ok everyone heres chapter 13, i have to type up 14 and finish 15, and i already now what i'm doing for 16, so sorry for the terribly lone wait.

Enjoy :)

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Chapter 13- Strong Emotion

It's been a few days since the funeral for Haley. Jessica's been off work since her outburst as she calls it. She's been hanging around the house and with the gang. Their friendship with one another has grown stronger, but so has the feelings of a certain boy for a certain girl.

Today was a boring rainy day, which found Jessica and Josh in his living room watching movies.

"Ok, so explain to me again why Heather and Bobby went to their grandparents?" asked Josh as he shoved a handful of popcorn in his mouth.

"Because Laura and Ray thought it would be best for them to get out of the neighborhood." Said Jessica ad she took a handful of popcorn.

"Oh, and Casey? Why couldn't she come?"

"Because she and her parents went to visit her aunt."

"Oh, right."

"Josh?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you just asking me all this so you can strike up a conversation with me?" Jess looked at him, "Is it that hard for you to talk to me?"

Josh looked away, suddenly shy of his best friend, well one of his best friends. "It wasn't at first, when I had just realized it, but I think it really hit me the day when we all saw you and Andrew yelling on your lawn."

~flashback~

Sara, Grissom, Jim, Catherine, Warrick and Nick came out of the Grissom's and Josh and just about the rest other neighbors came out of their houses due to all the yelling that was going on outside.

Jessica and her boyfriend Andrew were yelling on her lawn, no nice words were being said.

"You know what Jess, I've had it, I'm done!" yelled Andrew.

"Done? With me or that little slut I saw you with!" shouted Jessica.

"Don't you dare talk about Miley that way! She's way better than you anyway!"

"Better how? The fact that she slept with you and I didn't? Please!" snorted Jessica

"Jessica, if anything you're the slut! You're such a fucking little tease, you whore!" Yelled Andrew

"Is that what you think of me? Please, do you actually think that what you call me hurts? Newsflash, I've been called worse things than that! So it doesn't bother me, but you Andrew, you're the tease, you're the slut, you're the whore, you cheated and slept with other people behind my back, so tell me out of the two of us, who's the slut, who's the whore?!" Jessica turned to leave; she had had it with him.

Andrew was angry, he walked up to her grabbed her arm and turn her around,

"Andrew, don't touch…"

But it was too late, the moment she turned her head a loud smack could be herd though out the street.

Jessica stood there, her hand to her now redden cheek.

"Don't you ever talk to me like that, you bitch!" he let go of her arm.

And that was it; Jessica tried to get at him, but several people held her back. Nick, Warrick, Jim, and Grissom were on Andrew, telling him to get the hell out of here. Jessica got out of hold she was in and ran I side, completely filled with rage and Andrew drove off in his car, and everyone went back into their houses.

~end flashback~

Josh looked at Jess, she wasn't facing him anymore.

"Yeah, dumb ass bastard." Jessica smirked a little, but Josh could tell that she was trying not to cry.

"The day when I herd you broke up with him, well I won't lie, I was happy. I never liked him and that you deserved someone better than him."

She turned to him, "You mean someone like you?" said Jess.

"Well, at least I understand your work hours and job."

"True."

"But when I herd the reason as to why, I was shocked." Josh now just realized just how close to her he was sitting. "Shocked that someone, anyone for that matter, could do such a thing to this very special, unique and the most caring creature that I've ever met and love sitting here next to me, without a second thought about it." Josh smiled at her and took her hands in his.

Jessica looked at him in surprise at what he had just said to her, about her. She couldn't believe it. She then realized that her disbelief wasn't for what he had just said, but that it was something that she had longed for him to say to her.

'Had she really been that oblivious to her best friends love for her? Yay, another quality from dad, oblivious to love that's right in front of you. Wait maybe it's from mom, oh my god; I'm turning into my mother! Oh, wait, I already knew that.' She laughed to herself,

'But seriously, it's just like her and hank, no not our dog hank, her ex-boyfriend, the paramedic Hank, that she then found out was cheating on her, well on his girl with her, oh what's the difference, it's the same technically, right? Eh, we both suck when it come to boyfriends, I mean I've been cheated on twice! Alright that's enough of that, get out of you head Jess, and talk to him,'

"Oh my god." She finally breathed.

Josh looked at her, "Is that a good 'Oh my god,' or a bad one?" he asked.

Jess turned to him, "Wait? Oh, no, no, it's not that, I just realized another similarity between me and my parents, that's all." she gave him one of her famous smiles, a smile she had inherited from her mother.

"Another one? Sheesh, I thought we figured out all of those. Hmm, guess not." He turned to her with his famous funny, well supposedly funny frustrated look and she just burst out laughing.

"Now that's the Jessie Lyn I've longed to see." Josh smiled.

She turned to him, laughing with a slight glare. "Hey, watch it buster, love for me or not, I'll still kick your ass."

Josh put his hands behind his head and leaned back, giving a content sigh, "I wouldn't have it any other way, Babe." he smiled.

Jessica scoffed and hit him with the pillow next to her. He gave her a smile. They laughed.

"Ok, I guess I deserved that one." he said sitting up slowly, laughing.

"Ya think." she smiled.

"Man, wait till the guys hear about this."

He looked at her, "Our guys or your guys?"

"Ours," she smiled, "I mean were not exactly dating so there's no need to tell my guys yet."

"Yeah, but Jess, do you think…." he stopped mid-sentence.

'Did she say yet, as in there will be?'

Jessica waver her hand in front of his face, "Hello? Josh, you there? Do I think what?"

He snapped back into reality, "What?"

"Do I think what?'

"Oh, right, ah what did you mean by yet?"

She stared at him, "Joshua Adam Pierce! You know very god damn well what I meant by 'Yet'. You were going to ask me if I ever thought there would be an 'Us', until you realized what I said, and you know it!"

He just stared at her, "OK, are you sure you're not a mind reader, I mean c'mon, you're good."

"I'm me. So what is it, huh? Because if you're not going to answer me them I'm going to…" She was cut off by Josh's lips on hers. He broke the kiss.

"I'm sorry, don't leave." she said quietly.

She blushed. "To switch the movies over." she finished.

It was Josh's turn now to blush, "Oh, yeah, um go ahead."

"Um, why don't you go ahead and switch them, I've got to go to the bathroom."

"Ok." Jess got up and went down the hall while Josh switched the movies.

She went into the bathroom and locked the door behind her. She pulled her cell to call Heather, but didn't move.

'Had he really kissed me? He did, he did! Josh really kissed me, oh and the things he said, they were so, so sweet.' She looked at her reflection and hung her head and sighed.

"Damn, I'm too much like my parents." She opened the door and walked back up the hall.

"Now that definitely is a curse." she said as she walked into the living room.

"What is?" asked Josh as he stood up.

"What? Oh, nothing." she smiled.

"Is talking to yourself one of the qualities that you get from your parents too?"

"You know it."

They laughed and sat back down and continued their day as it had began. Watching movies, talking, and eating junk food, but this time there was less tension. It was just like old times, but at the start of something new.

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ok there's 13, hope you liked it, please RxR, 14, 15 and 16 to coom soon, love Winx Csi Hottie (Formally Csi Hottie)