Hey guys! It's been a while hasn't it?
I'll update 'Devil' soon! I just want to finish this one first!
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--Autumn--
"Suze...SUZE. Earth to Simon!" Cee slammed her fist on my desk.
I sat up fast. So fast I thought my brain was going to come out the back of my head.
What...
The...
Hell?
I screamed. I literally screamed. Screamed screamed screamed screamed screamed...screamed.
"Miss Simon! What on earth is wrong with you?" Sister Erenstine asked me in a 'Don't-You-Mess-With-Me' voice. She was peering at me over the top of her Biblical Reference book.
"I'm sorry...I just think I'm going to be sick." I said. I wasn't lying.
She looked grossed out and said, "For heaven's sake, Miss Simon! Go to the principal's office!" I nodded, grabbed my books, and without another word or glance to Cee, I bolted out the door.
"Suze, where's the fire?" Came a voice laced with amusement. I turned around and punched Paul in the gut, and kept walking.
"Susannah, he's busy-" Father D's secretary tried to say as I walked into his office. I looked at her and she said, "Wait."
Father Dom was laughing as the Monsignor walked out of his office. The two were smiling, but as soon as the Monsignor walked out, Father D glared at him and muttered something under his breath. The he turned his gaze to me.
"Susannah, honestly! You're not skipping Religion Class again are you?" He asked me in a tired tone.
"Not this time. I-"
"You want to tell me why you punched me in the stomach?" Paul groaned as he walked in. Father D looked over my shoulder, then back to me, "Susannah!"
"HE IS A DEMON!" I yelled. "HE SO TOTALLY SPLIT MY SOUL IN THREE AND I DIED!"
Silence.
Paul and Father D exchanged glances.
"Susannah, maybe you should sit." Father Dom said, pushing me gently into his big rolly chair.
"NO! I"M DEAD!" I yelled again.
Again, silence.
Paul was laughing, until Father Dom glared at him. He smiled, and sat back down, watching my episode unfold before him.
"Susannah, you're not dead."
"Yes, I am! Can't you see?" I said, practically crying.
"Ok, Susannah. Sit down. Mr. Slater, will you run to the nurse's office and get her an ice pack?" He asked Paul.
Paul nodded and walked out. As he did so, he muttered, "And a straight-jacket."
I stared at Paul open mouthed. Father Dom turned my head towards his. "Susannah, stay here. I'm going to go get Jesse and-"
"No, he'll just make it worse!" I groaned.
"Maybe he can talk some sense into you." He said, gently, putting his hand on my forhead, seeing if I had a fever.
I groaned and laid my head on the desk so hard that it made a big thud.
Father Dom walked out, and I could hear him on the phone. "Jesse, she thinks she's dead. Yes, I know she's done...wierder...things before, but- yes. I think that you need to come talk to her. I can't, I know Mr. Slater will make it worse-"
"Of course he will!" I cried out. "He split my soul." I lifted my head off of his desk so I could look at him. He stuck his head in the door, and stared at me for a long, long time before saying, "Hurry."
"Here ya go, quack." Paul said walking back through the door, tossing me the ice pack.
"Thanks, Soul-Splitter." I said, taking it and poking at the ice cube I could feel under that rubbery stuff.
Father D was just staring at me like I was the cure for cancer or a three headed, 2 1/2 inches tall side show star.
Jesse appeared a minute later. He looked down at me and said, "Ok, Susannah-"
"Don't. Don't do it, Hector." I grumbled.
"What was I going to do?" He asked me, crossing his arms. "And don't call me Hector."
"You're going to use some sort of physco crap on me." I said looking up at him.
"Physo crap?" He was smiling. "Susannah-"
"I AM NOT INSANE!" I cried.
"I didn't say you were, querida. Now did I?" He asked me.
"No...but..."
"Susannah, we want to help you." Father Dom said. "Can you tell us?"
I shook my head.
"Can you tell us if Mr. Slater leaves?" He asked me.
I nodded.
Jesse smiled, pushed Paul out the door and said, "Thank God."
I laughed, and Father D looked at Jesse with narrowed eyes.
He smiled and walked back over to me. "Querida, what are you trying to say?"
"Paul split my soul and you're 40!"
"Querida...I'm 20."
"No, you're not."
"Yes, I am."
"YOU"RE 40!"
