Hey guys! It's been so long!
So this is a little something to kind of amke my comeback and I hope ti update my other stories soon enough.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kickin'it
Snowflakes danced their way down from the gradually darkening sky upon the already heavily snow covered streets of New York as people and cars continued to speed by, not letting the weather slow them down.
It was just the very first day of the new year and only a few shops were open a this time, the Christmas lights still on display at the windows casting colourful and light glows on the snow piled up against the walls.
The streets were not the usual New-York croweded as many took refuge in their warm homes to be with their families, still getting off the vives that the new year brought.
Everybody who was still out either were going home themselves or escaping the cold air for the warmth of restaurants and bars.
A young woman clad in a stylish black coat huffed as a small rush of wind carried over her face, making her re-adjust her woolen hat on her head and pick up her speed so she could reach her destination as soon as possible. Her breath comning out in visible puffs in the chilly and snowflake filled air, she suddenly let out a sigh of relief when she noticed the small building coming into view.
Reaching the small coffee shop she all but wrenched open the door and got in quickly, letting the door shut itself behind her. She smiled at the woman behind the counter and made her way through the fairly crowded place toward a booth in a corner near a window.
She sat down, took off her hat and ran her hand through her golden locks to get rid of any bit of snow that might have fallen into it. Just after she had settled down completely did she finally take a deep breath and let the sweet smell of freshly baked crossaints and pasties fill her nostrils. She sank a bit lower in her seat and basked in the warmth and comfort of the cozy coffee place, her cheeks and nose still red from the cold outside.
She roamed her eyes around the place and this time she let out a deep exasperated sigh as she remembered why exactly she was here at this time in the first place. She leaned back in her seat and observed her surroundings once more, her eyes finally falling on a mother feeding her baby girl that was sitting next to her.
She continued to watch the little scene and just couldn't look away even if she tried. She watched the young mother clean ip her daughter's chin as she giggled happily, satisfied with her sweet treat.
As the girl's giggles reached her ears, Kim bit her lip as her eyes glazed over and filled with sorrow. It took all her will power to tear her eyes away from the mother and daughter before they could catch her staring, and even though she hated to admit it to herself, before she lost all control.
"Come on Kim" she mumbled, scolding herself for being so sensitive even after all this time.
"Don't let it get to you" she took a deep breath once again to calm herself down but before she could let it all out, the remaining breath got caught in her troath as the bell from the front door chimed, signaling another incoming customer.
She let out a strangled noise as her eyes fixed on the new comer, feeling the sudden urge to run away and not look back, like she had done so long ago.
But she couldn't. The man's eyes met hers and she knew she was done for it. She couldn't escape now. She mentally scolded hersef for even agreeing to this meeting in the first place as she stared at the man from a distance.
She watched him come towards her, never taking his eyes away from her own, Kim herself not being able to look away. When he finally stood beside her table did she realize that she was actually craning her neck upwards to look into his face and she that she should stand up and greet him in order not to make a fool of herself.
She immediately adverted her gaze and cleared her troath, standing up to finally greet the man properly.
She gave him a small smile as he continued to stare at her, evidently searching for eyes though this time she would not allow herself to. She extended a hand and said in a much smaller voice taht she had expected,
"Hey Jack, long time no see" she internally cringed at her choice of words, knowing full well why in the first place they had not seen eachother in so long.
But the awkward feeling immediately went away when Jack finally gripped her outstretched hand and shook it. Pure warmth spread through Kim, from her hand and into her whole body, warmth that not even the cozy coffee place had been able to offer, warmth that made Kim involuntary close her eyes for a moment to cherish this feeling before she had to let go.
Coming to her senses soon enough though, she opened her eyes and dropped Jack's hand, startled at what just happened. She was about to say something when she realized that Jack was smiling.
He was smiling.
And suddenly, there she was again, completely awe struck as if she hadn't seen anyone smile before. She just stood there looking at his lips forming the same smile that made her knees go weak all those years ago, a feeling, she thought, she had moved on from.
But she apparently hadn't, and she was internally yelling at herself to look away before she did something stupid. It was then that she suddenly noticed that those lips were moving and they were talking to her.
"Kim? Hey Kim!" Jack called out to her, making her snap out of her trance and look at him dumbfounded.
