Title: Once and Again Season 4 Episode 1
Rating: T
Episode Name: The Return
Summary: We will start off where the show left off with Jessie and Katie holding hands
Authors Note: I started watching Once and Again a few months ago thought that it was one of the best shows I have ever seen, and wish so badly that they hadn't canceled the show. I have read other fanfiction and feel that no one who has tried to complete the fourth season has watched the show before and does not knows any of the characters personalities, I do, and after 16 years it is time for the fourth season to be written. I am most likely going to mainly focus on Jessie and Katie, but all of the other characters are going to be mentioned. I am going to do a whole a whole 22 episodes. Each episode will be posted on a Monday the same day of the week each episode of Once and Again aired before it was cancelled. The next episode would have aired on April 22, 2002 and that is going to be the date the episode will take place.
All episodes of Once and Again Season 4: Full Episodes will be posted on Fridays between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Once and Again Season 4: Full episodes will be posted on an episode of Once and Again Season 4 is complete. It will be posted on Mondays the time will vary for now
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Once and Again Opening Song
Jessie Black and White
"I just think that sometimes things happen between people that you don't really expect, sometimes the things that are important are the ones that seem weirdest or the most wrong, and those are the ones that change your life." I said that to mother, but I was really referring to myself. She look over at Katie who was sitting right next to her.
Monday April 22, 2002, Upton Sinclair High School
Jessie is at is her locker getting her books for her first period class, when a certain someone comes up from behind,
"Hey Billie" Katie screamed.
"Hi Billie" Jessie said almost as loud.
"How are you on this wonderful day?" Katie asked.
"Katie it's Monday, forty degrees outside, and is going to be pouring rain all day, how is this a wonderful day?" Jessie answered a question with a question.
"Any day that I am with you is a wonderful day."
They stood there in the moment wishing that could press their lips against each other, but instead they settled for long stair at each other. They were so indulged into each other that they didn't notice someone was trying to talk to them.
"JESSIE & KATIE ARE YOU IN THERE?" they were pulled out of the trace by Tad who practically screamed in their ears. They turned towards Tad both with venomous looks on their face.
"What's the matter with you Tad, how would you like it if I walked up to you and scream in your ear!" Katie said ready to rip Tads head off. Jessie gave him a venomous look.
"I said hello to the both of you three times, and neither of you said a word." he said defensively, "Can I ask you to what I wanted to ask you, or are you going to zone out again."
"Ask away." Katie said starting to calm down.
"Friday night were having a party at my place, and wanted to know if the two of you wanted to come."
Katie looked over Jessie, Jessie nodded her head yes, and Katie said, "Tad, you should know by now that there isn't a party I would miss."
"And there isn't a party that she's going to that I would miss." Jessie said adding onto what Katie said.
"Cool, I'll see you both Friday at 9:00. Oh, Jess do you need a ride?" Tad said,
Jessie blushed out of embarrassment, Tad was not aware of Jessie relationship with Katie, or that Jessie was a lesbian, "I don't know Katie can you give me a ride."
Katie responded quickly, "Sure." Then turned her attention to Tad and said, "Tad, can you save me the gas money and mileage, and drive us both."
He looked at Katie, and said kind of pissed, "Ya, sure, whatever." He walked away with his head held down, as the bell for first period rang.
"I'll see you at lunch." Katie shouted at Jessie exchange once last look with her girlfriend.
"I'll see you." Jessie said wishing that she could just wrap her arms around Katie's waist and kiss her on the spot.
Katie Black and White
"This girl I have never met anyone like her." She looked over at Jessie who was now sitting next to her.
Screen turns black and goes to a commercial
Commercials have ended and the show is back
Jessie and Katie are sitting at a table eating lunch, Katie was babbling on about the events of the first half of here day, Jessie was indulged in Katie's beauty not saying a word.
"- and then the teacher started going off on Tad for …" Katie stopped talking when she noticed Jessie's unfocused expression. "Did you hear anything I just said?" Katie asked
"Another teacher gave you detention." Jessie said hoping that was the right answer since half the time it was.
"That is not even close to what I said." Katie said crossing her arms half annoyed, and half finding it adorable that Jessie was indulged in here ranting, "I am not repeating that that whole ranting."
"Well give me a quick summary." Jessie said, trying not to laugh about the situation.
Katie said quickly, "Fine. Period 1, I fell asleep and got yelled at by the teacher, and half the class laughed. Period 2, the teacher almost bored the class to death, probably a bucket list goal of every teacher. Period 3, Tad shot a spit ball at the back of my head, the teacher yelled at him, and gave him detention."
Jessie responded, "Well I was right about someone getting detention. Speaking of Tad how funny do you think it is going to be when he finally finds out about us…and that he asked out a lesbian?" She whispered and giggled the last part. Katie and Jessie found it very funny how Tad would flirt and try to ask out a girl he could never have.
Katie also giggling said, "His ego will definitely be chopped down like a tree, and probably…" Katie was cut off when, Tad walked up behind her.
"Who would have their ego chopped down?" Tad asked curiously as he sat down to eat lunch with them.
"Oh, just some idiot. Hey Tad what do you think about a guy who would out a gay girl, and he has that girls girlfriend for a very long time?" Jessie asked, while Katie laughed.
