A/N: HELLO! I'm finally back with a chapter!! YAHOO FOR YOU! (lol that rhymed)

Anyways, I'm sorry that I didn't actually update a chapter yesterday like I said I might do…. It's just that I thought my dog ran away and then I had to clean up the stupid house (because I slept in and missed when the house cleaner showed up so now I have to make up for the 42$ that my parents owe the housekeeper) and then today I woke up at like two…. I donno why…it might have something to do with me having Anemia, which makes me really really tired, or the fact that I'm alone all day and all that I've eaten today was a granola bar and some chips which also contributes to the tiredness! And then at seven I had to go baby-sit and I just got back about an hour ago…phew…. So you can see why I've had trouble updating.

And now I have some bad news for you! Dun...dun... dun…. It just so happens that I have lost my Zest for writing! I donno what happened!!! All day I think of great plots and dialogues I can stick in my fics and then right when I sit down to type them out on the computer *POOF* I don't feel like writing anymore! Even now, only seconds ago, I was really excited about writing all my ideas into this new chapter, then like I said, I sat down and was reluctant to type!!! (Hahaha, I sound like such a nerd) So you can see my problem about updating…. Though I will try to get over this phase!

But anyways, I've talked waaaay to long…. It's time to start writing…

P.S. I've made this suuuuuper long for you guys to make up for the long update.

Second Chance

After the incident with Keri—which everyone, to my understanding, had decided to forget about—I decided that since it was late and there was obviously nothing else to do, a little T.V watching was just what I needed.

And luckily for me someone had left the T.V on. Which of course, made the situation a whole lot easier considering, in my current state, I wouldn't have been able to turn the T.V on.

I settled in front of the T.V and reluctantly decided Jay Leno interviewing Elijah Wood on the tonight show was not the worst thing that could be on. (Hey, give me a break. Elijah Wood is somewhat of a cutie in my opinion.) But it wouldn't have mattered anyway because I wasn't capable of changing the channel even if I had wanted to.

But just when I was getting into the show, the sound of someone coming down the stairs got my attention.

Keri sauntered lightly down the stairs and attempted to walk right by me without a second glance.

"And where do you think your going?" I asked, as she was about to open the door.

"Out," she replied, obviously annoyed, and turned around to glare at me.

I suddenly noticed what she was wearing and raised my eyebrows incredulously. "You are not going out dressed like that!"

"What?" she asked, "I happen to like my outfit, it took me a while to find these in the back of your closet." She shifted self-consciously in her extremely high-healed black stilettos and tugged lightly on the bottom of my black leather mini skirt.

"Well, it would look good if you're trying to look like a trashy skank." I said sarcastically and glared at the red tube top she was wearing. I cannot believe she found an outfit like that in my closet! Well…Actually, my black mini skirt is one of my favorites and I was aware of the black stilettos I had bought last fall. But I had no idea where the red tube top came from! Well…maybe a little bit of an idea. But I had no intention of ever wearing it! Especially not with those other very skimpy articles of clothing.

"You are not leaving this house!" I said and stood up from the couch.

"I can leave when ever I want to!" she yelled back at me.

"Not dressed like that you can't!" I yelled.

It was at that moment that I heard another pair of footsteps descending the stairs.

"Umm…Susannah who are you yelling at?" asked a very confused Jesse.

Hahaha…. Oops! Maybe we were yelling a little too loud.

"Oh…um…I saw a really ugly cat and I was trying to shoo it out of the house." Keri laughed nervously.

Jesse glared at Keri. "Are you trying to make fun of Spike?" he asked sourly.

I burst out laughing and Keri sent a quick startled glance my way. She obviously had no idea what in the world Jesse was talking about—never having seen spike before—or what the heck I was laughing about. But one thing she soon realized was that she had majorly pissed off Jesse.

"No, no! Of course not. I would never make fun of Spike." She said quickly and glared in my direction, which I interpreted to mean she was mad that I hadn't said anything to save her ass. Yeah right, in her dreams.

"Well, I'm going out now. See you later Jesse." Keri said and turned around to go out the door.

But at that exact moment Jesse's eyes widened which meant he had finally realized what Keri was wearing…. And that she planned on leaving the house looking the way she did.

"What in the world are you wearing Susannah!"

Keri turned around and sighed in an annoyed manner. She apparently didn't want to go through the same conversation a second time. "I'm wearing clothes, okay!? And I'm leaving, now, wearing these clothes."

