So this a one-shot I had in my mind for a while now and I hope you all enjoy it... I think it's sweet, in more ways than one ;) Check it out and tell me what you think!

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"We are supposed to take it out now!" he yelled trying to pass me to get to the oven.

I pushed him back as best I could. "No we aren't! The recipe said to let the pie bake in the oven for 35 minutes." I replied.

"Yes, exactly and it's been 36 minutes... we have to take it out!" my best friend Jake said, trying to get himself to the oven.

I, however, was slightly muscled from being on the soccer team at school and running track so I pushed him backwards again except this time his side clipped the corner of the counter.

"Hey, you're going to burn the pie!" Jake exclaimed.

I shook my head and crossed my arms over my chest. "Okay Jake, let's settle this... we put the pie in at 3:24 right?" I asked him and he nodded in reply. "Okay and it is currently 3:49 so how long has it been since we put the pie in the oven?"

"It's been thirty ..." he exclaimed but then he suddenly faltered. With this I knew that he had realized that he had been wrong and the pie was not finished.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear that. How long has it been since we put the pie in the oven?" I asked again with a sarcastic tone.

Jake blushed slightly. "Fine, you're right and I was wrong!" he exclaimed. "The pie has another 10 minutes to go."

I nodded in acceptance but couldn't keep my laughter inside me. Suddenly my laughter spilled out and I was laughing at Jake's ridiculous face. Since we were best friends we just get each other and once Jake understood why I was laughing, he started laughing in his own expense.

See that's the thing; I'm Hannah and he's Jake. We've been best friends ever since we were young kids because our houses were directly across from each other and we were similar in age. I just turned 17 last month and a couple of months ago Jake turned 18. We do everything together and we grew up together... we're basically inseparable.

A lot of people at our school and in our families think our friendship is going to become cliché and we'll fall in love with each other, but we just laugh all those comments off and tell the people that they're delusional. I, however, am secretly hoping that it does happen.

I've had a massive crush on Jake for about ten years now. When I was 7 and he was 8, we were outside on a warm summer day just playing in my backyard. I was flying my favourite kite while Jake was cheering me on when suddenly the string snapped and my kite flew away. I started crying and Jake was comforting me and he asked what he could do to make me feel better. I didn't answer but then he kissed me. It was just a short peck since we were only kids but it was amazing and did help me forget about my kite.

We never really talk about it ever since we're only best friends and it's kind of weird that we had our first kiss together and if it does ever come up in conversation we just laugh it off.

I don't think I'll ever tell Jake that I'm in love with him because never has he ever shown any feelings like that towards me at all.

Jake is what you could call a popular nerd. He's attractive with his dark brown hair and green eyes but he doesn't play any sports, he's actually one of the smartest guys at our school and is definitely a shoo in for valedictorian of his class in a few months. He's only had one serious girlfriend in his life but after six months of being together she cheated on him with a guy on the football team. It didn't take him long to get over that break up because he told me that he never loved her. For the past five months he hasn't dated or been interested in anyone that I know of so hopefully his heart it safe from misery.

I know I shouldn't hold out that much hope that Jake will suddenly fall in love with me, but hey, a girl can always hope.

Anyways, while the pie was finishing it's time in the oven, Jake and I just laughed at ourselves and started to clean up the mess we made while we were baking.

"Okay, now it's time to take the pie out of the oven." Jake said, opening the oven with his bare hands.

"Wait!" I yelled, grabbing Jake's arm.

"What now?" Jake asked, turning to look at me.

I grabbed a pair of oven mitts from the door beside me and handed them to him with an 'are-you-serious' look on my face.

Jake smiled and chuckled guilty and grabbed the mitts. "Oops." he replied as he took the pie out of the oven and placed it on the cooling rack on the counter.

He took off the oven mitts and threw them on the counter as he turned to face me. "Well that is one delicious looking pie that we constructed Hannah Banana, but I think we better let it cool." he said, leaning on the counter.

"Okay, then what about we go watch a movie while this cools so when it's done we can have some of this delicious pie." I suggested as the smell of the delicious lemon meringue pie hit my nose.

Jake nodded in agreement and followed me into the living room to choose a movie. While I went to the DVD rack beside the television, Jake plopped himself down onto the couch and relaxed himself.

