Once and Again Season 4: Full Episodes Chapter 5: A Weekend without Rick, an once and again fanfic

Title: Once and Again Season 4 Episode 5 Part 1

Rating: T (Rated M at some points in this episode)

Episode Name: A Weekend without Rick

Summary: Everyone is standing in the kitchen waiting to say goodbye to Rick.

Authors Note: Hope you guys enjoyed the fourth episode of the fourth season of Once and Again.

From this point on all episodes of Once and Again Season 4 will be posted on Fridays between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

All episode of Once and Again Season 4 will posted Friday's between 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Once and Again Opening Song

Friday May 31, 2002

Kitchen of Sammler/Manning House

It's 5:00 p.m. everyone has arrived home from work and school, an is trying to help Rick find his passport Australia, "Jess, did you check in the living room?" Rick shouted from the kitchen, while searching through his brief case to find his passport.

"I'm looking now." Jessie screamed from the living room.

"Rick, I have it right here." Lily came running down the steps with the passport in her hand, "You left it on the night stand."

"Thanks Lil," Rick said as he gave her a kiss on the cheek, "Now have you seen my…"

"Your wallet was on top of your passport." Lily said, and handed Rick his wallet.

"I guess that's everything." Rick said.

Everyone lined up in the kitchen to say goodbye and wish him good luck in Australia, in the order of Grace, Zoe, Eli, Jessie, and Lily. Grace and Zoe gave Rick a hug.

Eli gave Rick a hug and said, "You'll be careful?"

Rick put one hand on Eli shoulder and said, "E, I always am you know that."

Once he got too Jessie she didn't hesitate to give Rick a hug, "I'll miss you."

"I know you will. I also promised you that I will come back." Rick said not wanting to let Jessie go. Unfortunately they both knew they knew that they had to let go.

Once they let go, Rick walked up to Lily and she said, "I'll walk you out to your car."

Once they walk out of the house and the kids were out of sight, she grabbed Rick by his shirt, and gave him a deep passionate kiss, "You can't even begin to imagine how much I'm going to miss you," she pulled Rick in for another kiss.

"I wish you could come with me." Rick said kissing Lily back.

"I might next month." Lily said.

"Lil what are you talking about?" Rick said surprised.

"The weekend you have to go away next month the radio station in going to be closed for repairs, and I'm thinking Eli's 19, Grace is 17, between the two of them and Jessie, I'm sure they would have not problem with us away for a few days." Lily said with a smile on her face.

"It'll be like a second honeymoon." Rick said kissing Lily one last time before he started to walk to the car, "I will see you Sunday night, and I will call everyday."

"You better, and there will a surprised waiting for you when you get back." She said with a devious look on her face. She watched Rick get into his car, start the engine, pull out of the driveway, and start to drive to the airport. Once the car was out of sight, she walked in the house, closed the door behind her, and leaned her head against the door and for a second, when she turned around all eyes were on her, "Ok, so what's everyone doing this weekend?" she said having a few things in mind that everyone could do together.

"Katie's going to help me study for a few tests I have next week." Jessie said, while looking through her bag to make sure she had everything she would need to study.

"I have work." Eli said.

"I have two papers to write." Grace said, and headed upstairs to her room to start her work.

"I'm hanging out with friends." Zoe said.

"Well I guess everyone knows what they're doing this weekend." Lily said disappointed that she would be spending the weekend alone. The only company the she would have is the newest member of the Sammler/Manning family which was beginning to show. She noticed Jessie searching through her bag. "Jess, is everything ok?"

"Ya, I think I left a book, at school." Jessie said.

"Think back to the end of the day and what you took out of your locker." Lily said trying to think of a way to help Jessie.

Jessie thought back to end of the day and remembered that she was as usual in a rush to get out of the building and see Katie before she went home, "It's in my locker."

"Well, do you need the book…I mean does Grace or Katie know the material?" Lily asked, trying to help Jessie find a solution to her problem.

"I think Katie might." Jessie said knowing all to well how important the test was on Monday. Conveniently Grace walked into the kitchen when they were talking about that, "Grace was Katie in Calc with you?"

"I think she was in a different class, why? You'll have to ask her." Grace said unsure of the answer.

"Thanks." Jessie walked out of the room frustrated that she didn't have the book she needed.

"What was that about?" Grace asked wondering why Jessie left the room like that.

"She left her book at school, and needs it to study." Lily said.

"Of course she did." Grace said knowing that ever since Jessie and Katie started meeting up afterschool before they leave Jessie rushes through getting what she need out of her locker.

"What does that mean?" Lily asked wondering what Grace meant by the - Of course - in her daughters sentence.

Grace thought for a second realizing her slip up, "She always wants to see Katie before we go home, so she rushes through getting her stuff out of her locker."

"I remember when I was in high school me and my friends always went to our lockers grabbed what we remembered we needed, got out of the school, and went outside to talk." Lily had a grin on her face from reminiscing about the good old days.

"Now, a day's people grab their books rush out of the school a call each other when we get home." Grace said.

"What are you going to do tonight?" Lily said wanting to know what her daughter plans are for the night.

"Same as last Friday, and the one before that" Grace said walking out of the kitchen.

Lily leaned against the counter for a second wondering how this could have gone so wrong for Grace. RING, RING. Lily heard the doorbell ring and went running to answer the door, and you'll never guess who was standing on the other side of the door, "Hi, Mrs. Sammler," Katie said with that big smile on her face, "is Jessie here?"

"She's upstairs." Lily said stepping out of the way so that Katie could walk into the house, once in the house Katie went straight to the stairs and headed up to Jessie's room. Lily watched as Katie disappeared from sight.

