The New 90210

. 17 .

"Sir," Jake called out. "My partner isn't here and he has the visual component to our project."

"And who is your partner, Mr. Foushee?" The teacher folded her arms.

"Nathan Maloley," he answered.

Lucy scoffed and resumed doodling in her notebook. "Figures," she said to herself.

She had tried not to think much about him since New Years. He would give her glances in the hallways once they all returned to school but she did her best to ignore it.

Later during lunch, she's sitting alone at her table in deep thought. The once-bitten celery stick is still between her two fingers like a cigarette.

"Hey you," Kian startles her, hugging her from behind.

She tries not to act too frightened and gives him a kiss.

"I can't stay too long," Kian says as he takes one of Lucy's celery sticks. "Gotta work on the set design for the play."

"I...I didn't know you signed up for that," she forced a grin.

"Yeah well I surprised myself too," he chuckled. "I figured I'd do something better with my time instead of looking for trouble."

Kian cups her face and kisses her.

"It's all because of you," he whispered. "Damn."

"What?"

"Nothing," he shrugged. "I'm just so in love with you."

"And so cheesy," Lucy giggled. "But I can be cheesy too. My heart is yours."

Kian nearly blushes and kisses her before he leaves. Not long after, Cameron sits across from her with his lunch.

"I hate burrito day," Cameron complains, glaring at his tray. "Forces me to have a salad instead."

"You did say you wanted to keep in shape. One of your resolutions." Lucy finally finishes the celery stick.

"I know," Cameron sighed. "But what's up? You okay? You look like you've been emotional."

"Just thinking too much, that's all. My head's gonna explode soon, I'm sure."

"Well I need something to distract me from this salad, so...shoot." Cameron moves his fork around the lettuce and finally starts to eat.

"I kissed Nate."

Cameron nearly chokes on his food and quickly takes a gulp of his Diet Coke.

"I'm sorry, what?!"

"I know," Lucy groaned. "It all happened so fast. It was at that NYE party at Vanessa's. He told me he was still in love with me. Then he kissed me. Then I was all sorts of confused and...and I drove to his house later on that night for closure and we kissed again."

"You have got to be kidding."

"But I told him nothing more could happen! I told him I'm in love with Kian."