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Jaden had been a blushing mess when Alice gave him the flowers. 

It was incredible how happy that made him and the girl was now determined to give him more presents. 

He had taken her stargazing in the middle of a field, with blankets on the back of his truck. 

They were heading back to LA on the next day, so there wasn't really more time. 


Jaden and Alice said goodbye to his parents and left his sister's voicemails. 

On the car ride back Alice got the call that she could come by in three days to pick the cats up and take them home. 

To say she was excited was an understatement, but she was also nervous. 

Alice knew that she had everything that she would need but there was still this little spark in her head that tried to tell her that the cats will be miserable. 



The two of them arrived in the early morning and Jaden was extremely tired, so he went to bed but Alice was still outside, hanging out with Josh who was having trouble sleeping. 

"Do you want to go to the Sway-house with me Allie?" 

She missed the other boys and Josh and Kio were miserable at the moment. 

Kio and Olivia had broken up, so did Nessa and Josh and the boys were struggling. 

Alice woke Jaden up for a short moment, asking him if he wanted to join. He didn't so Ant, Josh and Alice went over. 

It was nostalgic to be back there, it hadn't been long but she didn't spend as much time there anymore. 

Griffin, Bryce, and Quinton were sitting in one of the living rooms when they came in. Alice hugged them hello before she sat down with them. 

"How was Chattanooga?" 

"It was nice, not too long." 

Blake came in through the front door, food in hand. 

"Allie, you're here." 

"It's nice to see you too Blake." 

"Oh shut up Josh." 

"Did he do it yet?" 

"No, he's still working on it." 

"What's up?" 

"Kio won't come out of his room, Noah has been trying for hours now and we all already tried." 

"I'll look." 

"Thank you, Allie."


 Alice did in fact not know who Noah was but she took a wild guess, that it was the boys in front of Kio's door. 

"You must be Noah?" 

"Alice right? Nice to finally meet you." 

"Yeah. Nice to meet you. How is he holding up?" 

"Won't let anybody in, won't come out."

He stepped back, leaving space for Alice. 

Carefully she knocked at the door to get no reaction at all. 

"Kio? It's Allie." 

There still was no answer so she sat down and leaned against the frame of the door. 

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