Tad thought about it for a second, while out his arm around Jessie's shoulder, "Well I know that when I asked you out two years ago, and still didn't know about you I felt like the dumbest guy alive."
Jessie quickly reacted to what Tad said, while trying to get his arm off of her. "Wait you asked Katie out? When, where, and how?" Jessie had to have these answers.
"Our sophomore year, a friend was hosting a party, and I wanted to bring a date the same as every other guy going. I walked up to her after English class, once everyone had left the classroom, and asked if she wanted to go to the…" Tad got cut off by Katie.
"He's making up some story to cover up what really happened. So far the only part that was true was that it was for a friend's party, and that it was two years ago. We were at my house hanging out. Tad started telling me about a party that one of his friends was going to be having, and asked me if I wanted to go with him. So I said, Tad your one of my best friends so I'm going to be honest with you, I'm gay. And if you every tell another soul what I just told you I will make sure that all of your Jock buddy's you asked out a gay girl." Katie stopped talking because she was laughing so hard, Jessie couldn't stop laughing.
Jessie was barely able to speak because she was laughing so hard, al she could get out of mouth was, "Tad is that true?"
Tad said with his head down and his ego bruised, "Every piece of it."
Jessie said trying to get over her laughing fit, "How did you ever recover from that?"
Katie quickly said before he could even open his mouth, "Simple really. A week later when I finally started to stop making fun him about it, he asked out Alexa, took her to a party, got drunk, slept with her, and regained his glory." Katie said laughing.
Tad's month dropped because she actual said that aloud.
Tad said, "Can't lose what you never lost." Trying to make himself seem all high and mighty.
Katie in response, "Can't lose what you never had."
"Oh so is that what you had planned for me. Take me to your party, get me drunk, and sleep with me." Jessie said, now just trying to push Tad's buttons.
"Jess, I would never…" Tad said trying to sound convincing, he got cut off by Katie who was now joining in with her girlfriend's pushing of Tad button's.
"Have you all of a sudden gone through some sort of life changing revelation? Is this a new and improved Tad sitting before us, because back in November I specifically remember walking in on you and Jessie, and you were all over her. I also remember last month your reason for joining the Gay Straight Alliance was Bi-Sexual girls, and you quit when there were none at the first meeting." Jessie started to blush and put her face in her hands, that night at Katie's had just come straight back to her, "Oh come on Jess it wasn't that bad, I mean you're not the only girl to reject Tad." Tad took another blow to his ego. Jessie still had her face in her hands.
"Jess, come on now it wasn't that bad was it?" he said with a great amount of curiosity.
Jessie then took her face out of her hands and responded, "If I liked it I wouldn't have said for you to stop."
Tad turned red, Katie started laughing, and the bell rang for everyone to leave lunch. Everyone including Tad had started to run out of the Cafeteria to head to their next class. One they way out Jessie stopped Katie to ask her something.
"So, wait one second Tad knows about you?" Jessie asked
"Of course he does, Tad's my best friend." Katie said
"You didn't tell him about us did you?"
"Judging by the way he wrapped his arm around you at lunch, and asked you out this morning, no I didn't tell him." Katie answered surprised Jessie even asked.
"Ok. You know I had to ask." Jessie said.
"Jess, I'm not ready for people to know about us either, but I am going to be honest with you, if there is one person in this school who could end up figuring it out on their own about us, it is Tad, and that is because he sees how much time we spend together, and knows that I'm gay." Katie said
"I know." Jessie said, "Oh Billie, before I forget can you give me a ride to therapy after school, Grace has a Gay Straight Alliance meeting?" Jessie asked as they started to head towards their classes.
"Ya sure, I'm surprised that after what happened with Dimitri she didn't quit that club." Katie said
"Well she tried to, but because she had already agreed to do so much stuff in the club she can't until she has done everything she volunteered to do." Jessie and Katie laughed about Grace misery.
"Well what's left on her GSA to do list?"
"She's on her last item on her list, plan the Gay Straight Alliance dance." Jessie said laugh.
Katie laughed "Grace must love being Grace right now."
"If only she didn't see something in Mr. Dimitri, then she might not have to do this alone or at all."
They laughed
Katie said, "We really shouldn't be so mean to her."
Jessie, "Your right, but we are sinistral angels of the truth."
They laughed and shared one last long look at each other, before they went their separate ways.
Screen turns black and goes to commercial
Commercials have ended and the show is back
Waiting room of Dr. Rosenfeld's office
It's now 5:30 p.m., Jessie and Katie have been sitting in the waiting room of Dr. Rosenfeld's office for an hour and a half wondering what is taking him so long.
Jessie started to complain, "Were is he? He was supposed to be here at 4:00, Grace is probably home from her Gay Alliance meeting."
"Gay Straight Alliance." Katie corrected as she was flipping through a three week old issue of People's magazine.
"It is gay just to be in that club," Jessie said she started pacing, "I mean we have had enough time to talk about everything that happened up until left school, do our homework, and…" Katie rolled her eyes, put down the magazine, got up, and cut Jessie off by pressing her lips up against Jessie's. The both became completely indulged in each other, and once again entered their own little world the same way they did that morning by their lockers.
The kiss lasted for at least five minutes, and it stopped when they both had to pulled away for oxygen, "I guess I figured out a way for us to kill time until, the shrink shows up." Katie said with a goofy grin on her face.
