Rating: T
Disclaimer: You know I own no one from Once and Again at all. No money was made on this fic either…I own Dana Johnson, Frank (the bartender/bowling cashier), and Dean Harrison, but that's it.
Summary: Basically some teen loving going on between Jessie and Katie, with some of the regulars thrown in for fun. Oh, some angst and humor also.
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Author's Notes: Thank you to everyone who has read my fic, and extra special thank you to those who have reviewed it! (Especially those who reviewed most, if not all, of the chapters.) I really appreciate hearing what you guys/girls have to say. :)
Dreams are in italics.
This is, in fact, the last chapter to this story. I tried to tie everything up so no one is left harboring too many questions anyway. I hope you enjoy it, though I'm going to miss this fic because I really enjoyed writing it. (Even when I didn't know I was going to be posting it someday for others to read, haha.) :)
After getting food in their stomachs, the guys seemed to be even better at bowling. Jessie was still lost horribly, but Katie almost caught up to the guys' scores, which Jessie was happy about. They sat in the back seat together trying to sneak glances without the other looking. Dean seemed pretty tired after bowling, but Tad kept sneaking glances in the mirror at the two girls with one eyebrow raised. First, they dropped off Dean, and everyone waved good-bye to him.
He seemed to be waiting next to the car for something so finally Katie got out of the car and stood next to him awkwardly for a moment. He then leaned over, with Jessie watching very closely from inside the car, and gave her a kiss on the cheek good-night. "I had fun tonight. Maybe we can be friends?" Katie looked at him suspiciously, friends? Just friends? He must have gotten the hint that she wasn't too interested, but friends she could handle. She smiled at him and nodded.
Jessie sat in the car trying to overhear their conversation and had her face pressed up against the window trying to read lips. Suddenly she saw Dean lean down at try to kiss Katie. Wait, why was her door locked? She was just about ready to open the door and give Dean a piece of her mind but her freaking door was locked. She looked to the front of the car and snorted grumpily at Tad. Why in the world did he have to go and lock the door on her? It wasn't like she was going to do anything wrong, well, minus yell at Dean who was apparently trying to be...Oh. He had kissed her on the cheek. Jessie sheepishly let go of the door handle and slumped back down into her seat as Tad chuckled to himself up front.
A few moments later, Katie slid back into the seat in the back with Jessie and smiled at her. "We're going to be friends." Jessie smiled, friends. Okay, she could deal with that. Though, it wasn't like she was going to be jealous anyway. Katie giggled at Jessie's perplexed expression and took her hand in her own. Jessie finally relaxed, and the two stayed quietly like that until they pulled up to drop Jessie off. Katie gave Jessie a long hug good-night while they were both still sitting next to each other. "I'll call you tomorrow morning," Katie whispered and Jessie smiled into Katie's neck.
Tad got out and gave Jessie a hug which the two both realized as a simple friendship hug. Once back inside the car Tad turned to face Katie, who had moved into the front seat passenger side now. "So, you and Jessie, huh?" He was keeping his eyes on the road, but noticed Katie's mouth drop open anyway. He rolled his eyes at her. "You two aren't too subtle you know. Well, plus I saw her practically latch herself onto you after you got that strike, and you didn't seem too inclined to pull away." Katie blushed feverishly and picked at the hem of her shirt. "Don't worry, Dean didn't see the kiss, he just realized the obvious. That you and he were not meant to be. Now, it takes this scholar here to realize it's you two that's meant to be together." With that said, he tapped on his head. Katie laughed still a bit aghast that someone had figured out their real relationship.
"You're not going to say anything are you? Because, well, I don't think we're ready for that yet, you know?" Katie was still pretty content with picking at the lint that seemed to be gathering on her shirt suddenly. Well, or she was trying to avoid making eye contact with Tad, one of the two.
Tad rolled his eyes again, amazingly being able to drive while doing so too. "Of course I'm not going to tell anyone, besides it's good thing you two are together. I mean...two girls...together...when they're both really hot..." He grinned at this and turned to wiggle his eyebrows at Katie.
"Tad!" Katie shrieked before punching Tad in the arm. Guess even Understanding Tad, was just Tad after all...
Meanwhile, just as Jessie walked into her own room, Grace practically pounced on her wanting answers. "Who was that other boy with Tad? Was that a date? Why were you dating a guy and not Katie? Where did you go? Was it fun? Are you still with Katie?" She was ready to ask more questions, but Jessie hushed her quickly before sighing and deciding to just answer the questions.
