A/N: Ohmigod I am so sorry I haven't updated, but I've been real ill. Sorry! Well, I'm getting better now, so I wrote you a chapter. I'm gonna be insanely busy this week, so pardon any forgotten updates. I have all day rehearsals tomorrow and Tuesday, sports day on Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday the school Variety Show performance.
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Kate opened the door to her house, and walked in, her right hand gripping Ari's left.
"Mom? Dad?" She called, and there was no answer. She walked into the kitchen, and Ari closed the door behind himself. Kate picked up a note stuck to the front of the refrigerator, secured by a magnet. She read it quickly. "They've gone out to a dinner party."
Ari glanced at the note. Mr. and Mrs. Todd had gone to the Senator's dinner party, and wouldn't be back until the early morning.
"Looks like we have some alone time." Ari whispered in her ear, hugging her around the waist from behind. Kate turned her head and kissed him.
"I guess we do. What do you want to do?" She asked, and he shrugged. "Watch a film?"
"Sure." Ari agreed, and Kate led him through into the spacious living room, and gestured to their expansive DVD rack. Ari looked through the DVDs, and recognized a grand total of none of them.
"So…?" Kate hinted, and Ari shrugged.
"I have not heard of any of these!" He admitted, and Kate chuckled, and pointed to a few.
"The Notebook. That's kinda cute. And sad. Shrek. That's hilarious. New Moon, but you've seen that already." Kate glanced at Ari, who shrugged again. She laughed at his movie naïvety. "Let's watch Shrek."
Twenty minutes later, they were both laughing.
"And he huffed and he puffed," Kate recited the lines as the little pigs on screen said the same, "and he… signed the eviction notice!"
Ari laughed at the accent she put on.
By the time the movie had finished, they both had smiles on their faces.
"So, is the movie amazing or is the movie amazing?" Kate asked, and Ari laughed.
"It's good." He conceded, teasing her slightly.
"Admit it, it's awesome." Kate said, glaring at him.
"I've seen better." Ari taunted. Kate got him in a headlock.
"Liar. Like what?" Ari twisted out of the headlock and got her arms behind her. She giggled.
"You know, I just can't recall their names at present…" Ari whispered in her ear teasingly. He let go of her arms, only to begin tickling her instead.
"Ari!" Kate squealed, laughing and screaming simultaneously. Ari groaned as a flailing knee connected with his groan, and the pair tumbled off of the couch onto the floor, hitting the ground with an 'oomph.'
Kate, breathing heavily, looked down into Ari's deep brown eyes. She was sure he had some sort of power, he was mesmerizing to her. Ari looked back up at her, his breathing labored also.
He was beginning to realize something about Kate. Something about his feelings for her.
Yes, he'd dated girls before, but Caitlin Todd was probably the first girl he'd actually ever really loved.
Kate shook her head slightly, clearing the fuzzy mess that her thoughts had transformed into. Rolling off of Ari, she stood and offered a hand to help him up.
"We should get to sleep." She said, and he nodded. Numbly, he followed her into her bedroom.
Nothing actually really happened; they did actually get to sleep, unlike Tony and Ziva.
Kate lay awake long after Ari had fallen asleep, tracing circles on his chest in a hypnotizing motion and thinking of the relationship they had.
The next day, the six friends met up in the park, and right away Tony pounced on McGee.
"I know that look, McLucky." He said, as soon as McGee and Abby approached them, holding hands.
"What look?" McGee asked, looking worried.
"Probie wan Kenobi had sex last night." Tony said knowingly, and the scarlet blush that flooded McGee's cheeks only confirmed the accusation. Tony smirked. "I knew it!"
"But so did you." Abby pointed out, and Tony looked away from taunting McGee and up at her.
"And how would Miss Sciuto know that?" He asked her, and she shrugged nonchalantly.
"Just a… feeling." She said mysteriously.
"Look, its Kate and Ari to join the party!" Tony changed the subject as Kate and Ari walked towards them.
"Shalom, Tony." Ari greeted him, and Tony smiled warmly in return. Tony realized the difference in the type of people he was friends with now.
His cousin, a computer geek, a science loving Goth, and two hardcore Israelites.
Not the most popular people in school he was used to hanging out with. But he was coming to the realization that he preferred being friends with McGee, Ziva, Abby, Ari and Kate. Better conversation, for a start.
"Hey Ziva. Abby." Kate air kissed both girls on their cheeks, and then sat down next to them on the bench they were sitting on.
Ari knelt down to tie his shoelace, although Ziva didn't remember his shoe lace being undone previously.
"Caitlin Todd." Kate looked down at Ari's voice, and gasped.
A small black velvet box was open in Ari's hands, and a silver band with a small diamond glittered in the sun.
"Caitlin Todd," Ari continued, "will you marry me?"
"Ohmigod!" Abby exclaimed, and then clapped her hand over her mouth.
"I… I don't know what to say!" Kate's face was flushed with happiness, and she tried to get the words straight.
"How about, yes?" Ari hinted, and a smile bloomed across Kate's features.
"Yes." Kate said. "Yes, yes, yes!"
Ari slipped the ring onto her finger, and pushed the box back into his pocket. He stood up and hugged her tightly. He could feel his shoulder getting wet after a while.
"Why are you crying?" He asked her, slightly confused.
"I'm… I'm just so happy!" Kate said, laughing through her tears. Ziva hugged the pair also.
"I have a sister in law now!" She exclaimed, hugging Kate tightly, and then hugging her brother.
"All right!" Tony grinned, and bumped his fist with Ari in the gesture that Ari had considered very, very weird to begin with.
"Ohmigod!" Abby exclaimed again, and soon all six were dancing and jumping around, screaming and crying with happiness for the new couple. In the cacophony, Ziva whispered something to Ari.
"Have you asked her parents?"
"Yes." Ari replied, and Ziva was slightly surprised. It would be the type of thing to accidentally 'slip her brother's mind'.
"They didn't mind?" She asked also.
"Surprisingly, no!"
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