How do you love, how do you love someone?

There were a lot of things Cammie realized she didn't understand about flirting once she started trying to flirt with Zach. Things like, why flirting had to be so… Not completely obvious. All the things she was trying to do to get Zach's attention were ridiculously complicated and under the radar.

So far Cammie had done things like, bat her eyelashes in his direction, start dressing in cuter outfits to catch his attention, subtly brushing her fingers against him as often as she got the chance, continually talking to him. She was trying to be obvious with the flirtations, but Zachary Goode was oblivious.

"Cammie?"

Cammie glanced up at the boy of her thoughts and sighed.

"Yeah?"

"You okay? You zoned out," he replied. He tapped Cammie's science notes and then gestured to the class board. She was behind with her notes.

"I'd be better," she snorted, and held back the: "If you would realize that I want to date you now".

"Are you sure?" Zach continued. "Because you've been weird a lot lately. Like you've been really touchy."

"Probably got it from you," Cammie retorted, gesturing to his hand which was rested on Cammie's leg. Zach stared at his own hand for a long moment, as if wondering how it got there, and then shrugged.

"Touché."

Cammie turned her head back to the front board, trying to ignore the way Zach's eyes were boring into her side.

"Cammie," he said a moment later. Cammie said and turned to face him.

"What?"

"Are you doing anything after school?"

Cammie blinked in surprise, recognizing this as one of the signs that 'he' might be asking Cammie out.

"No."

"Would you like to hang out with me? Maybe pick up something to eat?"
Cammie's mouth almost fell open, but she held her composure.

"Like, just the two of us?"

Zach nodded thoughtfully.

"Yeah."

"…On a date?"

A smirk from Zach.

"Yeah. Definitely on a date."

Cammie's cheeks warmed up and she ducked her head.

"Yeah, alright."

She heard Zach chuckling beside her, but he didn't say a word.

After school, Cammie was mixture of nervous and excited and skeptical. Nervous because she hadn't been on a date since she dated Josh and she really wanted the date to be a success. Excited because she was going on a date with Zach and she had wanted that for a while now. Skeptical because she didn't understand what she had done to finally get Zach to ask her out.

Either way when she saw Zach approaching her, she tried to seem cool.

"Hey," she said simply. He grinned.

"Wow, you're freaking out," he said. She cursed him for always being able to see right through her façade.

"Shut up," she grumbled. "Where are we eating?"

Zach shrugged and they quickly fell in step by one another.

"I don't know. You can choose."

Cammie bit her lip and began to walk uncertainly.

"We could eat at the local Italian place. It's affordable and nice," she offered, as if she hadn't been trying to figure out where to eat all day. Zach tilted his head to the side.

"Sounds good, you like Italian?" He asked.

"As much as the next person," Cammie answered softly. They fell back into silence, walking towards their destination. Zach didn't look to be scared in the least. He looked calm, he looked in charge. How was he so calm when Cammie was so scared? When Cammie was so nervous.

"It's not that I'm not nervous," Zach said, making Cammie blink rapidly. Was Zach able to read minds? "I am, it's just that you can't see that I am nervous. I'm just good at hiding it."

Cammie looked up at Zach a little breathless.

"It's been a long time since I dated anyone," Cammie muttered in reply. Zach looked pleasantly at Cammie.

"I know. Relax. This will be fun."

Cammie nodded surely.

Once they arrived at the restaurant, their conversation got easier. They ended up talking about as much as they could bring themselves to talk about. Cammie started out a little uncertain, voting to listen to Zach talk about his life instead of talk about her own. But as he spoke about what he wanted to do in his future, and who he wanted to be Cammie found that she wanted to talk about her life as well. So she did.

By the end of the night both Zach and Cammie were content and a little excited. Cammie hit it off well with Josh, sure, but Cammie and Zach hit it off even better. Cammie's favorite part of the night would have to be when the two ended up in an argument about what kind of frosting was the best on cupcakes, which ended with cupcake frosting all over each of their faces.

Cammie had never laughed so much in her life.

At the end of the night Zach walked Cammie to her front door. The awkwardness of the perfect way to end the first date didn't even exist. Zach tickled Cammie for a moment, making Cammie laugh softly and he took the chance to press his lips to hers.

The kiss was brief and sweet, and left the lingering taste of buttercream on Cammie's tongue. She smiled at Zach.

"We're going to do this again right?"

Zach chuckled and nodded.

"Of course we are Gallagher Girl."

He said his farewell with a wave and he walked off into the night.

As with any relationship, Cammie didn't expect her and Zach to last high school. They were two different people, it was unlikely that they would end up in the same colleges and such.

They didn't of course, but they kept in contact with one another, and visited each other when they had a chance. Cammie's life had never been so sweet. She lived everyday expecting them to breakup.

They never did, no fight could separate them, and the day Cammie finally accepted that they were going to be together forever was the day that Zach got down on one leg and showed her a beautiful ring.

(Spoilers. Cammie said yes.)

Author's Note:

Sorry this ending is so late, I hope that you two still like it though. I had trouble writing it, and I've gotten really busy with school just around the corner. I hope you all like this. It was a fun ride, see you again another day with another story I'm sure!