A/N: Okay, okay… I haven't quite finished Part 23 as I said… but you can't blame me I was working my butt of until 12 last night… Hopefully I'll get it done before I go working tonight again. sigh.

A/N2: This is another one of those explaining chpts.

Part 20: Chat

Knock Knock

Thinking that it was maybe Lily or Rick, the two jumped as far apart from each other, straightening out their clothes, and pretended to be innocently listening to music, before Jessie called out, "come in."

Grace walked in, looked at the two and rolled her eyes. 'They are so cute it's pathetic…'

After seeing Grace enter the room, the two finally relaxed and took a seat back on the bed casually. "What you want…" Jessie not too bluntly, but obviously annoyed that Grace had disturbed their 'peace'.

Walking further into the room, Grace took a seat on Jessie's couch. "We need to talk…"

Katie laughed at the words Grace chose to use. Grace shot her a questioning look, as if saying 'what's so funny'.

"'We need to talk' is like so misused in your context…" Katie began.

Sighing, Grace cut Katie off, "but it's exactly what we need to do, talk…" turning her face towards Jessie, "You know you're gonna have to tell her right…"

This time it was Jessie's turn to sigh, "Yeah I guess."

It was now Katie who had a perplexed look plastered on her face, "What? Tell who what?"

"Well, you know yesterday…" Jessie began hesitantly, "After you left I sat there and read a book while listening to my i-pod…"

Katie nodded, showing that she was listening intently to what Jessie was saying.

"W-well… uh…" Jessie stuttered, "Suddenly someone came… uh… came up to me…"

Sighing loudly Grace just took it from where Jessie trailed off, "Sarah, the 'someone' who went up to Jessie had a gang with her."

Katie now looked shocked and angry all at the same time.

"Well they apparently held Jessie down, tied her ankles so she can't run away, carried her into a back alley and tried to strip her!" Grace finished off exasperated.

Jessie looked at the bed as if she was ashamed of herself, for either being so helpless or just feeling really embarrassed about the whole situation.

Katie on the other hand shared the same look on Grace's face, pure anger, with a little mixture of shock.

"How dare that ass hole!" Katie suddenly spoke up.

Jessie flung her head up surprised at Katie's sudden burst of outrage. Normally Katie is a really happy, and seemingly like nothing could ever bother her type of girl, but this abrupt burst kind of got Jessie taken aback.

"How could she do that to you Jess?" Katie asked rhetorically. "Why didn't you tell me yesterday?"

"I… I didn't want you to be unhappy. You sounded so thrilled when you were on the phone… I just didn't wanna talk about it." Jessie said, finding her bed sheets a little more interesting than normal.

"Jess, you never have to worry about making me unhappy… If something bothers you, you have to tell me." Katie said as she pulled Jessie into an affectionate hug. "You don't have to worry about this anymore, because when I'm around, no one. And I mean NO ONE will hurt you. You hear me?"

Jessie nodded into Katie's shoulder.

"So what are we gonna do now," Grace asked.

"Well she's definitely not gonna get away with what she did…" Katie began as she turned her head towards Grace. Grace nodded in agreement.

"No," Jessie protested, pulling away from Katie's safe and secure embrace, "I don't want you guys getting in trouble for me."

"But…" Grace tried.

"No 'buts'." Jessie said sternly.

"What if…" Katie tried too.

"If she ever does anything, I'll tell you. But please, just don't do anything, I don't want this to become a huge commotion," Jessie practically begged, with her puppy-dog eyes she finished off with "For me at least."

Both Katie and Grace gave in to Jessie's pleading and her irresistible puppy-dog expression and sighed, "Fine."

"Anyways, I'll leave you guys to continue with whatever you were doing…" Grace said beginning to leave.

"Thank God" Katie said jokingly. Jessie laughed.

