DISCLAMER: I dont own Bridge to Terabithia. I do, however, own an Xbox 360. Yay me.
Jess Aarons was bored. It was halfway through Calculus 101, which Leslie had pressganged him into taking, and there were still 40 minutes till the end of the day.
"And so, the pi of the Q R squared is equal to the sum of the quadrilateral, also known as blah blah blah, monotonous blah."
Jess looked at Leslie's sheet, and it was jam packed full of notes for the test next week. He looked at his own.
It was full of notes all right...notes that he would nudge Les and tell her to read, stuff like "Terabithia after school?" and "yawn".
Little crappy words that you would expect to find in a final-year high school student's notebook.
The bell rang at the end of class, and Jess jumped up to be the first one out. He gathered his bag and books, and waited at the door for Leslie.
She walked up to him 5 minutes later, and he intertwined his fingers with hers.
They walked home like this, same as every day.
When they got to Terabithia, PT was waiting in the castle for them. They both stooped, and went inside.
"Jess?"
"Yeah?"
"You think we should make the castle bigger? And, like, put in like a solar powered mini generator so we can put a light in it?"
"S'up to you...I don't mind."
She looked at him with "The Look" which said "Go get lumber and tools".
He sighed, and complied.
Half an hour later, he was back with a wheelbarrow full of 2X4s, and his dad's toolbelt 'round his waist.
"Right," he said, "let's get started."
Insert 70's building montage here...
That night, as Leslie picked up the lantern, she made a mental note to pick up more Oreos and apples before coming tomorrow.
She and Jess made their way back to Jess's house, where she had been invited to sleep over that night. Thank God It was Friday.
"Good evening guys." called Jess's mom, as they sprinted up the stairs. Brenda and Ellie had long since gone to college, so he and Les had the room to themselves.
Jess climbed under his covers, and patted the spot next to him. Leslie smiled. She lay down next to him, and rested her head on his chest. PT jumped up too, and wriggled himself in between them, as if to say "MY Leslie, leave her alone..."
They discussed where they could find a solar generator, and decided to ask Jack in the morning.
He poked her in the side. She giggled. He poked her again. Now he could tell she was trying not to laugh. He knew she was ticklish there. He poked her a third time, and she kicked him.
He stopped poking her, and drifted off to sleep.
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That bit at the top that his teacher says, that's pure gibberish. Don't try to make sense of it. It's something my math teacher was talking about. We were talking about pi, then suddenly he's like "blah blah blah quadrilateral blah pi blah q r squared". So I wrote down what I understood. As you can imagine, I failed the math test that week.
