Hello all! Despite originally planning for this to be a sort of fill-in-the-gap one-shot thing, I have decided to upload another chapter :D (And I've already started work on chapter three so that's coming too!) I won't lie, not a lot really happens in this chapter – I actually started writing chapter three first, then decided there was a bit of a gap between the two that I didn't like. This was just written to fill that really.

I'd just like to say thanks for all the amazing reviews – this story is actually going towards an English project I'm doing and I need to include feedback, so the reviews are really helpful. Keep them coming please! :D

By the way, I know the ending's poor. Sorry about that. I had total block and spent about an hour on it, but absolutely nothing was happening so I just left it.

Anyway, enjoy!

Falling Into Place – A 'Jelly' FanFiction

Chapter Two

"No Tilly, you go. I'll talk to you tomorrow, I promise."

Tilly was the last thing Jen thought about before she went to sleep that night, and the first thing she thought about when she woke the next morning. She thought it was quite ironic really; she had always wanted her own little dramatic love story, and now she had one… well, she'd rather get rid of it quite frankly. But it was worth it for Tilly. That was the one thing in amongst the mess and confusion that she was certain of. Everything was worth it for Tilly.

Jen spent longer than usual that morning just lying in her bed, remembering what had happened the day before. As much as the entire thing had stressed her out completely, it had been truly amazing. Touching her, holding her, being honest with each other, just loving each other; remembering it all made her head spin. And the kiss. Jen raised her fingers to her lips as she remembered it. The softness of Tilly's lips, the way they felt on her own. It was magical.

Then she remembered Tilly's disappointment when Jen asked her to leave. She knew she did the right thing – it wouldn't have been safe or practical for Tilly to have stayed – but she still felt guilty. Tilly had thought that the entire event was a one night thing, that Jen would just return to her normal self the next day and tell her that she couldn't do it. And Jen had told Tilly that she would talk to her. She'd promised her, but Tilly still didn't believe her. Practically leaping out of bed, Jen grabbed her phone from the bedside table and decided there was no way that she was going to let Tilly down again.

The phone rang for a long time. Too long in Jen's opinion, and quite frankly it should already have gone to answering machine and not be making her wait at the other end, hoping she wasn't ringing to late to catch her, and wondering if Tilly would be cross for ringing her so late and –

"Hello, you. You're up early."

Early? Jen looked at the clock above her desk and saw that yes, she was actually awake about an hour earlier than she usually was. Scrap forgiveness for ringing her too late, Jen just hoped that Tilly wasn't annoyed at being woken up.

"Yes, umm… sorry. I didn't realise it was this early. Did I wake you up?"

Tilly laughed in response. "Yeah, you did. But don't worry, there's nothing I'd be happier waking up to than a phone call from you. Except maybe you actually being here."

Jen was laughing as well now, relieved that Tilly wasn't angry with her. Suddenly Jen had a wash of realisation at how paranoid she was being. All she'd done was phone her, why on Earth would she be angry? Silly Jen…

For a moment they sat in silence, quite happy just knowing that the other was there. It was Jen that spoke first.

"Tilly, I just wanted you to know that I'm still here. I haven't changed my mind, or got scared, or… I don't know. But I'm still here. Last night wasn't just… nothing. It was… I don't know… something. Something important that I don't actually have a word for." Tilly laughed then. She really did find it cute when Jen got flustered like that. She wouldn't tell her though. Not for a while anyway – she got in trouble for saying it before. "Seriously though, Tilly. I want to be with you. There's no more hiding from it. I know you were worried about me doing that."

Tilly didn't reply at first. She didn't really know what to say. She had been worried about that, but she didn't want to offend Jen in saying so. Eventually she decided that there was no room for concerns like that in their relationship. For something like this to work, they had to be totally honest with each other.

"You've done it so many times before, Jen. I just didn't know if this was another one of those times. I thought you'd find me today to tell me that it was a mistake, and that would be that. Until next time of course."

"No, Tilly, never again. I love you, and that's all that matters now. Hey, since we now know that it's only naughty school boys that turn up at ridiculous hours of the night, we can keep meeting in my classroom for a while. Until we find something better at least."

"Umm… yeah, that sounds ok, but what on Earth are you talking about? Naughty school boys?"

Jen laughed and told Tilly the story of the night before. They spent the rest of the conversation laughing and joking with each other, before Jen realised that she probably needed to get to work at some point, and they agreed to meet at the same time and place as the day before. After putting the phone down, Jen stayed sitting on her bed a while longer, thinking over the conversation that just happened and discovering that it was physically impossible to keep a smile from her face. She decided it would be very nice if they could meet up outside of school – just a quiet night in with a movie perhaps. Yeah, a quiet night in would be nice. They were together now after all; they should probably start doing some together-y stuff. But they had nowhere to stay, so what could she do? For now, they would just have to meet at the school and deal with it. It was a start at least, and a start was all they really needed. Lost in her thoughts, Jen failed to notice that time was slowly pressing on and she ended up being very late for her first class. Despite this, Jen kept smiling - for the first time in weeks she felt genuinely happy.

Caught up in the same way, Tilly was also late for that lesson, but the two of them kept smiling, silently sharing the thought that it wasn't long until they could properly see each other again.