Forgive? Sounds good. Forget? I'm not sure I could. They say time heals everything. But I'm still waiting. 

The next morning they'd all been instructed to get up early, so they made their way down to the kitchen where breakfast was provided for everyone in the resort, a little bleary eyed. Kourtney, Kim and Kennedy chatted about the joys of sharing a room with their boyfriend. Khloe listened, thinking how weird it was that she, Khloe Kardashian, had been the only one not to get any last night. She thought of Lamar, but found she wasn't missing him. She had mixed feelings about this, of course, she was glad she was okay without him, but surely she should be missing her ex boyfriend?

"Are you coming in or what?" Joshua was holding the door of the kitchen door open, smiling at the girls with his eyebrows raised.

Maybe it was the company she was with, she thought, eyeing Joshua, she wouldn't miss Lamar when she was with family.

She drank some coffee, as, being a ski resort, the cooks had at least got hot drinks perfected.

"Are you going to eat that?" Joshua asked, pointing to Khloe's bacon and eggs.

"Go ahead," she pushed the plate towards him.

"Aww, are the eggs to runny for Princess Khloe?" Kourtney joked, and the others laughed. "Don't worry, brave knight sir Joshua will get rid of them for you!"

"Shut up!" Khloe threw a piece of tangerine peel at Kourtney , but Kourtney could see she was smiling.

"When do we start skiing?" Kennedy asked.

"I don't know, but I hope we just skip the skiing and go straight to the après ski stuff!" Kim said.

"There's an out-door hot-tub near our cabin," Jon said, "That was what was under that gazebo thing," he added to Kim, "I checked it out this morning."

"Cool," Dwayne grinned, "We can all go in tonight."

The others all nodded. Joshua suddenly noticed two pieces of tangerine that had appeared on his plate.

"Are these for me?" he asked Joshua, who had been eating one, and who, he noted, had also left the peel on his plate.

She nodded, smiling sweetly, "They have pips in them," she explained, with a totally straight face.

Kourtney rolled her eyes.

"If I could have everyone's attention," Kris had stood up and addressed the families. "We're going to get our skis now, and then we'll be going straight onto the slopes, so hurry up and finish your breakfast."

There was a general bustle as everyone finished eating and went outside. They followed Whitey to the equipment hire shop. Rob almost started an impromptu snowball fight when he threw a snowball at Kourtney and it hit Kim by mistake. She retaliated but missed and hit Bruce, and he was just picking up a clump of snow too when Kris yelled to cut it out, and then scolded Rob for his poor aim.

The hire shop was small, and soon became very crowded with students. Dwayne, Kourtney, Kim, Kennedy, Rob, Joshua, and Khloe found themselves wedged in a corner, at what appeared to be the end of a very long queue.

"Dammit, we're gonna be here for hours!" Dwayne complained, "How did Joe and them manage to get so far ahead?"

"Maybe because he wasn't wasting time trying to stuff snow down my neck!" Kourtney said, turning to Dwayne with raised eyebrows.

"Come on Kourt, it was a joke!"

"Yeah, and now I'm friggin' freezing because there's ice in my jacket!"

Dwayne could tell she wasn't really angry, but he apologised anyway, and unzipped his jacket, pulling her against his chest and wrapping it around her. "Better?" he asked. She turned her head and smiled up at him, "Much." Dwayne grinned and turned to the others, "So are you guys getting skis or snowboards?"

"I'm not sure actually, I've never done either," Joshua looked over at the racks of skis and snowboards, considering.

"Try snowboarding," Dwayne said enthusiastically, "It's really fun, I can teach you."

"Can you teach me too?" Joshua asked, "I've been skiing once but I basically sucked at it, I always wanted to learn how to snowboard."

"Yeah sure," Dwayne looked to Joshua, "Do you wanna try?"

"Yeah, why not," he smiled and nodded, "What about you guys? Can you remember how to ski Khlos?"

"Barely, it was years ago that I went."

"You can re-learn with Kim then," Khloe said.

"I went once with Khloe," Kim explained, "But I wasn't very good."

"You were great!" Khloe exclaimed, "It was just you're first time, I swear, by the end of this weekI'll be taking you both on some black runs."

Kourtney and Kennedy raised their eyebrows disbelievingly.

"Are you really good at skiing?" Joshua asked Khloe, who was standing next to him.

"I'm okay," she said, modestly,"my parents usually go around Christmas or Easter break so they take us with them," she explained.

"Why don't you try snowboarding with us then? You're not going to want to stick on the learner slopes with these guys," Joshua said.

"Because she sucks at snowboarding!" Rob said, laughing.

"I don't suck." I said.

As they continued to wait, the sound of talking was replaced by yawns. Joshua felt Khloe's head drop against his shoulder as they leant against a wall. He smiled down at her, and then gently shook her awake as they moved forward. Khloe looked jealously at Kourtney, who still had Dwayne's arms around her, and was half asleep, supported by him. She leant her head against Joshua again, and slipped a hand through his arm, closing her eyes.

"You need to get more sleep at night." Joshua whispered to her.

