A Different Light
I changed the characters around just a little bit for this story.
Mainly Karen has more emotions and her and Rosario have a better
relationship. Hope that doesn't screw anything up for any readers.
"Karen, I love you." He said. "I always have. It doesn't matter if I'm gay...I just know that I need to be with you." With that declaration, he pulled Karen to his body and enveloped her lips with the most powerful kiss of her life.
And then she woke up. The sunlight was pouring in her window and it was almost noontime. "Note to self," She murmured, trying not to further intensify her hangover. "Sleeping off alcohol consumed at three in the morning - not a good idea." Slowly she rolled over onto her face and tried to remember what was happening in her mind before she awoke.
"Ah, yes. My Jackie." She thought. That wonderful, gay best friend of hers that she'd loved since the first time he kissed her. He'd been trying to prove to Will some mundane point about how ridiculous heterosexuality was because it invoked no feeling whatsoever in anyone, but when he'd kissed her, she'd never believed more in her desire for a man. And she'd also realized that she'd never had a kiss like that before, one so full of passion and closeness. Even Jack seemed shaken by the experience, especially since he let Will tease him for kissing a girl after that without a single remark back. In fact, it was all he could do to tear his eyes away from Karen.
When his lips touched hers she saw Jack in a totally new light. He wasn't just a shopping partner anymore. She remembered all the nights they'd stayed up talking when she was afraid to go to sleep, all the nights he'd held her as they dozed off together. She remembered when Stan died and Jack had dropped his playful persona and spent the whole funeral by her side, holding her up so she wouldn't fall. He was the one who demanded that she cry with him after everyone else left when she couldn't let herself shed a tear. With one instant of physicality, she recognized all that she'd ever dreamed of was right in front of her. And she'd give her soul for another kiss like that.