Ok, I have two chapters of this already written. I have a severe case of writer's block on Not Until Your Gone, so that will be posted later. These chapters are just sitting there waiting to be loaded...they've been sitting there FOREVER since I started Not Until Your Gone and this one at the same time. So, I decided while I'm thinking about the other one, go ahead and post this one.

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"Susannah..." He had just materialized in front of me. And to shut him up, I leaned up and pressed my mouth against his. He smiled against my lips.

"What was that for?" He asked when I pulled away. I shrugged. He smiled and lifted me up and threw me on my bed.

"What was that for?" I asked him when he climbed up beside me. He shrugged and leaned down and kissed me.

"I love you, Jesse de Silva."

He smiled. "I love you too, Susannah. Susannah? Susannah!"

"Susannah? Are you ok? Susannah?" I opened my eyes to see Jesse standing over me. Josie was behind him looking extremly worried.

"Gosh, Suze! You almost gave me a heart attack!" She said.

"Miss? I'm going to have to take you to the hospital. Just to make sure everything is ok." The paramedic said to me.

"I'm fine."

"Susannah, you really need to go." Jesse said. I sighed and laid back down, "Fine."

I looked over at Jesse, "What happened?"

He shrugged, "You just collapsed. You stopped breathing."

Maybe that's why my head hurt so much. He looked at me like he wanted to say something, but couldn't. I sighed and closed my eyes.

"I love you, querida."

"Tell me everything!"

I sighed as I took a sip of my Coke. Cee was staring intently at me as she ate her chips. "What's to tell?"

She smiled, "You liked him!"

I groaned and looked away. "SUZE!"

"What?"

"You're blushing." I rolled my eyes.

"Cee, just leave her alone." Adam said as he came to sit beside her. She glared at him...

I couldn't stand not telling her.

"Adam, we shouldn't do this."

He looked up at me, and I don't know why I did what I did...but I did it. I leaned up and kissed Adam. He didn't hesitate. He put his arms around me and kissed me back.

"Suze? Earth to Susannah?" Josie snapped her fingers in front of my face. "Welcome back to earth."

I looked at Adam. He knew what I was thinking about.

"So, you never answered me. You coming or not?" Josie asked. I stared blankly at her, "To what, Jo?"

She groaned, "Suze! I've only said it like a million times! We're having Thanksgiving early with my dad's side of the family. It's next Monday instead of Thursday. I really do not like that side, my mom knows it, so she said I could invite you...please don't say no!" Her eyes were pleading, I laughed and said, "Of course. Only if we're still up for Christmas shopping at 5 o'clock in the morning Friday."

She smiled and said, "Do it every year, chica!" She got a little gleam in her eyes.

"What?" She shook her head. "What?"

She smiled, "Well, it's just that Jesse's gonna be happy when he finds out you're coming." She said with a smirk. Cee looked over at me smiling. I felt my face heat up.

"I knew it! You do like him!" Cee yelled.

"Susie, how could you replace me?" Paul said when he walked up beside Cee.

I smiled at him. So? I was flirting. After my breakup with Tad, I need to have some fun. "It was very easy, surprisingly."

He faked a look of hurt, "That hurts, Suze. It really does." I laughed and caught up with Josie who was already down the hallway.

"He's a stalker."

"Jo."

"What? He is everywhere...EVERYWHERE!!"

"You're everywhere to me! When I close my eyes, it's you I see-" I heard Adam sing behind us. Cee rolled her eyes.

I laughed and Jo just stared at him. See? Just because she's a straight A student, she thinks she can...

Jo I mean.

"Well, I'll see you bright and early tommorrow guys!" I said to Cee and Josie. Adam frowned and looked at Cee, "What am I going to do without you tommorrow?"

She smiled, "You'll find something to do, I'm sure." He leaned over and kissed her. And that was the moment that Josie and I decided to slip away.

"Where the heck- there he is." Jo grabbed my arm and led me to where Jesse was waiting for us. I gulped. Hard.

Holy crap, I think I'm going to faint...

He is so hot.

"Hey ladies." He said. He smiled at me. I tried to smiled back, but there is no telling what it came out like. Josie and I slid into the backseat.

So, somehow, Josie and I started talking about Tad. Well, I guess I should say, SHE started talking about Tad.

"Change the subject."

"Suze! Why? You need to get over it." She looked at Jesse through the mirror. "You know Jess, Suze just broke up with her boyfriend too."

Boyfriend too? What he's-

She saw the look on my face and laughed, "I meant to say, she's single too."

Jesse rolled his eyes and didn't say anything.

