The Mediator : Curtains Up

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(A/N: heyy everyone!

Sorry for all my reviewers that I did not reply to for chapter 12!

Chappie 12 replies:

Mrs. Nikki Slater: thanks!

mandieC: thanks for the review!

Jeese's Querida: lolz. Thanks again!

Seabiscuit0810: heyy… yeah. Sometimes I'm too sluggish to type lots too… but then I get high on air again and I'm alright. Like right now… I'm not that hyper.

Little Tinkerbell Girl: sorry for not replying to your review! I'm so so sorry… lolz. I like A&F since I live in hong kong and we don't have A&F stores here. Well, we have like… fakes. That don't look that good. And frankly, I just ignore everyone if they are asking if I'm a wannabe. Cuz I don't have to prove to anyone I'm not. Am I making sense? Cuz I think I'm being wee-ahhed.

Chappie 13 replies:

Koizak: yeah… jesse is naïve, isn't he? Well… he's gonna have to get used to the 21st century stuff sooner or later…

mandieC: as I said… naïve. (winks)

jamc91: (whacks Jamie on the head with the same rolled up newspaper she used to whack Jesse on the head) you do know that jesse wouldn't be able to hit you back right? It's that 19th century thing. Lolz. How did you guess that I was a hypocrite? YOU'RE MY FREAKING BETA. You're supposed to read my stuff. (grins) and yes, no mentioning of iPods in most books is very odd. That's why my fanfiction is so unique. (smirks)

seabiscuit0810: let's just say she had a certain karate hobby when she was younger… (grins)

BillThePonyLlama: MY FAVORITE REVIEWER IS BACK! w00tz! Had a nice vacation? I had to go for a car trip once in Canada… I think that's the last car trip I will ever go on willingly. Thank GOD for my mp3 player. Which, unfortunately for me, ran out of batteries halfway through the trip. And I had to survive with no music. I almost died, I tell you, DIED. Hmm.. a big fat one, eh? Maybe I will, maybe I won't… (winks) glad to see you're back.

Mrs. Nikki Slater: thanks again!

PixiePam: thank you for the review!

And…. (drum roll) here is chapter 14!

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Chapter 14

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Suze's POV

That night, after I had finished my homework, I sat down on my bed and started to read one of the dozens of magazines lying on my floor. Out of the corner of my eyes, I glanced at Jesse. Ever since I got back from the beach, he had been sitting there in that position, unmoving, staring at the sea.

My eyes returned to my magazine, but I wasn't reading. Instead, I was thinking about what had happened on the beach.

I mean, what was that all about?

I wondered for a bit before glancing back at him.

He was watching me.

Startled, I sat up from my lying position on my bed and looked at him, too.

And I made a decision quickly in my head.

"Hey, Jesse. What ha – "

I stopped myself. What was I thinking, asking him about that? I shook my head and said, "I'm sorry."

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Jesse's POV

"I'm sorry."

Surprised, I regarded her with a confused look.

"Why are you sorry, querida?"

"For being such a bitch to you." My eyebrows shot up.

"What? I do not think you are a… a…" I couldn't bring myself to say it in front of a lady.

"Bitch?" she asked, a hint of a smile on her face.

"Yes." She sighed.

"So you forgive me?"

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Suze's POV

He looked at me with an expression that said, Are you an idiot?

"You have not done anything wrong. Thus, there is no need for forgiveness, Susannah." I blinked.

Was it just me, or did he sound like Father D?

I hesitated for a minute. He looked at me patiently.

So I did it before I had second thoughts.

I stuck out my hand.

"Friends?" I asked.

Please, please, please, I begged in my head. Maybe… maybe if he's just my friend, then I won't crush on him…

He watched me with an unreadable expression.

He took my hand.

"Friends."

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Suze's POV (still)

A few weeks later, I was doing pretty well at school. B's and a couple of C's, but what do you expect from a girl who had almost no time to study back home because of pesky ghosts that showed up at her door every day?

Seriously. I think mediators should get weekends off and get paid for their work.

During these few weeks, I hung out with Jesse a lot. At home, we would talk at night. Some stuff I said would make him laugh, and when I said something he didn't understand, I would laugh at his confused expression.

Fortunately, all the 'feelings' (I guess you would put) I had for Jesse had disappeared when we decided to be friends.

One night, when I rushed home from school and ran up to my room like there was no tomorrow, Jesse looked up from a book he had borrowed from Doc's room in alarm.

"Susannah, what's – "

"Nothing, Jesse. Only the fact that I just got the song 'Random' by Lady Sovereign from Cee Cee!" I interrupted, gushing excitedly. I've been waiting for Cee Cee to burn it on a spare disk to give it to me since like… last week. But since we've been having multiple tests in various subjects, music will just have to wait until Cee Cee get's A pluses in every subject.

