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:Chapter 10:

"Jesse you're making it too complicated. Just relax and focus. Concentrate on the place you want to go" Susannah instructed me for about the hundredth time. We were sitting out behind the rectory, in the small garden Father Dominic keeps. We'd been going over shifting stuff for almost 4 hours, but I didn't mind. Susannah is quite a teacher.

"But, I'm quite content with where I am right now. Why would I want to materialize anywhere else?" I flirtatiously asked.

"Jesse, normally that works on me, but right now you have to learn how to do this. Father Dominic sounded really serious about this. You have to get this stuff down. Come on, you already have mind blocking, mind control, telekinesis, shifting, and the main idea of time traveling-seeing as how Father D. is completely against it-down. This is pretty much all you have left to master."

"I know, it's just…I'm a little nervous about it. I've never just appeared somewhere before. Besides where can I go?" I replied.

"Okay, here's the deal, I'm going to materialize in my room, and if you materialize there within the next 5 minutes I'll…I don't know, want do you want?"

'Well…No! De Silva, don't think of her like that! She is a respectable woman.'

"Umm, I don't know" I nervously answered.

"Come on, you have to want something" she said smiling mischievously.

"Nope" I calmly stated.

"Jesse De Silva! You're a boy, I'm a girl. A teenage boy at that. There has to be something you want from me" she blurted.

"Susannah" I squeaked nervously.

"Okay, I got it…you get to my room in the next 5 minutes, and I'll flash you" she triumphantly announced.

"F-flash me?" I stammered.

"Yes, and you've got 5 minutes starting now" she said, before de-materializing.

I blinked a couple times to see if she had really gone. When it finally hit me what she meant by 'flash you', I quickly closed my eyes and thought, 'Okay, must focus. Susannah's room; frilly canopy bed, throw pillows, pink, lace, window seat." And when opened my eyes I was there.

"I knew that'd get you here" Susannah chimed from her window seat.

"I only came to test this out, not to get a prize, or bribe really" I replied.

"Sure" she said smiling, before walking towards me and sliding her arms around my neck. I brought my arms around her waist, pulled her close to me, and smiled back.

"Querida, I don't want you to fla-"

"Jesse, a deal's a deal. Besides it's nothing you haven't seen before" she interrupted.

"Well…I owe you from before, so can we just call it even?" I asked nervously, because just the thought of Susannah's bare chest was 'exciting' me. Even though part of my mind told me nothing was wrong with it, because Susannah and I are married, the other part reminded me it was the other Susannah and Jesse that are married.

"If you insist" she purred, after she had lowered my head down so our lips were only about an inch apart. I quickly closed the space between us and kissed her with all the emotions I'd had to hide for almost four months. Deep down I felt something else when I kissed Susannah, something I knew was love. She kissed back with just as much emotion, and ran her fingers through my hair, which made me tingle in pleasure.

Suddenly someone gently knocked on Susannah's door and slowly opened it, saying "Hey Suze, CeeCee's here look-"

Susannah and I pulled apart and blushed furiously. "Awh, David…I'll be right down. Just tell CeeCee to hang out for awhile" Susannah said.

"Umm, sure. Suze, can I talk to you for a second though" the boy, apparently Susannah's stepbrother David, asked.

"Yeah, just let me…uhh, never mind. I'll be right back" she sighed, giving me a reassuring smile before she followed David out into the hallway and then into, I'm assuming his room.

"Nombre de Dios" I mumbled after I was sure neither Susannah, nor David could hear me. When I stopped blushing, I sat down on Susannah's window seat and thought "Why does that always happen? Wait…this seems very surreal. David. This has happened before. David walked in on us before. Our first kiss. That's when David, came in just like n-"

"Suze? Are you in here? Cause I'm getting weirded out. David's being all-" CeeCee rambled on until she noticed me.

"Umm, hi" I coughed out.

"Jesse, what are you doing here?" she asked, raising her eyebrows.

"I…I am working on homework with Susannah."

"In her bedroom? With no books or anything?"

"We were taking a study break" I lied.

"Then, where's your car?" she questioned, her eyebrows raising even more.

"My…my mom needed it. We walked here from my house" I explained.

"O-kay. Where's Suze?" she cheerfully asked, her eyebrows down to their normal position.

"She's talking to David, about something" I answered.

"Oh. Where'd you guys sneak off to after school? Adam and I were gonna see if you two wanted to go to the Coffee Clutch with us."

"Err-Father Dominic asked us to run an errand for him."

"Why did he ask you guys?" she questioned.

"Umm, we were in his office after school, and he just asked" I fibbed.

"Urgh, David is seriously going to be hurt if he keeps walking in on us like th-" Susannah huffed, walking into her room, but stopping when she saw CeeCee standing by her bead.

"Walked in on you?" CeeCee asked, again raising her eyebrows.

"Umm…yeah. He should know by now to knock. Me and Jesse were…discussing, something" Susannah mumbled.

"Uh huh, sure. Listen, I was just wondering if we're still on for Friday night" CeeCee said, looking at Susannah and me curiously.

"Oh, yeah. Totally. Cee you know I've been looking forward to that since I got here" Susannah replied happily.

"Okay, good. We'll walk over to the salon, and then I can have Adam bring us back here."

"Perfect" Susannah chirped.

