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"I spy with my little eye, something purple." Carmen stated smugly.

She and Carlos were walking down a trail hand in hand in the middle of the woods, trees and nature life surrounded them. The earth smelled of dirt, moss, and creek water, songbirds and wood peckers sounded from the tree tops.

Carlos glanced around there green and brown surroundings with knitted brows. "Something purple hmmmm, what around here's purple….that daisy!" He guessed, pointing to the lone flower that grew beside the giant oak tree just a yard ahead of them.

Carmen sighed. "That's right." She mumbled in defeat.

Carlos' grin grew.

He bent down and pulled the flower from the ground. "Here, a pretty smelling flower for a pretty smelling girl." He said, turning back towards Carmen.

She blushed as he tucked the flower behind her ear, his hand lingered in her soft long curls. Carmens face grew extremely hot as Carlos stared into her warm eyes, his caramel orbs had her tummy flipping in waves as she stared right back at him. They stood there, just staring into eachothers eyes for what seemed like hours.

"I spy…with my little eye…something beautiful." Carlos mumbled softly, practically staring into the depths of her soul.

Carmen was caught by surprise when Carlos leaned down and pressed his lips against her own. He let his lips linger on top of hers for a few seconds before pulling back, and in those few seconds, Carmens world exploded around her. The heavens sang, her skin began tingling, her breath caught, and all she could do was stand there paralyzed.

The awkward silence that followed was deafening.

Carmen cleared her throat as her face slowly returned back to its normal shade.

"Im sorry." Carlos said sheepishly, his face flushing in embarrassment.

Carmen shook her head quickly. "Don't be." She said, biting her lower lip.

The silence donned on as they stood there, awkwardly trying to avoid eye contact.

Carmen jumped up suddenly and pulled her hand free of his. "Last one to Grandmas house is a Logan!" She said before she took off running down the narrow dirt trail.

Carlos grinned after her for a moment before he shoved his helmet on and broke into a fast sprint to catch up with his Carmen.

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"The effects of gravity on the velocity of an object are the same regardless of the object, so..." Jayde trailed off as she absentmindedly twirled her pencil between her fingers, a habit she picked up while doing her school work.

"So both objects will accelerate at the same rate." Logan nod and took a sip from his smoothie.

Jayde bit the tip of her tongue as she quickly scribbled against her worksheet. They lounged on his bed elbows up with her notes and physics text book opened, they had long since found Elizabeth opening up a betting pool with Katie and Mr. Bitters. They stopped by her apartment, which was just down the hallway from 2J to pick up her spare pair of glasses. Now she sat with her brows knitted in slight aggravation towards the physics worksheet that Logan was helping her with.

"So the velocity equals fourteen meters per second?" She asked, glancing to her right for verification from Logan.

Logan grinned and nod his head again. "Exactly, now that wasn't so hard was it?" He asked teasingly.

Jayde smiled softly and began absentmindedly twirling a chunk if her long hair. "I think im getting the hang of it now, thanks Logan."

He just flashed her a bright half smile. "Any time." He said and turned back towards the text.

Jayde felt really bad for how she treated Logan earlier, she was locked up in Rocquet Bad Girl mode and just reacted like she would when she played the part of her bad girl alter ego. She was very lucky that he didn't recognize her when they bumped into eachother the second time round. Logan was a genuine guy, he was smart, mature, and his laughter made her face warm up. She thought it was really sweet how he refused to let her pay for her own smoothie, instead he payed for it out of his own pocket. So what if it was only a dollar and twenty cents, it was still the sweetest thing a guy had done for her. She found it weird being called by her middle name by him, but if she would have told him her real name he would've put two and two together and probably would have left her standing in the middle of the hallway to blindly walk the halls of the Palm Woods by herself.

The two of them were pulled out of question number twelve when they heard the door slam opened.

"LOGIE!"

Logan groaned quietly.

"What's wrong?" Jayde asked curiously.

Logan shook his head. "James is home." He fell face down into a pillow.

Great, just freaking great.

James was home.

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"Are you mad at me Jess?" James asked as they passed Rocque Records.

She had been unnaturally mute for the last ten minutes and the silence was driving him insane.

Jessie just shrugged her shoulders and muttered a quiet 'meh'. James sighed deeply and cursed Kendall to the pits of hell for this plan, he couldn't stand her to be mad at him. She was the reason his dreams were slowly coming true, he finally had his hopes of pop stardom within arms reach and it was all thanks to her. But she didn't operate like all of the past girls he had taken a liking to, those girls were putty in his hands from just one smile. She was a whole new ball game that he was determined to win over, but that was the thing! His Diamond charm barely affected her, was his luck with the ladies slowly slipping away? That thought alone made him reach for his lucky comb.

A few minutes later they had pulled into the Palm Woods parking lot.

"See ya." Jessie grumbled almost bitterly.

James turned his head towards her. "Je-" He began.

