A/N Takes place right after The Tell-Tale Heart. No Latnok and it will be a multi-chapter story.

After I retrieved the orange juice from the fridge I got a glass and turn towards the counter. Standing there was Nicole. She completley scared me. I wasn't paying attention and never heard her come into the kitchen. She looked worried and looked like she wanted to tell me something.

"Oh, I didn't mean to scare you." She said, still acting a little strange.

"That's not easily done." I hesitated a little bit, "is there something you want to tell me?"

"Well, I saw you, last night, kissing Jessi." "Oh"

"Kyle, I don't know how to say this but under the circumstances at the moment, with you and Jessi living in the same house, well that sort of relationship is just inappropriate."

"Well Nicole, I don't think it's any of your business, and I don't appreciate you spying on me."

"Kyle, you live in this house as part of our family, we can't let this go on any longer."

"I think my relationship between Jessi and myself, only involves Jessi and myself, not you. Plus, you really can't stop us from doing anything, if we want to do something we'll just leave, or stay here. What makes you think we haven't already done something?"

"Kyle, you don't have the right to talk to me like that, we'll discuss this when you get back from school."

She walked away and I waited for Jessi and then the both of us got into Josh's car and Jessi, Lori, Josh, and myself went to school in silence. Nobody said a word the entire time, but the tension in the car was hard to deal with. It got pretty uncomfortable.

When we got to school Lori and Josh jumped out of the car and Jessi and I slowly got out. She started walking in the oppisite direction and I jogged to catch up with her. "Jessi, wait up."

She stopped and turned around. "Were you listening to mine and Nicole's conversation?"

"Yes," she admitted, her vioce filled with guilt. "I don't think it's any of her business though."

"Me neither." I agreed. "So what are we going to do about it?"

"I don't know, but I can't think with all these kids running us over."

Let's go to your apartment, we can talk in private there." Sha agreed and we both ran to her apartment which wasn't that far from the school. When we got there we put all our stuff down and I sat on the couch, Jessi in the chair next to it.

"So what do you think about it Jessi?"

"Kyle, I like you, I always have and when you kissed me, I felt happy, whole, safe. I don't want that to end."

"That's the exact same thing as me. I feel so much better when I'm around you Jessi and I think this would work out but we need to keep it secret so Nicole and Stephen don't find out."

"Sounds good to me." I smiled and moved over to her. She stood up and I gave her a hug. We didn't have to say anthing more, we both knew how to keep it a secret and neither of us wanted to ruin that moment.

She lifted her head up from my chest and looked me in the eye. I stared at her and marveled over how beautiful she really was.

I touched her cheek with my hand and then slowly leaned in. Our lips touched the passion in between us was overwhelming. I gripped her face between my hands and deepened the kiss. My tongue slid into her mouth and met her tongue. We kept kissing and then I slowly slid down onto the couch. With out breaking the kiss I layed down on the couch and pulled her on top of me. We kept making out but then we had to break up for air.

We both breathed heavily and then she leaned in to kiss me again. I put my hands on her cheeks and stopped her.

"Jessi wait. I want to continue, I really do, but I know and you know we're both not ready for anything more than this, so how about we just watch some TV or something."

"OK, Kyle, I agree. We're both not ready yet. We need to wait."

I turned on the TV and Jessi layed her head on my chest. I kissed her hair and wrapped my arms around her. Out legs twisted together and I pulled a blanket over us. I kissed her hair again and tipped my head back.

I realized I was pretty tired. Jessi gave out a big yawn and she looked pretty tired too. I turned off the TV realizing we would just fall alseep soon anyways. I kissed Jessi for the thrird time on the head and she kissed my collarbone.

I hugged her tighter and very softly whispered, "I love you Jessi," into her ear so queitly that if it wasn't her she wouldn't of heard.

She looked at me and very softly whispered to my lips, "I love you too, Kyle, I really do." She kissed me on the lips and then laid her head back on my chest.

I took a big breath and then fell into a peacefull slumber, my heart beating with Jessi's.

This moment couldn't have gotten anymore perfect.

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