Jessie woke to sunlight streaming in from her windows above her bed and stretched contentedly, burrowing deeper into the sheets. She smiled and sat up, unable to sleep anymore no matter how comfy she was, and glanced at her alarm clock situated above her bed. 9:36. She had plenty of time before she was due on set.

Almost as if on cue, there was a knock on her door and her boyfriend, Jason Grey, poked his head in. "Hey sleepyhead," he said with a grin. "It's the big day."

Jessie nodded. "Believe me," she told him honestly, "I know."

Jason noticed something in the way she said it, and he stepped inside her room to sit down on her bed. "Are you nervous?" he asked her, guessing the answer before she said anything.

Jessie grinned back at him nervously. "What do you think?" Three weeks had passed since her birthday and she had made her home in the spare bedroom of the Greys' home. In that time, she had visited the set of the movie, spoken several times to the director, planned out some of the scenes, and had been given the main role because the other girl had bailed. Nothing too strenuous or confusing, right? Wrong.

She had thought, up until last night, that she would really have no problem stepping in for Miss I'm-suddenly-too-good-for-this-movie, but now, the butterflies in her stomach were threatening to choke her. How could she possibly have thought that she could take over for an actress? She had absolutely no training in acting aside from the little bit that the Greys had helped her with over the past weeks.

"I think," Jason said, his sweet voice breaking through her thoughts, "that you're thinking too much. You'll be fine," he promised. "Most of the scenes are with me anyways, and if something goes wrong, you know that the director in Jerry will take care of it, and I'll be right there beside him." He leaned in, kissing her softly and using one hand to tilt her head up to his. "I love you, and I'll take care of you forever."

Jessie smiled widely, feeling the familiar tingling from her head to her toes when he kissed her and told her that he loved her. Such declarations were common between them, but the declarations never got old, or lost their meaning. "I love you too," she said, winding her arms around his neck.

Jason kissed her once more and then said, "We really have to get going. We need to be on set in three hours."

"Fine," Jessie huffed, unwilling to let this rare moment with Jason slip by. They were almost always interrupted by someone in the family, and she treasured the times when her moments with Jason were accident-free.

She moved to stand, but Jason pulled her down unexpectedly and kissed her again, harder and more urgently than last time. When she pulled away, slightly shocked, Jason asked her, "You know I love you, right?"

Jessie raised an eyebrow, unsure as to why he was telling her that he loved her…again. In the same sitting. With a look of desperation in his eyes. "I, uh, love you too," she said, distracted by his eyes boring into hers. "Something on your mind?" she asked invitingly. "You know that you can share it with me, right?"

Jason smiled, and Jessie noticed the slightly sad note in his expression. "I know, and I just wanted to make sure that you knew without a doubt." He shrugged. "You know that for part of the movie, I have to be enamored with someone else, and I didn't want you to have any room to worry about my love for you."

Touched, Jessie kissed him once more and bounded off the bed happily. "I love you too," she said. "And you love me so much that you'll let me use the shower first."

Jason groaned, slapping a hand mockingly over his forehead. "The things I do for you," he moaned dramatically.

However, as he peeked at her through the fingers covering his eyes, they shared a look of such complete contentment that Jessie knew that he had absolutely no problem with sharing the shower, or anything else for that matter, with her.

Filming, three hours later, was much different than Jessie had expected it to be. She had figured that when she showed up, she would begin acting right away. Instead, she had to wait for half an hour before going through the torture of wardrobe and makeup, and then wait another forty-five minutes until her scene was called. In that time, she'd already make an enemy in one Moria Trace, her onscreen "best" friend. Obviously, not every girl wanted to marry just Shane or Nate.

By the end of the day, Jessie was tired from the acting and mentally exhausted from recovering from all of Moria's carefully concealed barbs about being a foster child. "Former foster child," Jessie thought stiffly. She was her own person, and she belonged to no one but herself and Jason.

But it was Jessie who had the last laugh when the last scene for the day was cut. Jason came over and swung his arm over her shoulders as if it was the most normal thing he could have done (which it was). Moria's face went a strange shade of purplish-red and she whirled away angrily, reminding Jessie a lot of her former foster sister, Diana.

"Good day?" Jason asked Jessie, completely oblivious to what had just been exchanged between the two girls.

Jessie glanced back, looking in the direction that Moria had headed, and nodded. "Yup," she said happily. "However," she teased, "if you give me a kiss, the day will get even better."

Jason's mouth quirked into a grin and he leaned down to grant her request. "Better?" he asked when he pulled away, his voice sounding slightly deeper to Jessie.

Jessie nodded. "Much."

"Ready to go home?" Jason asked her. "Everyone's waiting in the car for us."

Jessie nodded and twined her hand with his as he guided her off the set and out into the parking lot where the rest of their family was waiting. Yes, their family. Because though they were not related by blood, they all shared something in common that drew them together: Varying degrees of love for Jason.

A/N: Hope you guys liked it! :D I'm moving a little quicker through these parts because I want to get to the fun ending. I hope you're enjoying this, and there might be one or two chapters left. Please review!!! I NEED those reviews! :D Also, to those of you that reviewed and I didn't thank, I'm very sorry, but FF wouldn't let me, so I didn't ignore you, I just couldn't thank you. THANK YOU!! ;)