He just stared blankly at me. Then he looked up at Father Dom. "Father, maybe I should take her back home."
Father D nodded, not taking his eyes off of me and said, "Yes, that would probably be the best thing to do, Jesse. Let me write you an excuse from class, Susannah."
He walked slowly over to his desk, like if he did it too fast, I was going to leap out and bite his head off. He took a little white slip and wrote me out of class. He handed it to me and said, "Get some rest, ok?"
"Yeah, yeah..." I said, taking the note from him and walking out the door. I could feel his and Jesse's gaze on me as I walked out the office door.
Jesse was waiting by my locker when I walked out of my Religion class. He was shaking his head as I opened my locker to get my books.
"Stop it, Jesse." I said, giving him my English book.
He took it and said, "You're working too hard."
"Working?"
"With this whole mediation thing. Susannah, let me or Father Dominic handle one-"
"Or Paul?" I asked, sweetly. He narrowed his eyes at me. I smiled and went back into my locker looking for my Spanish book.
After I had gotten all my books, he took my book bag and slung it over his shoulder. He was still smiling at me.
"Jesse!"
"What?" He asked with a smile as he adjusted the strap on my bag. I rolled my eyes, and we started walking...and of course the bell had to ring just then.
Yes, the Mission got a long awaited bell system.
"Suze!" I groaned and turned around. "You going home?" Cee asked me.
"Yes." I said. "I don't feel good."
Cee saw Jesse and immediatley smiled. "Hi, Jesse." She said in a dazed out voice.
He smiled and said, "Hi, Cee." She blushed. I rolled my eyes again, and she turned her gaze back on me as if to say 'I'm sorry'.
"Are you really sick?" She said with a smile. I elbowed Jesse when he laughed and said to her, "No... it's not a 'thingy'-"
"A thingy?"
"Jesse." I whined. He smiled and said, "Oh, continue, please...thingy."
"I'll tell you later." I said with a smile to her. She smiled and said, "Well, I hope you feel 'better'. See you tonight?"
"What's tonight?" I asked her blankly.
"Suze! Adam's band is opening tonight at the Valentine's Bash down at the beach!" She said, giving me a shake.
"Oh ,yeah." I said, not remembering at all. "I'll be there." She looked up at Jesse and I said, "We'll be there."
She hugged me and said, "See ya later, chica." And walked off to find Adam.
"Thingy." Jesse said as we walked down the hallway.
"Shut it, Cadaver Breath."
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"Ok...Paul wanted you...nothing new there. And he split your soul into three parts?" Jesse asked, smiling as he looked over from the window seat. "And I magically appear because you've been friends with my sister, who in this century doesn't even exist...and you expect me to believe that?"
"Yes." I said, looking up from my Spanish book.
"Why?"
"Because I'm your girlfriend and you love me." He raised his eyebrow with the scar in it.
"JESSE!" I threw my pillow at him.
He pushed it aside and said, "I'm not saying I don't but I mean, querida. Soul splitting? Slater's an idiot, that's for sure. But I don't know if even he would do that. Or be capable to do that." He laughed at the word 'capable'.
"He went back through time to stop you from dying, so I think he's pretty much capable of anything." I said with a smile.
He stared at me and said, "Well, excuse me, Miss Smarty Pants." He laid back on the window seat. "It's just...weird. I guess...I mean...soul splitting?"
I nodded as I tried to remember how to say 'the cat' in Spanish. "Jess, how do you say 'the cat is ugly'?
"El gato es feo." He said. "Susannah, honestly."
"Ok, what about 'the pirate is very hot'?" I asked with a smile. He glared at me and I said, "Seriously."
"Susannah-"
"Fine. I'll figure it out." I flipped to the back of the book and found it. "El pirata es muy caliente!"
He rolled his eyes. I smiled and said, "OK, sorry."
He smiled back at me and said, "You don't even have to know those, do you?"
"Nope. I've got to conjugate buy." I said with a groan. "Compra..." I said, writing it down. I smiled at him and said, "You want to do it for me?"
"Write." He said in a stern voice. I rolled my eyes and looked back down.
"Comjugate my butt." I said. "You know what? I'm just going to write my sentences first..." I grabbed my notebook that was plastered with Johnny Depp's face and read slowly as I wrote:
"La... chica... compra...la...rojo...falda..."
