Title: Once and Again Season 4 Episode 7

Rating: T

Episode Name: Are you ready?

Summary: Jessie and Katie are at Katie's house hanging out.

Authors Note:

We are now at episode 7 of what I plan on being a 24 to 30 episode season of Once and Again, and I wanted to ask you fans a few questions on what I have included in this season so far.

1. What do you think of that this season is more from Jessie, Katie, Grace, and Eli's point of view? Unlike the prior three seasons where it is from Rick and Lily's point of view.
2. What do you think me choosing to jump start the Eli and Grace romance?
3. What do you think of the way that I am handling the Jessie and Katie romance?

Please write your responses under comments, or message me directly.

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

Once and Again Opening Music

Saturday June 8, 2002

Katie's House: Katie's bedroom

Jessie and Katie are hanging out in Katie's bedroom. Katie is going through some week-old edition of people magazine, Jessie is pretending to read a book, while really, she is just staring at her beautiful girlfriend. She was still wondering how they had been able to avoid the topic of Jessie telling her Dad and Lily about them all week.

Jessie Black and White

"So, you know how there is that one person in the world who you have a feeling could just tell when something is wrong with you, when your keeping something from them, and they will eventually call you out on it…" Jessie looked at the camera, "that is who Katie is."

Jessie was worried that the question was coming that at some point, Katie was going to ask her, what happened with telling her dad about them.

Katie Black and White

"You know how people say that they have people in their lives that you have a feeling could just tell when something is wrong with you, when your keeping something from them." Katie looked up at the camera and smiled, "I think that because those two people know everything about each other, they don't hide anything from each other, and if something is being hidden, you can just tell that something wrong."

Katie then looked up from her magazine and noticed that look on Jessies face, and said, "How's the reading going?" She said with a smile on her face knowing that Jessie wasn't reading. Whenever Jessie was pretending to read and stare at Katie, Katie could tell because Jessie would have this look on her face that always stood out.

Jessie knew that she had just been staring at Katie the whole time, and didn't think that Katie had noticed, and didn't feel like saying what she was doing so she decided to play it up like she was reading, "Good."

Katie knew Jessie was lying so she decided to beat around the bush a bit and see if she could catch Jessie in the act, "What book?" she knew what book Jessie was reading she thought she would just test her.

"The Crucible." Jessie said quickly but not two quickly.

"What's it about?" Katie said continuing her interrogation.

"The Witch Trials" Jessie said.

Katie thought for a second, took a good look at the book to see how far into it Jessie was. It didn't look like Jessie had read to much, "What act are you on?"

"Act one."

Katie thought about it for a second and remembered that when she read the Crucible the first act only had four scenes, "What scene?"

Katie had finally asked a question that Jessie didn't have an answer for, So she made up an answer, "Five."

"Ha, got you." Katie said having caught Jessie in her lye.

Jessie wasn't sure how she was caught feel backwards into the bed put the book over her face and said, "What gave it away?"

Katie moved herself closer to Jessie and said, "I read the Crucible last year. Act one only has four scenes not five, and its not that hard to tell when your doing that fake reading, stare at me thing with your eyes." She then fell backwards right next to her girlfriend. She reached across grabbed the book which was covering Jessie face and throw it across the room.

Jessie then asked, "Is it really that obvious." She was a little embarrassed.

Katie then rolled on top of Jessie and said, "It's one of the easiest things I can tell your doing." She then kissed Jessie, Jessie then kissed back both girls rolled onto their sides and started kissing and laughing and running their hands up and down each other's sides. It wasn't a deep make out like they usually had on Saturdays because Jessie mind was somewhere else, and Katie was beginning to catch on, "Ok, where have you been this week?" Katie asked wanting answers.

"What you mean?" Jessie said not wanting to tell Katie how this entire week all she's been thinking about is that she wasn't able to tell Dad about them, and how Katie was going to react.

"Since I got back to school, your mind has been somewhere else. Half the time this week I've had to say things twice to get your attention." Katie and Jessie both sat up, Katie moved back toward her half of the bed while Jessie sat up, crossed her legs, and turned herself to face Katie. Katie thought about it for second and asked, "Did something happen with your Dad the other night?"

"Nothing happened." Jessie said still needing more time to tell her Dad about them.

