A/N: hey guys, hopefully this will be better than the last chapter, because I wasn't too happy with it myself, and again, this was meant to be longer but I didn't want to add on the next scene yet. I'm also hoping I will get some reviews for this one ...=) ( pretty please, with sugar on top)

ALSO I REVISED THE PROLOGUE! ITS BETTER NOW READ IT AGAIN!

Chapter 18- Red hoodie

Four weeks later

RPOV

"Oh come on! Just admit it! You let me win!" Juliet said laughing.

"I did not!" I said sticking to my story.

"Ro! You've been riding for years! You really expect me to believe, that I could beat you!"

"Hey, you underestimate yourself Lee! You've gotten really good the last couple of weeks!" I told her.

"Sure, sure," she said either finally accepting that I had let her win or playing along to my lie.

Over the few weeks we had spent a lot of time together, trying to get away when we could, which was proving difficult recently with the basketball team wanting to fit in extra practises to make we were ready for the re-match against Riverdale and with Juliet tied up with her own commitments with her friends and the cheerleading team. I had been teaching Juliet how to ride a dirt bike, and she had been getting better every day. After she had gotten a bit more confident, we started riding out to a remote section of the beach and doing random things, like have a picnic and then drive back before it got dark.

We had spent most of our time together at the bike track, or a isolated section of the beach or park, to avoid us being spotted by either of our friends

Today, after being at the track, we had driven up to a little diner about a half hour away, to get some lunch, before heading back home.

A middle aged waitress came up to our booth in the back.

"Can I get you kids any dessert?" she asked, taking her notebook out of her apron. I took out the dessert menus from the holder on the side of the table and passed one to Juliet.

"I'll have the chocolate crumble, and a cappuccino," I told her. Juliet eyes were scanning the menu

"I'll have a lemon cheesecake," she said. The lady wrote down out orders then took the menus away.

"I'll be back in a second, " I told Juliet nodding toward the bathroom. She smiled and nodded and took a sip of her coke.

On the way back from the bathroom, I could see the waitress putting down our dessert on the table. I was about to go over when I saw a girl I recognised as Juliet's friend walk in with a few other girls. They noticed Juliet right away.

"Jules! What're you doing here?" she asked her.

I walked over to a large archway, close to the table, but with a large plant on the side that I could hide behind. From here I could see the back of Juliet.

"Oh, I just got hungry," she said casually.

"I can see that," the girl said looking at both plates of desserts on the table, "Why didn't you just go somewhere local? Why bother to drive out to Wetstone?"

"Right back at you," I heard Juliet say back.

"Marlowe's didn't have that dress I needed in the colour I wanted and their Wetstone branch did, so we came down to pick it up, and just stopped for a snack. I did call you to see if you wanted to come but ..."

"I know, I got your message, that's why I drove down, and I guessed you would probably stop for lunch so..."She said. I could see her trying to look behind her, probably expecting me to walk out of the bathroom any second.

"Oh." Her friend thought for a moment. "That was lucky. Anyway, you're here now," Her friends all slid into the booth. Two opposite her and one next to her.

"Are you here alone?" one of her other friends, a red head said, picking up my red hoodie from the seat. Juliet spluttered on her drink.

"Yes! That's Timmy's, I picked it up instead of mine of the way out," she said. I let out the breath I had been holding. She took the jacket out of her friends hand and put it on over her tank top, "You know me, always cold," her voice sounding an octave higher than it usually was.

"It's boiling outside," Her friend looked at her suspiciously.

"Oh Lily, you know me, always cold," her voice sounding an octave higher than it usually was.

"So, anyway Nala, show her the shoes you got to match the dress," the other girl, sitting next to Juliet said.

After that their conversation was about clothes and Juliet sat there in silence pretending to look interested, and struggling to eat both desserts, to justify why she had ordered both in the first first place. Now that they were here, there was no way she could ditch them now. I decided I should probably leave, and I would catch up with her later. I walked around the other side of the archway and paid the lady at the cashier, then was about to walk out the door, but before I did, I turned around and saw Juliet looking at me from the table. I smiled at her to let her know it was ok, at gave her a, little wink.

Before I walked out, I heard her friend, who I had heard them all call Nala say, "You know Jules, we should really talk about your calorie intake..."

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JPOV

The dialling out sound rang four times and I was about to hang up when he picked up.

"Hey," Romeo said.

"Hi... I'm really sorry about earlier," I told him. After I had seen him sneak out of the restaurant, I was grateful; he had understood and had felt really bad for cutting our date short. After he had gone, I had been forced to eat both cakes, and finish his cappuccino as well as my coke. After I had finished them, while feeling extremely sick, it had occurred to me how I could have just asked to have one packed and told the girls that it was for Timmy or something.

