Okay, I honestly don't know what this chapter is. Maybe you can try and make sense of it? xD Sorry I took so long, I was sucked into the world of YT vidding. It's so fun, yet frustrating. xD
And I'm running out of ideas, so if anyone's got any, feel free to say. Otherwise I'll probably have to put this on hiatus until I come up with some. :)
That being said, enjoy the chapter and I need to credit Draganix, without talking to them, I wouldn't have gotten inspiration to actually write anything. xD
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Title: Primum osculum
Summary: Jerry has a date tonight and he wants to know how to kiss so he doesn't look like an idiot - more so than usual - and Jack's the only one avaliable to help him.
Hiyah!
The dummy hit the ground with a dull thud and Jack recovered from his front kick, stepping forwards to pick it up. He was just getting in some late-night training before he went to see Attack of the Killer Zompyre's II with Jerry, Kim and Milton. At least this time he would be able to watch a movie without getting drooled on.
He was preparing for another kick, when Jerry walked into the Dojo, interrupting him.
"Hey, Jack?" he asked and Jack turned around to face him. "You remember that one time you said you'd do anything for me because you love me and I'm your best friend?" he said quickly, batting his eyelashes with a grin.
"No," Jack said, shaking his head, trying to fight his grin that wanted to emerge.
Jerry folded his arms and had a mock pout on his face. "Jack, when you became a part of this Dojo you promised you would always go along with anything I said," he told him, sounding like a petulant wife.
So Jack decided to play along, pulling his face into a grimace. "Dear, I never said that," he replied, putting a hand on Jerry's shoulder and watching his face drop before he grinned as well. "You still coming to see Attack of the Killer Zompyre's II: Professor's Revenge with us?" he asked.
"Can't, I've got a date tonight," Jerry said proudly, but Jack's brow furrowed. He had been going on about this movie since the first whisper of a whisper about a sequel. Why would he schedule a date tonight?
"With who?" Jack asked, hoping it wouldn't end up in him missing the movie too because he was going to get dragged into one of his hare-brained schemes.
"Some chick I met down at Phil's," Jerry said happily, Jack not failing to notice he never did get the girl's name, but that sounded like a 'Jerry' problem. "We're going ice-skating,"
Jack raised an eyebrow. "You can ice skate?" he asked incredulously. "You still use the kid's ramp when we go bowling," he pointed out, grinning as Jerry's mouth opened in an affronted gasp.
"It's easier to get strikes!" he said with a heavy pout, folding his arms. "This girl's got a rich Dad and if he likes me, I get to go skydiving," he explained and Jack nodded. That definitely sounded like a Jerry problem, and he was not getting dragged into it this time. Not after the time that- well, nearly all the time.
"So, what do you need my help for?" he asked, albeit warily.
"Well, I really like this... girl" - again, Jack didn't fail to notice the way Jerry had said girl - "and I want to make our first date perfect," he decided, but Jack wasn't fooled. Jerry never really cared about girls much - except for that brief thing with Mika - and just bounced back when he got rejected and moved onto someone else.
"That's code for you wanna go skydiving, right?" Jack said knowingly. He knew his best friend too well, and he was up to something. "How can you like a girl you've only known for all of ten minutes?" he asked, a slight sour pinch to his voice that he couldn't understand and was hoping Jerry didn't notice.
"It feels like longer," Jerry said with a dizzy looking smile, briefly staring off into the distance. "She's got these really pretty brown eyes and really swag hair," he told him in admiration, sounding like a little school-boy.
Jack couldn't help the face he pulled at that, and put his hands on Jerry's shoulders. "Who are you and what have you done with Jerry?" he asked jokingly, getting shaken off. "How exactly do you want to make the date 'perfect'?" he asked again, making air-quotes with his hands
"I want to kiss her," Jerry admitted abruptly and Jack was probably more taken aback at that than he should have been.
"And you need my help with that?" he asked, trying not to blush at that thought. He really wasn't the best person to ask about that. "You know the closest thing I've ever came to kissing is that jellyfish that sprang on my face," he said with a shudder.
"That was pretty funny," Jerry chuckled.
