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This Chapter: Terra and Jessie have a girl-to-girl talk as Jessie takes Terra's measurements. Please Read and Review! Then Read lizziestar's stories, they are really well-written.

Terra

I had been helping carrying rolls of fabric into the house from Jessie's car when I saw a bloody and unconscious Talon in Walter's arms.

"What happened?" I yelled.

After a long, uncomfortable silence by the other side, I threatened to make them all match Talon if someone didn't answer me quick.

"Let's just say," Bree replied sheepishly, "you told the wrong person to not go crazy during the fight,"

"Walter?" I gasped in disbelief, "YOU did this?"

Walter seemed to think I was asking why he had beat up Talon, when I was really trying to figure out the how he did it.

"It wasn't my fault," he explained in his calm voice, "Talon pulled his claws on me, I just defended myself."

"You call that," I screamed, pointing at the bloody mass of bruises in his arms that used to be Talon, "DEFENDING YOURSELF?"

"Um," he replied, "yeah."

The only reason Walter didn't become a new brand of mincemeat when he said that was Jessie saved him by calling me upstairs for the fabrics I brought in with me. I gave Walter a glare that told him "we'll be having a discussion later."

I ran the fabrics up to Jessie and found her taking the measurements for Zell and Lexis' clothes. My little flocklings looked excited that they would be getting their own custom clothes from an actual fashion designer. To tell you the truth, so was I. Jessie finished and jotted the lengths down on a notebook.

"All right, you two are done," Jessie said, "go help Walter fix up Talon."

"What happened to Taly?" Lexis asked, her sweet voice and concern making her sound so innocent and adorable.

"Well," Jessie answered, "Walter and Talon got into a fight, and Walter got a little carried away and beat him up too much, that's why Terra was yelling at Walter a few minutes ago."

Both girls gave the same look of confusion I did when I found out Walter had beaten Talon. But they quickly hid it, like and ran down the stairs, where Zell was probably going to give Walter some of her patented "shock treatment." I wish I could've seen it. But Jessie needed to take my measurements so she could start making my new clothes.

As she was measuring, my mind drifted from my growing questions about her and Walter and started focusing on their relationship.

"Jessie?" I asked.

"Yes Terra?"

"How did you know you and Walter were in love?"

"Why do you ask Terra?"

"Just curious, because you two make such a good couple from what I've seen."

"Well, we aren't really all that alike, Walter and me. Walter's always helpful, and going out and doing things that get him noticed. He doesn't mean to, but he makes all sorts of friends and is well-known around here. I keep telling him I don't like him being known so much, but it just happens naturally with him."

"By the way," I quickly interrupted, "I'm really curious about this; where did you and Walter first meet?"

What happened to Jessie was what I had seen happen with Max and her Flock whenever they remember their days at the School. Her hands stopped momentarily, then started shaking badly, so much that she dropped the measuring tape. Her eyes looked the same as Talon's just before he had his bout of PTSD in the basement; scared eyes that didn't want to re-see whatever the mind was bringing up. My suspicion was instantly replaced with concern, because she had obviously gone through something very traumatic around the time she met Walter, and I was opening old wounds.

"Jessie?" I said, trying to get her attention.

I reached out and grabbed her shoulder.

"Jessie!" I said loudly.

"Huh?…" she murmured, coming out of whatever she had been in, "Oh Terra, I'm sorry. To answer your question, I was in a bad place back when I met Walter, and he was the only thing that helped me pull through… So is there anything else you want to know?"

"No," I said a little too quickly, "I mean, I don't want to make you dig up bad memories on account of me."

A heavy silence spread between us while Jessie kept measuring me. The look on her face told me she now knew I was suspicious of her and Walter. Not really helping her case, she didn't do anything to get rid of them.

"So," Jessie asked quietly after a while, "You and Talon sure make a cute couple."

"Talon and I aren't a couple; he's like family to me." I stammered in reply.

I knew Jessie could see right through that, because my beet-red face gave me away completely.

"Well," Jessie said coyly, "would a 'sister' try to kiss her brother while he was asleep, or is that the way things are in your 'family'?"

I had no answer to that, so I just stood there, basking in the humiliation that Jessie knew what I had tried to do to Talon last night on the couch. Mortified, I prayed that God or whatever higher power was listening would send a lightning bolt to end my suffering.

"It's alright," Jessie laughed, "I'm not going to tell him how you feel. But you definitely should."

"WHAT?" I squeaked, "I can't do that; I'd be completely embarrassed and I wouldn't know how to say it. And what if I make a complete fool of myself"

"Fine, fine," Jessie said, giving me the "whoa nelly!" posture, "but if you don't soon, you might lose him."

This grabbed my attention like a slap to the face.

"What do you mean I might lose him?~" I asked in a worried voice.

"Oh nothing, I just thought I saw Juli looking at Talon earlier a little weird, that's all." Jessie said.

I felt my heart get as heavy as an anvil. I knew I couldn't compete with Juli in anything, because she always won. I didn't have a prayer.

"You really saw that?" I pitifully asked.

"Nope," she said, "I was just testing how much you felt for him, and I must say, you must really love the guy to be that obsessed with him."

Even as my blush flared up again, I laughed at her joke, because it was harmless fun between us girls; just as long as Jessie didn't tell anyone else.

Next Chapter: Some slight filler, but later on, gets into some really juicy stuff! ^-^ Please review, it means the world to me when you do!