Katie had been moping around school all day. After pretty much all of her little followers witnessed her third argument with some innocent person who decided to be nice and greet her with, "Hey Katie! You Alright?" everyone avoided any conversation with her for fear of social abandonment. All she could think of was Jessie, the way she looks, the way she smiles, and then the way she pulled a complete 180 and ran away. She hadn't said a thing all day apart from her arguments and the odd answer to her name in the register, but even then it was barely a grunt. At lunch she just pointed to the chips instead of asking, which the dinner lady did not look too pleased about but considering the way Katie looked she let it go. She walked off and sat down in the far corner of the cafeteria alone and started to eat her lunch. The odd person would sit in front of her but when she gave them the "What the hell do you think you are doing?" stare, they all backed away sheepishly. That was until Grace came along.
"Geez Kate, you look like hell!" Katie shot her the look but Grace did not budge, finally she gave up.
"Well thanks Grace, you look great too!" The sarcasm was dripping from her words.
"Why are you acting like this, it's…"
"Don't tell me, weird?"
"No! Stupid!"
"What?"
"You've never been like this over a girl before, why start now?"
"You don't know what you're talking about!" She got up to leave but Grace grabbed her arm.
"Just talk to her Katie, that's all I'm asking." Katie shrugged out of the contact and exited the cafeteria. 'Maybe Grace is right' She walked off in search of Jessie hoping to find her before the end of lunch. She looked everywhere, the only placed left was the library. She saw Jessie in a far corner out of the way of everyone else, reading a book alone. 'She looks so peaceful' Katie decided she would take the safer option and walk up behind Jessie so she would not be able to see her.
"Is this seat taken?" Katie asked.
"No, it's fine." Jessie was so engrossed in her book she was reading that she did not even look. However she thought the voice sounded familiar. Katie sat down and was about to start talking when Jessie beat her to it.
"Oh sorry, I thought you were gonna ta…Katie?" Jessie said finally looking up.
"Jessie."
'Oh crap! What do I do?' Jessie thought to herself. She had no ideas how to get out of this.
"Do you always sneak up on people?" She attempted to lighten the atmosphere.
"Well I didn't want you to run away again did I?" Okay so Jessie attempted had severely failed.
"I'm sorry?"
"Is that an apology or are you just acting confused?" Jessie just sat there and remained silent hoping she would not have to answer that. Finally Katie grew tired of waiting.
"Jess, I know you saw me yesterday."
"Oh, that, I'm sorry I left my cell in my English class." Katie didn't buy the excuse but she didn't want to cause a scene, what with them being in a library, and besides Jessie was actually talking to her so she was feeling better anyway.
"Right…okay, um did you maybe wanna go grab a drink later?" Katie's question was filled with hope.
'Can I go? How can I say no, she looks so adorable. NO! This is wrong, but I can be friends with her, can't I?'
"Um, yeah okay, I'll um meet you by my locker after school okay?"
"Yeah, great!" Katie tried to not sound too happy, bless her, she tried.
"Okay then." Jessie could not help but giggle at her FRIENDS excitement. 'Why is she so excited? Oh who cares?"
The girls went their separate ways after saying goodbye as they had classes on different sides of the campus, but they were both looking forward to their meeting after school.
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At the coffee shop, after Katie ordered a hot chocolate and Jessie ordered a milky coffee, they sat down at the same table as last time.
"Déjà vu? Katie giggled.
"Yeah just a bit." Jessie joined in laughing. They sat there talking about anything that popped into their minds and even though both girls wanted more from their friendship, neither girl could bring themselves to make the first move for the same reasons, one: Jessie was dating Tad, and two: they didn't know if the other girl felt the same. They were in the shop for hours, literally. It reached the point where they did not want to talk anymore, but they did not want to leave each other's presence either so they just sat there in silence, a comfortable silence. 'This isn't as bad as I thought it would be, we can just be friends, it won't be that hard!' The girl's thoughts mirrored each other's but were suddenly interrupted at the sound of Jessie phone ringing…again. Katie couldn't help but giggled and Jessie realised why. 'It really is like Déjà vu, there's been a lot of that recently.' Jessie thought before answering the phone.
"Hello?"
"Jessie, just phoning to let you know that your tea will be ready in half an hour, so you better head home now." It was her father, he would always inform her of when her tea was going to be ready so she would not miss it if she were out of the house.
"Oh thanks Dad, I'm on my way!"
"Okay hunny, oh and say hi to Tad for me." Rick assumed that Jessie was with Tad after all she was dating him. 'Young love!' he thought.
'Oh Tad, I forgot about him! Katie always has that effect on me.' Jessie thought to herself. "Oh Dad, I'm not with Tad." Once again Katie frowned upon hearing that name.
"Well where are you then sweetie?"
"I'm at the coffee house with a friend."
"And who's this friend?" He wasn't being protective, he was just curious.
"Katie Dad, her name is Katie." Hearing her name being mentioned, Katie looked up and smiled.
"Okay then hunny, just make sure you're home for tea. Bye."
"Bye Dad!" She giggled at her father, he was such a sweet man.
"Guess you have to go then." Katie started.
"Yeah sorry, I didn't realise it was so late."
"It's okay, me neither. Lets go!" The girls paid and left. Ten minutes later Katie pulled up outside the Manning-Sammler residence.
"Well goodnight Katie."
"Night Jess." Jess went to leave but she turned around and kissed Katie on the cheek.
"I had fun!" She slowly removed herself from the car and walked to the door. She turned around and waved goodbye before going inside. 'So what's the harm in a little flirting? It was just a friendly gesture!'
Jessie thought to herself as she shut the door. Katie drove off slowly with a huge smile on her face. She couldn't help but keep looking back in the side mirrors as she was driving. Both girls were considerably happier than they had been all day.