"These aren’t as good as usual." Jessie commented, stuffing more pancakes into her mouth.

James was too tired to respond. He had only eaten two. It had been an -interesting- day.

The next day was definitely far more interesting. Nothing prepared James for the shock of the events which took place. The first strange thing he realized when he woke was that Jessie was already up. He felt a strange buzzing in his head, as he sat up, and the feeling got weirder as he stood up. he felt almost numb, but it didn’t last long, as he was knocked to the ground by a mystery assailant. He cried out as the attacker got him down on the ground. Something was familiar though,

"Jessie?" he asked, surprised.

Jessie rolled him onto his back, and sat on his lower stomach, whilst pinning his hands down, "You got it." She said.

"What are you doing?" asked James.

"I’m sitting on you." Jessie explained.

"Why?" James asked, as Jessie put her face inches from his. He resisted his sudden urge to kiss her, remembering what had happened when he did it accidentally.

"You tell me." She said huskily.

The way her voice sounded set his heart racing. James felt her grip begin to weaken on his wrists, as she drew closer to him, and used to time to scramble away, "What’s going on?" he asked, shaken up.

Jessie stayed on her hands and knees, and started to look confused, "What am I doing down here?" she asked.

James helped her to her feet, "You jumped on me."

Jessie suddenly grinned, and James realized she had a vice like grip on his hand, "James, I’ll race ya to the Meowth Balloon™." She said.

James pulled his hand away, "Um, no thanks."

Meowth was awake now, and had ventured over to Jessie and James. James distanced himself from Jessie, and made his way to Meowth, "Morning." He said.

Meowth stifled a yawn, "Morning guys." he said, "I heard James yelling or something."

Jessie glared at Meowth, "Haven’t you heard of knocking?"

Meowth looked at Jessie strangely, "Well sure, but…"

James looked at Jessie, who simply shook her head, "Anyway, we’ve got a lot to do today. Brats to go, places to see."

James moaned, "I don’t feel like brat chasing today, and I think one of us should stay here with Jaycee, she’s probably still sick."

"Alright, we’ll take the day off." Jessie decided, "It’s almost rice season anyway."

"What?" James asked.

Jessie raced off into the trees cackling.

James caught up with Jessie, who was standing by the Meowth Balloon™, fiddling with the knobs on the burner. The Meowth shaped balloon filled with hot air.

"What are you doing?" asked James, "What’s wrong? Are you sick?"

Jessie grinned wickedly, and pointed into the basket, "look." She said.

James walked over to the basket, and peered in, "what?" he asked.

Before he knew it, Jessie had pushed him in, jumped in after him, and the balloon was in the air.

"where are we going?" James asked, more than a little worried.

"It doesn’t matter where you go, it’s what you do on the way." Jessie explained, promptly throwing herself on top of James, who fell to the floor of the basket with a cry of, "yelp!"

Jessie entwined her arms around James’s neck, and James could only look shocked, "Jess, what are you doing?"

"If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you." Jessie said, beginning to kiss James, who tried to push her away, but had a hard time ignoring his own want to kiss her back. Eventually the want took over. At the back of his mind, James was dead confused, why is she doing this? After the way she reacted when I kissed her…and this is way more than kissing! She’s…she’s…well, I can’t complain, I guess.

All was going well, and James forgot to be confused, as far as making out was concerned, when the balloon got caught in a tree, and Jessie and James were thrown from the basket, a little more undressed than usual.

Meowth averted his eyes as the two semi clad figures landed in front of him. Jessie hurriedly pulled her shirt back down, and James just waved dumbly, wearing only boxers with roses all over them.

Meowth couldn’t hold in his laughter any longer, and began rolling on the ground in hysterics, "In the balloon?!" he yelped, "This is too much!" he stopped laughing, and began to gag, "Eew!!! Way too much!"

Jaycee began to stir in the spare sleeping bag Jessie and James had lent her.

"James?" she called.

James went to her side, "What is it Jaycee?"

Jaycee’s face was not as pale as it had been, "Could I have some water please?"