Lily Black and White

"I remember when I was there age. Me and my friends couldn't wait to see each other after school on Friday's to start the weekends off." Lily said once again thinking back to the good old days.

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Jessie's Attic

It's 6:30 p.m. at the Sammler/Manning house Jessie and Katie are up in Jessie attic, kneeling on Jessie's bed in a very deep make out session. Jessie had just finished undoing the clip in hair, "If they knew what we are actually doing up here, I don't think we would ever be allowed to be alone again." Jessie said while brushing her lips up against Katie's.

"That's why we lock the door." Katie said moving her hands down to bottom of Jessie's shirt, and Jessie began to undo the buttons on Katie's shirt.

Kitchen of the Sammler/Manning House

Meanwhile in the Kitchen Lily is ordering dinner, when Eli walks in the kitchen, "Eli, I'm going to order a pizza, go ask Katie if she wants to eat dinner with us."

"Ya, sure." Eli said, as he walked to the fridge to get something to drink.

"What time do you have to be at the book store in the morning?" Lily said while searching through the cabinet for the phone number of the pizza place.

"9:00." Eli said while pouring himself a glass of water.

"They sure are having you work a lot more." Lily said

"Sort handed since Judy went to Australia."

"Probably going to be a nightmare next month when Jack and Tiffany go on their honey moon."

"Why are they holding off on that anyway?" Eli asked unaware of why they are waiting so long to go on their honeymoon.

"He has to have someone ready to open the book store, close the book store, sign off on deliveries, and run events there." Lily said having finally found the phone number, "Found it. Can you run up stairs and talk to Jessie and Katie real quick I'm going to call the order."

"Ok, I'm going." Eli said, putting his cup of water down and running up the stairs unaware of what was going on in Jessie room.

Jessie's Attic

In the time that Lily and Eli had been having there conversation Jessie had successfully managed unbuttoning and removing Katie's shirt, and remove Jessie's shirt. Jessie was now lying on her back and Katie was hovering over her planting little kisses on her face. Moments later they heard a knocking sound at the door, "Jess, Katie can I come up there for a minute?" Eli shouted through the door.

Jessie and Katie immediately broke apart. Katie started to put her shirt back on and button it up as quick as possible, while Jessie began to search for her shirt, "One minute." Both stared girls running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

On the other side of the door one moment earlier.

"Jess, Katie can I come up there for a minute?" Eli shouted through the door.

"One minute." Jessie shouted back through the door.

Grace came walking down the hallway to see Eli standing by the door, "What are those two doing up there. I can hear them running around through the ceiling my room?"

"Your guess is as good as mine." Eli said, as he put his ear up against the door.

"Eli what are doing!?" Grace snapped at Eli for listening in on Jessie and Katie's conversation.

"Come on you don't want to know what they're doing up." Eli said trying to focus.

Grace thought about it for a second and thought - on one hand it could be something very interesting, that could provide a life time of entertainment, on the other I should respect Jessie and Katie privacy -, "Move over." Grace put her ear up against the door also, and listened very carefully.

Jessie Attic

"Katie how long does it take to button up your shirt." Jessie said rushing Katie knowing that Eli was waiting on the other side of the door for them.

"How long does it take to find you shirt." Katie countering Jessie. Both girl where unaware that Eli and Grace where listening from the other side of the door.

On the other side of the door

Eli and Grace looked at each other ready to burst out laughing from what they just heard, "Oh my god. Did you hear that?" both of them started to laugh. It was similar the laugh they shared Grace Freshman year in the hall way the day after Evan Fishers party.

"Still think it was a bad idea to listen on them?" Eli said through a chuckle their laugh had started to die down a little bit.

"That was at the time?" Grace said still laughing.

"At the time, Grace that was 5 seconds ago." Eli said

"At the time we didn't know the Jessie and Katie were moments away from…" Grace stopped her sentence when she heard the door knob turn.

At that moment Jessie and Katie emerged from the attic, both girls looked like they had rushed to get dressed. Jessie's hair was mess and tucked into the head hole of her shirt. While Katie's shirt is untucked, and what she didn't notice was that she missed a button, "What do you need, Eli?" Jessie said not noticing what she and Katie looked like.

Eli and Grace were speechless for a second at the sight in front of them, "Have you gone mute or something?" Katie said annoyed that Eli had interrupted her and Jessie.

Eli snapped out of it, "Lily wanted to know if you wanted to eat dinner with us, were ordering a pizza?"

"Ya, sure I'd love to." Katie said, she loved the nights that she was able to hold hands with Jessie under the table while she ate her dinner, or when she would put her hand on Jessie thigh and massage it while Jessie ate.

"Grace is everything ok?" Jessie said noticing that Grace was standing there with a blank expression on her face, contemplating about what she had just heard through the door.

She snapped out of it noticing that all eyes were on her, "Oh, I'm fine…Just thinking about something for one of the papers I have to write."

"I'll go tell Lily." Eli said walking down the hallway, still trying recover from what he and Grace had just experienced.

Jessie and Katie both looked at Grace confused of what had just happened, "What was that all about? Was it something I said?" Katie said. Both girls had confused looks on their faces still unaware of their current appearance.

"No Katie it's not what you said, also you missed a button, and should have probably tucked your shirt back," Grace said pointing at a button in the middle of Katie's shirt. Katie quickly looked down and fixed the button, "Also Jess, your hair is down, tucked into the collar of your shirt, and it's not that hard to tell you just put your shirt back on." Grace said with a smirk on her face. As fast as Katie fixed her shirt Jessie fixed hers and her hair. Grace then turned around, and went back to her room to work on the papers

Both girls retreated into the attic and went back upstairs. Once they got back upstairs Katie started to laugh a little, "It's not funny." Jessie stated.

