*A/N: thnx ndblue (I hate Brindy too I MITE have something bad happen 2 her, already in the books) and Susan B (here ya go, but Cee Cee's not in the chp much!)*

Adam dropped Brindy off first, kissing her at her doorstep goodbye, then dropped off Cee Cee.

"So, Suze, what do you think of her? Of Brindy, I mean." he asked.

"Um..." I said, "not really your type, is she?"

"She's pretty, nice, new to the place..."

I was about to say "I thought she was a bit of a bimbo" but I held my tongue. Adam wouldn't take it too well, I knew.

"I don't know...you're probably right," I said instead, "so are you guys going out?"

"I guess." He said airily.

I nodded slowly, "Ok, then." He pulled up to my house and I got out.

"Thanks, Suze." Adam said quietly.

"For what?"

"For not saying you hate her."

"I don't!" I said, a bit too quickly.

"Well, you don't like her very much, obviously." he said, looking a little...sad? As if my opinion really mattered to him.

I shrugged, "Sorry, Adam."

He shook his head, "Thanks again for not saying it."

"It's ok. I'll see you," I said and ran in the house and straight up to my room.

I thought of Jesse as hard as I could, and suddenly he was right there in front of me. That's the only way I seem to be able to call him.

"Jesse!! Help," I yelped, rushing up to him.

"What is it, Susannah?" Jesse asked, a confused look on his gorgeous face.

"Adam," I said.

"What about Adam, Susannah?" Jesse asked, looking at me in a concerned way, "Is a ghost pestering him?"

"No," I said, then I felt so low.

I am not the type of girl to go running to her boyfriend - well, almost boyfriend...wait are be bf/gf?? OH GOD! - there is something seriously wrong with this picture. I actually called Jesse to tell him that Adam was going out with a girl? Jeez. I really AM changing!

"Um," I said cautiously, "never mind, Jesse, it's stupid."

"What is it? Tell me," he put a finger under my chin and lifted it up so I was looking at him straight in the eye.

"It's...look, Jesse, just forget it, ok?" I jumped out the room just as Gina came in.

Jesse didn't dematerialized. As a matter of fact, he deliberately came over to me and held my wrist with a death grip.

"Gina, can you see him?" I asked.

"Yes," she said, giving me a cold look and eyeing Jesse. She went over to him, "Hey. Which planet do you come from?" she smirked.

"This one, presumably," he said shortly. I twisted round to look at him. He wasn't flirting with G, which I was so sure he was going to do to piss me off. Or because she could see him. I mean, after a hundred and fifty years with no one who could see him, what guy wouldn't jump at the chance of having TWO girls after him? Even if one of them was me.

"Jesse, don't be mean," I grinned. I couldn't help it. If he wasn't going to take up G, it meant he was mine.

In due time, anyhow.

"Gina, I was wondering, can you touch him?" I asked. She was shooting daggers at me. Then I remembered. Oh God. The argument with her.

Shit! Blame Adam that I forgot!!

Oh, and Jesse with that kiss.

"G, I'm sorry about earlier. Can you please see if you can touch him?" I begged. Father D would kill me if he knew I hadn't done everything in my power to find out if G was a Mediator. Gina reached out reluctantly and her hand went right through Jesse.

What's going on? How can she see ghosts, hear ghosts, but not be able to touch them?

"Ok," I said slowly, "Jesse, can you find out if Father Dom's in his office?" He dematerialized with a look in my direction - which should've meant something, but didn't - and got a weird look from G. I don't blame the guy.

"Ok, Simon, what's going on? That hot guy's a ghost?"

"Um, yeah. And I'd appreciate it if you didn't call him 'hot guy'."

"What do you care? I swear if was alive, I'd get at him A.S.A.P.!"

"He's mine, G! Steer clear. And no, I don't care that he isn't alive, yes, I have thought it over."

"You're going out with hot guy?"

"DON'T CALL HIM HOT GUY! His name is Jesse," I took a deep breath, "yeah, we are more or less are going out."

"Jesse and Susannah. You sound cute together. But are you sure I can't have him?"

"Duh. Besides, you can't even touch the guy."

"Does that mean if I couldn't touch him then I'll never be able to touch him?" G looked at me.

I shrugged, "look, I have no idea. You didn't used to be able to see ghosts and now you can. You can talk to them too. Maybe you're sort of...developing. I don't know, G. But I absolutely certain you didn't used to see ghosts cause the number of times we had one in the room with us...you'd lose count."

"That much?"

"'Fraid so."

"During all our talks, when we - I - was with guys, shopping."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. During all those times we almost always had a ghost dragging along. Sorry, G."

"I kinda suspected something, y'know? Cause you didn't seem dotty to me."

"Cheers."

"You're not saying much. Are you ok?"

"I'm fine. It's just the shock that Adam's going out. And with a ditzy, stupid girl. Can you BELIEVE it? And she has the dumbest name. BRINDY!"

"Brindy?"

"Yeah."

Thanks to Hannah!