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.

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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: First off, thank you to everyone who reviews. I really do appreciate it. Also, I'm back! Which means more updates to read. Enjoy!

One more thing…In this story, I'm changing it from the television show a little bit. Just a slight alteration, really. Sarah and Katie have never met before.

Katie was caught off-guard, and her mouth didn't seem to work properly for a moment. Tad had just asked her if she was gay out of no where…It was unexpected to say the least. "What?" That was all that came out of her mouth, even when it worked properly again.

"Gay," Tad repeated. "Katie, you're gay, aren't you?"

"You got that because I don't like the guys that you set me up with?" Katie tilted her head to look at her friend because she had never known that he was that observant before. She didn't give him enough credit before, well, and he gave his friends too much credit. Even if she had been straight, he hadn't set her up with any decent guys.

"Uh, yeah…" Tad rambled on for a moment before letting his sentence trail off. He had a sudden thought. "Wait. Oh God. I'm wrong aren't I?" He was prepared to apologize profusely to her. Tad had been wrong; Katie was straight.

"No," the girl chuckled at the look on her friend's face. It felt weird admitting that out loud. She was gay. She stretched her legs out a little bit more, as much as the car would allow, and took another breath. "No actually. You got something right for once." His eyes widened in surprise for a second. He didn't have to apologize…Good, he didn't feel quite so stupid anymore, for once.

"Well, you know there's this cute girl that I think you'd like…" He smiled over at her as he pulled up to her house. Tad was good at multi-tasking while driving. If he was a girl then he would be the girl who put on make-up while driving. Instead, since he was a guy, a very make-up-less guy, he simply had conversations with his best friend about her being gay. Well, okay, he'd only done that once, but that once he was driving all the while. Tad was proud of that.

"Doesn't it matter to you that I'm gay?" Katie blinked a few times. He had immediately switched gears on her. She hadn't thought that he would care if she was gay, of course, he was open-minded enough, but he went from setting her up with his guy friends to his girl friends just like that. Maybe he was maturing for once…

"Should it?" He quirked an eyebrow at her. Maybe he did have it wrong; he was supposed to be upset that she hadn't told him before now.

"Well, no, but…" She shrugged absentmindedly, not knowing what else to say.

"It doesn't matter to me, Katie. You're one of my best friends." He smiled reassuringly at the girl next to him. "The only other best friend I have is my girlfriend."

"Girlfriend?" She blinked, unsure of where that train of thought had come in. Jessie. He had to mean Jessie, but she wasn't sure when the two going on a few dates had transformed into a real relationship…They hadn't even gone on a real date without Katie yet, and it was a relationship…Katie tried to hide her obvious discomfort, hoping that Tad wasn't that observant to notice it.

"Jessie, yes, Jessie. She's my girlfriend." He raised his eyebrows in surprise at her. "Wow. This conversation has ruined your sense of wit, hasn't it?"

"Oh, right. Jess." Katie faked a laugh. "She doesn't know…about me, I mean."

"I figured," Tad laughed a bit too, and Katie struggled to be comfortable again. The car suddenly felt small, and she couldn't make her long legs comfortable. "I dunno, Katie. It just, it feels weird to see you two all over each other. I think you should lay off of her for a while. She's not like that." Katie blinked slowly. Tad was saying that she had been flirting with his girlfriend, making his girlfriend uncomfortable. She refrained from mentioning that Jessie had been the one who had wanted to sit closer to her; Jessie had been the one who had snuggled into her side before snuggling into Tad's…her boyfriend's. "Katie, don't look at me like that. I can't help it that Jessie is straight. This other girl though…You'd like her!" She was already out the door, walking up to her house. She wasn't going to listen to that, not now. "Her name is Sarah!" Tad shouted at Katie's retreating back. They really would make a cute couple; almost as cute as Tad and Jessie. It would work.