She seriously needed to stop that and compose herself in order to actually get out articulated sentences that made much more sense than her gaping away like an idiot.
"Uh, oh yeah, sorry" she blushed and shook her head, trying to clear her head and just wanting to get this over with.
Jack shot her a small smile before motoning for them to sit down and they did, Kim on one side and Jack on the other.
As they settled down, a waitress came over and did a double take at Jack, blatantly staring for a few moments, something which went unnoticed by Jack but was caught by Kim, who suddenly felt something rise up in her.
Before Kim could even talk though, the waitress had spoken,
"May I have your order?" She asked, her face directed towards Kim but her eyes fixed entirely on Jack.
"Yes, I'd like a Caramel Latte please" Kim answered quickly, the answer just rolling iff her tongue as this was her usual in the place. The waitress finally jerked her head towards Kim, who was glaring at her and glad that the girl had taken her eyes off Jack.
"And what would you like?" The waitress asked Jack, fluttering her eyelashes and making Kim clench her hands into fists under the table. She didn't know why she was getting so riled up and was scolding herself for being irrational.
'Stop being stupid Kim. He's not your anymore. Forget it' And she thought she had but right now, every thing that she had been so sure was in her past now, seemed to be coming back again and with renewd force.
But honestly, she guessed this would happen when she agreed to meet him.
"I'd like an expresso, thanks" Jack asnwered the waitress and only when he turned to look at her, Kim realized that this entire time, Jack's eyes had been only on herself while she had been glaring at the waitress.
Somehow this realization calmed her distressed insides down and she allowed herself to relax, remembering that in the end, this was always Jack. That even though they had not spoken in so long, there had to be some stable zone on which they could stand now.
He had been her best friend and...she swallowed, choosing to avert her mind to some new fresh talk that could be made right now. But before she could start, Jack had already beaten her to it.
"You look nice Kim" And he smiled at her again, his body relaxed as he casually crossed his arms over the table.
Kim blushed, and tried to cool herself down before answering with a small smile,
"Thanks Jack, you do too" And she mean it.
He really did look nice. As her eyes freely roamed over him, she noticed easily what the last few years had done to Jack. He had always been muscular but his arms seemed even stronger than before if it was possible. Even though he was covered up in thick clothing against the cold, she could still see his muscles bulging out and she could only imagine what his chest may look like now.
But she caught herself before she fell into that forbidden area and looked up, noticing that he had cut his hair, making hm look older. He had a slight stubble on his chin and Kim marvelled just how much like a man, an adult he seemed now. Then she got to his eyes and ahe swore she saw them twinkle when her gaze met his.
His eyes were the same as always, pools of melted chocolate that filled with mischief and love every time he saw her, and would send her a look that made a sinful shiver run down her spine and into another another forbidden area of her own.
And they still did.
"How's life?" She registered the fact that a conversation had started and that she honestly had to get her wits together and act like a normal person because this continous daydreaming couldn't go on.
"It's going good, I guess. I'm done with college and continuing on the way to become a journalist. What about you?"
She had to keep the conversation light and somewhat formal. She couldn't let it venture into deeper things that she strongly feared would be coming her way but she had no desire to talk about.
"Same here, just going on with law. I still teach at the dojo though and-" But before Jack could finish, Kim had already burst out.
"How are the guys and Rudy?" She really couldn't help herself. As soon as Jack mentioned the dojo her strings got loose and he just ahd to ask. She became a but self-conscious though when Jack shot her a smile so soft that she felt her cheeck heat up again at the way he was looking at her, like nothing wrong had ever happened between them.
"They're great" Jack chuckled at the thought of his friends, who had not matured the slightest bit in all these years. Sure they were more responsible but still total kids at heart when they were around eachother and not out into the world.
In the meantime theri coffee arrived and Kim was too busy focusing on Jack this time to even careabout the waitress, who looked bummed iut tahg Jack wouldn't give her the time of the day.
"Milton's getting married" And just like that, Kim choked on her first sip of her latte and Jack had to get up and sit beside her to pat her on the back so she could breath again.
