Story: Both Sides of the Heart (chapter 3)

Authors: cb_91

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Chapter 3

Title: A Night to Forget

[Author's notes:

Reviews are always wanted.

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     Time to see how it goes. Clair thought as she started to walk to her and Jocelyn’s meeting spot. I hope she is here. I probably freaked her out.     

      Clair let out a relieved sigh when she saw Jocelyn waiting patiently for her on a bench. She had her knees curled up, and she was intently drawing something. Clair stared at her for a few moments longer, not yet wanting to disturb her. She looks like she is at peace. What could have possible drove her to do those things to her body?     

     Jocelyn looked at Clair as she approached. She smiled at Clair. Maybe we can pretend none of it happened. 

     “What ‘cha drawin’?” Clair asked in a playful tone.

 

     “A duck.”

 

     “It doesn’t look like a duck.” Clair said with a grimace.

 

     “It is a gooey duck.” Jocelyn had a devious smile on her face with this comment.

 

     “What is that?” Clair gave a puzzled look.

 

     “Something very disgusting. Our teacher told us to draw our favorite animal, so I decided to be a smartass.” She grinned even bigger.

 

     “Oh, so what is really your favorite animal?”

 

     “I like the white Siberian tiger. They are so graceful and beautiful. They are solitary creatures that are almost extinct because people don’t take to time to really notice them. They are beautiful, strong, and unique. They are kinda like people who were born before their time and were outcast because they had different ideas. People like that are becoming fewer and fewer just like the tigers.”

 

     Jocelyn looked at Clair. Clair was just staring intently at her, hanging on every word.

 

     “What?” Jocelyn said in a whisper of a voice.

 

     “Wow, you really put thought into that answer.” Clair’s face loosened up then.

 

     “Should I not have?” Jocelyn looked down on her feet with an odd look.

 

     “It’s just that…That seems like something someone with higher grades would say.”

 

     “My grades are fake. I thought you knew that.” Jocelyn raised an eyebrow to Clair.

 

     “I had no idea. What do you mean?” Clair, again, had a puzzled look.

 

     “Well, I have a certain reputation to protect, so I get my teachers to change my grades to make it seem like I don’t do well. I actually make excellent grades.” She smiled to herself about this.

 

     “Oh, well I feel dumb now.” Clair blushed as a dumbstruck look crossed her face.

 

     “You are dumb. I’ve seen your grades; they are horrible.” Jocelyn managed to say this with a straight face, but she still had that gleam of playfulness in her eyes.

 

     “You’re not funny.” Clair said with a pout on her face.

 

     “Relax, I am just being playful. Just because you don’t do well in certain things doesn’t mean you couldn’t if you tried. Also, you could just be really good at real life stuff that has nothing to do with school.” She gave Clair a loving smile with this comment.

 

     “Thanks. So, you are kinda like the tiger you know.” Clair smirked.

 

     “Good cause that is what I was going for.” She said while smiling. She grabbed Clair’s hands and pulled her to her feet.

 

     “I have to get home now, Clair. I’ll see you tomorrow.” She said with a bit of regret in her voice.

 

     “Jocelyn, how would you like to come to my house this Friday?”  Clair blushed.

 

     “Sure. See ya.”

 

     “Bye.”

 

      I hope it won’t be awkward at her house after what happened last time.     

      It seems she has either forgiven me for what I did or she just dropped it. Hopefully she isn’t planning to bring it up again at my house. 

     As Jocelyn and Clair left, they were both unaware of the fact that they were being watched. 

 

     “Seems like they are really starting to get closer then I originally intended.”

 

     “What are you going to do about it?”

 

     “Well, it is perfectly clear that both of them seem to have developed some kind of feeling for each other. I think it is about time that we set the plan into motion.” An evil grin passed over her lips.

 

     “So soon?” A look of surprise covered his face.

 

     “Yes, we are going to see exactly how loyal my little JC is. This is turning out better than I thought.”

 

     “What do you want me to do?” He asked with a worried expression.

 

     “Go tell JC to meet me by the dumpsters tomorrow after school. Tell her that we need to have a little chat about her ‘friend’.”

 

     “Okay, I am on it.” He hurriedly scampered away.

 

     This is going to be like takin’ candy from a baby.

 

Behind the Dumpster the following day:

 

     “Hey, what do you need to talk about?”

 

     “You and that Clair girl have gotten awfully close. You ain’t gonna have second thoughts ‘bout our plan are ya?” She had a hard face as she planted this question on Jocelyn.