"Well what did he say about it?" Katie said now wanting answers.

Jessie was still trying to stall for more time, so she said, "Nothing." It was the only thing she could think of to say.

"He said nothing, absolutely nothing. About us being together, because when I told my Dad about me he said something, and my brothers, and my mother." Katie said finding it hard to believe that Jessie father actually had nothing to say about his daughter dating Katie. Katie thought about it for a second and then asked, "Jess, did you even tell him?"

Jessie then closed her eyes, bit her lip for a second, and thought to herself, - Now I have to tell her -, with her eyes closed she forced the words out, "Katie…" She struggled with finding the right words to try and make Katie understand that nothing good would have come out of telling her dad about them the other night, "the time wasn't right."

Katie just looked at Jessie not sure what she was talking about, "What do you mean the time wasn't right?" She was started to get annoyed with that Jessie was speaking in riddles.

"If I had told him the other night it was not going to end well." Jessie said thinking back to everything that had happened to her father over in Australia.

Katie was still confused, "What did he all of a sudden become a different person over in Australia?"

Jessie thought about what Katie said for a second, and said, "In a way." The way Rick was acting was very different from the way he usually acted.

Katie didn't want to hear another riddle and said, "Can you stop speaking in riddles and just tell me what happened?" she had reached her limit and wanted to know what would cause Jessie, who was all for telling her Dad about them, not to.

"When he got there the project was completely unorganized, he got about 12 hours of sleep over the course of three days and dislocated his shoulder when he was checking out of his hotel. Katie for a lack of better terms he was in rare form."

Katie then asked, "Why didn't you just tell me that?" she didn't see any reason why Jessie hid that from her.

"You came out to the whole for me without hesitation, and I couldn't tell one person about us." Jessie said looking down at the floor.

"It's your dad, not a bunch of people who will stop caring after a few weeks," Katie said reassuring Jessie, "there is a time and place for this kind of thing, and the other night just wasn't it."

Jessie started to feel a little better moved towards Katie gave her a kiss and said, "How do you always know what the right things are to say to me?"

Katie then kissed Jessie back and said, "It's a gift."

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Sammler/Manning House: Grace's Room

Grace is on the phone with the vice principle finalizing all of the information for the dance on Friday, "We are going to need the gym from 7:30 until 11:00, and the DJ is going to be there to set up around 7:00." Grace listened to want she said on the phone, "Perfect I'll see you Monday." She had completed her last phone call and was now able to get back to writing her final essay of the year. She was almost done, and had only one paaragraph left to type, which was when she heard someone walk in her room.

"How's the essay going?" It was Lily standing in the doorway, she wanted to know how Grace was doing on her essay.

"Fine, it's almost done." Grace said not wanting to study anymore.

She looked at Grace typing as fast as she could to finish the assignment "Do you have anything else to study for?" She asked knowing that her daughter had finals next week.

"I have to study for world studies and anatomy." Grace said. She was suffering from all the work she had to do and could not wait for Eli to get out of work and find out how everything was going. Jack and Tiffany where leaving for there honey moon tomorrow, and today was Eli's first day running the store.

Lily then said, "I'll leave you to it." She then existed Grace's room and started to make her way down the hallway.

After about another half hour of work Grace began to wonder how Eli was doing today.

Phil's Book Lovers: Jack's Office

Jack is grabbing a few papers from the office before leaving the store in Eli's hands for the duration of his honey moon, "Remember, while I'm gone your going to be in charge of signing off on delivers, opening and closing the store, and on Thursday handing out everyone's paychecks." Jack said going through one last review of everything that Eli was going to have to run the book store.

"Got it."

"What time do you have to be here to open up?" Jack said making sure that Eli remembered what he told him.

"6:00 in the morning to open up, we start to let customers in at 7:00, ask people to finish up around 6:30, and he the lights off and the door locked by 7:30."

"Good. What time and what days do you have to be here to get the delivers in the morning."

"Delivers come Monday at 5:30 and Thursday at 6:30." Eli said.

"Ok. And when to do you hand out paychecks on Thursday." Jack said this being having finished gathering everything he needed.

"At the end of each shift." Eli said confident that he could handle this.

Jack then pulled his car keys out of his pocket and took the keys to the store off of his key chain and said "I want to see you put this on you key chain right now, this is the only key to store, and you can not lose it." Jack handed the key confident that he could handle everything while he was gone.

