A/N: OMG! I have updated for sooooo long! I'm sorry! –_– ; This chapter took a lot of self-persuasion to get myself to type it! So be happy with what I wrote………even though it probably sucks………..but be nice……….please? T_T

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ANWAYS! I was wondering if you people ever read the reviews for this fic? Because if you do, you might of noticed the little on going chat with me and my friend, Brette! Yes and if you haven't figured it out by now, I am Melanie….. I hope you find our childish fighting and stupid talk entertaining……..lol! 'cause it's fun to write! OH! I'm gonna go write another review to her now!

SHIT! I forgot I promised to write this chapter…………crappers…………..my life sucks…………

*Melanie's invisible friend pats her shoulder*— and says, "It's ok, I still love you"

*I give my invisible friend a hug*—And say, "Aww, I love you too……………………."

Yeaahhhh………….that made no sense……………if you don't think I'm crazy by now, CUDOS! But you're probably crazy yourself!!! MWUAHAHAH!

Ok….I think I'm a little too hyper……..I'm leaving now……..

SHIT! I forgot I still had to write the chapter………..crappers………..my life sucks………..lol

OK! Who thinks my writing these extreeeemely stupid Authors notes is better then my writing the fic? Raise your hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *nobody but Melanie raises their hand*…………Dammit……….

FINE!!! If that's the way your want it I'm leaving!!! *slams the door* ………………………………………..*opens the door* YOUR HORRIBLE! *slams the door* ………………………..*opens the door again* HORRIBLE!!!! *slams the door again* ……………………… *open* HOOOORRIIBLE!!!!!………………horrible……whore…..ible….

Second Chance

It was about five minutes after school, when I found myself sitting outside of the mission, biting my nails and practically pulling my hair out because I was so nervous about Jesse showing up.

I was sitting there repeating two words over and over in my head: Please be late, Please be late…but of course he wasn't.

It was Keri's high pitch scream that first notified me—and practically everybody else in the mission—of Jesse's arrival.

I guess Keri was pretty surprised to see him because she tore across the yard and launched herself—and I mean launched—into Jesse's arms.

I cringed in total horror and disgust at the site. Keri was making me look like a total bimbo the way she was groping Jesse. Has the girl never heard of playing hard to get? Apparently not.

Jesse looked kind of weirded out for a minute. I guess he was having a hard time trying to figure out how to react since I've never really thrown myself into his arms before.

I walked over to Keri and poked her in the back to get her attention.

"Can you stop making me look like a freak" I said to her and crossed my arms over my chest. "Jesse's gonna notice the way your totally not acting like me if you don't stop being so…..clingy." I wrinkled my nose on the last word.

I can honestly say I didn't give Keri that advice out of the charity of my heart to help her social life. I was just hoping by giving her some pointers on the way I act, when I got my body back nobody would know I had been gone.

Keri glared at me for a second but loosened her hold on Jesse. "Come on Jesse," she said, "Let's go home so we can spend some quality time together."

Jesse looked down on her—or should I say me—and still had a look of confusion on his face. "Yeah…" he said kind of slowly, "Let's go home."

This was good. Very good. Jesse definitely knew something was wrong. Maybe I wouldn't be stuck being a ghost forever!

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It got even better when I was following Jesse and Keri home. I'd like to point out that I didn't have anything else to do—I normally don't stalk people.

It was when Keri was hanging off Jesse's arm and batting her eyelashes at him that CeeCee and Adam drove by in Adam's car.

They pulled up beside us on the shoulder and Adam stood up in the car waving like we wouldn't of noticed them if he didn't.

"Adam sit down!" CeeCee ordered, while trying to pull Adam down, then she looked over at us—us meaning Jesse, Keri, and me, even though technically they couldn't see me—and yelled, "Hey, you guys want a ride!?"

I will even admit that I was about to scream "Sure!" before I remembered they wouldn't be able to hear me.

And I bet they wouldn't of been able to here me anyways because all of a sudden Keri yelled, "You think I'd get in a car with you losers!!! What are you? CRAZY!?" She snorted and turned on her heel, grabbing Jesse in the process and dragging him away.

Jesse stopped in his tracks as CeeCee and Adam drove away and gave Keri a really pissed off look. "Aren't those your friends Susannah?" he asked and by his tone you could tell he wasn't very happy with what Keri had done. "Why were you so mean to them?"

Keri looked at Jesse like he was crazy. "They are just a couple of losers, Jesse. They were never my friends. I don't socialize with freaks."

He looked down at Keri and clenched his jaw. He was giving her—or me—another one of his looks, you know the one where it's like he's comparing me to someone and I was pretty sure he was about to go into speech mode, but he just looked away. "Fine" was all he said.

And let me tell you, if Jesse looks away and says fine, and he doesn't even put up a fight, that's when you know he's really pissed at you. Believe me.

I turned around after Keri's little display and took one look at CeeCee's and Adam's bewildered and crestfallen faces when they drove away, and I was seething with anger. I turned around, glared daggers at Keri, screamed at her and finally tired to punch her right in the nose.

And I say tried because the minute I ran up and took a swing, I flew right through Keri. And I'm not kidding, landing face first on the sidewalk at that momentum, really hurts. Now I know how it feels like to be a ghost and not be able to touch anyone. It really sucks!

