They're back! When we left off Snowie was headed to Oklahoma for the summer. Did Jon make it the summer? Did Snowie? How will the separation effect their relationship?
As it turned out Snowie had stayed in Oklahoma longer than the three months it was now the month before they started tenth grade. Her mother's car had hit a bad pot hole and the front end got knocked out. She called Jon the night it happened and told him everything. Their landlord had said yes to taking half payments on their house in Cincinnati while they were stuck in Oklahoma. It turns out her mom had to take on a job in Oklahoma to pay for the car to be fixed which meant she had to start and then finish her first year of high school there too. Jon and she talked almost every night. She hadn't called him the night before because she wanted to surprise him when they got to the house tonight.
Jon was kicked back watching TV in the living room with an ice pack over his left eye. He had been living in Snowie's house for about a year by himself. With the extra money he managed to come by when he could convince a druggie that the price had raised he was living pretty good. Hanna thought he was stealing food or something, she would never find out his little side business. The last year had been okay, it was school after all, but having Snowie there would have made it so much better. He heard the car before he seen the lights shine into the room.
"What the hell?" He removed his hand from his face. "Ouch." He grumbled as he walked to the door.
She was standing there when he opened the door. "Jon!"
"Omph." He said when she jumped into his arms. "Snow White!"
Wow! He's gotten way hotter, she thought looking at him. She hugged his neck and he smelled good too. Ugh! Being a teenager sucks! This was Jon, for Pete's sake!
"Hi Jon!" Hope said walking up to the door.
"Hi Hope!" He said and hoped they missed the lump and band-aide on his face.
Snowie didn't miss it. "What happened to you?"
"Um…"
"Oh Jon! You need stitches. Come here." Hope said and walked to the kitchen.
Jon rolled his eyes and Snowie looked at him with a quizzical look. "I'll tell you later." He said trudging after Hope.
He told her that he had gotten hit with a ball after class. She looked like she didn't know if she should believe him or not but let it go, telling him the house looked great. Which wasn't all that surprising as he had learned at an early age if things were clean then it was less to pick up when it counted. He wasn't uniform about cleaning but it was clean. After Hope had treated his head Snowie grabbed some cokes and snacks and they went to her room.
"Hello my life."
"Yeah they all really missed you." He joked sarcastically.
"Smartass." She smirked as she set her loot on the bed. "So are you going to tell me what happened?"
He sighed. "Fine. The dumbass caught on that I was skipping out on giving him all the money I was making so he knocked me the hell out with some brass knuckles. This was the result."
"Jon! You've got to stop this." She touched his face.
He wrapped his arms around her waist. "I can't."
She hugged him back. Resting her head on his chest. "Oh!" She said pulling away. "I got you something. Come help me unload the car."
They ran down stairs and out the door. After they had delivered Hopes bags to her room Jon helped Snowie carry all hers to her room. She set to work unpacking while he munched on chips. She looked at him lounging on her bed, God she'd missed that boy! She finally found the little box she'd put his belt in.
"Happy Birthday." She said.
"Oh hell. No wait I did get you something. I saw it the other day and thought of you. Hang on and then we can open them together." He jumped up and ran to his room. In moments he was back. "Here."
He shoved a box at her and she did the same to him. He opened his first. It was a black belt with two rows of silver brads. His smile gave the shine of the brads a run for their money as he ran the belt through the belt loops of his jeans. He raised his arms.
"Looks good." She opened her gift. "Oh, Jon! I love it! Out it on, please."
She stared at their reflection in the mirror as he put the small silver and blue snowflake around her neck. She touched it. The blue actually matched his eyes. He met her eyes in the mirror and smiled back at her. She turned around and hugged his neck. The thought that he had bought it with drug money crossed her mind.
"No."
"No, what? I didn't say anything." She pulled back to look at him.
"I know what you were thinking."
"I wasn't." He cocked an eyebrow at her. "Fine I was but I decided to let it go. Money is money."
He did something then she had been dying for a year. He gripped her face between his hands and kissed her. She melted into him. She didn't know if he had watched Princess Bride or some other love story a hundred time to kiss that good, but the boy could kiss. He pulled back and she missed him instantly.
