An anon request on tumblr. Short, and hopefully sweet. XD

This was written with my oneshot There For You in mind – but it could really be any high school AU.

Oreos

"What exactly are we going to use algebra for in real life?" Jack asked, shaking his head as he glared at his homework. He was leaning back against Rapunzel's bed.

She lay on her stomach on the bed, doing her homework for the same class. "SATs."

"And after that?"

"College."

"And after that?"

"Um… dunno."

"Exactly," he said. "I can kind of picture using geometry. I admit, I've used it in snowboarding. Or rather, snowboarding is how I managed to pass that class."

"That's your excuse for hitting the slopes when you should have been studying?"

"That's the thing. I was studying."

"Mmhmm." He could almost hear her eyes roll. Then he did hear the crinkling of a cellophane wrapped. "Oreo?"

"Thanks." He tilted his head back, opening his mouth.

Rapunzel giggled as she put the mint Oreo in his mouth and his teeth clamped around it, lips grazing her fingers just before she pulled her hand back.

"I should say no more cookies until you actually get some of your problems done."

He pulled the cookie from his mouth. "Returning to my point on the uselessness of algebra."

"I agree with you."

"The teachers' pet just turned to the dark side," he muttered, before biting the cookie in half. "I'm a bad influence on you, Punz."

"You are," she agreed.

Jack closed his eyes and finished his cookie, listening to her pink mechanical pencil scratch across the surface of her paper. Whenever she made a mistake she would let out a cute huff before he would hear her eraser.

Suddenly her pencil fell silent, and he didn't hear the shifting of her going for her text book. He could almost feel her thinking, so he waited for her to speak.

"You have cookie crumbs on your mouth," she said after a moment.

He didn't open his eyes while he reached up to brush the corner of his mouth. He felt some of the crumbs fall away under his fingers.

"Gone?"

"No," she giggled. "Here."

He braced himself to feel her fingers brush the crumbs away. Bracing was required. The smallest touch from her could drive him close to insanity if he wasn't prepared.

What touched his mouth was not her fingertips.

Her chin brushed against his nose, while hers touched his chin. And in between, her lips met his.

His heart hammered in his chest, too stunned that he was in the middle of their first kiss -his first kiss period - to even respond.

After a moment she pulled back. Their eyes met, and his stunned brain was struggling to compensate that her face was upside down. All knew knew was that he was looking into her eyes, and everything else was too strange for him to register what it was.

"I'm sorry," she whispered.

"For what?" He couldn't have spoken above a whisper if he wanted to.

"I didn't… I mean… we're dating, right?"

"I think so," he said. "We haven't really talked about it."

Their first attempt at a date had been a disaster. He hadn't been brave enough to try again. Unless study dates counted?

Her eyes shifted away from his nervously. She was worrying her lower lip between her teeth. Why was she so cute? No girl should be that cute. It shouldn't be allowed.

"Rapunzel."

He caught a stray lock of her hair, which had slipped out of her braid, and tugged gently to bring her back down. Their lips touched again - and this time he was ready.

Well, as ready as he could have been.