just jenny [Complete]

[kellsterr]

haha well they didnt have a smiley that worked for me so i had to combine two. and as much as i dont want this to end, haha, itd be okay cause id just read the other one you write, and i could always just read this one again .. ahha

[bloodtypeespresso]

SO, not really a new chapter, but i figured another comicstrip was long over due.

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[Chapter 20]

How did I let them talk me into this? Stupid boys with their stupid…stupidness! Okay So the dress is great and it’s not all their fault after all it was the stupid Daily Observer that conned me into coming to this damn thing to begin with! But still, I wouldn’t have been half as inclined to accept the invite…if I’d had a choice that is, or wear this over sized tank top, if the stupid (I really need to look up synonyms because for a news paper girl I’m starting to sound repetitive…and stupid) Jonas Brothers hadn’t been so excited about it. Now I’m walking into this massively acclaimed hotel ready to go to a convention where I not only won’t know any one, but where all the women are not only beautiful but funny too…great if I’m not the wittiest one there what’s left? The clumsiest? Nope I think that one’s already taken by the physical comedians in the group…great!

So the first five seconds were spent with me trying to find my name on the seating chart and then as if sent from above…or as I later found by a Jonas…came a vision in a cream colored pant suit.

“Hey, there you are!” Came the cheery voice as she enveloped me in a polite hug.

“Hey, um…do I…well I know you, but you know me?” I asked the woman who could be none other than Ellen Degeneres.

“Oh, yeah, Jenny right? Kevin told me you’d be coming. So I thought I’d keep an eye out for you…not you know, take out my eye but make sure you got to your seat okay, which really how much can go wrong on your way to your seat…” she rambled.

“Well, you clearly don’t know me very well, because a lot can happen on the way to your seat, especially in this outfit…I feel like I forgot the other half but I let the guys…Kev and his brothers that is pick it out.” I chuckled following her to the main dining room.

“Oh yeah I made that mistake once and I ended up in a cocktail napkin and twisty ties, believe me I was embarrassed especially when I found out it was a casual event and I was completely overdressed!” She joked.

The rest of the night went pretty well…a got a few compliments on my dress, Ellen and Portia were amazingly sweet, and apparently the L.A. crowd finds my “off beat“ sense of humor “refreshing“. Yeah all night people wanted to know just how I come up with these things….um, they happen to me and I draw/ write them? Any way by the time I got out of there I was starving (the food was weird), my feet were killing me, my dress was riding up, my cell phone was digging into me from where I stuffed it seeing as I had no pockets, and I got an invite form Ellen to be on her show next time I was in town, though that might just e her being polite.

So seeing as I wasn’t about to walk to my hotel, and I really needed to get some good food, I did the only logical thing. Pulling out my cell phone I pressed number five on my speed dial and waited for someone to pick up on the other end.

“Out already?” Came Kevin’s chuckle.

“I’m hungry…and my feet hurt…and I’m sick of this dress!” I pouted into the phone, even though I know he can’t see me.

“Aw, poor baby want me to go get you, and maybe we can hit In n Out on our way to the hotel?” he asked reading my mind.

“I LOVE you!” I squealed, then immediately pictured him holding the phone at arms length.

“I bet you say that to all the guys” came the smooth reply with a hint of something else…nervous laughter maybe? No, that’s just static or something…I really have to stop projecting my own feelings on to people, so what if I said I loved him, we’re cool like that it doesn’t mean anything…it doesn’t!

“Nope, just the ones that get me food.” I laughed with out missing a beat.

“Ah, so it’s just me and the pizza guy.” I could hear him smirking as he delivered this line, probably already in his car.

“Yep, well don’t forget the Thai food guy, the sandwich guy, the coffee guy when he’s there, and the pretzel vendor in the park. I’d say the taco guy too, but well lets face it his food kind of sucks.” I rambled walking around in a circle in the hotel lobby waiting for him to tell me he’d meet me out front.

“Well that’s a little harsh.” came a soft chuckle in my ear…not the one holding the phone.

“Wait, how’d you get here so fast?” I asked clicking off my phone and spinning around to face Kevin.

“Well, I was planning on picking you up anyway, so I was on my way when Ellen texted me to let me know you were leaving, then you called about three minuets later.” he smiled handing me a mid sized shoulder bag.

“What’s this?” I asked with a well practiced eyebrow raise, not even caring that Kevin is a conniving stalker…what he’s cute, funny, and generally harmless.

“I figured you’d want to get out of those clothes, so just some jeans, shoes, normal socks” he said eying my nylons, “ and a t-shirt.” he shrugged as I hugged him, oh thank goodness for thoughtful stalkery best friends!