Once she regained her breath, she all but shouted "What?! Oh My God! That's amazing!" Kim's face broke out into a giant smile and she flashed her white pearl at Jack, who felt his heart flutter at Kim's newfound happiness. He knew Milton's news would've affected her this way and he was dying to see that full smile of hers.
"I know right?" Jack chuckled, "With Julie" He nodded, reading Kim's mind.
Kim's smile widened even more if possible and she started thinking about two if the people that used to be her best friends. Everyone knew the nerdy couple was just a match made in heaven ever since Julie blew chalk powder into Milton's face in math class (A/N It was in Clash of The Titans) and she was just so happy for them.
She suddenly felt the need to call Julie immediately and congratulate her but how could she do that? She had stopped speaking to her so suddenly and now how could she just randomly call and congratulate her, act like she had always been there for her friend?
Kim was brought back to reality when she felt Jack nudge her and suddenly became aware of the fact that he was still sitting next to her and even close at that.
"You okay Kim? You've been zoning out a lot"
' great, so he noticed' Kim mentally rolled her eyes at herself, just giving up on trying to act composed and just simply deciding to act on impulse at whatever was about to happen. All her foreplanning of keeping everything stable and simple was slowly slipping out of her hands and she realized it a little too late.
Trying to shake off the electricity that shot throuher at Jack's touch, she shook her head,
"Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry about that"
"It's okay" Jack smiled as he set his cup down, having finished his coffee while Kim was barely halfway through.
"How are Jerry and Rudy?"
"Well Jerry's a dance teacher now at the local dance studio" Kim nodded, smiling at the thought of Jerry sliding around the studio dancing his way through the day. She remembered how once her and the guys had agreed to accompany Jerry over there and she had accidentally hit a teacher right in face in the middle of her dancing.
Let's just say she didn't set another step in the studio from that day on.
"And Rudy's still at the dojo. Him and Phil recently started selling out those choco-phalafels again and surprisingly people love them. It's kind of a small side business now...that takes place right in the middle of the courtyard of the mall" Kim and Jack both laughed a little since that was just so Rudy and Phil.
Once the laughter died down, Kim proceeded to finish her coffee before it got completely cold and the time she spent on finishing her drink was spent in comfortable silence.
Once Kim set he empty cup down, her and Jack sat in silence still, not knowing how to break it.
Kim saw Jack's mouth begin to open but was interrupted by the waitress coming their way.
"May I take these?"
"Yes thank you" With that, the waitress took their cups ans set off, this time not lingering too much in Jack, much to Kim's relief.
Jack then turned to her "Wanna go out for a walk?"
Kim looked out the window and saw that it had stopped snowyand that it wouldn't be bad for a small walk. But the problem wasn't the weather.
It was her.
She knew that while walking they couldn't keep on asking formalities and that something would pop up in the end and that was just what she was trying to avoid.
But she couldn't exactly say no now, could she? She was stuck. And on that account, Kim sighed and turned back to Jack.
"Sure" Smiling, they both sat up and put on their coats before Jack opened the door to let them into the chilly nighly air of New York.
They walked side by side all the way to Central Park, led by Kim, who kept them walking until they stood on a bridge, overlooking on the frozen river that ran in the park.
Finally coming to a stand, Kim let out a deep breath and waited. Just waited.
"Kim" Jack's voice cracked and Kim's eyes widened slightly and she knew, she just knew that this was it.
"This place is nice. I just imagine it on a bright day" He looked around himself and his eyes landed on her, and though he smiled, his eyes seemed cold and distant.
"New York, a place with mich bigger opportunities than in Seaford" Almost there...
"Do you even miss Seaford at all?" And finally, he rounded on her. All the atmosphere changed and Kim didn't even know when. She had been expecting it yes, but still it didn't stop her from being less startled.
She cursed herself for just being there before answering,
"What-Jack of course I miss it! It's my hometwon!-"
"Then why did you leave?" Jack was shaking. Kim fully turned herself towards him and now they stood face to face. Kim's eyes flickered down to Jack's shaking shoulders and snapped them back into his face. His jaw was set, he seemed to be gritting his teeth behind the thin line of his lips and she was rendered speechless for a second, ridiculously thinking he had always looked hot when mad.
But this time it was different, because she was on the recieving end of those daggers his eyes were shooting.