I looked back at him with an eyebrow raised. "Comfortable?" I asked him.

Jake looked at me with a sheepish expression and nodded. "Of course."

I shook my head and turned back to scan over the movie titles. "Romance, comedy, action... what shall it be?" I asked out loud.

"I don't care as long as it isn't some cliché chick flick." Jake replied.

I turned to look at him with the movie 'A Walk To Remember' in my hand. "Why not some totally awesome chick flick?" I asked sarcastically waving the movie side to side.

Jake just rolled his eyes and stuck his tongue out at me. "I don't feel like falling asleep so that you can hog the pie to yourself." he replied and I just giggled at his idiotic reply.

I placed 'A Walk To Remember' back in the rack and took out the movie that I thought would be great to watch. I opened the case and popped the disc into the DVD player and turned the television on. I set the DVD case on the floor out of Jake's sight, grabbed the remote from the coffee table, and settled myself into the couch leaning into Jake's side.

He threw his arm over my shoulder like he always did when we watched movies and I pressed play. "So, what movie did you pick Banana?" he asked me.

I snuggled a little more into his side before answering. "Take a look." I said when the opening credits of the movie rolled onto the screen.

Jake smiled at me and kissed my forehead. "Great choice." he replied before the movie started.

I had chosen the movie Spiderman 3 for us to watch. Spiderman was both mine and Jake's favourite superhero movie trilogy and we loved to just watch the movies over and over again.

As the movie plot progressed I ended up lying horizontally on the couch with my feet at one end of the couch and my head rested in Jake's lap. His fingers started stroking my hair and it felt really relaxing.   

When the movie finished a while later I turned my head and looked up at Jake with a smile on my face to see that he was looking down at me the same way.

"You ready for a delicious slice of pie?" I asked him.

He nodded in confirmation. "You bet'cha." he replied.

I hopped up from my place on the sofa and raced into the kitchen with Jake hot on my trail.

I wasn't normally that clumsy but when I came to a skidding stop in front of the counter, I guess I didn't see the left over pie mixture on the floor. When I got a hold of the pie, I slid backwards on the floor and fell right down onto my back, bringing the pie with me. The pie landed right on my face and even though I wanted to taste the pie desperately, this wasn't what I meant.

Jake obviously wasn't fast enough to stop himself from falling either because as I threw the pie tin off of my face, he quickly toppled over me and squished me into the floor.

That wasn't the thing that mortified me about this situation though; the thing that mortified me was that when Jake fell directly on top of me, I literally meant directly on top of me. His stomach was crushing mine; our feet were a jumbled mess and the worst part, or maybe best part, his lips landed directly on top of mine.

When I felt his lips on top of mine I froze and it felt like Jake did to. He didn't move away for a couple seconds but the damage was already done. Jake had just unintentionally kissed me! ME... his best girl friend!

My eyes bulged as I looked up at Jake, who was still hovering me on the ground and his eyes were just about as wide as mine.

"Umm... at least we know that the pie was indeed delicious before it went to waste." Jake said slowly, smiling slightly.

I sighed slightly, happy and sad at the same time. I was happy that we will probably be able to laugh this accidental kiss off, but I was sad for the same reasons. I guess maybe I was hoping that Jake would see me as something different after it but I guess it was better to be laughed off as a mistake.

I chuckled nervously. "Yea, it sure is delicious." I replied, taking my finger and swiping a bit of meringue off of my face before putting it in my mouth. "Mmmm..."

Jake just chuckled and slowly got up off of me and onto his feet. He held a hand out for me as well, which I gladly took, and helped me to my feet.

I dusted myself off and looked down at myself. My face and neck was covered in meringue, which was slowly running down the rest of my chest and into my clothes, and my bottom half was also covered with raw meringue mix from when I slipped and fell on the floor.

"Well, I think I need a shower." I stated while looking up at Jake who was trying not to laugh at my current appearance.

"Yea, yea I think you do." Jake agreed, nodding and silently chuckling to himself.

I rolled my eyes and shoved Jake's shoulder. "Stop laughing... this is half your fault. If you would've cleaned up the floor before the pie came out then I wouldn't have slipped and ruined the pie... and my outfit." I said teasingly.

