YAY I'M BACK! Roadtrip was fun, except for the fact that I COULDN'T GO ON FANFICTION! Stupid WiFi! But when I came back you guys exploded my email with reviews, THANK YOU SO MUCH! XD So since I couldn't update, here is an EXTRA LONG EXTRA SUSPENSEFUL chappie! Onto ze story!
Disclaimer: I will own Kickin' It when Milton drops out of school...so it's never gonna happen :(
Jack's POV
I walked back to Jennifer's room to tell her I had to study, but I don't think she heard me. She was too absorbed playing with her barbies. I just smiled to myself as I closed her bedroom door. Kim was in the hallway, her book bag slung over her shoulder.
"Follow me," I said. We walked to the end of the hallway, stopping at my bedroom door. I opened in and she walked in.
"Sorry about the mess," I said, rubbing the back of my neck while waiting for her reaction.
She laughed. "Please, you should see my little brother's room, yours is immaculate compared to his."
"Hey, I think I met him," I said. "Isn't his name Leo or something?"
"Yeah, that's him," she smiled. "I heard that you were going to help him with his skateboarding."
I shrugged, "Yeah, he's a cool dude, and when he said he skateboards, I'd thought it would be cool to show him some tricks."
"That's really nice of you to do that," she smiled. "I would teach him some tricks myself, but with just moving there and adjust to a new school-"
"You skateboard too?" I interrupted, shocked. She leaned on one hip and crossed her arms, sending me a mini glare.
"Yeah, is there something wrong with that?" she challenged. I shook my head quickly, my some of my hair whipping getting in my eyes.
"No, I didn't mean to say it like that, I think it's awesome that you skateboard, not many girls do," I said. A mini smile spread across her face as she turned around.
"Yeah, I'm not like other girls," she laughed, putting her book bag down on my computer desk.
Definitely not like other girls.
"Did you say something?" she asked, turning around to face me. My eyes widened.
Did I say that out loud?
"Uh," I scratched the back of my neck and stared at the ground, "I realized that we don't really know anything about each other, so I said do you want to play like twenty questions or something?"
I looked up to see her smiling. "Yeah, sure." She sat down in my computer chair, and I sat down in the one usually reserved for Jerry when we play video games.
"Okay, you go first," she said. She readjust herself in the chair and nodded her head, signaling for me to start.
"Okay, um…" I thought about it for a second. What should I ask her? "Okay, um, what is your favorite food?" I asked.
She scrunched her nose up in thought before answering, "My favorite food would have to be…Rocky Road ice cream with hot fudge and whip cream."
I stared at her in amazement. "Do you know how awesome that is? Most girls would be like 'my favorite food is salad' or some healthy food like that," I said making my voice sound girly. (A/N: No offense to anyone who likes salad!) Kim laughed. "It's finally nice to meet someone who's not afraid to eat something out of their calorie and fat count." Kim smiled.
"How about you, what's your fav-" she started. She didn't even have to finish the sentence because I already know my answer.
"Bacon," I interrupted her. She stifled a laugh.
"Bacon?"
"Bacon, with a doubt bacon," I said. "I could eat bacon all day every day. If we had to marry food I would marry bacon."
She looked at me like I was crazy. "What? It's true!" I said. I placed my hand on my heart. "Bacon will always lie in my heart…and in my arteries." She started cracking up, and I eventually did too. What? Laughing is contagious!
She's so cute when she laughs.
I think someone has a crush!
Kinda, maybe, sorta, I don't know I need to learn more about her to be sure!
Once she stopped laughing she asked her question. "Okay, if you could go anywhere in the world where would it be?"
"Well, I actually don't know," I said. "Now that I think about it, I don't really think there is one specific place I would want to go, so I'll just say…Australia. How about yo-" It was now her turn to interrupt me.
"Hawaii," she said matter-of-factly. "Definitely Hawaii. I've never been there before, but I want to go so badly. That is my dream vacation."
I smiled. "Okay, now my turn…" Went back and forth, asking each other stupid and random questions and laughing like idiots. I learned that her favorite food is Rocky Road ice cream with hot fudge and whip cream, her dream vacation is Hawaii, her favorite game is tag and truth or dare (because she loves dares), the most embarrassing dare she ever had to do was yodel at the top of her lungs in the middle of the cafeteria, she prefers fritos over cheetos, Pepsi over Coke, high tops over high heels, her favorite milk is chocolate milk, her favorite flavored Pringle is sour cream and onion, her favorite movie is The Hangover, her guilty pleasure is getting up at 2 am in the morning and getting something from Taco Bell, the last time she played air guitar was five days ago, and the longest she went without sleep was 36 hours. This girl is amazing.
"How did you do that? WHY did you do that?" I asked in amazement.
"Well, my little brother said I couldn't do it, and of course I was like 'you wanna bet?' so I did it and proved him wrong. He owed me ice cream for a week," she smiled proudly and I smiled. "As for staying awake, I did so many things: coffee, exercise, music, slapping myself awake, splashing cold water on my face, watch movies, everything. I basically slept for two whole days after that."
We both laughed together. After a while, our laughing died down to quiet chuckles as we stared at each other, still smiling. Kim was the first one to talk.
"Well," she clapped her hands together, "let's get our study on!"
She turned toward my desk and grabbed her backpack. She opened it and pulled out various books, setting them in a neat stack on my desk. I groaned as the books kept coming.
"How many books do you have in there?" I asked, yanking her back pack from her and looking inside it.
"Stay calm, that was it," she said, grabbing her book bag from me. Our hands brushed slightly, and we pulled our hands away quickly. We looked away from each other, not speaking.
