Array
(
[text] =>

"Oh shit, I've made a huge mistake," Cash announced as she joined the group for lunch, sitting in between Kimi and Emmie on the grass. It was the Monday after the party, so everyone was learning about the aftermath.

"We know Cash but you're just gonna have to wait for your hair to grow out before you can get rid of the blonde," Will joked, before realising his mistake when Cash slapped him hard over the back of his head.

"What did you do now?" Kimi asked, ignoring Will's idiocy as she finished off the last few exercises of her maths homework, oddly uninterested in the gossip she was undoubtedly going to hear.

"I found out all the guys I made out with at the party."

"What's the problem with that?" Liv asked, spearing a cherry tomato with her fork but wasn't having much luck.

"Well, seeing as most of them have girlfriends, I'd say it's a problem," Cash said as she rubbed her face with her palms in frustration.

"Holy crap, no way!" Kimi exclaimed, throwing her maths book carelessly to the side as she now paid her undivided attention to Cash. "Tell me more!" Kimi begged.

Ah there we go! Classic Kimi, always game for gossip, Will thought.

Cash sighed in defeat, going into detail of the several guys she'd made out with at the party. Will figured this more promiscuous Cash was just her way of moving on from Aaron. "I even kissed Ivan," Cash added, covering her face in shame.

"The guy who's hopelessly in love with you?" Liv asked as she looked up at her, munching on a lettuce leaf. Cash nodded in confirmation. "My god, Kimi, how'd you not see all this happening?"

"How's this my fault?" Kimi asked, looking up from the textbook. "I was drunk out of my mind, how should I remember all of Cash's slutty adventures?"

"Oi, I'm not slutty!" Cash cut in, arms crossed and scowling at the rest of them.

"Guys, guys, it doesn't matter who is or isn't slutty," Emmie intervened. "Oh, Will, I heard you pushed Ryan into the pool! Why didn't you tell us about that?" she asked, changing topics.

Will choked on his sandwich by surprise. "Where'd you hear about that?" Will asked through his coughs.

"Someone was pushed into a pool! You don't think people wouldn't talk about that?" Emmie retorted with an exaggerated eye roll.

"It was nothing," Will shrugged. "He was just being an ass so I decided to push him in."

"Man, that red hair has made you a lot more feistier, Will! I should watch my back now anytime I'm near the pool with you," Cash teased, while Will just scowled at her.

"Ah well, good on ya! After all that creepy stuff he does, surprised you didn't push him in a pool sooner," Emmie said with a grin.

"I wasn't too mean to him?" Will asked, looking around at the girls. Pushing someone into a pool isn't really a good thing to do. He'd wondered the last few days if maybe he'd gone a bit too far. He'd also spent the last few days thinking about Oliver too, but that wasn't something he was going to discuss with his friends. He wasn't happy that he was thinking about Oliver in the first place.

"Nope, the ass deserved it," Liv said matter-of-factly, taking a sip of her coffee. "If you're going to be a creepy mofo and hit on someone all the time, completely unwarranted, it's gonna come back and bite you in the ass. That's karma right there, Will," she added, raising her travel mug in an odd salute. To what, Will wasn't entirely sure. But it was Liv, so you could never be entirely sure.

"I think most of my bad karma comes from all the bugs I've killed," Kimi piped in absent-mindedly. She'd now returned to her maths exercises, writing down her working out in her book. "But I'm fine with that," she shrugged and closed her books, finished with her homework.

"You don't think all that gossiping you do gives you any bad karma?" Emmie asked Kimi questioningly, raising an eyebrow.

"I said 'most,'" Kimi answered as she look up at Emmie, rolling her eyes. "And I don't gossip that much."

"Yeah, you do, Kims," Cash countered. Kimi looked about ready to protest but Emmie stepping in again.

"So Liv, have you talked to Tyler since Friday and his drunk babbling?" she asked Liv, deciding to change topics yet agin. Liv coughed, choking a little by surprise on a cherry tomato from her salad. She shook her head once she'd composed herself, tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear. This was Liv's tell-tale sign that she was hiding something.

"What's wrong, Liv?" Will prodded, wanting to know what was wrong with his best friend. Liv continued to bite her lip, obviously uncertain if she wanted to talk about it. "Just tell us," Will said, worried that something was really wrong as he gave her a one-armed hug.

"Fine," Liv said, slumping a little as she began telling her best friends what happened. She took a deep breath before explaining what happened at the party.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Are you fine with him here?" Emmie asked Liv, the music was blasting loudly so it was a little difficult to hear her. Liv was seated on one of the benches with Tyler leaning against my side, head on her shoulder, and she had an arm around him.

