When Jessica Pierce returned from her impromptu 3-year anniversary vacation from Cancun; she simply felt less motivated to go to school. Well… not so much that school that was the problem - more so; Dorian DeLoughrey - who Jess was still purposefully avoiding with every fiber in her being. So was it so far a stretch to say Jessica skipped for two weeks? But as time went on; the answer to why became blurry. She was still annoyed at him; but… not as much as she was that night. Despite that; her little school vaca did wonders. Dan hacked the school system to make sure that Jess would be fine - though Jessica still turned in her assignments online. They weren’t hard; after all. So instead; for two weeks Jessica spent a few days going back to London to hang out with her little brother and sister though; not wanting to distract them too much - returned after about 5 days. And… hung out with Kai. And by that, she means “hang out” as in “hang out”. Simply doing things together in a completely non-sexual nature because for some reason the incident where he pushed her off of him at the camping trip wasn’t the last time.
Though Jess and Kai had been seemingly having a good time; Dating, going grocery shopping for condoms, eating food that Kai would probably never eat himself. And in a weird way… Jess liked him… quite a bit. He was different but it was in a good way… well, so she thought. In all honesty, Jessica Pierce did have a streak of dating men that would never end up to more than a 3 date horror story. And her friends; namely one Andy Pierce did quite enjoy those horror stories. Perhaps it was self-sabotaging… perhaps she just had bad luck. But Kai… maybe Jessica was just kidding herself when she thought there could be something there. After all; the moment she felt that - she knew what came next: Pushing herself away so she couldn’t get hurt. It happened with Celine and it was bound to happen with Kai. But clearly, she didn’t have to worry about that.
Her mind went back over the day before; they had returned from another date and Jessica found herself pinned against the wall - legs wrapped around his waist. Foreplay; but at that point of a month of actively dating and doing nothing but making out; it wasn’t really needed. From the living room; barely making it to the bedroom - Jess was already rendered shirtless alongside him and soon would have been naked; well if he didn’t give her a strange look in the middle of it - push himself up off of her and say something along the lines of “I can’t do this - I’m sorry,”
Suffice to say: What the actual flipping f*ck
So there she laid. Practically naked. Alone. In his bed. And he had disappeared somewhere. Perhaps even left his OWN home. So Jessica did what any sane person would do - got dressed; walked over to Yara Keller’s house to spill the tea. Tea which consisted of “WHAT. THE. FVCK.”
Perhaps that’s why in addition to avoiding school - she had avoided him for the last two days. Well; until now. Jess found herself arriving at the fashion show with Dan - an even that he had signed her up for to get her out of the house. Modeling no less; though she rather be sitting in her PJs eating McDonalds and watching Brooklynn 99 reruns.
Though she walked inside with an air of purpose; sighing as she saw the man of the hour. Mr. Kingsly himself. “Hey,” Jess stated; walking up to him with a soft smile. “We should talk. Look; it’s really easy to see that you and I aren’t working out and look that’s cool. Not compatible; oh well. No harm done Kai. But we reallyyyyyy need to stop wasting each other’s time with the whole 'is he going to f*ck me or not thing because honestly it’s getting kind of old and I’m tired of it and I sooo rather be wasting my time eating ice cream somewhere. So are we good?”
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@astxrism - Dori somewhere
@CerealKiller - Yara and Andy the nugget