Eli then pulled out his key chain, took the key and put it on it, "Ok."

"I'm serious if you lose you that key, we will have a problem. Other that I'm sure you can this."

Eli then shook Jacks hand and said, "Have a great honey moon."

Jake Black and White

"I remember the first time that Phil left me in Charge of the restaurant years ago." He looked at the camera remembering that day, "he threaten to break my thumbs if we lost a single customer, and my legs if anything happened to the restaurant."

Jack then grabbed the pile of paper from the desk and walked out of the office. Once he walked out of the restaurant, he looked back one last time.

Jake Black and White

"He'll do fine."

Phil's Book Lovers: Jake's Office

Eli sat down at the desk and let it all sink in this was it, no one had every trusted him with something like this before, and he wasn't about to fail.

Sammler / Manning House: Grace's Room

Grace thought to herself, - I'm sure he's doing fine -. She looks back down at her notes and books and continued to per-pare for her exams.

Katie house: Katie's Bedroom

Jessie been putting a lot of thought in something these last few hours since she admitted to Katie her failure with her first attempt at telling her father about her, "Katie, I'm going to do it."

Katie look over at Jessie not one hundred percent sure what she was talking about, "Do what?"

"Tonight, after diner, I'm going to tell my Dad and Lily about us." Jessie said confidently.

"Jess, you know I'm busy tonight, and I can't come over." Katie said, having the thought in her head that Jessie wanted her to be there when she told them.

"I know, but I wasn't able to the other, and I have a good felling about tonight." Jessie said with a smile on her face, knowing that her brother was going to surprise everyone tonight with that he is going to be running the book store for the next week, everyone will already be in a good mood. The timing would be better.

"Are you sure, because if you do this tonight, I won't be there to have your back?" Katie said happy with Jessies confidence.

"Grace and Eli will be there, and Eli is going to tell everyone that he is in charge of the book store for this week, the timing couldn't be better." Jessie happy with her decision.

"Are you sure your ready?" Katie asked knowing that after this there was no going back.

Jessie leaded over and gave Katie a kiss and said, "more than I have ever been." Katie than kissed Jessie back and both girls entered a deep make out session, one that they haven't had all week long.

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Sammler / Manning House: The Driveway

It's 7:30 p.m. Jessie and Katie are sitting in Katies car in the driveway talking about what is going to happen with Jessie her father, step mother, and Zoey tonight, "Jess, if you want to wait until tomorrow, we can tell them together." Katie said one last time not wanting Jessie to go into this alone.

"Eli and Grace are going to be there, so they are both going to have my back, Eli is going to tell everyone that he is in charge of the book store, so that will put everyone in a good mood, and the Philadelphia Story is on tonight and my Dad is already excited about that. Katie the timing couldn't be better." Jessie said looking into Katies eyes admiring the courage she had to pursue this.

Katie Black and white

Katie looked at the camera and thought back to the day she came out to her family, "When I came out it was scary," She started off with, "at the time the only people who knew were my brother Jack, and my ex-girlfriend Tara Broady. My oldest brother Steve was in the Marines Corp Reserves stationed in New Mexico, my parents didn't know at the time, and I was in between girlfriends at the time, so the only moral support I had was Jack's obnoxious jokes." Katie chuckled a little bit thinking back to how nervous she was, "I just decided one night it was time for everyone to know, so at diner that I just out right said."

Jessie leaned over the arm rest and gave a Katie a kiss, before getting out of the car to head into her house.

Before she opened the door to enter her house she looked back to Katie and waved goodbye. Once Jessie walked in through the door Katie began to pull out of the driveway.

Katies House: Her bed room

When she got in her room all she could think about was what was going to happen with Jessie, she closed the door behind her feel back into her bed and closed her eyes.

May 19, 2000

Katie House

Katie is going through a flashback of back to when she was 14 years old and the events from when she arrived home from school to when she came out to her family that night. She walked in the door and saw her brother sitting in the living room, he was a Senior at Upton Sinclair, and stayed home sick today, "I'm home." She said not sure if he was awake or asleep.

"How was school?" He said in a very good mood for some one who spent the last few days sick.

