Chapter Nine- One Kiss From You

Two weeks later…

“So what time are you picking me up for the carnival?” Felicity asked.

“Like 6:00. Is that good?” Lance asked.

“Sure. That’s fine.” She replied.

“Oh, I almost forgot. Justin wanted me to ask you something.” He said.

“What?” she asked.

“He wanted know if your, his quote here, pretty dark haired friend wanted to come.” Lance said.

“Natalie?” Felicity asked.

“Is she the one who visits you at work?” Lance questioned.

“Yes. Wow, Justin wants to meet Natalie. Interesting.” Felicity commented.

“Somehow I don’t think I want to know why you find that interesting. Think she’ll come?” Lance asked.

“Probably. I’ll call her after I hang up.” Felicity said.

“Okay, see you in a bit.” Lance said.

“Bye.” She said hanging up the phone.

Before she could dial Natalie’s number the phone rang.

“Hello?” Felicity asked.

“It’s Gwyneth.” She replied.

“What’s up?” Felicity asked.

“I need to meet with you to finalize the rest of the plan.” Gwyneth said.

That was something Felicity didn’t want to do. She and Lance had gone out almost every night since their beach date. Most of the time Felicity wasn’t even thinking about ‘the plan’ she just liked spending time with Lance.

“Umm..alright.” Felicity said.

“Because the album is coming out in less than a month and we need to plan the break up right around the release date.” Gwyneth said.

“Okay, I can come over Thursday night.” Felicity told her.

“Fine. See you at 7:00.” She said hanging up the phone.

*****

“There they are.” Lance said taking Felicity’s hand and walking over to the guys and Megan.

“Hey kids.” Felicity said.

Everyone greeted each other.

“Is she coming?” Justin asked.

“Her name is Natalie and yes she should be here shortly.” Felicity replied.

As if on cue Natalie walked up to them.

“Hi Felicity, Lance.” She said.

“JC, Justin, Chris, Joey, and Megan this is Natalie.” Felicity said.

“Hello.” She said waving to the gang.

“So what are we doing first?” Chris asked.

Everyone began to argue with everyone else about what to do first.

“Hey!” Natalie said. “How about we just break up into groups and do our own thing.”

“Fine with me.” Justin said.

“You would say that.” Megan coughed.

Justin rolled his eyes and Natalie looked confused.

“Riight.” Natalie said.

Justin, Natalie, JC, and Megan went off together while Joey and Chris went another way leaving Felicity and Lance alone.

“Meet back here later?” JC suggested.

“Yeah, at like 8:00.” Natalie said.

Everyone agreed and went their separate ways.

“Glad this was a group outing.” Felicity said sarcastically.

Lance put his arm around her waist as they walked through the crowd. “So you’re saying you don’t want to spend time alone with me.”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying.” Felicity joked. “I mean we’ve been hanging out almost every night for the past two weeks.”

“Oh, sorry. I didn’t realize I was such an inconvenience.” Lance joked back.

Felicity was about to reply but she lost her footing and Lance caught her.

“Nice move.” She said.

“I try.” He replied.

Lance stood there with his arms around Felicity’s waist and her arms were around his neck.

“You can let go Lance. I’m alright now.” She said.

“What if I don’t want to?” he asked.

“What do you mean…” Felicity started, but she was cut off my Lance’s lips on hers.

“Hey, you kissed me.” Felicity said after they broke apart.

“Yeah.” Lance said, not quite sure what Felicity meant.

“That was the first time.” Felicity said.

“Yeah.” Lance said still not sure what she was getting at.

“Why’d we wait so long?” she asked.

Lance laughed. “Oh, good. For a second there I thought you were going to slap me or something.”

Felicity shook her head. “Far from it.”

Chapter 10