Title: Once and Again Season 4 Episode 6
Rating: T (Some parts of this episode will be Rated M)
Episode Name: Shades of Love
Summary: Karen is waiting for a very important phone call before she goes to work.
Authors Note: Hope you guys enjoyed the fifth episode of the fourth season of Once and Again.
If you have any ideas for episodes, please write them under reviews. Just keep in mind that unlike the last three seasons of Once and Again this one is primary from Jessie, Katie, Grace, and Eli's perspective.
So it took so long to get this episode up it was worth the wait.
All episode of Once and Again Season 4 will posted Friday's between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Once and Again Opening Song
Monday June 3, 2002
Karen's House: Bathroom 8:15 a.m.
Karen is in her bathroom in her rob, straightening her hair making herself look nice for work, and a certain someone.
Karen Black and White
"In January I was depressed. Making manageable pictures to get myself out of bed and do things, count whenever I couldn't make those pictures," Karen paused for a second, "Cry whenever my kids weren't around to keep me company." Karen looked up the camera and smiled, "And then that day came in the hospital when I met Henry. He walked in my room I thought that he was a nurse, not my physical therapist, and I did not like his sense of humor at first, and I did not want him to be there, or come back the next day."
RING, RING, Karen heard the phone go off in the kitchen, and with a hair straightening iron in one hand, ran down stair to the kitchen to answer the phone. Once she got in the Kitchen she a grabbed the phone, "Hello," she said that hoping that it was a certain someone.
"How are you this fine morning?" Henry said into the phone.
Henry Back and White
"When I first meet Karen, I wasn't her biggest fan, she didn't have the best attitude about getting started with physical therapy, we were constantly arguing about her trying to do the exercises. She doesn't know this, but I had a Chaplin go see her, to hopefully get her to start to commit to the program, and mainly to piss her off. Chaplin's do that all of the patients in the hospital." Henry said with a chuckle in his voice.
"I'm fine." Karen said with a grin growing on her face. A grin that always started to appear whenever she heard Henry's voice. "What are you doing?"
"Cooking breakfast, eggs, toast and bacon," He said, with a similar grin on his face, "May I ask what you have done this morning."
"First I had to spend twenty minutes trying to get Jessie, out of bed, and to get ready for school." Karen said, considering that whenever Jessie was with her on a school day, it was the exact same situation.
Henry chuckled a little bit, "Glad I'm not you. When I was her age if I wasn't out of be with 60 sixty second of being woken up my dad did one of two things."
"What was that." Karen said curious thinking that maybe it would get Jessie out of bed sooner.
"He either filliped me off of my mattress, or took a cup of ice cold water and poured it on me."
Karen laughed a little bit, knew she couldn't do either of those things to Jessie, and said "I had five minutes to be sitting at the table eating break feast, or I had to walk three miles to school in the morning." Karen said going back to the number of times her and her sisters had to walk to school in the morning.
"We really did have strict parents." Henry said. The both started to laugh a little bit.
Karen Black and White
"After Jessie and Eli came to visit me I realized that I had to let Henry help. And when I read his name tag for the first time, and we both laughed the way we did something changed between us. I guess that was when I started to like him the way I do."
"I just wanted to check if we're still on for our lunch date today." Henry said
"12:00 near the water fountain." Karen said with a grin on her face, "I'll see you then."
"Yes you will."
Henry Black and White
"Something changed overnight I don't know what it was but when I came in the next day she was ready to commit to the program, work with me. I guess that was when I started to fall for her."
Once they hung up the phone Karen looked at the clock, realized what the time was, and ran back upstairs to the bathroom to finish getting ready.
Henry's Place: The Kitchen
Once Henry hung up the phone with Karen, he smelled something burning, and then realized that he had left his eggs and bacon on the stove too long, and his toast in the toaster to long.
Upton Sinclair High School: The Hallway
It's a little after 10:00 a.m. Jessie and Katie are spending their study walking around the halls of Upton Sinclair High School. Katie is twirling and spinning around the hallway, and Jessie is trying to get her to stop, considering that she already ran into a locker twice, "What are you doing." Jessie said while laughing a little bit.