“I’ll be right back!” I assured him making my hasty retreat. Once in the bathroom I couldn’t help but chuckle at the collection of clothing I’d been brought. Looking at the assorted items it was obvious all of this had at one point belonged to one of the Jonas boys, the jeans torn and lose I’m assuming were Kevin’s (as he was the biggest back in the day) back before the skinny jean craze. The beat up shoes were probably a thirteen year old Nick’s (if I know Kevin the socks are Nick’s too) and a child’s Superman shirt which could only belong to Frankie.

Fastening my hair in a high ponytail, I tossed my old outfit in the bag, and headed out to meet Kevin, fully aware of the fact that I probably looked sixteen.

“Better?” he asked looking me up and down with a smirk as he took my bag and started walking out.

“Much, thank you…or should I thank your brothers?” I asked lifting up my sneaker clad foot.

“Your welcome, and they saw me packing the jeans then decided to contribute, so Frankie gave me his shirt, Nick found some shoes for you, and Joe…well Joe was kind enough to steal Nick’s socks for you.” he chuckled tossing the bag in the back of his car and opening my door.

“Well, thank you, and thank your brothers for me as well.” I laughed picturing the look on Nick’s face once he realized his socked were missing, I swear he has those things counted.

“You’re welcome, but now on to more important things…FOOD!”

After ordering four burgers and fries, Kevin and I headed to a far corner of the small fast food joint, yeah we should probably be more cautious but at this point everyone already knows we’re not dating.

“So, come on tell me everything how was tonight?” he asked leaning in to talk to me over the table, giving me the perfect view of his hazel eyes, even with his glasses. I know I’ve said time and again that we’re just friends, but sitting this close to him it’s hard not to notice how good-looking he is, and how normal I must look in his little brother’s hand-me-ups…that's what it's called when you're older than the hander right?

“It was, surprisingly fun, although apparently I have you to thank for that as well.” to his raised eyebrow I continued, “Ellen told me you asked her to look out for me...well not in so many words...actually in a lot more words not that i think about it, but you get the picture.”

“It was nothing, I told you it would work out.” he shrugged it off steeling one of my fries.

“Hey! You have your own!” I swatted him holding my fries protectively, then stuffing a few of them in my burger so he couldn't get to them.

“Whiner!” he mocked steeling another fry.

“Whatever, I'm awesome! So how was your night?” I asked before it could turn into a long stupid (there's that word again) bickering match.

“Sure you are...it was pretty uneventful, Frankie officially deemed me unworthy of a webkinz, Joe stole my jacket...again, and Nick is just way to insightful for his age. Other than that, I just spent the day texting Ellen back and forth and packing your bag.” he shrugged taking a bite of his burger...was he blushing?!?

“Oh, well I'm sorry to hear that, we all know how much you loved that little pink dragon, chipper or not. You could always steal some of Joe's jeans and stretch them out, or maybe that pink shirt he should never wear again! And um, thank you again, for the clothes, and Ellen, and the food!” I rambled, oh crap, now I'm blushing...and I don't even know why! All I know is he had better get that adorable look off his face...like three seconds ago!

“Yeah, well he threatened to call WPS on me if I didn't relinquish my account...but I got to keep the real toy, so I'm happy.” he grinned.

“Not, the Webkinz Protective Services!” I gasped (okay I think I'm the only person who would ever catch that reference...must be on the same brain wave...actually considering my last thought lets hope not, I don't need him knowing that!), to his somber nod I continued, “I didn't know Frankie could be so cruel!”

“Yeah, well there is a reason we call him Tank, it's just so horrible that you had to find out this way.” he comforted me taking my hand in his, stupid chills.

“Are, you cold? We can go if you like and hang out in the hotel room, or here take my jacket, I should have brought you something.” he said hastily removing his cream colored hoodie and somehow draping it over me as I sat across from him...i attribute it all to the height discrepancy.

[kellsterr]

yayyyy new update!!! it was fantastical!!! ohhh and so was the comicstrip. i forgot how much i missed the comicstrips.

but ughhh i think that jenny and kevin just need to realize how amazing they are for eachother and confess their undying love for eachother already and then be a couple and then get married and then have babies and then live happily ever after. hahah yeahhh thats what needs to happen!!!!!

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Nov 2, 2008 13:33:47 GMT -5 kellsterr said:

yayyyy new update!!! it was fantastical!!! ohhh and so was the comicstrip. i forgot how much i missed the comicstrips.

but ughhh i think that jenny and kevin just need to realize how amazing they are for eachother and confess their undying love for eachother already and then be a couple and then get married and then have babies and then live happily ever after. hahah yeahhh thats what needs to happen!!!!!

LOL, well that just about sums up th rest of the fic, thanks! I think i'll just leave it at that!


J/K! LOL, yeah they do need some sence knocked into them! but it'll come soon enough!

