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Wow, that was long.
What on earth had I gotten myself into?
Considering Henri was meant to be in most of my classes, I barely saw him the rest of the day.
Every time I tried to talk to him he was pulled off by Debbie, or another Kelly clone, so they could attempt to seduce him. Well, until their football playing boyfriends dragged the girls off of him, kicking and screaming. The girls, I mean, the football players weren't screaming... much. Brad was devastated when he saw Debbie Mancuso flirting with Henri. And Debbie was devastated when she heard about our date. I'm not sure how she found out, but I had a bad feeling it was something to do with Henri.
I had to break off the date soon; it was Thursday already. The date was on Friday night and, let me tell you, for a new guy, he sure was hard to get a hold of.
So after he shot off home, before I could talk to him, I got into Jake's Honda Civic.
When I walked into my room and threw my bag onto the bed, I was glad that Jesse wasn't here. I had a feeling that, if he was here, I would start to babble, and babbling tends to lead to the giving out if information I'd rather he didn't know. Such as the fact that I had a date for Friday night. Although, I was trying to be a challenge for Jesse.
Before I could debate this further, Jesse himself materialised.
"Hello querida," Jesse greeted me.
"Um... hi," I replied, glancing at the phone. I was going to phone Henri, but with Jesse here, I didn't think it was a very good idea. As, if I broke the date off in front of Jesse, then he would ask why, then the inevitable: "Because I love you," would be the first thing I blurt out before I can stop myself.
"Do you believe everything happens for a reason?" I asked him.
What the hell? Where did that come from?
"Of course querida," his voice sounding thrillingly deep against my squeaky one. I was wrong, there was no way Henri even came close to Jesse. "For example," He went on, "if Diego hadn't killed me," his gaze darkened threateningly for a second, before the playful look returned to his face, "then I would have never met you," he looked completely serious, but he had a strange glint in his eye. Was it love?
Nah, couldn't be.
"So there's a reason for us meeting?" I asked, in, what I prayed was, a detached fashion, but I have a feeling it sounded hopeful. Did he notice?
He looked me straight in the eye, and, I swear, something passed between us. Something that sent tingles down my spine. Tingles that intensified as he pulled my into his embrace. I shivered with delight at the fact that I was in his strong arms, something I didn't think would ever happen again.
Again, he gazed into my eyes, as I stared back into his.
Eyes that were filled with...passion?
And as his gaze hit me, I felt, what seemed like, thousands of jolts of electricity running through my body.
He dipped his face close to mine, leaned in, before he was pulled back unexplainably. Well unexplainable until I looked up properly and saw my dad. Looking very angry, I might add. It seemed as if he might kill Jesse- well if he wasn't already dead. But I guess that was part of the problem. I saw Jesse swallow worriedly and I just wanted to fling my arms around him, but under the circumstances, decided against it.
"What the hell were you doing?" Dad exploded.
Jesse seemed incapable of forming coherent sentences, so it looked like I was going to be the one to bail us out of this situation.
"Um... hi daddy," wow, that was lame, even for me. My dad's hands were squeezed very tightly into fists, so tightly his knuckles were going white.
"Look, dad, erm..." I trailed off guiltily. I'm not even sure why I was guilty. I think it was something to do with the look on dad's face. "I-it was, um-"
"Susie, dinner!" Mom shouted up. Thank God.
"I'll talk to you later," Dad told me, his eyes showed me he was furious, but not at me. At Jesse.
"I'll be here, talking to the young man." My eyes widened at that remark and I glimpsed over at Jesse, to see his face take on a look of utter terror. The poor guy was petrified. I shot him a smile that was meant to be reassuring, but I think was pretty dispirited.
The last thing I saw before I ran down the stairs was him returning my smile, looking just as melancholy.
I felt bad leaving him alone with my father and the smile just made it all the harder to leave.
But after a pause, I did eventually go downstairs and I wolfed down my dinner as fast as I could, but as Brad pointed out to me a total of five times, it was my turn to do the dishes, so I was stuck downstairs for another half hour. Leaving the love of my life to suffer the wrath of my father.
As soon as I was done, I hurried back up to see my bedroom completely devoid of life, save Spike cowering in the corner,
That can't be good.
"Dad!" I called angrily. Jesse was about to kiss me, I'm positive. But then, someone always interrupts.
I sighed in frustration. Well if my dad wasn't going to come, then I'd have to find out the harder way.
