Title: Just Dance With Me
Rating: T (There is a little bit of language in this chapter, and mild sexual content. However, the T warning will probably have to be posted for some chapters in the future moreso too.)
Disclaimer: All of the brillant and lovely characters used this far in this fic are not mine, and therefore I cannot claim them at all. (I wish, but don't.) So...please don't sue.
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Summary: This is a Jessie/Katie story as you read in the first chapter. The summary is the same as in the first chapter.
Author's Notes: Oh, admit it. After this, you'll all be craving pancakes and nachos...Well, maybe? Shrugs Hey, it worked for them. (Haha.) :)
"Grace! I thought you said that I had nachos stuck in my teeth! I don't see any nachos!" Jessie was shrieking while looking at herself in the mirror. She had been examining her teeth for the past five minutes convinced there must be something stuck in her teeth because otherwise that would mean she had just walked away from a really hot girl. Alas, there was nothing stuck in her teeth. "Damn it!"
Grace raised her eyebrows, it wasn't often that Jessie swore. She must be pretty upset, she looked it. Jessie shut her eyes tightly for a minute getting over the fact that she had just walked away from a girl who wanted to talk to her. Actually, who said that the girl was coming over to talk to her? Maybe it was someone else. Yes, there we go, advert your thinking. It was surely someone else that she was looking at, not Jessie. Jessie smiled too perkily at Grace who laughed. "She was too looking at you. Admit it, you blew it." Jessie's face fell.
"How was I suppose to know? I'm not a genius in this type of thing." Oh crap. Grace had meant that jokingly, but poor Jessie took it to heart.
"Oh Jess. Don't worry about her. If it's meant to be, you'll see her again, okay?" Now, Jessie smiled a genuine smile, and her stomach growled. Grace chuckled. "A tad bit hungry there, huh?"
"No...Well, yeah." Jessie looked thoughtful, "Can we go eat somewhere? I feel like...breakfast food Pancakes!"
"It's eleven though, Jess. Breakfast food now?"
Jessie nodded, though she wasn't so sure why breakfast food sounded good right now. "How about we go to that restaurant down the street from here. We can walk."
"Maybe I wanted to dance some more, ever think of that?" Grace didn't mind going to get breakfast food now, but she couldn't let Jessie know that or else she'd take advantage of that.
Jessie saw right through Grace, and knew that she was hungry too. They had been with each other most of the day, except when they were in separate classes, so she knew Grace's eating cycle. She should be hungry pretty soon too. Well, either that, or Jessie was just always hungry then and Jessie made Grace go with her to get food. "Oh, you know you want food too." Grace rolled her eyes. "Well, you do so come on." Jessie pulled at Grace's hand to get her out of the club and back onto the street where the sign for the restaurant could be sighted dangling from a building a little ways down the block.
A little while later they were walking through the door to the restaurant. Wow, it smelled good in there. "Mm...Pancakes...and..." Jessie sniffed for a moment, there was something else dangling in the air besides breakfast food. "Nachos?"
A few minutes after they left the club, Katie and Tad had ended up at the very place they wanted to be. It served the best pancakes in town, plus it sold other food including nachos! No one looked at Katie oddly when she ordered a plate of pancakes and nachos because they were used to her frequent visits to the place. Tad, on the other hand, ordered a complete breakfast meals. One of the ones that you see advertised on TV commercials but never think that anyone will be able to eat. Well, Tad can eat it, the three pancakes, 4 pieces of bacon, 4 sausages, scrambled eggs, and the biscuit. He'd eat it all.
Good thing that boy went running, because Katie wasn't sure where all of that food went. Though, people said that about her too...and she didn't go running because that required her to be somewhat athletic, and unfortunately, she was clumsy, not graceful.
Grace looked around the restaurant to realize that only one other group of people was in here. In fact, it was a couple too. It was the guy and the girl from the club! She was just about to elbow Jessie when Jessie apparently noticed them too because she dropped her purse with a clang. Crap, hopefully nothing broke. She quickly tried to gather all of her things and jam them back into her purse. Hm, was it bad luck if you couldn't find it after dropping it?
