Kim paced in her bedroom trying to think of some way around this kiss, but couldn't think of anything. "Why not just do it!" she asked herself. Uh because she had never kissed a boy before and it was Jack, one of her best friends. How would he take it? Would he be really weirded out if she sprung something like that on him?
But then again maybe it'll just be something they can laugh about in the future. She can just explain it to him after she'd done it. He'll understand once she explains everything.
The other problem though, was that she had never kissed a boy before. What if she does it wrong? what if it looked weird? It was going to be in front of all her peers at the homecoming dance! It wasn't going to be a private thing that they'd share, it was going to be full on public.
It sucked that her first kiss was going to be because of a bet and not something special she could share with a real first boyfriend. However, then she thought, kissing Jack wasn't that bad of a compromise. It could be worse, she could be kissing some weird guy she barely knew. She even thought kissing Jack would be better than having to kiss Jerry, Milton or Eddie. She laughed at the thought. Yeah, if it wasn't an actual boyfriend she'd be kissing, her closest guy friend was an ok second option.
Then she started to think about Jack more. She thought about how well he had been doing acting as her fake boyfriend. It seemed so natural to him. Had Jack dated a bunch of girls at his old school that she had never heard of? Was that why he seemed so experienced?
It was actually pretty fun to her, pretending to be Jack's girlfriend. It was also interesting to see another side of Jack that wasn't in front of the other guys. When Milton, Eddie and Jerry weren't around, like when he'd walk her to her classes or when he walked her home from school today, he seemed open to her in a different way. They talked a lot and laughed at all the same things. They disagreed on somethings but had fun arguing about them and respected each other's opinions. Why wasn't Jack more like this when they were with the guys?
She also thought about how interesting it was when Jack seemed to know how she was feeling when she was about to give up on pretending to be boyfriend and girlfriend. "It's like he knows me so well," she thought.
"Of course, he's you're best friend," she told herself.
"Yeah but I've never noticed Eddie, Jerry or Milton able to read me like that, " she pointed out to herself.
"Let's be real," she thought, "out of the guys, Jack seemed to be the one most in tune with what girls like."
"With what any girls like or what you like?" she asked herself, "I mean, he still can't seem to get Donna Tobin's attention."
Kim shook her head at her thoughts. Was she doing what she thought she was doing? arguing with herself whether she was falling for Jack or not? Although Jack could be really egotistic and stubborn sometimes she admitted she was the same way sometimes too. That's why the butted heads occasionally, but they always seem to fix things up quickly and were never mad each other for too long. It was impossible for Kim to stay mad at Jack. She loved how loyal he was to his friends and the dojo, and how he encouraged them to never give up. She remembered how charming he was when she first met him.
Then that familiar voice popped into her head, "You know I think you might have a bit of a crush on me." it was Jack's voice; it was what he said to her in their first fight against each other when she was with the Black Dragons.
Only this time, when she heard his voice say that, she didn't think, "ew, no" she thought, "could I actually be falling for Jack?"
