Okay 3 things before you read the rest of this chapter.

1) I'm sorry for making you read all this :')

2) I had read back through the story and noticed some major plot holes so I went and added a few things prior to this chapter. Like a whole new chapter. :P. So if you read Chapters 1-3 before the date 06/08/18, it is best that you start from the beginning again and briefly read to see if catch any new add ons. If your reading after this date, caring on and ignore whatever I just said.

"And that's all he said?" Lee questioned for the 4th time after I read the text out to him. Lee and I were in the food court of the mall, Lee's favorite place to be. Today happened to be Sunday which was our normal Evans and Flynn brunch, but Lee's parents had another charity event to go to, so there was a chant of plans. It had been a week after Noah had sent that text, and I still didn't know what to say to him. Lee leaned forward to take a sip of his soda, his elbows on the metal table. We were surrounded by chairs scraping across the floor and constant chatter. But right now, it just felt like an interrogation process. We had been sitting here at the table for an hour and the only topic we talked about, was Noah. SHOCKER.

"Yes Lee." I said exasperatedly. "Maybe if you look at it any longer, he might have more to say." I put my palm to my forehead and sigh. Lee just raised a brow and held my phone in his hand, the notification was still there. I spent the whole rest of my day running back and forth to my phone. Wondering if I should take a nosedive or not. There were theories that had me believe that this was turning to nothing else but a break-up. But as I had said before, I prepared myself. I also said that I wanted closure. So what was keeping me from simply saying 'yes'. Lee shrugged and handed the phone back to me.

"Maybe." he spoke before taking another sip. A sub sandwich sat in front of him. Actually let me clarify that. An empty sub sandwich plate stood in front of him. Mine was untouched excluding my first 3 bites. He pointed to my sub. "Are you gonna eat that Elle?" then he looked up at me. "You don't look too good."

"Of course I don't." I claim, my eyes widen and my hand motions circling around like a maniac. "My complicated relationship is in the 'can we talk phase'. How would you feel if Rachel said that to you?" I set of emotion set across Lee's face, all borderline sadening emotions. I put my face in my hands. My hormones had been raging so badly. I could go from happy to sad in just minutes over this text. Lee reached for my hand.

"Hey, don't forget what I told you," he comforted. "picking up the pieces." he quoted and rubbed my forearm. I nodded and smiled. Leave it to Lee for always being there for me.

"Yeah, I know." I touch his hand. "I'm sorry, this is just really bothering me, and I just don't know what to do." I ramble. Lee takes a sip of his drink.

"Well you know what I would do, you just need to figure out what Elle would do." I place my phone on the table, face down. "Yeah I know, but I feel like you are me, so why is it still hard to decide?" I say and slide my sandwich over to him. "It's all yours buddy." He smiled.

"Yes!" I watched as Lee inhaled my sandwich.

"Lee?" He looked up with a mouthful.

"Huh?" He struggled to get out with sub bread nearly falling out on the table.

"You wouldn't have anything to do with the text would you?" Lee looked down and chewed on his meal. "It's just that it all felt so coincidental, the whole talking to you and then trying to get closure. Don't you think so?"

"Well…" He started off and I could read his guilty expression.

"AHA!" I shout in the middle of the food court. I even stand to point my finger to him. "I KNEW IT!" I exclaimed. "IT WAS JUST TOO COINCIDENTAL!" Lee looked up at me with concern.

"Elle, calm down, your making a scene." He whispered. I looked around to notice that the food court lowered to whispers and I felt all eyes on me. I slowly lower myself back in my seat and awkwardly smile.

"Oh don't mind me, I'm just creatively yelling." I attempt to reply. "I've been doing it for a while." The people around me looked either confused or concerned with my behavior. "Like since I was a kid so…"

"Elle, just stop, it's hurting my eyes to watch." I turn to Lee.

"Oh shut up, you little spy!" I croon back to him. He smiles.