Jake just shook his head. "You could've cleaned it up too, but you didn't" he replied, sticking his tongue out at me childishly.

I just laughed and shoved him again, which end up in a hug. His arms were circling my waist and mine were around his.

When we pulled apart I laughed in his expense. "You know, now you're covered in meringue too." I said, pointing and laughing at his now dirty outfit.

Jake looked down at his clothes and rolled his eyes. "Thanks for that."

"No problem." I replied, grinning up at my best friend. "Anyways, I'm gonna go take a shower so you can either use the other shower here to clean off, change clothes or go home." I said. Jake and I both left spare clothes at each other's houses since we were young since we were over at each other's so often.

"We could always shower together." he said suggestively, wiggling his eyebrows.

I just rolled my eyes and shoved him again. "Perv." I said, as we both laughed.

"Yea kind of, anyways, I'm going to head home and get cleaned up because I apparently have to be home for supper as Keke is bringing her new boyfriend over." Jake explained.

Keke was Jake's older sister and she was really sweet. I hoped that she had finally found a guy that could treat her right and love her as much as she deserves.

"Well good for her, I'll see you later then." I said.

Jake nodded. "Yup, I'll probably be over after dinner. Bye." he said, kissing my forehead like he always did before turning to head to the door.

Once Jake was gone I ran upstairs to take a shower and get out of my pie covered clothes. I stepped under the spray of my shower and quickly felt refreshed as my body was clean of all food.

While in the shower I started to think about what had happened in the kitchen. I can't believe that we had kissed! That was supposed to be a one-time thing that happened when we were little kids, not a real thing that happened again almost ten years later. I really hoped that this sudden kiss didn't put a dent in our friendship because that wouldn't be good at all. For years me and Jake had been a team and a package, if something like a kiss put something between us it would suck.

I just wish that Jake would notice the way I looked at him some times. I wish that he knew how I felt about him and I wish that somehow some way, he could feel the same way that I do about him.

Once I was finished in the shower I got dressed into a pair of comfortable pyjamas and headed downstairs to order a pizza and watch television. My parents worked long days every second weekend and this happened to be one of those weekends, they would be home around ten tonight so I was on my own until then.

The pizza came and I left the box on the coffee table as I flipped through the various channels.

The rest of the night consisted of me watching the Olympics while pigging out on various slices of pizza, a bag of salt and vinegar chips and a jug of pink lemonade... an odd combination but delicious all the time.

Just after eight o'clock, the sun had gone down and the stars were coming out. There was suddenly a knock at the door and I was wondering who it was.

I got up from my place on the couch and walked to the door, opening it to reveal Jake. I was surprised for one reason – Jake never knocked when he came over, he would just storm right into the house unannounced.

"Umm... hey?" I stated, more like a question then a regular greeting.

Jake wasn't looking at me but he was looking down at his shoes with his hands in his pockets. "Hey." he replied.

Now I was worried, my best friend was acting weird and I didn't know why. Was it because of the kiss or had something happened at his family dinner? "Hey, Jake, is something wrong?" I asked, opening the door more and allowing him to come inside.

Jake walked directly into the living room without a glance at me or a single word. Okay, now I was worried because something was definitely wrong and I had a huge feeling it was about the accidental kiss.

He took a seat on the sofa and I took a seat next to him, tucking my legs underneath me and facing him. "Jake," I said, putting a comforting hand on his shoulder, rubbing up and down his arm, "is something wrong?"

Jake looked at me with a serious expression and then shook his head. "I don't even know why I'm over here. This is so stupid, I can't believe I'm doing this because you'll probably laugh at me or something and then we won't be close anymore... and god this is so hard." Jake mumbled but I heard every word clearly.

"Jake you're seriously scaring me. What do you have to tell me that won't make us friends anymore? I don't get it and I'm not going to laugh at you, don't you know me at all? What can't you tell me?" I asked, actually really scared at what he was apparently hiding from me.

Jake looked at me and I saw in his eyes that he had made a decision; however, I didn't know what that decision was.

"This." Jake said, before he grabbed me and pulled me closer to him before taking a hold of my face and planting his soft lips on mine.

