Twisted Reality: The Grace and Katie Project

Starring: Katie Singer (Mischa Barton), Grace Manning (Julia Whelan), Sarah Grasser (Sarah Lind), Jessie Sammler (Evan Rachel Wood),

Guests Stars: Tad Pincus (James Lafferty)

Jessie says...

Hey this is Jessie, Grace Manning's, to this point in her life, straight step sister. Maybe you can tell me, was I seriously losing my mnd or what? I had basically just dumped my brain dead boyfriend for one of the school's openly gay students, that being Sarah Grasser. Good lord by tommorrow or hell by the end of school today I'd already be her girlfriend. This could not possibly get any worse. But then again, that kiss, well those kisses actually, were freakin amazing and way beyond anything I have ever felt in my life and I knew for sure now that I wasn't straight. Not that that bothered me much privately, I had kind of come to terms with it sometime ago that I wasn't completely 'normal' and now I know for sure, so good thing? Sarah was a good thing I know that.

So making my way back inside now in sorta of a daze I leaned against the lockers at the far end of the hall and heard the annoucement over the loud speakers that Mr. Dimitri's drama class had been cancelled for today. Closing my eyes and reliving every moment I had shared with Sarah. Her lips are so soft and she was so sure of herself and truth be told I was already crushing on her. That's when I was shaken back to reality by a very familar voice, Grace's. I followed the voices and found the voice was coming from the floor below me and chatting with a girl named Katie Singer from Mr. Dimitri's drama class.

"What do you mean by that?" Grace asked Katie as I snuck into position.

"You were out with me on a date or what resembled a date to everyone else in the free world" Katie said and trying to keep her voice level low, "But she shows up and you just kiss her. Right behind my back and you know that sucks. I've already been screwed over once by her and that's the only reason she's hitting on you is to keep you away from me."

"Maybe" Grace said as my mind reeled at the thought of Grace kissing a girl.

"It's true and you know it is, she's a conniving little cunt and she's trying to pay me back for dumping her when she forced me to" Katie said.

"I'm just so confused" Grace said.

"Me too sis" I said to myself and giggled.

"I do know I wanted to go to that concert with you" Grace said as Katie smiled briefly.

"You know what, the truth is Grace I've liked you for a long time" Katie said as Grace smiled in return. "But I am not getting between you and Sarah and whatever bull shit she's got planned for you and until you figure out whatever it is you got with her, just leave me alone."

"Katie no, please don't go..." Grace said as Katie pulled away and went running down the stairs in the opposite direction and I just know she was crying as Grace looked heart broken and I for one was still in shock. So Grace and Sarah did have something working or had started something or was it Sarah was just trying to play Grace against Katie to create drama and keep them apart? Oh god, she is evil. Well I mean if that's what she was doing. And what about me? How the hell do I figure into this insane situation. Now I'm mad as hell and determined to get some answers from that troublemaking Sarah Grasser and it was gonna be this afternoon.

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"Jessie?" Tad's voice came as I was standing at my locker with my back to the thinning crowd in the hallway as last period let out.

"What?" I asked in a tired voice as I turned around and saw him looking like he'd been crying.

"Are we really over or is there anything I can do to..."

"Over" I said and grabbed my back pack and was literally stopped in my tracks by his next question.

"Are you gay?" He asked aloud and wouldn't you just know that everyone in the hallway stopped to listen to this announcement. I was froze and for the life of me I didn't know what to do.

"Are you?" I finally asked in reply. "Huh?"

"What? No fuckin way" He said confidently.

"Then explain to me why you have such a huge collection of gay porn" I said with a 'gotcha' smile. He nearly fainted/shit himself on the spot as the crowd gasped in shock and began to laugh. I walked off as the hecklers began raining down insults on my now ex-boyfriend. Making my getaway while the timing was good. I practically ran out the side door and down the sidewalk on the way to the place where I was to meet Sarah. Only to have my phone stop me when it started ringing. I stopped and fished it out of my backpack. "Hello?"

"Where are you?" Grace asked in her usual 'impatient as hell' voice.

"Nowhere...I'm taking the bus home" I said. "So you don't have to wait on me and waste your precious time."

"Jessie, I'm sorry" Grace said. "I've had a really bad day and it's just...anyway, you taking the bus home?"

"It's ok" I replied. "Yeah, I'm gonna spend the night at My Mom's with her and Eli. K?"