Katie then grabbed Jessie's hand and twirled her around at little, "Come on its fun." Jessie tried to go along with it but struggled. Both girls ended up laughing about it. While Katie continued to spin and twirl around the hallway Jessie leaned against the locker and feel backwards against and slid to the floor. That big smile that was on her face turned into a small grin, a thought had come across her mind. The same thought that had been coming across her mind all morning. Katie had noticed Jessie's state of mind this morning and asked, "Ok, what's going through head?"
"What do you mean?" Jessie said, she wasn't sure what Katie was referring too.
"All morning your head has been all over the place. One minute it's here, one minute it's there, the next minute its somewhere else." Katie sat down next too Jessie.
"Its nothing." Jessie said with a grin on her face enjoying torturing Katie.
"You have a smile on your face, so it can't be nothing." Katie said moving closer to Jessie.
Jessie kept that smile on her face and said, "Nope I'm not going to tell you."
"Oh, come on please tell me." Katie gave Jessie pleading eyes.
"I may need some convincing." Jessie said
Almost immediately Katie gave Jessie a sweet short kiss, "My mom has a great boyfriend, I'm able to kiss my girlfriend in public, and I don't know how this day could get any better." Jessie said giving a Katie a sweet short kiss also.
"Well once your Dad gets home tonight, and we tell him about us, we'll be able to kiss whenever we want. Does that make your day better?" Katie said, while snuggling up against Jessie.
The smile that was on Jessie's face grew twice as big. She turned towards Katie and gave her a big kiss, "What you just said just made my day so much better." Jessie said while leaning over and giving Katie another kiss.
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Commercials have ended the show is back
The Water Fountain in the Park
It's 12:07 p.m. Karen is waiting for Henry to show up for their lunch date in the park. She is scanning the park, when she sees a six-foot-tall black figure in the distance, jogging towards her, "Hey." Henry shouted from the distance one hand in the hair waving and the other carrying a brown bag containing his lunch.
Karren stud up, once he finally got over by her, and said "Your late."
When Henry finally stopped running he leaned forward and put both of his hands on his knees to try and catch his breath, "I got…held up…with…a patient." Henry said through deep breaths.
Once Henry finally caught his breath he stud up and was meet by a kiss, Karen said, "I'll let it slide this once, but I won't again."
Henry laughed and gave Karen a kiss, "I promise this is a one-time deal."
"It better be." Karen said as the both of them sat down and began to eat there lunches.
Karren and Henry both took a bite out of their food. Karren finished chewing and asked, "How was the game yesterday? Did you win?"
Once Henry finished chewing he said, "Blew the other team out of the water."
"Maybe we could go out and celebrate your big win tonight." Karen said moving her hand on top of Henry's thigh.
"What did you have in mind?" Henry said wanting to know what Karen was thinking for tonight.
"You could come over, I could cook you some diner. Maybe if I could get my kids out of the house we could have some fun upstairs."
"Sounds like a plan." Henry said while smiling at Karen, "What time should I come over at?"
"How does 7:00 sound. That should be enough time to get the kids out of the house." Karen said staring into Henry's deep dark eyes.
"Seven sounds perfect." Henry said while planting a kiss on Karen's lips that lasted a minute and was broken up by the beeping noise from Henry's watch, "I have to go." He said looking at the time knowing that he had to get back to his office.
"I'll let you go just don't be late tonight." Both studs up
"I won't." Henry said while giving Karen a good-bye kiss, both of them started to head in their separate directions.
Karen then walked over to her car, pulled out her phone and was hoping that Eli was home.
Karen's House: The Living Room
Eli is lying back on the couch, going through a play boy knowing that he was in the clear since his mother and Jessie weren't home. "RING, RING" Eli looked up from his magazine, got up from the coach and went straight to the kitchen, to answer the phone, "Hello."
"Eli?" Karen said into the phone relieved that her son answered the phone.
"Hey mom."
"Eli, I need you and Jessie to stay out of the house tonight until after 11:00 tonight." Karen said, in need of her son's cooperation.
"Ah, Ya why?" Eli asked curious
"I have someone coming over and I would appreciate it if my kids weren't in the house tonight." Karen said not wanting to go into detail with her son about this.
"You could've just said Henry is coming over tonight."
Karen's Car
"Just make sure that you and Jessie stay out of the house until 11:00." She then hung up the phone on her son, started her car, and started to make her way back to her work.
Upton Sinclair: Jessie's Locker
The bell had just rung ending forth period and starting lunch period. Jessie is searching her locker for a book that she needs after lunch. When Katie walked up right next to her, and said, "And how was the rest of your morning?" While reaching into Jessie's locker and grabbing her brush to fix her hair.