"Fine, how's being home sick." Katie said this morning he was all disgruntled and congested.

"It's been a good day" he said.

"Let me guess Steph skipped school, came over, and you two spent the whole day in bed." Katie said attempting to pushing her brothers' buttons.

"At least I have a girlfriend right now." He said before Katie could get any further, "and for your information, she didn't." He knew all to well that the best way to get Katie to stop talking was to start talk about Katies girlfriends just before there parents got home.

"They're going to be home soon." Katie said. Her parents didn't know about her yet, and she still wasn't sure when she was going to tell them.

"What've I said about talking about me and Steph?" he said

"Not to talk about you and Steph having sex." Katie said

"What did you do?"

"Talked about you and Steph having sex." Katie answered

"See the problem."

Katie rolled her eyes and walked to coach and sat down, "So why are you in a good mood?"

"I heard from Steve today." Jack said with a smile on his face.

"What did he say? Is he ok? When is coming?" Katie said, she hadn't heard from her brother in over month and was dying to know when he is coming home.

"He is doing great and he's getting discharged next week, and should be home by the end of the month."

"Oh My God! He's coming home!" Katie shouted

"Take it easy." He said trying to get Katie to calm down, she looked like she was about to bounce off the walls with joy.

"Did he say exactly what day he is coming back or where we're going to pick him up?" she said having settled down only a little bit.

"All he said was that he's getting discharged next week, and he'll call in a couple of days with where we have to pick him up."

"I can't wait for Steve to come home." Katie said, she hadn't been this excited at all this year.

"I don't think any I can either." He thought for a second and said, "So when he comes back are you going to tell him?"

"Tell him what?" Katie said hoping that her brother wasn't implying what she thought he was talking about.

"Tell him about Tara, and that new girl Jonah, who you've been stalking these last few weeks." Jack said at risk of stating an unneeded argument with Katie.

"That's none of your business." Katie said getting up from the couch and getting to go upstairs to her room.

Jack then stood up from where he was sitting to follow Katie "Look, Katie lesbian romance is exactly my area of expertise, but I can tell you for a fact that Steve won't care or have a problem with it, and neither mom and dad."

"Not this again." Katie said rolling her not wanting to get into another one of her brother lectures.

"Not what again." He said

"Another one of your attempts at getting me to tell our parents about my love life. Guess what if you hadn't come home early from school the one day you still wouldn't know." Katie said wishing that three months ago Jack had stayed after and did school work instead of coming home and walking in on her and Tara Broady kissing.

"Well unfortunately I do know and can tell you for a fact that everyone will take it a whole lot better if you tell them rather than them find out on their own the same way I did." He said trying to reason with Katie.

"Look, I will tell them when I decide to tell them, right now I have homework to do, let me know if you need anything." Katie completely dismissed what her brother said and went upstairs to do her work so that she could hang out with Tad this weekend.

Jack watched as Katie walked up the steps to her room, he did not appreciate how his younger sister talked to him the way she did.

Once Katie got into her bedroom, she put her backpack on her desk, and fell backwards onto her bed, and just entered a deep thought process. She spent hours thinking about what her brother said, and for the first time realized that he wasn't wrong. She spent hours just sitting there thinking what if they found out and it didn't come from her, how mad would they really be, would they support this lifestyle or would they just pull Katie out of Upton Sinclair and home school her until she goes off to college, that way she doesn't come into contact with another girl her age. Katie eventually came to the conclusion that her brother was write, and she was going to have to bite the bullet and just tell them, but how.

"Katie its time for diner." She heard her mother shout.

Katie existed her deep thoughts, got off her bed, and went down stairs for dinner. When she sat down everyone was at the table, jack had told them about the phone call he had got from Steve earlier, Katie was staring at her plate just thinking about what her brother still unable to get that off her mind, "Katie, did you hear that?"

"What?" She said not sure who was talking to her.

"Steve he's coming home at the end of the month." Katie's dad said

"Ya, Jack told me earlier," she thought to herself - Just bit the bullet -, "You know what while I have everyone in good mood, there something I have to say, something about me that I should have said for a while now."

Saturday June 8, 2002

Katie's House: Katie's bedroom

Katie heard door open, which pulled her out of her flash back, "Katie are you ready to leave yet." Katie mom poked her head in the room to see if her daughter was ready to leave for dinner.