 

     “No, of course not.” Jocelyn said as she gave an equally hard look back.

 

     “Good because I think it is about time we set our plan into motion.”

 

     “Ok, how do you plan for us to do that?”

 

     “Listen carefully….”

 

That Friday at Clair’s House:

 

     “Hey, so glad you could make it.” Clair smiled softly at the sight of her friend.

 

     “Please, like I would pass up a chance to be in a big house with as much food in it as I could eat.” Jocelyn pushed Clair playfully inside.

 

     “You are such a cow.” Clair grinned and rolled her eyes.

 

     “Like you are one to talk little miss I ate half a large pizza by myself.” Jocelyn grinned at her playfully.

 

     “Okay, okay I get it let’s go up to my room.” She rolled her eyes again.

 

     Wow, she looks unusually adorable tonight. Jocelyn could feel herself blush at the thought.

 

     “Is something wrong? Your face is kinda red.” Clair cocked an eyebrow to Jocelyn, mirroring what Jocelyn had done a few days before.

 

     “No, I’m fine. So what do you have planned for us tonight?” Jocelyn looked down to avoid further embarrassment.

 

     “I was thinking popcorn, chips, and various other snacks plus The Notebook.”

 

     “Are you serious?”  Jocelyn grimaced at that word.

 

     “Yeah, why? Do you not like the notebook?” Clair gave her a questioning glance.

 

     “I have never watched it, but from what I have gathered it isn’t exactly my cup of tea.” Jocelyn was still grimacing.

 

     “Just give it a chance.” Clair said while preparing the snacks and movie.

 

     “Fine.” Jocelyn replied while taking off her hoodie. Her wrists were bandaged up.

 

     Clair looked back at her and inquired, “Why do you have them wrapped?” She stared at her wrists.

 

     “I am still a little embarrassed about the scars.” Jocelyn sat down on the bed and made herself comfortable. She could feel herself blush again.

 

     Clair looked back at her and gave her a quick smile. “Sorry about everything that happened with your parents and such.” Clair started the movie, cut out the lights, and sat beside Jocelyn on the bed.

 

     During the movie, both girls remained quiet. The only sounds that could be heard were the sounds of the movie and the sounds of the snacks as they were being carefully eaten.

 

     The movie credits started to roll, and Jocelyn leaned over to switch on the light. She had actually enjoyed the movie. It was a very touching movie with a sad ending. She was glad she had watched it. She looked over at Clair. Clair kept her head turned away from Jocelyn and ducked down a little.

    

     Jocelyn smiled. She realized Clair was crying. She got up on her knees and crawled over to Clair. She turned Clair’s head toward her and softly brushed the tears off her cheeks. Clair leaned her head against Jocelyn’s chest and sighed loudly. Jocelyn started to stroke her head. A smile was brushing across her lips from the gentle pressure Clair’s head was adding to her chest.

 

     “I hate that movie. It gets me every time.” Clair sighed again into Jocelyn’s chest.

 

     Jocelyn giggled softly at her friend’s tenderness. “It’s just a movie.”

 

     Clair got up and walked out of the room for a few minutes.

 

      I hope that comment didn’t make her mad. I was only trying to make her feel better.  

     She must think I am such a baby. I can’t believe I cried. She spent a few minutes in the bathroom cleaning her eyes. Then she returned to the room.

 

     Jocelyn was on her belly kicking her feet back and forth. She lifted her head when Clair returned to the room.

 

     “You ok?” She smiled a little.

 

     “I’m fine. I am just being stupid over a silly movie.” Clair shook her head and looked down.

 

      Jocelyn sat up on the side of the bed and grabbed Clair’s hands to bring her to her.   

      “It is ok to show emotion over a movie. I would have probably cried too if I hadn’t lost my feeling of emotions a long time ago.”

 

     Clair laid on the bed beside Jocelyn.

 

     “I wish we had never been separated. Then you would probably have turned out different. I don’t mean you attitude or anything, but just the cutting and stuff. You understand what I mean, right?” She looked at Jocelyn with a pleading look.

 

     “Yeah.” Jocelyn laid back beside Clair. “But you know, maybe it was meant to be like this. If we weren’t separated all those years back, we might have never figured out how much we meant to each other.” Jocelyn shrugged at the thought.

