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"... so then Blakey here, runs the hell out of the lake, and what do you know it really is a leech!" Josh said, laughing even more.

We were still all around the table, we had eaten the desert, Nanaimo bars, which I had learned, were one of Anita's many specialty, and Josh had kindly agreed to tell me embarrassing stories about Blake even though the one concerned had all but choke Josh from across the table, but his parents were on my side, and urged Josh to go on, laughing at the memories with him.

"How the hell was I supposed to react!? A freaking leech!! Just so you know it's not the best feeling in the world!! And I was freaking nine years old!!" Blake scowled beside me, looking annoyed.

I laughed beside him, which earned me a glare.

Haha

"Wait you ain't even heard the funny part yet... so Jay and I, we tell Blake that he has to take his shorts off because there might be leeches hidden in them, and what do you know, next thing Blake his wriggling out of them, screaming like a girl!" Josh burst laughing while Blake hung his head in shame in his hands.

"Owww, poor Blake" I laughed.

"Oh it's not even the worst part!" Josh grin, and then Blake raised his head

"Please, for the sake of me, please just stop!" Blake begged.

"Heck NO!!" Josh grinned wider and then looked back at me "So you have this butt naked Blake, leech on his leg, screaming and crying, while his bro and I are all but pissing ourselves and THAT'S when Catherine decides to show up!!"

I started to laugh hysterically right there.

"Hey it's SO not funny! You wouldn't be laughing if you had been in my position!" Blake scowled beside me, his hands covering his face.

"Oh but I would never have been stupid enough to actually take my shorts off" I laughed.

And I really wasn't the only one.

Josh of course was clutching his stomach with laugher, and Anita's shoulders were shaking with them, and Blake's parents chuckled lightly too, but there was something about the way they looked at me... I mean I really shouldn't be self conscious like that, they probably weren't even looking at me, but at Blake... but it just felt like their gazes were on me...

"Oh trust me, if you had grown up with my brother and Josh you'd have taken your pants off! Those two together would have scared away the freaking devil!!" Blake snorted.

"Thought you and Josh were the perfect pair?!" I said, still laughing a little.

I mean come on!

Funny!

"Oh when they were younger Josh and Jay were often mistaken for twins actually... and people thought Blake was the little brother tagging along" Sophia said, a small smile on her lips.

"Tagging along? You make me sound like a dog!" Blake rolled his eyes.

"Aww don't take it the wrong way my brother from mother, we actually enjoyed your company when you weren't engross in one of these many books of yours!" Josh still laughed.

"He was the booky type when he was younger?" I asked smiling a little.

Blake was leaning his head in his palm, elbow against the table, bad etiquette right there, and was shaking his head slightly, discouraged.

"Ya, he was the perfect little loner kid, with his painting and piano playing and reading! But then me and Jay, we corrupted him!" Josh grinned hugely.

Blake rolled his eyes.

That was the most I was hearing from Blake' brother since I knew he had one... and as much as I had more question erupting in my mind, I didn't want to push my luck... I mean, if he had something to say, I had to let him say it to me on his own right?

Well at least that's what I tried to convince myself...

I looked outside through the window, at the sun setting down, and thought about home, and dad and Tyler that might be needing me right now... that might be unhappy or crying while I was here having fun and laughing...

And I wanted to feel bad, but all I could feel was good...

And I felt ashamed for that...

"I should go soon..." I told Blake, halfheartedly.

I hope he didn't hear that too much though...

"Alright... If you say so..." Blake trailed, frowning a little.

Hmm... weird...

Could Blake also want for me to stay?

That'd be weird consider he was being publicly humiliated by Josh with me here...

"What's going on?" Sophia asked, smiling.

"Lexi's gotta go" Blake explained to his mom.

"Oh already?" she pouted a little "You'll come again right? We didn't scare you off?" she smiled.

"No I had a lot of fun tonight... I just have to get back to my family"

"Alright I get that..." she said and then Anita was getting up, and starting to clean the table, everyone helping.