"Almost." Katie said

"I'm read, your fathers, your brothers, can you hurry up just a little?" She said hungry and wanting to go to dinner.

"Just give me 5 minutes." Her mother walked out and closed the door behind her. Once Katie heard the door close, she took off her shirt, walked over to closet grabbed a different one, put it on and ran down stairs, to leave.

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Sammler / Manning House: The Kitchen

It's about 8:00 p.m. at the Sammler/Manning House, Lily and Rick are in the kitchen almost done cooking dinner for the family, when they heard the door open, "I'm home"

"Hey." Lily looked up from what she was doing for a second, and then looked back down.

Rick had a pile of plates, forks, knives and napkins in his arms in his arms. Eli walked over and said, "let me help you" Eli said grabbing some of the plates, forks, knives, and napkins from Rick who said, "Thanks." Once they got into the dinning room and lied out the plates he asked, "How was work?"

"Really good actually." Eli said happy with how the day went.

"What made it so good?" Rick asked surprised with his son's mood.

"I'll tell you at dinner, I want to tell everyone at once." Eli said.

"Ok." Rick said now curious with what happened at the book store today, then he realized something, "aren't you supposed to be at your mothers?"

"Dinner with Henry, she said for me to come home after I eat."

"Ahh." Rick said.

"What's for dinner?" Eli asked.

"Lily made a chicken." Rick answered.

"Is Jessie here?" He was curious of his sister was eating with the family or with her girlfriend

"She's upstairs. Can you go upstairs and the girls that dinner's ready?" Rick said to his son.

"Sure." Eli said as he put down the last of the plates, forks, knives, and napkins. Once he and Rick finished setting up the table, Eli began to make his way upstairs, to inform the girls that dinner was ready.

As he made his way up the steps he strategically planned out how he was going to provide Jessie, Zoe, and Grace of dinner. First he was going to tell Jessie, than Zoe, and once he knew for a fact that jessie and Zoe were down stairs then he would make his way to Graces room.

Jessie's Attic

Jessie is sitting in her chair reading over the letter that Katie wrote months ago telling Jessie how she felt. She was reminding herself one last time what she is doing this for before she told Zoe, her dad, and Lily about her and Katie's relationship. She than heard a knock on the door, folded up the letter, put it inside of the book she his it inside of so no one else would find it, and said "Who is it?" Jessie asked.

"Eli, I am coming in?" Eli responded to his sister.

Once Eli said that she took the book walked over to her book shelf and the book on it without noticing that the note had fallen on the floor. Once he walked up the steps she said, "Hey how was work?"

"Good." He walked over to the chair in the corner.

Jessie walked over to her bed, sat down, and asked, "How was your first day in charge?"

"Good, some extra work but good." Eli said. He then looked towards the floor and saw The note on the floor, "What's this?"

"Good, some extra work but good." Eli said. He then looked towards the floor and saw the note on the floor, "What's that?" he leaned forward to pick up the folded paper.

Jessie looked down at the floor to see what Eli was looking and saw that the note had fallen out of the book, she quickly reacted grabbed the paper and said, "Nothing." Jessie said as she got up walked over to her desk grabbed a note book and stuffed the letter inside of it.

"Doesn't seem like nothing." Eli said curious what Jessie just stuffed inside of her notebook.

Jessie thought for a second, she knew that she could trust her brother, "It's a letter from Katie, ok."

"What is it, a love letter or something?" Eli asked.

"Something like that." She said trying to give her brother as minimal details as possible.

Eli realized that he wasn't going to get to many details out of Jessie about the letter from Katie, so he decided to wrap up the conversation, and say, "By the way Dad said that dinners ready."

Jessie than felt her stomach growl, and said, "I think we should go eat dinner."

"I agree", Eli stepped out of the way and said, "after you."

Jessie walked around her brother, and headed down curious about her brother, when ever it was time to eat he was the first person at the table, Jessie found that to be odd when he let her go first, "Are you ok."

"Fine." Eli answered.

Jessie felt her stomach growl again ad just shrugged it off, walked out of the attic and headed downstairs.

Eli followed Jessie and closed the door behind him, all he could think about was what that letter from Katie said. He made his way to Zoe's room before going to Graces now having something he wanted to talk to her about.

