Title: Just Dance With Me
Rating: This chapter is probably PGish. There's some light language, and some flirty fun. That's it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. I can't claim any of the Once and Again characters. I'm not trying to either. Though, Ash and Gina, I thought of myself.
Feedback: Yes please! Feedback gives me incentive to write.
Summary: This is a Jessie/Katie story. You've been 'warned.' It tells about them meeting college and everything that goes along with it. (Yes, that means they are going to be together in this story.) Tad, Grace, Sarah, etc. also fall into the plot a bit, but this is mostly Jessie/Katie.
Author's Notes: I'm sorry that this has taken me a while to get this next part up, but I blame school for that. I keep having things to do like homework, which takes away from time I get to write. Anyway, I've gotten the next part up now, and ready to go.
Jessie woke up and realize that she had two heartbeats. She waited a moment and realized something. They were going at different rates…and they were both in her chest! Okay, should she have two hearts in her chest? Oh, wait…One of the hearts was okay, it was in her ear. A few moments later she realized that no one should have a heart in their ear no matter how big-hearted they were suppose to be. She slowly opened one eye and giggled. No wonder there were two heartbeats, she was laying on Katie's chest and she could hear Katie's heart beating as well as her own. Still smiling at her silliness, she looked at the clock and realized she had class in ten minutes.
She realized that she had to go get her book bag from her dorm before class, so she really should be going. She tried to move, but Katie's arm was wrapped around her waist, and their legs were entangled. She managed to slide her legs away from Katie's but the arm stayed clamped around her waist no matter what she did. It was like Katie was clinging to her… "Katie!" Immediately the older girl burst into a fit of giggles. She had been awake the whole time. "Come on, I have to go to class."
"No," Katie shook her head like a little girl and wrapped her arms more tightly around her girlfriend. Jessie giggled and leaned in to kiss her, but Katie moved back. "Morning breath," she muttered while looking sheepishly at her.
Jessie smiled, "I don't care."
"I didn't mean mine. I mean yours." After saying this and smiling, Katie got poked in the stomach which made her grin even more by a glaring Jessie. "Oh Jess, you know I'm kidding." Jessie shrugged, still pouting, until Katie leaned in and they shared in a sweet kiss.
"I really do have to go this time." Jessie quickly got off the bed, catching Katie off-guard, so she managed to untangle herself fully from her. Katie immediately tried to convince her by reaching out for her, but all she managed to do was almost fall off the bed. "I have class!"
"I do too. You can come to that one instead." Katie was bargaining, but she already knew it was a lost battle. Jessie really did have class to go to today. As soon as Jessie left the room, she started sprinting down the hallway and the stairs. She only had five minutes until class, and it wasn't her closest class either.
Katie flopped back onto the bed and sighed. She was too awake now to sleep. Five minutes later she was sleeping. Okay, so maybe sleeping was something that came naturally to her. If only everything else came that naturally to her. Then, she heard someone's damn cell phone ringing in her dream. Who the hell was calling someone in her dream? She was just working up a good glare when she woke up. The call was coming from real life, and it was her cell phone. She looked at the number before picking it up. "Hey Sarah. What's up?"
There was some sniffling from the other end of the line, but no one said anything at first. "Can you come get me?"
Katie knew not to ask too many questions now. "Of course, sure. Where are you?"
"Ash's apartment."
"I'll be right there." This time Katie meant it because a few minutes later she was at the ground level of Ash's apartment building, and at the doors stood Sarah. Her face was tear-streaked and her hair was messy as if she hadn't bothered to brush it once she had woken up.
They drove in silence for a few minutes until Katie broke the silence. "Hey, you wanna talk?" She saw Sarah give a slight nod. "Want to go get some cappuccino?" Again, she nodded, more evidently this time, obviously trying to hold in tears. Luckily, the coffee place that Katie often went to was right around the corner. It was a really nice place, with really good coffee and cappuccino. Plus, it's the place that she was suppose to meet Jessie. The two girls had planned to meet to for cappuccino after Jessie's first class. That way, they could hang out for a little while before Katie's first class, and before Jessie's second.
Katie offered to get the cappuccino if Sarah chose the seats. She chose a little table in the corner, right next to the big window. She realized that people would be walking by and looking in the window. For that reason, Sarah took the seat that was facing away from the window. She really didn't want anyone seeing her right then. Her face was still tear-streaked, though she had tried to wipe them away.
"Okay, what's wrong?" Sarah stared at her cappuccino cup for a moment before relenting to Katie's question.
