Title: A Chance at happiness 5/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.net)
Disclaimer: these characters belong to once and again except any characters you don't recognize
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions. This is my first once and again fan fic so any ideas or comments you have would be great. So please email me with them. J
Lily, Zoe, Grace, Rick, Eli and Jessie were sitting at the kitchen table. No one was saying anything.
Lily looked at Rick and mouthed the words. "What is going on?"
He shrugged.
"Um… Jessie are you doing anything after school today?" Lily asked.
Jessie looked up shocked to hear a voice. "I'm meeting with Katie after school and we're just going hang out for a little while. That's ok, right?"
"That's fine. Just call us when you want to be picked up." Rick said.
"Ok got it."
Rick looked at Lily. "Try someone else." He mouthed.
"You" She mouth back.
"Um Zoe, what are doing after school?" Rick asked.
She looked up also shocked. "I'm just hanging out some friends and yes I will call when I'm ready to get picked up."
"Ok." Lily and Rick said.
"Um… Eli what are you up to do today?" Lily said.
He looked up even more shocked then the others. "I'm going to look for a job. And maybe if Jessie's up for it later go see my mom."
Grace looked at him as if he was nuts.
"Right, well if you actually get a job or actually go see your mother can you tell me?" Rick said.
"Of course I will." Eli said sarcastically.
"Um Grace what are you doing after school today?" Rick asked.
"Well I'm planning to come home. That's all." She said very sarcastic.
"You don't want to see you new sister? Maybe Rick, I or Eli could drop you and Zoe off." Lily suggested.
She looked at her watch. "Well look at the time. We have to go. Come on people. Hurry now. And Eli grab your keys."
Everyone got up and put their dishes in the sink, grabbed their books and left.
As the door closed, Lily turned to Rick. "Something is up."
"You noticed that to? I've never seen the four of them ever get along so well before."
"It scares me."
"You too?" He said with a smile.
She just laughed.
Grace got into the car and turned to the two in the back. "Ok what was that?"
"What was what?" Zoe said.
"She means why were we all just interrogated." Eli said.
"I don't have a clue." Jesse said.
"Well one of you two are going to tell me because that's is not what I'm looking to go though every morning." Grace said.
"Well it's not like we did anything." Zoe said.
"We never said you two did, but I've never seen the two of you be so quite around each other." Eli said.
"Hey, we could say the same for the two of you." Jesse said with a smile.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Grace asked.
"It's means that you two aren't arguing, you haven't even said a word to each other and you're worried about us?" Zoe said.
"Ok, ok this is getting us no where's. There is nothing going on between me and Grace. But there is something going on between you two and I want to know what it is." He looked right at Jessie.
"Remember me, girl who almost just lose her mother. I have my reasons for being quite."
Grace turned to Zoe. "But you don't."
"Well forgive me for not being very talkative. I'm tired because someone wouldn't shut up last night!" She said looking at Grace.
"So that's what this is about!" Eli said. "You saw me comforting Grace last night after she had a bad dream. Is there something so wrong with that? I'd do the same thing for you Jessie and you know that."
"Right, so she's just like a sister to you?" Jessie said.
"Exactly." Eli said.
"And he's just like a brother to you?" Zoe said.
"Yes, that's exactly right. Now we are here. Zoe, I don't want you to bring this up again ok?"
"Fine." She said and got out.
The rest of the drive was silent. When they got the high school, Jessie got out quickly but Grace stayed.
"So I'm just a sister to you?" Grace asked.
"It seems that way." Eli said and then asked. "So I'm just a brother to you?"
"That's what everyone seems to think." Grace said and closed the door and walked off to her first class.
"Ms. Sammler you're up." The nurse said as she entered. "How you feeling?"
"Better I guess."
"That's good. You have had many visitors lately.
"I have?" She asked wondering whom she was talking about.
"Well your daughter, husband…"
"x-husband."
"Ok x-husband and son have been here."
"You sure my son was here?
"I'm pretty sure he was your son. Eli's his name right?"
"Right."
"Then yes he was here last night till about midnight."
"Thanks for letting me know. And I think I'm going to try to get some sleep so…"
"Of course, just call me if you need anything."
"I will." She said as the nurse left. Karen had tons of thoughts going through her head. Eli had been here. Why hadn't he stayed to talk to me? Of course, he was not going to stay and talk to me. He hated me. After everything that happened and everything he said, I knew it was true. I just wish he could give us another chance. Maybe that is why I came back to be able to have a second chance with my son.