GAH I'M SORRY PLEASE READ AUTHORS NOTE FOR FULL EXPLANATION! Here's a long chappie for ya! Onto ze story!

Disclaimer: I will own Kickin It when Kim falls in love with Frank...so it's never gonna happen.

Jack's POV

I stared at Kim, searching for any emotion to cross her face. She just stared at me, probably still processing what I just said. After a few moments of her not speaking, I was getting a little irritated. I ran my fingers through my hair as I stood up.

"See, I knew this was gonna happen…"

Kim's POV

"Kim…" he sighed, "Kim, I have dyslexia."

I processed what he said. Jack has dyslexia. Well, everything makes more sense now.

"See, I knew this was gonna happen," he said, sighing and standing up. He ran his fingers through his hair as he started to talk to himself. "Great going Jack, you broke her, she's not talking. Great, she'll probably never talk to you again, stupid. Why did I tell her? Great, now she's gonna ignore me, thinking I'm some weirdo and go and tell the whole school. Why did I tell her? Stupid stupid stupid…"

He thinks I'm really gonna do that?

I snapped out of my daze and stood up. "Jack." He kept rambling to himself, pacing the length of his room.

"Jack!" I tried again. He just kept pacing, not even bothering to look at me. I rolled my eyes.

Well, he asked for it.

I went up to him, grabbed his arm, and flipped him. He landed on the floor with a loud thud, making all of his karate trophies on his wardrobe shake. He stared up at me, his eyes filled with multiple emotions.

"Now that I have your attention," I rolled my eyes, " I'm sorry that-"

"You see, that's why I didn't tell you," he let out a frustrated sigh as he stood up, "I didn't want your pity, I didn't want anyone's pity! See, this is what I get for telling you, for trusting you!" He was now standing, pacing back and forth as he ran his fingers through his hair again.

Okay, stay calm. He's just stressed, don't take any of this offensively.

I sighed as I flipped him again. He stared at me from the floor, irritation in his eyes. "Will you stop doing that already?!"

"Well maybe if you let me TALK," I said, moving a strand of hair behind my ear as I rolled my eyes. "I was saying sorry that I had to flip you to get your attention, not saying sorry that I pity you. So what if you have dyslexia? It doesn't change who you are, your personality, anything about you. Also I wasn't gonna tell anyone if you didn't want me to, and I take a little offense that you think I am some gossip queen that will spread your secret around and that you think I would ignore you because of it. Please, if anything I would ignore you because you annoy me." I finished my little rant and sat on the edge of his bed, smiling a little at my last sentence. I felt the mattress being lowered next to me.

"I'm sorry Kim," Jack said, " It's just hard to trust people."

"What do you mean?" I turned toward him and sat crossed legged on his bed.

He looked at me for a moment, then started to talk. "I used to not live in Seaford, I used to live in the upper region of California. I went into kindergarten, and that was the worst year of my life. When my classmates found out I had dyslexia, it wasn't pretty," he sighed, "half of the class made fun of me, and the other half ignored me, pretended I wasn't there. They thought if I talked to them or even breathed on them that they would catch it or something. They thought of me a disease Kim, do you know how that feels?" he asked. "I was alone the whole time, I never made any friends. Everyone would be playing tag on the playground, while I would be against the wall in the corner, just sitting there and staring at the ground. After we moved here, I told myself I wasn't gonna tell anyone about having dyslexia. I came here in the middle of first grade."

Well, that just made me sad and depressed.

Shut up, he's been through a lot.

"Well, when did you meet Jerry?" I asked.

Jack's POV

Wow, I basically poured most of my childhood to Kim. I told anyone that much before, well except for Jerry. I looked at her as I waited for her to say something. I couldn't pinpoint the emotion in her eyes.

Her beautiful eyes…

I saw her mouth moving and snapped out of it. "What did you say? Sorry."

"I said," she chuckled, "well, when did you meet Jerry?"

I smiled at the memory. "My first day here actually."

FLASHBACK FLASHBACK FLASHBACK

The bell rang, signaling it was recess time. Everyone in Ms. Brown's first grade class scrambled for the door, forgetting about their popsicle stick art project. One boy stayed behind, not knowing what to do. He turned his head toward the teacher in confusion, his shaggy brown hair getting into his eyes. She looked up from her desk and smiled at him.

"Jack," she said, "that bell signals recess, honey. Why don't you go outside and play?"