[kellsterr]

haha well you know thats my specialty. ruining fanfics one at a time for all the readers by reading the authors mind and then posting what is going to happen in the story. LOL J/K ... but that would be sooo cool if i could read peoples minds... AWESOMEEE

[bloodtypeespresso]

Alright, so really i drew this at work when i was bored, hence the visible spirals on my little 4x4 memo pad (yeah the original is like 1/4 of what you see on the screen! it's tiny). ...and the title in a totally different box, but it was just too hard to read if i shrunk it down, and well there was no room on the same page!

But once i drew it, i realized it could be part of just jenny! so here it is! ;D

[kellsterr]

JENNAYYYY!!! [said in my best forest gump impression]
update sooon pleaseeee!!! i need more! and plus ill
love you forever if you update soon, i promise ;D

[bloodtypeespresso]

LOL!

"KELLSTER!!!!" (doens't quite work as well, sorry)

Sorry i took so long but here goes!

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Hey Y'all...sorry! I know it's been way too long! But well what can i say, life gets in the way sometimes. This is a bit of a filler chapter, but i'll try to post as much as possible so i can get to the Christmas portion before/ close enough to the real Christmas! Well, that's the goal, we'll see how that goes.

[Chapter 21]

“MORENO GET IN HERE!!!” You have got to be kidding me! One day back on the job and already I'm in trouble! This has got to be some kind of new record or something!

“Coming Chief!” I yelled over my cubical as I hastily tried to finish typing my ideas for the next column before thy completely escaped me.

“NOW!” he barked. Sheesh! Alright I'm coming, I'm coming!

Quickly finishing the word I'd been in the middle of typing I made my way into the all too familiar office.

“You bellowed?” I asked with a smirk leaning on the door frame.

“Well seeing as I haven't seen you in a while I figured it was the only way to get you in here.” he smirked hiving me a grandfatherly hug. “So how was your trip? Ready to give all this up for the L.A. Life, maybe try to become an actress, or even better a reality TV star!” he gasped.

“Oh, yeah, that's going to happen!” I laughed. “It was fun, got to hang out with the guys a bit as I let you know in my countless emails, I met Ellen, even got an invite to her show...well no set date yet but still, and I got a lot of shopping done?” I shrugged not knowing what to say.

Honestly I wrote back a lot! And really what more could he want to know? The stuff with the guys isn't all that interesting, well not to Chief anyway, who wants to know about my stupid little crush on my best friend...CRAP I just admitted it's a crush...oh well at least I only admitted it to myself and not like the rest of the world or anything.

“So, what's going on with lover boy? I heard he broke up with his little girlfriend.” he smirked. Wait, how does he always get the scoop?

“Nothing's going on, they ended on less than pleasant terms and he and I are friends, nothing more.” I smiled as sincerely as I could, which really should have been sincerer considering it wasn’t a lie…well not really since it’s just a one sided crush…right?

“Idiots, the lot of you. Back in my day if you liked someone you just went ahead and told them, what's with all this silent pining?” he demanded frustrated.

“Oh please, back in your day...everything was about silent pining, back when the divorce rate was down, and people still listened to their parents about everything. I'm not saying things are better now, far from it, but don't give me that line.” I countered trying no to laugh at the ridiculous logic.

“So, you admit it, you are pining.” he smirked...DAMN! He's good, and I guess I'm horrible at hiding my train of thought, because he chuckled. “Alright kid, you've had enough, now get back to work.”

Back to work…right. I'm not being sarcastic, not really it's just that, as much as I really did miss all this, the fast pace of the news room and what not, I kind of miss the guys a lot too!

Is that bad? Well it’s not like I’m up and giving this up for them or anything, I just got so used to speaking to them every day, and being able to see them even when we were all busy it wasn’t the same knowing that they were close enough for me to go bug! But I guess that's all just part of being a “grown-up”, you sometimes have to deal with little things like that, you have to learn to say goodbye and just trust that it isn't forever, and soon enough I'll be pelting Joe with synthetic products masquerading as food, stealing socks from Nick, and using Kevin as a human shield when his little brothers come after me.


So I was sitting at my desk innocently sipping on my coffee when all of a sudden, out of nowhere my cell phone decides to attack me! Okay so it was simply vibrating, but if it weren't for the name flashing on the screen impatiently I'd think it was having a seizure!

“NICKY!” I greeted happily, aw he missed me too! It hasn't even been a full day since I left and already he's going through withdrawal.

“Hey Jenny.” he doesn't sound as happy as I do.

“Nicky, what's wrong?” I should have known Nick would only call me if it was something bad, he's not the most chatty person I know.

“Oh...so you don't know?” he paused...he paused, he tells me that then pauses? Who taught this kid to carry a conversation a mime?

“Nick sweaty, know what?” I asked getting a little frantic.