We had stayed at the diner for about another twenty minutes, and then I had no other option but to trail around some shops with them for another two hours, before Lily gave me a ride home. Luckily the fact that I didn't have my car didn't register with any of them how I had gotten there in the first place.

"It's ok, I totally get it, if it had been my friends, I probably would have had to do the same," he said. I smiled to myself to how understanding he was being.

I finished re-arranging the pillows on my bed and collapsed back onto them.

"I just wish it was easier, you know, and we didn't have to hide," I said sighing.

"Lee! It will get better, I promise. Look, what are you doing tomorrow night?"

"Nothing, why?"

"Because I'm asking you out on our first date," he said.

I laughed, "Our first date! I'm pretty sure, we've been on that already, we have been going out for about four weeks now..."

"No, I mean out first "proper" date, not spending time together, while trying to hide from everyone else, So what do you say to dinner?"

"Dinner? You mean in a real restaurant? With real people? With food prepared for us?" I said, acting like I was in awe of the night and like it was too much.

"Ha ha, very funny, but yes. We can drive out to Sandle Coast, and I'm pretty certain nobody will look for us there. "

Sandle coast was about an hour away. When I was a kid we used to drive up, it had most of the best beaches there. I was also certain we wouldn't run into anybody we knew, in a town which was an hour away, and if people were to make the drive out, I highly doubted they would do it on a school night.

"That sounds amazing," I said grinning to myself, thinking of getting a night together where we didn't have to be looking over our shoulders every five minutes.

"Good, I know a little place, we can go to. They have a dress code, so nothing casual."

After our phone call, I lay on my bed thinking about tomorrow night.

I thought of the two of us getting all dressed up to go on our dinner date. So far, everything we had done had been pretty casual, and we had spent all of it in jeans and t-shirts. So we hadn't made an "effort" yet.

I sat up and started looking in my wardrobe to see which of my many dresses would fit the occasion.

"Hey," Timmy said coming into my room and sitting on my bed. He picked up a paper bag from a music store near us and started looking through the cd's I had bought a couple of day ago.

"How was your date?" I asked him.

"Ellie's great. We get on really well, she's smart, and funny, and she fits into the group well. I think I'm going to break up with her," he said casually. I stopped in my tracks and turned around.

"You're what? Why?" I asked him.

Timmy usually went out with different girls all the time. Most of them were attractive but in my opinion lacking in the brains department. They mostly just wanted to go out with "Timmy Capulet". Timmy was pretty happy about that, it was probably every guys dream, going out with a girl that wasn't looking for commitment. Ellie was one of the few, who was pretty as well as smart. They had had been going out for two weeks now, I thought it would be the beginning of a serious relationship.

"It's getting serious!" he said as if that was a reason. "She actually called me her boyfriend today."

"So? You are her boyfriend. Why is it you freak whenever anything has potential to be a long term relationship?"

"I so do not!" he said

"Yes you do!"

"Not everyone is looking for a long term relationship, Jules."

"Ok, how do you that you don't, when you haven't tried, you never know you might like it," I said shrugging. "Look why don't you just see where it takes you? If you come up with a valid reason for breaking up with her, then I give you permission to."

"Ok fine," he said like a little kid, who was giving into something he didn't want to do. Both of us knew full well, that he didn't need my permission to break up with her.

"Are you wearing a guy's hoodie?" he asked me confused. I looked down and saw I was still wearing Romeo's hoodie from earlier. I hadn't taken it off since I had put it on, due to the fact that it was so comfortable. I could faintly smell that familiar smell of Romeo. It was a mixture of his soap and aftershave.

"Umm, isn't it yours? I took it out of laundry?" I said.

I could see Timmy thinking through all of his clothes trying to locate if it was his or not. I wouldn't find it hard to believe he had that many clothes, he lost track.

"I don't think so, red isn't really my colour,"

"Well, you must have bought it, I can't be anyone else's," I said shrugging. Timmy shrugged too.

"Must be then," he said. I can't believe he fell for that. "So can I have it back? "

I froze. I wasn't expecting him to ask for it back, especially since he didn't even remember owning it. And it was pretty normal for me to be wearing the odd piece of Timmy's clothing around the house.

"You said yourself, red isn't your colour," trying to change his mind. I didn't exactly want to hand over Romeo's hoodie, not because I would eventually have to give it back to him, but because I liked having it myself. It would also be a freaky to have Timmy wondering around in Romeo's clothes.

"Yeah, you're right, keep it," he said, leaning back against my pillows and reaching for the remote for my television.

I let out a breath in relief.

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