Zoe's Room

Zoe was lying on her bed reading a book, when Eli entered the room, and said "dinners ready."

Zoe closed her book, said, "Finally I'm starving." Got up from her bed, ran past Eli, and started to head down stairs.

After Eli doubled checked that Zoe and Jessie where out of sight, he made his way to Graces room. He wanted to ask her if she knew anything about the letter that Jessie had from Katie. Grace had known about Jessie and Katie longer than he did and thought that maybe she knew something about the letter. Once he got to her door knocked on it and said, "Hey."

Grace looked up from her desk and recognized the voice, she quickly spun her head around, saw Eli in the doorway, and said with a smile on her face, "Hey how was running store?"

Eli looked outside one last time to make sure that no one was upstairs, he walked in the room and shut the door behind him, "Great better than I expected actually." Both of them moved closer together.

"Hey, is everyone down stairs." Grace inched a little closer to Eli

Eli stepped a little closer to Grace and said "Sitting at the table for dinner."

"Perfect." Grace said as she closed the gap between her and Eli and kissed. It was a kiss that they both need after the days they had, "I needed that."

"My day just got even better." Eli said and then kissed Grace again.

After about a minute of having her lips pressed up against Eli she said, "We should probably go downstairs before our parents come looking for us."

"Ya." Eli let go of Grace who began to walk towards the door. He then remembered what he needed to Grace about, "Grace one thing real quick?"

"What's up?" she had hand on the door knob and was about to turn it.

"Hey do you know anything about a note that Katie wrote to Jessie?" Eli asked hoping that Grace had some answers.

Grace was shocked that Eli knew about the note, "Ya, how do you know about it."

"Jessie dropped it, picked it up, I asked her what it was, she said it was from Katie and wouldn't give me anymore details."

"It it's the letter I'm thinking of, it has something to do with how Katie really feels about Jessie." Grace said looking at Eli, "I don't know what the letter says. But what I do know is that the day after I gave that letter to Jessie and Katie kissed for the first time."

"That answers a few questions." Eli said his stomach started to growl.

Graces followed, "I think we should get some food."

"I agree." Eli said.

Grace then opened the door both of them started to head down stairs to the dinning room for dinner with the family.

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Sammler / Manning House: The Dining Room

Everyone is sitting around the table shouting the breeze, while enjoying the chicken that Lily made for dinner, Jessie has been quite the whole time thinking still thinking about what the best way is to approach telling everyone about her and Katie.

Lily was telling everyone about her day the Radio Station. He latest pregnancy had started showing and she very much enjoyed what Less had made his first comment about her pregnancy, "So many people said congratulations, told me that they are so happy for me." Lily say having enjoyed her day.

Rick asked, "Did Less, say anything?"

"He called me into his office, started with I only want to her about this on the radio, told me that I get 3 weeks maternity leave, and when I went to leave his office, he said word for word, Owe bye the way congratulations." She said taking another bite of her food.

Rick then said, "It Sound like you had a good day." He then looked over at his son and said, "E, how was your day?"

Eli looked up from the chicken leg that he was inhaling, finished chewing, took his napkin wiped off his mouth and said, "It was really good actually." Eli said very happy with how to day went.

Lily was surprised with how good of a mood Eli was in about his day at work, and asked, "What made it so good?"

"Well." said while taking a quite sip of water, "Jake put me in charge of the store while he and Tiffany are on their honey."

Everyone looked up from there food, to Rick was surprised and never thought that those would ever be the words that came out of his sons' mouth, "E…I don't know what to say," Rick had a smile on his face and was speechless, "that's fantastic."

"Eli, that's great." Lily said happy for her step son.

Grace smiled having already known about Eli job, "So does this mean your going to have be on time, and stay late every day?" Grace said curious about what comes with the new position Eli has been given at the book store.

"I have to be early, stay late, sign off on deliveries, and had out pay checks on Thursday, … owe make sure that the place does burn to the ground." Eli said remembering the list of things the he was informed of.

"That's great." Rick said everyone at the table was happy for Eli.

Everyone was happy for Eli, and his success at work.

Rick Black and White

"Eli had always had some sort of a struggle in life." Rick looked up at the camera, "Whether it in school or outside of school there was always something." Rick scratched his head and then a smile grew on his face, "But this time he did good."

