Friday at Angel Grove High School
It was lunch time and Zack, Kimberly, and Jason were joined for lunch by their two friends: Trini Kwan and Billy Cranston.
"So, are you guys going to Noel's party tonight?" Zack asked his friends, looking around their lunch table.
"Billy and I won't be there," answered Trini, "We're going to the movies tonight."
"Seriously? You guys can have your date any other night, but Noel's party is tonight, and I think we all know that it's going to be amazing!" Zack replied, a little too enthusiastically.
Jason chuckled before speaking, "Yeah, Zack's right. Noel's parties have all been pretty awesome."
"The only reason you think Noel's parties are so "awesome" is because you always find some girl to hook-up with," Kimberly replied bitterly.
Jason opened his mouth to reply, but before words could come out of his mouth, Zack said, "Yeah? And what's so bad about that?"
Kimberly just looked at him and rolled her eyes.
"I think you're a little jealous, Kim," Zack said, "Maybe you want to be with Jason."
Kimberly gave a fake laugh, "Wow, you're so funny. Me and Jason? There's no way in hell that would happen. I would never be one of Jason's one-night stands."
And with those words, Kimberly got up from the table and walked away.
Jason gave Zack a dirty look which made Zack ask, "What?"
"You've got to be kidding me," Jason muttered before walking off in the same path Kimberly had just walked a couple of minutes ago.
Things were awkward at the table between Zack, Trini, and Billy.
"Sooo," Billy started saying, "I think we'll stick with our plans of going to the movies. We don't want to see any drama tonight."
Later that night at Noel's Party
Jason had just parked his truck outside of Noel's house and he could clearly hear the music blasting inside. He got to the party at about 11:30, making a last minute decision to actually show up.
I wonder how long it'll be before the cops show up this time, Jason thought to himself.
After school was over that day, all he could think about was what had happened at lunch. Kimberly's words kept repeating over and over in his mind.
"I would never be one of Jason's one-night stands," was all he could hear in his head.
Jason shook his head and got out of his truck. While he made his way to the front door, he began wondering if Kimberly would be there.
He got to the front door and opened the door to reveal what Jason thought was the entire senior population of Angel Grove High School. Jason made his way through the house and passed several of his football teammates and even more of his "one-night stands" as Kimberly would have labeled the girls.
He made his way to the kitchen, finding it surprisingly empty, and looked around for a while before he found a beer to drink. He always felt in a better mood to party after he had a couple of drinks. He wasn't even half-way into his beer when in walked Kimberly, not looking to happy, followed by a clearly drunk Tommy Oliver.
"Come on babe," Tommy slurred.
Kimberly was about to reply back to him when Jason stepped between Kimberly and Tommy, and spoke in a harsh tone, "Look Tommy, she's clearly not interested in whatever you're offering."
Kimberly gave Jason a grateful smile.
"Shut up, Scott. Me and Kimmie here are just trying to have a good time," Tommy spoke directly into Jason's face and Jason could smell the stink on his breath.
"Okay, you're clearly drunk," Jason said, "Maybe you can continue to hit on Kimberly when you're sober. Or by the look on her face, you can just stop completely. It's obvious that she doesn't like you and only went on a date with you last year out of pity."
"Whatever, babe. You're just missing out on this then," Tommy spat, this time directed towards Kimberly, "Have fun with this guy. He'll just use you and dump you like trash, just like all the other girls he's used. It doesn't matter that you're supposedly just best friends." After he finished speaking, he walked out of the kitchen and began hitting on the first girl he saw.
Jason turned to Kimberly and spoke in a softer tone, "Do you want me to take you home? Don't worry about me being drunk or anything. I barely had a sip of this beer."
Kimberly didn't say anything, she just nodded her head. Jason took Kimberly's right hand into his left hand and led her out of Noel's house. As they were walking out, he could see people looking at them and whispering, but he couldn't make out what they were saying.
On the drive to Kimberly's house, Jason found himself being grateful for the invention of the radio, or else the whole drive would have been full of silence. After the short drive, he parked in front of his own house and got out of the truck to walk Kimberly to her front door.
They made it to the front door and Kimberly pulled her keys out and opened the door. She walked into her house and turned around to look at Jason. They stood there staring at each other for about three minutes before Kimberly spoke up, "Thank you for everything, for fending Tommy off and for the ride home."
"Hey, you don't have to thank me for any of that," Jason smiled lightly at her, "Well, I'll see you tomorrow or something. Goodnight."
As he turned around to walk to his house, he heard her say, "Or you could just stay here. We could have one of those sleepovers we haven't had in forever."
He smiled to himself as he remembered the sleepovers, turned back around and said, "I thought your mom said we weren't allowed to have those anymore."
Kimberly laughed lightly, "Well, dear old mother is away on business, like always. So, what she doesn't know can't hurt her."
She stepped aside, opened the door wider, and motioned for him to come into her house. Jason walked in and started to make his way up to her room. He heard her close and lock the door behind him.
He made it up to her room first and laid down on her bed.
"Why of course, Jason, you may lay on my bed as if it were your own," Kimberly commented sarcastically.
"Whatever, Kim. Just get over here and join me," Jason replied.
Kimberly did as he said and laid down on the bed next to him.
"So is this going to be like our other sleepovers where we reveal our secrets to each other?" Jason asked with a laugh.
Kimberly giggled, remembering the secrets they had shared in her room. "Okay, I guess so," Kimberly replied, "I'll go first, since I remember that you were always too big of a weenie to go first. Well here it is: I do get kind of jealous when you have your little one-night stands."
By this point they were both sitting up on her bed. Jason was looking directly at Kimberly, but Kimberly was avoiding his gaze.
"Really?" Jason asked, he was hoping that reason was that she liked him.
"Yeah, you blow me off for those girls most of the time and I just feel like we're not as close as we used to be before you got all wannabe big man on campus on me," she said with a fake laugh.
Jason laughed, "Wannabe big man on campus?"
Kimberly just nodded back with a small smile.
Just bite the bullet, Jason thought to himself, just tell her how you feel.
Jason took a breath before he started to speak, "Well I'm really sorry that I made you feel that way. I'm also extremely sorry for blowing you off like that all those times. You-"
Before he could finish talking, Kimberly gave him a huge hug. "I forgive you, Jase. I just want us to be as close as we used to be," she whispered into his ear.
They stayed that way for a while, with Jason enjoying the feeling of having her so close to him. After they separated from the hug, Kimberly spoke up and said, "Hey! You still have to tell me your secret. Don't think I forgot!"
Jason laughed, "Crap! I was hoping you would forget."
Kimberly smacked him lightly on his chest.
Jason took another deep breath and prepared himself for the revelation, he started to speak nervously, "Okay, you want to know my secret? Well this secret will probably affect our friendship."
Jason paused and looked up to see Kimberly frowning in confusion.
"Okay, well I'm just going to come out and say it. I think I'm in love with you," Jason spoke with his eyes locked on Kimberly.