Goddess, that took a lot longer then planned, I'm trying to update all of my stories, so it's a little chaotic. (Why did I start typing so many stories?) Ok, never mind- on with the stories. If you notice any of my stories taking a while to update, that would be because I decided to finish other stories first, but I promise I will update as soon as possible.
Chapter 9
Suze's P.o.v.:
I was just starting to get my mind off of Jesse, not that I ever stop thinking about him, when he walked into the café. At first my body went tense, I didn't want to have to deal with the way Jesse was acting, and Paul was here too. I had a strange feeling that this night wasn't going to turn out so great. I quickly straitened up, going into what Paul had recently started calling my tuff girl mood.
To my relief Jesse looked away, and went to his table where he was being seated. He seemed like he was trying to avoid us. The door opened again and in walked Kelly Prescott. To my surprise, she walked right over to Jesse's table, gave him a kiss on the check, and sat on the chair next to him
"Do you see what I see?" this was truly shocking to me.
"Didn't take him long did it? Are you sure this is the same Jesse?" Paul said, taking me into a tighter hold. Its funny how not to long ago; I would have hurt Paul so hard just for laying a hand on me, now here I was with his arms around me, not even wanting to fight him.
"He looks like him, and talks like him, but he isn't acting anything like him. It took Jesse months to admit how he felt about me, and after one day, he is already on a date with the schools hottest girl."
"No he's not." Paul said looking at me really intently. "He's not what?"
"He's not on a date with school's hottest girl… I am" he bent down and kissed me. A smile grew on his face, and I realized that I was laughing. "It's been a long time since you laughed; you need to do it more often." I rolled my eyes and glanced up to see the waitress coming with our food. Unfortunately I also caught a glimpse of a little girl who definitely shouldn't be here. I glanced over at Paul to see if he had spotted her yet. Nope. The waitress set down our food and asked us if we wanted anything else. "No, every thing is fine thank you." The waitress walked away and I glanced back to the little girl.
"Do you see-" I didn't exactly finish because I noticed that I was not the only one looking at her. She was standing next to Kelly, and… that can't be. Jesse appeared to be staring directly at her. And he seemed to be listening to her.
"See what, honey?" Paul asked, looking at me. I swear, he needs to be more observant. "What do you think Jesse is looking at?" I was till staring at Jesse and the girl. The girl looked about seven or eight years old. She was in a blue dress with white flowers embroidered in it. She looked like she could be Jesse's little sister.
"He's looking at the Ghost." Don't think I mentioned that part. Yep she's dead. That's why it's so weird that Jesse would be staring at her. He looked back at Kelly, but I know that I saw him give the girl a thumbs up, she started giggling, which brought a smile to Jesse's face. Then she watched, waiting for something to happen.
"Exactly, but how is that possible, unless he's a mediator himself." Paul had just took a bite of his hamburger, so all he could do was stare at me. I took that time to observe the little girl some more. I was drawn to her dress for some reason, and the harder I looked at it the warmer my necklace started to get. (a/n I should come up with some pet name for the necklace, what do you guys think?)
No, it can't be. I think I just found what I was looking for. On the bottom of the dress are the initials MDS. It's almost like my vision doubled for a second, but long enough for me to see the initials. "M.D.S." oops, said that out loud.
"M.D.S. Maria De Silva, correct?" I nodded my head; I had told them about Maria and Felix while telling them about Jesse,. At least Paul had a good memory.
"The initials are on that girls dress." Paul looked up at me, then over at the girl. "I see you discovered another one of your abilities, and without my help, good job." I stared at Paul for a sec, dinner was once again turning into a shifter lesson.
"I was going to wait a while till I told you about that one, but tonight is always good too. Shifters eyes are a little more enhanced then normal eyes. In time you'll find that you have, what I like to call cat vision. You can see in the dark, and you can see things from far away, like your using a telescope. You just did that now."
I took this in and heard a burst of laughter. Paul and I looked over to see the little girl on the ground laughing her head off, Jesse had this huge smile on his face, and Kelly looked some what startled. Damn, I missed what they were going to do, but I couldn't help but smile at the little girl. She was so cute. Jesse glanced down at her again, then up at me. Our gazes locked, and that's when I knew. He was a mediator, but he was also keeping some other secret from me. A major secret. And judging from that look on his face, that secret involved me.
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Last night I had come to the conclusion that I would confront Jesse about the whole Mediator thing. When I told Paul this morning, he was against it at first. After a short argument, which we had to keep quiet do to the teachers, I won. Hey, I had to know, and I wasn't taking no for an answer. It was al little harder to convince Paul that I had to talk to him alone, but it worked…eventually.
That's how I ended up here, asking to speak to Jesse alone. He definitely gained a lot of friends in that one day that he was here, and I hate to admit that it was pretty intimidating.
"What do you want to talk to me for?" Jesse asked in his Spanish accent.
"Please, it's important." I was starting to doubt that he would come. "if you need to talk to me, you can do it here." Such a classic line, and yet every time I here I want to sock the person who had sayed it.
"This type of conversation is best done in private." I said this as strongly as possible, and it worked.
"All right, lead the way." I led Jesse down to a class room that I knew was vacant. When we entered, I found that one of Paul's minions was there sitting on top of one of the desks. It was Biker Bob, the same one I had thrown my Jimmy Choo's at. Ironically his name is/was Bob. Paul had sent him here.