"But seriously, you need to move on!"

"Jo, change the subject."

"But-"

"Josephina, leave her alone." Jesse said. Jo stared at him in horror. She hates when people use her full name. More than me, even.

"I don't know why you hate it so much. Josephina's a pretty name." I pointed out to her as we walked up the stairs of their house. "Not like Susannah."

"What are you talking about? Susannah's a beautiful. It suits you well." Jesse said as he walked in front of us.

Wait? He just almost called me beautiful...in a twisted kind of way, but still, it was there!

He turned back around and smiled at me.

"Mama? We're home!" Jo yelled. Mrs. de Silva came running down the stairs. Her dark curls were bouncing behind her as she ran.

"Hey, sweetheart!" She kissed Jo's cheek. She smiled at me, "Hi, Suze. How are you?"

I smiled back, "Fine, Mrs. de Silva. How are you?"

She sighed, "I've been better."

Jesse walked up behind her and kissed her cheek.

Aw, a mama's boy...why did that make him that much hotter?

"Come on." Jo nodded for me to follow her.

"Hey, Suze." Mercedes said as she walked past me.

"Hey, Mercy." I followed Jo into her room.

It was covered bottom to top with Zac Efron.

I swear...BOTTOM to TOP.

"Obsessed much?" I asked as I plopped down on her bed. She smiled, "Maybe...but can you blame me?"

I didn't even have to answer. She knew my answer. It was no. I couldn't blame her.

She laid down beside me. "Whatcha thinkin about Suze?"

I rolled my eyes. She laughed. She knew what I was thinking about.

Or rather, who I was thinking about.

I slammed a pillow in her face. "Hey!" She screamed as she hit me back.

So, this of course resulted in a very big pillow fight.

"Girls? Mama said dinner was ready." Jesse's voice came from outside her door. "What are you doing?" He opened the door and stared at us.

I was on the floor and Jo was ontop of me trying to hit me.

"OK, I'm almost scared to ask what you are doing." He said.

Jo threw her pillow at him and said, "We'll be down in a minute..." He closed the door. "-perv."

"I heard that." He yelled. We started laughing.

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It was about midnight when I walked out of Jo's room to the bathroom across the hall.

"Oh, sorry, Susannah." Jesse said when he bumped into me as he was coming out. I smiled, "It's fine." He smiled and stared at me for a while.

"What?" I asked. He shook his head, "You're just not like all the other girls I've met."

"That's a good thing, right?" I asked, uncertain.

His smile got bigger, "Yeah, it's a very good thing." I could feel myself blush, and much to my dissappointment, he could see me blush and he laughed, "I'll see you in the morning."

He walked back into his room and said, "Goodnight, querida."

Then withougt thinking about why I was saying this, I said, " 'Night, cowboy."

He laughed and closed his door.

Wait a minute...why did I just call him that? Cowboy?

And what the heck is a querida?

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"It's too early!" I whined as I walked down the stairs. Jo yawned, "You're telling me. We better not be upstaged by RLS again!"

I nodded and continued walking.

"You driving us?" Josie asked Jesse. He nodded, "Yeah. I'm meeting-"

"-your girlfriend?"

He rolled his eyes, "She's not my girlfriend." I finally caught up to Josie and walked up behind her...that's when I noticed Jesse was totally and completly...

...shirtless...Hah! You thought I was going to say something else didn't you? Got your hopes up didn't I?

He looked over at me. I was trying so hard not to loo at him..well, his body. 'Cause with a six-pack like that...it was so hard not to look.

He could totally bench press me and Josie.

"Let me get...dressed..I'll meet you downstairs." He smiled at me as I walked past him...

I smiled back. Josie looked from me to Jesse and back.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me." She said something in Spanish. Jesse looked over at her, "Watch it." He said warningly as he walked back up the stairs.

Jesse came down about 5 minutes later.

"Jo. Josie? Josephina!" I was shaking her. She had fallen asleep on the couch.

"What?" She asked.

"It's time to go. Get up." She rolled over and said, "5 more minutes..."

"Joey!" She sat up and glared at me, "I'm up!" Jesse shook his head as he walked over to the door.

"This is way to early!" She yelled. "I need coffee!"

By the time she sat down in the backseat of Jesse's car, she was out once again. "Joey!" I whined. She shook her head and said with her eyes closed, "Shh!!!"

"Thumbsucker."

That made her open her eyes, "I am not!"

"How do you know?" Jesse asked with a smirk.

"Because I know."

I smiled, "You're eyes are closed and you're asleep. How do you know?"

She opened her mouth to say something, but closed it.

