Scott took a deep breath in; refusing to show that whenever she was around it made the hairs on the back of his neck go up, seriously come on, a guy afraid of a girl who's never even worn a skirt even once in her life? How ridiculous.

He turned around slowly "oh, what do you want?" Scott yawned turning away quickly, he figured the less eye contact they made the better,

Jo huffed a laughed "you know, if you ever get a career in acting don't go for the tough guy parts"

"oh don't worry, we all know your names written all over those scripts" Scott retorted, taking a sip of his wine,

Jo scoffed and sat down in Dawns chair next to Scott, "oh hey Jo, why don't you sit down, it be nice to catch up with a good old chat while were here" Scott muttered in a think sarcastic voice

"I was thinking the same thing"

"Sarcasm is a foreign language to you isn't it?"

"no, I just choose to ignore your stupidity" Jo responded, narrowing her eyes at Scott making him feel very uneasy.

"take a picture" Scott sneered "what do you even want from me? Seriously..."

"I just can't see it" Jo mused, resting her face in her hand, causing Scott to raise his eyebrow in confusion "come again?"

"you being a monogamist" Jo explained, huffing out another laugh "I mean, seriously?"

Scott rolled his eyes before groaning out in annoyance "like I said, try harder to believe"

"it's kind of hard, you see, I have this gift, it prevents me from falling for peoples bullshit"

"I don't even know what we're talking about here!"

"well for one, why is Cinderella out dancing with Alejandro?" Jo interrogated pointing towards Scott's date out on the dance floor, laughing at something Alejandro said,

Scott felt his eye twitch, he had no idea why, it just did "because I don't dance and I wanted her to have fun" Scott explained before adding "maybe I actually care about her,"

"oh Scott, being here today is like being in a comedy show, or even a paralleled universe, you don't care about anyone but yourself" Jo told him, her finger outlining the bowl of Dawns half eaten salad, then a grin came across her face "in that way you're just like me"

"pfft, please, I'm not gender confused" as soon as Scott had said that he felt a shoe dig right into his shin "Ouch! Fuck! What the hell Jo! Just because you can't accept that I've decided to date someone-"

"your gonna end up ripping her heart out, you know that right?" Jo cut him off, Scott felt his eye twitch again, why did it keep doing that? "look" Jo pointed back over to Dawn on the dance floor.

"she's cute, Scott Fields and cute girls? It doesn't mix; it's like putting steak with cheesecake"

"you don't know what your-" Scott was cut off by Jo again,

"here is how it's gonna go down" Jo continued "you're going to reach the 4th, 6th month mark if you're lucky, she's going to admit how much she truly loves you, you won't be able to say it back, because you don't even like her all that much, then she's gonna walk into your room only to find some other stupid little bimbo on top of you in your bed-"

"shut the fuck up" Scott spat "you don't know shit!"

"oh but I think I do Scotty" Jo laughed

"don't call me that" Scott gritted his teeth

"oh cry me a river"

"I will, then ill drown you in it!" Scott barked, he honestly felt like there was a massive bushfire getting bigger and bigger in the pit of his stomach by the second,

"she talks like a maiden from back in the 14th centenary" Jo continued her taunting "she must be an idiot to think her relationship with you would ever workout, naive little bitch"

"Jo for fuck sake, shut your god damn trap! And leave Dawn alone! She hasn't done anything wrong!" Scott snapped, obviously not loud enough to attract the attention of everyone at the after-wedding party fortunately for him "and did it ever occur to you that I might have a fetish for girls born in the wrong centaury?"

Jo scoffed again, then suddenly her face formed another smile "we really would be good together" she spoke in a voice that sounded like a purr and it was frightening enough to that it made the hair on Scott's arms go up

"no, we really wouldn't" Scott hissed slamming his face into hands

"but we are, were both talented lairs" Jo protested "and we both like to mess with people weaker than us"

"oh trust me, Dawn is anything but weak" Scott assured her, remembering when Dawn stood up to him in the bathroom that night they got home from the bar, looking back he smiled at the memory, she was one of the first people who actually cared enough about what he had to say to stand up to him.

"she has the body of a ballerina" Jo continued with her argument, she really had it in for Dawn didn't she?

