Helloooo! It's wstrnplsr, horribly late with my chapter of this collab with the best, Lizlen. *smiles in hopes that this is somewhat acceptable because it's literally been 2 weeks since she posted her chapter and I am so sorry*

Seriously though, I'm sorry that it's taken so long. I was hoping to have this out last weekend, but I have been going crazy between work and school and all that lovely stuff. Thank you so much to everyone who has reviewed, favorited, and followed so far! I'm so excited to be a part of a collab, and thank you so much to Lizlen for being my other half! (And for being so patient with me and my horrible procrastination!)

But anyways, here's chapter 2 of Loving You Too Much, I hope you guys like it! :)

(I won't make a huge song list like usual, but I will say that this chapter was inspired by Shark (Illenium remix) by Oh Wonder.)

Gwen may be a sketchy, possibly-evil, up-to-no-good stranger.

(Well, not may be. She is.)

But dang she makes good banana nut muffins.

Henry is in the middle of savoring what should have been his breakfast this morning when he hears frantic, panicked voices coming from the back of the store.

"Henry!"

He turned to see Charlotte sprinting towards him, followed by Schwoz and Jasper.

"Don't swallow that muffin!"

What?

Suddenly, Charlotte is shoving her fingers into his mouth while saying something about the muffin being dangerous and he is still completely and utterly confused.

Before he can even process that, Schwoz has the suck-duster and Charlotte is shoving it in his face and what the heck is going on here?!

"Let him eat the muffin!" Gwen protests, grabbing his left arm roughly.

"You, back!" Charlotte retorts, grabbing his right arm and yanking him towards her.

Henry is suddenly in the middle of a tug of war between this muffin-making stranger and his best friend when he stumbles backwards and there's a brief pain in his head before the world goes black.

This was not how Charlotte had planned for this to go.

She was just going to make sure Henry didn't eat any of Gwen's special muffins, and they could figure all of this out together.

Before she knows what's happening, her best friend is unconscious on the floor.

She stands still for a moment in shock, slight guilt working its way up to her chest instinctively.

Until Gwen is fighting Jasper over who gets to give Henry mouth-to-mouth and suddenly she realizes that she can not let Gwen put her lips on Henry's.

She jumps in to help Jasper keep her away, hoping that if no one kisses Henry, then maybe the muffins won't work. Maybe she got all of remaining muffin out of his mouth.

Gwen shoves Jasper aside, and Charlotte doesn't think twice as she jumps in front of the black haired woman, leans over Henry, and practically shoves her mouth onto his.

Holy crap.

She's kissing her best friend.

She's kissing Henry.

She quickly pulls away as she feels his breath hitch, allowing him to take a gasp of air as his eyes flutter open.

Maybe she got all of the remaining muffin out of his mouth.

She and Jasper help him up as he shakes his head, stumbling against her as he tries to regain his balance.

"Are you okay?" She asks carefully, ignoring the icy glare she's receiving from Gwen as she focuses on the tall, disoriented blonde next to her.

He turns to her, his eyes focusing on hers for a moment before they flash a vivid mixture of blue and purple before a smile begins spreading across his lips.

"I-I love you."

Charlotte felt the air leave her lungs as she looked from Schwoz to Jasper, then back to Henry.

"Oh crap."

Charlotte's hair smelled like vanilla with a hint of peppermint.

Henry twirled one of the curls around his finger as he shot her a giddy grin.

"Your hair is so pretty."

Her eyebrows furrowed as she pulled away from him and she looked absolutely adorable pretending to swat him away.

"Henry, stop touching my hair."

"You're so cute when you're trying to be mad." He teased as he wrapped his arms around her waist and rested his head on her shoulder.

"Henry-" He heard her voice shake at his proximity, but didn't think twice as he snuck in a kiss on her cheek.

"Great, see what you did?!" Gwen spits out at Charlotte. He frowns at the rude tone directed at the beautiful girl in his arms, and almost says something in defense before Charlotte cuts him off.

"What I did?!"

"Yeah!"

Henry pouts as Charlotte focuses on her argument with Gwen rather than him, his arms still wrapped around her as huffs unhappily in her ear.

"I'm not the one who's been bopping around here with a big box of mystical muffins!"

(He doesn't like that Charlotte seems angry. Why is she so angry? They're in love.)

He feels her try to worm her way out of his hold as she turns her attention to him. He looks down at her and she only meets his gaze for a second before she looks away again.

"Henry, let go."

"But I love you." He whines.

"That's nice, now let go."