"I'm not a spy." he laughs at the thought. I fold my arms and lean back in my seat.

"Yes, yes you are, you were sent in by your brother to find out how I feel and deliver a message to me." Lee rolled his eyes.

"Elle, don't you think you're taking this a little out of proportion?"

"Out of proportion?" I challenge. "I don't even know if I can trust you anymore, who knows what you've been telling him.

"Rule #2 remember?"

"Yes but I also know Rule #3."

"Elle I didn't lie to you." he smiled. "Look, my brother wanted to know how you were doing, the day that he called me, he asked about you." I nod my head in a 'duh' moment.

"Lee, I knew that from the minute you jumped and did that lip thing that you always do when you lie."

"No I don't." He defends and his outer courser of his lip twitches, as if he was about to smile but didn't.

"Okay Pinocchio." I say agreeing to disagree.

But that's besides the point. The point is that Noah wants to talk to you."

"Yeah but after you told him that I wanted to talk to him." I hold out my hand. "Do you see where I'm going with this?"

"Yes, but that doesn't depry from the fact that you're getting what you want, closure, the final word of say, the chance to change time." I sigh.

"And he couldn't text me before using you as a little spy?"

"No, because he doesn't know how you will react."

"Wow, give a guy a chance to go to Harvard and he gets soft." I scoff and hold up my phone, deleting the message. Lee gasped.

"Elle!" I look up at him with a smile.

"Tell him this spy." I lean into him. "If he wants to talk to me like I do, he needs to stop using a spy to see when the best times to text me are." I lean back. "Or in other words, stop being such a softie. I have a better word for it, but I've chosen to to say it, he'll get the point." I stand from my seat and start heading away from the table. "I'm gonna go to the bathroom." I jabbed him on the head and started towards the restroom.

"Okay...so how are we going to top the Kissing Booth?" Lee asked as I went through a rack of clothes. We'd gotten over the whole Foot Court thing and he decided that with rule #4 he was going to let it go and trust me. I was looking for something just for convenience now. I shrugged and bit my lip.

"That is a good question." I said with a smile. "But I mean that's six months away." I finished and pulled out this black formal dress. I turned it to him.

"When would I ever wear this?" He brought a finger to his chin. There was a moment of silence before we spoke in unison.

"For a date." We laughed to ourselves and I slipped it back in it's slot.

"Which as of this moment, I don't need." I made a small remark as we walked out of the shop, heading for another. I bumped him on the shoulder. "You mean to tell me you don't want to go to any of these stores?" He shook his head, his brown hair falling into his face.

"Nah." He put his hands in his pockets and looked straight ahead.

"Then why did you pick me up to go?"

"Because I wanted a milkshake." I shove him in the arm.

"You are such a user." I say. "And here I was thinking that you doing this as a way to make me feel better."

"Oh yeah, that too." I roll my eyes as we head to Victoria's Secret. Lee and I have been friends ever since forever, but I couldn't stop wondering why he was the one to want to go in the store and not me. I watched as he raked the walls and racks. Was he buying something for Rachel? Does that mean they've had sex, or are they going to. I followed behind him. Gazing at a few pairs of bras on the way. I picked up a pair of thin underwear and held them out to Lee.

"How are these?"

"What are you going for?"

"Sexy."

"Get them." was all he said and he went back to looking. I nodded and put them in my sheer basket. Lee came back to me with a pair of underwear in his hands. "These would also look good too." I examine the red lace wrapping around the hipline and fading out to sheer.

"Oh yeah." I asent and I added them to the basket. I wondered how many people in this store took one look at us, and thought that we were a couple. The way we act, we could totally pull it off, no brainer. Lee managed to interest himself in some other part of the section while I headed over to the bras. I needed to find one to give me support. My older ones are starting to give away and it was-. My thoughts were cut off by the feeling of my body crashing into something. No. Someone. Karen turned and gasped.