"I mean mentally, she's probably the strongest person I know that way" another smile crept upon the gingers face "she even stands up to me, you know"

Jo scoffed "yeah right, Queen of Pixie Land doesn't even touch meat, no wonder her waist is so thin"

"she's fine the way she is, at least she's not fat or a fake blonde and she's honest with herself, which is more than what I can say for the rest of this stupid world!" Scott snarled, pulling his chair out as he got up and stormed away from his own table, he had to get away from her.

Scott walked over to the bar, he needed a drink and fast, grabbing one that was probably another guests order and sculling it down one gulp, he shut is eyes in all hopes that this was all a dream and that any moment now he would wake up in his bed at the sound of that menace of a dog that he secretly had grown fond of would be out in the hallway trapping its little paws on the wooden floorboards following his cute little blonde roommate Dawn, who he has also grown fond of out into the kitchen where she would eat her cereal with her soy milk.

Scott smiled remembering how one night when everyone had gone to bed he had decided to pour himself a glass of the soy milk, why? He had no idea, needless to say, he spat it out within seconds.

"Scott?" a voice called out from left, turning he saw his old friend Brick standing before him

"Brick, hey how's it going?" Scott greeted his cadet friend that he had not seen since graduation

"it's going great! I'm surprised to see you here however, I could barely make it myself, I'm secluded on a plane leaving in 0500 hours!" Brick replied, Scott laughed, noticing he still spoke in his ridiculous, formal, army talk, or cadet or whatever he was, Scott never really paid that much attention to what everyone else did back in high school, he was always doing his own thing.

"that cool" Scott gave the cadet a small smile before looking back at his empty glass, he felt a little light headed, how many drinks had he had? Was in two or three in the past hour?

"I saw you brought a date, she's quite the lady if you don't mind me saying" Brick chuckled looking around for a moment before asking "where is she anyway?"

"dancing" Scott answered, jeez he hadn't seen this guy in ages and his longest sentences were five words, he couldn't help it though, after his talk with Jo everything seemed really depressing.

"without her partner? This must be against the relationship code, is that what they call it?" Brick posed, looking down at Scott's empty glass that Scott had been eyeing most of the time they had been talking "do you need another drink Scott?"

Scott groaned out loud "at this rate I'm gonna need another 4 shots just to take away the pain of being here."

Brick opened his mouth to reply until something blue and blonde caught his eye turning to the side he saw Dawn walking towards them "speaking of your date here she comes now, Hello Dawn was it?" he asked as soon as she had walked up to the bar, Scott spun around and looked over at Dawn who was now by his side.

"yes, nice to meet you, I uh didn't quite catch your name?" Dawn inquired, smiling that sweet little smile of hers at the cadet

"names Brick, one of Scott's old buddies from high school, he probably never spoke of me" Brick answered the pretty blonde

Dawn's eyes widened in remembering the story of prom and how he went with Jo, her smile went even wider than before "oh no! Scott told me about you taking Jo to prom! Although I don't know of many of the people here" Dawn admitted

Brick's had a tinge of pink growing on his face as he replied "yes I did, I sort of liked her back in high school, it was unfortunately for me though, and she was really into Scott"

"more like fortunately for you, you should consider yourself lucky" Scott muttered under his breath, which only Dawn heard but chose not to comment on, instead she continued her conversation with Brick "oh wow, she was your crush all through high school?" Dawn asked in surprised, she had just read his aura that had just given that information away like an open book left on a library desk.

"w-wait" Brick stammered "how did you know that? I never told Scott that!"

Dawn's eyes went wide as well as her eyebrows went up realizing she had once again done the one thing she told Scott she wouldn't do that night "oh, no, I only just thought she was- but it turns up was right after all!" Dawn let out a nervous giggle, while playing with her hands.

Brick eyed the small girl for a second before smiling at her again "oh, okay, do you want a drink or something?"

"oh, no thank you" Dawn politely declined his offer, Scott eyed Dawn narrowing his eyes up and down her body, she looked like she had something she needed to ask him but with everyone around it was kind of difficult to complete her task.

"well okay, I'll leave in you in the capable hands of your date ma'm, it was a privilege to meet you, and it was nice seeing you again Scott" Brick waved goodbye to them, Scott and Dawn both said their goodbyes and watched the cadet walk off.

Scott turned around and grabbed another glass that was certain to be alcohol and drank half of it, Dawn watched him do this before speaking up "is everything okay?"