"You need a ride tommorrow morning?" She asked as I smiled.

"That'd be nice" I said. "See ya then."

"Bye" Grace said as I walked a few more feet down the walk and got quite shock a shock. Two girls were sitting on the grass behind one of the big trees that lined the parking lot, kissing. I wanted not to gawk but I couldn't help it as I watched for I don't know how long. Soon I began to appreciate the beauty of what I was watching. The girls slowed and parted and touching foreheads and smiling at each other you could tell they really liked each other. I recognized one of them at the moment, Joey Larue, Lily and my Dad Rick's neighbor. She, just my luck, turned to look at me and grinned sheepishly.

"Hi, Jessie" She said as she jumped up and ran over to meet me as the red haired girl followed. "Wassup?"

"Nothing" I stammered.

"You got a problem?" The Red Haired girl asked.

"Shady stop" Joey said to her friend. "Jessie's cool, I hope..."

"It's not a big deal" I commented as Joey smiled back at me.

"Rumor around school is you got a thing for Sarah Grasser" Joey blurted out. I knew it wouldn't take long for that to start and it didn't.

"I broke up with my brain dead boyfriend after he came on to her that's all" I said. Only half of it being a lie.

"Then was spotted kissing her in the courtyard?" Shady asked with a grin. I blushed. "I knew Sarah was a dyke but not you."

"I'm not...I mean..." I stammered as Shady laughed.

"Jessie stop it's not a big deal" Joey said as she glared at Shady and quieted the girls giggling. "People are a lot more excepting today, hell most of the people at this school either don't care or are already out."

"No, no, it's not that, well some of it is..." I again stammered. "Ugh, it's just really complicated."

"Call me tonight if you need to I should be home" Joey said as I nodded. She touched my hand and her and Shady walked off a moment later. My mind seriously cruising at a thousand miles an hour now with everything that had happened. Walking a few more feet down the sidewalk I was again stopped when a person sitting on the ground and leaning against a tree stood and acted a bit weird. She looked vaguely familar but I had no idea what her name was. All I know was she had red hair and a beautiful smile. Holding her arm against her body like someone had hurt her.

"Looking to get laid?" She asked as I stopped and looked at her. She laughed, knowing she got my attention.

"Laid by who?" I asked.

"Well for me anyone who comes along, I'm a serious whore" She said as I laughed. Sensing an opening she joined me. "I'm Joanna you interested?"

"I am not" I said as she shrugged. "Jessie by the way."

"You sure about that? Not being interested?" She asked with a knowing smile. "I saw the way you were looking at Joey and that psycho Shady making out."

"Just weird seeing two girls tongue fuck in public" I said. Joanna laughing.

"They do put on a good show huh?" She asked before we both laughed.

"I guess!"

"Are you and Sarah Grasser a thing now?" Joanna asked bluntly. "Rumors."

"I have no idea, it all happened so fast my head is still spinning" I said as Joanna shrugged. "She kind of kissed me and it's...complicated as fuck."

"Yeh I don't like Sarah very much" Joanna said as she touched her arm.

"Sarah hurt your arm?"

"Pushed me down" Joanna said. "I was trying to keep her and a friend of mine from fighting and she pushed me down. It hurts but I'm ok."

"That sucks, maybe it was an accident?"

"Probably" Joanna said. Changing the subject as she went on, "You on your way to meet someone? You usually ride with your step-sister, right?"

"Grace!"

"Yeh that's her, key-ute" Joanna commented with an eye brow raising smile that made me laugh.

"So you're hot for my step-sister?"

"I don't even know her" Joanna said. "Besides you make her look like a woof woof."

"You're hitting on me" I accused.

"Oh yeah" She said with another dorky eye brow raise. "Wanna hit back?"

"Maybe" I said as she smiled brightly. WOW! What a smile. "I'm on my way to meet Sarah though."

"Oh...ummmm...yeh, sorry for holding you up" She said as she picked up her book bag. "I had no idea."

"Not your fault" I said. "Besides me and Sarah might not work out anyway cause she's also been hitting on my step-sister. I was just on my way to get some answers."

"AWWWWWW, what if things don't work out?"

"What do you mean?"

"If you and Sarah don't work out and all" Joanna said as I nodded. "Will you go out with me?"

"Seriously?" I asked as she smiled nervously. She was totally serious.

"We can keep it on the down lo if you want" She said and biting her bottom lip nervously.