"Jesse," I called softly and what I tried to make seductive. But it didn't help. "Jesse, come on." I tried.
No response.
I groaned. Not this again! It goes in a pattern: Jesse and I get close, he disappears, we get close, and he disappears.
Jeez, I thought it might be different this time, I guess not.
Okay, it's only happened once before, but it feels so repetitive.
It's like he doesn't want to let anyone in. He doesn't want to let anyone near him.
I lay down on my bed, realising I was being silly, he'd only been gone an hour and I was already depressed. I was just lolling around on my bed, waiting for Jesse to appear, when I was dragged out of bed by Brad.
"Suze! Come on! We're going to be late!" Wow, I guess I must have fallen asleep. I jumped up, selected my outfit, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair and make-up and dived in the car just as it was leaving, shoving the books in my bag.
Brad was trying to leave without me again. Sometimes I miss being an only child.
By the time we got to school, class was just starting, but I slid into my seat just as our teacher walked in. But instead of Mr Walden, it was Sister Ernestine.
"Miss Simon, how nice of you to join us," she drawled. But-but I-I got here before her. I verbalised this thought, as a brilliant reward I was sentenced to detention.
Oh, this school sucked. If it weren't for the fact that I'm popular here and Father Dom is here, then I would fully move to Robert Louis Stevenson.
Or they could just fire Sister Ernestine. That would make me so happy, but I guess they can't fire a teacher on the grounds that a sixteen-year-old girl dislikes her greatly. Something about unfair dismissal.
And to make my day that much worse, Henri wasn't here. He wasn't at school at all.
Debbie was whimpering on about it all day, asking me where he was. I guess it didn't sink in that I was as clueless as her-well not that clueless-the first hundred times.
So I served my detention and realised that I had missed all my rides. Adam, Brad, Jake. I didn't have any money or a mobile, so I had to walk.
I used that walk to conduct an experiment. It seemed that, however many times I called, Jesse wasn't coming.
I found that to be a good thing when I started to get ready for the date. I had decided to go along with it as I figured it would make me seem like a challenge-Jesse hadn't come since last night, so, I guess he lost interest again-and Henri seemed so set on it.
So just as I was putting the finishing touches to my make-up, it would make sense that Jesse would appear. I hissed, "Where have you been?" at the same time as Jesse raised his eyebrows and asked, "Going somewhere, Susannah?"
I answered first, "Yes, I am," was all I told him. All that I had a chance to say before the phone rang.
I grabbed it and saw-well heard-that it was Father D. The good father who couldn't bail me out of detention when I asked him earlier this morning. He even had the nerve to say it would do me good..
But when he told me to meet him in his office in fifteen minutes, I jumped to it, because by the tone of his voice, I knew, it was something ghostly.
Something that was going to ruin my date.
Jesse followed me. I told him not to, but he ignored me.
When I asked him what happened between my dad and him, he wouldn't tell me, no matter how much I begged. I could tell he wanted to though. I decided to drop it.
As we walked, we fell silent. It was a comfortable silence though. I was curious as to what would have happened last night if we weren't interrupted. I longed to find out, but I knew that we had a ghost to help. Plus, it might not be the best idea to make out with the guy in public. People tend to think you're mad if you make out with what appears to be thin air.
I felt a drop of rain on my nose; I looked up at the dark sky, then at Jesse. We both broke into a run. He grabbed my hand and made me run faster.
We ran into the school, laughing. It was just like old times, pre-kiss times. I missed being like this with Jesse. Totally at ease, not uncomfortable. He grinned at me and we strolled into Father Dom's office, completely soaked.
I saw Father Dominic's face and dropped Jesse's hand, as if it were on fire.
"Susannah," Father D said, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but Henri died in a car accident last night."
All the blood ran out of my face. "What?!" I asked, shock overriding the sorrow. I barely knew him, but he was a good guy.
I sat down heavily into the chair I so frequently occupied.
Until I saw something that made me jump up so fast I knocked over the seat.
Henri had materialised next to Jesse.
"What the hell?" I asked my self.
"Henri!" Father Dom called.
Henri's eyes almost bugged out of their sockets and he stumbled back. Jesse chuckled at his reaction. "They are mediators. They help ghosts to heaven," he told him, then added, "Or hell."
He was joking, I knew that, but to Henri, it was one thing too much. He swore loudly to which Jesse and Father D looked outraged at.
I just sat back down, "How did the accident happen?" I asked him gently.
He looked up darkly, "It was no accident."
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