"The shrink has showed up, and has determined the topic at hand for today session," Dr. Rosenfeld had finally walked in. "Katie why don't you join us for today's session?"
Both girls became very nervous, as they walked in Rosenfeld's office and sat on the couch.
Jessie and Katie sitting side by side Black and White
"You know that feeling you get when you get caught doing something that you probably shouldn't be doing because, other people think it's wrong but you think it's right," Jessie said, "this is it."
Jessie and Katie sat there in silence as Dr. Rosenfeld sat in his chair with the optimistic look on his face, and that odd smile like he is waiting for an answer. All Jessie's thinking is – What's he going to say, is he going to tell my parents, is he going to say we shouldn't be together? -
"Ok, so I have never been in therapy before, is it supposed to be this quite, aren't you supposed to be asking questions and come up with random theories of things that you think are wrong with us, ask for our life story, or show us some sort of an ink blob and ask us what we see. And why do you have that look on you face, it's starting crept me out." Katie asked, unable to sit in this silence anymore. Jessie just looked at Katie and shock her head. Katie fell right into his trap, she gave him something to work with.
Dr. Rosenfeld Black and White
"She is something else. Now I know why Jessie never stops talking about her when we have our sessions." He stops for a second to run his hand through his hair, "looks like my suspicions have been confirmed."
"First, off we don't have enough time in this session for your life stories. Second, the blob of ink is for the mentally insane. Third, from what just came out of your mouth moments ago I've already come up with at least a dozen different random theories of what I think wrong with you. Since you brought it up are there any problems that I should be asking questions about?"
All Jessie can think is – Yep, you fell right into his trap. He gets you talking, and now he has you locked in - as she laughed to herself.
"Well let's start with my first period English teacher. The guy is so boring that all his class is good for is taking a nap or spending first period day dreaming. Next is my second period History teacher, the guy is probably trying to achieve the life goal of every teacher and bore students to death. Next is my meat head best friend Tad, the guy gets me in so much trouble in my third period class, he shots split balls at the back of my head and through pencils at the teacher, and makes it look like it was…" Katie was cut off from her ranting by Dr Rosenfeld who along with Jessie was laughing.
"I met more along the lines of problems that would require a person to be in therapy, not the problem with teachers and meat head best friend." Dr. Rosenfeld said through a laugh.
"Well if I did have any problems like that then, I would not discuss it with a shrink in Jessie therapy session. Also how does interrogating me help Jessie, interrogate her?" Katie realizing that Dr. Rosenfeld was trying to get inside her head.
"Thanks for having my back. Now I know how Tad feels when he complains about how you leave him hanging when you guys get in trouble in classes." Jessie said sarcastically.
Dr. Rosenfeld looked over at Jessie, "Well?"
Jessie said the only thing she could, "How much did you see?"
"Enough to confirm suspicions I've had this last month, enough to ask if Katie would be willing to come with you to these sessions from now on." Dr. Rosenfeld said.
"You want me to what?!" Katie said
"What do you mean by suspicions?" Jessie asked intrigued with what he was saying.
"Katie I want you to come with Jessie to these sessions from now on. Jessie, whenever you have come here for the last two months everything you that comes out of your mouth is about, involves, or had to do with Katie. After seeing the two of you together now, I can see how over the last six months you have made serious progress." He said. Katie blushed a little bit.
"Hang on just one second, why do you want me to come to these sessions, have you diagnosed me with something?" Katie asked.
Jessie and Katie Black and White
"What would I do without her," Jessie said as she looked over at Katie who was sitting next to her.
Dr. Rosenfeld look over at Katie, "I have diagnosed with something, being the cause of a complete 180 degree turn in Jessie's emotions, attitude, diet, lifestyle, and so many other things in the last six months." Katie blushed once again never realizing what a big impact she has had on Jessie's life. Jessie blushed also.
"So will you come with me to these therapy from now?" Jessie asked
Katie said, "Only if Rosenfeld here agrees to never say a word about us to our parents."
Dr. Rosenfeld informed Katie, "Katie, you're not my patient so I can't say anything to your parents. Jessie, unless I think it can lead to you getting hurt, or have a negative effect on your life it is not my place to tell your parents about your love life. However, I do want the two of you to keep in mind that it never ends well when parents find out about something like this on their own."
"Well keep that in mind." Jessie said responding to Dr. Rosenfeld's advice.
Jessie and Katie both looked at each other and agreed, Katie said, "I guess I'll see you at the next session Rosenfeld."
"It's Dr. Rosenfeld, and our time is up." Dr. Rosenfeld said
"Thanks Dr. Rosenfeld." Jessie said politely
"Ya, thanks Rosenfeld it was nice meeting you." Katie said.
Dr. Rosenfeld Black and White
"I truthfully believe that Katie is the whole reason that Jessie has made all of the progress that she has in the last six months, compared to what I have seen prior to her meeting of Katie. From my stand point their a two hypothesis to come with the relationship: 1. If Jessie and Katie stay together, then Jessie will continue to make progress at the rate she has and before the time she goes off to college she may not need these therapy sessions anymore. 2. If something where to happen that would lead to Jessie and Katie being together anymore, then Jessie will go back to the way she was before she met Katie." He said staring at the camera with his arms crossed, "I guess I'm just going to have to do what I can to keep them together."
