Chapter Ten

Ike loved action movies, but he was really depressed about Sam not liking him. He was confused though as to why Taylor didn't want to stay with Sam. He lightly tapped Taylor on the shoulder and asked him to come out in the hall for just a second. Tay looked over at Zac who was completly absorbed in the movie. "Ok, I really needed to ask you something. Why didn't you stay with Sam if you like her so much." "What!? I never liked her! What made you think that I liked her!" "Well you wanted to talk to me the first night about her, and what happened at the waterfalls." "If you hadn't cut me off I was going to say that I think she likes me, but I didn't like her. At the falls I was really entranced by them and I was thinking about how TLC beat us to making a song about waterfalls." "So you don't like her." "No, and why do YOU care." "Just because, well," Ike confessed as his cheeks turned bright pink,"I guess I like Sam." "Well then it wouldn't make you very happy if I told you that she heard what you just said." "Okay Taylor, enough jokes about it." "No I'm telling the truth. Right before I asked you why you cared she walked out and is standing behind you." Ike slowly turned around. The look of horror was like the face of Romeo when he found out Juliet was a Capulet. "I...I really," Ike stuttered. "Actually I need to talk to you, so if you will excuse us, Tay?" "Sure," he replied as he walked back into the theater. "OK, you must think that I'm really stupid, but I didn't understand till about 5 minutes ago that you weren't being overly friendly but, I guess, flirting. I came out to see if I could talk to you since my movie is about to about to end and when I came out I overheard you and Tay by accident. What I was going to ask was if you liked me and I wanted to tell you that I like you too. I know for a while I liked Taylor, but I realized we just don't have any sparks flying." "Well I guess you already found out," Ike said staring at his Doc Martens. "Yeah, well, why don't you join me for the last part of Picture Perfect?" "OK," replied Ike as he followed her into the theater. They sat down and Samantha caught him up on the plot. A few minutes later Kate and Nick were doing the ending kiss. At that time Ike leaned over and whispered into her ear. "To quote myself 'Cause even if we can't be together We'll be friends now and forever And I swear that I'll be there come what may' he gently sung into her ear". She turned to him over and their lips connected. What had started out as a boring family get together turned into a "Picture Perfect" relationship.


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