Jumper

A/N: Wow, I am in total awe. My stories had over 1000 hits, i have 13 reviews, and everyone seems to love this story. Wow... that's all I really have to say. And a big thanks to all my reviewers, you now make my world go round, and thank you, whoever you are for sticking around for Chapter 4, i think my updating schedule will be one chapter a day, maybe one every other day if school starts getting in my way again. So yeah –Enjoy--

I followed Ashley down her monster steps, through a pool room, through a family room with a T.V. That's half as big as my house, and finally into a chromed kitchen, causing me to squint when Ashley hits the lights.

"I'm starved what do you want?"

She walks to the fridge and begins to pull out random containers of this and that, setting them all on the counter behind me.

"C'mon now Spence, I can't read minds."

I just laugh as I walk up behind her, gently resting my chin on her shoulder as she looks intently into the fridge. I can see the smallest sliver of her smirk before she returns to surveying the food.

"Ok, so we either attempt to cook and run a very high risk of dying in a raging fire, or we play it safe with pizza."

I fake thought, my chin still on her oh so comfortable shoulder.

"I dunno... have you heard about those crazy pizza delivery guys? Their supposed to be real maniacs and even pyros."

She laughs again before turning around to madly tickle me again, going right for my weak spot, my sides and stomach. I begin to squeak almost inhumanly as she laughs harder, still pushing me back until I feel my back hit a cool tile wall. I jump at the cold on my back, being such a contrast to the feeling of warmth spreading throughout me as Ashley continues to madly tickle me. Finally, she gives up and lets me sink to the floor, tears running down my face as I laugh hysterically.

"Take it easy there Spence, wouldn't want you to bust a kidney or anything."

My laughter finally subsides as I struggle to my feet, intent on catching the mischievous brunette, only to find her gone. I search wildly for her, my head turning this way and that when I hear the click of a button and the blaring sound of someone talking from the other room. I wander in to find Ashley sitting on the huge couch in front of the huger t.v.

"You have to stop leaving me Ash, one of these days I'll get lost in here and you'll never see me again."

"Guess I'd better try harder."

"Ha ha, funny."

"That's what my therapist says."

I roll my eyes and sit down on the opposite side from Ashley as she continues to flip through channels, finally giving up and going to the enormous rack that held hundreds of DVD's.

"So what kind of movies do you like?"

"Anything but scary, I'm really jumpy."

She turns back to me, an evil smirk on her face, and I instantly regret telling her that.

"Wait, no no, I don't like comedies, the actors laughter burn my ears."

Her grin only widens as my stomach sinks. She picks up a DVD and puts it into one of the various blinking machines below the t.v, and cranks the volume way up before plopping down beside me, her evil smirk still there as she presses the play button. I swear to God I saw little devil horns appear on her head. I shrink into myself as the room fills with an ominous sound and I freeze. I know that sound... I turn my neck robotically to face Ashley.

"Please don't tell me you picked..."

A bright red credit flies up with a bang, scaring the crap out of me as I scream loud enough to crack china in half. Ashley's on the floor laughing hysterically.

"Ashley!! I hate this movie!! Turn it off!!!"

"Sorry Spence, it was your own mouth that doomed you."

Ashley had unwittingly unleashed a horror upon me that I hated with a passion. Glen had forced me to watch the Grudge one, and I had started crying and screaming halfway through, but even after I had gone to bed, hours after watching it, that noise had stuck with me, and to this day, I'm terrified of hearing that noise, and I usually put my hands over my head as I whisper "happy place, happy place." People find it pretty hilarious to do to me, but for some odd reason, I can't stand that noise. Suddenly, the door bell rang, sounding like thunder throughout the house as I screamed again, probably breaking a window in the house. Ashley was still laughing as she went to the front door and payed the guy for the pizza.

"Oooo, the pizza of the Grudge!!"

