.

'Oh no, I've blown it,' she thought. He heart was racing and she thought it was going to burst out of her chest. Her mouth wobbled open and she looked at the floor. She then whispered her reply, 'yes.'

The silence after than seemed to go on forever. Every second that passed Spinelli regretted her decision, wishing that she had never said anything.

TJ was rubbing his head and reading off the floor. She decided to save her friendship before it was too late.

'Listen Teej, forget it, forget I ever said anything. Let's just rewind what I just said, please? Teej please look at me. Say something!' she was starting to plead now, the urgency in her voice getting louder and louder and tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

This was it, the moment she has been dreaming about for months and she was doing behind a dumpster with a bleeding arm, hardly Romeo and Juliet.

'Teej please say something,' she whispered, begging him to reply. Every muscle in her body was shaking.

'Spin…' he began, leaning against the side of the dumpster avoiding her gaze. She waited in suspense for his reply, 'I love you too. I just don't want anything to affect our friendship that we have, you know? Yeah I think we could be, well, 'more than friends' but I need to, you know, think about it,' he said cautiously, maybe fearing that she would beat him up for replying so hazily.

Spinelli nodded slowly, it wasn't the reply that she had wanted but it wasn't the worse. She was failing to see the bright side, he loved her even if it was only friendship love, and love was rare.

'Come here,' he said, reaching out his arms. She practically fell into them and knocked him backwards. She held him tightly, smelling the rich scent of his jacket and burrowing her face into his chest. He held her, stroking her hair with his hand. It seemed that the hug went on forever, and they were both happy with that.

TJ drew back slowly and kissed her on the cheek, she did the same and smiled bravely, tears still resting in her eyes.

'I want to be with you though, I just…. I need to think about what it could do to us, I'll let you know soon,' he said, taking her hands in his and reassuring her.

She nodded again and rolled her jacket down, before they both breathed heavily and hugged again.

'IDIOT!' I shouted from the other side of the dumpster, a bit louder than I should have….

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A/N: Is that all from Spinelli and TJ? Spinelli and HK? HK and Gretchen? Nope! The love square will continue! So you better R&R to find out what happens next!