Fic: No Place Like Home (5/6)

Author: Gardenia1786

Rating: PG-13

Feedback: Yes please!

A/N: Apparently I had an obsession with putting things from movies in my fics... don't exactly know why. Anyways, the clues are pretty obvious, but the movie is A Walk To Remember in case you haven't seen it. Oh yeah, and sorry this is so short.

As always, un-beta'd!

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After we left the coffee shop, we rode in silence for a while holding hands.

"Jessie?" I squeezed her hand. "Are you ok?"

She nodded absentmindedly, looking out the window.

"It's just… you're really quiet." I said while frowning. She turned and looked at me, with a sad expression on her face.

"I just don't really want to go back to your place yet, after all, I am leaving tomorrow, and I don't really want this day to end yet." I smiled and squeezed her hand.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. I really wish you didn't have to go back." She laid her head on my shoulder and nodded.

"Do you have any suggestions?" I thought for a moment.

"Well there is one place... but you might think it's kind of stupid." I never had thought about bringing anyone to my little hideaway, it's my place to get away from everything, and I never before had wanted to bring someone there. But this was different. This was Jessie, and I trust her. With all my heart.

"No, I'm sure it's not," she said earnestly. I turned my head and kissed her forehead.

"Ok, I'll take you there, it's my little getaway." As soon as I said that, she smiled. Don't ask me how I knew, I just did. It was dark, and I wasn't watching her, but I could feel it. I could feel her smile, and that made my heart leap. The fact that even in all our time apart, I could still detect the small things, like feeling a smile, or knowing if something isn't ok.

It took a few more minutes to get there, but when I pulled up she looked surprised.

"A graveyard?" She looked at me quizzically and sorta laughed "Isn't that a bit morbid?" I chuckled.

"Yeah, well, it is one of the darkest and probably one of the safer parts of town. No one goes to graveyards, and besides, I find it peaceful." She looked at me with her clear blue eyes reflecting the moonlight as we got out of the car.

"So what do you do here?" I thought for a moment before I replied.

"Lots of things, actually. One of my favorites is to talk to you. I'll grab my cell and come out here some nights, or on the nights I can't talk to you I'll come here and lay out under the stars and just watch them. I remembered how you like stars and the solar system and everything, and it always helps to know that the same moon and stars I look at, you look at too." I went around to the trunk of the car and opened it, revealing some blankets and a telescope.

"I've also become rather fond of looking at the moon through this baby." I said as I pointed to the telescope. She grinned up at me.

"Did you plan this?" She asked and I smiled.

"Oh I hoped for it." I chuckled. "Actually, no, I didn't. I keep everything in the back of the car so if I need to get away anytime I don't have to constantly load and unload the car." I said as I handed her the telescope and grabbed a bag with some blankets in it. I led her over to a clear area a good distance from the car, and she put it down while I unpacked a blanket and laid it on the cold ground.

"A blanket? Are you trying to seduce me?" She joked, and I threw her my most seductive smile.

"Why? Are you seducible?" I asked enticingly as I raised my eyebrow, and she just laughed and shook her head. I sighed dramatically and grabbed the blanket bag again.

"That's what I thought; therefore it's a good thing that I always carry several blankets around." She laughed again.

"You're so sweet." She said as she came over and gave me a kiss. 'Mmmm... soft lips...' She started to pull away, but I moved with her.

"Not yet" I breathed against her lips, and soon we were caught up in a passionate kiss. Minutes later, we broke apart.

"I love you, you know."

"I love you too."

We enjoyed that time, very much so. I showed her the moon in a way that she had never seen it before, and we took turns pointing out constellations. After a little while, we fell asleep. I woke up about an hour later, and it's a good thing I did, because if I hadn't, we may have been woken up in a way that is much less than desirable. The sky that was once clear and full of stars was now covered in dark storm clouds, and thunder could be heard from far away. I sat there for a few moments, watching the lightning in the distance before I realized that if we didn't move fairly quickly that soon the storm would be upon us and we would be drenched. I turned over on my side and stared at the sleeping girl next to me. Oh how I hate to wake her up. I leaned in and gave her a soft kiss. I pulled back, and was amused to see what she did next. Her eyelids fluttered a few times before she opened them, revealing her clear blue eyes, still heavy with sleep. She smiled then yawned and stretched for a moment before asking me why I woke her up. I pointed to the sky.

"Rain is coming soon, we better get packed up." She looked up then back at me before nodding. She gathered the blankets while I broke down the telescope, and we began walking towards the car, but not fast enough. The rain began to fall, first softly, then with more force. By the time we reached my car, we were both sopping wet. We jammed the stuff in the back of my car and ran around to get inside, away from the rain.

"Well... that was fun." I said, looking over hat her. I'm sure we looked like drowned rats, but damn! She was an adorable drowned rat! She smiled over at me, and began to sing.

"A little fall of rain,

Can hardly hurt me now.

You're here, that's all I need to know.

And you will keep me safe,

And you will keep me close,

And rain will make the flowers grow."

I do have to say, that caught me off guard. "That was beautiful," I stated and she blushed.

"It's from the Broadway play, 'Les Miserables'. My dad took me up to New York when I was ten and we went to go see it. It was the most amazing play I've ever seen in my entire life. When I went home that's all I could talk about, so dad got me the cd, and I've listened to it a little ever since then." She turned her head to look through the window at the rain. I leaned over and laid my head on her shoulder, and she twisted her body so she was able to take my hand. We sat there in silence.

Listen to the rain. So that's what we did.