Scott turned back to face her "I was gonna ask you the same thing" he mumbled, drinking the rest of his drink in one gulp

Dawn, not helping herself looked into his aura and noticed he had noticed she had something to say "oh" she breathed "I just wanted to know why you got up and left our table"

"guess I felt like another drink" Scott answered, now looking Dawn in the eyes, Dawn smiled at him "oh okay, as long as you are alright I shouldn't have anything to worry about!"

Scott smiled, shaking his head "you care about things way too much"

Dawn let out that laugh that, dare he even admit it too himself, brightened up his day, it was so cute and soft and there was none other like it, "so how was your dance with the hunk of beef?" Scott pressed, leaning again the counter.

"you mean Alejandro? It was amazing, how did he learn to dance like that? Did you have dancing classes at your old school?" Dawn answered his question with another question, her answer really did beam in her voice, and she honestly thought Alejandro was amazing? He was the biggest sleaze during high school; all the dumb girls seemed to be really into him, but Dawn wasn't one of those dumb girls!

"amazing?" Scott snorted "he's anything but"

"I only meant he was an amazing dancer" Dawn explained "although I do feel bad for him, he spent his whole life competing with his brother to win his parents affection; it must have been very difficult"

Scott raised his eyebrow, taken back by what Dawn had just revealed to him, so he was still a sleaze, trying to get pity hook-ups from other peoples dates... wait why did he even care? He just had to know "he told you that?"

Dawn shook her head, causing her bangs to fall in front of her eyes again, she pushed them away, her hair was coming undone "I was written all over his aura"

Scott rolled his eyes, go figures, she really couldn't help herself and Scott couldn't really blame her, it was, yes freaky as hell, but it gave her what could be extremely useful information on people "of course" Scott smirked

"I'm sorry" Dawn apologized "I know I said I wouldn't but I don't know any of these people and reading their auras has really helped me learn a lot about you, as well as Lightning and Sam"

"well we did go to school with most of these clowns" Scott motioned everyone from the dance floor, to the buffet, Dawn smiled "most of them are very kind, others not so much"

"isn't that how it is at every school?"

Dawn giggled "I guess you're right, although your friends are extremely different to my own"

"they're not my friends" Scott corrected her "most of these people I just know from school, I don't even care about half these people, I'll probably never see them again after this" Scott grabbed another glass from the counter and drank it, sending a buzz from his head to his feet, that's when he knew he over did it- just a little.

Dawn watched Scott take another shot, after a moment of studying him she decided to ask "how many glasses have you had of that?"

Scott shrugged, still feeling light headed "not many, I'm not pissed off my tree... well yet anyway" Scott grabbed another shot glass but Dawn grabbed his hand "Scott don't you dare!" she warned him

"why not? Oh shit how ungentlemenly of me, would you like one?" Scott waved the glass in front of her face

Dawn grabbed the glass from him and sat it on the table and replied "no I would not like one and I think you've had enough"

"you seriously need to chill out, you sound like my mother" Scott huffed, crossing his arms over his chest and leaning back against the bar again

"Scott if you have any more alcoholic beverages at this party I swear by the great earth mother I will sit down for the rest of the night and let Jo flirt with you!" Dawn warned him

Scott narrowed his eyes at his date, not believing her "you wouldn't do that"

"are you willing to test me on this Scott?" Dawn quipped, standing her ground and looking him right in the eyes

"fine mother dearest!" Scott grumbled "I need to pee"

Dawn rolled her eyes and smiled "good, and thank you for sharing that lovely slice of information with me"

"can I please just pee? I'll meet you back at our table" Scott told her, she nodded and they departed their separate ways, while Dawn was walking back she thought to herself; Scott was acting very peculiar back there, I wonder what's bothering him, I guess I'll just have to ask him when he comes back from the restroom or even when we get home.

Scott grunted to himself has he came out of the restroom after going number ones, why does booze always make me need to pee? Scott thought to himself, when he walked out of the restroom door he noticed a Jo was coming his way.

Scott felt panic well up in his chest, and if it wasn't panic then It must have been something else that could potentially cause a heart attack, god damn it why did he have to walk off without Dawn...again! you'd think a guy would learn from his mistakes.

Scott looked around for a place to hide, dejvu much? It's like high school all over again! Scott curse at himself in his mind, but all that would have to wait till after he knew he was safe, scanning around the room with his eyes they finally landed on a photo booth.