Jack just nodded his head and ran outside. Being the new kid, he was too shy to talk to anyone right now, even the teacher. He made his way outside and leaned against the wall. He didn't know what to do, so he just stood there and watched the other kids play. All of a sudden, a boy came running up to him and hid behind him, telling him not to move. The next thing Jack knew, a little girl came up to him.

"Did you see a boy run past here?" she asked. She sounded really mad. Jack shook his head quickly, not knowing what to do. She growled and walked away, screaming "Jerry! When I find you you're gonna get it!"

The boy behind Jack came from behind him and stood in front of him, smiling widely. "Thanks for hiding me, I'm Jerry." He stuck out his hand for Jack to shake. Jack could barely understand him because of his missing two front teeth, so everything sounded slurred. Jack just kept his hands in the pockets of his overalls and looked at the ground, not knowing what to do.

"What, don't you talk?" Jerry asked, his hand still outstretched.

Jack looked up at the little Latino and said, "Yeah, but I'm new, and I've never had a friend before, so I don't know what to do."

To Jack's surprise, Jerry stayed standing in front of him, smiling. "Well what is your name?"

"Jack," he mumbled shyly.

"Well, this is what you do Jack," Jerry said, "hold out your hand." Jack held out his hand and Jerry grabbed it. He put Jack's hand in his and shook it. "Now repeat after me- Hi, I'm Jack."

"Hi, I'm Jack," Jack repeated, smiling slightly.

Jerry smiled. "I'm Jerry, nice to meet you."

"So now we are friends?" Jack asked.

"Yeah," Jerry said. Jerry smiled, showing his two missing front teeth again. "Hey, I'll race you to the swing set!"

"Ok!" Jack said. The two boys raced to the swing set and sat down on the swings, resulting in a tie. They told each other a little bit about themselves as they took turns pushing each other on the swings. After a while they both sat on a swing and just talked.

"You know what Jack," Jerry said. He turned toward Jack, "I like you. Do you wanna be best friends?"

"Sure," Jack exclaimed. The two boys smiled at each other. "We have to pinky swear though."

"Alright," said Jerry, raising his pinky. "I, Jerry Martinez, swear on my pinky that I will be your best friend forever, or may I have to eat broccoli for the rest of my life."

Jack rose his pinky and smiled. "I, Jack Brewer, swear on my pinky that I will be your best friend forever, or may I have to eat broccoli for the rest of my life."

The two boys pinky swore just as the bell rang, signaling the end of recess. They jumped off of the swings and ran towards the doors of the building where their teacher was standing.

"Oh, by the way," Jack said as they lined up to go back inside, "why was that girl chasing you?"

"Oh, Grace? I found a worm on the floor and put it on her head," Jerry answered, laughing.

"You put a worm on her head?!" Jack, asked.

"Yep!" Jerry exclaimed. The two laughed as they walked back into the building.

END OF FLASHBACK FLASHBACK FLASHBACK

"We've been best friends ever since," I laughed. I looked over at Kim, to see her laughing too.

"Wow," Kim laughed, "even when Jerry was little he annoyed Grace."

"Yep," I laughed, "Jerry sure made a name for himself in first grade, and he eventually got me to start pranking people with him too. Everyone was amazed that he got me to talk, cause at least for a good month I wouldn't talk to anyone but him, not even the teachers. Eventually I started to talk to other people, but Jerry and I talked to each other the most. We were like attached at the hip, we would do anything for each other. We STILL would do anything for each other."

"So that explains math class," Kim said. "When the teacher was embarrassing you in front of the class…"

"Jerry embarrassed himself to get the teacher to stop nagging me so she would find out about me having dyslexia," I finished.

"And that explains why you did the wrong assignment in math," Kim said. "You mixed the page numbers up."

"Yep," I said, popping the p.

"When did you tell Jerry you had dyslexia?" Kim asked, looking at me.

"In the fifth grade," I said, "We were studying for a math test together when he found out. Because I kept getting the answers wrong, he thought maybe my brain was taken over by evil aliens from a far away galaxy."

Kim started to laugh. "Really? Evil aliens?"

"Yeah, evil aliens," I chuckled, "the funniest part is when he ran downstairs and got the tin foil from the kitchen. He came back upstairs and held it in front of me, yelling for the alien to get out of my brain and give him his best friend back." I looked over at Kim to see her sprawled out on my bed, clutching her stomach as she brought tears to her eyes from laughing so hard. She sat back up and tried not to laugh.