"I'm not sleeping." she murmured in reply.

"Well can I have my arm back then?" he joked.

"No." She held it a little tighter.

He chuckled, and pulled it from her grasp, wrapping it fully round her shoulders.

"Mmm, much better," she said, wrapping one arm around his waist and resting her head on his chest, "Wake me up when we get our skis."

"Ken, look," Rob whispered to Kennedy, gesturing slightly to Khloe and Joshua. Kennedy looked up from her position against Rob's neck, and smiled at what she saw. "Anyone would think they were going out already, they basically are, except for sex."

"Maybe they are having sex and we just don't know!" Rob joked, and Kennedy laughed, "It wouldn't surprise me!"

They finally reached a desk where a tall Italian guy took all their shoe sizes and sent someone to find boots for them. He had dark olive skin and wavy dark hair, and smiled at all the girls. Khloe was the last in line, having detached herself from Joshua when it was his turn.

"And last but not least, what is the shoe size of la bella signorina?"

Khloe automatically went into flirt auto drive, giving him a small smile, and biting he lip slightly before slowly unfurling six fingers. The Instructor raised his eyebrows very slightly and nodded, before going to find the boots.

He returned to the bench Khloe was sitting on, next to Joshua and the others who were struggling to get their boots on.

"Does the signorina need any help?" he asked as he handed them to her. Khloe took them and slipped them on deftly, snapping the straps shut with ease. "I think I got it." She saw Joshua laugh slightly beside her.

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"Finally! They're coming down," Kennedy pointed to the top of the slope, and they saw that the three figures had indeed began boarding down. It was easy to tell which was Dwayne, as he was moving much faster than the other two, and when he came to series of jumps he jumped neatly over them, performing a360 turn on the last.

"Kourt, I hate to say it, but your boyfriend is a show-off!" laughed Khloe as she watched.

Kourtney laughed when she heard this, "Uh Khloe, pot, kettle, black?" Kennedy laughed.

Khloe looked at her confused, "What?" This caused the others to laugh even harder, and Khloe pouted.

The guys came to a stop at the bottom, Dwayne turning as he did so, and Joshua just managing to stay upright, but Rob teetered before falling backwards, landing in the snow.

"I don't think I was made for winter sports," he laughed , as Kennedy came and sat down next to him. Khloe took of her skis and stuck them in the snow along with her poles, and then approached Joshua. "Nice stop," she said.

"Well I managed to stay upright," he laughed, looking at Khloe.

"Oh yeah?" she smiled evilly before pushing him very lightly on the chest, so he toppled backwards on his board. "Hey!" he exclaimed, and Kourtney and Dwayne looked up from where they had been kissing (wrapped in his jacket once more) and began laughing.

"You need to work on your balance Josshuaaa!" Khloe giggled as she held out hand to pull him up. He narrowed his eyes as he took her hand, and then suddenly tugged on it so she fell down too.

"So do you!"

Khloe let out an exclamation of shockin the cold snow, and then grabbed a handful of it, stuffing it in Joshua's face. Joshua grabbed her hands, and held them in one of his as he packed snow into her jacket. She wrestled him off, and straddled him, holding his wrists by his head as he lay on his back in the snow, laughing.

She held one of his elbows down with her knee and used her free hand to brush her hair out of her face, and unzip her jacket to release the snow trapped in there. Joshua laughed harder as he saw how much fell out. Khloe kept a completely straight face and glared at him.

"I would like an apology," she stated, one corner of her mouth twitching as she struggled not to laugh.

"Okay, I'm sorry," he stuck out his bottom lip, "forgive me?"

"No." She continued to glare, and pretended to ignore the fact that his wrist that was still held by her hand was now wriggling down into the snow, freeing itself, and his fingers were intertwining with hers. He brought it to his lips and kissed her gloved hand, "Please?"

She smiled at his gratiousness, "Say…Khloe rules."

"Khloe rules." he said, rolling his eyes.

"And she's the best at skiing…"

"And she's the best at skiing…"

"And she's the prettiest girl you know."

"You're pushing it." She pushed her knee harder onto his arm, "ow, ow, okay! And she's the prettiest girl I know." he caved and Khloe released his arm, smiling sweetly. "Okay, I forgive you." she stood up, and he removed his feet from his board and stood up too, glaring at Khloe, "You know, you pushed me first, it should be you apologising!"

"You didn't ask me to." she grinned, "And you got me all wet, which is way worse." He shook his head and picked up his board.

"Where are the others?" Khloe asked, looking around. They made their way to the lodge, and found them all sitting there drinking hot chocolate.

"You left us!" Khloe said indignantly as she sat down, and drank some of Dwayne's hot chocolate.

"Well you seemed a little preoccupied," Dwayne smirked, "And 'hey!' by the way," he said, referring to his now almost empty hot chocolate. Khloe smiled sweetly, and moved up on the sofa so Joshua could sit down. He saw Kim and Kourtney eyeing him, and felt himself blush slightly. The two girls shared a look.

They knew what was going to go down between the two.