A/N: This is the continuation from the last chapter. I STRONGLY advise you read it first before you read this chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 7

Seven Minutes of Heaven (cont.)

As Takuya closed the door, still facing the outside, Zoe turned around to see who was entering inside.

"Takuya?" she asked just as he shut the door.

Takuya was alarmed to see that Zoe was in the "restroom" too. (Keep in mind they aren't in a restroom. They're in a closet. That's why you got to read the prior chapter first.)

"ZOE!? What are you doing in the restroom?" He asked with a daunted look on his face.

"Uhm... Takuya... We're in a walk-in closet!" Zoe stated the obvious to Takuya even though he didn't realize it at first.

He quickly looked around his surroundings only to find out, the clothes, the hangers, and the shelves were "indicators" that he really was in a walk-in a closet after all.

"But I thought this was the restroom."

"Apparently not. Someone tricked us. JP told me the restroom was right over here."

"That's strange. Kouichi said this was the restroom too."

They both stopped and thank. Could someone be trying to set them up. It didn't take long for both of them to agree that they should leave first before they speculate.

"Oh well. We better get out of here so we can find the real restroom then." Takuya reached for the door knob as it fell off with a sharp turn. Takuya stood there holding the knob in his hand with with an extreme shock as he gazed at it.

"What? Whats wrong? Lets get to out of here already. What are you waiting for?" Zoe asked trying to rush him out, but Takuya turned around to show her the broken door knob that was in his hand.

"Oh my gosh, you broke it!"

"No I didn't! I mean, yeah I did, but it wasn't on purpose!"

They both looked at each other, then back at the broken door knob, then back at each other.

They both yelled in unison, " NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Seven minutes was ticking down.

***

JP was wandering around the corner to the same room Zoe was presumably alone in. As he came towards the room he saw Kouichi lingering around at the door.

He was hesitant to approach since he wasn't sure what was going on.

"Uhmm... is someone in there?" JP pointed at the door Kouichi seemed to be guarding.

"Yeah."

"Who?"

"Takuya."

JP's eyes widened with horror. Something wasn't right.

"So where's Zoe?"

"She's in there too."

"WHAT!... I mean what?" JP was let down to the fact his plan failed (Epic Fail lol)

"We got to get them out of there." JP started to open the door. He couldn't believe this was happening.

"Wait, didn't you like this idea? What are you doing?" Kouichi reasoned with him.

"No it was a bad idea" JP grabbed the nob but it wouldn't work. It was broken."Dang it!" JP remembered that he sabotaged it.

"Takuya? Zoe? Are you in there?" JP yelled at the door.

Takuya and Zoe peeped there heads up. Zoe rushed to the door to hear who was talking to them.

"Yeah we're in here!" Takuya yelled back.

"Don't worry we'll get you all out of there!" JP assured. "Don't move a muscle. We'll get help!"

"Don't get too comfortable in there. After all it is seven minutes of heaven" Kouichi joked as he and the other guys walked off to seek help.

Both Takuya's and Zoe's looked at each other with shocked looks on their faces. This definitely was a setup.

***

Minutes passed as Takuya and Zoe stayed in the same room, on opposite sides. There was awkward silence. Every now and then they would catch glances of each other and then look away.

Finally Takuya decided to "break the ice"

"Soooo.... you know how much a polar bear weighs?" he asked, randomly.

"Ummm... no?" Zoe was confused of where this was coming from.

"Just enough to break the ice. Hi, I'm Takuya! Hehee" he laughed in a weird nasal way.

Zoe couldn't help but giggle at Takuya's lame sense of humor. Its been a long while since they ever joked around with each other. That's if they ever did.

"You're stupid." she joked.

"No I'm not." he got up and walked over to her side to sit right beside her. (What is he thinking?)

It wasn't long before it went back to silence again as they waited for someone to save them. Every now and then they would look at each other and look away.