"So, what happened?" she asked, surpressing her laughter.

"Well when he threatened to call the FBI, that's is when I told him I had dyslexia," I said. "He was mad at first because I didn't tell him, but five minutes later he forgave me after I explained why I didn't tell him…that and because I offered him cookies." I laughed at the memory.

"Ha, Jerry is a very interesting person," Kim said.

"You got that right," I agreed. I smiled to myself. That day our friendship didn't break, it actually became stronger. Since I trusted him with a secret no one else knew, he told me one of his. I would never forget when he told me he still slept with his blue stuffed monkey, Azul. He had it ever since he was a baby, and I think he still sleeps with it today.

"Well, I think I'm done studying today," Kim said, standing up from my bed. She went to my desk and started to pack the books into her back pack. I followed her as she started to walk downstairs. She got to the door and opened it.

"So when can I come over again?" she asked, facing me.

"How about tomorrow after the tournament?" I asked.

"How about Monday? You're probably gonna be too tired tomorrow to study."

"Why would that be?" I asked.

She smirked. "Cause I'm gonna kick you butt tomorrow at the tournament."

"Puh-lease," I said.

"You'll see," Kim smiled. "So is Monday good?"

"Yeah, Monday is good," I smiled. "Oh and Kim? You won't say anything about, you know, right?"

"Your secret is safe with me," she smiled.

"Thanks Kim," I said. I smiled a genuine smile.

"No problem," she said, pushing a strand of hair behind her ear, "Good night."

"Good night," I said. She smiled and turned around, about to walk away.

Do something!

Like what?!

I don't know, anything!

"Kim, wait!" I said. She turned around to face me.

"Yeah?"

I played with my hands nervously. I didn't think of anything to say, what do I do? Out of instinct, I did the first thing that popped into my mind: I hugged her.

END CLIFFHANGER! I know, ANOTHER cliffhanger. Sorry, it seems like I can only write the next chapter when I leave off with a cliffy XD GAH I'M SO SORRY I DISAPPEARED! I get strep throat like every 3-4 months and of course I just HAD to get it during the summer. I should go to school a week later just to make up for the days of summer vacation I missed by being sick XD Then my horrible procrastination skills kicked in and then BAM! Here we are XD OMG TWO DATES AND A FUNERAL EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! *SPOILER ALERT SO IF YOU DIDN'T SEE IT DON'T READ* These were my reactions- when Jack watched Kim strut down the isle I was like 'OMG look he's staring at her EEEEP' then when Albert won the bid I was like 'OMG Jack why didn't you bid on her you moron...you cute, fantastic haired, cute moron!' then when jack revealed it was him I was like 'NO WAY KICK IS FINALLY HAPPENING EEEEEEEK' then when Jack almost called Kim his new girlfriend I was like 'OMG I'M HYPERVENTILATING OUT OF HAPPINESS SOMEBODY GET ME A PAPER BAG!' THEN WHEN Jerry thought Kim liked him I was like 'DUDE WRONG J, wrong J! It's Jack!' then when jack had to go with Milton and Kim had to go with Jerry I was like 'NOOOO! CURSE YOU DISNEY XD PRODUCERS!' and when they reached their hands out toward each other when they were walking in different directions I was like 'THAT'S SO CUTE AND SAD AT THE SAME TIME!' then when Jack said 'your worth it' and they walked away and went on their date I was like 'EEEEEEEEEEEK KICK IS GOING ON A REAL DATE MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE'. Were your reactions the same as mine? That was definitely the BEST EPISODE EVA! Sorry I just had to get that out. XD Now to the chapter. Sorry if it sucks it took me FOREVER to try and write this and it's like 3:30am so I'm kinda tired, but I HAD to update today. I loved writing the part where Jerry and Jack first met, I thought that was adorable! XD OMG GUYS OVER 1,000 REVIEWS?! Thank you guys SOOOOO much! I never thought my story would get this far, and about 4-5 months later here we are, at OVER 1,000 REVIEWS EEEEEEEEEEEEK! You guys are amazing and are the reason I continue to write :D I PROMISE I WILL UPDATE EITHER ON OR BEFORE MONDAY! Well, if you love purple polka dotted pandas that smell like cinnamon and love drinking hot chocolate while playing Candyland please review, and, well, bye! :D