Title: Homemade Always Says It Best
Rating: This chapter is probably only PG, but I plan on bringing it up to PG-13 at some point.
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine...I cannot claim them. They all belong to the hardworking people involved with Once and Again. Though, lucky me, I get to claim Devon.
Feedback: Yes please, I want to know what everyone thinks of this story so far.
Summary: This will be a J/K or Jessie and Katie story eventually. It's just my take on another way that the girls could have ended up discovering their feelings for each other.
Author's Note: Here's the second part of the story…I was originally going to include the whole date in this part, but I decided to split the date into two parts…Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Jessie looked shy for a moment before giggling at her best friend. "You're silly. You just don't want to go out with Devon tonight." Katie's eyes shut in relief for a moment. Jessie took it as a joke. She could handle that. It was better than Jessie telling her to get out of the room. So, Katie did the only thing she could. She played along.
"Yeah," the older girl sighed. "He doesn't get me," she whined. "I made a joke last time I had to hang out with him, and he thought I was serious." She made a face and the blonde laughed.
"What joke? Was it the one about the polar bears and the sweater? Because really that joke wasn't that funny in the first place." Jessie looked up at Katie, and she fought the impulse to push the piece of hair out of the other girl's face that was dangling in front of one of her eyes.
Katie rolled her eyes. "So misunderstood." Jessie raised an eyebrow at her friend. "Well, slightly misunderstood at the very least!" Katie declared this and the blonde girl simply rolled her eyebrows, letting her friend ramble. She knew there was no way to stop it until she finished. "Besides, it was a different joke anyway. Tad made me meet him and Devon at the movie theatre once to see some stupid movie. I'd parked in the parking lot so Devon obviously couldn't see me drive up." Jessie nodded to let Katie know that she was listening to the rambling story. "He thought I'd gotten a ride there so that I'd be dropped off right in front of the theatre. So he'd see me walk up, you know? Well, obviously I walked in through a different entrance rather than the front one that they were standing by. He then turned to me and said, 'How'd you get here?' which really is a stupid question. He should be glad that I didn't tell him that I was born from my mother. So, I told him that I'd walked there. He was in shock and asked me how far I'd had to walk to get there. Honestly! He believed me. There are no houses within three miles of the movie theatre, and they had called me half an hour ago! Why would I walk to a movie theatre in half an hour from that distance?"
"Did you tell him the truth?" Jessie managed to get out the question before bursting out laughing. Okay, Devon really didn't sound that smart when Katie told stories about him like that.
"Tad told him." Katie rolled her eyes. "And then, Devon just acted like I was a weirdo for answering him the way I did. At least Tad laughed afterward…Devon just sat there." She cringed. "Billie, do I have to go out with him?" She stuck out her bottom lip in a pout.
Jessie chuckled as Katie continued to play with the frayed-bottoms of the blonde's jeans. "Yes, because otherwise it'll be just be me and Tad on the date."
"And that's so bad?" Katie looked at her friend before continuing. "You two go on double dates all the time. Isn't it about time for a single date?" Jessie made a face but didn't say anything. "Not that I don't like going on a double date with you guys with some random friend of Tad's each time…" Katie continued and Jessie let out a deep breath, still not saying anything. "Why would Devon even want to go out with me again? I mean, it doesn't make sense. He acted like I was a weirdo last time, so he wants to go out with me again? Why?" Katie scrunched her eyebrows together in thought.
Jessie had been playing with a loose string on her bedspread until she looked over at Katie. "Maybe he wants to go back out with you because you're beautiful." Katie stopped playing with the jean fringes.
"You think I'm beautiful?" It was an honest question, but Jessie let out a nervous laugh nonetheless after hearing it.
"Yes, and I bet he does too. He'd have to be a moron not to." Jessie finished what she had to say still looking at Katie.
Katie smiled nervously as Jessie squinted at her, "What?"
"You have a hair in your face…" Jessie trailed off as she reached over and moved the offending piece of hair out of the way. "There. Now you're even more beautiful!" Jessie declared this as Katie blushed.
"Jessie!" The blonde looked confused for a moment, realizing that it wasn't her friend that had been talking to her. "Katie!" The voice continued and she realized it was Grace. "What?" Both girls asked at once and giggled, but when the door to the room opened, they scattered. Katie abruptly stood up and Jessie drew her knees closer to her. It was as if they had been shocked back into the real world.
"The guys are here," Grace explained. Right. The real world included their date with Tad and Devon. "Have fun," she continued as the two other girls walked downstairs to find Tad and Devon at the door.
"Hey guys," Jessie and Katie again said at once.
"Jinx," Grace muttered as she walked down the stairs and the other two girls glared at her before giggling. "What?"
"Nothing," Jessie mentioned it nonchalantly as Tad introduced Devon and Katie to each other again.
"We've met before," Katie reminded Tad.
"Yeah, man," Devon rolled his eyes at his friend before focusing on the girl again. "So, did you walk here too?" He smirked like he was funny and Katie forced a smile at him.
"Shall we?" Devon turned around and opened the door and both guys walked out towards the car leaving the girls standing there.
"Help me," Katie muttered to Jessie before they followed their dates outside. Jessie couldn't help what she did next; she laughed.