As his lips touched mine I gasped in shock for second at the powerful sparks and fireworks I felt. When my mouth opened Jake's tongue slipped into my mouth and started kissing me like I had never been kissed before. After I got over the initial shock that Jake, my best friend, was kissing me, I swung my arms around his neck and kissed him back with all I had. Jake pushed me backwards slightly and I obliged, lying down with my back on the couch as Jake hovered me without breaking the kiss.

We kissed for a while and when we finally pulled apart a couple minutes later I kept my eyes closed for a second as Jake pecked my lips once more.

I opened my eyes and looked directly into his eyes, giving him a huge smile. "What was that?" I asked in amusement, not taking the smile off of my face.

Jake smiled slightly down at me before pulling himself off of me and sitting back down on the couch. I sat myself up and looked at Jake. "Well, I don't know, it's just I've felt that way about you for a while but I guess I just never thought that you liked me like that so I never said anything and accepted that I was just your friend." he explained.

"Umm... how long have you liked me?" I asked nervously, still not believing that the guy that I had been in love with for so long was telling me that he felt the same way.

Jake blushed as he looked at me and answered. "About five years." he muttered and ducked his head in embarrassment.

"What?!" I exclaimed. "How could you have felt like this for that long and not have said something, I mean, you had a girlfriend last year."

Jake shook his head. "I only went out with her because I was trying to get over you, I mean, do you even know why we broke up?" he asked.

"Yea, she cheated on you with a guy on the football team and that was that." I said, suddenly unsure if I had the correct information.

Jake shook his head. "Nope, that's just what she told everybody. I broke up with her earlier that same day she was caught with the football player. I told her that it wasn't working and that I was in love with you, so she went out and hooked up with that other guy." he replied, shrugging his shoulders.

I nodded, but then what he had said caught up with me and I snapped my eyes to him. "Wait a second, what did you just say." I exclaimed, praying that I had just heard him correctly as my heart started beating faster.

Jake looked confused for a moment, obviously figuring out that I had already heard what he said but then understanding crossed his face and he smiled at me. "I love you Hannah, and I have for a while." he said.

Those words that I had hoped to hear for the longest time had finally been said and it felt like my heart had just run its own personal marathon and Jake was looking really nervous.

"Umm... yea, but you know, I know you probably don't feel the same way but I just had to tell you because, I don't know, after I accidentally kissed you in the kitchen earlier, I guess I thought you should finally know how I feel I guess." Jake rambled on, while I sat there with a huge smile on my face as my best friend was getting flustered in front of me.

I interrupted his battle of confidence by kissing him. It only lasted a couple of seconds but I'm pretty sure it got the message across.

When I pulled back, I leaned my forehead against his and smiled. "I love you too you idiot." I said and a smile broke out on Jake's face as he kissed me again.

This time we didn't pull apart for a while, we kissed and kissed and showed each other how much we really loved each other.

When we finally did pull apart, I settled myself into his side on the couch.

"You know, you could've confessed a while ago and I would've reacted in the exact same way." I said, flicking the channel on the television.

Jake looked at me, pecked my lips and smiled. "Well, now that you know how I feel and I know how you feel, would you be my girlfriend?" he asked.

I smiled and nodded as I pecked my new boyfriend on the lips quickly. "Of course."

We just sat there watching television for a while when Jake suddenly remembered something. "Okay, so I've felt this way about you for five years so how long have you felt this way?" he asked me and I blushed.

"Umm... about ten years, since you kissed me when we were little." I answered; slightly embarrassed that it had been that long.

Jake looked shocked at my answer but soon smiled teasingly. "So, you didn't think that you could've told me?" he asked in a teasing voice and I just rolled my eyes and nudged him.

"Hey, you didn't tell me either jerk." I said before kissing him again.

"You do know that our friends and families are going to freak on us when we tell them that we're together right?" Jake stated.

I nodded. "Yea probably, oh, and we're going to get a bunch of I-told-you-so's."

Jake nodded in agreement as he pecked my lips once more before we both relaxed into the couch and focused on the show that was currently playing.

Today was one of the best days of my life; my best friend confessed to being in love with me and now we're together and will stay together forever.  I guess you could sum up our relationship in one sentence... well, it all started with a pie.

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