Jesse looked back at me through the mirror and smiled.

Ok, so I'm falling for my best friend's brother...sue me.

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"Ok, I need sopranos over here-" Said our instuctor for today. Cee sighed as she got up from her seat, "Bye guys."

I smiled as she walked over to her seat on the other side of the auditorium.

"Why do they hate us so much?" Josie asked as an RLS student passed us.

"Because we kick thier butts in football and they kick our butts in singing." I sighed and said, "This whole stupid festival is to bring all of the other school choruses in Carmel here so they can upsatge us all." I leaned back. "It's a conspiracy."

"Altos over here, please." Josie and I got up and walked to where we were suppossed to sit. Just our luck, it was beside a RLS student.

But surprisingly, she was very nice. "Hi, I'm Felicia Bruce."

I smiled, "Susan- Suze Simon." She looked over at Josie, "This is my friend Josie de Silva."

She smiled, "You guys from the Mission Academy?"

Uh, duh. Wasn't that what it said on our shirts? But I didn't say that. To her I said, "Yeah we are."

"Cool. I wanted to go there, but my dad made me go here. I hear cheerleading's alot better over there."

Oh gosh! Please don't be another Kelly!

But it turned out she wasn't. She was very sweet.

Felicia Bruce? Where had I heard her name before? I know I had heard it, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

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"This is my friend, Carrie Whitman." Carrie smiled. I knew I had heard that name too. Then Felicia said, "You should see her and her boyfriend, Josh Saunders. They are so adorable together."

Carrie blushed and said, "Well what about you and Marc?" She looked at me, "Marc Pulsford-"

"Oh yeah. The one who broke that record last year? Most touchdowns in one season on the history of RLS?" I finished for her. She nodded.

Ok, maybe that's where I heard Marc, but where had I heard of Felicia, Carrie and Josh?

"Hey Angels!" A girl said as she passed us. I looked at Felicia amused, "Angels?"

She smiled. "Yeah, it's just a nickname. They call Marc, Carrie, Josh and me the RLS Angels."

"Father Dom. How bad can a group of kids called the RLS Angles be?"

"Suze, you ok?" I looked back up at her and said, "Yes."

"Ok, kids. Let's take it from the top of page 4 measure 34." Said our instructor.

Gosh, Suze. What is wrong with you today? Maybe you hit your head harder than you thought.

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"I told you it was a conspiracy." I whispered in Josie's ear that night at the concert after RLS was done singing. She groaned when our teacher motioned for us to go on stage.

"Don't trip on you dress." Josie whispered in my ear as we walked up the stage's stairs. I lifted the bottom of my long black chorus uniform up as I walked on. I didn't want to relive last year..

Yeah, I don't even want to tell you what happened...it was bad. REALLY BAD.

Let's just say, it was a domino affect.

And I was the domino that started it.

I looked up in the balcony and saw Mom, Andy, Sleepy, Dopey, and Doc. And right beside them were the de Silvas...and Cee's family and Adam and beside Adam was...

gulp...Jesse.

I looked back at our teacher. Cee, who was on the other side of the stage, looked over and smiled at me.

"What's wrong, Susie-Q?" Paul leaned down and whispered in my ear. I shook my head. Even though he was behind me, I knew he was smirking. "Worried about your solo?"

Solo?

SOLO?

What solo?

Then Mr. Johnstan motioned for me to walk up to the microphone.

"Suze, go." Paul said.

Jo looked at me weird.

HE TOLD US WE WERE NOT SINGING THIS SONG!!!!

I gulped as I walked up to the microphone.

Oh dear God, please PLEASE help me!

Great, now I think I'm going to throw up.

You know that scene in Princess Diaries where she's giving that speech and she gets sick? Yeah, well, maybe I have just seen that movies too many times, but that was what I feared was about to happen.

"Please welcome Junnipperra Serra Mission Academy." Said the annoucer. "Their soloist will be Susannah Simon."

Crap.

I looked up and saw my family smiling at me.

Double crap.

And Jesse winked at me.

Hmm...I wonder what would happen if I fainted? I could so sue them.

But, in the end, I never got a chnce to faint, or even to pretend to faint.

That's because the music started. Mr. Johnstan pointed at me, I opened my mouth and-

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"You never told me you could sing like that." Jesse told me after the concert when he met Josie and me down at our seats as we got our purses. I smiled, "Surprise."

He smiled and handed me a boquet of roses. "You were amazing." I smiled and was about to say something when Josie yelled, "Where are my roses?"

Jesse glared at her. She narrowed her eyes and walked off. Well, stormed off.

