Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:53:33 CDT
From: CH
Subject: In The Groove Pt. 12

RECAP:Britney and Jasmine were having disturbing dreams about their
relationship.

                         IN THE GROOVE PT. 12

It was 3:45 pm, and Jasmine was tapping her foot nervously. Britney was
fifteen minutes late. Was she still coming? 'Maybe that dream meant
something,' she thought. She arranged the fruit in the bowl with shaking
hands. That dream she'd had had soothed and bothered her at the same time.
In it, Britney had made love to her but had not said that she loved her.
'But why should she...what are we, anyways???' Jasmine said out loud,
sitting down on the lounge chair. 'We haven't really talked about that so
far,' she realised as Britney stepped out of the elevator. She dragged
herself over to Jasmine, looking exhausted.
   "What's wrong with you, Britney?" Jasmine asked quickly. "You look like
you've been fighting with somebody."
   "No, I just woke up." she said flatly. To Britney's dismay, her dream had
repeated itself over and over again, gripping her in her sleep. She flopped
down next to Jasmine.
   "Just now??" Jasmine asked. "Did you have a lot to drink last night?"
   "Not really. Just 2 glasses of Cristal. I had a nightmare. I was so
tired,
and it just all caught up with me. You know, going right from the video to
the performance to the party..." Britney trailed off, taking off her shades.
She ran her tongue over her just brushed teeth.
   "What was the nightmare about?" Jasmine asked cautiously.
   Britney thought for a moment before answering her. Jasmine studied
Britney
as she related the dream with her head down, voice soft and deep. After she
finished, there was a moment of silence.
    "Britney, I had a dream too."
    "Really?" Britney perked up.
    "Yeah, but mine was kinda like a nightmare too." Jas said, and told her
dream. But she didn't add that when she woke up, she'd found herself on the
floor, from the attempts in her dream to get away from Britney!
    "Wow, that was some dream you had of me, Brit. Wow...." she was floored.
"Do you feel that I would do something like that to you?"
    "Baby,I don't know." Britney said.
    "Britney, I wouldn't. You know me, or at least I thought you did. We've
talked about our views on love often enough."
    "I know, but what about in relations to each other?" Britney asked.
"Jasmine, do you think I would force you into something you didn't want, or
ignore you...like in your dream?" Britney asked, feeling hurt.
    "No, nor would I ignore you...how I acted in your dream was
mind-blowing."Jasmine thought, shivering.
    "I want us to always have open communication, Jas." Britney said.
    "Me too. We're in this together."
    The girls were quiet for a moment while the sun set before their eyes.
    "Come here,"Jasmine said, and Britney stood up and sat down next to
Jasmine. "Come lay on top of me."
    Britney did, laying her head on Jasmine's chest. Jasmine reached over
and
got some grapes out of the bowl, which she fed to Britney.
    "Britney, you know I don't enter into anything half-way. That's why I
wanted to talk to you on a serious tip, about us.I wanted us to clear the
air. The dream I had this morning pointed out to me-"
   "How much I love you!" Britney jumped in with a realisation.
"Oh my god, Jasmine, that's why I was fighting to get out of that car in my
dream. Because I love you and I never want to lose you. Baby, you make me
FEEL. Sometimes I forget that I'm a human being, with cells and tissue...
since I have become succeessful, very few people make me feel
anymore...and..not many of them do I want to touch, except for my family and
you." Britney propped her arm up, looking down at Jasmine.
"And I definitely don't want to touch my momma the way I touch you!" she
added, bending down to kiss Jasmine slowly.
    "Britney, there's something I have to tell you,too..before I was so
interrupted by ahem..somebody!!!" Jasmine said, smiling softly.
    "What?"
    "I love you too. I love you, I love you, I love you!" Jasmine repeated,
feeling a freedom she had never known before in her life. She had always
thought love could make one feel trapped; that no one could love her the way
she loved them.
   But now she knew it was possible, and oh, how good it felt!!
   Britney planted kisses all over her face, tears in her eyes.
   Time simply stood still for the two lovers in love.

TBC!