"Fine, but it's better now." Jessie having finally found the book she needed stuffed it into her bag, and turned towards her girlfriend.
"I've got some bad news." Katie said apologetic eyes, "I can't give you a ride to your appointment today."
"Katie come on." Jessie said with disappointment in her voice.
"My mom needs me to come home after school. My hands are tied, its above my head." Katie said putting her head into Jessie's shoulder.
At first Jessie was a shocked that Katie did that but, then remembered - We're out - She put one hand one Katies back and said, "I can handle one appointment without you."
Katie looked up from Jessie's shoulder and said, "Really are you sure Rosenfeld isn't fun to deal with alone."
Jessie grabbed Katies hands said, "I've done it before I can do it again," and gave Katie a kiss on the cheek.
Katie kind of froze for a second and noticed that a few people were looking at them and said, "Jess, people are looking." Katie wasn't alarmed, but she was a little uncomfortable.
Jessie and Katie Black and White
Jessie and Katie are sitting next to each other, "Remember the day I came up to you in the hallway to tell you about Grace and Dimitri, and you got so scared that people knew about us." Katie said with a grin on her face.
"That was at the time." Jessie said.
"Let them look." Is all Jessie said as she gave Katie another only this one was a quick peck on the lips.
Tad walked up from behind and said, "That is hot."
Katie turned towards him and said, "Shut up." She said as she playfully pushed him.
Tad and Jessie both chuckled a little bit, then he said, "I'm guessing this means I'm not sitting between you two anymore."
Jessie looked over at Katie smiled looked back and Tad and said, "No."
The three friends started to make there way to the cafeteria for lunch.
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Commercials have ended the show is back
Karen's House: Karen's Bedroom
It's 6:50 p.m. at Karen's house, she is in her room putting on a pair of earrings for her dinner date with Henry, when she heard Jessie walk in the room, "Mom, you look really nice." Jessie knowing that her mother said she was staying in for the night.
"I have a friend coming over for dinner." Karen said.
"You could just say that Henry is coming over." Jessie said.
Karen rolled her eyes and looked back in the mirror to try and fix her hair, "You and your brother are going to meet your father at the air-port, and then go get something to eat."
"Yes, mom." Jessie said with a smile on her face thinking about how she was going to address bring up the top about her and Katie.
"Remember stay out until after 11:00." Karen said thinking she was finally looked nice, "and how do I look?"
"Beautiful." Jessie said complimenting her mother.
"Jessie!" Eli shouted from down stairs, "Let's go!"
"I'm coming!" Jessie shouted back, she turned towards her mom gave her a hug and kiss said, "Bye mom," and left.
"Bye." Karen said. Jessie walked out of the room and closed the door behind her. Karen then looked back in the mirror, checked one last time that she looked nice, and left her room to go down stair and finish cooking.
Henry Place: The Bathroom
Henry is in his bathroom finishing trimming his go tee and getting dress for his dinner date with Karen. At that moment he heard the phone in the kitchen stopped what he was doing, and bolted down stairs, he grabbed the phone, and answered it, "Hello."
"Hey its me, didn't you leave yet?
"No I'm about to.
"The kids just left, and I'm almost done cooking." Karen said.
"I'm leaving my house in ten minutes."
"Ok, I see you in a little while."
"Bye." They hung up the phone and henry went up to the bathroom to finish with his go tee.
The Liquor Store: Red Wine Aisle
Henry I walking through the aisle wondering which type of wine Karen was in the mood for, he pulled out his phone dialed her number and called her, "I'm at the liquor store and wasn't sure if you wanted red or white tonight."
"Red is fine and thankyou for taking me into consideration."
"Not a problem. I'll see you in a few." Henry said as he hung up the phone.
Karen immediately realized that she still had to put the chicken in the oven. She ran over to the oven, put the chicken in and raised the temperature to speed up the process of cooking the food.
The Liquor Store: Red Wine Aisle
Henry is looking for a good bottle of red wine for him and Karen to share at diner tonight, "Ah her we go." He picks up a bottle of wine made in 2000, "Always good to have a couple of year on it." After that Henry walked over to the line, and line and handed the bottle to the cashier.
The cashier scanned the bottle and said, "That will be 23.99."