"And give this to Logan will ya." She said, tossing the doggy bag into his lap.

James sighed again and moved to get out of the car, if Kendalls stupid plan didn't work like it was supposed to, he was burning all of the blondes hockey memorabilia.

He turned to ask Jessie if she wanted to come to the apartment and watch a movie with him when he felt the pain of a four thousand pound car quickly run over his right foot. He dropped Logans burger and began hopping around on his left foot as Jessie sped out of the parking lot.

"Not necessary!" He shouted towards the retreating vehicle.

After the pain subsided he picked Logans lunch back up and slowly limped his way back to the apartment, Logan would probably need to check his foot to make sure she didn't just break it.

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"How do you suppose we get in?" Carmen asked awkwardly, looking at her Grandmothers large two story home. The small kiss they had just shared remained at the front of her train of thought, all she could do was imagine his soft warm lips over hers again.

Carlos rubbed his chin thoughtfully as he gazed at the house. "Hmmmmm, well. My uncles a locksmith." He held his hands out in the X and Y axis of the locked door.

"You just do this….and then you hit it with a sledgehammer!" He shouted, raising a hammer he pulled out of seemingly nowhere up over his helmeted head.

Carmens eyes widened and she snatched the sledgehammer from his grip. "Are you crazy! You can't just bust down my Grandmas door, there's a high security system surrounding this place." She pointed out several of the hidden cameras to him.

There was one in the hedge wall.

One peaking from the marble statue of a naked man, only covered with a small leaf.

Another one stared down at them from the front porch archway that they stood under.

She pointed to a few small black holes on either side of the arch. "These right here will shoot dart tranquilizers at you once the house detects B and E."

She laughed when his expression turned to one of awe.

"Your Grammas scary…" He mumbled, tearing his eyes away from the tranquilizer booby traps to look at her.

Again, more awkward silence.

That's when it hit her.

"The Cellar!" She exclaimed and grabbed Carlos by his hand.

She began dragging him towards the garden maze.

"What Cellar?" Carlos asked as his nose began tingling from the overpowering scent of poppies and rose bushes.

Carmen grinned. "About five years ago Grandma built a hidden cellar in the heart of the garden, were going to have to crawl through it. It's the only way into the house without a key." She explained as they came to a cross roads.

Carlos glanced around the eight foot tall hedge doubtfully. "Are you sure you know where to go?"

"Of course I do, the girls and I have played in this garden for years. Lauren got lost in here at night time once when we were all about nine, it took Jett till one in the morning to find her." Carmen laughed at the memory.

Carlos chuckled. "Tell me about that." He stated, curious about the girls' past adventures.

Carmen grinned. "Well, we were all playing jail break." She began.

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"We need teams, I call Dak to be on my side!"An eleven year old Jett announced as they all stood in a small circle on the front lawn of Gramma Rocques house.

"What? No! I want Dakky on my team." Little nine year old Jessie whined childishly.

Carmen, who was eight at the moment, gasped in horror. "But Jessie, he's a boy!" She turned towards Lauren. "Lawren, tell Jessie that Dak can't be on her team, because he's a boy."

Jayde slapped Carmens bright neon blue hard hat over her eyes.

"There are six of us stupid, one of us girls needs to be on their team. Otherwise the whole game will be off balance, we can't just have two cops and four robbers, that isn't fair play." Jayde explained to the small girl.

Carmen put her tiny hands on her hips. "Then you can be on their team, you look enough like a boy, you'll blend right in." She bit off nastily.

Jayde blushed lightly. "Bite me you little Rocque Runt!" She yelled, shoving the tiny girl backwards.

Carmen went flying backwards with the force of Jaydes shove. She crashed into the marble statue, her helmeted head ramming against the stone mans hand.

Jessie gasped. "Ooooohhh, you broke Mammaws statue!"

Carmen glanced down in the darkness to see a small pale stone finger lying in the grass. "Oh no…" She mumbled, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Awe don't cry Carmen, He can be easily fixed." Dak, who had just turned ten said as he helped Carmen back to her feet.

Carmen looked at Dak in doubt. "Weally?"

Dak grinned. "Yeah, see?" He picked up the small piece of marble and pulled the gum from his mouth. Carmen watched as-

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"Wait! You were about to cry for breaking the finger off of the statue?" Carlos asked, amusement plastered in his features.

Carmen rolled her eyes and laughed in embarrassment.

"Of course I was, Grandma spent a lot of money on that thing. Now be quiet so I can finish my story."

Carlos pretended to lock his lips and throw away the key as they continued through the maze.


Hehehe I feel like a total beeyotch for ending it there. Again I hate how short i've made these last few chapters. If you would like the rest of Carmen's little memory just drop a review letting me know, I'll add it to my companion series…Anywhos, oh my sweet baby Jesus! Finally some lip action, not much of it I know haha. But hey, after 17 chapters I think it's about time to start getting these couples together :) Which couple do you think will get together first?