"It's kind of funny," Katie said with a grin on her face.

Katie Black and White

"She takes everything so seriously," Katie said, "I wish she would loosen up a little bit."

"Jess, you laughed about when me and Tad walked in on you shirtless listening to Billy Holiday, how is this any different?" Katie said not sure why this wasn't something they couldn't just laugh off.

"Grace and Eli know about us and think that we were about to have sex." Jessie said in an as a matter a fact tone, also annoyed with Katie that she could care less about what just happened.

"You don't know that." Katie said countering Jessie.

"What if…" Katie rolled her eyes and cut Jessie off by planting a kiss on her face. Whenever Jessie got annoyed with Katie no matter what the situation was it could always be solved with a kiss. Without breaking the kiss they made their way and fell back onto Jessie's bed.

When the need for oxygen became too great they broke apart and Katie said, "We were in the middle of something before they interrupted us." Katie began kissing Jessie once again.

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Sammler/Manning House, the Kitchen.

Its 7:30 p.m. Lily is walking around the kitchen, counting out the correct amount of money before the delivery guy gets there with the pizza. At that moment Grace comes walking into the kitchen, "Mom, what are you doing?" Grace asked why Lily was running around the kitchen like a chicken with her head cut off.

"The Pizza guy is going to be here any second and I'm to counting the money I to pay him," Ring. Suddenly they hear the doorbell ring, "He's here," Lily said just grabbing two twenty's to pay for the two pies, and give him a tip, as she began to head to the door she told Grace, "Go get everyone, and start to set up the table while I pay."

"Ok." Grace said reluctantly, not wanting make another trip up and down the stairs.

Grace started off by going up stairs, to get Jessie, Katie, and Zoe. She walked up to Zoe's room poked her head in the door, "Zoe the pizza's her, Mom wants us to go done stairs and set up the table."

"I'll be down in a minute." Zoe said trying to finish sending an email.

Grace walked out of Zoe's room, and started head up to Jessie's room. Grace thought to herself for a second, - what will I be walking in on this time -.

Jessie's Attic

Jessie and Katie where both sitting on Jessie's bed, surprisingly not kissing, fully clothed, and working on the assignment that Jessie needed Katie help with, "I thought you said you did this last year." Jessie said annoyed that Katie wasn't proving to be helpful with her homework.

"I never said that I was good at it. The teacher was boring, and caused people to fall asleep in the class half the time, and didn't care if we passed or failed." Katie said.

Jessie rolled her eyes and said, "Well than how did you pass the class?"

"Simple really I sat next to the smartest people in the class, and copied her answers." Katie said, thinking that she was so slink copying off of two different people for the whole school year.

Jessie stared blankly Katie for a second and then thought of a joke, "So what you're trying to tell me is that my girlfriend is a cheater. I'm heartbroken I don't want to be with you anymore." Both girls laughed for a second. Then Jessie gave Katie a quick peck on the lips, at the same time they heard a knock on the door.

Sammler/ Manning House, The Hallway

Grace knocked on Jessie's door, and heard Jessie shout through the door, "Who is it?"

"It's Grace, can I come up?" Grace said though the door wondering, what they were doing up there.

"Sure." Jessie said.

Grace opened the door walked up the stairs and saw Jessie and Katie sitting on Jessie's bed working on homework, "This is different." She said.

"What is?" Katie asked.

"Whenever you two say you're going to do homework, or some form of work school related, I never see you two actually doing the work." Grace said, trying to think of one time she actually saw Jessie and Katie doing homework.

"That is so not true, I always help Jessie with homework." Katie said defensively.

"Name one time?" Grace asked, wanting to know when Jessie and Katie ever actually did any work.

Katie paused for a second trying to think of an answer to Grace's

"The report I had to do a few months ago on the source crisis?" Jessie said quickly answering for Katie, seeing that her girlfriend was struggling, and that she had a better memory.

"One time." Grace said.

"Is there something you need?" Jessie said

"Pizza's here, my mom wants everyone to come down stairs and start to set up the table." Grace said.

"We'll be down in a minute." Jessie said wanting Grace to leave, and not wanting to have to end hers and Katie's alone time.

Grace Black and White

Grace just took a deep breath and stared at the camera.

"Just hurry up, I'm starving." Grace said knowing that when they said a minute it meant 10. Grace turned around and started to walk down the steps.

Once the girls heard the door close behind them, Jessie turned towards Katie and planted a kiss on her face.

"What was that for?" Katie asked, wondering where that kiss had come from.

"I just needed one last kiss before we have to go from girlfriends back to best friends" Jessie said wishing that her and Katie didn't have to keep on hiding from the inevitable, coming out to her family.

"Then in that case I need one also." Katie then brushed her lips up against Jessie's and kissed her, not having the same thoughts in mind about coming out to Jessie's family, or the rest of the world. Once that ended they both began to walk down the steps to the door, and head downstairs to help get ready for dinner.

Eli's Garage

Grace walked up to the door to Eli's room, and knocked on it, "Come in," Eli said.

When walked in she started off by saying, "Hey the foods…" she stopped for a second when she saw Eli trying to hide some book that he was reading which was completely out of character. Normally when she'd walk in on him playing his guitar, or writing a song or something, "What are you reading."

She said walking up to him trying grab the book before he was able to hide it, "It's nothing." He said trying to keep the book away from Grace.