 

     “Yeah.” Clair barely let the words slip from her lips as she repositioned herself. She sat up and then leaned over Jocelyn. She looked into her blue eyes for a minute before she finally closed her eyes and chastely touched her lips on Jocelyn’s.

 

     She pulled back from Jocelyn to look for any sign of rejection, but there was none. Jocelyn had closed her eyes tight in anticipation of another kiss. Clair leaned over again and kissed her firmer and longer this time.

 

     They kissed softly for a few minutes. Then Jocelyn sat up and got on the bed properly and signaled for Clair to follow. Clair got to the top of the bed and laid slowly on her back with her head on the pillow. Jocelyn leaned over and kissed Clair tenderly.

 

     It was innocent kisses at first, but then Clair slightly parted her lips as if wishing for Jocelyn to put something between them. Jocelyn slowly parted her lips and let her tongue slip into Clair’s mouth. At first the tongues did an awkward dance, but then greeted each other as friends that had not seen each other for years.

 

     After several minutes Jocelyn’s cell went off. Both girls jumped making their heartbeats go faster than their already increased speed.

 

     It was one of her friends sending her a stupid text.

 

     “I think I should go. It is getting late.” Jocelyn glued her eyes to the floor.

 

     “Please don’t. You can stay the night here.” Clair was looking at Jocelyn both intently and pleadingly.

 

     Jocelyn sighed. “Okay.’ She smiled awkwardly at Clair.

 

     The girls did not resume what was interrupted, nor did they talk about it. Instead they curled up with one another and fell asleep.

     The next morning Jocelyn was the first to awake. She sat up and studied Clair’s sleeping profile. She smiled softly to herself at the wicked thoughts that were now plaguing her mind. Must resist doing bad things.  

     She waited a little longer for Clair to get up. Clearly it wasn’t going to be anytime soon. Jocelyn got up and left Clair a note as to why she was leaving. She had Saturday school she had to attend. Although she had excellent grades, she still got into trouble a lot. Saturday school is her usual punishment. She grabbed up all her stuff, gave Clair a peck on the cheek, and went on her way.

  

     That following Monday, Clair and Jocelyn meet up at their usual spot. Neither of them talked about what happened. They just talked about their normal meaningless things.

 

     “So, are you going to come to my house again this Friday?” Clair asked with red streaks dashing across her face.

 

     “Actually, I was thinking that maybe you could come to my house.”

 

     “Oh, are you ok with me coming to your house?” Clair gave a questioning look.

 

     “Yeah. It is really small, but my mom is going to her parents for the weekend, so it will just be you and me there.” Jocelyn was well aware of the fact that her cheeks were starting to mirror Clair’s.

 

     “Ok, I’ll come.” Clair looked to the ground with a blush.

 

     “Great.” The school bell now rang. “Well, we better get to class.”

 

     “K.”

 

That following Friday at Jocelyn’s house:

 

     “Well here it is.” Jocelyn said while opening the door.

 

     “Oh, wow. It is small.” Jocelyn gave Clair an evil look at this comment.

 

     “Oh, sorry. I am just so used to my house.”  She grimaced while shrugging her shoulders.

 

     “Well don’t just stand there, come in.” Jocelyn gave her a gentle push toward the door.

 

     “Oh, sorry.” Clair hurried inside while fighting a blush once more.

 

     “You say that a lot.”

 

     “Oh, sor…oops. I’ll stop.” She hung her head and giggled.

 

     “Don’t be so nervous. I’m not going to bite.” Jocelyn turned around with an evil grin. “Well, unless you want me to.”

 

     “Uh…” Clair blushed wildly.

 

     Jocelyn snickered and plopped down on her bed. Clair sat down beside her.

 

     “So what do you want to do?” Clair asked shyly.

 

     “Well, I was thinking the usual popcorn and a movie.”

 

     “Really, what movie?” Clair raised an eyebrow questioningly.

 

     “I was kidding.” Jocelyn grabbed Clair by the back of her neck and brought her in for a steamy kiss.

 

     “Wow, that was…wow.” Clair couldn’t utter out anything else. Her eyes were in a daze.

 

     “Well, I know what I want to do. Strip.” Jocelyn looked at Clair playfully as she said this.

 

     “What?” Clair’s mouth was agape at this comment.

 

     “I want you to take your clothes off.” Jocelyn did a happy shrug.

 

     “You mean like all of them?” Clair gave her a confused look.

 

     “That is usually what strip means.” Jocelyn smirked.

 

     “Uh, well ok. Turn around while I am doing it.” Clair blushed as she started to take off her shirt.

