Justin and Max walked down the stairs into the living room. Alex, Harper, and Jasmine were there watching TV. Alex turned around.

"Hey Max," Alex said, grabbing a handful of popcorn and shoving it in her mouth.

"Hello?" Justin asked. "I'm alive too."

"Sure…" Alex said turning to the TV.

Harper turned around and smiled. Well, more like starred. She looked back at the TV when she realized Justin was sort of creeped out.

Jasmine didn't turn around or eat any of the popcorn. She just starred at the TV.

"I'm taking Max to the park; do you guys want to join?" Justin asked.

"Nyes," came from Alex and Harper. Alex was most likely the one that said no, but Harper was DEFINITELY the one to say yes. Harper had a big smile on her face. Alex looked annoyed.

Jasmine turned around. "Sure," she said.

Harper smiled. She found it an opportunity for Jasmine to talk to Max. Every day, since that day Max rejected Jasmine; Harper has been asking Jasmine if she talked to him in Biology class. Jasmine would always give the same answer. No. Jasmine has also been saying that she didn't have a crush on anyone at the moment and that she wanted to focus on school work. Harper always found this odd because Jasmine used to never like homework very much.

"Okay," Justin said. He wasn't completely enthused that Harper was coming along. At least he was doing his brother a favor.

Alex rolled her eyes, "I guess I'll come too." She said. She really didn't want to come. Harper was probably going to stare at Justin some more and Max was going to cry about his lizard. Plus, Jasmine's going to be all morose-acting. Alex was glad that Jasmine didn't like Max anymore, but Jasmine became more boring. All she wanted to do was homework. Yawn.

They all walked to the park. The wind was blowing slightly and dogs were barking with little children running around everywhere. The feel was happy. Although, Max was not. The humans with their pet dogs were throwing them Frisbees. Families were having picnics. Everywhere he went, he was reminded of… his lizard.

"Okay, we're outside. Can we go back now?" Alex complained. She needed her TV time.

"No, he needs to walk around a little and breathe," Justin said as he turned to Max. "Breathe in."

Max breathed in. He wanted to go home. He didn't want to play any of Justin's breathing games.

"And out."

Max let out his air. He looked around. "Can we go home now?" he asked.

"Not until you walk around and breathe a little."

"Could we, at least, go somewhere without people? Like hiking in the woods?"

"I'll come too!" Harper said. If Justin was going, she wanted to go too.

Justin wrote a mental note in his head to never invite Harper to the park while trying to help Max and his lizard problems. Or anywhere for that matter. "But…"

"Oh, come on Justin." Alex said. She thought it was a perfect way to pull some pranks. "Maybe we could go camping too."

"That sounds fun!" Harper said enthusiastically thinking how romantic it would be if a bear attacked and Justin was there to comfort her.

"Fine." He said.

"I'll go home and pack," Jasmine said. She thought she might have been included in the camping trip. Harper was going. Well, Harper was more like part of the Russos' family instead of the Finkle family.

"Okay," Harper said. "Come back to our house around 2, I guess."

"Okay," Jasmine said walking home to pack.

A/N: So sorry I haven't written a chapter in almost a month! I've been so busy with school...

Do you want to know a coincidence? The guy I had a crush on over the summer is in my... BIOLOGY CLASS! Yeah. (Look at Chapter 4 if you don't know what I'm talking about.) He sat across from me, but now he sits diagnal. (Yeah we changed seats and we ended up at the same table again) We are also going to disect frogs this year... But he probably wont be my partner, because we do that sort of stuff with people who are sitting next to us. Oh, and my crush had a girlfriend! Haha! And now I don't have a crush on him anymore. So, haha. Never shall be a Max and Jasmine story for us... ;P