She was just barely able to grab the book and see what the title is, "How to Supervise for Dummies…Eli why are you reading this?" Grace said holding the book in one hand.

Eli quickly grabbed the book out of Graces hand, "Jack asked me to run the store while he's gone on his honey moon, alright." Eli said while sticking the book under his bed.

"Eli that's great, why would you want to keep it a secret." Grace said happy for Eli.

"I was planning on telling my Dad when he gets back as a surprise." Eli said with a smile on his face happy, that he is being given this kind of opportunity.

"Eli congratulations." Grace said giving Eli a hug, and Eli hugged back. Once they realized the awkwardness of the how long the hug was taking they let go of each other. It's odd how much they had begun to grow more attracted to each other over the last few weeks, "Right the foods here, my mom wants us to help set up."

"Right." Eli said, as he closed the garage door behind him, and began to walk upstairs with Grace.

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Sammler / Manning House The Dining Room

Everyone is sitting around the dinner table eating dinner. Jessie and Katie are having some conversation about one of Katie's classes today and Lily is trying to determine how Graces day was, the same as every night, Eli is sitting there consuming the pizza, and Zoe is trying to finish eating a quick as possible, so that she can get back to her computer.

Katie and Jessie's Conversation

"I'm sure I completely flunked." Katie said with a mouth full of food.

"Two things, one you should not talk with a mouth full of food…it's not very attractive." She said the last part quietly while winking at Katie, "Two, I think you're exaggerating, you always get A's in that class." Jessie said, with a small grin on her face, taking another bite of her food.

"He literally through this test at us last second, and didn't even give us the whole period to take it. The guy is so boring that it is impossible to pay attention in his class to learn the material, and take the test. At least with Dimitri as our teacher he made the class interesting an able to learn something…" Katie began another ranting about the new English teacher.

Jessie motioned for Katie to put her hand out of sight so that she and Jessie could holds hands while they ate. Jessie thought to herself - There are few ways to get this girl to stop a ranting and relax, fortunately holding hands is one of them. -

Jessie and Katie Black and White

"What would I do without you?" Jessie turned her head and looked at Katie.

"Probably live in boredom, with no excitement, and still have Tad hitting on you." Katie with a big smile on her face gazing into Jessie's eyes.

Lily and Grace's Conversation

"So how was your day?" Lily asked beginning the process of getting minimal details from her daughter about her day at school.

Grace swallowed her food and said, "Fine."

"Did you talk to anyone?" Lily asked, knowing how Grace used to be an open book when it came to talking about her day at school.

"Ya." Grace said wanting to end the conversation.

"Ok, well how…" wasn't even able to finish her sentence before Grace cut her off.

"Mom, you know how school was, it's the same as every day. Miserable. Now can we please drop the subject? How was your day? Let's talk about that." Grace said wanting to drop the topic, and talk anything that doesn't involve what happened between her and Dimitri.

"Ya, how's the syndication been going?" Eli said tuning in on the conversation.

"So far so good. They're just trying to figure out what's going to happen once I have this little guy."

"How do you know it's a guy?" Grace said, "What if it's a girl?"

"Has to be a guy." Eli said, "me and my dad are outnumbered." When he said that everyone started to laugh.

30 Minutes Later Still in the Sammler / Manning House Dining Room

Everyone have finished eating, and cleaning from diner. Lily is doing the dishes in the kitchen, Jessie and Katie are cleaning the table, Grace and Eli are taking a ride to the library, and Zoe has gone back upstairs.

Jessie and Katie are picking up all of the dishes talking about what they are going to do tomorrow. Katie as always is throwing a million ideas out at Jessie for stuff they can do, "Maybe we could go to the mall, or maybe we could go to the park, or maybe we could…" Katie was cut off before she could say her twelfth idea.

"Katie everything you said we've done a million times." Jessie said.

"Well what did you have in mind than?" Katie said wanting to know what Jessie had in mind.

Jessie thought about it for a second, she noticed that Lily had finished the dishes, and was heading up the steps, "Here's what I'm thinking. Can you sleep over tonight?" Jessie asked

"Maybe." Katie said wondering were Jessie was going.

"Maybe you could sleep over tonight, we could sleep in tomorrow…" Jessie said as she began to move towards Katie, "wake up next to each other…do some of this…" Jessie then wrapped her arms around Katie's waist and kissed her, "maybe even stay in bed all day."

"That does sound fun." Katie stated and then kissed Jessie.

"And maybe at some point we could find time to study for my test on Monday." Jessie said joking.

Katie looked at her like she had lost her mind, "You're, joking right?"

"You know me so well." Jessie said kissing Katie once again.

After that they ran upstairs to talk to Lily about Katie sleeping over.

Sammler / Manning House Rick and Lily's Room

Lily is standing by the bed folding laundry trying to figure out what she is going to do this weekend without Rick around.

Lily Black and White

"It's been a while since I had to be alone on the weekend. It's going to feel a little odd being alone one weekend a month for the next nine month."

Lily looked up when she heard footsteps and voices running down the hall and into her room

"Hey Lily would it be ok if Katie slept over tonight." Jessie asked with a smile on hers and Katie's faces.

"Sure, that's not a problem," Lily said, "Just remember that it's going to rain all day tomorrow so, there isn't going much for you to do around here tomorrow."

"I don't think that will be a problem." Katie said thinking about what Jessie had said about staying bed all day long.

After Katie said that both girls walked out of Lily's and into the hallway, "You should call your parents."

"Ya, I guess I should." Katie said, wanting to go straight upstairs to Jessie's room, and begin plans, for the weekend.