"Oh dear!" She cried out. "I'm sorry." I held my head, in a dramatic way and stepped back.

"Oh no. I'm sorry too." I groan and fix my shirt. Karen looked behind me at Lee, who was rummaging through the lingerie.

"So...you and little Flynn?" I stepped back, coincidence to think about how we are perceived as a couple and up comes Karen to solidify the deal. Little Flynn, is that the best you can do Karen?

"Oh no." I say. "Uh...Lee's just tagging along with me." Karen was nodding with a fake smile. God, I bet she yearned for me to be with Lee, just to create something new to gossip about. She laughed dryly and teased her stack of clothes.

"So that means you're still with Flynn?" I suck in a breath and bit my lips. She read my body language and nodded. "Oh…" She grabbed my arms. "I'm sorry, that was really rude of me to just abruptly ask." Yeah right.

"Don't worry about it." I say with ease. "We still talk." I lied. "It's more...open now" I keep talking. God I need to just keep my mouth shut.

"Open as in, date other people?" She asked again for verification. I tilt my head in thought. Should I have chose another route or kept going down this road.

"I mean…" I chose the latter.

"It's okay, people around school were saying you guys broke up anyway." She pursed her lips in thought. "Is that why you were so close to the new kid at the Halloween Party?" Oh yeah. I forgot she was one of the many guest members. "By the way, he is actually really hot, I might snag him from you." In my head, I was thinking. Yeah Jaime said that, but I don't see it. But instead I said.

"Yeah. He is."

"So are you guys a thing now, you two might as well had made out by the pool or something?" She tilted her head. "So does that mean that Flynn is seeing other girls at Harvard now too?" I open my mouth to say something but I'm at a lost of words, she was asking too many questions. "I mean, you did say that you guys were more open now. Right?" I bit the inside of my lip, wondering what I should say next. I had heard about these kind of things before, I was being approached and lured to make some embarrassing statement, I was getting pretty close to making one when I heard-

"Hey Karen!"

It was Lee's voice that boomed behind me. I huffed a breath of relief, as Karen jumped, her brown curls bouncing.

"Oh hey Lee, didn't even see you there." Liar. He just smiled and tapped me.

"I found the pair that you had been looking for." I turn to him and smile. Thank you! I say with my eyes but I say something different with my mouth.

"Where?" He turned and pointed to where he was.

"Over there, next to the dressing room." I turn back to Karen.

"Well I guess I'll see you later." I imply as Lee pulls me away. She smiles with teeth this time and waves.

"Yeah, on Monday!" She calls back to me before she walks over to some girl in the "teenie weenie committee" section. I lean onto Lee once we clear ourselves of Karen's sights.

"Thanks for that." I said with appreciation. "She just wouldn't stop asking questions."

"Especially about 'the new kid'." He holds with quotes, I laugh and shift my weight.

"Okay Sparky, we get it." I muse and we go back to looking through undergarments.

The more time we spent in here, the more I started to notice Lee act a little edgy. I had finally grown tired of watching him pace between sections, lost in thought.

"Okay. What is going on with you?" He looked down at a g-string. I could read it in his face. "You're buying for Rachel aren't you?" He confirmed this by turning a shade of red. I laugh out loud, doubling over.

"Oh my gosh, never would I have ever thought that I would see this day." I joke. "I mean , you come to watch me buy lingerie all the time, but today, today my friend, you are joining the love train." I make a whistle sound and the classic "choo,choo", and he gets even redder.

"Elle." He tries to hold back even his own smile. I stop teasing him and grow to a more serious expression.

"Okay, okay." I ease. "What are you buying them for?" He opened his mouth to answer but I kept talking. "Have y'all even had sex yet?" By his rigid body language, I could see the answer to that question. He tilted his head and raised his brow. "So she's still waiting?" He started to fiddled with the underwear in the pile as I watched him from the other side of the circle.

