Title: Just Dance With Me
Rating: T. (Slight language and sexual content…If you've been reading it, then you get the gist)
Disclaimer: All of the lovely characters used thus far are not mine at all. They belong to the lovely folks of Once and Again, and I can't claim any of them, unfortunately for me. The only ones that are mine are Ash and Gina.
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: You have to love snow-days…Well, I do, because they mean I get to actually get a decent amount of sleep. You might for that reason too, plus it leads to updates from me.
"What? It works well. They have no idea we're in here." Katie leaned down and softly kissed Jessie again.
"I know someone is in there," shouted the voice from behind the door.
Jessie giggled, and Katie just made up a new excuse. "Well, they'll go away. No problem."
"I'm not going to go away!" Jessie burst out laughing at the mysterious person's reply.
"Shit. I think they can hear me." Katie frowned, and looked around for a way to block out the shouts of the other girl.
"Katie! I can hear you talking. It's me, Ash."
Katie's face said it all. Sighing, she grouchily got off of the bed, and Jessie rose with her. "I'm sorry, Billie." She apologized before walking towards the door to let in Sarah's ex-girlfriend.
"It's not your fault." Jessie conceded before settling herself into a sitting position in a chair near Katie's computer.
Katie opened the door to a semi-frantic Ash. "What do you want?" Katie blocked the door well enough that Ash couldn't just walk in.
"What are you so protective about? It's not like you've got a girl…" She trailed off as Jessie walked up behind her girlfriend and put her arms around her waist. "Oh. You really do have a girl in there." She paused momentarily and turned towards Jessie, "Sorry. I've got to find Sarah, though. I don't know where she is."
"No good non-stalking ex-girlfriend should know where she is." Katie looked at Ash with a blank face. "Look, why are you worried? You're the one that cheated on her, okay. You. Cheated. On. Her."
Ash looked obviously uncomfortable as she shifted her weight from one food to the other, and placed a piece of stray hair behind one year. "I messed up, okay? Can I do that?" The look on Katie and Jessie's faces both told her the answer to that. "Okay, don't answer that one. Just, please. I need to talk to her."
"I don't know where she is, okay?" Katie relented a little, but still blocked the doorway. "She's out with one of her friends." Ash sighed and ran her hand through her hair.
"I know I was horrible to her, and I can't take that back now…but I want to make it up to her. I love her." Jessie snorted, apparently Ash's words weren't working so well for her as Katie's heartfelt ones did. Well, Katie's cooking skills anyway.
"If you need to talk to her. Call her. I know you apparently don't want to do it over the phone, apologizing, I mean, but at least then you'll find out where she is because I'm not delivering you to her after everything you've done." Suddenly Ash looked like the lonely kid at the fair that won a blue ribbon. She was so happy at the suggestion to talk to the girl on the phone instead of searching everywhere for her in person. She really wasn't thinking clearly without Sarah apparently if she hadn't tried to call yet.
"Katie, I'm sorry that I kind of burst in here to talk to you…Thanks though. I really will go call her now." Just like that she bounded off towards the stairs and pulled out her cell phone.
Katie shut the door and turned to face Jessie. "She really is an odd one, huh?" Katie chuckled, and nodded.
"Usually, she's more level-headed…but I guess the whole Sarah thing really did through her off." Katie turned towards Jessie, and looked at her. Jessie was looking at her expectantly, trying to figure out how to get rid of the awkwardness that had settled between the two girls. They really had to discuss the Sarah and Katie thing soon.
Jessie relented. "Katie, I don't want to bring this back up right away, but with Ash showing up here…" Jessie continued sitting in the chair, but she also started to fiddle with her silver thumb ring that Grace gave her for her last birthday.
"I know. I knew we'd have to talk about it again…" Katie put a strand of hair back behind her ear. She knew that this would come up again, of course. She just hoped that cooking food for Jessie would mean that it wouldn't come up again as quickly, but with Ash showing up there…It made it all so raw again.
"It's just…you two live together…I don't know what to expect now." Jessie sighed, and the stress that she had been feeling became obvious.
"You know that I didn't kiss her back."
"Yeah…I know. I believe you. I just…I want to know where you and Sarah stand. Where we stand. What will happen when Sarah comes back here and I leave to go home." Jessie was rambling, and the easy-going mood that had softly filled the room, was replaced with one of a more nervous stature.
"Jess," Katie began and got down on her knees in front of the chair, and for once she would be glad of her ability to ramble because hopefully that would get her point across in the end. "As I said earlier, and I'll say a thousand times more if I need to. Sarah got upset thinking about Ash, and she kissed me. I didn't kiss her back. There isn't anything between us but friendship. Sarah has to figure this thing out with Ash, but when she does, yes, she'll be back here. She and I will discuss things, and hopefully her moment of stress won't cause anything to be odd between us, which I doubt it will. There is nothing to screw up between Sarah and I besides friendship. Between, you and I, though, Billie, there's a lot. There's a lot that I don't want to mess up. I'm so sorry that I hurt you. I don't want to do it ever again. I don't want to see you cry ever again because I want to be your knight in shining armor. I love you, and that is one thing that isn't going to change no matter what else comes out of all of this. So, that's where we stand, together." After she got done with her speech, there were tears in her eyes that she quickly tried to wipe away before taking Jessie's hands in her own. Slowly, Jessie's tear-filled eyes lifted and met Katie's.
"Can girls be knights?" Was the only question that came to Jessie's mind. Ergo, it was the only question she asked.