Jesse danced wildly on the dance floor as the lights changed from blue, to red, to green, to yellow. Many men had offered her drinks all night, she would smile and accept most drinks and not too long into the night she had already started to feel quite drunk. Still, she danced on and flirted outrageously.

After the wild song stopped Jesse heard the soppy music begin to play and sighed a huge sigh of discomtempt. All the lovers piled onto the dance floor and began to slow dance. Jesse took a seat at an empty table and watched with half shut eyes. Boring.

Then her eyes opened wide in disbelife as she saw the familular glow of purple wavy hair pressed against a young Yellow haired guys shoulder. Determined to get a closer look, Jesse grabbed the nearest guy to her, and as he protested she pulled him onto the dance floor.

When they got to the spot where Jesse could see better she turned and looked at him, a brown eyed black haired man, only a few years older than her. He gave her a saucy smile, which she ingnored and tried to get closer to the purple haired girl danicng with the yellow haired guy.

"Hey your pretty hot" the guy commented. Jesse flashed him a smile then looked back over her shoulder. The girl was now kissing the guy and Jesse frowned angrily. If it was who it looked like, she was going to rip her apart limb from limb, noone did that to her James. She shot her head back over and looked at the guy she was daning with.

Why am I doing this?...why should I care what happens between James and Rachel? after what he said tonight..and since when have I started thinking of him as "my" James! the guy gave her another naughty look and mistook her stare at him for one that was interested. Instead she was staring while being deep in thought. "Let's get a drink, I'm Brian by the way" he said as he led her away. She followed, pondering over weither she should be investagating the girl on the dance floor or not...

It didnt take too long to figure out that she should. James was her best friend, no matter how many arguments or how bad he made her feel. It was true. So she stormed over to the girl on the dance floor and pulled her off the boy who's arms she was dancing in.

When their eyes met it was a dead give away when the girl gave a high pitched gasp. Jesse's fire returned to her with all it's might, burning in her eyes as she throttled Rachel and pushed her onto the floor.

"You bitch! Your supposed to be with James!" she shouted in anger, Rachel squealed underneath her. As the two girls screamed at each other and wrestled on the floor, a circle of people surrounded them. "You slag, you whore!" she continued to shout as if she was feeling the anger that James, she knew, would never show. Rachel pulled at Jesse's hair and pulled it out of the ponytail, letting it fall free down around her face.

"Oh so NOW I'm suppoed to be with him! That's pretty rich from the same girl who split us up in the first place!" she yelled back. Jesse knew she had a point there. Back in school, Jesse had felt envious of Rachel being with her best friend and made up rumors to split them up.

"You were'nt good enough for him!" Jesse snapped back. Tugging back at Rachel's hair. Rachel scratched at her and a cut appeared on Jesse's face.

"And you WERE?" Rachel spat. Jesse sat up and pinned her wit her legs and then punched her repeatidly. Finally the bouncers pushed through the crowd and pulled Jesse off. Rachel sat up crying with a broken nose. Jesse shrugged and clicked her neck. Seeming unphased. But Rachel looked back up at her with hurt eyes. "Noone was good enough for him to you! Not even yourself, and you know it! I hated you for that, I loved him but you always came between us! I hated you but he wouldnt let you go! He never did and he still won't! I hate you, you stole him from me!" she screamed. Jesse growled furiouly. Knowing each word was true.

"If you loved him so much why are you here?" Jesse shouted back, she felt her upset emotions threatening to surface, but pushed them back down. Rachel sobbed again and wiped her nose with the sleeve of her long white shirt.

"I never wanted to get back with him. I wanted to hurt you, the same way you hurt me! I hate you Jesse and I hate him for loving you!" as she said this Jesse began to feel herself weaken. The word "what" failed to come to her mouth, but need'nt had when it was written over her face. "Your so stupid!Your both stupid!" she continued to yell angrily. Jesse at this point turned and walked away.

Brian suddenly reappeared and took her to the bar. He offered to buy her some drinks as she looked in a fair amount of shock. And she was, a slow realisattion was dawning on her.

She did love him. And she had stolen him from her, and many other girls who tried to get close to him, just because she felt like they werent good enough. She hadnt been good enough either, so she had set a distance between them both and somewhere between that distance, she had lost herself in the way.

She began to recall the fight from eairlier with him in her mind. How she felt only passion whelm within her and how he had looked at her. Could it be that he did understand her afterall? Did he feel the same?

"I need to go home" she half whisered. Brian smirked and "kindly" offered to walk her home. Jesse nodded and dumbly walked towards the door.

They walked down the street when Brian took her and turned into a dark alley.

"Where are we going?" she asked drunkenly, he smirked.

"A shortcut" and she followed him like a sheep in it's heard. When they got deeper into the alley he pushed her against the wall and forcefully kissed her. Feeling to pissed to summon some strength into her hand Jesse could do nothing but squirm in disgust of what the man was doing. As he pulled back a cry escaped her lips. He shoved his hand over her mouth and let his hands begin to wonder.

She shut her eyes tight and continued to squirm.

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