Once Katie disappeared from sight Jessie went upstairs and began to set up her room for her and Katie.

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The Library

Grace and Eli are searching through the poetry section of the library to find a book for Grace to use for her paper. Eli was walking through the section looking at the books not really sure what type of poem book Grace needed when he came across something interesting, "Grace what about this one." He said holding Cats. A book of poems about cats.

Grace walked up to him took the book out of his hand looked at it for a second, and said "I can't use this book." Then put the book back on the shelf.

"Why not? It's an easy read, and A" He said not sure why she didn't want to go with a book that would get her an A.

"Two reasons. One it has to be a book of poems written before 1750, not something that was written five years ago, and two the idea is to challenge yourself when choosing a book to read." Grace said very pointedly.

"Whatever." Eli said not really seeing Graces point, "What book did you have in mind."

"I don't know." Grace said having nothing to go off of for the book she was going to read.

Eli then turned his head to the left saw another book that looked old. He pulled it out and looked at it for a second and saw that there was a really cool illustration on the front, but no title. "What about this one? There's no title on the cover." he said.

Grace took the book out of his hand and looked at it for a second and opened the book to the title page, "Dante's Inferno."

"It's that the book about the guy who has a dream about going to Hell." Eli said recognizing the name of the book.

"Not exactly, it's about a guy who falls asleep and has journey through the 9 rings of Hell guided a poet named Virgil... It's not an easy book to read" Grace said knowing what people have said about the book.

"Was that book written before 1750?" Eli asked

"Way before 1750." Grace said.

"Then read that book." Eli said realizing that it met Graces criteria.

"Eli this is a hard book to read." Grace said.

"You're the one who just said the book has to be written before 1750, and you want it to be a challenge. This is clearly both" Eli said, trying to convince Grace to read the book so that they could get out of there.

Grace thought about it for a second, - screw it -, "Why not."

"Let's go." Eli said.

Grace and him walked up to the Libran, to check the book out, and leave, "This book please."

The librarian took the book scanned it and said, "Library card please."

Grace reached into her bag and noticed that she didn't have her card, "Just hang on one second."

"Here I've got it." Eli said as he opened his wallet, pulled out an old beaten to hell library card and handed it to the librarian.

"You have a library card? Since when do you have a library card." Grace said with a surprised look on her face, amazed that Eli owned a library card.

"I was in high school once also." He said

"I'm not going to be able to let you check out that book sir." The librarian said amazed of what she was looking at on her computer when she pulled Eli's name up.

"Why not do I need a new card or something." Eli said wondering what was wrong, Grace rolled her eyes and went back to trying to find her card.

"You have and outstanding fine of $109.50, and you need a new card."

"$109.50 dollars?!"Eli said not believing what he was hearing. Graces eyes nearly pooped out of her head when she heard that. "Hang one second, I may not have been here in a while, but I know for a fact that whenever I checked out a book I brought it back the day it was due." Eli disputed what the librarian said. Grace put her face in one hand and just shook her head.

"Not the diary of Ann Frank, you checked it out three years ago and never brought it back, the fine is ten cents a day you do the math." The lady was clearly starting to get annoyed

Eli thought back for a second, and remembering that three years ago he took Jessie to library, to check out Ann Frank, and that she must have never brought it back, Eli noticed that women's frustration, he tilted his head back and stared at the ceiling for a second, "I'm sorry that's a book I had to check out for my sister, she had to read it for school."

"Well you can tell her that she owes you a lot of money because I can't let you check out that book until you pay the fine." She said.

"Found it." Grace had found her library card, and handed it to the lady.

The lady quickly took Grace's card and checked the book out for her, "Before you leave would you to update your library card. Sir."

"No thanks." Grace grabbed the book, and her and Eli started to head to the door, and walked out of the library.

Once in the car, Eli started the engine, set the car into reverse pulled out of the parking spot, and left the library. At first it was silent because Eli was so annoyed that Jessie never returned the book and that it was now going cost $109.50.

Grace Black and White

Grace is looking at the camera with a smile on her face about to burst out laughing, "Ok, I would have never taken Jessie for the type of person, who would do something like this." She said as she started to laugh.

Grace decided that it was about time to break the silence, "Ok…what are you going to about that fine?" Grace just said it outright wanting to know how Eli was going to handle this.

"I'm not going to do anything. Its Jessie's fine. She was supposed to return the book." Eli said not surprised that Jessie allowed this to happen, she was always forgetting things like this.

Eli Black and White

"Why am I not surprised about this. She has always done this. Forgets to renew books that she has out, doesn't return them on time because she wants to read them over and over again. How many more times is this going to happen to me." Eli said as he rolled his eyes.

"I told her last time I wasn't going to pay these fines for her anymore, and I'm not going to." Eli said infuriated with Jessie.

"Wait a minute…the last time, as in this has happened before." Grace said chuckling a little bit.

"This has been happening since I got my license." Eli stated, "Eli, Jessie has a book report can you take her to the library and help her check out a book. A week after the report is done and she needs to get another book, I have to take her to the library, and what happens when we go to check out the new book the old one is overdue and there is a fine. I'm not paying this one, Grace I'm saying it now." Eli looks over at Grace and sees her laughing.

"What are you going to do when we get back to the house?"

"I'm going straight to the attic to tell Jessie that she owes the library $109.50. Also that I'm not paying it." He said having it all planned out with what he is going to do.

"Are you sure that the best idea?" Grace asked thinking that Eli was over reacting a little bit.

"Put yourself in my place. What if Zoe caused you to have $109.50 debt what would you do?" Eli said trying to get his point across.

