Author's Notes: You've read the Disclaimers and the Title in previous chapters I'm assuming that you know what's going on. (Who I own, and don't own, etc.) So, I don't feel that at this point there's a reason to restate all of that. You know the drill. I was planning on originally having this section go into the double-date, but then this got long enough that I felt it could be it's own chapter actually. (Plus I have to stop writing at some time soon tonight before it becomes morning, and wanted to get another chapter out there today, if possible.) Don't worry, the double-date is in the next chapter.
As for the classes I've put the girls in, I've tried to do it according to classes that I've taken/will be taking in those respective years to make it fairly accurate anyway.
Once more, I thank everyone who is reading and reviewing on this fic. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Katie and Jessie had somehow both managed to live through both of their respective classes on Thursday after lunch. Neither one of them could repeat a word that was said from either of their classes because they weren't quite there mentally, but at least they showed up physically. Well, actually they most likely could repeat a few words from class, for specific reasons. Katie had the misfortune to be called on twice.
She managed to come up with fairly witty answers for each of course. One question dealt with algebra in which she guessed that "Tommy had two apples left then." and successfully made the whole class laugh and the teacher sigh and move on. In English, she was asked about a book they were reading, and how it was best to prepare yourself for such a 'magical' book. Luckily, Katie caught the word 'magical' and 'book' in the sentence so she was prepared once more. She offered up, "You should open up the book to page one, right?" Again the class laughed, and the teacher told her that she should try doing that. Though, they both knew that whether or not Katie was there that day mentally, she would know the materials when needed.
Jessie, however, had worse luck when she was called upon in class. She was only called upon once in her last three classes. Perhaps it is lucky for her that one of the three was study hall. During her anatomy class she was called upon simply to answer whether or not she had finished the reading on the muscles of the head yet. Instead of answering, she continued staring off into space for a moment. Suddenly, she felt a nudge, and looked up with a quick, "Huh?" The teacher sighed and asked what Jessie thought of what was just said. Did she agree or not? "Uh, of course!" She tried to reply enthusiastically as if she knew what she was talking about.
The teacher simply raised his eyebrows. "So, you're saying that you agree with Dana?" That's right, Dana was in this class. She forgot that Dana had decided to take chemistry last year, and anatomy her junior year, putting her in the class with Jessie glanced over at Dana who was blushing furiously obviously embarrassed and no more involved in the conversation then Jessie. A quick glance at the door revealed a smiling Sarah. Oh, so that's where Dana's attention had been diverted to.
Again Jessie, who was otherwise unsure of what to say, simply nodded. "Yes, I agree with her."
"Ladies, I am not quite sure where your minds have wandered, but perhaps I should refresh your minds of the question." Both bewildered girls were now glancing at each other nervously. Sarah had noticed some trouble going on in the class and chose that moment to leave the window vacant hoping to not lure her girlfriend farther from her learning. By this time, the rest of their class was in hysterics laughing at the two girls. Crap, that couldn't be good. "The original question was concerning how many bones were in your hand." At this, Dana's blushed deepened.
"Oh my God…" Could be heard in the room, and a smart mouthed boy reminded her that they were not in church. Okay, that didn't help Jessie any. Apparently the teacher noticed her look of confusion.
"Ah, so you did not hear Dana's answer as well as my question? Well, she said that we had one bone in our hand. Now, what do you think of that this time? Would you still agree with her statement, Jessie?" Jessie turned and wanted to stick her head in the sand. Maybe she was a bird in the past life, and that's where that instinct came from. Unfortunately the only things available were her hands, which she settled for. After promptly shaking her head 'no', she laid her head in her hands trying to hide her embarrassment.
The teacher left them both alone after that, feeling that they were most likely not up to any more embarrassment and questioning for the day. Luckily, there was also only a few moments left of the class.
After school, Jessie and Katie had met up at Jessie's locker. Well, really, it was Katie who met up with Jessie seeing as it was she who was leaning against the adjacent locker. "Hey Billie," Katie replied happily upon seeing Jessie reach her locker.
Katie's grin was contagious and soon enough Jessie was grinning back. "Hey Billie," she answered. "How was the rest of your day?" Katie rolled her eyes dramatically.
"It was like a fairy tale, only full of trolls, and fire breathing dragons, and court jesters. Well, by trolls I mean every class and teacher I had this afternoon, and by fire breathing dragons I mean everyone who decided to have onions on their sandwich for lunch and completely avoid the words 'breath mint' all day. Of course, by court jesters I mean, well pretty much everyone around us right now. How was yours?"
Jessie grinned. Leave it to Katie to have such a story of her day. "Wow, very full day you had. Any chance you had a happy fairy tale? As for my day, no dragons, but I did manage to make a fool of myself in one of my classes."
"Well, of course I had a perfect happy ending! I found my princess didn't I? Lucky me, I didn't even have to climb up a wall to get to you." Katie was trying to be charming as Jessie gathered all of her papers and books out of her locker.
"Lucky you? Lucky me that I didn't have someone trying to climb my hair like it was rope! I much prefer my Billie here with me…not in a tower." Jessie stood up, having filled her book bag and smiled at her girlfriend, um, girl friend.