"Let me think about it?" I asked. Her giving me a dazzling smile as she touched my hand and moments later ran off to meet a friend of hers. I walked ahead a few more feet still in a daze and saw her (Sarah) sitting at the bus stop, with her back to me. Suddenly everything else being washed from my mind as I was ready to rip her a new one as I marched up and saw that sweet smile as she looked up at me.

"What the hell is going on?" I asked as she rose and seemed to not notice my level of anger bubbling just under the surface.

"You and me" She said as I stopped with a hand on her chest.

"Not you and me, unless you got some answers and I want the fucking truth Sarah Grasser."

"Ouch, ok about what?"

"A lot of shit" I said as I ticked off the things in my mind and honestly could not decide what to ask first. "How about you telling me about you and Grace meeting while Grace was on some date with this Katie girl?"

"Katie Singer, she's my ex-girlfriend" Sarah said softly.

"Oh shit, so you were doing what? Trying to keep them apart?" I asked as she offered me a seat on the bench and I took it.

"At first yeh, but once I met Grace I just had to see her again and that's why I showed up on their date" Sarah said.

"Oh yeah right, do you think I'm stupid?"

"It's the honest truth" Sarah said, "I confronted Grace in the hallway after I had heard she was going out with Katie. So I used the whole 'you don't wanna get involved with her as friends cause then you'll be labeled as gay too' approach."

"Never heard of that approach before" I said as we both laughed.

"Yeah well, once I met Grace, she was just a whole lot different than I thought she'd be and I just liked her" Sarah said, "And we had a moment in the parking lot later that day where we just made eyes at each other. When I showed up on that date with her and Katie, it was a desperate attempt to move on and meet someone new who I thought might like me. I broke up with Katie not long ago."

"WOW!" I said and for some reason believed her.

"And Grace let me kiss her and then she, not me, she kissed me back" Sarah said. "And I know it's screwed up, but I didn't wanna keep her and Katie apart so I could have Katie back, after I met Grace I wanted her."

"So I'm what? Just someone to fuck?" I asked as my anger returned.

"Don't even start with me princess, you kissed me not the other way around, not once but twice" Sarah fired back, "Ok, I didn't stop you but you kissed me and don't you dare turn that around and make it my fault, you kissed me first."

"So what?" I asked. "That give you a right to screw with my relationship with Tad, you broke us up."

"You know what, I'll admit to a lot of stuff but you and dickhead were over long before he accepted my invite for oral sex" She said. "You kissed me and said it yourself he couldn't do that for you. Magic, remember that and just so you know I felt that too?"

"I'm just so confused, why did you do that? Offer him..."

"To find out who you were and Lurch the caveman was too pig headed to tell me" I said, "He is one huge loser and hung like a field mouse."

"How the hell would you know..."

"I swear to you I didn't do that" Sarah said as she touched my hand and I felt electricty shooting through my hand. "Lurch wouldn't tell me who his girlfriend was, so I offered to blow him if he told me and he agreed. And I was rubbing his...manhood shall we say...and felt it grow in my hand."

"Grow?" I asked and could pretend that didn't interest me just a little.

"I had the same reaction, first time I ever been that close to one and it was hot feeling it grow but then it stopped" Sarah said with a laugh as I grinned. "I bet he's packing about 4 inches."

"Oh god" I said as we both laughed.

"By the way, I wouldn't have done that" Sarah said as she squeezed her fingers around my hand. "But you don't have to believe that. It was honestly just for effect and to find out who you were."

"Ok" I said as I tried to pull my hand away and she held on playfully and gave me a challenging look as I pulled harder and we started to wrestle on the bench. "Stop it happy hands."

"No" She said as she got up and came after me.

"Wait, wait, what about you and Grace?" I asked as she stopped. "I mean she is my step-sis...I just don't wanna..."

"I seriously don't know" She said as she looked at me and caught on after a moment, "Grace Manning is your what? step-sis? Sister? OHMIGOD. People are gonna think I'm some kind of pervert."

"Why?"

"I kissed Grace this morning and then you kissed me and I kissed you back, good lord I needa sit down for a minute" Sarah said as I had to laugh at her reaction.

"So you did kiss her this morning?"

"Yeah" She said as I rejoined her on the bench. "She's just sooo, something."

"Yeah I guess" I said as my heart sank.

"But you're all I've thought about for the last two hours or so" Sarah said as my heart beat a little faster. "That kiss and the stuff with Lurch really shook me."

