A/N:
Hey! This is the first chapter of a tagteam between Nikki007 and myself. Erm, yah. Not much to say, it's kinda short, but whatever.
Chapter Uno (One)
The bell rung and I was free.
Forever.
Well, it felt like it anyway. I trudged to my locker, to double check that it was empty and slammed it shut for the last time.
Seriously. It felt GOOD. And I was free! No more Sister Earnstine, no more no jeans, I had just finished my senior year, and I was seriously liking it. And to top things off, I was going to be going to a college near Jesse.
Jesse.
I slung my nearly empty backpack over my shoulder and started toward the parking lot. The hottie aforementioned was leaning on his car (a really cute black convertible, how he had afforded it, I will never know. Maybe he's in the Mafia or something…nah, not Jesse) searching for someone.
Me.
I jogged up to him and planted a kiss on his cheek. He smiled down at me, dark eyes flashing.
"Hello Querida, how was you last day?"
"Great! Wonderful! Perfect! I can't wait 'till next year, I mean, we're going to be going to schools that are only a half hour away…everything will be so perfect."
And yah, I know that sounded corny, but I couldn't help it.
"I know," he opened my door and shut it for me when I crawled in. It's one of the habits I haven't yet broken him of. Not that I'm actually trying that hard, but still.
"What'd you do today?" He had already been out of school for a while, I had to slave away for three entire days after he was released from his torture chamber. A.k.a., school.
"Well…I am hoping that you'd like to celebrate your last day by going to the beach, and I packed a picknic lunch," it being finals week and all we got out at noon, "sound good?" He looked at me all hopefully as we pulled out of the parking lot, like I actually might say no.
"Sounds great," and it did. I was starved.
It was great, sitting there on a huge towel eating P.B & J's (he can't cook any better than I can) with Jesse. Okay, so sand got in the food, and all over us, and we were attacked by seagulls a few times, but just being with him was so awesome. Watching the water. And he was alive.
I know, it's been what, two years? But I still can't get over it. Feeling real heat come off his body. And when he was a ghost he never smelled like anything. Now he smelled like well, good. Just that guy smell. You know, kind of like aftershave and in his case anyway, toothpaste. It was a really good smell.
I leaned against him, brushing my bangs out of my eyes. I really needed a haircut. But who cared, it was summertime…
"Hey, Jesse?" Okay, so this was a dangerous question…but here went…brace yourself Suze.
"Yes Susannah?"
"What do you think we'll be doing, twenty years from now?" This could go either way…
"I don't know Querida," I felt my eyes widen, "but maybe we'll be sitting on a beach together, just like now," and I let out a breath I just found out I'd been holding.
"Maybe," I said and leaned against him.
I polished off the last of my sandwich and stood up, brushing sand off my legs.
He looked up toward me and smiled, raising a hand to block the sun.
"Get up," I said and started to walk away, "let's go for a walk." He hurried to catch up with me and took my hand.
Okay, it would have been a lot more romanic if the sun had been setting, or stars were out…or there weren't seagulls squaking everywhere, but it was still pretty cool. Especially when he kissed me.
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Nikki007 and Koizak