Is it hot in here or is it just me? I think it's hot in here, is the heater on or something?
Kim cleared her throat.
"Let's start with English." She grabbed her English textbook and set it on the table, opening it to the chapter we were currently on in school, Grammar.
Great, my best subject! NOT.
We talked for about an hour reviewing all of the parts of speech, then she gave me a worksheet to work on. Let me just say this was the hardest worksheet ever. 45 minutes later I finished it.
"Jeez, it took you long enough!" Kim exclaimed, sitting up in her chair and grabbing the paper from me.
"Sorry, it was hard," I shrugged, spinning around in circles in my computer chair.
You have NO idea how hard it was.
"I'm gonna get a snack, you wanna come?" I asked, standing up from my chair. I stumbled a little from dizziness, but eventually gained my balance. Kim laughed.
"Ah what the heck," she said, throwing my worksheet on the table, now scattered with different books and papers, "I'll check this when we come back." She stood up and together we walked down to the kitchen.
"Help yourself to whatever you want," I said. I grabbed the bread and the peanut butter, about to make myself a peanut butter and cream cheese sandwich. I dropped all of the stuff on the table as Kim came walking over.
"Oh, I want a sandwich too!" she exclaimed, jumping up and down like a five year old. I laughed as I spread some peanut butter on a piece of bread. She ran toward the refrigerator and grabbed something. She walked back to the table as I walked past her, opening the fridge to get out the cream cheese. I looked in the fridge but couldn't find it.
Where the hell did it go? Ah man, we must be out or something.
I turned around and walked back to the table. I stopped when I saw what Kim was doing. She was spreading cream cheese on her peanut butter sandwich.
"What are you doing?" I asked, slowly reaching the table. I eyed her suspiciously.
"Putting cream cheese on my sandwich? What else," she chuckled, "I know it's weird, but-"
"Weird?" I asked, "I love doing that!"
"You do?" she asked, shocked.
"Yeah," I said, spreading some cream cheese on my sandwich too. " I thought I was the only one who did that."
"I did too," she said, taking a bite out of her sandwich, "every time I told someone they would get grossed out, but they didn't even try it."
"I know," I said, taking a bite out of mine, "everyone thinks I'm crazy. That's so cool you do that too." I smiled, amazed.
"I told you I am not like normal girls," she smiled and left the kitchen, walking up the stairs to my room. I smiled to myself.
"Kim, you are DEFINITELY not like normal girls," I said to myself, smiling as I cleaned up the kitchen. I finished my sandwich and headed upstairs. I walked into my bedroom, only to find Kim staring at my worksheet, her eyes furrowed in confusion.
Oh crap.
"Jack, in the sentence 'I walked to my cousin's birthday party' what is the verb?" she asked, taking her eyes off of the paper and landing them on me. I shifted uncomfortably under her gaze.
"Uh, walked is the verb," I said, looking at everything in the room but her.
"Then why did you write down 'tackled'?" she asked. "It's not even in the sentence."
OH CRAP.
"Oh, must have thought it was," I laughed nervously, "I think I was out of it because I was hungry or something."
She looked at the paper again. "But all of these are wr-"
"You know what, I'm sick of English, could we study something else?" I pleaded. She can't find out, Jerry and my family knowing is already enough people.
She eyed me suspiciously but eventually gave in. "Alright fine, but we are definitely coming back to it later," she warned. I sighed in relief as I sat in my chair.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked, relieved of getting away from English.
"Math," she said, pulling out our math textbook. My eyes widened as I felt the color drain from my face.
Even worse than English.
She opened the book and started asking me simple equations.
"Okay, what's 12*7?" she asked.
"84," I replied.
If she does it like this it is going to be easier than I thought.
" 2(4+a)=16, what is a?" she asked. I thought for a moment.
"a=4," I said. She stared at me shocked.
"Impressive, you're better than I thought," she said, nodding her head in approval. I smiled.
This went on for another half an hour until she gave me another stupid worksheet. This worksheet was so hard, everything just looked jumbled and complicated.
This is even harder than the last one!
When I finally finished, I waited for her to blow up on me. I closed my eyes, waiting for the yelling to start like the teachers always do, but it never came. I opened my eyes to see Kim looking at me, concern filling her beautiful eyes.
"Jack, what's 8*9?" she asked cautiously.
"72, why?" I asked.
"Why did you write down 48?" she asked. Before I could think of an excuse, she continued to talk. "Are you okay Jack? You seem to be out of it, and you're getting problems wrong that I know you know. Are you sick? Do you need to lay down or something?" She came towards me and put her hand to my forehead, trying to see if I have a fever. Kim is a smart girl, why in the hell did I think she wouldn't notice?
I have to tell her.
Are you sure? I mean think of the conseq-
Yes, I have to tell her. I can't get out of this one.
I sighed. "I'm not sick," I said. She sat back down and stared at me. I tried not to get lost in her eyes as I spoke. "I have to tell you something," I said.
"Okay," she said. Her voice sounded unsure, not having a clue what I was talking about.
I closed my eyes and sighed deeply. "Kim…"
I opened them, hoping I am making the right choice of telling her.
"Kim, I have dyslexia."
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE BOOM! Another cliffy...I know I am diabolical XD I couldn't wait to write that last part of the chapter ever since the beginning of this story! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW KICKIN' IT EPISODE! So how do you think Kim will take the news of Jack being dyslexic? How do you think he will take her reaction? Sorry but your gonna have to wait and see :D Did ya like the chapter? Good? Bad? Funny? Horrible? PWEASE REVIEW and tell me what you think! See ya soon :D