"The other boy is Dean, a friend of Tad's from camp. Yes, it was a double date. Katie and I got sucked into it before we realized what was going on though. We went bowling. It was eventful anyway, and yes, I'm with Katie, if you must know. Happy?"
"YOU WENT BOWLING?" It was Grace's turn to shriek. Out of everything that had happened that night, that was the thing that upset her the most? The thing that was the most shocking to her? Jessie laughed and nodded. "You lost huh?" Jessie, still laughing, nodded again. "I'm in your room so that my mom and your dad don't hear this if you were wondering. Plus, you'll never guess what happened tonight with me." Well, I guess Jessie doesn't have to ask Grace why in the world she was sitting in her room now anyway. Before Jessie could even begin to fathom how Grace's night went, she heard a loud sigh. "Are you going to guess or not?"
Apparently, Grace was very impatient tonight too, must be a good story to tell. "Um, you came out to Lily for me?" Jessie blinked her eyes sweetly at Grace whose eyes bugged out before promptly rolling them. Leave it to Jessie to finally be able to make a joke out of her sexual orientation NOW, when Grace has an important story to tell. "I'm guessing not? Um...You learned how to speak fluent French from a cassette tape?" Grace shook her head again. "You made a cottage cheese milkshake?" Jessie was now grasping at straws. Hehe, straws...milkshakes. Jessie giggled a little at her own joke. Meanwhile, she was irritating Grace just by guessing random things, but watching Grace get flustered could be quite fun. This time Grace narrowed her eyes at Jessie but shook her head once more. "Oh I know! You named a star after yourself?"
Grace shook her head again, and decided to talk before Jessie could this time. "No! And, I'm going to revoke your guessing privileges as of now if that's the kind of guesses you're going to make. I convinced my mom that I'm not a lesbian." Jessie's eyes widened, how in the world? "She, uh, walked in the garage...And, um, well...Eli and I were kissing." At this point, Grace was blushing, and Jessie's mouth dropped open before she burst out laughing which made Grace blush more.
"Well, that's one way to do it. Though, if you don't mind, I don't think I want to come out to her by having her walk in on Katie and I kissing." Jessie was still giggling, after getting used to the fact that Eli and Grace were into each other, and Grace laughed a bit then too. Even if she and Eli were, well, not allowed too much time together for a little while, and she would have to do with several conversations with her mom and Rick on this subject, at least she had made Jessie laugh. Jessie had been way too stressed lately on the subject of Katie and everything else going on in her life. A good laugh was exactly what she needed. Now, as long as Grace survived these lovely conversations that she would have later with her parents...Well, she would deal with that when they got there. Besides, Eli would have to deal with the exact same conversations as she would, and if he could deal, so could she.
The girls stayed up talking for a little while before Jessie was constantly yawning. Well, it was time for someone to go to bed. Grace left to go to her own room, and Jessie got ready for bed. It had been such a long week and now she was so tired...plus, tomorrow she could sleep in and then she would talk to Katie. That sounded like such a good plan...
Jessie awoke with a start and heard the rain pounding on the roof. She looked at the clock and realized that it was 4:30 a.m. and she couldn't stand to be away from Katie. Okay, so they were together, but were they really together? Had they ever discussed it? What was their problem, why did they never discuss what they really were! Jessie looked frightened for a moment unsure of her and Katie's relationship, before she realized how to solve it. She would call Katie!
No, wait. It was early, really early, on a Saturday nonetheless. Now was not the time to call Katie and wake everyone up. Instead, she should just go visit Katie. That's it! She would go visit Katie! Smiling at her perfect plan, she pulled on a pair of shoes, and quietly snuck downstairs and out the door. Who cares that she had on...pajamas. Oh crap, she had on pajamas. In fact, she had on a pair of blue striped pajama pants, and a large navy blue shirt with a palm tree on it. And now, it was raining, not that she cared. She took off running to Katie's house and arrived there within a few minutes. Jessie was completely soaked, but she didn't care. Should she ring the bell? No...no. That's not how this kind of thing was done, and seeing as she couldn't throw stones at Katie's window...
