I rolled over, stretched, and yawned in my bed as I reached over and grabbed my clothes. I slipped them on and wandered out into the hall in the direction of the kitchen.

"Hey guys." I yawned.

"Sup." Danny replied.

"Hey." Wallow also replied.

"We saw what went down last night!" Danny shouted and smirked. I just ignored the comment.

"Where's Beth?" I said and looked around the kitchen, befuddled. They both shrugged and I dashed to her door. I couldn't hear a thing so I knocked slowly and quietly enough that is she was sleeping, she wouldn't wake up.

"Huh?" I heard from the room.

"Beth, it's me, Chris." I whispered.

I heard her get off the bed and walk too the door. She came out and sighed. "What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's just... You don't want to hear my girl problems." She said to me. "I will call Plum and ask her to come over."

"It depends on what kind of girl problems. like, ya'know. I'm not gonna talk to you about girl-girl problems."

"Heh. I'm just gonna have Plum come over." She giggled and shut the door.

I walked downstairs to Danny and Wallow. All I could smell were the waffles they were cooking. A couple minutes later, the smell of perfume filled the house. Danny and Wallow gagged and hacked as Beth walked to the kitchen with Plum, both smelly fruity.

"Hello guys!" Plum smiled.

Wallow and Danny were drooling and Beth and I were cracking up.

"Hey Chris, can I talk to you?" Plum asked.

"Um... Yeah." I replied and followed her down the hallway to my room. she opened the door and we went in. "Now what did you want to talk about?'

"I wanted to tell you that... Beth really likes you."

At that point my cheeks were crimson red. I looked down and began moving around the carpet fabrics with my shoe. I knew she could tell I was scared about something.

"What's wrong?"

"It's just that... If I did go out with Beth, and we broke up... our relationship would be redonk afterwards." I sighed. I was so worried about that. I didn't want that to happen.

"Chris, it's time to let that go. Take risks. But not dumb ones. Listen to your heart." Plum said and smiled.

"Thanks." I smiled back and hugged her. I walked out of my room with her and to the kitchen. I grabbed some waffles and began to eat.

We all finished eating and went to do our own things. I was outside next to the lake. There were flowers and other plants all over the place. I sat down and thought. About life. About the planet. About my friends. About myself. And about Beth. A couple of tears drifted down my cheeks as I thought about what would happen in the end. 'If we break up, we could hate each other forever.' I sighed and started playing with the water, making indents, splashes and weird shapes that continued leaving me. A few more tears trickled down my face. I then felt a hand touch my shoulder. I quickly turned around and looked up. It was Danny.

"Dude, are you crying?" Danny chuckled.

"What? No!" I said quickly, wiping my tears away. There was clearly a sign of pain in my eyes that Danny noticed.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"It's nothing." I retorted.

"That's a lie. C'mon, just tell me." Danny said.

"Well... Plum told me that Beth likes me back. and I don't want to ask her to go out with me..."

"OH! I can do it for you if you want."

"No dude it's not like that. I'm afraid that if we break up, we would hate each other or we would be awkward friends."

"Oh... well dude. Take the risk. I'm sure if you guys do break up that you would still be good friends." He was right. Nothing would go wrong.

"Okay." I smiled. I got up and walked inside. I walked up to Beth's door. I hesitated but eventually did it.

'She's gonna say no!' I kept thinking. Beth opened the door. Plum was sitting on the bed, smiling. Beth was looking up at me and smiling also.

"Beth," I began. "I wanted to know if... You... Would like to go out with me?" I quickly said.