"According to you," Jack said sharply, poking him in the chest. "According to my customs, me and that jellyfish are married," he said and Jerry looked blank, until Jack wiggled his eyebrows, then he caught on, looking slightly disgusted.
"Well, you seem good at everything," Jerry offered as a rebuttal, but Jack just shrugged. "And can you really see me asking Milton? or Kim?" he added, briefly shuddering. He was creeped out enough when he had to have Milton pretend to be his cheerleader girlfriend - that sock-stuffed bra had not been kind to him - and the thought of kissing Kim?! No, just... no.
"They'd make fun of me," Jerry went on. "'Cause I'm nervous," he admitted, shuffling his feet slightly, eyes repeatedly dropping to the floor.
"Yet, you weren't when you asked me to pretend to be a girl so you could flirt with me," Jack pointed out lightly. Jerry hardly ever got nervous unless things really mattered, although Jack wasn't sure if it was the prospect of kissing that freaked him out; it seemed like something else.
"That's different," Jerry protested, shaking his head. "If you screw up flirting, you can just say something funny and hope she laughs," he explained, Jack rolling his eyes at him.
"That's true," he muttered, biting his lip as he smiled. "Alright, I'll help you," he agreed with a smile, but Jerry didn't seem to hear him, and kept on ranting to himself.
"But screwing up kissing, that's like-"
"Jerry," Jack interjected firmly, putting his hands on his shoulders to grab his attention away from the rant before he ended up confusing himself. "I said 'I do it'," he repeated gently and Jerry's eyes widened slightly.
"Woah, really?!" he exclaimed, looking like he was about to pass out from the shock.
"Yeah," Jack nodded with a shrug. Jerry was his friend and it wasn't really a big deal to him. "You're my friend and you need help and we've already 'flirted'" - he made air quotes with his fingers and swore that Jerry blushed - "and by some miracle the school doesn't think we're going out, and I don't like the idea of you practicing on a punching dummy," he finished, eyeing one.
"Jealous?" Jerry asked playfully, wiggling his eyebrows.
Jack chuckled briefly, raising an eyebrow. "No, ever since Rudy got rid of the pegboard to put in the vending machine, he's needed somewhere to hang his socks," he said and he looked over to the far corner of the Dojo, seeing a pair of sweaty socks draped over a punching dummy's head.
"Gross," Jerry agreed, looking in the same direction and wrinkling his nose before turning back to Jack. "So-uh, how do you wanna, um-?" He stopped like he was unable to talk and made a motion with his hand for Jack to carry on.
"Depends how you wanna kiss her," he explained and Jerry narrowed his eyes in confusion, cocking his head. "I wouldn't kiss her on the cheek for starters," he warned him.
"Why not?" Jerry asked with a lop-sided frown.
"'Cause that's what a Grandma does to you before she pinches your cheeks or makes a remark about how tall you've gotten," Jack said, laughing at his own joke, before shuddering in abhorrence. If he had to hear that from his Grandma one more time...
"What?" Jerry asked, looking completely baffled.
Jack frowned shortly, before beckoning Jerry over with a laugh, "Just come here." And he did, then they were noticeably closer than they had ever been, except for that one time.
Jerry just stood there, looking like a lost child for a brief second. "Uh, where should I-?" He raised his hands tenatively and Jack took hold of them, not really knowing what he was doing either.
"Here's usually fine," he said with a plaintive shrug, placing them on his arms. "If you don't like it, just stop me, alright?" he added, almost reassuringly, and Jerry nodded, closing his eyes.
Jack took a breath and leaned in.
The kiss was in no way the perfect one that you see in movies; where the two people's mouths fit perfectly. Theirs was clumsy and their lips kept bumping against each others because they were both smiling so much, probably trying not to laugh at the fact they were kissing each other.
A few seconds later, Jack ran a hand through Jerry's hair, making him calm down slightly and his grip on his shoulders increase. Reluctantly, he had to pull away for air sooner than he would have liked and they just stared at each other, breathing hard, not doing a thing to calm it.
The silence between them once it had, became almost unbearable until Jerry's eyes widened slightly and a light blush crept up his cheeks. "Whoa..." he trailed off in amazement, touching his lips briefly. "Y'know, for your first kiss, that wasn't so bad," he added with a grin, regaining his usual composure.