That'll work Scott thought running towards to photo booth and by pushing a bunch of girls out the way he managed to make his way into the booth, closing the curtain. When he turned his head he noticed Sam and Harold were still in the booth sitting next to him "Scott? what are you doing?" Sam asked ginger haired roommate.

"Jo, had to run, can't explain!" Scott exclaimed, before anymore could be said by anyone in the booth the curtain opened, and too Scott's horror it just had to be Jo "running from me? Seriously Scott?"

Scott flipped his head back "get Dawn, now!" He mouthed desperately to the gamer, who nodded and got out of the other side of the booth with Harold, leaving Scott once again alone with Jo, in a smaller space this time, to Scott it was like being in a horror film wishing it would just skip to the end where he was hoping he would just die.

"can't you just leave me alone!" Scott howled

"move over" Jo ordered, ignoring what he had just said, Scott felt his hands clench together, he had honestly had enough crap from her today, he was mad, tired and a little drunk, but mad.

"no! Go get you're back waxed!" Scott bellowed as she pushed him over to the side so she could fit into the booth

"you got some serious issues Scotty" Jo continued her ramble "but I can help you out with that, all you got to do is dump the fairy princess"

"Jo! I. Am. So. Freaking. Over. This. Convocation!" Scott fussed "listening to you is like watching a car accident!"

"yeah because you know I'm right!"

Scott let out a loud grown in frustration, if there anyone out there who could listen to all this without wanting to rip their own fingernails off, are you willing to switch places with Scott? Just for a day?

Dawn was sitting back at her table talking to Geoff and Bridgette "so you found the apartment online and just moved in?"

Dawn let out a laugh "well that's putting it briefly; Scott couldn't stand me at the start though, it was only because of Lightning and Sam I actually ended up moving in" Dawn explained, taking another sip of her mineral water, where was Scott? Dawn wondered to herself, starting to get a little worried he should be back by now.

As if today's timing wasn't perfect enough already, Sam and Harold reached the table "Dawn! Jo's with Scott! in the photo booth!" Sam informed the blonde, pointing over to where to photo booth was located

"w-what!" Dawn gasped, standing up from her chair "oh my gosh, this is bad"

"you gotta do something Dawn!" Sam exclaimed

"okay, okay, I have a plan!" Dawn proclaimed before charging off to save her date, he's like a child Dawn thought to herself as she kept speed walking towards the photo booth- getting into trouble on a trip to the toilet

"can't you just leave me alone!" Scott wailed, slamming his face onto the palms of his hands

"no" Jo shook her head, grinning slyly "not until you open your mind"

"for what!" Scott shouted pulling his head up to face her once again

"for this" Jo purred, grabbing the back of Scott head and crashing her lips onto his, Scott eyes widened but just as he was about to pull away, things got even worse;

The curtain door was pulled open and standing before them was Dawn, Dawns eyes went as big as plates and to the look on her face was something Scott was not going to forget... for a very, very long time. "Great earth mother!" Dawn gasped in... Is there a more shocking word for shocking?

"D-Dawn! I-"Scott was cut off by Jo "sorry Angelina ballerina, gonna have to find yourself a new man, possibly a hippy with dreadlocks that smells like patchouli"

The look on Scott's face was so distressing Dawn didn't even have time to breathe "Scott!" Dawn yelped "how could you do this to me? To us! And our love child! Yes Scott, I am with child! And it's yours!"

Scott couldn't feel the movements in his face due to the fact they were acting completely on their own, what Dawn had just declared was the craziest thing that Scott, after a few weeks of living with her had ever heard come out of her mouth.

Jo was completely stunned as well "w-what! your pregna- oh my good god!" she bellowed, standing up and walking out the door of the photo booth passing Dawn "well, you two obviously have a lot to discuss, I'm out"

As Jo bolted back to the reception Dawn turned her head back to Scott who was looking at Dawn as if she was a crazy person, she tilted her head to the side "Scott are you okay?"

When Scott finally got his words together he howled "Dawn what the hell!"

Dawn waved her hand in the air defensively "I-I'm sorry! I panicked!" she told him, "Dawn!" a voice called out to her, Dawn moved her head so she was looking over her shoulder- it was Sam, Harold and Beth "what happened?"

Scott got up and walked out of the photo booth "well not much really but apparently were having a baby!" Scott exclaimed, it really wasn't his fault for acting the way he was, the 18 year old was tired, half drunk, extremely angry at a certain female jock and still in panic mode from what she had just announced.