Henry reached into his wallet pulled out his debit card handed it the cashier she swiped it, put the wine in a brown bag handed to him, and said, "Have a good one."
"You two." Henry said as he walked out the door headed to his car, opened the door started the engine, and began to drive to Karen's house.
Eli's Car
"What time are we supposed to be meeting dad, at the airport?" Jessie asked Eli looking at the clock.
"He said that he said he would be standing outside at 7:30. We have plenty of time." Eli said very calm and relaxed. He noticed that Jessie was staring out the window, her mind had gone some place else and decided to have some fun, "How's the withdrawal?"
"What?" Jessie said not sure what her brother was talking about.
"The withdrawal from your beloved Katie." Eli said teasing his sister.
"I am not in withdrawl." Jessie said
"This is the first time I've seen you this month without Katie by your side." Eli said a grin on his face, "The temptation to kiss her and be with her right now it's torture isn't it."
"First of all it's not torture, I am more than capable of going one night without kissing my girlfriend. Second, I have other things on my mind them than Katie."
"Oh really like what? I know that when I was dating Jenifer and Carla my mind was always on them."
"Like umm." Eli caught Jessie for a second, she had a hard
"Here let me guess, telling Dad about you and Katie." Eli said with a smirk on his face.
"Wait how do you know?" Jessie said shocked wondering if her brother was being serious or joking.
"I'm psychic." He said grinning enjoying this, while pulling into the airport driveway.
Jessie thought about who knew she and Katie were coming out, and then remembered the only other person that knew she and Katie were coming out, "Grace told you, didn't she." Jessie said annoyed that Grace told Eli that.
Before he could say anything, Eli looked out the window, and saw his father, "Is that Dad?"
"Don't change the sub…," She stopped what she was saying when she saw her father out the window, and his arm in a sling, "Oh my god."
What they pulled up the both of them got out of the car, and gave him a hug, "Ow, careful guys the doctor in Australia just rest it."
"What happened?" Eli said wanting to know happen to his father, "Did you get mugged or something."
He scolded his son for a second, "I didn't get mugged. I was coming down the stairs to check out of the hotel, one of the workers who was carrying luggage bumped into me, causing me to fall down two stairs and dislocate my shoulder."
"Are you ok." Jessie said.
"Kind of, still hurts a little, and I only have one arm to work with for the next two weeks, but other than, I don't think today could get any worse." The, get any worse, part of his sentence is what caught Jessie attention, and made her think, - Maybe today isn't the best day to tell him about me Katie.-
Rick reach out his one good arm, to pick up his bags, when Eli moved both of those away from him, "Oh no, your getting in the car and relaxing, well get those for you." As Rick walked over to the car, and used his one good arm to open the door, and get in the car, Jessie and Eli each grabbed a bag, and walked over to the trunk with it.
"Tonight, probably isn't the best night to tell him about you and Katie." Eli said realizing his father wasn't in the greatest mood tonight.
"You think." Jessie said realizing it's probably better to wait until his arm stops hurting before she tells him about her and Katie.
Once that was said, Eli and Jessie both got in the car, Jessie in the back, Eli in the front, and Eli asked his injured father, "So dad you still want to go get something to eat or would you rather, order in tonight.
"Ya let's just go to the diner." Once Rick said that Eli started the engine and stated to drive away.
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Karen's House: Karen's Kitchen
Karen is in the kitchen pulling the chicken she made from the oven and put it on the table, when she hears the door bell ring, RING, "Coming." She shouted while taking off her oven mittens.
Karen's House: Front Porch
Henry was standing on the other side of the door with a bottle of wine in hand and flowers in the other hand. When Karen opened door he said, "Hey sorry I'm late." Henry said.
Karen had arms crossed and scolding look on her face, but she couldn't hold a straight face like she was disappointed in him. That scolding look quickly changed to a smile, "It's not a problem I just finished cooking."
"I was wondering what smelled so good. Also, these are for you," He handed her the flowers, then said, "and this is for us." He then held up the bottle of wine and showed it to Karen.
"Let's get inside an enjoy that then." Karen said.
Henry walked in the house with Karen and they went to the kitchen to get two glasses and a bottle opener, "Glasses are on the top shelf right."
"I moved them to the other cabinet." Karen said going through the draw to try and find the bottle opener.