"Wow. Didn't think I could have missed that." They mumbled at the same time. They looked at each other and laughed. It was as if the last year hadn't happened at all. They didn't miss a beat.
"How much stuff did you get while you were gone?" He asked after another hour of helping unpack.
"Hey a girl needs more than two pairs of jeans mister I'll wash them when I need too. And it's been awhile most of the stuff here probably won't fit anymore."
"I noticed." He said under his breath.
"Jon!" She threw a shirt at him.
"What I'm a guy. We tend to notice things like that!" He threw the shirt back at her.
"Ugh! Men!" She laughed.
There was a knock on her door. "You kids hungry?" They didn't have to say a word they were both at the door before the smell of pizza waft through. "I'll take that as a yes. Here ya go. Cokes and pizza. Oh and Snow we have to reregister you at the school tomorrow since you've been gone for a year they need a new transcript. So please try to find it."
"Yeah I got it. Just put it on my desk."
They went to her bed after Hope left and chowed on the pizza talking almost nonstop about their freshman year. Jon had actually managed to get decent grades no d's or f's anyways. She knew he could do better he was smart he just didn't like to ably himself that much.
"Hey wanna go to the comic or movie place?" She said. She was tired of unpacking and wanted to get out of the house.
"Yeah. Sure."
They told Hope they were headed out. As Jon reached the door someone knocked from the other side. Snowie signaled him to open it. Matt stood on the other side. Jon didn't step back and Snowie moved to stand beside him.
"What do you want?"
"Is Hope here?" He ignored her question.
"Mom!"
Hope came around the corner and offered a sweet smile. "Hi."
"Whatever! I can't deal with this! Come on, Jon." Snowie said pushing as hard as she could past her mother's ex.
Neither of them spoke for a few minutes. Jon hung his arm around her shoulders. "Do I even want to know what that was about?"
"Nope." She felt him wince and sighed. "I'm sorry. He called and asked if they could talk when we came back. I told her not too but my mother doesn't listen to me when she should."
"I hear that." He sighed.
"What happened?" Snowie hugged his waist.
"Well I told my mom not to buy drugs from this guy because I had seen him around, I knew he was a cop. She didn't listen so now she's in jail for a month or two."
"Oh, Jon. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because it's not the first time it's happened and won't be the last. Oh by the way my dad is out of jail. Yeah that wasn't a fun reunion either. Apparently he thinks what she does and everything wrong with her, somehow, is my fault."
"You don't believe that, do you?" He couldn't, He just couldn't.
"No. I mean I used to but how can it be? She's her own person and trust me when I say she doesn't listen to a damn thing I say."
"Good." She reached up to kiss his cheek. "Gees when did you get so tall?"
"Well I ate some cookies the other day and they made me shoot up like a whole ten feet then…"
"Oh shut up!" She laughed. "You're really are a nerd."
"Yeah but life without me would be boring."
"True." She agreed as they walked into the movie store.
After an hour or so of rummaging through the old movies. They made their picks and went to the front to pay out. On the way Jon saw a flyer: Heartland Wrestling Training Camp. Think you got what it takes? Come on down to 1985 Sunset at 8 pm Friday. Must be 18 yrs or older. It had todays date.
"Holy shit! Snowie check it out!"
"What? Gees you sound like a little kid." She laughed and read the flyer. "Oh. Oh shit! Jon that's tonight! In half an hour."
"I know this, Snow White. And Sunset is only two blocks over. Come on!"
They sped through paying for their goods and ran out the door. Once they got to Sunset she read the address off again when she looked up there where people in a long line only four building down. They slowed to a walk so they could catch their breath. She read the flyer again.
"Jon this says eighteen. How are you getting in?"
"Trust me."
Oh no, she thought shaking her head. But she couldn't wait to see how he talked his way into this one. A few months back Hanna had told her how he had sweet talked the girl at the theater into letting them into an R rated movie. She knew he was smooth with his words but curtain he was this type of smooth.
