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in the =
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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