"I left my bag in your room" I told Blake while I put my plate on the little carry-on.

"I'll go get it..." he said and then was turning around, all set to sprint.

"No, don't worry, I got it..." I told him and walked towards the hall to get to the Titanic stairs and then Blake's own ones.

"Aww Pumpkin, are we going to have to fight this one?" Blake smirked a little.

"No fighting, cause I'll be winning! Cause I always win!!" I smirked too, but then Blake pushed me a little, laughing and sprang out of the dinning room, and just like a reflex I started running too, to reach my bag first.

I wasn't until I was pushing Blake in his stairs that I thought about all the fragile things sprawled everywhere in the house.

Thank god I hadn't broken anything...

Blake and I sprang towards the second floor, to the couch, where I had left my bag, pushing each other but Blake reached it first and then raised it over his head, stretching his arm as far as it could go.

And he was smirking at me.

"Give it Blake!!" I ordered him, pulling his arm down but it wasn't moving.

He was strong!

"Nah ah!" Blake laughed, sticking his tongue out at me.

God this just felt like kindergarten all over again!

"Blake!!" I sighed, but then found myself skipping a little to try to get the bag, grabbing onto his arm, still pulling.

"Give in Pumpkin, s'not going to work, you loose, admit it, admit you can't win against me!!" Blake said in an evil voice, his eyes gleaming.

"I'm not admitting anything!!" I answered my voice challenging and then raised my knee to his stomach trying to make him bent so I could reach the bag, but Blake squirmed away from me, and then we were pushing each other, fighting.

"You'll never get it, POOKY!" Blake smirked wider than ever.

Oh that was it!!

I climbed up the couch and then jumped on Blake's back.

Blake started to laugh but then fell back on the couch, squishing me under him, his weight on me back against my stomach.

"Blake... can't breath!" I hissed, pushing his back

And then Blake turned around, but he was still on top of me, and facing me, and my eyes bulge.

Oh crap, oh crap crap crap...

Blake just stayed there, his smirk slowly fading to another expression I couldn't quite pinpoint, while I was breathing heavily and freaking out.

Just push him off Lexi!!!

PUSH.

HIM.

OFF!!!

But I just couldn't...

All I could do was stare in those grey eyes of his, and that perfect face of his, and be hit by that oh so nice smell...

"Kids, you almost knocked a vase o-" Josh voice said, coming from the stairs and then Blake eyes widen like he just realized the position he was in and got back on his feet off of me.

No...

WHAT?

Back it up... did my mind just whimper??

"Blake..." Josh said, shaking his head a little, a smile playing on the edge of his lips, while I got up too.

"What?!" Blake asked sharply, his hand running in his hairs.

"Nothing, I just wanted to mention you kids need to watch it next time you just can't keep your hands off of each other and feel the need to rush to the bedroom so fast!" Josh grinned hugely.

Oh god!!

"That's so not what was going on here!!" I defended myself.

"Whatever..." Josh said, waving the matter away, and then turned around and walked down the stairs.

"Don't call me Pooky again!" I told Blake, and snatched my bag that was still in his hands, relying on his apparent confusion right now.

"I'll call you how ever I want!" Blake said, the smirk reappearing on his face.

"Dumbass..." I mumbled.

"Thanks!"

I rolled my eyes at him.

"So... what are you doing tomorrow?" Blake asked.

"Oh I'm going to go sell myself on the streets... Why?" I told him, smirking a little.

"Well you know... lab report" Blake chuckled. "But I guess we can always procrastinate if you need to go make money!"

"Ya, let's procrastinate!"

"So you'll tell me the street, I'll be sure to drive by, throw you some pocket change... or I could be your Richard Gere" Blake smirked wider.

"Oh please, no Pretty Woman references!" I sighed.

"Why not? You're the one who started on the "making the streets" thing!"