I try and compose myself enough for a comeback, but my words elude me as she sits down beside me opens the pizza box, taking a slice for her, and then handing me one before setting the box down on the ground and folding her legs up underneath her as she pressed the play button again. I continued to scream/eat pizza while screaming for the next half of the movie before I finally screamed so loud that Ashley had to start tickling me to smother me. I managed to beat her back, but she looked slightly frustrated with me.

"God Spence, it's just a movie, what're you freaking out for?"

"I told you I'm jumpy!!"

"Yeah but you didn't say 'I scream like a banshee at parts that aren't scary!'"

"This is scary!!"

"Do I have to hold your hand or what??"

I open my mouth to retort but pause. A mental image of our hands intertwined while I lean my head against her floats into my mind, and I find myself with a smile on my face, only to have snapping fingers in front of my face.

"Earth to Spencer!!"

"What??"

"Do you want me to hold your hand or not?"

I pause again, I really didn't want to freak her out by saying yes, but if she didn't mean it, she wouldn't have asked twice... right? I nod my head stiffly up and down, and as she presses the play button, I feel warmth enveloping my left hand as she moves closer until I can feel the heat from her, slowly radiating off to me. I can't but put a smile on my face. Before long, I'm still screaming, but not as loud, and I usually have a death grip on Ashley's hand, and by the time it gets to the end, I'm afraid that I might have cut off blood flow to her right hand, but she doesn't say anything as the credits roll, her hand still on mine. Long after the movie stops and goes back to the main menu, our hands are still clasped together, and I am beginning to dread the moment that our hands will separate. Almost as if to prolong it from coming Ashley turns to me.

"Another scary movie?"

My rational side is screaming "oh, hell no!!", but most of my body was saying "As long as that hands on mine I don't care what it is we're watching." I decide to go with the latter half of my emotions. I look back to her and nod a shaky yes. She laughs as she releases my hand and gets up, wandering to the rack again. I sigh at the loss of comfort as I look at my hand, still warm from the long time of being together with Ashley's. Her voice breaks me out of my thoughts.

"Need me to hold your hand again?"

She's looking back at me, and I can see the humor in her eyes as she asks, but I can also see something else... hope. No, that couldn't be, why on earth would she hope to hold hands with me again? Despite my better judgment, I nod again.

"I should start charging you for hand-holding, it ain't easy."

"Sorry, I told you I don't like scary movies."

"Yeah, then why are you letting me put in another one?"

I pause, mind racing. Wait, did I just get caught? No that couldn't be.

"Just an experiment I suppose. Y'know to see how long I last."

She laughs as she puts in the DVD.

"Right."

She sits back down, once again closing her warm hand over my seemingly cold one, and I can feel a shiver race through me. It turns out the next movie she decides to subject me to will be none other then the Ring, which I also hate, I mean that little girl is freaking evil, she can crawl out of people's tv and take their souls, if that doesn't scream Satan-Spawn, I don't know what does. It's a lot less scarier then I remember it being, and before long, I'm only jumping a little bit at the scary parts, Ashley's hand still on mine as we go. About halfway through, my head begins to feel slightly heavy, and I feel it droop down a little bit before snapping it up as a scream jerks me awake. I hear laughter and see Ashley is watching me instead of the tv.

"Tired already Spence?"

I try to shake my head, but find it incredibly heavy. I hear another laugh from my left. I suddenly feel something warm on my head, and before it even registers, I realize Ashley had gently pulled my head down to her shoulder, my full weight of my head now on her shoulder. Almost automatically, her head comes down on top of mine, leaving me in the crook of her neck as the movie continues. All coherent thought had stopped as soon as I had felt that warmth, and no matter how much I wanted to stay up to savor the warmth, I felt my eye lids eventually get heavier and heavier until everything went black.

A/N: I can imagine everyone's faces as they glare at the screen and scream at it "AND WHAT??", but that my friends will have to wait at least another hour or two, I have to eat, go to the gym, and read Romeo and Juliet for english. And the only reason I'm putting in all these very small insignificant things is to try and drag the story out. Dirty trick I know. Peace my friends.