"You're adorable-"

"Henry-" She huffs out in annoyance.

"And your eyes are like chocolate-"

"Let go-"

"And you smell so nice like mint and vanilla-" He takes in a deep breath, inhaling the wonderful aroma.

"It's my shampoo, now let-"

"And you're so beautiful-"

He hears her breath hitch on that one, and a small smile breaks out across his lips.

"You don't really mean t-" She denies, but he cuts her off again.

"You're the most amazing person-"

"Jasper, a little help-"

"And I just want to spend all day with you-"

"Jasper stop smirking and come help m-"

"And kiss you-"

"Ooookay!" Charlotte shoves away from him abruptly, spinning around to catch his arms to keep him from hugging her again.

"Everybody out!" Ray's voice breaks through the second of silence as he begins ushering everyone out of the store.

Henry shrugs indifferently, latching back onto Charlotte before she can stop him.

"We should go on a date tonight." He murmurs as he lays his cheek against the top of her hair.

"What?!" Charlotte shrieks, jumping back to look at him, "No! No, we shouldn't!"

"Why not?" His bottom lip pokes out like a child, "We're in love."

Jasper snickers in the background and Charlotte shoots him a deadly glare before turning back to Henry.

(Is she blushing?)

"Look…" She seems upset, almost pained, and Henry automatically wants to make her feel better but decides to let her finish speaking.

"We aren't in love. You ate one of Gwen's special muffins and I happened to be the one to kiss you, which made you think that you're in love with me."

He takes in the information, processing it before he looks back down at her.

"So you were the one to kiss me?"

She looks around uneasily before nodding.

"Yeah, it was either that or Gwen would have kissed you and her plan would've been complete!"

He takes in her guarded stance for a moment before a grin spreads across his face.

"So you saved me, which means that you do love me!"

His arms wrap around her once more and she sighs into his chest.

"Whatever."

Charlotte decides it's best for them to go to the Hart's house to discuss what to do next, and she knows that it's the most likely place to have the least amount of questions asked, so it's settled.

She also decides that the usual eight and a half minute walk wouldn't be taking almost twice as long if she didn't have a tall, blonde, clingy human wrapping his arms around her the entire time.

Of course, she has quickly learned that there's no rationalizing with Henry while he's currently under the influence of Gwen's magic muffins, so she simply ignores his overly affectionate actions and Jasper's smirks and teasing comments as best she can.

"You two are adorable."

"Shut up or I swear I will set fire to your entire bucket collection."

(She is a little satisfied that Schwoz snickers at her threat from the other side of Jasper.)

"You know you're not exactly hating this right now."

"You're right. This morning, when I woke up, I was like, 'Man, I really hope that Henry eats one of Gwen's crazy muffins and falls completely in love with me today and refuses to let go of me.'"

"Admitting your feelings is the first step-"

"Jasper I was being sarcastic and you know it!"

Henry frowns at her angry tone, moving his head from its current place on top of her head to peer down into her face.

"What's wrong, Char? Is there something wrong?" He asks, his brown eyes boring into hers, full of worry.

She swallows hard, only allowing eye contact for a few seconds before she forces herself to look ahead again.

"It's just that we have to figure out how to reverse the muffin's affects and I'm not sure how." She explains, wishing that they were at Henry's house already. She needed to sit down and think.

"Well I know you'll figure it out." He encouraged with a grin, "You're the smartest person I know."

"Hey!" Jasper and Schwoz both protest from the other side of Charlotte, causing the dark haired girl to smirk.

"Don't argue with the boy, he's knows what he's talking about."

Charlotte continues walking, racking her brain for any possible solutions. Every science class she had ever taken, every book she had ever read on the chemistry of the human body, every documentary she had ever watched on the brain, anything that she could think of came to mind, but she couldn't come up with an actual answer.

She looked over at Henry, who was finally walking normally except for his arm being around her waist. She looked for any difference in physical appearance, difference in eye color or even the smallest change in his body. Her eyes scanned up and down, scrutinizing him but eventually coming up empty. His eyes were still the same chestnut brown, his golden blonde hair was still a perfect mess, and his adorable dimples still showed when he looked down at her and smiled.

"What?"

She jumped when she realized he had caught her star-observing him.

"Nothing." She quickly replied, looking away as her face heated up unbearably.

"You were staring-"

"Hey, look! We're here!" She quickly announced as Henry's house came into view. She lets out a small sigh of relief when Henry shrugs to himself and doesn't press the issue.

She hears Jasper snicker.

"Love is in the air…"

"Shut up, Jasper."