Three weeks had passed since Jessica appeared at the Garcia/Masterson house. Three weeks had passed since Jude had kissed Jess. Three weeks since Jess had spilled her guts to Jonsey. Three weeks since Jen had heard everything.
Things were good. Jude and Jess were still together, and Jonesy had managed to keep his job at the Khaki Barn. had accepted that her daughter wanted to be with Jude, and much to Jens disgust, bought her a car.
They were all sitting at the lemon when Caitlin spoke up. "So Jude, you guys have been dating for a whole three weeks. What are you gonna do for an anniversary?"
Jude contemplated for a moment. "Well honestly bra, I didn't think that I'd do anything.. It's only three weeks.. I mea-."
Jess cut him off to stop his rambling."Jude it's fine. I don't wanna do anything yet either."
Caitlin rolled her eyes and turned back to clean the lemon. Jessica looked at her phone. "Woah! Man, I gotta go! I can't be late for work!" She got up from the table and walked away.
"Man, her shifts are weird." Jonesy said.
Jude threw his hands up in the air. "Tell me about it!! We are never off at the same time. I tell her to quit her job and to come work with me at Underground, but she won't. She makes too much money there. Did you know that she got promoted?"
Caitlin gasped. "No she didn't!"
"Yeah, she said something about that last night." Jonesy said, then looked at Caitlin, whose face was as red as a tomato. "Woah, Cait. What's up with you?"
'Only the fact that I've been trying to get out of the freakin' lemon for two years and your sister get my dream job right off the bad. Oh yeah, and she got PROMOTED?! That's what's up.' "Oh nothing." She finally said. The thought that Jess was A&F material and she wasn't upset her to no end. Nikki, who had been unusually quiet through all of this, saw that the blond was about to have an emotional breakdown, and she didn't want to be here for it.
'Thank God it's almost time for our shift to start.' She turned to Jonesy and told him that they should probably get over to the Khaki Barn. Jonesy silently nodded and they left the lemon.
"Yeah, I should probably get to the Penalty Box. Coach will have a cow if I'm not there soon." Jen got up to leave.
"I'm with ya." Jude got up, then turned to Caitlin. "Cya bra."
"And then there were two." Wyatt said. "I'm off today, and sorta don't have anything better to do. I'll hang here if you want."
"Okay, but only if you really want to. I don't wanna force you to stay or anything."
"Nah, it's cool. I have a feeling Jen will want to talk with us later."
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At A&F Jess was in the assistant manager position. She was making tons of money, well 7 dollars an hour, but to a teenager that's a gold mine. Jess especially loved the job because she only had to work with costumers if they had a problem. Usually they didn't, so Jess just sat in her office all day. Basically she was getting paid to do nothing.
'Hmm.. What to do today?' She thought. Then her cell phone rang. It was a text message from Jen.
U at wrk? -Jen
Yup. Y? -Jessica
Imma stop by. Cya soon =] -Jen
'Sweet! A visitor!' Jess thought as she sat down. She turned on the radio to pass the time. Don't Trust Me by 3Oh!3 was on. She started to sing to it.
Black dress,
With the tights underneath,
I got the breath of the last cigarette on my teeth,
And she's an actress,
But she ain't got no need,
She's got money from her parents in a trust fund back east.
At this point Jen was in her office, but too was awed by Jessica's singing voice to say anything.
T-t-tongues always pressed to your cheeks,
While my tongue is on the inside of some other girls teeth,
T-tell your boyfriend,
If he says he's got beef,
That I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fuc-
Jess caught sight of Jen and stopped singing.
"Wow, that was really good." Jen said.
Jess blushed. "Ya think so?? Thanks..."
"Yeah, really. But I need to talk to you."
"Okay, about what?"
"I know about your past."
"Huh? What pa-"
"No, don't play dumb. Jessica I know everything. I know the reason you came back."
"Who told you this?" Jess was nervous. She could understand Jonesy telling, but what if Jude was the one who told her. All that trust would be gone.
"Jude."
Jessica started crying. She got up and started running to Underground. 'Why Jude? Why!' That's all she could think.
Jen sat in Jess's office feeling pretty satisfied. 'They're so over.'