Thank You

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A/N: I can't tell whether you guys are gonna like this one or not...

Avi feel like shit, he doesn't know where to begin with telling Kirstie what happened back in California. He does know that he needs to tell her, wants to even, and he is at least proud of himself for that despite the embarrassment that anything happened at all.
     They enter the apartment, Avi shuts the door behind them as Kirstie tries to calm her fur-babies.
     "It's okay, they can bowl me over if they want, I missed them too," Avi smiles lovingly at Olaf and Pascal.
     Kirstie lets the boys have at Avi, jumping up on him until he joined them at their level, hugging them. They're just as excited to see him these days as they are her, Kirstie thought she'd be jealous but it actually makes her smile.
     Avi and Kirstie finally make it to the couch for their chat, she sits first as he starts talking.
     "I just need to put it out there first that I didn't smoke weed and I didn't have sex with anybody," he lets out a deep breath as he sits and Pascal jumps up onto the sofa too, laying his head in Avi's lap.
     Kirstie frowns, "Then why are you so worried?"
     "Because I ate a pot-brownie and a girl kissed me, like a lot," Avi looks down at Pascal to avoid Kirstie's gaze.
     "You ate a lot of brownies or she kissed you a lot?"
     "I only ate one brownie."
     "Did you kiss her back?" She asks, she hurts a little inside but she has to know.
     "Barely. Also not trying to push the blame away but I didn't know it was a pot brownie when I ate it."
     "How?"
     "Well Brad didn't tell me, he just gave me the brownie with the assumption I'd be okay with it," he runs a frustrated hand across his jaw, pulling at his beard. "He also asked me to get the girls to his place and I did it to avoid any suspicion between us, I was supposed to be staying at his after all, I didn't want to have an argument with him. I still should have but I did, I'm the reason they were there, that's why she was kissing me," Avi can feel the tears stinging his eyes, he is just so annoyed with himself, frustrated with the stupidity, his stupidity. "And I still can't believe I was stupid enough to think the brownies wouldn't be loaded," he tips his head back, a few tears rolling.
     Kirstie has to shove Pascal off the couch so that she can get closer to Avi, he needs her right now. She pulls him in so that his head rests on her shoulder and he sobs. "You're not stupid Avi," she kisses the side of his head and rubs his back, him being like this is making her choke up too. "It's not your fault he gave you the loaded brownies, you're a sucker for food and you're too trusting, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Remembering there's only one thing that you're not really supposed to do, that's have sex, and you didn't. So this is a win Avi, you navigated a really bad situation and you won, I'm so proud." Kirstie pulls back a little and lifts Avi's head so their eyes meet, "So proud," she repeats with a smile.
     "Really?" He sniffs.
     "Really."
     "I haven't even told you about the thing that I thought might make you proud," he manages a very small smile.
     "And what's that?"
     "I told Brad that he isn't a healthy friend for me to have, and as a wise person once did to me, I de-friended him."
     Kirstie's smile turns into a blush at the compliment. She pulls him into a tight hug, again whispering how proud she is of him. The barely move apart to press their foreheads against one another until Kirstie presses her lips to his and tilts her head to move it into a full on kiss, but Avi leans back.
     "Is 50 per cent no enough?" Kirstie asks, hurt.
     "It's not that, I realised it's not 50-50, it's I definitely like you, it's 100 percent. This is, this is I can't kiss you because of something else."
     "Kissing doesn't always lead to sex, you know I'll respect your boundaries because I 100 per cent like you too," she squeezes his hand.
     "No Kirstie," he pulls his hand away. "I lied to you."
     "About what?"
     "Herpes."

A/N: :O :O :O Plot twist! Avi's a liar liar pants on fire, actually though XD XD That was such a bad joke, kill me now.

What do you guys think now?

Hannah.