"Sooo... we're here all alone... in this seven minutes of..." he paused due to the fact he felt uncomfortable for a minute talking about love. Zoe tried to hide her face as she blushed a little.

Way to go, Takuya! He thought.

Suddenly the door started banging loudly. "Are you guys still alive?" JP yelled.

"Yeah?" Takuya replied. "Why wouldn't we?"

"Don't worry we're going to drill a hole to get you out!"

"A hole? With what?" Zoe wondered.

"With a screw drill!"

The two looked at the door with confused looks as if they could see JP on the other side being stupid.

"Here goes!" he started drilling for a few minutes until he stopped and moaned, " Aaah No!"

"Ah no what?" Takuya replied.

"The drill broke!" JP squealed. I need a back up. I'll be right back.

And so he left again to get another drill with Kouichi. "Hold tight!" Kouichi said with no pun intended.

Zoe rushed to the door to see if she could do anything to get it to open but to no avail.

"Oh great! We're doomed!" Takuya dropped to his knees and flung his hands in the air.

"Shh, calm down. There's still hope, you know!" Zoe tried to spark hope into Takuya who was laid out on the floor.

***

For a second, on the outside, the lights went out and all you could here was shreiking as people yelled and ducked for cover.

"AH! MY BOOTY!" Someone yelled. It sounded like Robby.

Inside the closet though, Takuya and Zoe quickly hugged each other out of reflexes as they screamed, together. This bringed back old memories.

When they came to there senses as the light came back on Zoe and Takuya were blushing madly at each other. The quickly let go of each other and scooted a few inches away from each other.

It felt like hours were going by as they waited for their rescue to come.

"You know... I never thought I would be in a room stuck with you." Takuya pointed out from the top of his head.

"What is that suppose to mean?" Zoe was puzzled as she turned her head to face his.

"Uh nothing. I'm just saying, that's all." Takuya tried to cover up.

"Mmm-hmm." Zoe hummed.

"What?"
"Nothing. I just think you're weird sometimes."

"Weird? I'm not weird. I'm very normal." Takuya sounded proud of himself.

"Sure..." she teased back.
"Yeah? Well at least I'm not bossy." Takuya thoughts slipped out of his mouth. (Oh no he didn't!)

"Bossy? I'm not bossy! What is that suppose to mean?" Zoe was confused.

"I mean... well.. you can be bossy sometimes." Takuya was not helping the situation.

"Oh really? Well at least I'm not mean!"

"Mean? How am I mean?" Now it was Takuya's turn to be confused

"The other day. When I needed a ride with you and your parents. You avoided me and left me all alone at the school. In fact, you seemed to have been avoiding me all week." she revealed. Takuya looked at her as if he was asking himself how did she know

"Yeah I'm not stupid, Takuya. I can clearly tell that you've been avoiding me! Why?" now she started getting emotional.

"Gee, I don't know..." he rubbed the back of his neck as if it would summon a genie so he cold wish all of this away.

"Are you afraid? Is that what it is? Your afraid of me just because we broke up a while back?"

"....." Takuya remained silent. Things just started going downhill from there.

"I don't believe this. Your such a baby!" Zoe turned away from him.

"Hey, I am not a baby! I am a man... a young man!" Takuya emphasized.

"Yeah, a young man that's afraid of everything!"

"I'm not afraid of everything."

"Oh yeah... your afraid of a lot of things! You're afraid of heights! You're afraid of ugly feet! You're afraid of being embarrassed! Your obviously afraid of the dark. You're even afraid of spiders..." Takuya cut her off.

"Hey now, you have to admit. Everybody is afraid of spiders!" he defended. (Yep me too.)

She continued without being phased, "Not to mention, your afraid of commitment too."

Takuya choked at that one. "No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"Am not!"

"Are too"

"Am NOT!"

"Are TOO!"

They were just inches away from each others face, raging with anger. Pretty soon that anger became, embarrassment as their faces reddened, for they have never been that close to each others face in a long time.

