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. This chapter has some language.
Disclaimer: None of these characters are mine...I cannot claim them. They all belong to the hardworking people involved with Once and Again.
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: Yay for weekends…That's when most of my updates will be coming out due to school going on during the week, well, until this other class starts; I should have some time to write while I'm in that then too. Of course, if I do get sick due to sitting outside and watching a play, while it was raining…Well, I'll be home with time to spare (meaning time to update) then too, heh. Anyway, thank you for being patient with me, and thank you to everyone who reviews! It's appreciated so much.
Also, if you want to check out some other writing (original writing, yes, but it's still me) …check out my profile on here, and there's a link in my rambling there to those writings. (I promise I won't be putting this in every update on here. I just wanted to get the word out there once, and then I'm done…really.)
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"What?" Jessie stirred a bit after feeling a rather large creature jump onto her bed. It was Katie. So, maybe large was the wrong word. Tall. Lanky. Those would be better words. Either way, she was now taking up some Jessie space on the bed, snuggling up to the younger girl a bit.
"Hi Billie!" She was very awake for once in the morning. That was unusual.
Jessie opened one eye and peeked up at her smiling girlfriend. She shifted to allow the older girl some snuggling access. "What are you doing?"
"Waking you up."
"Says who?"
"Says your dad. Apparently you're busy oversleeping up here." Jessie glanced at the clock. She was right on time. Katie was just early that morning. "I can see why though…It is really comfy." The older girl smiled and snuggled into Jessie's unused pillow. It just looked so comfy, and she had to get up so early to be able to get to Jessie's early…
Jessie rolled her eyes, watching as her girlfriend began to look more and more asleep. "You're supposed to be here to wake me up."
Katie murmured, "I am waking you up."
"And you're going back to sleep in the process."
"Go get ready for school." Katie waved Jessie off with her hand. She allowed the blonde to slowly detract herself from the snuggling. "I'll be here," she promised. Jessie rolled her eyes.
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"Hey, Jess, you need a ride this morning?" Grace wandered upstairs and into the attic. She paused a moment before looking at her stepsister, who was busy brushing her hair. "Why is Katie sleeping on your bed?"
Jess glanced over at the sleeping girl and smiled, then she looked back at Grace. "I could ask you the same question."
Grace raised both eyebrows suddenly. "Katie's not on my bed, and you can't drive."
"A similar question." Jessie rolled her eyes. She should have known that she would have to reword that comment. "Why were you flirting with Eli?"
Immediately the blushing effect began to occur on Grace. "I wasn't flirting."
"You laughed at his joke." Jessie continued, "It was a bad joke."
Grace huffed, "Least he's not asleep on my bed." Jessie shrugged her slim shoulders. Grace shook her head before wandering back downstairs. Her little stepsister apparently did not need a ride. And that was that. She was so not flirting…
Katie woke up after hearing the two girls' voices. "Who's on Grace's bed?"
"No one," Jessie said casually, hoping that Katie hadn't heard the whole conversation.
"But you just said…" Katie scrunched up her nose in confusion, and Jessie's face broke out into a smile. Her girlfriend was just so cute…
"No one. Come on. We have to go to school." Katie still looked puzzled. "Just because you can get straight A's in a class without paying attention, doesn't mean that I can." The blonde stuck her tongue out at the other girl before reaching her hand out to her girlfriend.
"I just get so bored." Katie shrugged. She couldn't help that most of her classes were extremely boring. Jessie looked at her for a moment; she looked ready to comment about classes again, but Katie stopped her with a kiss. "Better?" Jessie grinned and kissed her again. "Does this mean that you're willing to be my class instead?" The blonde took her hand and started to lead her down the stairs. "No?" Katie looked serious, but Jessie couldn't help but laugh. "Come on! It's a legitimate question!"
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Katie sat next to Tad in her third class, as always. He was glancing around the room suspiciously. "What are you doing?"
Tad gave her a quick glance. "Looking for him."
"Him?"
Tad looked at her impatiently. She was taking away his time. Time that he should be spending looking for Him. The Him. "You know who I mean."
A wave of guilt inexpertly hit Katie. She was curious…"Tad, look…Let's say that there was someone else…Maybe it's not a him."
"What do you mean?"
"What if Jessie liked a her?"
Tad laughed, and Katie tried not to look hurt. "Like who? Sarah?"
"No," like Katie. The girl shrugged instead of voicing those two words. "I don't mean any girl in particular, just, a girl."
Tad saw the worry on her face. Maybe this was Katie's way of seeing if he was okay with the idea of her, Katie, being gay. He smirked, "Then I'd ask if I could watch."
"You're such a pervert."
"No, I'm a guy. There's a difference."
Katie chuckled and hit his shoulder. "Not much of one."