"It's Ash. Last night was our anniversary, you know." Katie nodded. "Well, I took her out to a movie, one of her favorites that we've already seen twice. Then, she was fine. Everything was going fine, but then…" She paused and tears began to well up in her eyes. Katie scooted her chair closer to Sarah and covered her friend's hands with her own.
"Hey, it's okay. I'm here. Just tell me what happened. Please? Did Ash eat all of the gummy bears?" Katie was trying to lighten the mood, but it just made Sarah scowl.
"That's not funny." Sarah tried to move her hands back away from Katie's, but the other girl was already apologizing and refused to let Sarah move away and not be comforted. It was obvious that she needed someone right now.
Katie was sitting pretty much right next to Sarah now because her chair was scooted pretty closely to her friend's. "Gina walked in with her boyfriend. They were all over each other, kissing and stuff."
"So, what's wrong with that? It was gross to see? It freaked Ash out?" Katie didn't see how this factored into everything.
"No, well yes. It freaked Ash out. Ash got made and ran over to Gina, and then Ash kept asking Gina what she was doing with him. It finally got sorted out that Gina was back going out with Ash."
"They broke up?"
"Just let me finish…please." Sarah played with the ring on her finger before continuing. "You know, I was going to give her a matching ring sometime. At least I thought I was." She tried to smile ruefully, but it just came out as a sigh. "Ash and Gina were dating, Katie. They have been dating for a month. Gina promised Ash that she was through with guys, and then they started dating. Ash wanted to tell me that, but she wasn't sure how. So, she just kept dating me too, because she still had feelings for me. At the very least, feelings of a friend. You know, friends lie to each other all the time. Friends date seriously with each other and then cheat on each other. That's what friendship is to Ash. That's what a good relationship is. It wasn't the same kind of feelings she had for Gina though…" Apparently, Ash had been complaining about Gina in attempts to make Sarah not think they were together secretly. It worked. Sarah had no idea, and now she was heartbroken.
Katie was utterly confused, but she felt the pain that her best friend was going through. She wanted to help her. She may have been confused about Gina going out with Ash, who was going out with Sarah, and Gina's boyfriend going out with Gina as well. Wow, it was a big horrible love triangle. "Oh Sarah." The other girl began crying, and Katie wrapped her arms around her. "It's okay. I promise. Ash is a moron for letting you go. She's the one that will regret it. I know it."
"Yeah right," Sarah muttered into Katie's shoulder.
"It's true. Someone would have to be an idiot not to love you." Katie was comforting her friend, when Sarah looked up at her with questioning eyes. Sarah impulsively reached her hand out to cup Katie's face. Then, Katie's lips were suddenly meeting with Sarah's in a feverish kiss. Katie was caught off-guard at first. She didn't even register completely what was going on.
Jessie was walking by the coffee shop, ready to go have her caffeine fix with her girlfriend. In the front window there were two girls kissing. Hah. She'd have to tell this to Katie. Wait. One of the girls was Katie. The other one was Sarah. Immediately rage and sadness washed over the young blonde in rapid waves. A silent tear rolled out of her eye, followed soon by another. Katie was cheating on her with Sarah. All that crap about really liking her was false. She didn't really care about her. Why had she been so stupid? Jessie stood there shocked for a moment before a sob overcame her, and she took off running down the sidewalk.
A few seconds in the kiss, Katie realized what was going on and immediately pulled back. "What the hell are you doing, Sarah? I really like Jessie. You don't love me either." Sarah's eyes immediately filled again with tears. She had just wanted to get away, and she was hoping maybe Katie could offer her a way out of her own pain. "Sarah, I'm here for you, as a friend. You're my best friend, but not in that way. You know I can't help you feel better by having you kiss me, right?"
Sarah nodded. "I'm so sorry, Katie. I just…I just am confused. I thought maybe it'd help me forget. You're right. I just, need to get some rest okay?" She mumbled and quickly stood up, grabbing her purse. She felt horrible and confused upon having kissed Katie.
"Hey, remember," Katie began.
"You're here for me, I know." Sarah smiled at her friend. "Thank you." The two friends shared a quick smile, then Sarah was out the door hoping for some soothing rest once she got back to their dorm. Meanwhile, Katie sat back down in her chair after moving it to the other side of the table again. She smiled. Jessie would be there soon, then all of this confusing mess with Sarah would be fixed. She was so glad that their relationship didn't involve any messy love triangles.