"Point taken." Grace said.

"I'm sure she's still up its only 8:30." Eli said looking at the clock.

"Whatever. Let's just hope that we are walking in on anything." They both laughed at the last part of Grace sentence, and continued to drive back to the Sammler/Manning House.

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Sammler / Manning House: The Driveway

It's 9:00 p.m., Grace and Eli have just gotten out of the car and are headed inside the house, Eli was rushing because he all wanted to do was talk to Jessie about the library fine. Grace saw how frustrated Eli was and said, "Eli slow down, for a second, and relax, she not going anywhere." Grace said trying get Eli to calm down a little bit.

"I'm not going to slow down or relax." Eli said, just wanting to get upstairs and go off on Jessie about the library fine.

"Eli what are you even going to do?" Grace said wanting to know what Eli's plan was to deal with this.

"Simple really I'm going upstairs, and I'm going to make it very clear that she owes me $109.50..." Eli stopped talking for a second to unlock the door, once he opened the door he continued his sentence, "Also make it very clear that I'm not paying it."

Grace continued to follow Eli up the stairs, she knew that what Eli said may not sound that bad, but he was leaving out a few details of what he is going to say to her.

Jessie's Attic

Jessie and Katie are in Jessie's Attic lying kneeing up on Jessie's bed. Jessie is planting kisses on Katie's face in her light blue tank top, and her pants are near by the steps by the door. Katie is enjoying the sensation of Jessie's lips being pressed into her skin. Her shirt is on one side of the bed, and pants are on the other side, "You were right this isn't a bad way to start off the weekend." Katie said through Jessie's kisses while moaning at the feeling of her girlfriend's body against her own. Both girls had become so indulged in each other that they didn't realize that they had forgotten to lock the door.

Sammler / Manning House: Hallway

Grace was trying to be the voice of reason, and to get Eli to slow down and think for a second, when Lily comes walking down the hallway, "Eli would you slow down for one second we don't even know if there still here they may have run out."

"Who may have run out?" Lily asked wondering what Eli and Grace were talking about.

"Is Jessie still here?" Eli asked.

"Ya, her and Katie are upstairs." Eli continued heading straight to the attic.

"What was that about?" Lily asked Grace

"Jessie owes Eli a lot of money, I'll explain tomorrow." Grace said running past Lily to catch up to Eli. Once she caught up to him he was in front of Jessie's door about to grab the door knob, "Eli wait what if there in the middle of something."

"I don't really care..." He said opening the door and beginning to walk up the steps he began to say, "You owe me so much mon…" he stopped halfway through his sentence at the sight before his eyes. Grace had reached the top of the steps, and took her hands and tried to cover Eli's eyes.

Jessie and Katie immediately broke apart, grabbed the cover and pulled it over the two of them, both girls had shocked looks on their faces, as everyone remained still as if time was frozen, "You two get dressed. We'll be right back." Grace said. Keeping her hands over Eli eyes while maneuvering him and herself out of the attic.

Once Jessie and Katie heard the door close behind them Jessie just fell backwards grabbed a pillow and smothered her face in it.

The Hallway

Eli and Grace were standing outside the door trying to recover from what just happened. Eli was rubbing his eyes with his hands trying to forget what he just saw, "What was that you were saying before about us walking in on something?" Eli said starting to regret not knocking to see if they were in the middle of something.

Grace was standing there with her eyes shut trying to banish the image of Jessie and Katie half naked and kissing, "I tried to tell you to slow down."

"I regret not listening." Eli said wishing he could take the last few minutes

Jessie's Attic

Katie was up had her pants on and was pulling her shirt over her head wondering why Jessie was still lying flat on her bed staring at the ceiling. Once Katie had her shirt all the way on she walked over to Jessie pants picked them up and through them at her and said, "Jessie come one get up, get dressed, unless you want to go talk to them half naked." Katie said

Jessie just barely caught her pants got, up and started to put them on, "Might as well they already saw us." She said with a frown on her face,

"Jess, don't be like this." Katie said knowing that look on Jessie's face. Put some distance between them, back away from Katie look.

"Be like what?" Jessie said wanting to know what Katie talking about, and put some distance between them.

"You're doing that thing again." Katie said starting to get annoyed with Jessie

"What thing Katie?" Jessie said getting annoyed with Katie's who gives a crap attitude.

"That push Katie away, the world is going to end attitude, because someone saw you enjoying your girlfriend. Jessie, they walked in on us so wait, it's the first time and I guaranty you it's not going to be the last time. Who gives a crap it's just Grace and Eli two people that know about us. Who cares?" Katie said with a little bit of rage in her voice.

"The fact that you act like you don't care about what does and doesn't happen when odds are you care about what happens more than anyone." Jessie said. Having something else on her mind.

Jessie Black and White

"I can't do this I can't hide anymore." Jessie said running her hands through her hair.

"Katie I can't do this anymore." Jessie said

"You can't date me anymore!?" Katie said not realizing what Jessie meant.

"No. I mean I can't keep hiding anymore I want to tell my family about us when my dad come back from Australia." Jessie eyes started to water a little bit.

"Jess, were is this coming from?" Katie said her eyes watering a little bit herself while moving towards Jessie.

"Every day since the first time we slept together, I have wanted you more and more, and I can't do that if we keep on hiding. If you want to keep staying hidden at school that's your choice we agreed on that, but I can't keep hiding from my family anymore." Katie started moving towards Jessie, "Katie when I'm at home I don't want to hide from my family, an…"

Katie cut Jessie off by pulling her in for a kiss like none other, with more passion and love than any other before. More than the first time they kissed, more than the first time they slept together, and any kiss they ever had before. It lasted for at least five minutes until they had no choice but to stop for air, "You know what the ironic thing is?"

