Title: Torture

Summary: After Rose lost her memories, Jake's forced to sit by her in class—it's not the easiest thing for a guy when he's madly in love with her. And there's news that he's not too happy to hear about, which then drives him nuts, making him rethink his decisions.

Notes: Post Supernatural Tuesday and Homecoming; Rose never moved to Hong Kong but remained in NY and still goes to school with Jake.

The way she smiled at him, and the way she looked at him with her blue eyes made him want to leap forward and kiss her senseless.

Also, her scent was so intoxicating, that it didn't really help in the matter. Jake was using every ounce of his energy toward self control. He was utterly tempted to take her aside and say how much he missed her and wished for her to remember who he was, and what they were together. Someone must've really hated him, to allow him to be put in the position--sitting right next to the love of his life, who didn't even remember that she felt the same way once upon a time.

Torture.

Absolute torture.

Rose had no memory of him, she had no idea how much she was driving the boy next to her mad. The beautiful, former huntress was now just an ordinary girl. A junior high school student dealing with ordinary junior high school problems and ordinary pre-teen/teenage drama.

The bell rang and Jake expected her to walk off and meet with her friends to go to lunch. He sighed, wasn't that what he wanted? Didn't he want Rose to be happy? Did she deserve a normal and ordinary life? Wasn't that what he wanted for her? Wasn't that what she wanted? After every thing she had went through, Jake knew in his heart that he wanted her to have a normal life. She deserved that after sticking her throat out for him for so long.

"See you later Jake," a melodic voice called him back to reality.

"Hmm?" he shook his head.

"I said, 'see you later Jake,'" she chuckled and smiled at him.

The American Dragon couldn't believe what he had just heard. She said his name! She knew him?! He quickly recovered and nodded, "Yeah, yeah sure," he grinned. "See ya!"

Maybe it wasn't a absolute torture after all.

"Rose isn't tonight your date with Nigel Thall?"

"Yeah, it is."

Nevermind, maybe it was absolute torture.

Author's notes: I found out that the creators never wanted Rose to leave and had planned for her to go to school with Jake, after she lost her memory. Also the episode, "Supernatural Tuesday" does take place after "Homecoming" and it was about Jake dealing with Rose going out with someone else, Nigel Thall. I am doing my version of what would've happened if Disney had allowed this, along with the Supernatural Tuesday episode we saw. I hope that wasn't too confusing! For more info on what I'm talking about please go to the Amdrag Blog and click: Inside Homecoming