"Yeah, I understand her reasoning though." He acknowledged. "We were so close just a week ago, at my house." he stopped short. "The minute I reached for her bra, she told me to slow down. So I did."

"So how is buying her a pair of lingerie going to help?" In my head none of this is matching up. If a girl doesn't want to have sex with and wants to wait, shouldn't the last place you buy her a gift from be a lingerie store?

"Well she told me that and the fact, that she didn't feel too comfortable in what she was wearing that night, so this is a way of telling her that she's beautiful." I smile.

"Really Lee?" He looks up at me, confusion running over his face. "I'm sorry to tell you this, but because I am your best friend it's my duty to do so." He waits for the rest of my assertion. "Lee, that is a horrible present to give to her." He flinches with shock.

"What?" He defended. "I gave a whole story behind it and you still say that it's horrible?"

"Yes, because you're ignoring what she is implying, even though you claim you're not." Lee still looked confused so I rambled on. "For example, you say that you understand her reasoning behind waiting, yet you're standing in a Victoria's Secret store buying her lingerie, its like giving someone a raspberry pie after they say that they are allergic to it, or cooking meatloaf for a vegetarian."

"Okay why do all these points revolve around food?" I raise my hands up, upset for him not getting the moral point.

"I don't know maybe because you ate my sub sandwich and I'm still hungry!" I declare.

"Well you gave it to me!"

"The point is." I continue, ignoring his justification. "Is that it's inconsiderate." I tap him on the back as we head to the register. "It's okay young Lee, you still have a lot to learn."

By the time Lee and I had gotten to is place, his parents had gone out for a grocery spree. When we left the mall, I persuaded Lee to go on a different route, so instead of buying something from Victoria's Secret, he went to James Avery to start a charm for her. I was 100 percent sure that she was going to love it when he gave it to her tomorrow. He was lying on his bed, his phone plastered to his ear. Rachel had taken his attention by the time we got back. She called him about an hour ago, and they were still talking. I smile to myself as I type away on my stupid english paper. The English paper that was due last week, but the queen of procrastination here, decided that next week would be a better time to turn something in. I tried not to listen to his mumbles, but I couldn't help it. I heard laughs and a few 'I love yous' and it made me sick, I had to admit. But I loved how it made Lee feel. I was happy to know that he found someone, because other than me, he needed someone to love. I craned my neck around to see the back of Lee's head facing me, his feet kicked up on the top of his bed where his pillows were. I wondered just how much you could fit a climax to a friendship in 7 months. You couldn't. Yet we had 7 months before we were drawn out into the real world and I wondered how that would have an effect on our relationship. Sure we were best friends, but what if it only sustains because we are always so close together. College included. I worried about the distance we would be from each other and if our friendship could make it if one of us went overseas.Nevertheless, Lee and I had been best friends before we even knew what best friends were called and I couldn't imagine a time when we weren't. We've made it through alot together and even though some of those things might fade away, like the rules or the moments playing DDR, we will always find a way to each other. I check my watch and noticed it was 10 minutes before 7. Quickly, I launched a pillow from his desk at him. His head snaps up and I laugh.

"Hey loser, I think I'm gonna head out." I called out to him, after he disconnected his phone from his ear.

"Need a ride?" He mouthed in silence. I shake my head.

"Nah. It's not dark yet." I reply and turn his Mac off. "Tell Rach I said hey." I called out to him in the doorway. There was a moment in which I turned my head to the left and saw Noah's room. The door was closed shut and all lights were out. My legs started to twitch in the door's direction, but I commanded them to do something else. I shook my head to myself and made my way down the stairs. June was in the fridge when I accomplished the last step.

"Hey Elle!" She called out. I turn and wave. "On your way out?" I nod.

"Yeah. It's getting dark soon, and I don't have my car so…" June just smiles.

"Okay." She smiled, shutting the fridge. "Goodnight Elle."

"Goodnight June." I called back to her.