Title: Just Dance With Me
Rating: T. (There will be some language. Also some sexual content. I'm not sure how much, but if it changes and the rating needs to be raised, don't worry, I will let you know and label all chapters appropriately.)
Disclaimer: All of the lovely characters used thus far are not mine at all. They belong to the lovely folks of Once and Again, and I can't claim any of them, unfortunately for me. Once more, if you didn't notice this yet, they aren't mine. So, please don't sue me.
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Summary: This is a Jessie/Katie story. You've been 'warned.' It tells about them meeting college and everything that goes along with it. (Yes, that means they are going to be togehter in this story.) Tad, Grace, Sarah, etc. also fall into the plot a bit, but this is mostly Jessie/Katie.
Author's Notes: I'll provide you with a Prelude here. Tad, Sarah, Grace, and Katie are all sophomores in college together. Jessie is a freshman there. They go to the same school, and Katie and Jessie have not previously met until this story. However, they are going to get to know each other very well. Grace is still Jessie's step-sister, and Tad, Katie, and Sarah all know each other.
Katie looked at herself suspiciously in the mirror. Her long light brown hair dangled precariously over her shoulders in waves. It had taken a while to get these waves, and she was hoping for a sexy effect. Boy, did it work. She smiled at herself. She did look good, even if she had to say so herself. Which, of course, she did, seeing as the only other person in the room was currently sleeping on a bed. The person in the other bed had gotten in kind of late from work so Katie was currently let her sleep while she got ready for tonight. She had on a pair of fairly tight fitting jeans and a black tank top, perfect for a night in a club. She was just getting through looking at herself in the mirror imagining how the date would go. Her date was a little bit shorter than her, but she had amazing eyes and sparkling blonde hair. Katie couldn't help but smile at this image. Suddenly, a loud knock echoed through the dorm room. She was here!
Katie sprinted across the room and threw open the door to an eager looking...Tad? Oh, crap. Right. She wasn't going on a date tonight with some dream girl she was hanging out with her best, male, friend. He, of course, knew that she was into girls, but hey, that wouldn't keep him from, jokingly, trying to be with her anyway. In reality, they were just two good friends going to a club together tonight to have some fun. If they were lucky, both would find themselves a girl.
"So, you gonna let me in or what?" Tad raised and wiggled his eyebrows at Katie while questioning her
"Since when has my not letting you in ever kept you from coming in here before?" Katie responded quickly but still stayed in the doorway, blocking his view of the room.
Tad, now curious, tried to peek into the room. "Well, usually by now I can get in...Unless, there's some, uh, certain laundry drying around in the room...Or, if you have some girl trying to get dressed quickly." Suddenly, there were a few footsteps heard from the other side of the door that Tad couldn't see. Then a girl appeared next to Katie in only a large t-shirt, obviously her pajamas for the night. The two girls shared a knowing smile.
"Aw, Baby, I'm sorry if we woke you up." Katie looked at the other girl and slipped her arm around her hips before smiling again at her.
The other girl, Sarah, smiled back at Katie. "Don't worry about it, Sweetie. I had to get up some time." With that, Katie turned back to Tad, ready to address him again.
"Are you ready to go soon then," Katie looked at Tad as if it was normal for her to have a girl dangling off of her in the hallway. Sarah leaned in and kissed the smooth skin that lay at Katie's neck while Tad stared. "Earth to Tad. It's Sarah, and Katie. You know us. Ready to go now then?"
"It's...Sarah...and you. You, and Sarah?" Tad was looking completely bewildered at the two girls who were standing in front of him. Immediately, both girls burst out laughing and released one another before high-fiving. Tad started to catch on. "You were just kidding? All of that...wasn't real?" His mouth was now hanging open in shock while they continued to laugh.
Katie managed to nod and gasp out, "Tad, you know Sarah and I are nothing more than friends."
Sarah nodded, struggling for breath and adding, "That's true. Well, we're room-mates too...but not in that sense. I just couldn't help providing some entertainment for myself in seeing you like...that." Both girls shared another glance and burst out laughing.