Which she did.

I also found out in the past few weeks that Cee Cee and Adam had very good singing voices.

Like, music-stars-good.

That's really good.

Good.

So everyday, we would start singing in the middle of lunch hour real loudly, looking like dorks. Then we would suddenly burst out laughing. Once, Adam's coke went up and out of his nose, and it splattered all over Cee Cee's lunch.

Not cool. She chased him around, threatening to give him the beating of a lifetime.

It was good entertainment. By the time they came back, I had finished my lunch and had sat there laughing my ass off.

And then they started chasing me.

Well, we found out that we all had the same music tastes. And thus, when it came around to the subject of hip-hop, Cee Cee mentioned that she had gotten the song 'Random' by Lady Sovereign.

"Oh, my God!" I shrieked when she told us that tidbit of information. I think one of the novices fainted when she heard me. But I had heard it in a CD store back in NYC, and I've been dying to get my hands on it since.

Finally, Cee Cee got me the disk and I had rushed home, telling Sleepy to drive faster so that I could listen to it back home.

Thus, we got home in five minutes. And almost crashed into a Jaguar, and SUV, and a tour bus.

But anyways, I rushed upstairs, popped the disc into the CD drive and uploaded it into my iTunes.

I hurriedly hit the play button on my iTunes and the song came on.

"Oh, yeah!" I said, smiling like a maniac. I think I might have freaked out Jesse when I was doing all this since he kept looking at me in a weird way.

But, hey, come on! Cut me some slack here! I'm a hyper teenage girl, what do you expect?

Then I started dancing to the music. In the middle of my room. In front of Jesse.

But I really didn't care. All those lessons that I took ever since dad died paid off. My mom thought that if I did some dancing, it would take my mind off of dad.

Fat chance that. I saw my father nearly every week. As a ghost.

"Everybody in the club gettin' tipsy,
Oh, fck that, just whine like a gypsy," I sang and danced. Jesse just looked scandalized, and shocked that I would swear so loudly.
"Can't see straight like I got one eye,
Your bottle opener or mine,
Let's... get started,
Move your arms around like a fcked up karate," I kept on singing. Jesse looked more scandalized by the second. Was that my dancing, or the lyrics? I mean… fine, the dance moves that I'm using are just a tad bit flirtatious, but what of it? Everyone dances like this…
"Oh, shit, my wordplay's nasty,
Oh, shit, don't put it past me,
Move, titch, get out the way,
Nah, never that, I'm here to staaaay,
I flow lazy, I pick the pace up when I feel less hazy,
J. Lo's got a batty,
But you can't see mine cuz I wear my trousers baggy,
Anyways, yeah...let's commence," I continued. Jesse looked pained.

"Susannah, I – " he started. But, classic me, I interrupted.

"Do you want to learn?" He looked at me confused.

"Do you want to learn?" I repeated, heading over to my computer and stopping the music.

"Susannah, I do not think I want to learn the words to such a song – "

"No, no, not that, Jesse. I meant, do you want to learn how to dance?" He looked at me weird.

"I know how to dance." I rolled my eyes. How dense can you be?

"I mean, do you want to learn how to dance hip-hop? Like, the dancing I was doing earlier. Just… I'll teach you the guy's moves." I looked at me, hesitating.

"How would you know how to do dance moves of the other sex?" he asked.

"Um… well…" I blushed. No way am I telling him. He'd laugh his butt off.

"How, Susannah?" He stared at me with those dark eyes. I gulped and blinked.

So maybe not all the feelings have gone away.

"Well…" I started and I muttered something under my breath.

"What?" I took a deep breath.

"Iusedtoteachdancingtoyoungerkidsduringthesummerforextracash," I said quickly, bracing myself for the laughter that was going to come. But Jesse just looked at me with a faint smile on his lips.

WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE SO HOT?

"What was that again, Susannah?"

"I used to teach dancing to younger kids during the summer for extra cash," I muttered, not meeting his gaze. But after awhile, he didn't laugh, and I looked up.

And was greeted with Jesse smiling widely at me.

"Really, Susannah?" I blinked. This was so not how I imagined him reacting.

"Yeah…" I said uncertainly.

"That is wonderful, Susannah! Teaching the young how to dance is, in my opinion, something fun and rewarding when you see your students progress." I blinked again.

Woah. Who turned Mr. Hesitant to Mr. Professor of Fun all of a sudden?

"Well… do you want to learn then?" I asked. He looked at me with those unreadable eyes.

"Of course, Susannah."

(A/N: Aww… Jesse's learning how to dance hip-hop! Okay…. I'm sorry to all those who don't like hip-hop, but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Sorry for not updating sooner! and CRACK... i need to do a Jesse POV soon.

Review please?

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