"I said I was sorry Scott, I just panicked! You would have done the same thing – well not the same thing but something along those lines!" Dawn defended herself, her eyes were still studying Scott, he wasn't fully drunk but he defiantly wasn't sober either, it's not that she was against having a good time she just couldn't deal with Scott being drunk on top of dealing with Jo and meeting over two hundred new people.

"wait, Dawns pregnant?" Sam gasped out loud "when did you guys-"

"we didn't!" Scott and Dawn chorused in union, Scott groaned out loud "people from our old school take stuff like this literally!"

Dawn sucked in a breath between her cheeks and slowly blew the air out; she normally did that to help calm herself down in situations where she was able to meditate.

"you know what? fuck this! This day can't possibly get any worse! I need another drink!" Scott snarled at anyone who was actually listening to him and stormed off back to the bar to take another 10 shots... or at least drink to the point where he couldn't even think anymore.

"fine!" Dawn called out after him "do whatever you want Scott! I'm done with helping you!"

"whatever sister!" Scott called back with a hint of smugness in his voice,

Dawn let out a groan in frustration "I am so frustrated I could just scream!" (A/N: quote from Fluttershy from My Little Pony – she's just too bloody cute!)

"Dawn, seriously he's just being an idiot again" Sam told her, placing a hand on her shoulder

"he is just so rude and ungrateful!" Dawn muttered in annoyance "that's it, I'm done, I'm going to blow some bubbles!" as stormed away from the photo booth and her gaming roommate.

Dawn sat in her chair blowing bubbles up in air, watching them flouting down and up in the air calmed her down a little; well a little more than a little – but not entirely. She looked forward noticing that Lighting was coming towards her with cake spilled all over his shirt and hair and he did not look happy.

"what happened to you?" Dawn inquired, narrowing her eyes at his shirt

"that Izzy girl, the crazy one I was planning on getting with just threw like four pieces of cake on my shirt and Lightning's face!" Lighting growled in annoyance "because I said she looked delicious and she thought I meant the cake!"

Dawn couldn't help but giggle a little, guess she wasn't the only one who was having a tone of conflict at the weddings after party "so you won't be killing her tonight?"

"the sun aint down yet girl, Lightning's got a couple more hours" she watched Lightning face light up as he said that, this guy had the biggest ego she had ever seen in a person, well besides Vito; he would pick fights with everyone! Luckily Zoey so understanding about it, he was lucky to have her. Dawn smiled remembering how their relationship had its fair share of bumps in the road, but they always managed to overcome it, who knows they might even get married one day!

"anything is possible" Dawn smiled at Lightning who nodded in agreement before looking at the bottle in her hands "are those bubbles?" he asked

"indeed they are"

"Lightning loves bubbles!" Lightning beamed, Dawn laughed as she handed the bottle over to him who took it without any hesitation and started blowing bubbles

Dawn looked through the crowd as she noticed Scott headed their way, stumbling at his attempt to walk straight, once he reached her he extended his hand in front of her face "Dawn, come on"

Dawn raised her eyebrow at the ginger; he was obviously drunk "why?" she asked him with seriousness in her voice, she was still annoyed with him for what happened earlier.

"we, my strange lady are doing the conga line!" Scott exclaimed gleefully, grabbing her hand that was on her lap and pulling her out on her chair, that's when Dawn realized that Scott was drunk off his face to the point where he will not be wanting to get out of bed tomorrow morning.

"do you know what you just said to me, Scott?" Dawn put on a grin that made her look daring,

"I'm drunk babe I aint gonna remember any of this tomorrow!" Scott cheered, pulling her out onto the dance floor "hey everyone join in! Dawns leading the way!" Scott shouted out to everyone before grabbing hold and Dawns slim waist and moving along to the now changed beat that was more than suitable for a conga line.

Dawn bursted out laughing as she noticed everyone, including her other roommates joining in on their conga line. It was without a doubt the craziest and most daring thing Scott had every done – in a group activity anyway, dancing away to the music and listening to Scott cheers and woohoo's, she couldn't help but grin, knowing how much Lightning and Sam would be teasing him tomorrow morning.

A/N:

Okay first off I am so freaking sorry for updating later than I normally do! It's been hectic, but anywho I hope this 4,555 worded chapter made up for it... probably didn't with the whole Jo and Scott kissing thing but yeah! Sorry if it sucked!

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