Author's Note: I probably shouldn't keep starting stories... Mozie for the win though. Dedicated to Silver Turtle. Also, I'm ignoring the series finale Noze kiss crap.

Jennifer Mosely, Moze to most of her friends, had come a long way since James Polk Middle School. Well, about twenty blocks, really, to James Polk High School. Moze was a junior and things had, seemingly, calmed down since middle school graduation. She was still good friends with Ned Bigby and Cookie, but the boys' antics had begun to wear on Moze during their freshmen year. Gordy the janitor transferred to the high school when they graduated, to keep the team together he said, but Moze just found the same-old-schemes and Ned's never ending quest to work on the Guide tiring.

Moze had finally stopped growing at 5'10'' and, thankfully, now knew boys taller than her. To her, the fact that most of those boys were college friends of her older brother's was irrelevant. Her hair and eyes were still brown. She was still a tomboy. In fact, not much had changed, if Moze thought about it, other than her drifting away from Ned and Cookie and closer to Suzie Crabgrass, her own time rival and more recently best friend. It was because of Suzie that this all started and now Jennifer was confused…

Five Weeks Prior, Monday

"Jennifer? I really need to talk to you," Suzie said, eyes shining with what looked like tears. "It's kind of urgent."

Moze sighed and closed her locker. "How can something be kind of urgent, Suzie?" She stopped, taking in her friend's emotional state. No, her best friend's emotional state. Since the boys had become a trio with Gordy instead of her sophomore year, Moze and Suzie had become their own team.

"I don't know. Can we just go to the locker room and talk?" Suzie tugged weakly at her arm.

Moze nodded and led the way to the girl's locker room, where the two volleyball co-captains spent a good deal of time anyway. As expected, it was deserted since the lunch bell had gone off five minutes ago.

"Okay," Moze said, turning to Suzie, who looked nervous and scared, "now what's wrong?"

"I…" Suzie stopped, shaking her head as if to clear it. "I need to tell you something and I'm not sure how you're going to react." Suzie hoped she knew how Jennifer would react, but she wasn't sure. Taking a moment, she remembered all the lingering touches and glances over the years and their animosity-turned-friendship and all the little signs she wasn't sure Jennifer even knew she was sending that made Suzie sure it was time to spill her secret.

"Alright, well, we're best friends, Suz, I could never hate you or anything. I'm always going to be right here. So, tell me." Moze squared her shoulders, wondering what in the hell Suzie could have managed to keep from her.

"I like you."

"Duh."

"No," Suzie said, starting to cry now. "I mean I like you, like Ned likes me. Well," she paused, "not quite like how Ned likes me, because he's kind of creepy about it, but I mean I'm attracted to you," she stuttered slightly and looked up to see surprised written clearly across Jennifer's beautiful face.

"What?" Moze asked, dumbfounded. Suzie Crabgrass could have any boy, hell any girl, she wanted… And Suzie wanted her?

"I'm gay, Jennifer. I figured it out last year when I realized… how I felt about you. It's always been you and I just couldn't bear you not knowing for another day." Suzie felt better, having said it, and she'd stopped crying already, but surprise was not the reaction she'd been hoping for from Jennifer.

"I so don't know what to say, Suzie. I mean, wow. I'm flattered. Let's – let's get lunch while I digest this." She laughed at the inadvertent joke. "Digest. Get it?"

Suzie nodded. "Okay." She started to leave the locker room, but Jennifer pulled her back and into a tight hug.

"This doesn't have to change anything, Suz. I'm still your friend. I just need some time to get over the, well, the shock." Jennifer stopped. "Not that it's a bad thing, but you probably know that already. I just wasn't expecting that."

Suzie nodded her head against Jennifer's shoulder. She inhaled the scent of cucumbers and melon that she loved so dearly.

After a moment longer, Jennifer pulled back, grinned at Suzie, and led her to the cafeteria. "We're still on for Friday night, right? My place?"

"Yeah. Sleepover extravaganza." Suzie tried to be happy, knowing that Jennifer wasn't about to abandon her or anything, but the taller girl was quiet through lunch and seemed distracted the rest of the week. The subject of Suzie's gayness or her crush on Jennifer did not come up in conservation again until late Friday night.