Disclaimer: I don't own anything having to do with the Mediator Series because that honor is exclusively Meg Cabot's. I also don't own anything by William Shakespeare that happens to appear in the chapters. I do, however, own the plot. Yay for me. ;)

I'm so sorry that January was a long time ago, but I've switched my major and then had to deal with a bunch of projects on the same day and finals all on the same day and I broke my ankle so have had to be at the doctor's a lot. Thanks for sticking with me!

Thanks to twilight charmer, crazybeautifuldisaster, MaryImaginary, WillowBee, and vampireobsesser. And also too:

Jack Sparrow's My Man: Thank you for your support! I'm sorry this wasn't a faster update, but I really hope to update faster as the semester winds down. (:

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A/N: This chapter is from Jesse's point of view. I hope it lives up to your wonderful expectations! ;)

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The last place I actually wanted to be today was school. I really felt like curling up in a ball under my sheets and staying there. I had a stupid cold. It had started in the middle of the night and I hadn't slept a wink. But, admittedly, I was really excited to find out who got what part in the play. So, I pulled myself out of bed and made some effort at trying to look nice and headed for school. In my drug induced haze (those antihistamines knock you out…ugh) I had resolved that no matter what, I was going to find some way to tell Susannah how I felt. I was taking action. I was going to do something about and quit just saying that…once my head wasn't all stuffy, that is. Hopefully, that would be soon. Really, I had been cowardly lately (and usually I'm not) because I've really come to admire to our friendship and I would hate to lose it. But I could see myself with her ten years from now, married and happy and starting our life together. According to Adam, I had to "man up" and I knew it.

"Jesse?"

I jumped when I realized that I had been standing in front of my locker and just staring at it. I turned to see Susannah and Adam looking at me with what I was guessing was concern, although Adam looked like he was swallowing a snigger.

"Hey." I smiled at Susannah and then, when she had turned to her locker, I glared at Adam. This time, he couldn't swallow his laugh.

"So, I promised Cee and Gina I would meet up with them before homeroom. I'll see you guys later." Susannah closed her locker, waved and headed down the hall. I stood watching her for some time until I felt someone hit my head. I looked over and saw Adam smirking at me.

"What?" So, I was on the defensive already. Great.

"You're sooo in loo-oove with her!" Adam sing-songed.

I sighed. "Yeah, I am."

"What?" This time, it was Adam's turn.

"I love her."

"Dude, we're in high school. You can't love someone."

I took a moment to gather my thoughts and then started toward Ms. Clark's classroom. I knew I had to explain it to Adam so he would understand.

"I think you can love someone, Adam. I fell in love with Susannah at the end of last year."

We were both in the class now and it was empty so I was relieved that we could have this conversation in private.

"How?"

"We both had AP U.S. History together and it was the last day of school before summer. You know that David had been being bullied last year?" At his affirmative nod I continued, "He came to her after we were released. He had a black eye and was really upset. Susannah was so good with him. She washed his face in the water fountain and just comforted him. We had already made plans to hang out that evening but she asked if we could change them. Instead, I offered that we take David to go and get ice cream and she hugged me. It was different than before. I felt as if she let go I would really be losing something. So we went and took David for ice cream and I couldn't take my eyes off of her. I saw her differently and I realized that seeing her with David made me realize that I had been falling in love with her for a while."

Adam just stared at me for a moment. Then he grinned and I was a little wary of whatever "genius" plan that he had just come up with. "Well, Jesse, I think I know how I can help you confess your feelings."

"Really?"

"Yes. We're going to use this play to show Suze exactly how you feel."

"How?"

"You two are the leads, so we can just use Shakespeare's smarts to make a situation for you two where you'll become so overwhelmed by your feelings for each other that you just have to act on it."

"How do you know we're the leads?"

"You are so unobservant. It's posted on the list next to Ms. Clark's desk."

I smiled sheepishly. "Oh."

"So you'll need lots of practice and we can make it so that you two are alone a lot and…hey, we can even enlist Ms. Clark."

"No! No, Adam this stays between you and me."

Adam sighed dramatically. "Fine. But this greatly limits my abilities as playing the world's best Cupid ever."

"I think your inner-Cupid will survive Adam."

"How do you know? It could handicap me so greatly that I am never able to get a girl for myself."

I looked at him and saw that under his façade, he wasn't as happy as I thought he had been. "Is this stuff with CeeCee continuing to shoot down really getting to you?"

"Yeah."

"How about you go to her and tell her that you're trying to get me and Susannah together and you'll need her help? Just…let me break it to Brad that I'm desperately in love with his sister."

"You're what?" Oh. Crap. It really was just my luck that Brad would walk in the door in time to hear that. I turned to face him and was relieved that he didn't seem outwardly angry, but sometimes that meant it was going to be even worse.

"I'm in love with Susannah and Adam is going to help me convince her of my feelings." Geez that cold medicine must have also made me a lot more talkative than I used to be. Brad looked contemplative for a moment and then smiled. "I'm so in, too."

And that was how I had two self-proclaimed Cupids' (although I was more inclined to believe Brad as he actually had a girlfriend) helping me to win the heart of Susannah. Goody.

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Ok, it's a little short. I'm sorry. But this was just to set the next part into motion. This is only about a ten chapter fic (maybe I'll write an epilogue) but it's almost to the top of the plot mountain and then it's all downhill from there. But a good downhill.