"Jack I-" Kin began but it was no use.
"You know Kim" Jack shook his head and turned to face the river, this sudden change in demanor startling Kim all over again.
"This was stupid of me" He stated, "You know, asking to meet you? It's just that...five years. Five damn years Kim and every fucking day I woke up with the hope that you might just pop back into my life again. That I would just have you in my arms again by the end of the day but nothing. Nothing ever fucking happend"
He was swearing and that was the red light for Kim. He was really, really pissed. It seemed to Kim like he had just been waiting for the right moment to start accusing, as until now he had seemed calm enough.
"Jack look, I'm sorry for what I did-"
"No" Jack growled.
"Wh-what?"
"No, you're not sorry" He turned his head towards her "I could see it on your face Kim, you never wanted to be here, never wanted this meeting. Why you even agreed to it in the first place I don't know because it sure as hell seems like you'd rather be anywhere else but here"
Kim blushed furiously, both from embarrassment and anger at him because of being constantly interrupted and hissed out,
"Listen Jack, if you'd just let me finish-"
"Why would I? You're just gonna apologize again, aren't you? Try to come up with some excuse as to why the fucking hell you've disappeared for five years, not even leaving a single damn clue-"
"Jack!" This time, Kim cut him off, finally losing all her cool.
"Would. You. Just. Let. Me. Finish?" She rounded on him, hissing out every word and glaring at him. He glared right back, not saying anything though.
"You're acting like you don't know what happened!" She shrieked, tired of being accused.
"You're fucking acting like you never cared!" She spat right into his face and Jack looked crossed.
"Kim don't you dare even say that-"
"And why? Because it seems like you never even stopped to think about my feelings and how I felt then since you're just so quick at throwing judgments right now!"
"Do you really think that you were the only one suffering?" Jack's vlice dropped low, unlike hers that was rising in volume with every word she said. He leaned close to her and she had to step back and crane her neck to look up at him.
"Jack, if you've just come here to talk about this-"
"And just what did you think I'd come to talk about Kim?! Five years. It took me five damn years to finally find you and you just thought I'd be dropping by to say 'hey'?"
"Jack-"
"That wasn't only your baby Kim! It was mine too!" He yelled out, flailing his arms in the air in an exasperated manner and taking a few steps back.
"How can you be so selfish?!" Kim's eyes flashed
"Me?! Selfish?! What the hell Jack! I had just lost my baby! I wasn't being selfish, I was grieving!"
"And what do you think I was doing Kim? Didn't you think I was grieving too?! I repeat Kim, that baby was not only yours!"
"Well you sure didn't look like you were suffering at all! Every damn time I saw you you just told me that it'd be okay. Nothing else. While I was bawling my eyes out, you just went off and-and remember Jenny?" She stuttered out the last part, gulping down the sudden huge lump in her troath.
Jack froze for a moment and Kim bitterly thought that her suspicions were quite right in the end. That was until confusion took over Jack's features.
"Jenny who?" He blurted out, genuine confusion shining in his eyes.
"Oh stop playing Jack. Jenny, the girl who worked at Phil's. I saw you two that night" Kim's voice cracked slightly but she wouldn't let herself spill a single tear. She had already spilled too much.
Jack racked his brain for a Jenny that might have even come into his life at one point and was struck with the memory of the brunette girl that Phil had hired. But he couldn't remember ever having had more of a conversation with her and didn't see where Kim was going.
If she meant that she thought he had cheated on her...especially after what had happened...
Jack shook his head, "Kim, you're crazy" he looked at her dead in the eye while she recoiled.
"Excuse me?!-"
"Kim, if you think I cheated on you with that girl I didn't even remember the name of, you're completely wrong. Whatever you saw that night, wasn't what it looked like. I swear nothing happened before and after you went away!" Jack confessed, making Kim look at him through watery eyes.
"Heck Kim. When you left, you literally took my heart with you. I never stopped looking for you and never even had a chance to move on because I always thought of you coming back! I loved you dammit!"
Kim didn't understand what was happening to her. When she left Seaford she thought it was a good idea. A fresh start. She thought it was the best for everyone, especially after her assumption of Jack cheating on her.
