“I...”He cuts off her next word, leaning in and locking his lips to hers. It is the first kiss he has ever given her. It is full of emotion and it...just makes her melt. When the kiss ends, she snuggles in close to him again. Steven immediately goes to lightly rubbing her back, his elation through the roof.“We’ll have to ask your grandfather for his permission,” he reminds her.“He won’t have a problem,” she says. “We’ll get a place together.”“Doesn’t he need your help?” the man asks.“He’ll have. I shook his hand, pulled him to me and clapped him on the back and got a man-hug in return. "Jim," I said. "I'm so glad I can still call you my friend." Me, too, Dan. Me too."Cindy and Ann were hugging too and Ann was making congratulatory sounds. Then we changed places. More hugs, then we went inside and sat in the living room.Ann was first. "Ya'll make a cute couple. And we're happy for you. But you should've seen the colors Jim turned when he first found out." Heyyyy," Jim said. "Water under. I started crying as it was painful and I was ashamed.That wasn't even the end of it as they got my mum in later and I had to go and see the Headmaster again and he told her what I had done. She was very angry as it made her late for work. She told my father who hit me later on. I remember my mum saying "I knew you'd turn out to be a pervert". I don't know how she knew that, just something she saw in me I suppose. They were both very worried about what friends and neighbours would think about me. Kara started trying doors, finding locked after locked door until the sixth one finally opened. It was small barely large enough to fit both of us inside side by side with a tv and a faint redlight that made the room look like the back of one of our Bradleys (a Bradley is one of our badass APCs, wiki that shit). We both climbed in and locked the door behind us. Kara started laughing and asked why we hadnt come her before. A tiny but comfortable looking chair was in front of the tv and Kara sat.