"I'm ready to go," Tad muttered not looking at the girls who were still giggling like mad. "Now he's ready to go," Sarah mentioned to Katie who nodded and waved good-bye to Sarah. "Well, he's been through enough for now, I think. So, I'll catch you back here later, okay?" Sarah nodded and waved back as Tad and Katie walked down the hallway.
A few minutes later they arrived at the club, and Tad, still grumbling, had decided to let 'Katie's Little Joke' go for now. The two looked around for a minute, trying to see if they had any other friends nearby. Unable to spot any Katie nodded towards the dance floor. She loved to dance. Okay, maybe she wasn't the best dancer in the world, but she tried. Plus, it was just so fun. Maybe it was the passion between two people that made them great dance partners. If there was chemistry between two people, perhaps then they'd be great dance partners. But, neither passion nor chemistry existed between Tad and Katie outside of the science lab room, unfortunately for their dancing skills. No matter. Tad was pulled towards the dance floor by Katie who was wiggling around already. As soon as they got close to the mob of people already dancing, Katie's arms went up into the air as she began to twist around. Tad, for his part, did his bit of dancing with shuffling of the feet and some arm movements. It was fun, even if it didn't look so good.
Suddenly, Tad looked over to notice that Katie didn't seem to be dancing at all now. What in the world was she looking at? He turned to try to follow her line of eye-sight and immediately knew what, rather who, she was staring at. Just across the dance floor was a beautiful blonde girl who was dancing almost as gracefully as Katie. Perhaps she hadn't found her passion either? It was Jessica Sammler, a girl that Tad had a class with actually. He knew that he knew her name, but couldn't remember what it was for sure at the moment. Something with a 'B' definitely, or maybe a 'J'…a 'K'? He had asked her out once…Unfortunately for him, she didn't seem interested in him. In fact, she hadn't seemed interested in any in as far as he had seen. Perhaps Katie had a chance...Let's hope so, because if Jessie turned around at any second she'd see Katie who was staring a hole in the back of her head as she danced. Now, just how could Katie meet her?
"Grace, you're a horrible dancer." Jessie sighed at her step-sister Grace as she danced around on the floor next to her. Grace and Jessie had managed to become friends after the rather long time of bickering between them had finally passed. Now, they had ended up at the same college together, with Grace just a year above Jessie, and after some heavy-duty bribing they had managed to score a dorm-room together.
"I'm not a bad dancer. You just are too blind to see the beauty in it!" Grace continued dancing around, resorting to trying to do 'The Shopping Cart.' This involved her acting like she was pushing a cart and randomly picking things off of "shelves" to put into the cart. Oh my, she must be picking up dog food now because she's struggling to put something in the 'cart.' Jessie laughed. "Hey, want me to do 'The Lawnmower' next? I will if you keep that up with my so-called bad dancing." Grace raised her eyebrows at Jessie while trying not to laugh. Maybe she just needed her passion to be able to dance properly too, that, or some dance lessons.
Katie was not the only one who thought that good passion meant good dancing. Jessie also believed that two people had to be good together to be able to dance well together. If there was chemistry between too people, then they would dance great together. There had to be a high level of emotion, like passion for the other, for their dancing to flow well together. Unfortunately, she hadn't found anyone like that apparently, because her dancing was a little bit, well, a bit to be desired. She just had to hope some day to find that rhythm with someone.
"Fine fine. I'll stop making so many jokes off of your, um, dance skills. If you promise to stop doing 'The Lawnmower' until, um, it rains next because if you do it before then, the grass won't have even grown outside so you'll look silly!" Jessie was rapidly trying to think of reasons to keep Grace from doing the Lawnmower, which if you haven't guessed, involves Grace 'pushing' a lawnmower along and 'mowing' all grass nearby. It's almost worst then 'The Shopping Cart.'