It isn't what you think, I had told Paul to send him. I mean, Bob here was actually a good guy once you got to know him. And I needed a ghost here, to see if Jesse would see him, I figured it might as well be someone intimidating to, so Jesse wouldn't ignore him. Bob here definitely fell under the intimidating category.
"Are you Jesse?" Bob said as he got up to his feet, and walked up to Jesse. Jesse gave one Quick glance at him, then turned to me, I was hoping he wouldn't ignore him. If he isn't a mediator, then what Bob is about to do won't hurt a bit, but if he is, OWW! "So what did you want to talk about?" Jesse asked me. Oh, please forgive me.
"Hey, I'm talking to you." Bob, said, and then he shoved him. Well not exactly shove him. More like through him against the wall. Yep, he's a mediator, possibly a shifter.
"Thanks, I'll take it from here." I said, then turned back to Jesse as he Bob shimmered away. "Look at the bright side, we heal fast." Jesse was already getting up on his feet. See? If that was a normal person, they probably would have been knocked out.
"I'm really sorry, but I had to know, so are you a mediator, or a shifter?" ok, so I went a little straight to the point. Curiosity didn't always kill the cat you know.
"I don't know what your talking about." he said, a little dazed.
"You're not going to deny that Bob just threw you against
the wall are you?" that's just weak.
"Of course not, wait… you saw him too?" was It really that shocking? He seemed
a lot brighter when he was a ghost, then again he was
also a couple hundred years older too.
"Jesse, I'm a shifter. What I want to know is whether you're a mediator or a shifter." He seemed really confused, maybe throwing him against the wall wasn't such a good thing.
"I don't know what that is, if you don't mind I think ill go know." Oh god, he hasn't figured out what he is yet. Should I take him to Father Dom? Maybe even Paul would know… what am I saying, I can't take him to Paul. The two hate each other. I think. God, I'm so confused. I'll just take care of this myself.
"Jesse, sit down" I said, gesturing to a chair. I looked at his face, and saw how alive he looked, true I had seen him like this when I was in the year 1850, but it was still hard to get used to. I mean he was wearing normal clothes this time. I took a look at his clothes again, completely not what Paul would wear.
"I think we've accomplished the fact that you see ghosts. Well that's called a mediator." I decided to leave the whole shifter part of it out till later, I mean what are the chances that he's also a shifter? "Your job, OUR job is to help the dead move on to their next lives." I looked at him to make sure that he understood this. "I knew what my job was, I just didn't know what it was called." I gave a short laugh, I guess it's sort of obvious when you have that ability, what you're supposed to do with it, but hey, Jack didn't. Jack is Paul's little brother and he was completely freaked out about the whole ghost thing. Still is, I've talked to him a few times this month.
"Good to here that, so who is that little girl I saw you talking with at the café last night." I had been dying to ask this. Those initials had started a new haunt ever since I had seen them last night. MDS.
"She is Maria De Silva." I looked at him some what startled. Maria De Silva tried to kill you. She tried to kill me, did you know that? I silently asked him. "are you related to her?" I asked out loud.
"yes, she is my twin sister." How ironic, it seems that Jesse and Maria were destined to be a couple one way or the other. I wander if his parents know about Maria and Jesse De Silva. "She died of leukemia when she was eight."
"I'm sorry to here that. Were the two of you named after anyone?" hey, I had to ask.
Jesse looked at me suspiciously, and I tried my best to keep an innocent face. "I was named after My great-great- grandfather. Maria was named after his cousin they were supposed to get married, but Maria wanted to marry this guy named Felix. Felix went to kill Jesse, but someone else was there when he arrived. She was hiding in the shadows when he got there, so he didn't see her. He went up to kill Jesse, but the girl shot him. He survived but spent a few years in prison. When he got out he married Maria. Jesse on the other hand didn't marry for years. Apparently he had fallen in love with the girl who had saved him from Felix. She told him to never forget him, then she vanished while she was kissing him." I looked a way, knowing that a tear were threatening to come down. I had been curious to see how everything had turned out. "He was in love with her, and she was gone. He eventually married thirteen years later, and he named his first daughter after his what he liked to call 'soul mate.' Her name was Susannah. He would always tell stories about her, he told my grandpa everything that he remembered about Susanna, and my grandpa told me." I knew he was debating what else to tell. How much I wanted to go and curl up in his arms. And give him a kiss, like I used to do, but I knew that I wouldn't be able to. Especially after he shot up and started for the door.
"why am I telling you this. I don't even know you." He left the room, and I felt my heart break even more. He does know me, if only he would remember all of those times we spent together. All those times he saved me. Why is he doing this? I glanced up at the clock. Shit, I'm late, for class.
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I hope you all liked the chapter. I came to conclusion while writing this that I'm going to finish another story before I come back to this. I won't forget about this one, and I'll get back to it ASAP. This is my favorite story that I'm writing, but it's too hard to switch from story to story, so don't give up, I'll update soon. (I hope.) still review this chapter. I'm only like half way done with this so bare with me. I'll tell you that we still have a major fight coming up, and I'm not telling you who it's between, and why either. But I think you will all like it. REVIEW!!!!!
~tasha
