In Love With You- Chapter 4
Title- In Love With You
Chapter- 4
Pairing- Jo/Blair
Setting- 1982 (Season 4)
Story Status- Finished
Disclaimer- I do NOT own anything. I'm just simply writing a story here.
Not only did Blair wake up to find herself moving her fingers in front of her chest as if fingering a necklace, but she woke up to Jo shaking her. "Blair!" Jo screamed not knowing that Blair had already sat up.
"Huh?" Blair managed.
"We have to serve breakfast, remember?"
"Yeah, just give me a sec."
"So a, who were you kissing?" Jo asked, smiling at the image of Blair puckering her lips in her sleep.
"What?" Blair asked, embarrassed.
"When I walked over to your bed, you were puckering your lips. So who did you dream you were kissing? Let me guess, some rich dude with a nice tan. Am I right?"
"Yeah. Prince Charles," Prince Charles was the first thing that came to Blair's mind.
"You and your poor taste in men," remarked Jo.
"Yeah," Blair said, obviously not paying attention.
Jo was thrown off on the fact that Blair didn't have a come back. "Hey Blair, everything allright?"
"Yeah," Blair said, getting up quickly to get dressed.
After Jo left, Blair was free to think. She thought about the golden necklace Jo had given her. The excited smile Jo had when Blair was opening up the present she gave her. That wonderful kiss. Blair could still feel it. Blair put all of the pieces together from her dream, to her always paying extra attention to Jo, to her sudden interest in Jo. "I am in love...." Blair stated to herself, "with Jo," and with that, Blair was left to figure out how she would deal with it.
Blair had been acting weird since yesterday, and it was worrying Jo. Even more, Jo was worried about how she was feeling about Blair. Jo had always been interested in girls. Even before Eddie, Jo had always pictured her life with her soul mate. Though it always turned out to be a woman rather than a man. Eddie was really the first boy that she had ever loved, and ever since they broke up, she hadn't been interested in any other guy. But she had been interested in somebody: Blair. Jo didn't know how to deal with her feelings until this morning.
Early this morning, Jo had gotten up to use the restroom. It was light enough so that Jo didn't have much trouble with finding her way around, and she could see everybody's faces. Right before heading out, Jo heard Blair say her first and last name. Thinking Blair was trying to get Jo's attention, Jo turned around. She discovered that Blair was still asleep and, the minute Blair said her name again, Blair puckered her lips like she was going to kiss somebody. Once finished in the bathroom, Jo layed down in her bed with a smile on her face. Finally, Jo had thought to herself before getting one last hour of sleep, my secret won't be a secret anymore. That was the last thing she would think about until two hours later. She needed to plan on how to tell Blair she wasn't alone.
It had been two days since the night Blair dreamt about that perfect kiss with Jo. It was killing her. She was scared that Jo wouldn't approve. That would not be pretty. Jo walked up to Blair, forcing Blair to save those thoughts for later. "Hey, Blair" Jo said, butterflies in her stomach from thinking about the plan.
"Yeah?" Blair said, her heart pounding.
"How about a game of phrase pictionary?" It wasn't all so romantic or anything big, but it was the only thing she could think of that would be less embarrassing; if Blair didn't approve Jo could easily just say it was a line in her favorite movie or something. Well, she thought, maybe I didn't think that one through. Line in my favorite movie, that's kind of lame. Oh well, it's the only thing I could think of that has an excuse to saying "I love you."
"Uhh... sure," Blair couldn't help but wonder if anything huge was going to happen.
Jo put a stack of blank pieces of paper on the table and they played for about fifteen minutes. Jo's stomach getting heavy as she thought about getting the courage to draw the phrase she really wanted Blair to guess. Finally, Jo couldn't wait much longer, so she started. She drew a martini glass and circled the olive. Blair rolled her eyes at the fact that it was so obvious before saying "Olive."
Jo Shook her head yes, and continued to draw. She drew a sad person, and wrote the word "color - b-l" next to it. Blair made a face like she had no idea what was going on. "Blue minus the 'B' and 'L'?"
Jo shook her head yes again, and motioned fir her figure out the phrase. "Blair thought for a moment and started to figure out the phrase. "Olive oo.....o live oo.... I live oo.... I live you.... I live you?" Then Blair's eyes widened before she announced that she had finally figured it out, "I love you," she said, looking at Jo with a hint of surprise in her face.
"Yeah....." Jo said, staring into Blair's eyes, "I love you."
Blair felt that ping! of excitment before she took Jo's hand in hers so that when she stood up, Jo did also. Blair looked Jo in the eyes for a few more minutes before smiling and leaning in to kiss her. Jo brushed Blair's hair back behind her ears before taking Blair's chin in her hand, and kissing her. That kiss, was the same type of kiss Blair had a dream about three nights ago. Only this time, it was real and even better than in her dream.
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