Katie heard something drop and looked across the restaurant to the cashier and noticed one of the girls from the club standing there, that girl's friend. Where was the other girl? Good question. Jessie was hidden behind a table picking up her stuff. Aha! Jessie found her mirror underneath the table. Grace was already holding her food, and when Jessie stood back up with her purse to get her own food, Katie noticed Jessie too. Katie's heart seemed to stop for a moment. Why the heck was this girl already having this effect on her when they hadn't even spoken yet? Jessie smiled at Katie, and Katie realized suddenly that she was grinning back.
She reminded her of someone that she had seen earlier, but who? Someone she was going to date...Oh, right. She looked exactly like her dream girl from earlier, but that didn't mean anything, right? She was being as sappy as maple syrup thinking things like that, and now apparently as corny as...corn? Wow, she had to stop with jokes like that.
Katie was debating what do when Tad, just now glancing up from his heap of food, smiled at Katie. "You just want to get her as your main dish, huh?" Tad soon grimaced as he received a swift kick from Katie under the table. Geeze, someone was testy tonight. Jessie paused unsure of what to do, and then she saw Katie bite her lip. The other girl was nervous!
It was as if a personality shift was taking place. Suddenly, Katie was the shy one, and Jessie was turning spontaneous and outgoing. Jessie walked towards her, with Grace trailing behind. "Hi, I'm Jessie."
Katie smiled, Jessie, what a pretty name. "Hi, I'm Katie." Katie saw Jessie glance at her odd mixture of pancakes and nachos. "Uh, I like nachos...and pancakes. Together...and now I feel like I'm in some kind of support meeting."
Jessie giggled, "A support group for those who like weird foods, huh?"
Katie grinned, "Exactly, though, that'd be a pretty sorry meeting. It'd be a meeting of only...well, me, probably. Then I'd be called a egomaniac for having a 'Me Meeting'."
Wow, Katie was quite creative wasn't she? She certainly didn't seem as shy now as she did a few moments ago, apparently she wasn't. Though, Jessie really was, but it wouldn't show. No, she wouldn't let her shyness show. "Me Meeting? Well, really that'd be a You Meeting actually. Unless...You have something for sheep, then it'd be a Ewe meeting." Katie did something to Jessie that made her shy and talkative all at the same time.
"Bahh," Tad made his presence noticed again by trying to sound like a sheep. Now, it was time for Grace to giggle. Both girls blushed, not wanting the other to see it. "I'm Tad," he offered and gestured at the seats in the booth. One was next to him and one was next to Katie. Jessie and Grace both realized that they were still standing.
Grace sat down next to Tad, and Jessie next to Katie. "Unless, it's an Ew Meeting because of the weird foods I eat, and everyone else thinks is gross." Oh my God. They continued their conversation as if no one had ever interrupted them! Tad shook his head, and Grace rolled her eyes.
"I'm Grace," she said, talking mainly to Tad. He smiled, well, perhaps the benefits of Katie having to meet this mystery girl weren't so bad after all. Funny, Grace was thinking the exact same thing.
About an hour later, the two girls were still talking and Grace and Tad were getting along pretty well too. "You so have to try it!"
"Ew...No. I'm not going to eat that. You're the one in the meetings, not me." Katie was trying to get Jessie to eat a nacho with some pancakes shoved on top of it. Jessie shook her head while Katie raised an eyebrow curiously. Hm...maybe if she...
"Please?" She wasn't going to beg her to try it, just, asking nicely. "It'll be good, I promise. Hm, tell you what, close your eyes." Tad and Grace had wandered over to look at the toys available in the Kiddie Meals because they had gotten bored sitting there.
"Close my eyes? Why?" Jessie was about to protest when Katie silenced her with two little words.
"Trust me." Jessie looked at Katie suspiciously for a moment. I mean, they had just met, why was she already starting to trust her? Jessie obeyed. Her eyes fluttered shut a few seconds after Katie muttered those words. Katie, who was already sitting next to Jessie, moved a little bit closer to the other girl and moved a strand of blonde hair behind Jessie's ear. Then, wordlessly, Katie reached out and picked up a nacho, already with the pancake piece on top, and leaned over towards Jessie.