But right now, it all seemed to blow up in her face. Had she been in the dark that long? Had she really stooped that low to think that the guy she had been best friends with since 14 and had been in a relationship with in which he made her feel so loved and wanted...that same guy had betrayed her?
Kim felt so stupid right now that she just wished she could sink into the frozen river below them.
"Oh" And he loved her. And she knew that too. What lame excuse could she come up with now to make up for what she had done?
Jack was right...
"I'm sorry!" She yelled out, throwing her arms up in the air, tired of her own internal battles.
"Can you really blame though Jack? I was grieving okay?! I had just lost my unborn baby and I was heartbroken!"
Jack's eyes softened, "Kim I know but-"
"But nothing Jack! And then-and then-" Kim was close to breaking down "How do you think i was supposed to feel when i saw you with another girl?"
"Okay I believe you! I know now nothing happened" Kim cut him off even before he could protest.
"But Jack-" And just then, she let out a strangled sob, thinking of how stupid she had been and of her loss.
"I just thought that maybe I wouldybeen able to have a fresh start but-but I was wrong" Kim chocked on her own words.
"I thought I would move on but I couldn't. Every day I couldn't stop thinking about what we were about to have and...and you" she concluded her rant with a shaky sigh and turned away from Jack.
It was true. Despite her efforts to distanciate herself from Jack and the thought of their lost child, she still dreamed about them every night. She couldn't move on from Jack because he was her first love ever and admittedly, she loved him too much.
She was such and idiot. All this time soent away for a reason and it never worked out. And she needed Jack to come tell her after five hears that it was not working and that she had been so stupid.
As Kim was drowning in self despair, she felt Jack move closer to ber and take her by the shoulders. He wheeled her around to face him and she was momentarily distracted by their closeness.
"Kim" he began "That's exactly why I was mad. Because you didn't stop and think about me before just taking off" He told her
"Of course I know you were grieving Kim. But thing is, I was too" his eyes never left hers and she saw utter sadness in them.
She had caused it.
"Tell me Kim" He squeezed her shoulders "Look at me and tell me that you never thought about what we could have had instead of what we lost" He dared her with his eyes and she kept looking back and forth between them.
She suddenly pictured them together, living a life where she had never left.
And they were happy together.
Kim opened her mouth but no sound came out. Her vision dangerously blurred now, And feeling hot tears sliding down her cheeks, Kim threw herself violently at Jack, latching her arms around his neck and buring her face in his shoulder.
Jack reacted quickly, letting out a small 'oof' as he caught the both of them before they tumbled to the groud and wrapped his strong arms securely around her shaking form.
Jack hugged her close to him, pulling her body completely flushed against his And buried his face in ber soft locks, inhaling.
"I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry" She sobbed, feeling extremely selfish now for having just thought about herself. Of course Jack had been upset too. He was the daddy after all.
"Shh, it's fine" Jack whispered into her hair, sending shivers down her spine.
They stood there like that cor who knows how long, just basking into eachother's warmth and elated at finally being this close togheter.
They had both missed it.
Kim pulled back from the embrace, sniffing and looking up at Jack. He was looking back at her and she got lost into his eyes. She noticed his lips flickering down to her lips and back into her eyes and she felt a rush of excitement.
They leaned in until their lips met in the middle and for Kim, it was like the New Year's fireworks all over again.
They both sighed contendly into the kiss, relaxing into eachother's hold and just cherishing the feel of their lips on the other's.
Jack turned them around and pushed Kim against the railing of the bridge, making her lean back a bit as he deepened the kiss.
Mouths open, tongues tangled and teeth clashing, they kissed for what seemed like forever when the need for air became too much. They pulled away and drew in deep breaths before Jack moved to kiss her neck, once, twice, before whispering against her skin,
"Are we far from your apartment Kim?" His voice was rasp and husky and Kim felt a shiver rin down to her very core as she remembered what that tone always led to.
"N-no" She stuttered out as Jack bit into her soft flesh.
She pulled her neck away from him and took his hand, wanting to get home as quickly as possible.
Jack let her lead him all the way to her apartment, and they rushed into the elevator.
the ride in there seemed to last ridiculously long and Kim fought every fiber in her body not to jump him right then and there.
