A/N: Enjoy!
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I can't breathe
My body's shaking
You got a way
With the way you take me
'Cause you break me down
You know you break me down
- All Time Low
We're Diving In
Jess Mariano has hooked up with plenty of girls in his life, but in this moment, standing at Gypsy's with Rory not even a foot away, he feels nervous. The fingers holding a cigarette are trembling as he stares into her eyes, which are brighter than he's ever seen them. Did he do that?
"So, tell me, what's your decision about smoking that depending on?"
"On what's gonna happen."
"When?"
"Now."
Finally.
It's a strange mixture of relief, anxiety, vulnerability, and another feeling that's so foreign to him that he feels beside himself. He doesn't know if he reaches out or gestures for her to come closer, but she does. And he's so glad that her breathing is unsteady too.
When their lips meet, he feels something shift in him; there's no turning back. But he's embracing this, like the way he's embracing her and she, him.
Long after she walks away, his hands are still shaking, and he's reminded of that scene in Say Anything… where Skyde and Cusack just had sex, and he's shaking, and he just says it's because he's happy.
Jess Mariano finally understands now.
A/N: Hah, if you read my other collection of oneshots for Rurouni Kenshin, then you would've noticed the second reference to Say Anything… I didn't plan that since I started this a few weeks ago, and I just found it.
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