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Author: WritingSia
Fiction Rated: T - English - Friendship/Romance - Reviews: 17 - Published: 06-13-08 - Updated: 06-14-08 - id:4320920

Ok, this is going really fast. I'd like to dedicate this chapter to Emily for her great advice. R&R!

"Wake up Leslie!" Jesse sang, sitting on her bed and shaking her.

"What's wrong?" she grumbled, pulling the covers over her head.

"Nothing! I thought you wanted to go to Teribithia!" he said, yanking the covers off of her and exposing her pajamas, which were a pair of dance pants and an over sized T-shirt.

"I want to sleep!" she said, sitting up and rubbing her eyes with the tips of her first two fingers.

"Well, yesterday you wanted to go to Teribithia, and that's what we're doing!"

"How will we get across?"

"We'll build a bridge!"

"Are you okay, Jesse Aarons?"

"Nope! I'm losing my mind because my first girlfriend ever is arguing about whether or not she wants to go to our kingdom!"

"Girlfriend? Oh!" Leslie said, remembering the previous afternoon's happenings.

"Yeah!" Jesse said, bouncing again to make sure she was paying attention.

"I really don't like your bouncing," she said, giving him her best half asleep death glare.

"Then wake up!" he said, then he kissed her quickly before getting up and pacing.

The kiss appearently woke her uip, because a minute later, she was shoving him out the door so she could get dressed. She quickly shed her pajamas, and pulled on a green tank top and blue jean shorts.

She opened the door and nearly knocked him over with a hug.

"Morning!" she sang, skipping down the stairs to the kitchen.

Jesse followed her as she grabbed a plastic grocery bag and put in two apples, two water bottles, and a plastic container which held a few left over hamburgers. "Now look who's a bright little ray of sunshine. What are you doing, Les?"

"If we're building a bridge, we need rations!" Leslie said, singing the last part.

"Good greif, Les!"

"Let's go!"

They went down to the creek, where Leslie found Jesse had already brought some plywood, nails, a saw and a hammer.

They quickly set to work, and in no time, they had a secure base.

"We need to stop to eat," Leslie pionted out, looking at her watch to find it was already one.

"Okay," Jesse said. "We just have to put on the rails and put up a sign."

"A sign?"

"Yeah, but we'll write it in Teribithian, so only we will understand."

"Okay, my king, if we're going to eat, we should say a blessing."

"But-but you're not Christian."

"I know, but when I woke up, I realized that someone must have been watching over me, so now I beleive He's there."

"Wow, Les. We can say a blessing."

They said their blessing and finished their meal, then they set to work again.

Around four, they were done, and they stood back and admired their work.

"I think it's a work of art," Leslie thought aloud.

"I think it's a treasure," Jesse said, looking at Leslie, who blushed.

"I think the king should go across first."

"I agree- Ow! What was that for?" Jesse said, rubbing his arm where Leslie had just punched him.

"The king isn't better! I was just being nice!" she said.

"Then we should walk across holding hands," Jesse said simply.

"W-what? Hold...Hands?"

"Yeah. Isn't that what boyfriend and girlfriend do?"

"Yeah, I-I guess."

Jesse held out his hand to her. She gingerly placed her hand in his, and they walked across the bridge. Once at the other side, Leslie, looked at her hand in his, then picked up his other hand with her free one.

"Uh, Les? Are you okay?" Jesse asked.

"Our hands. They look-they look like they're supposed to be together," she said in a high, breathy voice.

Jesse looked again, then he saw it too. There was a light around them.

"Yeah..."

Jesse leant down to kiss her, and she responded softly, then pulled away.

"Wow!" she breathed, as if it were the first time that had ever happened.

Jesse chuckled. "Yeah. Wow!"

Jesse put his arm around her shoulders, where she relaxed and put her head down on his. They walked home just like that, and when they separated, they shared one more kiss.

A/N: OK, Emily, was that good? Ya'll R&R! TTFN!!



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