Instead, she would just have to wake Katie up herself, stones or no stones. She walked around the house before knocking on Katie's window. A sleepy Katie could be heard shuffling to the window and trying to open it. Katie opened the drapes to find a dripping wet Jessie standing outside her window. "Jessie!" Katie murmured, almost screaming it. She was surprised to see the younger girl there right now. She threw open the window to a shivering Jessie. "Oh Jessie," she muttered and helped pull the blonde girl inside into her room. "You're soaking wet!" Katie went and grabbed a blanket and was trying to wrap it around Jessie. Jessie looked at Katie blankly for a moment before leaning forward and reaching the other girl's lips. They were so warm compared to her own. She was shivering, but she wasn't thinking of that. All she wanted was Katie, and Katie was right there. Katie pulled the blanket snuggly around Jessie just as Jessie leaned into Katie.
A loud crash of thunder echoed through Jessie's room and she woke up with a start. She looked at her clock suspiciously. It was 4:30 a.m. Suddenly, she had the weirdest deja-vu as she remembered her dream and realized exactly what she was going to do now. She was going to see Katie! Just like in the dream, Jessie grabbed her shoes, and then rushed out of the door. A few minutes later, a soaked Jessie was knocking on Katie's window, and Katie was frantically trying to open it.
"Jessie, you're soaked!" Katie exclaimed, before she was involved into a deeply passionate kiss with Jessie. The blanket was wrapped around Jessie just before Jessie had an amazing idea. She pulled back from the kiss, before slipping off her soaking shirt and pajama pants. She was left naked under the blanket, and Katie was left gasping at Jessie standing there in a blanket. Katie, herself, was in a pair of purple pajama pants with darker purple flowers, and with a large school shirt for a pajama top.
"I think I need some new pajamas. You see, rain is a little bit wet, and no matter what you say to make it stop, it won't pause, even with a television remote." Jessie whispered sexily to Katie, as Katie tried to look around her room for pajamas. Doing so was hard, because Jessie was still standing there wet in a blanket before her. Then finally, she was able to extract another pair from her bottom drawer. These pants were exactly like the ones that Katie was wearing, only blue, with a black shirt that had an advertisement for cappuccino on it. Katie handed them wordlessly to Jessie because she was still gawking at her beauty. The smooth skin that lay on her shoulders. Her beautiful face with wet hair bordering it, it was all so beautiful to Katie. And to Jessie, Katie, on her part, looked just as beautiful as she smiled happily at Jessie in her pajamas, even with her bed hair, sleepy eyes, and all.
Jessie then turned her back slightly from Katie and slipped the pajama shirt over her head, and pulled on the pants, while still clutching at the blanket as well. The two girls eyed each other for a moment, fully grasping the moment. "Jessie, I love you." Katie finally managed to say, as the two looked at each other. Jessie just smiled. She seemed to be able to read Jessie's mind as to what she wanted, and what she needed to hear.
"I love you too, Katie." This seemed to give Katie the extra confidence boost she needed to hear because she grinned before continuing on.
"I'm not completely sure why you're here, but I definitely don't regret it. I'm going to assume that you're being here is a good sign though. Which is why I'm going to ask you something, okay?" Jessie nodded still looked at Katie intensely. "Jessie, since we seem to mess this up every time we don't make this clear, will you be my girlfriend?" Jessie grinned and jumped onto Katie, wrapping her legs around Katie. Their lips met in a happy spontaneous kiss, as they fell back onto Katie's bed together. "I'll take that as a yes?" Katie managed to mutter against Jessie's lips.
"You can take that as a definite yes," Jessie answered happily as they shared another sweet and long kiss together. After their happiness subsided a bit, Jessie leaned back and rolled onto the part of the bed next to Katie. Katie leaned over and pulled the blankets up around a still shivering Jessie and herself before wrapping an arm around Jessie and pulling her up against herself. Jessie snuggled herself in happily to Katie knowing that she had several hours before she would be expected to be at home, or at least until anyone would realize she was gone. She could stay there with Katie and simply sleep for a few hours before sneaking off home safely and happily.
"Jessie," Katie questioned as her fingers sleepily drew circles on Jessie's arm, and as their legs seemed to magically intertwine.
"Mm," Jessie was already getting sleepy with the feeling of warmth that Katie wrapped around her just by laying there with her.
"If you could be anywhere else, where would you be?" Jessie smiled, because this was an easy question.
"I'd be right here laying in bed with you, listening to the rain." Both girls smiled, and snuggled into closer to each other as the rain beat down outside, knowing that in a few hours when the sun rose and the rain disappeared they'd still be together and there was no other way they'd rather have it.