"You don't even have the guts to kiss a girl!" Zoe continued as she narrowed her eyes towards Takuya's up close. She was on a roll with these accusations.

"No I'm not! I could kiss a girl if I wanted to!" Takuya boasted. He didn't know where all this was coming from.

"Psh yeah right! If you're not busy being afraid!"

Takuya couldn't take it anymore

"I can!"

"No you can't!"

"Can can CAN!" Takuya raised his voice.

"Can't can't CAN'T" Zoe raised her voice even louder. "You're too afraid to-" to she was interrupted by Takuya's lips as they crashed into hers. He was holding her passionately by the waist as the kiss lingered for a while. At first Zoe was about to push him away but this was what she'd been wanting all along; to know if Takuya really loved her.

They took a break as they looked at each other in the face. They were breathing heavily as if they had just run a marathon.

"I love you!" Takuya admitted

"I love you more!" Zoe also admitted before they both resumed kissing each other. (Keep in mind this was all suppose to be humorous)

"Heeeey wait a minute... you tricked me. You bugs bunny-ied me!" Takuya realized as he pulled away, but he didn't really care.

Zoe mischievously grinned, "What did you expect?" she casually placed her hand around his neck.

They quickly forgot why they were even arguing.

".... So why were we arguing, again?" Takuya asked while Zoe placed her finger on his lips and kissed him again to shut him up.

Seven minutes were up.

***

While that was going on, JP marched over to the door with a bigger drill in his hand. He hoped that nothing got out of hand in there. Meanwhile, Kouji walked up to him to see what he was doing.

"You nimrod! Did it ever occur to you that instead of drilling a hole in the door, you could drill off the hinges?" Kouji grabbed the tool from him and went to work. "Step aside..." Kouji pushed JP away while he and Kouichi watched him.

In no time, he had the door unhinged as it fell off, revealing a new happy couple kissing in the closet.

"Ooooh come on! Get a room!" Kouji interrupted.

"Actually they are in a room, technically." Kouichi joked as he stated the obvious. Kouji didn't find it amusing and neither did JP, especially.

JP was holding his head in a state of shock as he yelled "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Everyone in the party cheered, aw-ed, and whistled at the sight, while Tommy realized, "So that is what seven minutes of heaven is like!"

***

Now that everyone was about ready to leave, Jack, Robby, Bobby and Rose gathered a crowd around for Takuya, Zoe, JP, Kouji, Kouichi, and Tommy for a final toast for a good future and a farewell. They also played a slide show of all the fun times the group had together. The slide show played all their times they played in a nearby park, to there hilarious moments in their Valentines Day fiasco, to their Spring break vacation, to some unknown moments at a snow cabin having a snow ball fight, to the school dances they had in certain events, to the wins and losses in the schools athletics, and the last moments they would cherish forever! (Hmmm this all gives me an idea for another story)

The slide show went on as the song "Dust in the Winds" played in the back ground. Everyone was either sniffling due to crying or misty eyes or hugging one another. Even Kouji was "sniffling".

"Oh my gosh... Kouji is crying?" Kouichi said loudly as if he wanted everyone to hear him, which he did.

"Shut up! I'm not crying!" he lashed.

"Need a hug?" Kouichi teased.

"Shut up! Its just this hot sauce! That's all! I got some of it in my and I need to go wash it out." Kouji left the scene to hide his emotions.

And that was how that night went as everyone left to go home. JP's parents came out of their hiding spots and tomorrow was on its way. Unfortunately, the gang had to clean up the mess that everyone made.

Graduation here we come!

(Music: Away from the Sun, by Three Doors Down)

A/N: This was really suppose to be one chapter along with the previous chapter but I felt like it was too long. The next chapter was suppose to be along with this one too but it also may be too long as well. Anyways, I hoped you enjoyed and see you in the next chapter... I'll beat you to there first, lol.