Author's Note: here's chapter 11! i've been having a bad case of writer's block, lol, so it took me awhile to write these next two chapters so i hope you like them. enjoy((:

Chapter 11: Jayden's Date

Emily's POV

Ok, so today was the day where Jayden takes me on his date. I'm kind of nervous, but I'm sure I'll be fine.

I ran all over the house, looking for Mia, and finally found her in Kevin's room. They were watching a movie. I quickly ran into his room and grab Mia by the wrist.

"Mia, I need your help." I quickly pulled her out of his room and into the hallway.

"Woah, Emily! What is it you need me to help you with?"

"I need you to help me pick out an outfit for my date with Jayden!" I forcefully pull her as we ran into our room. When Mia steps into our room, her eyes widen.

"I can definitly see that you need my help." Mia says as she looks at all of my clothes scattered around the room.

"Please, Please help me! I don't know what to wear!" I exclaimed, throwing my hands in the air.

"Well, for starters, do you know where he's taking you?" She continued looking at every outfit that I set out.

"No. He said that he wants to make it a surprise."

"Knowing Jayden, it probably wouldn't be somewhere active. That would be with Mike. Maybe somewhere nice, calm, elegant." Mia then notices my yellow flowered dress and picks it up. "Here we go. This should do nicely with a long sleeved opened-up sweater."

"How do you know that my date might be like that?" I asked curiously as she hands me the outfit.

I notice her hesitiate little before telling me. "Well, you see. One time, me and Jayden went on a date before. He took me to this really beautiful and fancy restaurant. It was only one time because we thought that we were better as friends."

I squeal "OMG Mia! How come you never told me about this?"

"I promise Jayden that I wouldn't. He didn't what anyone acting different towards us just because we went on one date. Please don't tell Jayden I told you this!" Mia begged.

"Oh, don't worry. I wouldn't. And Mia, you can tell me anything. You know that. We're best friends. Anyway, will you help me pick out another outfit for my date with Mike tomorrow?"

She smiles. "Of course! Now let's go fix that hair of yours."

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"Umm, Jayden. Why am I wearing this blindfold exactly?" I asked, trying to peek through it.

Jayden pulled my blindfold back down. "Hey! I told you, I want it to be a surprise. That means no peeking.

"Fine." I huffed, crossing my arms the whole ride to where ever we were going.

Finally, I felt the car stopped. I heard Jayden get out of the car and open up my door.

"Now can I take off this blindfold?" I asked again while trying to untie the blindfold.

"Woah, hold on!" Jayden exclaimed. He retied the knot. "We're not there yet."

"Well, when are we?"

"Well, aren't you an inpatience one." Jayden laughed. "Now take my hand and I'll guide you there.

I took his hand and stepped out of the car. He then came behind and put his hand on my waist. I flenced a little, but thought that he was only trying to help guide me better. Since I'm so clumsy. After a couple more steps, I thought I heard the sound of planks of wood under my feet. Jayden started untieing my blindfold and then annouced "Here we are!"

When I opened my eyes, I just couldn't believe it. In front of my eyes, there was a beauiful lake where the setting sun glittered on the waters with the colors orange, yellow, and pink. I looked down to see a rowboat beside the dock I was on.

I turned around to face Jayden and looked up at him. "Oh my gosh Jayden! It is beautiful! How did you ever know about it?"

Jayden told me "A long time ago, Antonio and I use to come here in the mornings to catch fish for the fun of it. I remembered how beauiful it looked when the sun started setting. So that's why I wanted to bring you here. To share this beauiful scene with a beautiful girl."

I couldn't help but looked down and smile. I know I was blushing red but I couldn't help it. I looked back up to see Jayden go the car and come back with a basket.

"What's that?" I wondered.

"This is our dinner that we're gonna eat."

I suddenly felt like I was turning pale. "Mia didn't cook that, did she?"

"No, of course not! I got Antonio to cook it for us."

"Thank goodness." I said, pretending to wipe sweat off my forehead. "Where are we going to eat this at?"

"In the boat." He said as he pointed to the rowboat. "Or we can eat it on the dock."

"No, no. The boat's great."

Jayden placed the basket into the boat as he got into the boat first. He offered his hand out as he helped me into the boat. I saw him pick up the oars and start rowing. Once we got out more into the lake, I looked around at the whole scenery. The sun reflected off of the lake, making it shine. I saw cute ducks swimming by, making quacking sounds. On the land that was ahead of me, the suns shined through the trees, making them glow. I looked away from this pretty sight and looked at Jayden. He was too busy trying to look ahead, watching where we were going. I couldn't help but looked down at his muscluar arms that were rowing the boat. His arms went in a circular motion, making me want to stare more. No wonder he wins in alot of battle that he fights. I looked back up at him to see his eyes meet mine. I looked away, wondering if he knew that I was staring at his arms.

Jayden's POV

I finally stopped at a place there wasn't too far from the dock, but wasn't too close either. After a moment of silence, I couldn't help but want to break it but Emily beat me to it.

