Rating: T. Well, eventually probably up to T, with some sexual content and language. This chapter is probably more like PG though.
Disclaimer: I don't actually own Bend It Like Beckham, unfortunately. So, I'm not even going to try to claim them.
Summary: It's a story about having some fun, and the romance that starts between Jules and Jess, and how they fall for each other despite everything they have to deal with first to realize it.
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Author's Note: Yes, yes. I will warn you now. This is going to be a Jules/Jess story. So, if that's not what you want to read; then please just simply don't read this. Other than that, I hope you enjoy it, and forgive me for some of my 'trying to sound British' parts while they talk. I did as well as I could with that. Also, it starts in the middle of the movie pretty much, with when they go to play a match in Germany. Most of the main storyline will stay intact as I continue on, but it will changed to have a Jess/Jules relationship in it.
Jules sighed when she realized that on that very night she was going to be playing football, in Germany nonetheless. It just didn't seem the same though. She had played against teams before Jess came into the picture. Why couldn't she fathom the idea of playing without Jess now? Her thoughts were interrupted by a car honking. She turned to look out the window just in time to see Jess stepping out of a car, telling Joe her alibi. She stepped onto the bus, and Jules grinned involuntarily.
Jess stepped into the bus looking around for a place to sit. She was so glad that her sister was going to cover for her. Joe had pretended not to hear her alibi, but that was okay because he had let her get on the bus anyway. She noticed Jules, and that there happened to be an empty seat next to her. Jess smiled at her and hoped she got to be the lucky person to sit in that seat. "Is this seat taken?" Jess asked while tried her best to sound all proper and trying even harder not break into a smile while asking. She almost made it.
"Yeah, it's taken," Jules looked up at Jess seeing Jess' smile droop a bit. She hadn't been expecting that one. "By you," with that Jules reached up and tugged on Jess' arm. Jess ended up sprawled on the seat but smiling.
"Ah, good to know." Jess settled back into the seat normally now and the two girls talked about everything and nothing for quite a while. Then, the dark-haired girl yawned, but tried to cover it up. She hadn't gotten much sleep the night before because she was trying to think of a way to get to go on this trip. There would be a way, and together she and her sister had found it. The blonde girl noticed her friends eyes begin to flutter shut.
"You're going to fall asleep on me, aren't you? I'm going to be sitting here talking to myself." Jules shook her head laughing as her friend tried to wake herself up a bit.
"No, no…I can stay awake." Jess finished, and yawned again. Ever the contagious yawn, it traveled and hit Jules as well. Within a minute, she was yawning too, and snuggling into her pillow against the window. After saying how she could fall asleep, of course, Jess was pretty much out of it. She lay against the bus seat as she fell asleep.
A while later, Jules woke up to Joe announcing that they were almost there. She opened one eye slowly and scanned around the bus as best as she could. She was pressed into her pillow, with a soft weight lying on her shoulder. She glanced to her right only to realize it was Jess' head there. Apparently, she made a pretty nice pillow because when she moved a bit, Jess only snuggled in a bit more. "Jess, we're almost there." Jules smirked at her friend who woke up with a start then, who in doing so almost hit her head into the other girl's. "Nice sleep, Jess?" Jules smirked once more after moving her head away from the line of danger.
Jess blushed a bit, and tried to smooth down her wavy hair. "I didn't sleep much last night. Pretty caught up on it now though. I mean, I even found a pillow." In the middle of the pillow remark, Jess stopped and glanced at the blonde's shoulder. Oops. She quickly diverted her attention to Joe as the bus stopped.
All of the girls stood up, giddy to get off of the bus. "We're here." Joe called to the back of the bus, hoping to wake anyone who was still sleeping. "We'll drop our stuff off here at the hotel, but in twenty minutes we have to be ready to go. Okay? So, drop off your stuff, then get ready because we have a game to win tonight!" All of the girls cheered and Jules suspiciously looked at Jess who was dodging her line of vision now, as she tried to get off the bus quickly. A quick glance down to her shoulder confirmed her suspicions.
"Jess! You drooled on my shoulder!" Jules pointed at the spot as Jess hopped off the bus. "Hey!" Jules maneuvered herself off of the bus, as Jess tried to keep a safe distance from her friend. Jules started running towards Jess jokingly, as Jess started running towards the hotel. "It won't save you! We're in the same room."
Jess slowed for a moment, to look back over her shoulder at the approaching blonde. "You were a good pillow if it counts for anything." Both girls were giggling as the rest of the team looked on laughing.
"Girls, save the energy for the game. The game, girls." Joe was pleading with the girls, but it wasn't helping. They were still giggling and running around. He rolled his eyes and turned to Mel. "Any way to stop them?"
"You know them as well as I do, Joe. So, you know that's a no." Mel shrugged her shoulders and watched as the two best friends got into the hotel.
They all had to stop to get their keys for the room, but even then Jess was giggling as she tried to stay away from a leering Jules. They were several feet away from each other as the manager of the hotel explained the rules of the hotel to them. Jules pointed to her shirt and mouthed, "I'm going to get you for this."
Jess looked at her friend confused. "What?" She mouthed back.
"I'm going to get you for this." Jules whispered, but Jess still couldn't make out the words. As soon as the rules were explained, and the keys were handed out. Jess started to walk quickly towards their hotel room on the second floor. She couldn't run, after all, she was sure that was one of the rules that she hadn't been listening to.
Both girls walked, rather quickly, to their room. "Truce!" Jess called as the door flung open, but Jules simply tackled her onto the bed. In fact, since the room only had to hold two girls. There was only one bed in the room.
"I think not! I mean, I'm winning, and now you want truce? No. Not this time." Jules stuck out her tongue at the squirming Jess. "If you give me the room key, then it'll be a truce."
"You'll lose it!" Jess exclaimed as Jules raised an eyebrow at her friend before reaching for the key herself. "No!" Jess shrieked giggling, as she tried to protect the key. The two girls ended up scrambling around for a bit trying to get the key before Jules finally held Jess down playfully and grabbed the key.
"Mine," the blonde pronounced triumphantly, as the darker-haired girl still squirmed in her grasp, trying to get it. Jules was hovering over the other girl, with a leg on either side of her waist. Mel walked by their door on the way to her own room and chuckled.
"You know, you two should really shut the door sometimes." She laughed and shook her head as she shut the door leaving the two girls frozen in place for a moment. Just what was she getting at?