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future will
be mine....but still, feel free to use them, as soon as i create them!

Archivers: Awesome, just let me know!

Cat.:  as of now, still not much of naything, but we are getting there...de=
f hr, angst, and
action in the NEAR future.

Chapt. 1

*So, Jonny thinks IÕm sloppy, huh?  We'll see about that* she thought as sh=
e put on a
layer of clear lip-gloss.

As she stood up from her vanity, she smoothed the black fabric of the floor=
length gown
her mother had sent her from her trip to Paris last month.

The note had read, "To my Daughter with love, you never know when you may w=
ant to
sweep a certain someone off their feet."

It shocked Jessie, but only a small bit, that her mother had known about th=
e mixed
feelings she had begun to have about Jonny.

It had all started with their first real year of schoolÉand she wasnÕt sure=
she was the
only one with the confusion over her feelings.  Just as she and Jonny had b=
een ready to
enter their senior year, a first for them, spending an entire year in a hig=
h school
setting (minus the occasional adventures), Hadji had been called back to Ba=
ngalor for
official business.

But before he left he had pulled her aside.

At the time, she had dismissed his words of wisdom as a random Hadji-ism, b=
ut after the
dress had come with the insightful note, she had suddenly remembered his wo=
rds and
anymore, she wasnÕt able to stop analyzing them.

***"Jessie," he had said, "No matter what happens, remember that your eyes =
are not
always the best tool to see with.  And no matter what tool you find inside =
of you to view
the world from, trust that everything will work out, and to live each momen=
t to the hilt,
seconds past are memories wasted.  I will always be here for you, but you m=
ust promise
me to stay alert to the true Jessie Bannon that we all know and love, no ma=
tter what
fears you may have."***

As she thought back on her promise to him, she realized the tool she was su=
pposed to see
with, her heart.

*How is it that everyone else knows my feelings before me?* Jessie thought=
.   *Oh
well, maybe this outfit and tonight will help make sure JONNY knows my feel=
ings too*

MeanwhileÉin another part of the Quest Compound,

*Shoot! I totally forgot about having to go pick up my new tux, now Jess re=
ally will beat
me in getting ready* Jonny thought as he grabbed the car keys,

"Dad, Race, IÕm running down to the tailors to grab my new tux, IÕll be rig=
ht back!"

He heard an echoing chorus of  "Hurry up," and "Drive safely," from his fat=
her and Race
respectively.  *How Predictable* he thought as he shrugged on his jacket.  =
 

As he was speeding down the road he began to worryÉ

*I was worried about Jess looking sloppy, I cant believe I let her pick out=
my new tux
with out even letting me see it first.  She sure knows how to get what she =
wants, all she
has to do is dare me and she knows ill let her do anything, boy am I whippe=
d.*

As that thought raced through his head a new and more alarming one followed=
É*did I just
refer to myself as whipped by Jessie? As in a relationship?*

As he grinned boyishly at the hilarious picture of him and Jess going out =
for a date
that had appeared in his mind, with it having to be cancelled because they =
could not
agree who would get to drive, he suddenly remembered his brothers last word=
s to him
before he left for Bangalor
.
"Jonny," Hadji had said, "The ideas you laugh at most often may be the onfiltered=
you want to
most to come true.  I am trying to tell you something very important, and s=
o that you
can actually understand my message for once, IÕll try to make it a sporty-t=
ype
mysticism.  OK, here goes, no matter what, you miss a hundred percent of th=
e shots you
never take."

Jonny had felt bad because he knew Hadji was trying to make him understand =
something,
but the sporty-type mysticism had seemed just as strange as the rest of his=
mysticisms,
so Jonny had simply shrugged and said, "Sure Hadji."

But now, he was pretty sure he had an idea of what his wise brother had bee=
n talking
about.

****************

As he stood in front of the mirror in his room, Jonny let out a low whistle=
.

*I guess I should lose bets to Jess more often* he thought as he looked at=
his new tux.

*As much as I hate these things, I think I could get used to this one.*

The tux was black, with tails, but the part that distinguished it from all =
the others
that Jonny had been forced to wear in the past was that it had a black vest=
, and shirt
also, instead of the normal white one, and in place of a bow-tie, he wore a=
white, silk tie.

"Well," he said to his reflection as he ran his hands through his tossled b=
lond hair one
last time, "this is it.  I guess it is time to stop wasting shots and all t=
hat like Hadji
said.  Here goesÉ"

****************

"Jessie, JonnyÉLETS GO!" Benton yelled up the stairs.

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Lol....you write for what seems forever and then when you go to post it, yo=
u are lie,
Dude...didnt i have WAY more than that before?  lol

oh well....i promise it will pick up the pace soon.

   Becks

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Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.
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