"Me too, it felt so good kissing you" I said as she smiled. "And I really wish you'd stop talking about the man I love like that."

"Oh please, you know he's rock and gravel stupid" She said as I fought against laughing. "He barely knew your name, that's why I hadda grope him to kick his brain online."

"OH god shut up..." I said in a fit of giggles.

"He's so dumb he failed an I.Q. test" Sarah said as I laughed harder. "I heard he studied all night long for a blood test and failed that too."

"Stop!" I said and covering her mouth to keep her from going on as I laughed. My phone ringing as I reached for my bag and still giggling as I picked it up and stuck it to my ear. "Yeah?"

"You sure you don't need a ride to the house?" Grace asked.

"Yes I am, why?"

"I don't know I'm just, nothing" Grace said and I knew instantly this was Grace trying to get out of doing something or deciding whether she should do it or not at all. "I better go..."

"What is it? You need to talk?"

"You're offering?" She asked in surprise.

"Yeah, I am" I said.

"OK, how about I come by and pick you up at the bus stop and we can talk while I drive you to Karen's?" Grace proposed. My brain freezing as to what to do in that moment as I tried in vain to now get out of the offer I'd just made. But it was useless. Moments later she hung up with plans to meet me at the bus stop. Argh.

"Who was that?" Sarah asked with a smile.

"Grace is coming to pick me up" I said.

"Why?" Sarah asked. "Oh shit...this is not good."

"Why?"

"You're not gonna believe this but I kinda sorta made plans with her this afternoon to come by my place" Sarah said as my bottom lip dropped open. "Before any of the stuff with you happened."

"What?" I asked in shock. Mind reeling. "You think you gonna fuck both of us or something? Do a James Bond with one hiding in the closet and then..."

"Noooo, god, noooo" Sarah said as she stood and I pushed her away. "Jessie this is just such a screwed up situation that you wouldn't believe it. Please let me explain?"

"I don't wanna hear it" I said as I walked off. Disgusted, frustrated and just pissed off at the situation I had gotten myself into. Sarah chased after me and stopped me right at the corner. "What?"

"I know you hate me now but fact is I did what I did out of stupidity and not me being a pervert" She said. "Grace was first and she acted all like I'm not so sure I want this and then you came along and come on admit it but this whole day has been extreme."

"To say the least" I admitted. Then bluntly asking, "Who do you want? Me or her?"

"You tell me" She replied.

"There's my ride don't bother answering" I said as Grace pulled up across the street. My step-sister looking shocked as she got out of the blazer and came around and stared us down. Crossing the road as Sarah remained dead silent.

"What are you doing with her?" Grace asked me pointedly.

"Hanging out..."

"Answer me damn it" Grace snapped.

What I said next was out of anger and reflex, "I found out you liked Katie Singer and that Sarah got in between you and I was gonna get some answers for you. That's why I'm here."

"Excuse me?" Sarah asked as Grace looked shocked. Sarah's next words drawing Grace's attnetion to her, "No that is not. You said you'd meet me if you wanted to do something after what happened with Tad."

"You broke up with Tad?" Grace asked me. "I heard you and him had a huge blow up in the hall."

"She caused it!"

"After you kissed me" Sarah fired back. "Remember that?"

"That was before I knew anything about you and Grace, you slut" I fired back as she glared at me.

"Well..."

"SHUT UP!" Grace demanded as she turned on Sarah. "You troublemaking little whore. You knew Katie liked me and you screwed me over intentionally to keep me away from her. I SAID SHUT UP! Now you wanna fuck my step-sister behind my back?"

"Things are just so screwed up" Sarah said as she started to cry and looked once more at us before she turned and ran off in the direction of the bus stop.

"You better not be lying to me about this" Grace warned me.

"I'm not" I said as I watched Sarah round the corner and disappear. "Think she'll be ok?"

"I don't care" Grace said coldly as she walked across the seat. I stood there for a long moment (too long as it turned out) and watched her get inside the car and sit there and cry. Banging her fists on the steering wheel in frustration. I had just snapped back to reality and took one step into the road and I swear to this day I didn't hear the screeching of the tires before it happened. I was blindsided by a car and catapulted into the air and landed with a thud that shook every bone in my body. The only thing I heard before everything went dark was a loud cry of horror and another set of screeching tires as the car that did the damage sped off. The pain was intense...for a few seconds...I don't remember anything after that.

To be Continued....