"You have to admit there's something about towers that are sexy…" Katie's eyes got a dreamy look for a moment and her grin got kind of silly, and Jessie burst out laughing immediately pulling Katie for her stupor enough to realize she was still in a hallway.
"What?" Jessie was able to answer through her giggling as the two walked out into the parking lot. Jessie knew that Grace had planned on going to another Gay/Straight Alliance meeting tonight, but now was suppose to be meeting Eli and one of his friends. No doubt, it was Lily's plan to have Grace make a few 'guy friends' but Grace didn't seem to mind when Jessie last talked to her. In fact, she and Lily had seemed to work through their differences pretty well. Well, except for the part that Lily was watching Grace's interaction with people of both sexes curiously now not really sure what 'team' Grace played for despite their talks.
"Sexy, you know. Like…" Katie stopped for a moment as she opened up Jessie's door for her just making sure that chivalry wasn't dead before walking over to the driver's side door. She was stumbling looking for an example to further explain what she meant was sexy.
"Like your white shirt?" Jessie knew immediately what she thought was sexy, but wasn't sure if she dared say it aloud. After considering it for a moment, the words came spilling from her mouth, along with a very sexy smirk of her own aimed in Katie's direction.
"Exactly, like my white shirt! Wait, like my white shirt?" On Katie's part, it took her a moment to process what Jessie had exactly said. She had called her white shirt sexy!
"Well, aren't you going to ask me what happened during my class that was embarrassing? After all, you were the one who caused it." Jessie had decided to distract Katie from their previous topic because it seemed hazardous to continue any kind of conversation on sexiness while Katie was trying to drive because her eyes kept getting wide and she would glance at Jessie. Perhaps it didn't help any that Jessie felt brave and after every particularly witty comment of hers, she would smirk and lay her hand on Katie's knee for a moment. Whatever the cause may be, it was proving that a change of topic was in order, nonetheless.
"Me?" Katie looked flabbergasted. "How in the world did I cause it? I didn't even see you all afternoon!"
"Exactly! You weren't there and I was left to think about you all afternoon in boring classes!" Jessie was frantically saying this part, which shocked Katie for a moment before grinning.
"You were thinking about me?" She asked this part cautiously, almost afraid of what would happen if Jessie said she was just kidding.
Instead, Jessie just looked at Katie for a moment trying to decide if Katie was seriously asking or not. Apparently, she was. "Duh! After being late to my class from lunch, how else am I suppose to stay occupied the rest of the day?" Then Jessie paused to think it over, did that mean Katie didn't think about her, is that why she asked?
"Hello? Do you not remember the conversation we had earlier involving a certain princess?" Jessie grinned hearing this, and immediately relaxed. She had been worrying for nothing, and then she remembered Katie calling her Princes before.
"Do you remember calling me…" Jessie began, but was soon interrupted by Katie.
"Calling you Princess? I remember calling you Billie too, how's that?" Okay, so maybe it wasn't interrupting, it was simply finishing her question for her. Both girls loved that they were in-tuned to each other well enough to do that. "Yes, I remember. That was only last night. I don't have that bad of a memory, Billie." She laughed at that, and glanced over to smile once more at Jessie who smiled back. That was a lot of smiling going on again.
"Sorry, so what if it was only last night? Old people like you sometimes forget things," Jessie was laughing now.
"Oh, so I'm old now, huh?" She turned to face Jessie who looked alarmed at first until she realized they were parked safely at one of her homes. She hadn't even realized they had gotten to the Manning house until they were there.
"Mm…If you are, you age well." Jessie tilted her head to the side and tried to stare at Katie cutely hoping to get the other girl to smile. She succeeded.
"Well, thank you for that," Katie leaned over and moved a strand of hair out of Jessie's face and placed it behind her ear. Both girls didn't know who was watching, and simply assumed that they were alone. Jessie was thinking that all was going right, no one so far had noticed their closeness, or if they had they hadn't care. Neither Lily nor Rick were home, so they would not be caught by them either. So, the gap between the girls quickly ceased to exist as they shared a sweet kiss. Then Jessie smiled happily at Katie and gave her another quick kiss before saying good-bye and heading into the house. Katie watched her go inside to make sure she was safe, and because she just didn't feel like leaving quite yet. Once the door was shut properly, Katie backed the car up, and started towards her own home.
Jessie finished her homework, and then kind of wandered around until Rick and Lily both came home with take-out. After dinner, long after dinner, Eli and Grace both came home grinning and laughing. Eli's friend, however, must have gone home and did not plan on going inside. When Lily asked how the day went, it was obvious that they both had fun. Eli's friend must have had fun too, right? However, Lily didn't get to ask any more questions because suddenly both of them seemed tired and headed up to their own rooms.
Jessie observed all of this curiously, but did not say anything. Rick looked on curiously as well, until his wife joined him on the couch and they settled in to watch a late night talk-show together. Jessie did not feel like watching it, so she went up to bed. There, she laid awake for about an hour thinking of Katie, and how the date tomorrow would go.
Katie, on the other hand, ate supper when she first got home with her mother because her father was not home again. Her brothers were all at friends' houses for the evening, so it was just the two of them. It was a fairly quiet dinner, and then afterward Katie set off to do her homework. Whereas, after a little bit of television watching her mother went to bed early, claiming it was a long day. However, both girls shared something in common about their nights. They both fell asleep thinking of each other.