"Yeah, I think I'll be fine. Go back to the others, I'll be there soon," Liv said, giving the blonde a smile. Emmie nodded, mouthed "good luck" and headed off, back to the others. Tyler moved a little at Liv's side, mumbling a little. "What was that?" she asked him.

"You're so pretty," he mumbled drunkenly, turning his head up to look at her.

"You're drunk, Ty," Liv replied, shaking her head and laughing a bit. He began to shake his head, in what looked like frustration. "What is it?" she asked, confused by what he was doing.

Tyler sat up, turning towards her. He looked at her, swaying a slight bit. "You don't understand," he huffed in frustration. What the hell is wrong with him? Liv thought. "I like you," he said, pulling her into a hug.

"I like you too, Tyler, that's why we're dating," Liv stated simply, returning his hug a little awkwardly.

"No, but I really, really, really, really, really like you, Liv," he said, almost childlike, as he tightened his hug. Liv continued to sit there awkwardly. Seriously, what the hell?! Tyler leaned back and looked over her face for a few minutes, arms rested on her shoulders.

"You alright there, Ty?" she asked, his staring making her feel a little uneasy. She shifted uncomfortably on the bench. He looked into her eyes and his brown eyes held a mixture of confusion and happiness. He nodded.

"Liv, is it alright if I try something?" he asked her nervously, licking his lips a little.  

"What do you want to try?" Liv asked him, suspicious. He became more and more nervous, biting his bottom lip and looking everywhere except looking her in the eye. Finally he looked in his lap and mumbled something that she couldn't hear. "What was that?" she asked him, pulling his chin up to look at her. He had a slight blush on his face. This is so, so odd. Tyler is never like this with me...

"Ummm, Liv, is it alright, if I - I mean you don't have to do it, 'cause I'd never force you to do anything, so you should only do it if you want to and not be pressured into it because I wanna to do it and -" Tyler rambled, his blush turning redder and redder as he got more and more nervous. Liv laughed a little, not understanding what he was asking at all. What a doofus...

"Tyler, sweetie, you need to slow down, stop rambling, and start again," she said reassuringly, smiling at him. He smiled in returned and took a deep breath. He looked like he was thinking about something before finally nodding his head, obviously about to try again. "So, what did you want to ask?" Liv prompted him.

"C-can I, can I give you a, uhhh, a kiss?" Tyler stuttered, looking down in his lap again. Confusion and a bit of uncertainty ran through her body. Liv sat there for a while, thinking it over. I should be saying yes, we're dating and it's only a kiss.

Tyler looked up at her, his eyes begging for an answer. "Yes, of course," she replied finally, with a small smile. His eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas. Tyler licked his lips again as he looked at her. Liv sat there awkwardly waiting to see what was about to happen. Well, obviously she knew what was gonna happen, but you get the point. Liv was so in her head that she was shocked when she felt a pair of lips on hers, a little pushy and urgent, obviously wanting her to respond. She didn't know what to do so she just kissed back, waiting for him to finish. After a little bit, Tyler pulled back, a smile on him face, before yawning and passing out on her shoulder. Liv repositioned him with his head in her lap and thought about their relationship. This is so weird...

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

"Naww, you guys kissed?" Cash cooed. Liv nodded.

"I don't understand what the problem is," Emmie said with a questioning look on her face.

"It's just that, I didn't feel all that much during the kiss. It was a pretty average kiss. I mean, I'm no hopeless romantic, you know, so I'm not expecting fireworks or weakening knees or life-changing-world-stopping feelings or anything from the kiss. It's just that, I thought I'd feel something, you know? Not just sit there waiting for him to stop and feeling a little weirded out by it," Liv rambled, pouting at the end.

"Why are you weirded out?" Kimi asked.

"It's Tyler, you know, and he was a good friend, but he's my boyfriend now and my mind hasn't apparently caught up yet, so it's finding it weird that he kissed me..."

Will wrapped her into another hug. "It's alright, Liv. Give yourself some more time to get used to all this and it'll get better," he said, rubbing her back in comfort.

"But Tyler doesn't have any problem with it. Well, he doesn't seem to have any problems," Liv said quietly, still utterly confused by it all.

"Well Tyler's been helplessly in love with you for years, of course he's not having any issues. He's probably been dreaming of kissing you since he was 11," Cash said with a comforting smile.

"You're right," Liv sighed. "Just see how our first date goes..."

"That's the spirit!" Kimi exclaimed before the all dog piled Liv into a hug, all laughing and giggling.

It's all good.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

A/N: I felt the need to put in something cheesy and cute, and its a bit off for Will to start any of that yet. This chapter was mostly just filler, I have to be honest.

[text_hash] => 62219c86
)