Parking garage of Dr. Rosenfeld's of office
"So, you have no problem coming with me to these sessions from now on?" Jessie asked.
"Why not, I actually found this to be very entertaining." Katie said with a grin on her face.
"Entertaining, what about this whole situation was entertaining!?" Jessie said astonished with Katie's response.
"Billie, anything with you is entertaining." Katie said as she pulled Jessie in for a kiss before they got in her car to drive back to the Manning/Sammler house.
Screen turns black and goes to commercial
Commercials have ended, the show is back
Manning / Sammler House
Eli is in the living room sitting on the couch, wondering where everyone is. He looks up at the clock and sees that it is 5:30p.m. When the phone rings. He got up from the couch and ran to the kitchen to answer the phone.
"Hello?" Eli said into the phone.
"Eli, is that you I thought you were at your moms?" Rick asked.
"Her and Henry went out on a date, so figured I'd come over here and have dinner with you guy's. Where is everyone?" Eli said still trying to figure out where everyone is.
"Grace should home soon from her Gay Straight Alliance meeting any minute, Jessie is at Therapy, Katie is giving her a ride home, and Lily, Zoe, and me went out to do some running around. I just wanted to call and tell whoever was home that we're going to stop and get something to eat, so you all are on your own. We're not going to home until around 9:00 if I had to guess." Rick told Eli.
"Ok, I'll tell Grace and Jessie." Eli said.
"Ok, I'll see you later." Rick hung up the phone.
When Eli hung up the phone Grace walked in the door from her meeting wishing that she could just be done with the Gay Straight Alliance, finish her Junior and Senior year, graduate, and never have to hear another comment about her and Dimitri again.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Grace asked wondering why Eli was in the house, he hadn't spent much time there since Karen had come home from the hospital and needed his help getting around the house.
"I came here to eat dinner, my mom is on a date with her physical therapist." Eli said.
"Ok, hey do you have a minute to talk?" Grace asked Eli.
"What do you need?" Eli responded.
"What do you do when people say things about you, that you just can't stand hearing, and…" Grace was cut off by Eli.
"The whole Dimitri thing hasn't gotten any better yet?" Eli asked assuming he knew what Grace was talking about.
"No, and it doesn't help hearing people talking behind my back about it, or getting comments at every one of these stupid meetings about me and Dimitri," Grace said. She looked up at the ceiling and took a deep because the whole situation was starting to infuriate her, "What would you do if you were in my place?" Grace asked.
"Not fall in love with a teacher." Eli said earning a slap on the side of the arm.
"Eli I'm serious, I don't know how I'm going to make it until graduation, walking through the halls every day hearing people talk behind my back, and make fun of me. The last time I walked in the lunch room all I could hear and see was people laughing and talking about me." Grace said yelling as she began to cry.
Eli took in for a hug, not realizing that what he said hurt her feelings.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Look you can't let them get to you, you have to keep on pushing through this, eventually everyone is going forget about this and find someone else to make fun of or talk about." Eli told her trying to give the best advice he could.
"The easy for say, the two years we were in school together there was never a day that I saw you have any problems half as bad as this one." Grace said, her face was now covered in tears.
"Grace you are one of the strongest people I know, you have put up with more shit from people at school and in this house over the last 3 years, than I have in my life. Every problem you had to deal with you found an out or to solve it, I know you will find a way out of this one to," Grace looked up at Eli beginning to stop crying, "No matter what I am here to help you in any way I can." Both of them began to look at each other the same way they did the day Rick and Lily got married.
They began to bring their heads towards each other when they heard two voices coming through the door, and immediately pulled away from each other, Grace wiped the rest of the tears of her face, and Eli just ran his hand through his hair trying to make it seem like nothing had happened. Jessie and Katie had finally arrived home their therapy session.
"Katie, it's his job to make people feel like that, so that they feel like they need his help." Jessie said to Katie.
"Well mission accomplished, since I'll be going with you to him from now on." both of them started to laugh. "Oh, hey Eli, hi Grace."
"Hi, Katie. Jess, what took so long? You were supposed to be home at least an hour ago." Eli said.
"Rosenfeld was an hour and a half late. Why are you here, I thought you would have been home with mom." Jessie said.
"She's out on a date with Henry. How many more people are going to ask me the same question?" Eli responded.
"The physical therapist." Katie said trying to sound all lovey dovely.
The four of them started to laugh.
When the laughing started to die down Grace asked, "So, where's Rick and my mom, I'm hungry?"
"They ran out with Zoe to some running around, they won't be back until around 9:00, so we are on our own. You want to order a pizza real quick?" Eli asked.
Grace reasoned, "Ya, sure."
Jessie said, "Sure, Katie do you want to stay for dinner before you leave."
"Sure, all that talking with Rosenfeld has left me famished." Katie said.
When Jessie thought about their session with Rosenfeld she began to have this need to kiss Katie, "Ok, you guy's order the pizza. Come on Katie." Jessie grabbed Katie by the wrist and ran up to the attic with her. Once they got up there Jessie slammed the door shut, and began to enter a very deep make out session with Katie completely shutting the world out from them.