They waited for an hour and half before they got to the door. They saw many people walk away with a crushed look on their faces more sad faced head shakers walked out than happy people. She could only pray Jon could do what they asked, she might kill someone for crushing his spirit and his dream.
"You're too young Missy." A rather large man at the door told her.
"I'm just the support team." She hooked her thumb toward Jon. "He's the talent."
"Go in."
Once they were in the main room Jon said, "Thanks for the vote of confidence."
"Your welcome. I'm gonna go grab a water I'll meet you over there," she pointed to the stands, "when you're done here."
Jon waited in line watching her walk away. Some one behind him made a comment about how he'd like to tape that ass. When the guys friend asked who and he described Snowie Jon had to control himself and that knock the guy out cold. He signed the list when it was his turn writing down his birthday with a few extra years. He found Snowie where she said she'd be and took a seat waiting for his name to be called. It took a total of three hours.
"Got anything to change into?" the trainer asked after a bout of questions.
"Are you joking?" Jon said in true Jon sarcasm. "I'll do just fine in this." But he did throw his shirt back at Snowie.
She blinked to keep form staring. And had to clinch her jaw shut. He had been working out. No. No. No. It's Jon, remember, we don't check out our best…God, those pecks!...friend. The little voice in her head trying to reason. Jon had to scrimmage with a trainer after answer a bunch of questions. He did amazing, all those hours of watching wrestling had paid off. He was told to hold back for a while.
"Oh my God!"
He smirked. "Shut up."
She was a little disappointed when he pulled his shirt over his head. They talked for about twenty minutes before Cody came to sit beside them. They looked at each other and back to him.
"Haven't seen you in a while, girl." Cody said.
"Yeah. I haven't been here for about a year."
"Oh." He turned to Jon. "Alright kid, gonna own up?"
"To what?" Jon said innocently.
Cody sighed annoyed. "I know you're not eighteen. But you're damn good for a kid that has no training."
Just then Les walked over. "No Cody."
Jon and Snowie looked at each other, and gulped quietly. Cody shook his head. "How old are you really?"
"Sixteen." Jon said begrudgingly.
"Well I'll tell you what you can't train until you're seventeen." Jon sighed annoyed. "But…"Cody went on, "…I can let you set in on some training sessions until then. And maybe train you a little when no one is around." He added the last part as a whisper.
"Yeah, Okay, sure."
Jon was smiling ear to ear by the time they walked out. He couldn't believe it and Snowie knew he wouldn't shut up about it, which she didn't mind really she was all smiles too. Jon was going to live his dream, how could she not be happy?
They chatted the entire way home, arm in arm. Jon felt like a sixteen year old again. He felt free. He looked at Snowie and smiled she was his good luck charm. They ate dinner as fast as they could then headed up to her room to watch a new show coming on MTV.
Snowie fell asleep next to him around one am. He was still too wired so he flipped through channels until she let out a sigh and shifted in her sleep snuggling closer to his body. She had changed a lot in the last year. She'd cute her hair to just under shoulder length, he liked it. She hadn't lost weight but she was leaner, she had more of a runner's body now after a year of track. And her boobs….
"What am I thinking?" Jon shook his head and looked away. "She isn't just another chick, Jon. She's Snowie, your Snowie, your Snow White. Get it together man." He mumbled under his breath.
Jon trudged to his room he obviously needed to get use to the idea of Snow not being just a friend but a girl, a sexy, beautiful girl. Sure they had fooled around with kissing before but it was never like it had been tonight. He felt that jolt they talked about in movies. He shook his head, give it up, man. Around four he had just been going to sleep when he was straddled by her sneaking into his room.
"Snow?"
"Sorry. I didn't mean to wake you." She said coming to stand by his bed.
"What's wrong?"
"I woke up and you weren't there."
He didn't say anything, just raised up the cover. She crawled in bed and snuggled close, her head on his shoulder. He couldn't tell her the reason he'd left. He didn't really understand it himself. He put his arm around and kissed the top of her head.
"Good night, Snow White." He sighed giving up trying to figure out his feelings.
"Night, Jon."
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