"Ya, but I'm not the whore! You are!" I laughed but then I stopped, hit by another of my many epiphanies "Is that why you don't kiss girls? Like Stacey said? Because you don't wanna get attached like the hoes! Ouuu! Did I unravel a secret here!?"

"What Stacey said? You listen to Stacey?" Blake snorted.

"Okay so no kissing problems?" I asked, raising my eyebrows.

"I never said... just drop it Pumkpin alright?" Blake sighed.

"Aww COME ON!!" I whined.

"Wanna know why I don't kiss them? I don't kiss all of them because I am not a whore! Haha.. that's a song you know... Clark has it... Goes all "I am not a whore... but I like to do it..." Blake said, singing a little, doing the little "to the right snap of the head, to the left snap of the head" and so on so forth...

"You're deviating from the subject Blake..."

"You're asking ridiculous question Pumpkin!"

"You're annoying when you do that! Why can't you just give a clear answer for once?" I asked, my eyes narrowing.

"Should I give you everything you ask for?" Blake asked me, snorting.

"Ya totally!"

"And why should I do that?"

"Because I'm fun and witty? And because I have an awesome bod?" I offered.

"Fair enough..." Blake answered, nodding his head, smiling a little.

"Are you going to answer the question?" I pressed.

"What? You want to know why I don't kiss the bimbos? You really need a reason? Isn't it obvious?" Blake asked me, snorting "I don't kiss them, because I don't CARE about any of them! Does that answer your question?" he asked and then took a step closer towards me, staring straight in my eyes and for one second, I felt like blushing.

Wait what?

I didn't blush!!

"Ya sure... thanks..." I mumbled.

"Alright now my turn to ask you a question! Do you still love him?" Blake asked, his eyes still boring into mine.

Woah!

What the hell?

"Who are you talking about?" I asked.

"Who do you think?! Do you still love Alex, even though he obviously hurt you? How can you still be close to him after whatever he's done? Because you might not remember Shawn's party but I do and trust me, it wasn't pretty!!" Blake said, snorting, with an ironic voice.

Why was he asking me that?

Why was he even mentioning it??

"You don't know what you're talking about..." I mumbled.

"That's a lame excuse of an answer... but that just proves my point. You don't want to answer all my questions, than I don't need to answer all of yours either, alright?" Blake said.

"Alright..." I agreed.

But that was like... I was going to say unfair, but in fact it was the complete opposite. It was completely fair...

And I didn't like it!

And this was like not a good example, the Alex deal, because Alex's secret was not mine to tell!

"I guess you have to go now..." Blake said, frowning again, his voice and eyes completely loosing the little arrogant feeling it at held mere second ago.

"Ya... I got to go check on Tyler, be sure he didn't commit suicide or hitchhike to get to Vanessa..." I snorted lightly "Oh speaking of which! You still going to help me plan something to get her back for a few days?"

"Ya, no worry Pumpkin" Blake smiled.

"Thanks!"

"You're welcome"

So we both walked back downstairs, and then everyone came to say goodbye.

Anita gave me a big hug and pinched my cheek, smiling warmly. Blake's dad also gave me a hug, though less bear hugging as Anita's but still I was a little taken aback.

Josh just grin, raising his hand for a high-five but then hug me too.

Bunch of huggers!

Sophia held me in her arms and whispered "Thank you" her voice so caring I was confused.

But I was getting use to confusion around the Eatons.

And then Blake stood there.

It was a weird two second...

Do I hug him? Shake hand?

That'd be weird.

But I kinda wanted to hug him, you know, and smell him inconspicuously...

"Bye Lexi..." Blake said, just standing there, and I was not going to make a move or anything so I guess I settle for nothing.

"Bye Blake..." and then I looked at everyone "Thanks for everything!"

"You're welcome! Come back anytime" Sophia smiled while Christopher came to stand by her, holding her around the waist.

"Okay... bye everyone!" I said, smiling and waving, and then I opened the door and stepped outside, before closing it behind me.