Title: Homemade Always Says It Best

Rating: This chapter is somewhere between PG and PG-13 for some slight sexual content.

Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine...I cannot claim them. They all belong to the hardworking people involved with Once and Again. Well, minus 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: I do love getting reviews…and I really appreciate them, thank you. I don't have too much to ramble about in this chapter, except to say that…Well, actually, just read it. Enjoy.

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A few minutes after they left, the two girls slipped back into the dark movie theatre. It was a few minutes longer than was usually necessary to go to the bathroom, but a quick story about how the line was long, told by Katie, and the matter was covered completely.

Sarah smiled at her date, and leaned towards her again, reaching for her hand. "So, what's going on in the movie now?"

Katie glanced at the movie screen. The movie was so easy to predict. "She's going to find him in bed with her best friend." It wasn't her fault that she didn't need to watch the movie. Just like it wasn't her fault that her left leg slid against Jessie's right leg and rested there for the entirety of the movie.

Sarah squinted at Katie suspiciously. "I thought you said that he wouldn't cheat on her?"

"He wouldn't until she cheated on him." Katie shook her head, trying to thus prove her idea even more. Sarah didn't believe her until exactly what she said happened on the screen.

"You didn't even see that part!" Sarah was in amazement. So was Jessie.

"I know," Katie chuckled. She had skills.

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"You okay?" Tad's conversation with his girlfriend differed slightly from Sarah and Katie's.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Jessie smiled at her boyfriend, but she felt slightly weird about that now. Katie didn't seem to have any problems though.

"Good," Tad smiled and slipped his arm around the blonde again.

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"Did you kiss her goodnight?" It was after school the next day, and Jessie and Katie were lying on Jessie's bed talking again. Their parents were used to it by now; they did it every day.

"Did you kiss him goodnight?" Katie tilted her head, glancing at the blonde, obviously curious.

Jessie eyed her friend carefully, then shrugged, deciding she didn't want to be the first to answer that question. "It's not polite to answer one question with another question."

"Who said that I was trying to be polite?" Katie was joking, but it made Jessie even more curious. The older girl sighed, realizing that the blonde wasn't going to give in and answer her question first. "No, I didn't kiss her goodnight."

"Oh," Jessie nodded, secretly pleased.

"Did you kiss him goodnight?" Jessie shrugged nonchalantly, and immediately Katie sat up on the bed, protesting. "Hey, no fair. You didn't answer my question."

"I never said that I'd answer your question." Jessie smiled slightly evilly, even though she looked sweet lying on her bed with her blonde hair spread out behind her head.

"That's so not fair."

Katie was pouting, and it made Jessie laugh. "Who said that I'm fair?"

"You're doing this just to get back at me." Katie was accusing, and finally Jessie nodded, acknowledging it. "I knew it!"

"Mm," Jessie smiled serenely.

Katie looked at her for a moment, then seemed to drift off for a second. "You know…Mm can me so many different things." Whenever she would drift off, she would come back with a random thought.

"Yeah?" Jessie tilted her head, glancing at the older girl again.

"Yeah. I mean," she paused, sorting out her thoughts. "Oh come on. Just think about it." Jessie didn't get it yet, so Katie continued. "It could be the only word in the whole world and you could cover every single emotion that there is." The thing was, Katie was serious about her mini-rant. She believed it. "It can mean happy, disappointed, excited, sad, jealous, etc…"

The blonde giggled. "You think about weird things."

Katie shook her head, rearranging her best friend's words to better suit her. "I think about interesting things." It made her sound better, and that was just a coincidence…almost.

"Like me?" Katie definitely thought about interesting things like Jessie, not that she could full-out admit it to Jessie, seeing as Jessie never even answered the original question.

"Mm," Katie was not committed to such answers.

Jessie paused, considering something. "It can mean jealous?"

"Oh sure," Katie nodded, very serious about such things.

"Mm," Jessie paused before admitting her secret. "I kissed Tad last night. Goodnight." She didn't mean to. It just happened.

"What! Why?" Oh. Well. So much for a calm "Mm" whenever someone was jealous.

"Kidding." Jessie snickered. "That really wasn't a very good "mm" for jealousy."

"Very nice," Katie frowned. She hadn't kissed Sarah. Maybe she had taken it for granted that Jessie hadn't kissed Tad. They weren't broken up yet, but that was just because things weren't exactly figured out yet. They'd get there. Then the two girls could be honestly together, as in together together. It could, would, happen.

"I thought so." Jessie grinned again, but when she saw the worry etched on the other girl's face she felt bad. "I didn't kiss him goodnight." The real truth was out there now.

"Good," Katie murmured happily before finding Jessie's lips pressing lightly against her own in a kiss. If Jessie felt that guilty after lying and telling jokes…Well, she could definitely do that again. At least if it all led to kissing. Kissing Katie, that is. Only Katie, of course.

"He wanted to though," Jessie admitted, and Katie looked a bit worried. "Because of you I have to act like a cold for the next few days." The older girl was obviously confused. "That's how I got him to not kiss me. I told him that I had a cold coming on. I have a very convincing fake sneeze."

"Mmhm," Katie looked at her friend curiously. Her fake sneeze couldn't be that great. Maybe Tad was just having an off night and believed strange things from Jess.

Jessie scrunched up her nose. "You don't believe me."

Another shrug. "You can't prove that."

"I'll sneeze," the younger girl threatened, but she never got the chance because Katie interrupted her. "Mm," she muttered, not caring about anything but Katie's lips for a few moments. The fake sneeze could wait.