“Oh, right, it's just it's all over the news...” again what's all over the news! “apparently you and Kevin are the new it couple.” he finished sheepishly.

“THE WHAT?!?!” how the heck did this happen? What happened to all of the just friends crap we fed the press, and when did it become crap? Oh my gosh, does the whole world know about my crush? Okay I know I'm not the worlds best actress, but really I'm THAT obvious?

“Yeah, well it gets worse, that's why I was calling to see if you were alright...they're blaming you for...well you know.” he mumbled. You know how in movies when someone gets shocking news they always slowly sink down to the couch/bed/floor/whatever and end up sitting slightly dazed yet somewhat gracefully? Yeah, this is so not a movie, because as soon as I heard that I crashed right off of my rolling chair and landed in a tangled heap on the floor, successfully spilling my coffee, and somehow managing to get my sketch pad to hit me over the head...yeah that's graceful for ya'. “Jen, are you okay?” came Nick's panicked voice from the phone on the floor.

“Yeah, Nick I'm alright, thanks.” I reassured him picking up my banged up cell phone (although that's what it gets for messing with me earlier!) “How's Kevin?” I asked a little shakier than I should have. I don't know why I feel so emotional, maybe it's because I feel a little guilty, sure I never did any of the things people are most likely saying about me, but still, I never really liked Brittany, and on some level I have to admit I did want them to break up, and I would have loved it if he'd miraculously realized that he loved me all along instead. Wait did I say love!?!? Psh, and at midnight I'll turn into a pumpkin and drive away in my glass shoe, and that'll be the end of the fairytale.

“Hehehe...” he chuckled nervously, and I could just picture him tugging at a curl, “Alright...livid, but ... At first he was blaming himself for taking you out, but now he's mostly just mad that they linked you guys together.” he said evasively.

“Gee, I'm not that bad!” great, I am boy replant!

“NO, not like that, it's just that well he and Brittany were never really public, we have this rule you know, and now already people are linking you two together.” he covered quickly. After a few more minuets on the phone figuring out how to do some damage control, we hung up and I tried to get back to work.

Tried being the operative word, because no matter what I did I just couldn't get it out of my head that it must have really sucked to be Brittany. Now don't get me wrong she messed up, but still. For the last few weeks I've been driving myself crazy with this silly little crush on Keven and yet, if we were actually dating I think I'd be miserable. Not that he's a bad guy, and I get his schedule it's not that, I just can't be that evasive about my love life, well my life in general. I've built an entire career around being honest, and most of all open about who I am, and if I'm dating someone that would include who I'm with. Not that it'll happen any time soon, but if I'm in a relationship I want the option of yelling it at the top of my lungs, or at least writing about it, maybe even draw a comic strip here and there, but that would never be an option with a Jonas boy. The truth doesn't really help disperse my crush, but maybe if I keep reminding my self, it will help me live with it.

The next few weeks went by in whirlwind of camera dodging (which led to coffee spilling), and plenty of emails from Joe letting me know that, while he was still weird Kevin seemed to be doing better most days. Although I could have told you that without what he liked to call “The DJ Danja Daily Divulgence”, after all, Kevin is still my closest friend.


To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bored...i think I'm turning into you

Hey,

Don't you just love my witty opening lines? Yeah I know, with charm like this it's a wonder I'm not the front man! Any way, I'm just sitting here waiting for my coffee order to be up, so I'm sure if you wait a few hours you'll be able to Google it and see exactly what I look like while I'm writing this.

Okay so aside from being bored and caffeine deprived I'm also writing to apologizes for all the press you've been getting, I know it can get old, but thank you for not being a pain about it...then again you work in the biz so you know what it's like. Heck, you might even be able to keep them from posting bad shots and make them show only good stuff, make everyone think you roll out of bed all made up!

So as far as pointless e-mails go I guess this is the best one!

WBS!
Kevin


To: [e-mail]
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: Bored...i think I'm turning into you

Hey you big baby!

I'll be sure to Google it soon, make sure you didn't leave the house looking like a bum!

LOL, any way it's no big deal, I know the press was part of the deal when we started hanging out...after all I am one of them MWAHAHA!

Okay, so I'm not that bad, but it's not really a problem, look at it this way, now no mater whom I date in the long run, the guy will definitely know what he's getting into before hand as I can't seem to get any of the paparazzi to use any of the glamor shots I gave them as candids...wonder why? Perhaps they caught on and realized those were old shots of Angelina Jolie and not me...crap....I mean candy cane?

Speaking (typing) of candy canes it's October! You know what that means? It's almost Halloween, which is practically November, which means it's just about thanksgiving, which means it might as well be December which means IT'S CHRISTMAS!!! YAY!

Well, I have to go pretend to work now...I mean I'm a very busy individual! =P

Love you!
Jenny!