Jessie, on her part, looked kind of scared, and was sitting there pretty rigidly. Katie leaned forward and leaned right against Jessie's ear. "Just trust me," she softly whispered right into her ear. Oddly enough, this seemed to ease the younger girl because she relaxed. Grace and Tad looked over just in time to see Jessie open her mouth and Katie gently lean forward and put the nacho chip in the other girl's mouth. Katie's fingers lightly brushed past Jessie's lips as she place the chip delicately on her tongue. Jessie closed her mouth and chewed, her eyes still closed.
She wasn't gagging yet. That was a good sign. In fact, she still had her eyes closed while she chewed. Her eyes were still closed when she swallowed. Tad and Grace looked at each other, raising their eyebrows, and then back at the other two. They didn't seem to realize the feelings that they had for each other were mutual as well as Tad and Grace did. Silly them. "Good?" Katie asked, her eyes still locked on Jessie's lips. It was okay to stare while Jessie's eyes were closed because she wouldn't know. She couldn't freak out if her eyes were closed.
"Mmm," was all that Jessie said at first. Now, those words got to Katie who bit her bottom lip after hearing that. Jessie continued on, "Very good. Surprising, but so intensely good." Katie sighed, it was a good thing that Jessie had something besides just sounds the second time. Jessie wished for Katie to be back close to her again. It felt so good to have her close, even if she was just innocently feeding her a chip. So, which was it that Jessie was answering? The food being good, or Katie's touch being good, or both? Well, as far as Katie knew, only the food.
Jessie slowly opened her eyes to find Katie still sitting very close to her, and neither of them looking away. Katie broke the silence, and Jessie broke the stare. What were they doing? Neither one wanted to scare the other girl away by having her realize that she was into girls, starting to become into her. "That good, huh?" Jessie smiled and nodded. "Question though. Is it better than Tad's attempt to sound like sheep?"
"Tad's attempt to sound like a sheep is almost as good as Grace's attempt to dance!" They both laughed, but Grace and Tad wandered over just to hear their names being mentioned.
"Hey! That's no fair! I like my sheep noises."
"And you know you love my dancing!" Both of them caused the girls to break out laughing even harder. Already, they were impossible to deal with. Their friends sighed just as the manager of the restaurant sighed and walked over to them. He was kicking them out? It was early! Tad looked at the clock. It was 1:45 a.m. They had been here for over an hour! No wonder they were being kicked out.
"Come on, guys, we should get back soon." Grace was suggesting this, though she wasn't sure what she was getting back to, just that she had had a long day and was now tired. They were all pretty tired actually, though none of them really wanted to separate, especially Jessie and Katie.
"I guess it is getting kind of late..." Jessie trailed off not sure of what to suggest.
"Can I have your phone number?" Wow, Singer. Way to jump out on that one. Wait, quick, make it sound un-date like. Quick! She's straight! "Um, I mean so that we can hang out again. You know, be friends?" Katie was trying so hard not to ramble on just then, like she tends to do sometimes. They each started walking in opposite directions after saying good-bye because they each went back to the university different ways.
Jessie smiled and wrote down her number on Katie's hand. Okay, even if she didn't want her number for a date, friends could be good. Maybe they could be friends. I mean, after tonight, there had to be something between them right? The four said their good-byes as the grumpy manager watched the four walk out of the restaurant that night, er, morning. They went different ways down the street. Jessie and Grace branching off to the right, and Katie and Tad off to the right. It's funny how many ways you can get back to the same university campus.
Katie was so excited that she had Jessie's phone number she forgot that she was uncoordinated and tried to jump over a trash can. Unfortunately, she didn't make it, and knocked it over. She tried to subtly shake it off, but Tad noticed and burst out laughing. "Oh, leave me alone, Mr. Hot Shot," she murmured.
"After what you and Sarah did to me? No way!" Tad was still laughing at Katie's clumsiness and giddiness.
Jessie, was also happy, and was apparently trying to dance out her happiness. Grace ended that with a quick warning, "Want me to do 'The Lawnmower'?"
"Hey, you can't until it rains, remember your promise!" Jessie was complaining now, but she didn't care. Grace had promised her that. Oh, Jessie's bad luck, or perhaps Grace's good luck struck just then for it began to rain.