 

     “Fine.”  Jocelyn flipped around and pretended to cover her eyes. Clair slowly stripped off her clothes. Jocelyn peeked back at her.

 

     “Hey! Turn around. No peeking.”  Jocelyn snapped her head back forward.

 

     Clair took off the remainder of her clothes and crawled under Jocelyn’s covers.

 

     “Ok, I’m naked. Happy?” Jocelyn turned back around to look at Clair.

 

     “No, why are you covered up?”  Jocelyn gave her a pouting look.

 

     “This is embarrassing.” Clair sighed and looked down at her covered bare body.

 

     “No it’s not.” Jocelyn yanked the cover off of Clair.

 

     “Hey, no fair.” She curled up in a ball to try and cover her exposed privates. She sat up and tucked her knees under her arms.

 

     “Wow, your body is beautiful.” Jocelyn let her eyes linger on Clair’s body.

 

     “No…uh…”  Clair blushed even deeper than before.

 

     Jocelyn crawled onto the bed and wrapped her arms around Clair’s bare body. She started to kiss her while slowly caressing her back. She slowly and gently forced Clair onto her back. She dipped her head down to softly kiss Clair’s neck. She then got on her knees to take a good look at Clair. Then she stood up off the bed. Clair opened her eyes to see where Jocelyn had gone to.

 

     “Why are you standing?” Clair gave her a hard, questioning look.

 

     “I wanted to get a better view of you. You are really wet.” Jocelyn smirked and winked at Clair.

 

     “Don’t say stuff like that; it is embarrassing.” Clair covered her embarrassed face.

 

     “Well, since you clearly want that wonderful sensation, masturbate.” She pointed her finger at Clair’s private area.

 

     “What? No!” Clair looked even more horrified than before.

 

     “Just do it. I want to watch you pleasure yourself. I’ll help you after that, I promise.” She said that with a coo in her voice.

 

     “O…Ok.” Clair slowly spread her legs to where Jocelyn could see everything.  Then she tightly shut her eyes and laid her head back. She reached down her hand and slowly started to rub the outside of her lips. Then she slowly parted them and started to rub that eagerly awaiting pink pearl.

 

      Jocelyn watched in awe for a few minutes. The small pants coming from her smaller friend were like music to her ears. She then remembered what she had to do. She pulled out her cell phone to take the pics.  Can I really do this…..? 

Flashback:

     “So what is the plan?”

 

     “I want you to get back as close to that little brat as you can. When you do, I want you to find a way to ruin her reputation. I want to go out with a bang in this school and what better way to do it than ruin a girl’s perfect life before she has ever left ninth grade. So are you in?” She smirked at her own brilliantness.

 

     “Sure why not?” Jocelyn agreed right away, but hesitance was shaking her voice.

 

By the Dumpster

     “I think it is time we set our plan into motion.”

 

     “How are we going to do that?” Jocelyn got a troubled look on her face.

 

     “It is clear that little bitch has developed some sort of feeling for you. I want you to play along with this little crush. I want you to get her into an embarrassing sexual position and then take pics with your cell. After that, send the pics to everyone in your phonebook and let them spread. Let’s see how quick snow white loses that perfect rep of hers.” She grinned even bigger at her own evilness.

 

     “I don’t know about this.” Jocelyn’s voice was now wavering considerable.

 

     “Your not going to back out now, are you? Don’t you want to prove that you have what it takes to run the pack, or are you going to be one of them little pussies that fell back in the crowd because when the going got tough, they decided to pull out?” She gave Jocelyn a pissed look.

 

     “No, I don’t want that. I’ll do it.” She looked down. She could fell the sadness rushing over her body.

 

     “Good girl. Now get to it.”

 

     

     I can’t, I can’t do this to her. Jocelyn threw her cell onto the nearby chair.

 

     “Clair, you need to leave.” She said as her voiced slowly receded to little more than a whisper.

 

     Clair stopped what she was doing and sat up to look at Jocelyn.

 

     “Are you serious?” She had a pained look on her face.

 

     “Yes, I am. I will explain everything to you later. Just get dressed and go.” Jocelyn ran into the bathroom and locked the door,

 

     Clair slowly got up tears in her eyes. What did I do wrong? She got dressed as fast as possible and ran out the door.

 

     Jocelyn heard Clair’s sobs as she left the house. This is for the best. I’m sure she’ll understand it was. God, this hurts so much.

 

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