"I'm proud of you Eli, I really am." Rick said while patting his son on the shoulder.

Everyone at the table was happy for Eli and continued to eat their diner.

Jessie Black and White

"Just bite the bullet."

"Hey Dad, Lily." Jessie said, and Rick and Lily stopped eating and looked over at Jessie, "Not to steal Eli's thunder, but there's something I have to say."

Eli and Grace looked up immediately and looked at each other and then at Jessie, they both thought at the same time - Is she going to tell them -.

"What is it?" Lily asked Jessie.

"Well, its about Katie and me." Jessie said trying to stay calm, and not back out now.

Eli and Grace Black and White

Grace and Eli are sitting right next to each other, "This is it she going to do it, she's actually going to tell them."

"I honestly thought she was probably going to wait until the day we drop her off at what ever college her and Katie end up going to."

Grace looked at Eli and said, "Don't you think that's a little bit of an exaggeration?"

Eli looked right back at her and said, "When it comes to Jessie and Katie, there is no exaggeration."

Grace shook her head side to side and said, "I guess your right."

"Let me guess you two are going out tonight, and you need money." Rick said sarcastically

Jessie closed her eyes for a second, scratched the side of her head, and said, "No…that's not it."

Lily looked into Jessie deep blue eyes, and said, "Jess, whatever's on your mind you can tell us."

Jessie took a deep breath and said, "Ok, I need you and my dad to have an open mind for what I'm going to tell you. Can you both do that?"

"Jess or course, what on your mind?" Rick said

"Me and Katie…Katie and me…We've been…" Jessie stopped for a second knew that everyone was waiting for her to say more than a fragment of a sentence, and thought to herself one last time, - Just bite the built -, "Katie and me are girlfriends." She forced that words out, and as soon as she said them, she felt as a though a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

Everyone went wide eyed. Grace and Eli couldn't believe that she got the words out of her mouth. Zoe dropped her fork. Rick and Lily's jaws just dropped, not sure what to say, Jessie just sat in her seat silent not sure if she should continue to sit at the table or get up and go back to her room.

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"I wasn't…" Rick said not able to look straight at the camera.

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"…wasn't expecting…" Lily said in the same state as Rick

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"…that." Rick said finishing his sentence.

Rick and Lily where sure what to say or do they had been hit a million miles an hour by this and weren't sure how to react. Everyone just sat there in silence. Rick decided to break the silence and say, "Jess, ah…"

Jessie knew what she was going to do and say unlike everyone else, "I'm going to go upstairs." She got up from the table and ran up to her room not wanting to see anyone. She was a combination of embarrassed, upset, and not sure what would happen next.

Everyone just sat there not sure what to do or say. Which was when Grace decided to break the silence, "Mom, Rick are u going to say something?"

Rick was the first one to open his mouth not sure what words, but Lily was able to get words out of her mouth first, "Why don't we finish dinner and talk about this later."
Grace then said, "I've lost my appetite."

Eli then said, "Me too."

Zoe also gave a reason to leave the table, "I have to finish read."

Rick and Lily watched as all three of them cleaned up their spots, got up from the table and went their separate ways. Rick and Lily just sat there for and second, to gather their thought having been hit a million miles an hour by this. Lily then decided to break the silence and say, "Rick…are you ok?"

Rick was pulled out of his thoughts of what Jessie just said, and said, "Sorry, what?"

"Are you ok? What are you thinking?", Lily asked, wanting to know what Rick was thinking.

Rick moved his lips and couldn't get the words out. He knew that lily wasn't going to stop until he gave her an answer, and forced it out, "Lil, I've always known what the right thing is to say to Jess. I don't even know where to start with this." Rick said grabbing his plate from the table and heading into the kitchen.

Lily just sat there for a second not sure what to say to Rick.

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Sammler/Manning House: Jessie's Attic

Jessie is lying on her bed curled up in a ball. She wasn't sure what to do or what her dad and step mother where thinking about what she said. It had been three hours since she made her big announcement at dinner, and she still wasn't sure what to think. All she could remember was rick and Lily just sitting there in shock, but then again what was she supposed to expect.

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Jessies is rubbing her eyes trying to get some of the tears out of, "that's just about how I expected it go."

