Hey! I finished chapter nine!

and this one, unlike all the others, has a name!

hope you like it! Thanks to all the reviewers that review my story. I'm glad that people like it, and need some ideas. If you have any about what I can do to make this story interesting, tell me! I want to hear all of them!

and now, chapter nine! Kissing in the Breezeway

Suze

"...So you see, I really did want to help you. I realized that it just wasn't going to work out between us. Obviously Jesse loved you, and I just selfishly wanted you with me." Wow. What a surprise. Paul was actually admiting that I wasn't supposed to be with him for the rest of eternity, developing our amazing shifting powers and our great love for each other. Yeah, like that was ever going to happen. "And another thing. I don't know if you want to hear it or not, but..." Ooh. This is getting good. Something that might be interesting. All of the things that he'd told me already I'd guessed. Hector really is Jesse, Paul did it, Paul still isn't very nice again... the usual. "Uhh, Jesse's not the same. I know you're not gonna want to hear this, but at any given moment, Jesse could drop dead." Jesse placed his hand on my knee, and I put mine over his. It seemed like he was the same Jesse, just modified a bit. Which was a good thing, don't get me wrong. I like it. Especially if he was going to live through this 'drop dead at any given moment' shit Paul was going on about. I believe him and all, I just really don't like his thinking.

I mean, it's just like him to jump into something headfirst without condisdering the outcome. The outcome here was

much more important. It's love and a man's life for goodness sakes!

"So, you're saying, Jesse could drop dead any second now. For the rest of his life, he'll live in fear of dying, never being able to have a family, or a life? He could be in the middle of a sentenceno wait! A word!and then BAM! you're dead? What the hell are you saying Paul? Tell me now!"

"Geez, no need to get worked up. See? I told you that you didn't want to hear that. But, there is something good about this. Trust me. I think you'll like this part. Better, anyway. See, the first month is when the 'subject'or Jesseis the most susceptable to 'immediate and fatal' heart attacks. And in order to prevent these, he is to stay in a sterile, isolated area. By the second month, Jesse shouldn't be as worried. He can go outside of said sterile, isolated area. But not too often. If he does, then he's more likely to kick the bucket. But by the third month, and on, Jesse's able to go to school, hang with friends, go to McDonaldsyes, Suze, I'm kidding. Jesse never went to McDonalds. Not on my watch anyway.pretty much anything he wants to do. But Jesse, all he did was go the freaking library and he made me drive past your place a few times, in the middle of the night no less, but that's not the point. He acted the same, read, eat, sleep, but the driving place was totally random and when I told him about you, he didn't remember you. He just told me where to turn, and soon, I knew that we were going to your house." Jesse was turning beet red, and slinking down in his chair.

"Ok, Paul, Suze, Jesse, school is going to start, and your homeroom teacher is not going to be pleased with me if you're late every day this week because of you, Jesse. So. If you will all come here for lunch, then We can continue this talk. Have a good day children!" Father Dom chirped at us as he left his office. I didn't feel like going to homeroom. I mean, after all, I had woken up extra early to come to school, and I didn't want to go. But, what choice do I have, I'd make my mom send me to that freaking shrink that she was talking about. I don't want that happening.

Oh my gosh! I just remembered that Mom had invited Jesse for dinner today! I forgot about that, and now that Jesse is really Jesse, maybe things could go a lot better. It'd be better than having Hector over for dinner. He zones out a lot. And now I think I know why. Gosh, I never even thought about him being Jesse after Father Dominic denied it for so many months.

Paul had gone to his locker, and I could hear Jesse behind me, walking slowly. I slowed down, and matched my pace to his. He looked at me, opened his mouth to say something, and then thought better of it, and stopped short. I said something instead. Boy I wish I hadn't now. "So, my mom invited you for dinner? 'Cause, if you don't want to go, then you're missing out, Andy's a pretty...oh. Never mind. Wait. Are you really the same Jesse that I knew as a ghost, and if you are, I have a question for you. You know when we were in the graveyard, did you mean that? I just want to know, because, oh. Oh. Did I just say that?" Nice Spazzy Susie.

"Umm, the graveyard, oh. The graveyard. Oh. Well." He was turning red again, and he stopped. So, to get an answer, I stood in front of him, so he couldn't walk away.

"You know, I thought you were feeling something there. I know I was." Oh My Gosh. I need full control of my mind. And quick.

"Susannah, I find this hard to say. I cannot lie to you, I" He sighed, " I think that I loved you from the time that I met you. Even now, I am attracted to you. Not just your amazing beauty, but also your personality. Your whole way of doing things. I don't know if I would go as far as to say that I love you, but I do...I do, I like you very much. Maybe, by spending time together, being together, I can learn what I was like as a ghost. Perhaps you could tell me? What better way to get to know you than to talk with you about, well me I guess. And dinner? Yes. Your mother invited me for dinner, querida. I'd be honored if you would let me come to dinner." And with that he took my hand and said, "We should go to class. Come on." I followed him, to shocked to speak. My hand was still in his, and he was so warm! Not like the ghost Jesse who was only half there most of the time.

"Jesse? I really want you to come to dinner, not just as my friend, but as...as my boyfriend?" I said this with uncertianty, I mean, he may not want to be my boyfriend. He might just want to get to know me better first, and then go out.

"Susanah, I'd love to. Now, what are you going to tell your mother?" Well, I'd tell my mother that I had finally found someone that I really liked, and that it was sudden. There. That should work.

And I turned to Jesse, flung my arms around his neck, and planted a big kiss on his mouth. His arms found their way around my waist, and pulled me closer. Kissing in the breezeway. How could you not love this?

Otay there! Hope that one was a bit longer than the other one, It might be. I suck at fluff, so I'm going to practice at it, and I want you guys to TELL ME HOW YOU LIKE IT AND WHAT I CAN WORK ON! OK? ok. Thank you soooo much for your reviews! And if there's any spelling errors and crap, sorry. I have only crappy, crappy wordpad. And I can't find a spellchecker ANYWHERE! I hate that thing!

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