"Why don't you tell me?" Jessie said with that smile across her face that Katie loved to see above all else.

"A few months ago we were standing in this spot when you came out to me, and now were coming out to your family and the school." Katie said with a grin on her face.

"The school?" Jessie said noticing the last part of Katie's sentence.

"Jess, if you're ready then I'm ready." Katie said pulling Jessie in for another kiss.

Jessie pulled apart from Katie and said, "Eli and Grace are in the hallway." Motioning towards the door.

"Just one last kiss, we have no idea how long this could take." Katie said pleading.

"Fine." Jessie wrapped her arms around Katie's waist and kissed her.

The Hallway

Eli and Grace are standing in the hallway still trying to process what they saw, "At least we can say for a fact that shes gay." Grace said trying make a joke out of the situation.

At that moment the opened and Jessie and Katie walked out, to the sight of Eli staring at the ceiling obviously trying to process what he saw, and Grace having a hard time staring directly at Jessie and Katie, "You know what I'll talk to you about this in the morning." Eli said not being able to deal with the library fine then and there.

"Ok." Jessie said. Eli walked down the hallway her and Katie closed the door and headed back up to her room, and Grace went to her room.

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Sammler / Manning House: Jessie's Attic

It's now a 10:30 p.m. everyone has gone to bed for the night except for Jessie and Katie who have decided to stay up and talk, "So what do think of this. Monday after school we tell Lily and my Dad. After dinner so that everyone's in a good mood, an…" Jessie said.

Jessie Black and White

Jessie looked at the camera, "We have to be thorough about this. This has to be planned out perfectly. If this doesn't go according to plan who knows what their reaction could be."

"Jess, I think where putting a little too much thought into this?" Katie said, starting to get tired.

"Katie we just spent 2 hours debating about the best way to come out at school." Jessie wanting to be thorough and cover as much ground as possible with this.

"And I still think the best way is to take our time, stop acting like best friends start acting like girlfriends, and let people figure it out themselves." Katie said yawning, "Come on lets go to bed and talk about this tomorrow, we have all weekend to worry about this." Katie gave Jessie pleading eyes.

"Fine but if you think that after what happened with Grace and Eli I'm doing anything more than cuddle with you you're dead wrong." Jessie said while crawling underneath the sheets, and patted on the side of the bed the Katie was supposed to sleep on.

"Fine but if think that I'm going to be able to control myself tomorrow you're the one whoses dead wrong." Katie crawled up the bed underneath the covers next to Jessie and gave her a good night kiss.

"I can go along with that." Jessie said giving Katie one last good night kiss.

Sammler / Manning House: Grace's Room

Grace kept on tossing and turning all night unable to sleep not after what had happened with her Eli, Jessie, and Katie earlier. That wasn't the only thing that was on her mind, for some reason Eli was also, the way they had been acting the last few weeks, and the way she stopped being angry about him for missing the play. She leaned up, and decided she needed to talk to someone about this now. She got up out of her bed, headed out of her room, and headed to Eli's Garage.

Eli's Garage

Eli is laying on his bed under the cover staring at the ceiling, contemplating what had happened only a few hours ago, when he heard a knock on the door. KNOCK. He got up from the bed and when he opened the door saw Grace who immediately said while walking into his room, "I can't sleep."

Eli at her and said, "Come on in." She walked over to the coach, and sat on it, while he leaned against the dresser and said, "Why can't you sleep?" He had a feeling he knew why Grace couldn't sleep for the same reason he couldn't.

"You saw what I saw didn't you?" Grace said

"If you mean Katie and my sister, half naked, and making out, then yes I saw what you saw." Eli said still trying to get that image out of his head.

"I mean," Grace stopped for a second to put her words together, "I know they're gay, I've known since before we walked in on them. I've seen them have long hugs, hold hands, kiss, but what we saw, it's as if… well… its sinking in."

"What do you mean sinking in?" Eli said wondering what she meant by that.

"Just seeing hold hands, kiss a few times, and hug a lot, I mean, I guess just seeing that you think, it's just a phase, there experimenting, trying something new, but after seeing that…" Eli cut grace off before she could finish her sentence.

"You realize that's it your younger sister is gay, and this is the way she is." Eli said looking at Grace.

"I wish I could just forget this ever happened." Grace said, Grace pitched he eyebrows, closed her eyes tight, and leaned her head back so that she was looking at the ceiling. Eli ran his hand through his hair, walked over to the coach and sat on it. At the same time Grace sat next to him on the couch, "Can we talk about something else to get our mind off this?"

"Ya, sure what do you want to talk about." Eli said.

"I don't know." Grace said then she realized the other thing she had on her mind, "No I do actually."

Eli looked over at Grace and said, "What is it?"

"Us." Grace said, knowing that she had to talk to him about this.

"What about us?" Eli said with a confused look.

"Eli, do you remember before our parents got married, and we were sitting in my room waiting?"

"Ya, I do." Eli said.

"Eli did we almost kiss?" Grace asked finally asking that question, and finally wanting an answer.

Eli stared at the ceiling remembering all too well what happened that day, "Ya."

Grace stud up and starting walking around to room, "Have you noticed how these last few weeks we have been acting…differently."

Eli was confused, "What do you mean by differently?" Eli said stud up and started moving towards Grace a little bit.

"What I mean, is what I think is…" Grace walked straight up to Eli and kissed him, she broke apart real quick, "I'm sorry." Grace said immediately.

