DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but Jean :)

My last chapter was horrible, but thank you to all that beared with it anyways. I love you guys. Also just in case none of you have noticed, I've changed my username to Infinitetruths. Yeah I know it's kind of lame but I couldn't think of anything else really and it's a lot better than Badwrit3r I think we can all agree on that.

THESTORYOFJEAN

Chapter 8

"So how is things going with you and young Jamie Stryder lately?" it was Heidi, she had grabbed a tea towel and was now starting to wipe dry the dishes I had just washed. I looked around myself alarmed then turned to give her a look that I'm pretty sure said 'are you out of your mind!?' She just laughed at me in response, her way of telling me I was being too paranoid...I don't know, maybe I was.
"It's not funny! Someone might have heard you."

"No one did."

"But they could have, you said it loud enough!" I didn't even want to think about what Ian and Kyle would do if they found out.

"Jean...Jean just relax, I'm sorry alright?" she was still smiling, obviously not taking me seriously at all "Won't happen again I promise."

"Good." I continued on with the dishes but was stopped once again by Heidi.

"You never answered my question." She pointed out.

"I know."

"Soo...?" Heidi persisted, smiling brightly.

"Soo...? What?"

"Jean come on, won't it be good to talk to someone about it? Like me?" she offered. "Life gets pretty dull around here, please tell me something interesting." Wow way to put pressure on me to tell her something good.

"Our relationship isn't that interesting so I don't know what to tell you." I told her honestly but she just shook her head.

"Well, tell me are you going to tell you brothers or gods save us Melanie?" my eyes widened and I stopped what I was doing.

"I didn't know Melanie was a problem, is she? I've talked to her like twice since I've come here."

"I'd be scared of her if I was you; she's more protective of Jamie then your brothers are of you." She didn't look at me as she said this, so she didn't notice the fear that flashed across my face. I turned back to the unfinished dishes once again and tried to clean them as fast as I could.

"Kid...are you alright?" Heidi placed her hand on my shoulder; I shook my head and from the corner of my eye saw her frown. "Sure?"

At that moment I realised how stupid I was being, I mean come on. Here I am scared shitless by my boyfriend's older sister when I have faced much scarier things, like seekers and even death. I shook my head and laughed at myself, gaining a strange look from Heidi at the same time.
"Yeah I'm sure" I gave her what I believed was a convincing smile and she returned it.

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I was dead on my feet, well not literally of course but I swear I was close to it. Would I even make it to my mattress? Or would I just hit the ground and start snoring? Ok I'm over reacting but I was really, really tired. I think today I proved to a lot of the man and even Melanie that I wasn't fragile, that I could do a lot of stuff they could do. Though my brothers still see me as a little girl that they constantly have to protect and irritate.

"You'll always be our little sister so there is always going to be a part of us that is the protective big brothers" I sighed but he gave me that look, so I just shut up and let him continue. "And...I'll have to admit that we have been a bit over protective but its only because we love you, we thought we had lost you for all these years and now that we have you back we don't want to ever risk it again."

Thinking about it now just made me want to groan, it's fair enough they want to keep me safe but they're over doing it. I mean how am I possibly going to kill myself carrying boxes to the storage room, seriously?

"Hello beautiful" I voice behind me breathed, I jumped in a start and the voice behind me began to laugh. Oh I knew that laugh.

"Jamie!" I span around and smacked him on the chest. "You idiot! You scared me."

"I'm sorry opportunity was there I had to go for it." He grinned at me then wrapped his arms around my waist. "What are have you been doing? You look tired"

"Is that your way of telling me I look like shit" I asked him jokingly but he wasn't looking me in the eyes, his hand reached up and he buried his fingers into my hair.

"No, you look...hot." he blushed at his own words but continued. "But I mean you also look really tired Jean; you should be sleeping." He told me as he looked me over, I could hear the concern in his voice.

"I'm fine Jamie and anyways Jeb just told me to go have a nap, so...you're actually keeping me for sleep right now." I pointed out; he smiled and pulled away from me.

"Well come on then, I'll walk you." I don't think he intended it to sound like he was making me out to be a dog; right now I was even too tired to even make a sarcastic joke about it.

The walking to my room which I shared with Lily and Sunny was surprisingly awkward, both Jamie and I were nearly silent the whole time. The moment the made it the most awkward was when Jamie went to hold my hand, it was sweet and I really did want to...but I had to pull away. Jamie sighed sadly when I did so and dropped his arm to his side.

"Thanking for walking with me" I told him, smiling. I went to pull the door out of the way but Jamie caught my hand.

"Wait." he looked around us then turned back to me. He grinned wickedly before he leaned in for a kiss; I put my hand on his chest and pushed him back. "Okay what have I done wrong? You have been avoiding me for the past three days, you won't let me hug you or hold your hand and now you're not letting me even kiss you?"

"You forgot?"

"Forgot what?" he wasn't joking around with me, he seriously didn't remember.

"The kissing ban...we're not allowed to kiss for a week, we talked about this just days ago!" he opened his mouth then closed it, biting his lip.

"Oh you were serious about that? I forgot."

"Really? I didn't notice." He rolled his eyes at me then crossed his arms at his chest.

"No need to be a smart ass, I'm sorry." He went to hug me but I pulled back and gaped at him.

"Way to apologise Jamie...calling me a smart ass, what's wrong with you!?" His eyes widened, surprised by my reply. He obviously didn't expect me to get upset over being called a smart ass, I was too...normally way worse wouldn't even tick me off.

"Oh god you're moody, I'm leaving." He turned to leave but I grabbed his arm.

"No, no, no! You did not just call me moody!" I nearly laughed at Jamie's facial expression, he looked truly scared.

"It's okay Jean...I know about this stuff Jared's told me and I have a sister, you're pmsing right?" I slapped him across the face, just like that, no hesitation. "Um...ow?"

"I'm not! And I repeat not! Talking to you until you apologise." I pushed the door off to the side and closed it behind me, the last thing I saw was Jamie's extremely confused and slightly frightened face.

"Girls are so strange." Was the last thing I heard him say before I heard the soft footsteps as he walked away.

A.N: I actually wrote this a while back and thought to write more but I haven't updated in so long, so I decided to post this anyways.