"Well that was weird, what is it with the two of them, this last month there hasn't been a day that I haven't seen the two of them together, and I can't even begin to say how weird it is that Katie showed up at the wedding." Eli said.
Grace knew all too well what was happening between Jessie and Katie, and that it wasn't her place to tell Eli what was happening between the two of, "Who knows. With those to it could be anything."
"Speaking of Jessie and Katie. What do you think they would want on their pizza?" Eli asked
About an hour later the four of them were cleaning up from dinner.
Jessie and Katie where washing the dishes, Grace was cleaning the table, and Eli had just stepped out to take the trash out.
"He's starting to catch onto you guys." Grace said as soon as Eli closed the door behind him.
"Wait does he know about us?" Jessie said with a worried look on her face.
"No, he doesn't know. He said to that he noticed that this last month there hasn't been a day that he hasn't seen the two of you together, and he can't even begin to say how weird it is that you showed up at the wedding." Grace said looking at Katie.
"Well I couldn't go a whole day without seeing Billie." Katie said defensively.
"I thought that Lily would be the first person to notice." Jessie said.
Grace looked at the two of them wondering why they weren't concerned, she heard Eli start to walk up the front steps, "Whatever, I'm just giving you two a heads up." Grace walked out of the room, and went upstairs to her room.
Eli walked in wondering why everything had all of a sudden everything was quite, and why Grace stormed out of the room, but he did see it as an opportunity to talk to Jessie and Katie about the whole Grace and Dimitri situation.
"What was that all about?" Eli asked
"Oh, I don't know" Jessie said.
"Well, it's getting late I'm going to too head out." Katie said as she was grabbing her bag.
"Bye, Billie." Jessie said giving Katie a big hug before she left, and Eli turned away she gave Katie a quick peck on the lips, but not quickly enough. They didn't notice it but Eli saw, and didn't say anything.
Eli Black and White
"Ok, that answers so many questions." Eli looked at the camera as if he now completely understood his sister.
"Hey Katie I'll walk out with you I have to leave also," Eli said grabbing his keys, and walking over to Jessie giving her a hug, and walking out with Katie.
They had gotten to Katie's car and before she could get in Eli stopped her, "Hey Katie, do you have a minute to talk." Katie began to grow nervous.
Katie Black and White
"He's going to ask, I knew it was only a matter of time, what do I say?" Katie said staring at the camera nervously.
"Depends if it's worth a minute of my time." She said trying to stay cool and calm.
"Your, in the same grade as Grace right." Eli asked, thinking to himself. - One problem at a time figure out what's going on with Grace right now, worry about Jessie and Katie dating later. -
"Ya, why?" said with a sigh of relief, wondering where he was going with this.
"Well what's going on with this whole Grace and Dimitri thing?" Katie looked at him surprised wondering why he was all of a sudden getting involved in this, "Grace was talking to me about it earlier, and I think it's starting to get under her skin."
"It's bad Eli. The whole school found out real quick, and it hasn't gotten any better." Katie started to feel really bad for Grace, "that's going to stick with her until she graduates."
Eli ran his hand thorough his hair, "Well, I mean have you and Jessie attempted to do anything about it." He said praying that they two of them were going up to bat for Grace.
"We have been saying all that we can say, something version of there is no way that happened, change the subject, and save her a seat in the cafeteria hoping that she eventual comes and eats lunch again." Katie said.
"Wait a minute, she doesn't eat lunch?" Eli asked. Thinking back to what Grace said earlier about when she goes in the cafeteria.
"Jessie and me planned on having lunch with Grace and only Grace one day last week. We were sitting at the table and what happens, Tad walks over, sits down and start flirting with Jessie as always. After about 5 minutes. Of me and Grace passing looks with each other enjoying Jessie's discomfort Tad decided to ask Grace with a mouth full of food, So, Grace how's everything going with the whole Dimitri thing." Katie stopped for a second and pinched her eyebrows, "Grace thought that Tad was trying to make a joke out of it, grabbed her bag and stormed out of the cafeteria. She has not been in there since then."
"Well was Tad trying to make a joke out of it, and did you and Jessie plan on having him sit with you." Elis asked.
"No he wasn't trying to make a joke out of it, Tad just has no idea what the right way and the wrong way is to ask a girl about what's on her mind, or tell if she doesn't want to talk about something. I told him in first period that he couldn't sit with us today, and what happens, as usual he didn't listen to me."
"Ok, well who do you see Grace talking to in the hallway, I mean is there anyone that doesn't believe this is true?" Now rubbing that back of his neck realizing how bad the situation really was.
"Me and Jessie." Katie said, "Look Eli I'm not going to lie to you the only way this is going away is if another big rumor started up, those came like once, maybe twice a year, I guess this years was Grace and Dimitri." Katie said looking down at her watch. "I have to go its late, I'll see you some other time."
"Katie once last thing, thank you." Eli said.
Katie looked at him and said "No problem.", as she got into her car and Eli started to walk to his.
Screen turns black and goes to commercial.
The commercials have ended the show is back.
Friday April 26, 2002
Tad's car 7:45p.m.
"So you sure that Jessie won't mind us getting there early. I mean I said today that we would be there at 8:30 to pick her up, not 8:00," Tad asked Katie while they were driving to the Sammler/Manning House, "what if she's still getting ready?"
