Life Moves On • Zach Herron

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"well, we clearly aren't just friends are we?" zach says and i shake my head "but i want us to start dating when we're ready" zach continues

"aren't we ready now?" i ask "if i'm honest we probably are but i want us to start dating at a special moment and it should be perfect because the first time didn't turn out to be so perfect and i wanna make it up to you" zach says and i smile at his honesty while looking into his eyes

"zach, you already have made it up to me" i say but zach shakes his head "no jas, i haven't, i lied to you and forced you to have to leave everything you knew behind and then i let you believe the lie for so long afterwards" i put my hand under zach's chin and raised his head so he was looking at me

"yeah you might've done all that but look at us now, if that hadn't have happened i doubt we'd be where we are today, and since we found each other again it's like i've finally got my life back together again" he smiles and tries to look down again but i stop him

"hey, look at me" i say "don't blame yourself please" he nods, i smile in contentment and then lean in to lightly kiss zach's lips

we are interrupted by a knock at the door, zach's groans and i stand up to see who it is

"finally we found you both!" christina says and turns around to jonah who looked as if he wasn't sure what was even going on

i laugh and walk back over to zach to sit back on his knee but this time i face away from zach's face

jonah and christina follow me in, closing the door behind them and they stand in front of us both looking very happy but at the same time very confused

"what?" i ask laughing "it's just i can't believe this, are you guys dating again?" christina asks and i shake my head

"no we're not" zach says

"oh" christina says and then jonah speaks up "once you guys are done with whatever you were doing that caused zach to groan at our arrival, can i maybe have a chat with you zach?"

"yeah and can i have a little chat with you jas" christina asks and both, me and zach, nod

"we can have the chats now if you want" zach says and jonah and christina nod so i stand up and leave with christina while jonah sits down next to zach

we walk to my dorm room and then when we go inside tate says hi before me and christina sit down on my bed

"so tell me everything" christina says and i laugh "well he took me to a cute little lake and there was a little picnic waiting for us which corbyn had set up earlier for us, zach blindfolded me on the way there too and he was being really cute holding my hand and guiding me the whole way there" i say

"awhhh that's so cute! but really corbyn? i thought you said he was a fuckboy, why would he help set up a date?" christina asks

"i thought the exact same thing actually, turns out he was the one who told zach about the lake in the first place"

"wow maybe he has secretly went on some dates in his past" christina says and looks at me as if to say 'maybe he's not the fuckboy you think is'

tate moves from her position on her bed and comes over to sit with us

"corbyn has been on dates before" she says as she sits down, we both look at her confused waiting for her to expand on the subject

"but ignore that until you've finished telling us about your date" she says and i nod

"well we talked about random things, well i say talk, it was more flirting, and then he only went and brought up the time when i threw a book at him in high school to get his attention"

"he did not" christina says laughing "why did you do that?" tate asks laughing "oh me and alexia started this mission to get zach to notice me because he used to ignore my existence and then i threw a book at him for part of the mission" i explain, cringing at the thought of us setting up that mission

"anyway once we finally got back to zach's room i laid on his bed while he went to get changed and then found out he has a picture that we took in high school stuck to his bed"

"awhhh" tate says "oh my god that's adorable" christina shouted and i laughed a little

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