I picked myself up off the sidewalk, wincing a bit. I had scraped up my knee and hands pretty badly, but after the incident with my mushroom feet, I can honestly say it wasn't so bad compared to that.

Keri just kept on walking by with a smug smirk on her face after what I did. And on the way by she purposefully walked right through me, just to rub in how hopeless the situation was.

I clenched my jaw and hands so tight I was making little half moons on my palms. I was still glaring at her back when I took a deep calming breath—the kind my therapist told me to take—and stomped after her.

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When we got home I was very happy to see that mom and Andy weren't home. It would be better if they weren't around to see how weird I was acting—considering Keri was me.

I could tell Jesse was still mad at Keri when they got home because the first thing he did was stomp up to my room grab a book and totally ignore Keri. I guess he had decided he was going to give me the dreaded silent treatment.

And it didn't take long for Keri to realize that Jesse wasn't too happy with her. She sat on my bed for about five minutes giving Jesse her best puppy eyes from across the room—which Jesse wasn't affected by—since Keri's puppy eyes did not look like puppy eyes at all. They looked more like she had something stuck in her eye the way she was batting her eyelashes.

Finally Keri decided to speak. "Jesse can you come here for a minute." She said patting the spot beside her on the bed.

Jesse looked up from his book—the constant frown still plastered on his face—and sighed. He put the book down and went across the room to sit beside Keri on my bed.

I would have found this little predicament Keri had put herself in with Jesse pretty amusing if:

A ) Jesse didn't think Keri was me and,

B ) If Keri hadn't of done what she did next

What she did was jump on Jesse the minute he sat down and locked her lips with his! I'm not joking! She was all over him in a matter of seconds. And to say Jesse was surprised was a major understatement. When Keri jumped on him he was so unsuspecting that he actually fell backwards onto the bed with Keri on him! And then to make matters worse, after he regained his composer—with Keri still snogging him—he started kissing her back!

I was so shocked that Jesse didn't push Keri—or who he thought was me—off of him, that it took me a couple seconds to get over my shock. I mean, here was Jesse, kissing some other girl—well, technically he thought it was me—and I wasn't part of it!

And I knew it was time I did something when I was pretty sure Keri was about to add some tongue to her kisses. So I marched right up to Keri and screamed, "GET OFF HIM!" as loud as I could in her ear.

But it didn't quite work. Keri only stopped for about to seconds to shoot a glare at me and then continued on with the groping of Jesse.

This was not good! Not good at all! I franticly search the room for something, anything—I have no idea why, considering I would pass right through anything I touched, which also ruled off dragging Keri off him.

But my prayers were answer—well kind off—when my mom walked into the room. It would have been great and all if the position she found Jesse and Keri in—or me, since that's what it looked like to her—didn't look so bad. Let me explain to you what it looked like to my mom. There was Jesse, on her daughter's bed, with her daughter sprawled on top of him and they were frantically making out with each other. Yes, that's gotta be a site any mother would be happy to walk in on.

"SUZE! JESSE!" she yelled, "Get off of each other now!"

I can actually say it was kind of funny to see Jesse and Keri break away so fast that they almost fell over. But they quickly regained their composer and stood up from the bed.

I don't think I've ever seen Jesse look so completely embarrassed in his life. On the other hand, you could say it was balanced out by Keri, since she looked completely bored—well maybe a little pissed for being interrupted.

"I knew this was a bad idea from the beginning!" my mother lectured, "Teenagers of the opposite sex do not share rooms together! I don't know what I was thinking!"

"Mrs. Ackerman," Jesse started calmly, "I'm extremely sorry, this is all my fault, don't punish Susannah."

I looked over to Jesse. Even in situations when he knows it's my fault he's always willing to take the blame. He's such a gentleman. How can you not love a guy like that? Obviously I can't.

"It's nice of you to take the blame Jesse," my mom said, "But Andy and I are going to have to have a talk with you two later. In the mean time, I'd like you two to set up a bed for Jesse in David's room." Keri opened her mouth to complain—clearly Jesse sleeping in another room put a damper on her plans—but my mom held up her hand to stop her. "No complaining, you guys aren't staying in the same room anymore."

She walked out of the room and then her voice floated back up the stairs. "I'll call you for super when it's ready."

Keri huffed and put on another of her pouty faces. "Mom wait!" she winned and stomped out of the room to obviously go complain about the unfairness of it all.

Then it was just Jesse and me in the room. I turned around to look at him and frowned a bit. It was really crappy when nobody can see you. I guess now I know how Jesse felt for a hundred and fifty years before I showed up.

Jesse slowly walked over to my bed and flopped down on it facing the ceiling. And I swear I saw a small smile creep onto his lips before I walked out of the room.

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To Be Continued…..

A/N: OK! I think I am going to stop there. I don't know how long that chapter was, but it took quite a while to write it! It's like 12:00 a.m! and I have school tommorow! I guess I'm going to bed now! I'm sorry it took so long for me to update! It's just I've been super busy! I swear even when it's months and months between updates I'm still gonna end up updating sooner or later! I wouldn't of updated if it wasn't for all the people telling me too! So if I don't update for a while again send me emails and I'll update sooner then if you don't!!! OK CYA LATER ALIGATORS! R&R!!!

P.S I just checked that was my longest chapter ever!!!!! :O