Chapter 2- Gossip

As it started to get late, Mistoffelees offered to walk Victoria home in the hopes of ditching his friends and getting some alone time with Victoria. Just to make fun of him, Astrid said,"Fine Misto, Me and Sergei will walk these two pretty queens to their dens as well." Guesturing to Jemima and Rumpleteazer. Jemima laughed as Astrid gave a deep bow holding out his hands to the two queens. Jem and Teaz took his hand, laughing.

Once Misto and Tori had walked off, Astrid let go of their hands, still laughing as Sergei walked over. Teazer was luahging much more than necessary and Jem tried to get her to snap out of it. "So when do you guys have to be home?" Astrid asked.

"Actually...pretty soon." Jemima reluctantly answered. Astrid nodded and began to randomely wander off in one direction and they followed him. They walked around the outskirts for a few minutes, just talking. Then Astrid whispered "shhhhh" taking the lead toward some unknown destination.

The others followed him, first Sergei, then Teazer, and Jemima behind her. Suddenly, Astrid jumped up, making as much noise as possible, yelling, "What are you two doing?"

Jemima and Teazer leaned around the toms to see a very startled looking Mistoffelees and Victoria. Misto had his head in his hands, his face beet red, and Victoria was blushing furiously as well. Sergei and Astrid were laughing histerically while the queens just looked confused. Noticing her friend's embarassment, Jem grabbed Astrid and Sergei by their arms, and pulled them away. Teazer followed them, leaving Misto and Victoria to talk for a few seconds without an audience.

Shortly after the toms calmed their laughter, Mistoffelees and Victoria walked over to them. "Okay guys, we can go now that you've embarassed us enough." Misto said.

"Alright, if you insist Misto...bye Jemima, bye Teazer." Astrid answered.

"Goodnight!" They answered as Astrid gave them each a hug.

The queens headed back toward the main part of the junkyard as Misto and his friends headed home. As soon as the toms were out of earshot, all three of them giggled excitedly and began to half run, half skip in the general direction fo the main junkyard.

"Soooo, how'd it go Tori?" Teazer asked.

Vitoria's face split into a wide grin before she answered. "Well....you know how Astrid was trying to make it awkward...but it didn't even matter. When we left, he pulled me over to the shadows and he was whispering to me...." she paused and grinned even wider.

"And?"

"Well....he kissed me." Two excited squeals came form her friends. "And it was amazing, and it would've been so perfect, until Astrid had to go and shout, right as we kissed."

Teazer began to giggle, muffling it so as not to offend Tori. Jem only shook her head, because even if Astrid had somewhat ruined their first kiss, she could tell that Tori didn't really care in the slightest.

"How about you Teaz?" Victoria prompted.

"Well I will tell you this...I've never seen Astrid before, although I remember Jemima talking about him maybe once or twice....Jem how come you never mentioned how cute he is?"

Jemima just laughed. "If you want I can talk to him for you....I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a girlfriend."

"I dunno....maybe. If I see him tomorrow I might just talk to him myself."

Once Rumpleteazer had come back from dreamland, both her and Victoria turned to Jemima with their eyebrows raised. Jem blushed."So Jem....you and Alonzo?"

"Well you know how we walked off?"

"Of course, we could tell he liked you even before that."

"Yeah he was flirting quite a bit wasn't he.....well when Plato left us sitting there by ourselves, we were just flirting, but then his face got pretty close. He put his head in my lap and then he asked me if I like him." Teazer and Tori were grinning, waiting to hear what had happend. "So I didn't really answer him...then we walked off cuz he thought the only reason i wouldn't kiss him was because I was shy and didn't want to kiss him in front of everybody. But we walked off and although I tried to resist him....I quickly figured out I couldn't."

"So you kissed him?" Teaz half shouted.

"Yeah. And let me tell you....it was...nice." Jem answered with a wide grin.

"Are you guys dating then?"

"Not really...he said he'd see me tomorrow though. And he held my hand as much as he could..."

Teazer immediatly hugged her, still giggling, and Tori gave her a hug as well. They continued to tell each other exactly what had happend, more squeals and laughter penatrating the night as they walked home.

As they finally reached their destination, Tori headed off to Jellylorum's den, Teazer off to Skimble and Jenny's den, and Jemima walked to Munkustrap and Demeter's Jem walked in the door, Demeter was sitting on the couch, and she looked up as her daughter came into the room.

"Well you're home pretty late." Demeter answered with a smile. Jemima knew she wouldn't care, it was her father she had to worry about.

"Yeah sorry, I was with Teaz and Tori."

"That's okay, just get to bed soon if you want to wake up tomorrow."

"Thanks mum, goodnight!"

Jemima headed off to her bedroom, and as she fell asleep all she would picture was Alonzo's face, their kiss replaying over and over in her dreams.