"Thank you Jayden for bringing here. It's so beautiful, I can't take my eyes off of it."

"Either can I." I looked out to the lake.

"Is it ok if we go ahead and eat?"

"Yeah, of course." I said, taking out the food from the basket.

"Is it ok if we talk while we're eating? I kind of want to know more about you, since this is a date after all."

I nodded while I handed her food to her.

While we were eating, Emily asked me alot of questions about my childhood. She seemed to wanted to know alot about it. Probably because she said that Antonio told her some of the crazy adventures me and Antonio use to have. I asked her about her life too, what it was like at her home and her family.

While she was talking, I couldn't help but stare at her, admiring everything about her. Today I had to pinch myself to make sure that this wasn't a dream because ever since I started liking her, I thought I would never get a chance to go a date with her. I always thought Mike would. Wait a minute, he is! I forget that this date is to help her choose between me or him. But I just hope that this date will be better than whatever Mike's date plan will be. I just really want her to choose me.

Actually, I haven't always liked her. I mean, I liked her but as a friend. At first, I thought that she would be a bothersome since she was the youngest of us. Later as time went on, I was proved that I was wrong. I saw that she was so sweet, kind, caring, and adorable to the team. Alot of times, I would be off on my own, away from the team. But then Emily would come and talk to me. She knew that I had a sheltered life, so I wasn't very social. She helped me be closer to the team, convincing me to talk more. She really has been a big part of my life now and I'm glad for that.

Emily's POV

We talked on and on until the sun was completely down and the moon was fully out. I pointed out "Jayden, look how beautiful the moon is! And it makes the lake sparkle!"

"Wow, it really does."

I looked over to Jayden and saw something on his chin. It was something off of the piece of fish we ate. I laughed, looking at it.

Jayden glanced at me curious. "Why are you laughing?"

"You have something on your chin. Hold on, let me get it." I steadied myself as I leaned over and wiped it off with my thumb. Jayden slowly put his hand over my hand that was still beside his cheek. I looked at his hand, then in his eyes. I felt myself slowly leaning in, slowly closing my eyes. I could see him also slowly leaning in too. Suddenly, I flenched because I felt alittle nervous. When I did, the boat started rocking and I tried to keep my balance. I suddenly felt one foot slip off and I almost fell into the water until Jaydne grabbed my waist. But when he grabbed my waist, he also lost his balance and we both fell into the water.

I moved my arms around and came up from the water, taking a huge breath. Jayden came up a second behind me and also took a huge breath.

Jayden put his arm around my waist to help me stay above water, then hopping in the boat and helping me back in.

"Well that definitify took me by surprise." I said while getting back in the boat.

"Yeah, me too. I think we better head back." Jayden took out the oars and started rowing back to the dock.

On the whole way back home, we didn't say a word. I guess we was too afraid to break the silence after that embarassing moment that happen. Well, it was to me because we were just about to kiss until I accientally slipped and fell out of the boat! Why do these things always happen when I'm about to kiss someone!

When we got back home, Mia was coming out of the kitchen with some food in her hand. When she saw us, she dropped her plate. Her mouth and eyes were wide opened. Mia looked at her plate that she dropped, then back at me. "Oh, I'll get that later. But what the heck happened to you two? It isn't raining, is it?"

Just then, Mike came into the hallway. When he saw us dripping wet, he busted out laughing. "Oh man, let me guess. The date didn't go so well, did it?"

I notice Jayden send a mean glare at Mike, making Mike's laughing tone down more.

"The date went fine. We just... umm... fell into ... a lake." I mumbled. Mia came over to me and pulled out a chunk of algae out of my hair.

"Oh Emily. We have got to get you cleaned up." Mia then took me by the arm and pulled me into the bathroom.

After I finally cleaned up, I walked out of the bathroom but bumped into Jayden, trying to go into the bathroom.

"Oh Jayden! Sorry, I'll be out of your way." I started to around him until he caught me by my arm.

"Emily, you haven't said anything about what happened today on our date. I'm beginning to think that you hated this date."

I quickly shook my head. "No, NO! I really liked it. It's just that I was kind of embarassed by the last part. I feel so stupid for falling off of the boat! It ruined the moment we..." I stopped myself before saying anymore.

"The moment we almost had." Jayden finished. We stood there in silence for a few minutes.

"Well, I guess I better clean up." Jayden finally said.

"Oh, yeah. Of course." I stepped out of the way so he could get into the bathroom.

"Good night Em."

"Night, Jayden." Without thinking, I suddenly got up on my tipy toes and kissed him on his cheek. I suddenly realized what I just did, so I quickly ran away in shock. I had let my feelings take over my actions. Oh well, hopefully that helped make up for us falling into the lake.

Author's Note: here ends chapter 11! again, sorry it took awhile to upload these chapters. Review if you like this! If you didn't like this, then don't review.