"Good job, Susie-Q." Paul said as he walked behind me. He was trying to take off his tie, "You did a really great job." He looked at Jesse. "Nice to see you again, de Silva."

"You too, Slater."

Wait...what was going on here?

Paul looked at Jesse one last time before saying to me, "Have a nice Thanksgiving break." He winked at me and walked off.

"Paul, ever heard of knocking?"

He smirked, "Well, I didn't know that you would be entertaining Mr. de Silva."

"Suze!" Cee ran over and hugged me. "You were so good!" Adam came up behind her and said, "You really were."

"Thanks guys."

Cee looked down at the roses and smiled at Jesse. I rolled my eyes. "I'll see you tommorrow?" She nodded and took Adam by the hand and walked off.

Jesse laughed, "She's the excited one."

I smiled, "You have no idea." I followed him outside.

Carrie and Felicia walked up to me outside. "Way to go, girl!"

"Thanks."

Carrie looked at Jesse, "This your boyfriend?"

"Um..." Was he? He was sure acting like it. "This is Jesse. Jesse this is Carrie and Felicia."

Something in Jesse's face changed when I said that. But he smiled and said, "Nice to meet you."

Carrie smiled and said, "Very nice to meet you."

Felicia groaned, "Carrie! You have a boyfriend!"

Carrie looked at her, "So?"

I laughed. Felicia turned back to me and said, "Hey, well, maybe I'll see you sometime next week? I really want you to meet Marc."

I smiled, "Sure."

She smiled back, "Well, I'll let you two go. I'll see ya later, Simon. And nice job!" She walked off with Carrie. Jesse had a weird look on his face.

"Thier names sound familiar, don't they?"

He looked at me. "How did you know?"

I smiled, "I felt the same way when I met them earlier today."

Jesse put his arm around my shoulders as we walked down the stairs of the auditorium.

"Hey, Suze." Micheal said to me as I walked down. "You did a really good job tonight."

I smiled, "Thanks, Mike." He smiled at Jesse, and then turned his gaze on Carrie and Felicia. His gaze turned very dark.

Jesse looked at me, I shrugged and we walked over to his car.

"I should probably ride home with my parents."

He almost looked disappointed, "Come on. Let me drive you." I sighed and looked over at my mom who was talking to Mrs. de Silva. I gave her a pleading look, and after a moment, she smiled and nodded.

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When Jesse pulled up in front of my house, he said, "I'll walk you up." He was quiet until we got up to my porch.

He smiled at me, "You never answered Carrie's question."

"What did she ask me?"

"Am I your boyfriend?"

My heart started pounding. But somehow, I found enough strength to say, "I don't know. Are you?"

Wow. That was pretty good. Where the heck did that come from?

He smiled and leaned down...

closer...

closer...

Our lips were almost touching...

THEN...

The lights started flickering.

"Andy!" I groaned. Jesse pulled back and laughed.

He would probably never do that again. He smiled and said, "I'll see you Monday?" I nodded. He smiled one last time before walking down to his car.

I opened my door and walked in. I practically skipped all the way up the stairs. I put my roses in a vase and put them on my window seat.

I felt weird as I put them on the window seat. I just stopped and stared at it.

The window seat, I mean.

I shrugged and went into my bathroom to get out of my uniform.

When I was through, I laid on my bed and closed my eyes.

The point...

"Micheal killed them.."

"I was thinking of something more man made actually..."

The RLS Angels were going to kill me...

"Good morning, Carmel! The time is 7:30 and it's 63 degrees outside. Let's continue with our Saturday morning 'Blast from the Past'. Here's Rick Springfield with 'Jessie's Girl'."

I groaned as I rolled over. Stupid alarm clock. I closed my eyes and kust listened to the song.

You know I wish that I had Jessie's Girl
I wish that I had Jessie's Girl
Where can I find a woman like that?
Like Jessie's Girl
I want Jessie's Girl
Where can I find a woman...
Where can I find a woman like that?

When it was over, I got up and was getting ready to turn my radio alarm clock off, when the DJ said, "And that was Rick Springfield's 'Jessie's Girl'. That was requested by Jesse for Susannah. Aw! Now our next song is-" I turned it off.

I smiled. Gosh, I seriously was head over heels for this guy.

Oh, gosh.

I just admitted it.

I'm in love with Jesse de Silva.

I'm in love with my best friend's brother.

There ya go! Hope you liked it. I'll update my other story as soon as I can, but I think I'm going to lay off that one for a day or two, but you will have an update soon! I promise!
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-SASTMJ