Katie looked him and said, "Look Tad I told Jessie I would help her with her makeup, and normally she's ready before I get there."
"Well what am I supposed to do while you two play with make up?" Tad asked annoyed with why they had to get there so early.
"I don't know, sit in the car, and wait." Katie starting to laugh a little knowing that Tad hated when he had to sit around while Katie helped her friends get ready for a party.
"Oh no. Not after the last time. I'm coming in so I can shut my car, that way you don't cost me even more gas." Tad said.
Tad Black and White
"Whenever Katie has me give her a ride someplace and has me wait in the car, I end up sitting there for a half an hour, and lose a half tank of gas." Tad said looking at the camera with a straight face.
"Ok, well then you can sit there and try to understand half of what we're saying." Katie said with irony in her voice.
"Better than sitting in the car for a half an hour with the engine running, and lose half a tank of gas." Tad said annoyed with how long Katie takes to help her friends get ready.
"Whatever." It was 7:55 p.m., they had just pulled into the Sammler/Manning driveway.
7:45 p.m. Sammler/Manning House bathroom
Jessie was wrapped in a towel finishing putting some curls in her hair. She heard a banging noise on the door it was Zoe.
"Come on Jessie hurry up and get out of the bathroom, I have to pee." Zoe shouted through the door. Jessie unlocked and walked out wrapped in her towel.
"There, happy." She said annoyed with Zoe who ran into the bathroom and slammed the door behind her.
Jessie went up to her room, and closed the door behind her, forgetting to lock it. She took off her towel put on bra and underwear, turned on the Billie Holiday CD she liked to listen to, while tried to figure out what she going to wear. It took her ten minutes just to figure out the she wanted to wear a pair of jeans, and she still had no idea what shirt she wanted to wear.
8:00 Sammler/Manning House front door
Eli opened the door after hearing the knock
"Katie, Tad you guys are early I thought you weren't coming until 8:30" Eli asked.
"Well we were but Katie has to help Jessie with her makeup apparently." Tad answer on behalf of Katie and him.
"Hey, why are you anyway?" Katie asked wondering why Eli was answering the door.
"Well Grace isn't home, my dad and lily are at the court house, and Zoe needed a baby sister, and my mom made me volunteer." Eli said summarizing the whole situation.
"Wait, why are they at the court house. Is your mom suing your Dad?" Katie joking.
"Monday night when you were here eating dinner with us, the reason they were so late, was because they got a speeding ticket 15 miles over, and had to go to court tonight." The three of them starting laughing.
Once the laughing died down Tad asked, "So where is Jessie?"
Eli said, "Up in her room she should be ready by now."
Katie and Tad started to head upstairs to Jessie's room, when they heard music coming from Jessie's room.
"What is that noise?" Tad asked hearing Billie holiday playing.
"God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday." Katie said knowing what song was playing.
"Isn't she from like the 50's or something?" Tad said wondering why Jessie was listening to that song.
"Well I am the one who bought her the CD." Katie said
"That makes sense," Tad said, "only you could get someone into music that is probably as old as my grandmother." laughing a little bit.
Katie slapped on the side of the arm as they got to the door and began to open it. Once they got up the steps what they saw was Jessie leaning over a pile of shirts on her bed in a pair of jeans and a black bra, listening to God Bless the Child, and trying to pick a shirt to wear.
When Jessie looked up and saw Katie trying to covering trying to cover Tads eyes. Jessie screamed a little bit, "Ahh," Jessie grabbed a towel that was right next to her and tried to cover herself. "Katie, Tad, your early." Her face began to turn red.
"Thought you would have been ready early, we'll go wait in the Hallway. Let us know when we can come up." Katie said pushing Tad down the stairs and out of Jessie's room.
Once they were out of the room and she heard the door close Jessie dropped the towel grabbed the first shirt she could reach, put it on and fell backwards into her bed, completely embarrassed that her friends caught her half naked listening to Billie Holiday.
Sammler/Manning House hallway
"Well now I'm glad I didn't wait in the car." Tad said joking earning a slap on the side of the head.
Tad rubbed his head pretending to be in pain, "What was that for?"
"You're such an idiot." Katie responded
"You guys can come up now." Jessie said, now wearing a shirt and shaken off the embarrassment of Tad and Katie walking in on her.
"Before we come all the way up the steps are you wearing a shirt?" that question earned Tad another slap on the side of the head from Katie only this time it did hurt.
"Would you stop hitting me?" Tad said to Katie rubbing the side of his head in pain.
"Would you stop acting like an idiot?" Katie answered Tad with a question, as her and Jessie laughed.
"Katie did you bring that lip stick" Jessie asked Katie
Katie reached into her pocket pulled out, "I've got it right here."
"This is goanna take while isn't it?" Tad said looking at his watch seeing that the time is 8:35p.m., and knowing that people would start to arrive at his house soon.
"Well you wanted to come in." Katie said reminding Tad that it was his choice to come in and sit through Katie help Jessie with her makeup.
"Not that, I knew almost exactly what I was getting into when I came in here, it's 8:35 people are going to start to get to my house soon. You guys have to hurry up." Tad said anxious to get out of there because it would take ten minutes to back to his house, "It's going to take like ten minutes to get back to my house."
Katie and Jessie looked at each other knowing they didn't have enough time and that Tad was right.