"You call those clothes?!" Jesse burst out, " You look like some kind of…of…prostitute! You are not going out into public like that!" he reached out and grabbed Keri's wrist, attempting to pull her away from the door.

"Let go!" she yelled and wrenched her wrist free from Jesse grasp. " I'm leaving and I'll wear whatever I want, whenever I want. So just leave-me-alone." She hissed out the last part between clenched teeth and stormed out of the house into the night, slamming the door behind her.

Jesse stood there stunned for a moment and the sighed loudly, shaking his head for I don't know what reason. He turned around silently and walked back up the stairs, obviously still trying to figure out what just happened.

I wasn't about to go running after Keri because I knew after what just happened, there was no way I could get her to come home. But on the plus side at least now I know why people back away from me when I'm mad. I look down right scary when I'm screaming my head off and glaring daggers at someone. Poor Jesse, having to put up with that so much. I wonder why he hasn't gotten sick of me yet.

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It was hours later that I lazed around in my room, reading an article in Cosmo, and waited for Keri to re-appear. I was getting slightly annoyed. Not because I wanted to talk to her or anything, or that I was worried about her wellbeing (because it was obvious by the way she dressed that she was going to a party of some sort.) It was just that it was getting on 2:00am and it was my body she was out there partying in and it would be my body that would be sleep deprived and my school marks that would suffer because of the late night gallivanting.

But as I thumbed threw the magazine there came a soft knock on my door and when nobody responded it opened slowly and Jesse stepped into the room.

"Susannah, we need to t—", he cut himself off as he realized there was nobody in the room. Well besides me but we all know he couldn't see me.

"Nombre de Dios, she still isn't home yet?" he muttered out loud into the supposedly empty room.

He sighed in frustration and started his usual habit when he was stressed: pacing around the room and muttering in Spanish.

He ran a hand through his thick black hair as he paced and I could barely make out certain fragments of English like: "Just wait until she gets home," and "Out! At this hour!"

My eyes followed him around the room as he paced and all the circles he was making started to make me dizzy. I have no idea how he does that with out getting dizzy himself!

I pulled my eyes off Jesse (much to the relief of my throbbing head) and turned to look out the window just in time to see a sleek black car pull into the drive. The passenger door opened and out hope no other then Keri herself.

By this time Jesse had also heard the commotion outside and had gone to look out my bay window forcing me to squish myself up against the wall so he wouldn't pass right through me. That would just be too disturbing and I wasn't planning on finding out what it felt like to have someone pass through my body.

Jesse frowned as Keri hopped out of the car and quickly made her way up the walk to slip into the house silently, without waking anybody up. At least that's one thing I can give Keri credit for. I mean, she snuck into the house almost as superbly as I would have done myself.

Jesse straightened up from the window and leaned against the wall, crossing his arms over his chest in an angry manner. He had apparently decided that he was going to wait there until Keri came up to my room so he could her a little piece of his mind.

I knew Keri was coming up the stairs when I could hear the quiet groan of the wooden stairs underneath her feet. I could tell Jesse could hear it too cause he shifted a little from his spot against the wall.

A second later, Keri tiptoed quietly into the dark room, closing the door silently behind her. But when she turned around, she gasped and jumped about a foot into the air when she noticed Jesse.

"Holy crap, Jesse! You scared me to death!" she hissed angrily at him with a hand over her heart. Then she finally realized that Jesse was in her room at night…she smiled ruefully at him. "So you've come to pay me a late night visit to my room, have you?" she purred.

Jesse frowned at her and shifted uncomfortably under her gaze. "No, I have not." He replied tonelessly.

Her bottom lip jutted out and she lost her look of seduction. "Oh?"

Jesse uncrossed his arms and took a couple steps towards her. "Susannah, we need to talk."

Keri looked confused. "About what?" she asked and walked towards the closet.

"About this," he said, and motion with a hand towards her outfit, "and other things."

Keri dug through my closet and pulled out the one pair of slinky silk pajamas I owned (some pretty pink and red ones my mom had bought for me on Valentines Day) and frowned at Jesse. "What's the problem?"

No, no, no! I though as Keri set the pajamas on the bed, not the red silk!

"The problem is everything," Jesse burst out, "You are mean to your friends, you yell at your parents, you dress inappropriately, you stay out until all hours at night, and you are being completely…completely…un-Susannah like!"

Keri glared at Jesse and turned her back on him, picking up the pajamas on the bed. "Maybe this is the real me and I've only just decided that I want to change my life."

Jesse opened his mouth to say something but was left speechless as Keri suddenly started taking off her clothes right in front of him. She got as far as taking off the skirt when she noticed Jesse's stunned expression. She raised her eyebrows at him. "What?"