Jack frowned at that. He wasn't sure whether to be flattered or offended. "Thanks...?" He laughed heartily and then lightly hit Jerry in the arm. "You owe me big time for this," he told him sternly, pointing a finger in his direction, before a grin broke out on his face.
"Yeah, I got it," Jerry nodded, smiling.
"No, I'm talking a big gesture; candle-lit dinner, a movie..." Jack broke off into a fit of laughter, Jerry being the one to hit him this time. He straightened up and put a hand on his shoulder. "Nah, just get us Kung Fu Lightning tickets to their concert next month," he bargained.
"Will do," Jerry said, putting on a brisk act as he shook his hand. He glanced at the clock on the wall. "Oh, I gotta go," he said apologetically, although Jack couldn't figure out why. It wasn't like he was going to hang around - after kissing him - when he had a date with a girl who's Dad was rich.
"Have fun," Jack said as Jerry walked out the door, waving him off, noticing his voice sounded a lot more flat than it had been a few seconds ago. He wasn't about to lie and say he didn't feel weird about Jerry suddenly having a date - it wasn't the fact that his crushes only tended to last a few days that bothered him - and then coming in here and asking him to teach him how to kiss, even though they both knew he hadn't kissed anyone.
It had came out of nowhere and even if Jerry was serious about this girl... Jack shook his head. It wasn't like it mattered to him, it wasn't like he was a little smug over the fact that he had been Jerry's first kiss over the current girl he was all loved-up over.
"No way," he said out loud, as if he was trying to convince himself. But there wasn't anything to be jealous of, was there? Jerry's crushes came and went like he changed his socks.
The only other time he had felt like this was when Jerry had been babbling on about him and Katie finger painting in kindergarten and making green with their blue and yellow fingers.
Oh hell...
Thankfully his distraction came when the dojo's door dinged open and Kim and Milton walked in. The thought of them walking in a little bit earlier and seeing him and Jerry kissing - with slack-jawed expressions pressed to the glass - made him smirk.
"Hey, Jack," Kim greeted him with a small wave, walking up to him. "You ready for the movie?" she asked and at that, Milton unzipped his hoodie, revealing the Attack of the Killer Zompyre's shirt that Jack was sure he hadn't taken off since the movie had been announced.
"I've been ready all month," Jack gushed excitedly, then he frowned and looked at Kim. "And I didn't think you liked Zompyre movies, Kim?" he asked her. She had fell asleep in the last one and hadn't even gotten to sit next to her friends.
"Well, I rented the first one and I've gotta say, half-vampire, half-zombie disgusting creatures really grow on you when you're not falling asleep on an old man," she explained, chuckling to herself.
Milton's eyebrow raised. "Falling asl-"
"Don't ask," Kim said, sharply and effectively, cutting him off with a raised hand.
Milton held his hands up in surrender, then he looked around, almost bewildered. "Where's Jerry?" he asked. "I thought he would have been the first out the door when we showed up,"
"He couldn't make it," Jack said. "He's going out on a date with some girl he met down at Phil's," he explained, thankfully neither Milton or Kim noticing how icy his voice had gotten. He was not jealous, dammit!
Jack felt slightly uneasy at the twin looks of confusion Kim and Milton were showing each other. Why would Jerry not tell them he had a date? More importantly, why would he come in here with full intentions of blowing off a movie that he had proposed the gang go to? And he never did catch that girl's name, either.
"Jerry told me he was visiting his Grandma tonight," Kim said and Jack's expression became blank, before he felt a light smile, almost too pleasant for his liking. And it was definitely confusing Kim and Milton. "That's why he can't come to the movies with us," she finished.
Jack chuckled quietly to himself - how did he not catch on that Jerry was basically describing him when he was describing the 'girl'? - clenching and unclenching a fist, and walked past Kim and Milton. The movie could wait next week.
"Where are you going?" Milton asked in exasperation.
Jack was nearly out the door before he turned back to look at Kim and Milton, watching them reel back slightly from the look in his eyes. "To Grandma's house," he replied with a playful smirk.
Kickin' it with you!