After Grace had left, Jessie relaxed her head onto Katie's shoulder and hugging her around the waist. Katie instinctively wrapped her arm over Jessie's shoulder, and they sat there in the comforting silent for a while. At this point many questions were floating around Jessie's head, and she wasn't sure whether she wanted them to be answered or not. However her curiosity took over the better of her, so she broke the silence, "Katie?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you and Sarah… you know?" The younger blonde asked shyly.

Knowing well what Jessie was asking, she sat up properly, causing Jessie to sit as well. She made sure Jessie was looking straight into her eyes before replying, "No… Sarah and I have never dated."

Sighing a breath of relief, knowing that Katie was telling the truth, she then asked, "Then why did everyone say you guys did?"

"Well 'cause we kissed at one of those parties…" Katie said looking away.

"Kissed?"

"Yeah, we were playing truth or dare, and I chose dare." Katie began to explain. "Well you know… guys…" Katie now rolled her eyes, "they dared me to kiss any girl from the circle for thirty seconds, and seeing that Sarah was sitting right next me so I kissed her."

"Oh…" Jessie finally getting the whole thing.

"Yeah. That's why everyone thought I had something with her 'cause I kissed her."

"Good."

"Good?" Katie looked at Jessie mischievously.

"Yes good." Jessie said smiling.

"So, anymore questions you wanted to be answered?"

"Hmmm… Who was your first kiss?"

"Uhh… I think it was actually Tad…" replied Katie, trying to remember who she had her first kiss with.

"Tad?" Jessie asked surprised, her eyes nearly falling out of its socket…

"Yah. We were curious how kissing felt like, so we tried it together." Katie explained, then she joked, "But kissing a girl is so much better than kissing a guy. So who was your first?"

"Well I wouldn't know how it felt like kissing a guy, because you were my first and so far the only…" Jessie said blushing at her lack of experience in the kissing department.

"Aww… Jess…" Katie said, and kissed Jessie sweetly on the lips, before she continued, "You're definitely the best so far… not that I had a lot of experience or anything…"

"Okay then… Who was your first girl kiss?"

"Huh… I believe it was Sam."

"Sam?" Jessie asked even more surprised.

"Yep. Well it was less of a kiss and more like an accident lip to lip touch. We were playing around, I tripped and fell onto her, and our lips touched."

"Wow… So you've kissed both of your best friends…"

"Yeah. We kinda got all weird for a second there, but then we started laughing and continued wrestling around again." Katie reminisced over the little incident.

Knock Knock

Without waiting for an answer, the person opened the door and walked in, both girls thought it was Grace, therefore they didn't bother to break apart. However, to their surprise it was Eli. They both froze and couldn't move from their current sitting position.

After reaching the top of the stairs, looking from Jessie to Katie, and Katie back to Jessie, Eli smiled wickedly. "So, you guys ready to go?"

"Uh…" Katie began, totally shocked.

"Eli! You're meant to knock and wait for permission!" Jessie said, extremely nervous.

"Yah… sorry. I'll do that next time. Anyways get ready you two!"

"Okay, okay…" Jessie replied.

After Eli left, Katie turned to Jessie and blurted out, "He knows?"

"Well. Yes and no…"

"Huh?" Said Katie with a raised eye-brow.

"Well, he kinda realized I wasn't really into guys… but then he didn't know I already had a girlfriend…" Jessie trailed off.

"Ah. I see… Anyways, I guess we better get going…"

"Yah."

Later Downstairs…

Katie was already out the door, putting her bag into Eli's trunk, Eli stopped Jessie at the front door and questioned, "So you and Katie?"

Jessie looked at Eli weirdly for a second, and then she looked at Katie trying to get her bag into the trunk, she smiled and nodded.

"Lucky…"

"Lucky?"

"Yeah lucky… Look how hot she is!" Eli joked, earning a playful punch from Jessie. "Ow… How on earth did my little sister get a hotter girl than I ever had?"

"Well maybe because I'm not a perv like you…" Jessie replied teasingly, before running down to the car grabbing Katie's hand and hopped into the backseat of Eli's car.