Grace grinned. She was winning now, because she had plenty of other dances to do, and Jessie couldn't make fun of them now, hah! The two had each had a pretty hectic week and decided that Friday night would be a good time to go out and have some fun before weekend homework had to be started. Therefore, they decided to go out to the club. Grace usually found a guy to dance with, and several guys would always be staring at Jessie, but she never was found to be staring back. Grace had realized that Jessie could be found glancing at a few girls now and then, but Jessie would never admit to it. Therefore, she didn't go on too many dates, at least not happily. Grace always tried to drag Jessie out on a double-date with a guy but she never looked happy around him. Grace realized what was wrong with the date, the gender, but Jessie refused to admit to it for a long time. Finally, Jessie let it slip one day that she didn't want to date guys. No mention of girls.
Grace was still dancing with Jessie, with both of them smiling, when she noticed an attractive girl staring straight at Jessie. Oh my God! She was really cute! Well, for a girl anyway. Grace decided that Jessie had to see her, maybe they knew each other? "Hey Jess. You do know there's a really hot girl staring at you right?" Jessie rolled her eyes and didn't bother to look. "No, seriously, look behind you."
Jessie sighed and looked behind her. Sure enough, about 4 very, er, close couples over was a girl standing with a guy. The girl was staring at Jessie with a strange smile on her face. Wow, Grace was right, Jessie decided. She also thought that the girl was very hot. Wow, just wow. Jessie smiled at her, wondering what was wrong with the girl that she was staring at her.
Katie immediately blushed realizing that she had been caught staring straight at her. Oh crap, oh crap. Katie was starting to panic. Katie's heart was starting to race and then there was a nudge into her side. "Go talk to her! What are you a mannequin?" Tad was elbowing her and motioning with his hand toward Jessie who was still looking at Katie.
"Oh my God. She's going to come talk to you. The hot girl is coming over to talk to you!" Grace was practically screaming it over the loud music and a nearby couple stopped to stare at Grace who sent them a sneer back. Jessie was panicking enough on her own now. Okay, so she didn't want to date guys. She liked girls, but to talk to a girl that was really hot? That was out of the question. She couldn't do that. Besides, the other girl was probably straight. Yes, that's it. The other girl is straight. Jessie's conscience was over-reacting wondering why the other girl would stare at her if she was straight. Maybe she had some Cheetos stuck in her teeth? No, she hadn't had Cheetos today…No. She had had nachos though! Oh my God. She had nachos stuck in her teeth.
"I have nachos stuck in my teeth don't I?" Jessie's eyes widened as she looked back between the hot girl that was coming closer and Grace who now had a confused look on her face. No way was she going to let this girl see her with nachos in her teeth. Ew. That would ruin everything! Jessie put her hand to her mouth for a second before removing it. Instead, she just closed her mouth really tightly and began weaving out of the mass of people on the dance floor. Why hadn't she thought of brushing her teeth before coming out tonight?
Katie watched perplexed as Jessie's eyes got huge and then she ran off through the crowd. The girl she was with followed her, also looking confused, off the dance floor. Was she running away from her already? What did she possibly do? She couldn't have said anything wrong could she have? Of course not. She hadn't even talked to the girl yet!
Katie considered going after her, but decided not to based on how fast she had run off the dance floor. Instead, she turned to Tad who looked just as perplexed as Katie. "Um, maybe she, um. Left the stove on?" Katie rolled her eyes at him and he shrugged. "What? It could happen. Hm, do you still feeling like dancing?" He looked at Katie who considered dancing some more after seeing that girl. No, she didn't feel like dancing now. She was hungry, and at that precise moment her stomach growled. Funny how that works. Tad laughed, "Maybe we should go get some food instead? We'll find mystery girl later, k?" Katie smiled.
"Sounds like a plan. Can we go get pancakes? Or nachos, or something? Maybe both?" Mm. That sounded good. Tad's eyes got wide for a moment.
"You need both of them, now?" Katie merely nodded at her friend. "Bah. Fine, fine, you win. We'll go see if we can find somewhere to get both pancakes and nachos. See the things I do for you? You should be grateful." Katie grinned as they steered themselves through the crowd of people.