"Tad, just give us 5 minutes to get started, and we'll finish in the back seat of your car." Katie said trying to come up with a solution.
"Ya, why don't you head out to the car and start it we'll be out in five minutes." Jessie willing to go along with Katie's plan.
"Ok, fine just hurry." Tad said as he walked down the stairs and closed the door behind him.
Once Tad closed the door behind him, Jessie turned to Katie wrapped her arms around Katie, and planted her lips on hers, "I thought he would never leave." Jessie said as she continued to kiss.
Katie broke apart the kiss when she realized they had to leave, "Jess, we have to go. Tad's waiting on us remember."
"Do we have to, why don't we just stay here, and keep on doing this." Jessie whined, as she gave Katie another kiss.
"You know we have to Billie." Katie said wishing that they could just stay there.
"Ok fine, but can you come over my mom's with me after the party, so we can do some more of this." Jessie gave Katie one last peck on the lips.
"I don't see why not." Katie looking at Jessie beautiful blue eyes.
Once they broke apart stuffed some makeup in her Jessie's bag, her and Katie left the attic, and headed out to the car. They both sat in the back giving Katie enough room to work on Jessie's makeup. What Jessie found most entertaining about the whole situation was the whole time they were driving Tad was saying all kinds of variations of, "Katie do not spill any of the stuff in my car, or you're cleaning the inside of this car."
"You mean the same way that when we were in my parent's car, you dropped a burger on the floor and spilled a soda all over the dash board." Katie said, Jessie began to laugh.
"Wait a minute what happened?" Jessie asking while laughing.
"One month after I got my license Tad and went through a drive through after school, Tad apparently couldn't wait to eat his burger so he decided to start eating. When he went to take a drink his soda he put his burger on the dash board. I had to make a quick stop, and his burger went flying off the dash board and on the floor. I said Tad you idiot pick up that thing up you are cleaning the inside of this car. When he went to pick it up genius her decided to put the soda on the dash board. That feel off the dash board once we started driving. So what ended up happening was once he finally cleaned up the burger and the soda I pulled over to the side of the road, kidded him out of the car, through the bag of food at him, and told him that I was giving the bill for what it cost to have my car cleaned. I have refused to drive him any ware since then." Jessie and Katie were both having a laughing fits.
Tad said, "Oh come on Katie it wasn't that bad."
"Not that bad, my car smelled like Dr. Pepper for two days, even after I had the inside of my car cleaned." Katie said.
"Ok point taken." Tad said, as they finally pulled into Tad's driveway, "Ok we have about five minutes to get a bucket of ice, grab some drinks to put in the ice, and set up a speaker with music."
"Tad why don't you just make punch real quick. Save yourself the time I'll help you with it. Jess, can you pick a CD and set it up." Katie planned on helping Tad make a spiked punch.
"Ya, sure. Tad were are the CD's." Jessie asked.
"Left side of the living room." Tad shouted from the kitchen were him and Katie where working a big thing spiked punch.
It took Jessie a minute but she found a good CD, and set it up. Once she did people had started to arrive and Tad and Katie had finished making the punch.
One of the guys who came in said, "Hey Tad, how's it going man?" as he and Tad walked over to the punch bowl and both got a glass. About ten more people who walked through the front door did the exact same thing.
Midnight three hours have passed, the house was half full and the people were half drunk, except for Jessie who was completely sober. When she went to have a drink she took a sip of the punched realized it was spiked and spilled it out when no one was looking. She was now looking for Katie having lost track of her wanting to let her know that Eli would be there to get them in 10 minutes. When Jessie finally found Katie it was a sight. Katie standing at the punch bowl filling her glass, obviously drunk, and ready to pass out.
"Katie, are you drunk?" Jessie said amazed considering she has never been to one of these parties with Katie before.
"No…maybe just little bit…Billie." Katie in a broken drunken sentence.
"Katie we have to go Eli is going to be here in five minutes." Jessie said trying to get through to her drunken girlfriend, thinking to herself – I guess she could've drank a little less -
"Alright…Alright…" Katie said as she put her glass down. Katie had to lean on Jessie for support because she was so drunk that she could barely walk.
"Ok, come on now, Eli's should be around the corner." Jessie said struggling to walk with Katie weight on her shoulder.
Tad walked up them while they were out in the front yard walking to Eli's car, obvious that he didn't even half of the amount of punch Katie had, "Are you guys leaving?"
"Ya, Eli just got here, we have to go. And I think that Katie had a little too much to drink." Jessie said answering Tad's question.
"Ya…me and my girlfriend here are spending the night at her place…isn't that right Jess…" Jessie looked at Katie stunned that she said that, considering that both of there reason for wanting their relationship to stay a secret.
"Jess, wait you and Katie are… I mean your…" Tad couldn't even finish his sentence, when Jessie cut him off.
"Yes were are together, yes I am gay, and if you have a problem with it or tell anyone you will find out why I'm a black belt in Tae Kwon Do." Jessie said threatening Tad, and wondering what she was going to say to Katie when she was sober and could say a sentence with some thought put into it.
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"That isn't how I thought someone would find out about us." Jessie looked at the camera.
Once they got to the car Eli helped Katie lay across the backseat, "So, I take it she had a fun time." Eli commented about Katie drunken state.