Henry was successful in locating the glasses, but then his fingers slipped and knocked one of the glasses out, "Oopp." Henry quickly caught the glass with his other hand, "That was close"
Karen had her hand across her chest taking a deep breath, "Be careful."
Henry put the one glass on the counter, and said "Sorry, for the scare." While reaching for the other.
Karen had a smile on her face, and said, "Just don't drop the other one."
"I won't." Henry said as hey put the glasses down on the counter.
Karen had successfully found and pulled that bottle opener out of the drawer and said, "Would you like the honors." She handed Henry the bottle opener.
"Please and thank you." He said as Karen handed him the bottle opener. Henry without any problem cracked open the bottle and removed the cork. Karen moved the glasses closer to Henry, so that he could fill them, without any problem. He filled both glasses and said, "This is for you, and this one is for me." He said as he handed her the glass carefully.
"Thankyou. What should we drink to." Karen asked.
"How's about a quick recovery, and a long life." Henry said with a smile on his face and looked into Karen's eyes.
"I'll drink to that." She said staring just as deeply into Henry's eyes they both gently tapped their glasses and drank from the.
A Diner in Chicago
Rick, Eli, and Jessie are at a dinner getting something eat after Ricks long and painful plain ride. The waitress had finally made her way over to the table to take their orders. Jessie ordered first, "I'll have the chocolate chip pancakes."
Then Eli ordered, "I'll ah have burger and fries."
When she got to Rick he said, "I'll have Burger, fires, eggs, bacon, and toast." Jessie and Eli looked over at Rick surprised he ordered that much food.
"Ok. I'll go put the order in." the waitress said.
"Jesse dad was there nothing to eat in Australia." Eli said
"Oh nothing good." Rick said looking out the window thinking about what he arrived to in Australia.
"So, dad how was it in Australia, did you get to do any sight-seeing, or tours of the wild…ow did you see a kangaroo?" Jessie said bombarding her father with a number of questions to help get his mind off of his arm, and the painful flight home.
"I unfortunately didn't get to do any of those things." Rick said remembering all of the work he had to do.
"Why? Did something happen with the project?" Eli asked having a feeling that was what had Rick in a not so good mood, considering that he been injured before and been able to shake it off easily.
"The minute I got to the construction site everything was out of order. I had to spend all of Saturday reorganizing the entire construction site, and that night I was on the phone arguing with suppliers to get supplies, that where weeks behind, to be there in the morning. I got maybe an hour of sleep. The next day I had to explain all the plans to the architect that was there, so he could do his job. It was basically no stop work from the minute I got off the plane." Rick said staring at the ceiling. His stomach was killing him from the amount of work he had to do to get the time frame to build the hotels back on track, and that over the course of three days he got a total of 12 hours of sleep. He then put his hand over his mouth and yawned a little bit.
"Well it's over now, and you won't have to deal with that for month."
The waitress returned with there food and handed it to them, "Hamburger with fries,"
"Right here." Eli said
"Chocolate chip pancakes." She said as she handed Jessie the plate.
"Thankyou."
"Hamburger, Fries, bacon, eggs, and toast." She said as she handed Rick each piece of his food one by one.
"Thankyou."
Once the three of them got their food they began to eat, Eli and Jessie where amazed with how fast their father was eating his food.
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Karen's House: The Dining Room
It's 8:00 p.m. Karen and Henry are sitting at the table enjoying all of the food that Karen made, including the almost burned chicken, "You know, I'm starting to think I didn't have to rush through the liquor store." He said washing down the burn chicken with the wine.
"You were running late, I forgot to put the chicken in the oven and had to speed up the process."
"So, you sent the oven twice as high as it was supposed to be, forgot it was in there when I got here and only remembered when the fire alarm went off." He said and laughed a little bit.
"You are so mean." Karen said laughing a little also.
"But you love it." Henry said
"Some how I do." She said with a smile on her face, as she took another sip of her wine.
Henry took another bite of his chicken and said, "Burned or not it is still excellent."
"Thankyou." Karen said laughing
Once they both finished eating they worked together to clean the dishes. Karen washed them and then Henry dried and put them in the drying rack, "How many more do we have left?" Henry asked.
Karen had a plate in her hand and was almost done rinsing it off, "Just…this…one." She said and handed Henry the plate.
Once he finished drying it off, he put it in the drying rank. "That was fun." He said with a grin on his face while drying his hands off and putting the towel on top of the drying rank.