Finally out onto her story, she lead him to the door and fumbled with the key. As soon as tehy were inside, Jack kicked the door shut behind them and pushed Kim against it, latching his mouth onto hers.
Too caught up in the haze of kissing Kim, Jack barely registered the fact that Kim had left the place with the fireplace flaming, which rendered the whole apartment already warm and cozy for whoever that was to come in.
Discarding themselves of their coats and hats, Jack gathered Kim into his arms and, not wanting to break the kiss to ask her where her bedroom was, carried her over to the couch instead.
They never made it to the couch though beacuse he got distracted by Kim tugging off his shirt and running her hands freely on his bare chest.
Jack moaned into the kiss, having missed this more than anything. He was serious when he said that he didn't move on, meaning he hadn't done anything like this in close to five years now but that didn't mean he still didn't know how to play.
This was Kim and he knew how to please her.
Somehow they both ended up on the ground in front on the couch instead, the fireplace casting warm glows over them as they rid themselves of all of their clothing. The flames were the only source of light in the room and Kim couldn't think of anything else more romantic than that as Jack slid himself home, his eyes locked onto hers.
She knew they both wanted to close them at one point as he filled her completely but it was much more pleasurable staring right into eachother's eyes as they finally connected.
They were finally one. Again.
Kim wrapped her arms around Jack's neck as they both moaned and groaned with every stroke. Jack dropped his head to her breats and worshipped them in the only way he knew while Kim ran her hands up and down his back.
When he came sucking and licking back up her neck, he gave a love bite as she turned her head to the side, giving him more access to her neck. Their moans and groans were only the sounds in the room other than the cracking of the fire and Kim stared into the flames, her head still to the side.
She gripped Jack's hair tighter and squeaked as Jack sped up his movements. As Jack drove them both into heaven, Kim threw her back, bit her lip and smiled, locking her legs around his waist and sure that she spoke for the both of them when she said that this was not were they supposed they would end up when they first agreed to meet eachother.
Jack sighed as him and Kim lay on the carpeted floor of her living room, her fireplace still being the only source of light.
He was running his hand up and down her arm as her head laid across his chest, making some of her golden locks tickle his abs.
She was drawing lazy circles on his chest as they both snuggled up and relaxed, combing down from their highs.
Jack couldn't believe what they had just done but at the same time, it didn't even seem that strange.
They used to do it whenever they could, meaning almost twice of thrice a week, their passion and love being that strong.
Earlier he felt all the pent up frustration and lust of these last five years pour into every stroke into her. This singke moment amde up for all the nights he endured with his heart aching.
And really, he missed the sweet sounds she made.
He was so happy to finally have her back, so happy that she understood now and taht alk the misunderstandings were cleared.
"Hey Kim?" He said softly
"Hmm?" She hummed against his chest
"You know what Milton told me before I came?" He grinned, thinking back to taht conversation with his best friend.
"What?" Kim looked up at him curiously when she saw the gigantic grin on his face.
"He told to bring you back no matter what it took. He said that I could even drag you back to Seaford if it came down to it and that we could chain you up to a chair for the wedding" he chuckled, his chest rumbling under Kim's cheek.
Kim laughed out loud, shaking her head as she sat up and turned her head to the side towards Jack.
"Tell you what Brewer" Her eyes twinkled and the flames in the fireplace lit up her whole face, making her glow.
Jack was stunend by her beauty and hung onto her every word.
"You won't need to resort to dragging" She smiled, lowering herself onto Jack once more.
"Because I'm ready to come back. To you"
And just like that, Jack was gone, gone, gone.
Kim was going to come back. For good. They could finally start their life together and...Kim was back.
And was all his.
His face broke out into a huge grin as he pushed himself over Kim snd looked down at her, hands on either side of her face.
"I love you Kim" he choked out, and Kim smiled softly up at him, locking her hands around his neck and her legs around his waist as he, for the second time that night, slid into her.
"I love you too" She whispered against his lips just before connecting them.
And as the night wore on around them, Kim was in her own little world with Jack, where only him and his love existed and she knew, was sure, that from this moment on they would both be happier.
They would make it through anything and make up for the lost time because they were not teen anymore. They were adults
And This was the start of something new.
And there you have it!
Thank you for reading and please review!
Untile next time,
-Alex