Rating: T
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Once and Again characters or anything associated with Once and Again. I'm simply allowed to borrow them, which I'm thankful for. The only thing I own is the character Dana Johnson, everyone else is not mine.
Summary: Basically some teen loving going on between Jessie and Katie, mixed with some humor and angst. Of course, some other regulars of the show will make appearances.
Feedback: I'd love some, thanks.
Katie had stayed in the park for a few moments just sitting there on the ground letting the rain fall over her. The rain had stopped a couple of minutes ago, and yet Katie had not moved too far yet. Lucky for Katie, it was not a very long storm, though she might not have noticed anyway. A couple of bitter older ladies in a car had driven by and pointed at the crumpled Katie making comments about 'kids these days' rather loudly. It was then that Katie realized what a state she must be in. She reached a hand up to touch her hair realizing it was a mess containing a few leaves and was clinging to her head from the rain still. She sighed and shakily stood up. She could handle this. If Jessie didn't want to be around Katie, then Katie wouldn't want to be around Jessie. She would just avoid the longing in her heart to be near the younger girl, who surely had to have feelings for her after a kiss like that. After a quick shake of her head to clear it of her confusing thoughts, she started walking out of the park. Knowing that her parents were not going to be home until later that night she felt safe getting into her house without too many questions on her appearance.
Katie wandered into her house safely locking the door behind her. She didn't feel like dealing with anyone else right now. She just wanted to shower then go to bed. What she didn't expect was to find Sarah already sleeping on her bed. Katie was confused, but decided she probably shouldn't go wake her up while she still looked like she had just had a fight with creepy zombie neighbors and lost. So, she went and washed her face, and brushed out her hair. Noting the puffiness the crying had left her with around her eyes, she sighed and walked back to her room. Sarah was still laying there sleeping. She looked as if she had been having a rough day as well. Deciding that it was inevitable, Katie walked over gently and tapped on Sarah's shoulder. Sarah simply rolled over away from Katie. Katie rolled her eyes, and tapped on Sarah's other shoulder now. "Sarah?...Sarah, wake up."
"I don't want to eat the rest of the pizza. It has radishes on it. You know I don't like radishes Captain." Katie, despite her mood, still had to keep herself from laughing. Who the heck was Sarah talking to? She wanted to know, so she decided to play along for a moment.
"You have to eat the radishes though. It's your order Sarah."
"Captain Kirk...I don't want to eat the radishes. Can't we just beam them back up to Scotty on the ship?" Captain Kirk? Scotty? Apparently either Sarah was a Star Trek fan, or else just wanted to visit space. She did always seem like she was from another planet. Katie laughed at her own joke, snickering slightly. Now that woke up Sarah.
"What the heck are you laughing about?" Katie jumped, not realizing Sarah was awake. Talking about people sneaking into other people's houses. First, Katie breaking into Jessie's. Well, she didn't really break in, the door was unlocked! Now this. Wait, Jessie. Suddenly Katie's glee stopped for a moment. She had almost forgotten about her horrible afternoon. Heh, how had she managed to forget that? Her smile dropped, and she looked down at Sarah.
"Nothing. Something you want to tell me about you and Captain Kirk though?" Sarah looked up at her with a look of horror. Oh, looks like someone does remember their dreams. "Sarah, why are you here?"
Now it was Sarah's turn to frown and look uncomfortable. "I need your help Katie," she said simply as she played with the loose string on Katie's bedspread.
Katie looked bewildered for a moment, but Sarah didn't see it. "Help? With what? I'm not going to let you steal my book report idea."
Sarah rolled her eyes dramatically, and turned to look at Katie. "Who would want to borrow your book report idea? I plan to actually think of one better than, 'Someone Should Write A Book On Book Reports' and ending it with 'I'll be the one to write that book. Just you wait, and then there won't be anyone judging it who can decide if I graduate or not.' Thank you very much, that I'm not going to do."
Katie looked offended before jokingly batting at Sarah with her hand. "Hey now, I did very well on that report I'll have you know. Honestly though, what's wrong"
Sarah rolled her eyes once more, fending off Katie's hand easily. She looked at Katie desperately, "It kind of looks like I should be asking you the same question...I'm in love."
Katie didn't even try to close her mouth when it dropped open after hearing those words. Wow. Talk about spreading the love. Sarah loves Katie. Katie loves Jessie. What next, Jessie loves Sarah? Ew, bad thought. Bad thought. Katie shook her head desperately hoping to get that idea out of her head.
Suddenly the thought of Jessie and Katie's kiss floated back into her mind. Without really noticing it, she began to smile as the scene replayed in her mind. Her hands floating over to Jessie's hips, pulling them to her own. Jessie's hands entangled in her hair. Jessie's mouth opening to meet Katie's tongue…Wait. Jessie's hands in her hair? Jessie allowing, wanting even, the kiss to deepen. Katie sighed in relief. Jessie had to have wanted that kiss as much as she did. There was no other way to explain it, Jessie had to love Katie too, right? She just had to wait for Jessie to come to her senses on this. Jessie would surely come to her senses….Surely, she would.
An impatient Sarah poked her friend in the knee. Okay, so maybe Katie had chosen someone else over her, but she had no one else to go to. No one else to talk to about this sort of thing.
Katie was still struggling to get over the Sarah and Jessie thought in her head. Let alone being able to process the fact that Sarah loved her. Sarah saw Katie's eyes widen in shock. "Oh no! No no no...I'm not in love with you if that's what you're thinking!" Suddenly Katie's head shot up and clear out of her daydream and back to reality.
"It's not me?" Katie still looked a little bit suspicious and Sarah shook her head laughing.