Eli looked at her for a second and almost as fast as she did he said, "I'm not." He grabbed the side of Graces arms kissed her again. The two of them walked backwards to the coach and fell back on it and entered a deep make out session.

Grace realized something and broke apart for a second, "Wait our parents?"

"My dad is in Australia, and your mom is asleep." Eli said, then they reentered their deep enchanted kiss.

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June 1st, 2002

Sammler / Manning House: Eli's Garage

Grace and Eli are currently asleep on Eli's couch. They had fallen asleep in each other's arms, fully clothed, only a few hours after a very deep make out session, they heard Eli's alarm go off, Ring, Grace was the first one of them to wake up, "Eli, get up!" she said as she pushed Eli off of her, "It's 10:00!"

Eli had started to woke up, and said "Jesus, I have to get ready for work." At that moment they heard a knock at the door.

"Eli are you in there? Can I come?" Lily asked while knocking on the door.

"Ya, ah just give me a second." Eli said his and grace head were spinning with were Grace could hide, "Quick under the bed." Grace quickly dove under the bed, and tried to hide herself as best she could. He then heard the door knob and Lily walked in, "Hey ah what do you need?"

"I wanted to ask you if you were up yet. I'm making break feast." Lily said unaware of the events that took place last night.

"Ya, I'll be up in a minute." Eli said hoping that Lily would leave.

"Ok." Lily said noticing her step son's odd behavior, "Is everything alright."

"Ya, I just have to get ready for work, I'm running a late today." Eli said still trying to get Lily to leave.

"Ok, I'll see you upstairs." She said finaly walking out of the room.

Immediately after that Lily walked out of Eli's Garage and went upstairs to the kitchen. Grace crawled out for under Eli's as possible, and made her way to the door, "Grace one thing before you leave." He grabbed grace by her arm and gave her one last kiss.

Grace looked at Eli and said, "I think last night was overdue."

Eli looked at her and said, "I guess to just keep on showing up late." He said with a smile on his face. Grace immediately walked out of the room and started to make her way upstairs.

Sammler / Manning House: The Living Room

Grace had successfully made her way to the living room undetected and was about to make her way up stairs, until she heard Lily shout her name in the kitchen, "Grace is that you in there?"

Grace shouted from the living room, "Ya."

"Can you come in the kitchen for a second?" Lily said wanting to know what her daughter's opinion on what to make for breakfast. Grace walked into the kitchen a little nervous that her mother was going to ask why she was in the living room, "Morning. You slept late today" Grace said acting calm cool and relaxed.

"Ya, I forgot to set my alarm." Grace said trying to seem calm, cool and relaxed.

"What do think about waffles?" Lily asked wanting her daughter's opinion.

"Sounds good." Grace said.

"So, did you have a good night sleep?" Lily asked, while Grace walked over to the cabinet to grab a cup.

Grace froze for a second and said as calm as she could, "What do you mean?"

"Your just in a really good mood this morning." Lily said noticing quick change in attitude, "Why is something wrong?" she asked.

"Nothings wrong, I guess I just had a good night's sleep." Grace said and then thought to herself, - A very good night's sleep. -

"Ok. Have you seen Eli I think he has to be at the book store soon?"

Grace thought to herself again, - Yes, I have, and it was the best morning ever -, "Not yet." Grace said.

"Ok, well can you see if Jessie, Katie, and Zoe are awake, and ask them to come down for breakfast?" Lily asked.

"Ya, sure." As Grace made her way out and up the stairs, she realized something, the thoughts and images in her head were no longer of Jessie and Katie they were now of her and Eli. She didn't even realize she was smiling.

She walked up to Zoe's room looked in there, "Zoe, moms making breakfast wake up, and go down stairs." Grace said having a sort of renewed sense of control and superiority. She had lost that sense of control and superiority after the whole Dimitri thing, but now it had been renewed and regained.

After that she walked over to the door of Jessie's Attic, and decided to try something different to prevent something like what happened last night from happening once again.

Sammler / Manning House: Jessie's Attic

Jessie and Katie were just waking up after a long night of cuddling and kissing each other. Katie looked at Jessie and said softly, "Morning you, did you have a good night's sleep?"

"Any night where I wake up in your arms is a…" Jessie couldn't even finish her sentence, when she and Katie her bagging noise on the door, that scared both out of their skins.

Sammler / Manning House: The Hallway Outside Jessies Attic

"JESSIE AND KATIE WAKE UP… It's time for breakfast, and you two are the only one's who aren't down stairs yet!" Grace shouted through the door. After that she walked away and went downstairs to have her breakfast.

Sammler / Manning House: Jessie's Attic

"I am going to kill her." Jessie said ready for war. Infuriated with Grace for shouting at her and Katie like that.

"What's her problem?" Katie said as made as Jessie, "Was it something we did?"

Jessie than heard her stomach growl and realized how hungry she was, she calmed down and said, "She just being a bitch." Jessie said wanting to go down stairs and get something to eat.

Conveniently Katies stomach also growled, she put her hands on her stomach and said, "I think I need something to eat." Katie said.

Sammler / Manning House: The Kitchen

Everyone is sitting around the table eating breakfast. Eli had left for work and everyone is filling their faces with food, "Grace can you pass the syrup?" Zoe asked Grace.

Grace grabbed the syrup and handed it to Zoe and said, "Here."

Lily finished her food and decided to say, "So what is everyone doing today?"

"I have homework." Grace said

"I'm going over a friend's house." Zoe said

Jessie and Katie simultaneously said, "Not sure." Both girls laughed a little bit about that.