Chapter 2 – You Should Go Home Now

Mitch and Kirstie talked for a little while until Scott eventually joined them in the living room. "What brings you over this morning, Kirstie?" Scott asks.

"The usual," Mitch jumps in and says, "Aaron was being clingy."

"I just needed a break, he got upset because I went to get coffee without leaving him a note this morning, I feel like I'm living back home with my parents or something," Kirstie says.

"Girl, I'm telling you, just be honest with him and move on," Mitch says.

"What do you mean, be honest with him, what else is going on?" Scott asked.

Kirstie looks at Mitch and covers his mouth with her hand as he was about to speak. Kirstie shot him a look as to say, shut it. She looked over at Scott and said, "Nothing, it's fine, don't worry about it."

Mitch didn't understand why Kirstie didn't want to tell Scott, he thought that she told them both everything, or he thought that she did. Scott looked confused as he knew there was something more to this story. He sighed and said, "Okay, if you say so."

Kirstie got up and grabbed her coffee and headed towards the door, "Okay, I'll see y'all later at rehearsal, okay." She walked out the door as the boys waved bye to her and as soon as the door latched closed, Scott looked over at Mitch and said, "What's up?"

Mitch smiled and said, "Nothing, Scott, why do you think that something is up?"

"Because I know you and I know Kirstie. Why wouldn't she tell me what was going on, I want to know too." Scott said.

"She is realizing how she really feels about Aaron, that's all. I think that she's struggling with that. I don't think that they will be together for much longer, but Kirstie is still in the contract with him on their apartment, so she is just stressing over that." Mitch said.

"Please don't say anything to her, let her talk to you," Mitch added.

"I don't really understand why she couldn't just say that to me," Scott said looking over at the coffee table where Wyatt was sleeping.

Scott stood up and said, "I'll be back in a little bit, okay."

Mitch looked at him and said, "Okay."

Scott headed out and headed towards Kirstie and Aaron's apartment and wanted to talk to Kirstie to see what was going on. They were best friends, right. He got up to the door and knocked and Aaron answered the door.

Aaron looking annoyed said, "Hey Scott, what's up?"

"I wanted to see if I could talk to Kirstie?" Scott asked.

"Didn't you just see her?" Aaron asked quickly.

Kirstie came around to the door and said, "Aaron, who is it?"

She looked over Aaron's shoulder and saw Scott and smiled and said, "Come on it."

Aaron stepped aside and watched Scott walk in. He thought that the timing was convenient as he was just about to head out to help his brother move. He looked over at Kirstie and whispered, "Did you invite him over when you knew that I was going to leave?"

She looked at him like he was nuts and said, "Calm down, he's my friend, and no, I had no idea that he was going to come over."

"Okay, well, I'll be over at my brother's place, call me if you head out," Aaron said with a quick peck and hug. He looked over at Scott and said, "I'll see you later, Hoying."

"Bye Aaron, see ya," Scott said. He was sort of happy that Aaron was leaving since he had a bit of a little attitude for some reason.

Scott sat down in the living room on the couch and Kirstie came over and sat down on the couch facing Scott and asked, "So, what's up?"

"You could tell me, Kirst, we are best friends. What can you tell Mitch that you can't tell me?" Scott asked.

"Ah, are you sure that Mitch didn't already tell you everything?" Kirstie said with a small smirk.

"Not everything, I wanted to talk to you, what's going on?" Scott asked.

"I don't think that I'm in love with Aaron anymore and I think that I want to end things," Kirstie said with a small tear in her eye.

Scott reached over and pulled Kirstie into a hug and said, "Don't worry, Kirst, it'll be okay."

She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him and she felt so at ease with Scott, like everything was the way it should be. She always struggled with her feelings towards Scott and well, also Avi. She felt that her heart was always in a tug of war with itself until Aaron came along. She was able to focus her heart and soul on Aaron and it was refreshing. But, now with Aaron and the issues that they were having, her heart was letting some feeling resurface again. Scott held Kirstie for a little bit and started to rub her back. She pulled away from Scott's hug and sat up again on the couch.

"Do you think that you'll tell him soon? He should know how you feel?" Scott asked.

"That's a lot easier said than done, I don't want to hurt him," Kirstie said.

"Yea, I know that feeling. When I was with Esther, it was so hard to finally tell her that I wanted to be just friends, but I was so relieved because she felt the same exact way. Just think, Aaron might feel the same exact way," Scott said.

"I don't know, he just seems so over protective and he gets so jealous anytime I talk to any guy, even Mitch," Kirstie said with a small smile.

Scott smiled and said, "Is that why he was weird when I came over here just now?"

"Yea, he can't stand it when we are alone," Kirstie says.

"Why, what does he think we'll do?" Scott said with a laugh.

"You'll have to ask him that, I have no idea," Kirstie said with a laugh.

Scott reached over and tickled Kirstie to make her laugh and she protested, "Scott, don't start, you know I can't stand it when you tickle me."

This only made him want to tickle her more and she squealed and they somehow got in a very close situation of where Scott had Kirstie facing him in his lap with his arms around her waist and her arms trying to push him away. He wanted to lean in and kiss her in that moment because it's something that he wanted to do for such a long time. He stopped tickling her and she settled down and she sat there in his lap for a moment and looked at him. They stared at each other and Scott looked at Kirstie's mouth and then her eyes while she did the same. Kirstie felt Scott's hands and realized that they were sitting on her waist and she had moved her hands to his chest. Scott's heart starting beating really fast and he didn't really know what was going on, just that he wanted to lean in and kiss Kirstie. Kirstie realizing what was about to happen, blinked and pulled away and sat on the side of the couch and said, "Scott, I think that you should go home now."

To Be Continued….