"Sorry there. We're...friends. It's too complicated to be anything else right?" Sarah looked a little sad at these words but trudged through them anyway. Katie nodded showing her approval.
"So, who is it then? He or she? Grade? How can I help?" Katie was willing to put off her own problems for a little bit to help someone else. There wasn't anything she could do right now anyway, until Jessie had some time to think.
Sarah laughed at Katie's curiosity now that she knew it wasn't her anyway. "Slow down there. Yes, it's a she in our grade. I was wondering if perhaps you would know of her dating...status to say the least."
Katie laughed again realizing that being popular she was most likely to know who was dating who. She wasn't done questioning Sarah yet though. "Okay, who is she?"
Sarah blushed and looked around the room before looking back at Katie. "It's Dana Johnson. You know, shoulder-length chestnut brown hair, and light blue eyes. She's a little shorter than me, and has Chemistry with us. Well, hopefully not chemistry with you unless it's the class. More so, hoping she has some chemistry with me." Sarah laughed at her own joke, looking to see Katie's reaction.
Dana Johnson huh? Hm. She was a pretty girl, and was single the last Katie had heard. Though, she was not nearly as beautiful as Jessie in Katie's opinion. Of course, in Katie's opinion no one was more beautiful than Jessie. In fact, last year it was rumored that she was going out with a girl from a nearby school so Sarah had a chance. Sarah grinned hearing the news before turning serious. "Well, thanks. I'm going to talk to her tomorrow. Now do you think you'll tell me what's wrong with you?" Katie looked down at her bedspread, picking out a new loose thread that she had found. "It has to do with Jessie doesn't it?" Katie's shoulders visibly slumped and Sarah was able to take that as a yes. "Do you want to talk about it right now?"
Katie shook her head 'no' before looking back up at Sarah. Sarah simply nodded and hugged her friend gently. "Well, let's hope for the rest of us that you two get your act together. It seems like everyone else but you two realize you're in love." Katie looked a little shocked at this news, but just watched at Sarah left.
Jessie closed her eyes desperately hoping that she would awaken in her bed when she re-opened them. However, when she opened them all she noticed was that she was about to run into a telephone pole. Stupid running, how was she suppose to get the hang of it? She wasn't among the athletically inclined, even if she was in good shape. She turned just in time to avoid it. Blinking back a few tears, and pushing her wet hair back behind her ears she tried to decipher where she had ended up. A horrible sounding laugh bubbled up from her throat. It was one unlike her usual one, more ironic and sad sounding than those. The house she stood in front of now was Katie's. She had run from Katie. Actually, of course wouldn't run FROM Katie, she had run from what she was afraid she would do with Katie. What it would mean if she was with Katie really. Yet, she ends up running straight back to Katie...
She looked at Katie's window wondering if she was home. Jessie knew she needed to sort out her feelings. Actually, they were already sorted and they all seemed to land into 'I'm in love with Katie' pile. She realized she probably looked like she had been through a storm and barely survived. Well, in truth she had been through a storm, running through it. Now, she just had to keep herself from running away from this. She looked around wondering what to do. Pausing to push a piece of blonde hair behind her ears, she glanced at the door. It was then she realized she didn't want to go through the door to get to her. Instead, she picked up a pebble and aimed it at Katie's window. Hey, it always seemed to work in movies and television shows. She apparently forgot about her incident trying to copy soap operas earlier, and how that worked out. However, she aimed the pebble at Katie's window and threw it. It hit the wood next to the window. She knew she should have stayed in softball when she was younger, maybe she'd be better at this now. She picked up another pebble and threw it at Katie's window, "Katie!" Nothing. She frowned a little in confusion, trying to figure out why it wouldn't work before picking up another pebble. Oh, this one wasn't really a pebble, more of a rock. Maybe this one would work better. Jessie threw the rock at Katie's window, and it hit with a solid tink. Luckily, it didn't crack. A few seconds later Katie appeared at the window squinting down at Jessie.
"Jessie?" Katie was momentarily stunned by the younger blonde girl standing on the ground apparently throwing things at her window. Jessie grinned. It worked! Hmph, who needs sports when you're naturally talented?
"Katie," was all that Jessie managed to callout beforea loud and rather annoying car horn honked behind her. Oh God. It was Eli. He was the only one around here with a car horn that sounded like that.
"Jessie, where the hell have you been?" It was Grace. Grace? Hm, she must have borrowed Eli's car because hers was low on gas or something.That, or she just wanted the car with the really annoying car horn.KnowingGrace, it was probably the latter.Oops, Jessie had forgotten thatshe was suppose to be home about an hour ago. Jessie looked up desperately at Katie who faintly smiled and waved. She was happy enough just to see Jessie show up at her house. Surely if it was needed, they could simply talk tomorrow. Their talk could wait, at least until tomorrow. It didn't matter if Katie slept tonight, surely that wouldn't matter. Jessie looked back up at Katie and felt a tug of regret at leaving the older girl there, but knew that now with Grace there it was not the time to discuss things.
"Good-night Billy." With that Jessie waved, and backed up toward Grace's car.
"Good-night," was the simple reply from Katie who was still grinning from the use of their shared nickname. Right now, Katie felt like she was very simple to please. All she wanted and needed was Jessie. If she was allowed that, then she would truly be happy. Realizing that she would be unable to sleep tonight because she was now anxious of what Jessie had to say, she turned and went to get a scissors from downstairs. She really neededto cut off that loose thread on her bedspread that everyone seemed to keep picking at. Tomorrow, they would talk.
Jessie settled into the car to be greeted by Grace. "You look like you've been swimming in all of your clothes. What the heck is going on? Are you okay?" Jessie simply sighed. Maybe now wasn't the time for a conversation with Katie. It was,however, apparently a good time for a conversation with Grace.