Next installment! We're getting to the action, trust me.

So the guys are older this time around. I made them 18 and Katie 15 because I made it three years in the future and in the show they've got to be like 15 and Katie like 12. Deal with it. XOXOXOX

James and Snow pushed a cart around the local convenience mart. Well, more of Snow pushed the cart and James walked beside her inspecting her every feature. There was a swarm of people outside the automatic doors as Snow began checking out her groceries. It looked like paparazzi and the owner was standing just inside out of the sensor rang of the automatic doors with a bat.

Snow looked down a few aisles to see if she could see someone like George Clooney or Miley Cyrus or something. There wasn't anyone that she could see.

"25.89" The clerk said glaring at the doors.

Snow pulled her wallet out of her purse. It only held a twenty dollar bill. "I'll have to put a few things back." Snow said sheepishly and began to pick through her stuff to decide what she could live with out.

"I got it." James said flashing a grin and handing the clerk a fifty.

James and Snow headed for the doors with bags in hand. James seemed totally cool with the huge crowd waiting for them behind the glass. Snow felt her heart pounding faster, she had a thing about crowds and large gatherings of people.

The doors slid open and the paparazzi screamed. "James Diamond!" "Who is she?" "Why are you shopping here?" "What's her name?" "James James!"

The paparazzi is pushing and shoving her every which way trying to ask her and James questions. Her groceries are knocked cleanout of her hands and go flying across the parking lot, the photographers trample them. James had moved ahead to the car. Snow was surrounded on all sides and they were closing in on her with questions and comments.

Snow could feel the tears welling up in the corners of her eyes. Her heart raced faster and she felt like she couldn't breathe out. She began having a panic attack. Peoples face were becoming distorted and getting closer. Crowds had gone from fear to a phobia now.

James saw Snow hadn't gotten in the car yet and he stepped out, pushing paparazzi out of the way roughly. "Move." He growled as he approached Snow who had laid down on the ground in the fetal position. "Snow, are you okay?" He asked shaking her shoulder and receiving no response.

He picked her up and pushed through the crowd that was still blabbing and taking pictures. Didn't they know when to quit? James buckled Snow in the passengers seat and moved around the front of the car. One woman in a blue over coat with a recorder got in his face. "A comment please?"

James shot her a nasty glare and got in his car to go back to the Palm Woods.

The next day Snow woke up on the red couch in her apartment. James and Kendall were passed out in the matching white chairs. The last thing she remembered was being surrounded by the paparazzi and then freaking out and having some variation of a panic attack. Her head hurt and she needed aspirin ASAP.

Snow stood up slowly and opened her bathroom bag in her luggage. There were two Tylenol left in the bottle she found, she took them without water.

Kendall rubbed his eyes and say forward in the chair. Snow was at the kitchen sink filling a glass with water. James was still passed out beside him. His stomach growled.

Snow turned around and saw Kendall looking disheveled and sleepy. "Hey." she said raising a hand lazily.

Kendall nodded his head and stood up. "I've gotta go check on Logan and Carlos. Make sure they didn't kill each other or something." He gave a small two finger salute wave and exited the apartment.

James grunted lightly and swatted at the air near his leg. Snow thought this would be the perfect time to get back at him for making her feel all mushy. She crept over behind his chair and held her glass of cold water carefully over his forehead.

James reached up and pulled her down. He captured her in an upside down kiss. Snow dropped the glass of water and the cup shattered, still nobody moved. Snow's eyes grew wide and first and then closed gently. He slowly stood up from the chair, not once breaking the kiss, and stood in front of her.

Carlos opened the door to the apartment just as the two were moving away from each other. "Have you seen the paper?" He demanded tossing the gossip column at them. Snow caught it.

"Oh man…"

James slipped out of the euphoric dream like state he had been in after kissing Snow once he saw the headlines.

Damn the paparazzi! ~Iska with LOVE!

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