James nodded, and poured her water from his canteen. Jaycee sat up, and drank the water gratefully. James felt her forehead, "Your fever’s almost gone."

Jaycee felt comforted by James’s hand, "That’s good." She said.

Jessie snarled, and turned away from the two, "James, I’ll be waiting for you by the lake. We can finish what we started, hmm?"

James felt strangely guilty for what had happened, although Jessie obviously didn’t, "Um, I’ll pass." He said.

Jessie looked at him in shock, "But it’ll be grain picking season when the moon sets!"

She ran off. Jaycee watched her go, "What did you start?"

James blushed furiously, "oh, well…we,…"

Meowth interrupted, "They were getting friendly in the Meowth Balloon™ basket!" he cackled a little, then turned and raced off before James could kick him.

An uncomfortable silence followed, "I didn’t know you two were together like that." Jaycee said, "There’s nothing to be embarrassed about." Deep down, Jaycee felt a pang of jealousy towards Jessie. She had always guessed there might have been something between them, but had never given it too much thought.

"well, she was the one who pushed me in, we’re not actually…" began James, cutting himself off. Maybe they were now? The way Jessie had…and the way she…He frowned thoughtfully, maybe he and Jessie were an item now. maybe she was in love with him? that would explain her weird behavior, a little. But how could she be in love with him when she had beaten him up only the day before for accidentally kissing her? Maybe she was sorry now. maybe they could get married. Maybe they would have children. Yes, a boy and a girl. They could call them…

"James? what were you saying?" prompted Jaycee.

James turned to her, "um, I have to find Jessie." He said.

"Yeah, yeah, I’m in love with you." Jessie said impatiently, "Let’s go somewhere private! Wanna go for a swim? Forget your swim suit, just…"

James tried to comprehend what he was hearing, "So you love me?" he asked.

"What ever." Jessie said.

"no, not what ever, tell me the truth." James prompted.

Jessie shrugged, "What does it matter?"

"Well, it sorta matters to me." James said.

Jessie sighed impatiently and advanced on James, "c’mon James, let’s go for a swim!"

James backed away, "I don’t really want to…" he said slowly.

Soon enough Jessie was tearing through the trees after James, who was decidedly petrified, "James, come on! Just come for a swim with me!"

James looked back over his shoulder, "I think you should go by yourself!" he called.

They reached the camp site. Jaycee watched half in amusement, half in concern, as Jessie pursued James.

"Help meeee!" screamed James, "She’s turned into a sex fiend! Someone throw a bucket of water over her! NOW!"

"You weren’t complaining before!" Jessie called.

Jaycee felt sorta sorry for James, and grabbed Jessie as she raced past. Jessie struggled like a wild Pokémon, yelling at Jaycee angrily. Jaycee held her at an arm’s length so that she couldn’t reach her. Suddenly Jessie made a weird sound that sounded like, "Ekkabler…", and fainted.

James gasped, and rushed to Jaycee, who lay Jessie on the ground.

"Is she breathing?" James asked.

Jaycee nodded, "Yeah, she’s just fainted, she’ll be alright James."

"What should we do?" James asked

"I think you should get her to a doctor." Jaycee said.

James nodded, and called out to Meowth, who was taking a cat nap, as usual, "Meowth! get over here, we’ve gotta go into town!"

Meowth yawned, and stood up, "What’s goin on?" he asked. He saw Jessie, and smirked, "Did you two fall out of the hot air balloon again?" he asked, "No, wait, you’ve got all your clothes on, that can’t be it…"

James glared at the cat Pokémon, "Meowth, Jessie could be really sick!"

Meowth seemed to grow serious, "Well, that would explain a –lot-" he said, "A girl’d have to be sick to…do what Jessie did to you!"

"Well, I’d do it." Jaycee said. She yelped, and covered her mouth, "Jeez, did I say that out loud?" she asked, turning red.

James nodded, "Afraid so."

Jaycee sweat dropped and laughed nervously, "I sorta have a habit of blurting things out." She said. *(true story)*

James shrugged, "Well, that’s okay. Let’s just get Jessie to a doctor."

Meowth hid his snickering behind one of his paws.