She continued to just lye on her bed not sure, whether she should go downstairs and talk to her dad, or just wait for someone to come upstairs and talk to her about dinner.

Sammler/Manning House: Rick and Lily's Room

Rick and Lily are in their room talking about what had happened at dinner, while setting up their bed to go to bed, "She didn't go running out of the room because she told us that she was dating another girl, she went running out of the room because we just sat their shocked like there's a problem with her being with Katie."

"Lil the only reason I sat there the way I did, was because it hit a million miles an hour. If that's Jessie who Jessie wants to be with, that's who she wants to be with there's nothing I can do about that. I have no idea what I'm supposed to say or do…" Rick stopped for a second to scratch the top of his, "Should I go u there and talk, should I wait for her to come down here, should I wait until tomorrow…"

Lily then interrupted him and said, "Rick I don't think there is a right answer. Why think is that if just wait on her its just going to make it seem like you don't want to talk about this. Just talk to her, let her know that it doesn't matter, and that your there for her." Rick just sat down on the side of the bed still not sure what to think of all this, "and here we thought a few months ago that grace was gay."

"You are the one who said I have nothing to worry about." Rick said while Lily leaned over and gave him a hug.

"You still don't. Just go talk to her." Lily said, know that she was right.

"Why do you always have to be right?" Rick said.

"It's a gift." Lily happy with the results of their conversation. She leaden over and gave Rick a kiss.

Sammler/Manning House: Jessie's Attic

Jessie is still lying on her bed. She just wants to forget what happened. She then heard a knock on the door and said, "Who is it?"

"Its Grace can I come in?" Grace thought that after what happened at dinner, she would see how Jessie is doing.

Jessie leaned up and moved herself to the edge of her bed, and said "come in", while wiping off her eyes.

Grace made her way up the steps, and said, "How's it going?"

"I'm fine." Jessie said still upset about dinner.

Grace walked over to the bed and sat down next to Jessie, "Do you want to talk about what happened at dinner?"

"Not really." Jessie said wiping another tear off her face.

"Are you sure?" Grace said seeing how upset Jessie was about what happened at dinner.

Jessie then said, "They just sat there, and said nothing. I thought they would have said something, but it was like I just dropped a bombshell, and…" Jessie stopped for a second to wipe a few more tears off her face.

"Jess…what you said…it hit all of us a million miles an hour, none of us where expecting that. I mean," Grace paused for a second to put her word together, "what did you expect, for them to start asking detailed questions about yours and Katies relationship, and just say ok and keep on eating dinner."

"Something would have been better than them just sitting there in shock." Jessie said wiping some more tears off her face, "…at least if they said something I would know if they are ok with it or not."

Grace sided, and before should could start a sentence both girls heard someone walking up the steps, "Jess are you up there?" it was Rick's voice they heard.

Jessie wiped her face off getting the last of the tears off her face, "Ya." She said responding to her father.

Rick walked up the steps and saw grace and Jessie just sitting there, and said "Grace can you give me Jessie a minute?"

"Sure." Grace got up from the bed, headed to the stairs, and left Jessie's room, "I'll se you in the morning." She that to Jessie before leaving the room.

Once the door shut behind Grace, Rick walked over to Jessies bed and sat down next to her, "So…you and Katie." Jessie just sat there in discomfort not sure what to say, "how long have you two been together."

Jessie just closed her eyes and said, "about three months."

Ricks eyes widened amazed with how far back this relationship went, "three months…wow." Rick said running his had through his hair trying to figure out what to say most of this was on the fly.

"Dad…I really like her." Jessie said, lightly.

Rick took a deep breath and said, "I know…" Jessie looked over at him, "…if you didn't have feelings for her you would have never came out to us like that." Rick said wrapping his arm around her.

Jessie felt her father wrap his arm around her, she started a sentence with, "Dad look…"

Rick interrupted her and said, "Jess it's ok." Jessie's eyes started to water a little, "If Katie makes you happy then you should be with her. All I want is for you to know that I'm here for you, and I always will be no matter what happens."

Jessie eyes stopped water enough for her to say, "Do you really mean that."

"I do." Rick said hugging Jessie with all his strength not wanting to let his little girl go. Seeing Jessie like this crying over someone else made him realize that there was someone in her life that she loved almost as much as her own family.

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