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They were having a study group after school. Jessie didn't really understand the reasoning behind that, seeing as she was a grade behind them, and Sarah didn't even go to their same school, but Tad had insisted. Katie had told Jessie that it was simply because he wanted another reason to hang out with the blonde girl, and it was more believable if they weren't the only two there.
He even wasn't there yet though, and so far it was Sarah flirting with Katie, with Katie nervously glancing at Jessie. Jessie would then glare at Sarah from across the table, and Katie would try to make up for it by avoiding Sarah's advances for a few moments. Sarah was a quick one though, and soon enough, Katie's hand was intertwined with Sarah's. Had Jessie been a cartoon, then there would surely be smoke coming out of her ears. Jealousy was a strong emotion.
"Katie fell asleep on my bed this morning." That came out of nowhere. Sarah had been discussing a new movie to see the following weekend, and that's what Jessie had come up with to say.
She was berating herself for saying it until she noticed Sarah visibly move closer to Katie and then smile coyly at Jessie. If Sarah had a thought bubble above her head, then it would most likely read, "Look at what I have." Thankfully she didn't, or Jessie may have chosen that moment to lunge at the other girl. Instead, Jessie merely glared. "Sounds like Katie."
Jessie rolled her eyes. "I think that I know Katie better than you do."
Sarah's eyes narrowed at the blonde. "You what?"
"She's my best friend." Jessie glared right back.
"And she's my girlfriend." Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Katie's mind was on a one-track thought, and it wasn't a pleasant one. She could sense and see the tension between the two girls. Both of which were her girlfriend…She should have known better than that. She should have broken up with Sarah before dating Jessie. It wasn't fair to either of them. She was beginning to panic when she saw a familiar site.
"Hi Tad!" She'd never been happier to see him.
"Someone's extra peppy today."
"Thanks," she smiled. She wouldn't let comments like that get her down. He was there. No more tension!
"Katie and Jess were just telling me about their days." Or not…
Tad smiled at his girlfriend before sliding into the booth next to her. "How was your day, Jess?"
Jessie shrugged, but smiled. "You know. The usual."
"I didn't see you much today."
"Sorry about that."
"You can make it up to me." He smiled at her and put his arm around her shoulders.
"How?" He was still smiling, and it suddenly clicked in the blonde's mind. "Oh," she fake laughed. He wanted a kiss. She had been avoiding them for a while…Oops. "I have a cold." A brilliant fake sneeze followed.
"I don't care," he muttered, still smiling, but things felt a bit off as he pressed his lips up against the blonde's. Things felt a bit off as Katie gasped and turned it into a cough.
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It was about eight, and they were done studying. Meaning, they had each finished his or her own homework, plus flirted with the others…Tad with Jessie, Jessie and Sarah with Katie, and Katie with Jessie…Of course, Jessie and Katie tried to be sneaky about it. They were in the backseat now, together, while Sarah was upfront with Tad, discussing work.
Jessie and Katie were holding holds. "We have to tell them…" Maybe they weren't so good at being sneaky…But it was dark anyway.
Tad and Sarah finished discussing their days off at work. Sarah glanced back at them. "What are you two talking about back there?"
"Nothing," Katie smiled at her, hoping that she wouldn't notice the linked hands.
"That's a lot of talking for nothing." She didn't.
"Well, you know me; I ramble."
"I do know you." She threw a glance at Jessie, then turned back to Katie. "Walk me to my front door?" Katie agreed.
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"Jessie, what are you glaring at?"
"Sarah," she muttered. It had just slipped out. She didn't mean for it to, but Sarah was at her front door, inching closer and closer to the blonde's girlfriend.
"Why?" Tad turned around in his seat to face the younger girl. "She makes Katie happy."
"Whatever," Jessie muttered and hoped to block him out by glaring out the window yet again.
Tad flicked the radio off with a quick turn of his wrist. "Whatever? What are you five? What's wrong with you, Jess? You barely talk to me, yet you cling to Katie. You make up pathetic excuses about a fake cold, just so you don't have to kiss me. What's wrong with me, Jess? Am I too forward? Do I talk to much? Do I have bad breath?"
Jessie glanced sharply at Tad. He was livid, and she never knew that he, well, that he knew…That he wondered about it…"No…It's not that."
"Is it because I'm not Katie? Is she what you want, because she's the only person that you let touch you." Tad was breathing heavily by the time he finished his rant. "You don't have to answer me." Jessie was sitting there in shock. She couldn't believe that he thought, that he knew…She was trying to wrap her mind around it still when Tad flicked the radio back on.
Katie slipped back into the car a few minutes later and glanced at her two silent car companions. "What'd I miss?"
"Nothing," Tad muttered. He deemed the answer appropriate, because it was everything that his girlfriend told him. He wasn't sure why he should offer any more.