"Alright, well I'll let you two get back to studying" CeeCee said using air quotes on 'studying'.

"Oh, okay. Bye Cee" Susannah said hugging CeeCee before opening her bedroom door.

"Bye Suze, bye Jesse. Behave yourselves" she sang walking out into the hallway and then gingerly making her way down the stairs.

"Sorry" Susannah mumbled, making her way over to the window seat after closing her door. She stopped right in front of me, and appeared to be deep in thought.

"For what Querida?" I asked feeling confused.

"David. Him walking in on us, again. CeeCee barging in her. You know, all that" she explained taking my hand in her own. I smiled up at her as she played with my hand; running her fingers along my palm, rubbing my knuckles, caressing my fingertips lightly.

"That wasn't your fault" I assured her.

"I know, but…I should lock my door, and remind CeeCee not to just pop in" Susannah muttered.

"Did you lock your door right now?" I questioned, a mischievous smile creeping onto my face.

"Yeah, why?" she asked, completely ignoring my playful tone.

I grinned and pulled her into my lap before answering "I wouldn't want David to walk in on us again."

Susannah, catching my drift, smiled back at me and replied "I agree." Slowly she lowered her lips down to mine and we kissed.

After about a good half hour of making out, we lounged on her window seat. I was propped against the wall with one leg up, while Susannah sat in front of me, relaxing against my chest.

"Querida…isn't this kind of weird?" I wondered aloud.

"Weird how so?" she asked lifting her head up a little to look into my eyes.

"Well, I feel like I'm divided in two. I mean there's the normal part of me that tells me I'm an eighteen year old boy, graduating from high school this year, and am extremely attracted to you. But, then there's another part of me; the part from the other me. It's telling me that I'm twenty nine, a doctor and married to the most caring, beautiful woman ever. I feel kind of…divided, you know."

"Thank God it's not just me!" she sighed, turning around to face me. "I feel the same way, but I think that if we can block those thoughts out, and just bring them up when necessary, we'll be fine. I mean at first I was freaking out. I'm surprised you didn't notice me keep checking to make sure my stomach was flat."

"Why were you doing that?"

"Because-uh oh."

"Uh oh' what?" I impatiently asked.

"Umm, Jesse don't get mad that I didn't tell you. It's just that, Paul was harassing us, Father Dominic was always with us, and CeeCee kept popping in" she whined.

"Susannah, what aren't you telling me?" I questioned sternly.

"Jesse, I'm preg-no, wait…I was, pregnant."

I stared at her, her seventeen year old self, holding the knowledge and memories of my almost twenty five year old wife.

"Querida, are you sure?"

"Yeah, the morning all of this started I went to the doctor's and he confirmed it. CeeCee came with me, cause I wanted to surprise you later. But, Paul got to us first…" she trailed off looking down.

My face lit up and I gently lifted Susannah's chin up. "That's great!" I shouted, wrapping my arms around her.

"I know…but Jesse, Paul took all that away. Now, now we're back to square one. We're not even done with high school" she said, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Susannah, it's okay. I'm just sorry I wasn't able to stop this. I promise to make it up to you. After Paul is gone, we can get back to our normal lives."

"Jesse, I don't think we can. What if this is permanent? What if we're stuck here, forever? We'll have to start all over again."

"Then we'll get through it, together" I stated, rubbing Susannah's back reassuringly. She gave me a watery smile, and I quickly wiped away her tears. "No llorars mi amor" I cooed. She laughed and replied "Even after all these years I still have no idea what you're saying."

"Well maybe this time you'll let me teach you" I said.

"We tried, but if I remember correctly, someone wouldn't stop kissing me during our lessons" she shot back, smiling playfully. I smiled and pulled her close to me before kissing her again. I could feel her smiling against my lips, and as I slowly inched my hand under her blouse, towards her bra. Then David banged roughly on the door.

"Suze! Suze, that Paul guy is back and he won't go away" David shouted.

"You've got to be kidding me" Susannah whined, jumping off my lap.

"Querida, we don't know what he's capable of, maybe I should go-"

"Jesse, he can't know you're here. I'm…I'm going to try and reason with him. You go back to the rectory and get our stuff. Then drive back here, and say…say I forgot my bag in your car, okay?" she said, looking worried.

"I'm not leaving you alone with him" I replied, anger boiling over inside me.

"Jesse" she purred, "go, do it. It'll only take you a few minutes. Besides I'm not alone, David's here. He knows that if Paul gets aggressive he has to call the cops."

"Susannah, I don't like this, what if-"

"Right now we have to focus on doing this. We can't think about the 'what if's" she interrupted.

"Fine" I relented. "I'll see you in a few minutes. I love you." 'Whoa, that was weird. Oh no, what if I was too forward…I am her husband though. Deep down, I know she loves me. She's told me enough times to reassure me too.'

Susannah didn't freak out though she beamed and gave me a brief peck on the lips before replying "I love you too."

Then we went our separate ways; her downstairs to deal with Paul, while I de-materialized back to the rectory's garden. I felt something wrong though. I had a bad feeling about this. Something didn't seem right. I quickly gathered me and Susannah's things, and jumped into my car. The drive seemed like an eternity. Everyone seemed to be driving at a snail-pace just to slow me down. The bad feeling I had only grew when I suddenly heard Susannah in my mind; "JESSE! Help me!"