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Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery<\/p>\n

Michael Becker\/FOX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

They say a kiss is just a kiss but was it romantic, friendly or just congratulatory?<\/p>\n

After Ryan Seacrest<\/a> announced that Scotty McCreery was the winner of American Idol<\/em><\/a> on Wednesday’s finale<\/a>, runner-up Lauren Alaina planted one on the country heartthrob<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are they an item? “Oh no,” McCreery, 17, said during a conference call on Thursday. “We’ve been getting that question all morning. Me and her \u2013 it’s a brother-and-sister relationship.”<\/p>\n

As for the kiss, McCreery knew Alaina, 16, was going to do it if he won.<\/p>\n

“She told me before the show she was going to [kiss me],” he said. “It was kind of like a joke. She’s a character.”<\/p>\n

The finalists \u2013 the youngest pair to compete in an Idol<\/em> finale \u2013 have a lot more in common than both being country singers on the rise. <\/p>\n

“We are really close friends,” McCreery said. “I met her on day one of Hollywood Week.”<\/p>\n

As other young contestants were eliminated, McCreery and Alaina became the only ones who had to balance singing with school work.<\/p>\n

“She’s in Algebra II, and she’s killing me in class right now,” McCreery told PEOPLE recently.<\/p>\n

“We have PE [together] so we play football all the time,” Alaina added. “I can throw it farther than he can, but he’s pretty athletic.”<\/p>\n

Now that another season is over and McCreery took the title, he made it clear that he still shares the Idol<\/em> glory with his friend.<\/p>\n

“It’s been a year since me and Lauren Alaina tried out now,” he told Seacrest minutes after learning the finale results. “We’ve been together since day one and we’re going to stay together.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, McCreery is already getting started on his upcoming album. “I recorded two songs last weekend,” he said. “It’s going to be a good album. I got good songs.”<\/p>\n

Until that comes out, fans can buy his first single, “I Love You This Big,” on iTunes, where on Thursday it quickly became the most downloaded song.<\/p>\n

“It’s wild,” he said of that honor. “I love the song.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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