"Yes she did, her and Tad spiked the punch." Jessie said, annoyed that Katie said to Tad that they were girlfriends.
Eli laughed, "And I'm guessing that you didn't have anything to drink."
"No, I didn't because I didn't want to end up like her passed out in your back seat, after saying something stupid in front of Tad." Jessie comment, and thought to herself – I have never gotten drunk and don't plan on ever getting drunk no matter what people say –
"Jess, you really need to learn to loosen up a little bit, and have some fun." Eli said, "I mean did you think that there wouldn't be alcohol at the party?
"Eli, there is a difference between having fun, being drunk in the back of a car." Jessie snapped at Eli.
"Whatever, how do we get to Katie's from here?" Eli asked Jessie unaware that Katie was staying at their place tonight.
"She staying over our place tonight, does it look like she can go home right now? Her parents will kill her." Jessie, trying to avoid telling Eli why Katie was staying over, unaware that he knew about her and Katie.
"Ok." Eli said unsure if he should ask Jessie about her and Katie or not.
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"Do I ask her, do I not ask her." Eli looked at the camera confused, "Maybe I should just talk to both them when Katie isn't passed out in the back seat of my car."
"So what did Katie say?" Eli asked.
"What do you mean?"
"You said that Katie said something stupid in front of Tad, what did she say?"
Jessie hesitated for a second trying to think of some sort of half-truth to cover up what Katie had actually said, "Something about a relationship that she's in right now." Jessie said as they pulled into the driveway of the Karen's house.
Jessie and Eli got out of the car, and got Katie out of the backseat, "So, were is she going to sleep?" Eli asked.
"My room were else." Jessie said, Eli wondered if that was really what was going to happen.
"Can't we just leave her on the coach, mom won't care her car isn't in the driveway she is obviously spending the night at Henry's."
"Quit whining, and just help me get her upstairs." Jessie said starting to get annoyed with Eli.
"Fine, just keep in mind I have to work tomorrow." Eli said not in the mood to argue.
Once they got upstairs they put Katie down on Jessie's bed and Eli walked out of the room. Jessie began to put her pajamas on and went down the hall to brush her teeth. When Jessie got back she took Katie's shoes off her feet, got in bed, pulled the blanket over her and Katie, and feel asleep with Katie at her side.
Saturday April 27, 2002
11:00a.m. the next day. The sight Katie woke up to was Jessie sitting at her desk chair just staring at Katie enjoying the sight of her sleeping girlfriend.
Katie said though a yawn, "Enjoying the view." she started to experience a serious headache.
"I am enjoying the view, and I think you should've had a little less to drink last night." Jessie said making fun of Katie's hangover.
"Ya, sorry about that." Katie said apologetic that Jessie had to take Katie back to Karen's drunk last night, "I can't really remember much from last night."
"Well what the last thing you remember?" Jessie asked wondering if Katie remembered telling Tad about the two of them.
"You had just walked away to find a phone to call Eli and figure out what time he was picking us up." Katie said unaware of what happened when they were leaving.
"Well long story short, I came back to find because Eli was on his way, when were outside Tad came to say good bye, and…" Jessie hesitated for a second, "you might have let something slip in a drunken ranting." Jessie said looking at the floor hoping that Katie would realize what she did so she wouldn't have to say it.
"Jess, what did I say to Tad was it really that bad?" Katie said starting to get worried.
"Well do you want it word for word or for me to sugar coat it?" Jessie said trying to beat around the bush a little longer.
"Word for word, what did I say?" Katie said starting to get annoyed that Jessie was beating around the bush.
"Tad asked if we were leaving, I said yes, and you said, "Ya…me and my girlfriend her are spending the night at her place…isn't that right Jess…"" Katie was mortified and completely embarrassed.
"Oh My God, Jess, I'm so sorry, what did Tad say?" Katie asked.
"We he asked if we together, and if I was gay. I answered yes to both questions, and told him that he tells anyone he finds out why I'm a black belt in Tae Kwon Do." Jessie giggles remembering Tad expression when she said that, "I mean Tad will keep it a secret, won't he?" Jessie began to grow concerned, because Katie eyes began to start to water a little bit.
"Wait, how did we get her? I don't remember leaving the party." Katie asked beginning to feel a deep pit grow in her stomach.
Jessie tried not to make it seem as bad as it was, "Well, Eli came and got us, helped me get lye you across the backseat because you were passed out, and when we got here me and Eli had to carried you upstairs, and we set you up in here." Katie started to cry completely embarrassed of everything that happened. "It's ok…" Jessie got cut off by Katie whose face was covered in tears.
"It's not ok, I told Tad about you and me, god only knows if anyone else heard, or if he decided to tell someone. I was passed out drunk in your brothers back seat, and you the two of you had to carry me upstairs." Katie said through tears.
"Katie, I don't care if the who world knows about us, and I think I made it pretty clear to Tad that if he said anything to anyone he would has serious problems, and I don't care if your passed out in the back of Eli's car. What I care about is you." Jessie said trying to comfort Katie, as Jessie's eyes began to water a little bit as she pulled Katie in for a hug.
Katie continued to cry in Jessie's arms wondering, why Jessie would still want to be with her after what happened last night. "I am so sorry Jessie."
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