"In deed." Karen said while giving Henry a kiss. Then Henry kissed her back.
They continued to kiss for a while, and then Henry broke the kiss, "How long until your kids get home?" "I told them to stay out until 11:00 and I gave Eli the car, we have plenty of time." she said and continued to kiss Henry.
The Car
Rick, Jessie, and Eli have finished eating dinner, and are in the car on the way back to the Sammler/Manning house to drop off Rick. The car ride was quiet, Jessie was sitting in the back wondering how she was going to explain to Katie that she didn't tell her Dad about them. Rick is sitting in the passenger's seat battling with his eyes not to fall asleep before he gets home. Eli is focused on the road, unaware of his fathers and sisters current states of mind.
Jessie Black and White
"What am I going to tell Katie." Jessie said looking at the camera in panic, "Oh my god, she came out to the whole school for me without hesitation, even though she didn't want to, and I can't come out to my dad." Jessie looked at the camera confused not sure what to do.
Rick Black and White
"Just a little longer." Rick said looking at the camera half asleep, "Just a little longer."
Then the car stopped which pulled Jessie and Rick out of there trances, "Welcome home Dad." Eli said as they pulled in the Driveway. Rick shook his head and woke himself up. Jessie realized they were in the driveway and pulled herself out of her trance.
All three of them got out of the car and walked to the truck, to help Rick get his bags, Eli reach into the Truck and pulled the bags out and asked, "Do you need any help getting in the house?"
"I can handle it from here." He gave both Jessie and Eli a big hug, "I missed the both of you so much." He then grabbed both of his bags and walked into the house.
Jessie and Eli got into the car and began their drive back to Karen's house. Jessie was looking out the window wondering what she was going to tell Katie tomorrow morning, "So do you think…" Eli started his sentence and then was interrupted by Jessie.
"Eli what am I going to do?" Jessie asked her brother, not sure what she was going to say to Katie tomorrow.
"What are you talking about?" Eli said not sure what Jessie was talking about.
"Eli, I was supposed to tell him about me Katie tonight." Jessie said running her hand through her hair not sure what she was going to say.
"Jess, I don't know if you realize this, but lesbian romance isn't exactly something I'm an expert on so your going to have to tell me what your talking about." Eli said not understanding what Jessie was talking about.
"Katie and I agreed that when she was ready to go start acting like girlfriends at school, I would tell Dad and Lily about us, or when I am ready to tell Dad and Lily about us we would start acting like girlfriends at school. Eli, I told Katie that I was going to tell him tonight." Jessie said
"Jess, I'm sure that if you start off by telling her about the mood he was in, his almost broken arm, and everything he went through last weekend she'll be ok with waiting a few more days." Eli said thinking that it wasn't that big of a deal.
"I hope your right." Jessie said
Karen's House: Karen's bedroom
Karen and Henry are sleeping in Karen's bed after a very long and vigorous, hour and half of sex.
Karen's House: The driveway
Jessie and Eli have just pulled into the driveway and are still talking about what Katie's reaction is going to be when Jessie tells her that she couldn't tell her dad about them, "Jess, he has a broken arm, and the last three days have been Hell for him, I think she'll understand that tonight wasn't the best night to tell him that for the three months his daughter has been lying to him." Eli said trying to get through to Jessie.
"That's what you think he would think of this, that we have been lying to him for three months." Jessie said annoyed with what he brother said.
"Jess, I'm going to telling you the way it is. For the last three months, you and Katie have been telling everyone that your best friends, not girlfriends. Something give me a feeling that with the mood he was in tonight, that would be the only thing he would have gotten out of it." Eli said reading into the situation for a change.
Jessie knew that her brother wasn't right but he wasn't wrong at the same time, "And what if you wrong?" Jessie said softly not wanting there to be a problem between her and Katie.
"I have seen the way that you two act around each other, I think you'll be fine." Eli said.
The both of them got to front door, and ended the conversation, not sure if their mother was still awake. Henry had parked his in the street so they didn't realize that he was going to be staying for the night.
Karen's bedroom
It's 8:00 a.m. and Karen's alarm is going off, BEEP BEEP. Karen wakes up and realizes the time, "Jesus," Looks over at Henry, "Henry wake up." She then shakes his shoulder.
Henry wakes up and say, "What?" He wakes up a little disoriented, "What happened?"
