AUTHOR'S NOTE: Due to the OVERWHELMING response to my simple, one chapter story, I've decided to re-evaluate its one chapter-ness. In other words, YES! I have decided to add some more chapters.

DEDICATION: Thanks, Abbey. I owe ya.

Jesse stood outside Suze's bedroom window, trying to figure out a way to get in there without waking her up. His meeting with Paul, the revelation that Paul had led him too, had so completely blown him away that he didn't even consider the fact that he could just materialize in the room. He felt nothing less than human, something he hadn't felt in at least a hundred years. He felt giddy all over, he felt like he'd just opened a brand new chapter to his un-life, maybe even a whole new book. Why hadn't he ever considered that he might have been gay? He never really wanted to get married to Maria, after all. Maybe he should have known it was because she was a girl. Well, anyway, he still had to find someway onto the roof. He jumped, landing softly as a cat, and began to open the window. He had I open a crack when he heard a very pronounced gasp. Two, actually, both of the female variety.

"What was that?" He heard one voice whisper.

"Suze?" He called out shakily.

"Ohmigod." He heard Suze say. He still kept his gaze away.

"Uh…can I look?" He asked. He didn't wait for her answer and climbed in. "Who is this girl?" He asked suspiciously. She looked familiar, in a way.

"Oh, CeeCee, look at the time!" Suze let out a nervous laugh. "Better uh, get going." CeeCee was looking around wildly.

"But it's only 5 o'clock!" Suze continued to guide a very confused CeeCee out her bedroom door.

"Uh, see you at school!" She slammed the door. "Jesse, what do you think gives you the right to barge in here like that?" She said in a furious whisper.

"What's going on here?"

"Nothing, nothing…" She looked back down at the ground and brushed a piece of hair behind her ear. She sighed heavily. "Ok…better now than never. Jesse," she looked back up. "I have to tell you something. I've been hiding this for…for a while now."

"I have to tell you something too, Susannah." He walked over and sat on her bed. He patted the spot next to him. "Let's talk."

"Ok, I guess I should go first." She sat next to him and let out another sigh. "Promise you won't freak, ok?"

"I promise."

"Alright…well, I guess I'll just say it then." She looked very hard into his eyes. "I've been…I've been seeing CeeCee. Like, in a romantic sense."

"So this means…this means that…"

"This means I like girls. I thought I was in love with you, but CeeCee is just…perfect. Sorry, no offense, but she's more perfect than you."

"So you are gay, Susannah?"

"Yeah, I am." There was some silence that followed. "Oh, yeah. You needed to tell me something?"

"Oh, yes. Do you, too, promise to 'not freak'?"

"Yeah, of course."

"You have to understand, this is a little different from your situation."

"Shoot."

"I…I too am gay." Suze let her mouth fall open. "And I think I love Paul." Her mouth, if possible, was even more open.

"Paul? Evil, trying to assassinate me, trying to exercise you Paul?"

"He's just…like you said before. He's perfect. I think it's the element of danger that attracts me to him."

"Is that where you were just now?"

"Yes…I didn't know before tonight. He…he…"

"He seduced you?"

"Yes, I suppose. I've never been kissed like that before." Some more silence followed this new revelation.

"Well, this is new."

"Yes, yes it is."

"But we're still friends?"

"Of course. Until the end." They hugged, and a new understanding was formed.