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"BELLA, are you sure you can't come with me?" I yell at her.

"SORRY!" She yells back from our room. She's at Em's so often, we both decided to just share the room and since we both don't live here, it works perfectly.

"Alright, tell Em and ask her to send me anything she wants. You only want the pretzels, yeah?" I say writing a grocery list down in my phone while leaning in our door frame. 

I look up at her doing her eyebrows. "Mhm, sparkling water if you can find it." she states, her eyes focused in the mirror.

"Kk, I'll see you later." I say walking out the door.


*


As I am walking through the aisles of our local grocery store trying to find tortillas, I get bumped into.

"Oh shit, my bad." a familiar voice says.

I look up to meet their eyes, "Nate?"

"Kira Summers, is that you?" He says with a smile. I haven't seen that smile in literally 7 months but my heart still does somersaults when I see it.

I let out an uneasy laugh "Yeah, uh, hey?"

"Hey, how have you been?"

"I'm alright. Congrats on UCLA!" I say trying to make some sort of conversation. I've imagined this conversation so many times, but I never thought it would go like this.

"Thank you, Thank you. Congrats on USC, maybe I'll bump into you there."

"Yeah, maybe you will." I say with a smile going back to look at tortillas.


"You know you look beautiful today," he says. That sounds so familiar but I can't place it. It's something recent maybe a show or a book. I brush it off, "Thank you," I reply looking at him, "you don't look bad yourself."

"Thanks," he says with a small laugh under his breath "I got to go, but we should totally hang out. Give me your number and I'll bother you until you reply."


You already have my number. You were supposed to call me last December but totally ghosted me.


"Yeah for sure." I tell him my number and wave him goodbye. Maybe this will be something who knows. "You know you look beautiful today," he says. Where is that from? It's on the absolute tip of my tongue. I swear I can- OH. I stop in the middle of the store.


That's what Zach said to me on the train.


*


Nate and I have been talking for 2 weeks. Yes, there might have been a little flirting and a few dates, but barely any moves made, he hasn't even kissed me. We all have to leave for LA tomorrow so Nate decided before we don't see each other for a week, him and I should go out. As much as Em despises it, she's happy for me. I never ever had anyone like this in high school and the fact that i'm putting myself into a commitment position is HUGE for me. I take the elevator down to see him standing in the lobby there. As I walk up to him, he puts his phone in his pocket and pulls me in for a hug.

"Hi there." he says hugging me

"Hi Hi." I replied, pulling away, so I can look at him. He still holds me arm distance away. "I'm not going anywhere Nate."

"I know you aren't, but I'm trying really hard to not kiss you right now so give me a second."

I swallow, "What?"

"I'm gonna kiss you if you keep talking with that pretty mouth of yours."

"But I didn't-" I'm cut off by his lips on mine.


Whoah, bold choice honestly.


 As he pulls away my lip gloss shines his lips. I laugh, rubbing it off with my thumb. "Smooth, Anderson, smooth."

He grabs my hand and walks me out onto the street, "See, I was waiting to kiss you at dinner but you came out of the elevator looking all fine so I couldn't control myself."

"I see." I say as we walk down the street.

"I was also going to wait till dinner to ask you to be my girlfriend but-"

"Wait what?" I stop, my hand still in his.

"Kira Jade, are you trying to be my girlfriend right now?" he says smiling at me.

"Well Nathan, no middle name, I am." I grab his face to kiss him. I have waited 4 whole years to hear him say those very words.


After 18 years, finally I'm taken. 


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yes they were fillers but it's to progress the story, I SWEAR ZACH COMES BACK. just hold on!!

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