"We over sleep." Get up. They both quickly got out of bed, Karen put on a pair of pajamas, and her rob, while henry put on the clothes he was wearing last night.
They then heard Jessie from down the hall, "Mom are you up yet?" as she walked towards the door.
Karen pushed Henry behind the door to hid him and stood in the doorway to talk to Jessie, "Hey, good morning."
"It's 8:00, don't you have to get ready for work."
Karen tried to think of an excuse really quick, "I'm going in late today." Then they heard the phone ringing, "Can you go answer that?"
"Sure." Jessie said as she headed down stairs to answer the phone.
Henry then came out from behind the door to finish putting his shirt on, "I'll call you from work."
"Come down after I do and go out the front door. I'll get the kids in the kitchen, and one other thing." She gave Henry a kiss good bye.
Henry headed down the stairs to the front door and front door, opened it and left.
Karen's house: The Kitchen
Jessie ran into the kitchen and answered the phone, "Hello."
Cough, Cough, Jessie heard through the phone, "Jess." The cough sounded kind of fake, but she did recognize the voice.
"Katie. You couldn't wait another hour to hear my voice." Jessie said.
"Well I won't be able to see or hear you today." Katie said.
"Let me guess your sick." Jessie questioning her girlfriend.
"Ya, I…" Another Cough that sounded fake, "need you to get my homework from Tad for me and bring it to me after school."
"And you're really sick," Jessie said not falling for Katie's act she knew all too well that once every two weeks or so Katies parents had to work late and didn't get back home until around two in the morning, and Katie liked fake being sick on that day.
"You can see for yourself after school."
"Katie, I'm sorry but, I'm going to see my Dad after school today."
"Are you sure, because you know I'm for the rest of the week."
"Positive." Jessie said needing more time to figure out what to say to Katie, "we're still on for Saturday right?" she asked.
"You know I wouldn't a day out with you." Katie then fake coughed again, "Call me after school."
"Enjoy your day off." After she said that Jessie hung up the phone and realized that she was going to have some extra time to figure out how to tell Katie about what happened with her dad. She just leaned up against the wall and began to ponder what she was going to say.
That was when Eli also walked into the kitchen, neither of them aware that Henry had made his way out of the front door, but they did see him running across the front lawn without his car without his shoes on, "Eli is that that guy Henry moms been seeing?" she said as they walked closer to the window to get a better view.
Eli took a good look and said almost certain, "I think that is." He paused, squinted his eyes, and took a better look. "Why is he caring his shoes?"
Jessie and Eli both watched as he dug through his coat pocket to find his key, "Do you think he ended up staying the night, and tried to make a quick exist?"
"I guess." Eli said.
Karen then walked in the kitchen, and asked them what they where looking, "What are you two looking at?" she said worried that they may have saw Henry leaving.
Jessie then asked, "Mom, is that the guy Henry you've been seeing?" as her and Eli continued to watch him struggle to find his keys.
Eli then said, "Also did he maybe end up staying the night?"
Karen looked out the window to see what they where looking at, grabbed both of her kids and said, "Just get in the kitchen and have breakfast." Not wanting to get into this with the kids.
Jessie then said with a smile on her face enjoying what was happening, "Does that mean that that is Henry, he did stay the night?" her morning had just vastly improved.
Karen then rolled her eyes and said "We had a few glasses of wine and didn't feel safe driving home." Not wanting to tell them what really happened.
"I'm sure that's exactly what happened." Eli said sarcastically, which lead to him getting a slap on the side of the head.
"Are you ready to go to school?" she said asking Jessie.
"I'm ready to go." Jessie said.
"Eli what time are you going to work?" Karen asked.
"I'm not I got fired, they took my photo and band me the premises." Karen then Thumbed Eli on the side of the Eli, knowing that he was joking, "Kidding, I have to be in a 11:00."
"Ok you have to drop Jessie off at school, then drive me to work at 9:00, and pick me up, after work. I am working late tonight."
"Ok." Eli then walked out of the kitchen to start the car and get ready to drive Jessie to school. Karen sat down in a chair, not able to believe that this was how her morning went.
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Authors Comment:
There is something I would like to say and address to everyone. When writing a review, you should always think twice before you post it, you never know why someone wrote what they did in that fanfiction, and once it is up it can not be taken down. This applies to everyone including myself. I would like everyone to keep this in mind when they write a review of anyone's fan fiction.