"No." He pointed to the book. "Put the adjective after the noun." I stared blankly at him. He sighed and said, "Take red and put it behind skirt."
"Why?" I asked him. I looked down at my neatly written sentence and pouted.
"Susannah, just do it." He said. I erased it and put rojo behind falda.
"Well, that was stupid." I flipped the page.
"You really think that that happened?" He asked me a minute later after he got comfortable on the window seat again.
"What happened?" I asked him, staring on my new sentence.
"The whole soul splitting thing." He said, in a daze.
I looked up at him and said, "Paul's a fruitloop." He looked over at me and smiled.
I continued, "So, it might have. I mean, I've been having these dreams every night. And these visions everytime I close my eyes..."
"What's wrong, querida?"
"What if this isn't my real world?" I asked him. "I mean, this is so confusing. But...could I have really lived my life in one of Paul's new worlds?"
"Can we stop for tonight? This is giving me a headache."
I smiled at him and said, "Yeah, whatever, cowboy. Now, what color's verde?"
"Green. What are you taking? Spanish I?" He asked, smiling.
I smiled back and said, "As a matter of fact..." He shook his head, and looked back up a the ceiling. "Yeah, I am. The stupid college I want to go, you have to have two years of Spanish completed. And since I'm a Junior, I had to start taking it now. Good thing I found out, though. I would have been screwed if I hadn't."
"Ah, now what college is this? Harvard?" He asked, looking back at me as a gorgeous smile appeared on his perfect face.
I looked back down at my book and said, "My, aren't we sarcastic today."
"I had a good teacher." He said, coming to sit beside me.
"I teach you, you teach me. Teach!" I said, tossing him the book.
He laughed as he came over and laid on his stomach on my bed, looking at the book.
"Susannah, it's not that hard." He said.
"Duh, you've spoken it for a hundred plus years! Or course it's not to you."
"Where are you going to college?" He asked me, completely changing the subject from my ever sinking Spanish grade.
"Why? Scared I'm gonna leave you?" I asked wit a laugh. I leaned closer to him and said, "Like I could."
He smiled back and said, "Like you would."
"What's that suppossed to mea-" But I was cut off by him pressing his lips against mine.
"Susie, sweetie! I'm home!" Mom yelled from downstairs.
Kept kissing.
"Suze?"
Still kept kissing.
"Oh my gosh, she can see you!" I said, pulling myself from Jesse.
He laughed and said, "No she can't, Susannah. I'm a gho-oh no I'm not. Damn." He said, getting off my bed.
"Go out the window." I said, cleary not thinking.
"My car's in the driveway!" He said as I pushed him to the window. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"SHH!" I said, putting my hand over his mouth, listening to see if my mom was walking up the stairs.
He mumbled something that sounded like 'I will lick you!' so I moved my hand.
"Susie?"
"Quick!" I pushed all of my books off the bed and covered up. "Follow my lead."
The door opened and I let out a moan. "OOOH!"
"Oh, sweetheart." She said. "What's wrong?"
I sniffed. "I got sick at school..."
Sneeze.
"And Jesse came and got me...Oh Mommy! I feel awful!" Cough, sneeze, cough.
"Oh, baby!" She looked at Jesse and said, "Thanks for bringing her home, Jesse."
"No problem, Mrs. Ackerman." He said, looking at me in amazement. When she turned her head, he mouthed 'Wow'.
I gave him a quick smile, before coughing again.
Jesse gave me a quick peck on the forhead and walked out.
"I guess you won't be able to go to the Valentine's Bash tonight." Mom said.
"WHAT?" I yelled.
She smiled and said, "Nice try. No more Jesse in a closed room, sweetheart, or it's a grounding." She ruffled my hair and said, "Dinner in 20."
"How did you-"
She laughed and said, "I was a teenager too, Suze. I know." And she walked out.
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"I can't believe she figured it out!" Cee said that night, as we walked down the beach.
"I know! I mean, I thought it was pretty convincing."
"But, you and Jesse have done that before in your room-"
"Well, yeah, Cee. But Mom couldn't see him." I said, sitting down. I made a little heart in the sand.
"I'm nervous." She said.
I smiled and said, "Adam'll do fine, Cee."
I looked off into the distance, out into the water...
There was a girl on the boardwalk...she waved at me, and then...
Well, she jumped.
Slightly confusing, but the next chappie will explain all!
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-SASTMJ