By this time I thought it was about time that I took some action. "KERI!" I screeched at her, "Put some clothes on!"

But Keri just smiled mischievously when she realized what was wrong with Jesse. "What?" she asked again and to my horror stated waving her underwear clad butt around. (But at least she wasn't wearing a thong…. though the underwear she had chosen was black lacey and revealing.) "You don't like the undies?"

At that moment I swear for the first time in my life I saw Jesse blush! But he quickly turned around to save himself the embarrassment and in a voice that sounded—I'm proud to say, because that was my butt he had just seen—somewhat like a guy version of my squeaky voice, (Which I happen to be afflicted with when ever Jesse and his sexy smile, and hot body comes within a ten meter radius of me)"I'm not turning around until you get some clothes on."

Keri finished getting into her pajamas quickly, and with the same amusement in her voice said, "Okay, I'm done, you can turn around now."

Jesse turned around but by now he wasn't embarrassed and to Keri's disappointment he was frowning at her. "This is what I'm talking about," he said to her in a serious tone. "You're acting like a totally different person," he ran a hand through his black hair and sighed, "The Susannah I know changed in the bathroom and wore large shirts and shorts to bed." But now he suddenly smiled, and I realized it was the first time he had smiled since Keri took my body (well besides the first day when she kissed him, but that doesn't count.) "And she would never have the nerve to do the same thing you just did."

Wow, I though as I listened to him, I had no idea Jesse knew me so well.

Keri suddenly look really mad and I guess maybe she finally realized that her charade was at an end. "What are you talking about?! I've only changed a bit and I like my new life perfectly fine! I'm no different then I was before."

But Jesse shook his head. "You are, and I intend to find out why."

Keri looked extremely pissed after that statement. "You know what!" she yelled, taking several furious steps towards him "You right! I have changed! And I like my new life! But I just realized something…. You're ruining it!!!"

Jesse looked shocked and took a couple of steps back, "What are you saying Susannah?"

"I'm saying I'm sick of you Jesse, I don't want anything to do with you, we're through!"

By the look on Jesse's face you could tell he was incredibly wounded. He opened his mouth to say something but Keri wasn't at all done yet.

"Why can't you ever leave me alone! I wish I never had to see you again! Actually on second thought, I wish you were still dead!!!!"

Jesse flinched almost as violently as if he'd been hit and he seemed to be perfectly incapable of speech.

Keri wasn't at all fazed by Jesse's condition and she pointed one finger at the door. "I'd appreciated if you left my room…. Now!"

Jesse stood there expressionless for about a second before he turned around—and looking about as numb as a snowman—he walked out the door and down the hall to Doc's room.

All through Keri's rampage I stood there about as stunned as Jesse, thinking how could she do something like this? How could she hurt someone so badly? Well, obviously she was a mean and evil person but didn't she want Jesse for herself? Then why was she ruining her chances with him?

Then it hit me…She wasn't ruining her chances of being with him…She was ruining MY chances.

I suddenly understood what she was trying to do. She was making me and Jesse split apart so when I got my body back, he would be free for the pickings!

But knowing what she was trying to do didn't make me feel any better. She was the one in control and she had just ruined ever chance Jesse and me ever had of being together…. Probably every chance of ever being friends again too!

And suddenly I felt that annoying prickling at the back of my throat and my eyes swam with tears. So before Keri noticed that I had started crying, I ran from the room to the only person I ever knew that could cheer me up.

When I got to Doc's room Jesse was there, sitting on the cot with his elbows on his knees and his face in his hands. By the slump of his shoulders and the way his hands were running shakily through his hair, I could tell this guy was in about the same emotion need I was in, if not more.

I sat my invisible butt down beside him as he took in another shaky breath and I had to strain my ears to hear, but I'm positive I heard him say, "querida."

I choked sob came out of my mouth and tried to wrap my arms around him as best I could, considering I couldn't touch him. "Oh, Jesse," I said and buried my face in his chest, "I'm so sorry."

Jesse's head snapped up so quickly it was as if…Well, as if he had heard me! "Susannah?!" he breathed.


To Be Continued…

A/N: OoOoOoOo!!!! CLIFFHANGER!!! HAHAHAHAHAH! Well…did you like it!?

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Wanna know something really funni that I just find out!?! My brother's girlfriends ran him over with a car!!!! Hahahahhahah! And Yes, it was an accident, and No, he didn't get hurt! Hahaha that's the story if the day!

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