Party blues

As Ziva cringed as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. Her swimmers were not very flattering, blue with little pink love hearts; her mother had chosen them two years ago for her 14th birthday. This party was not going to be fun, her arse was huge, and her swimmers made her look fat and the love of her life was going with his girlfriend Kate. Life wasn't that great for 16 year old Ziva David, her parents were making her go over sea's for seven months to go to boarding school at an all girls collage, and her brother Ari wasn't doing too well in school which was really upsetting her mother which upset Ziva's little sister Tali. Tali was only 12 but she looked up to Ziva in every single way, she had her hair to her shoulders but was trying to grow it too her waist like her sister, she wore cameo pants and singlets so that she looked even more like Ziva. Tali had even stuffed her bra with tissues so she looked like she had a bust, even though Ziva's was only small Tali had to at least look like she had one too.

'Tali, what are you doing?'

'I'm getting ready for the party' She said as she struggled to put her hair back,

'Let me get that' Ziva walked into her sister's room and pulled her hair up into a hair tie.

'Why are you wearing my swimmers?'

'I'm not'

'Yeah you are'

'No, mum bought me a pair too.'

'I'm going to match my little sister, great' Ziva whispered under her breath.

'What?'

'Nothing, just said they suit you'

'Thanks.' Tali smiled and hugged her sister.

* * * * * *

Everyone was in the car and they were on their way to the DiNozzo, Tali was talking animatedly with her mother about her ballet routine, Ari was scowling as he looked out of the window, it was plain that he didn't want to go to this party, even more then Ziva.

They pulled into the drive way and found one of the two parking spaces left.

'Everyone out' their father ordered before walking off to greet an old friend.

'Do we have too?' Ziva moaned to Ari.

'I thought you wanted to come'

'Not any more'

'Why? Tony is here, you guys are like best friends'

'I have a feeling he will not have much time for his old partner in crime.' Ziva still remembered when she and Tony had tied up Mrs Wilkinson because they though she was plotting to blow up the bank, it turned out the 82 year old had just gone out to buy more cat food.

'Why not?'

'Katie' she said in a high prissy voice. It only took one word for her brother to understand.

'Oh, sorry. Is she nice?'

'Not sure'

'Well go find out'

'Fine'.

*** **** ***

'Hello Ziva, Tali, Ari' Mrs DiNozzo said as the David kids walked into the house from the veranda.

'Hello Mrs DiNozzo' they all said then they followed her out onto the other side of the veranda from where they could see the pool.

It was obvious that they were not the first to arrive; around 15 kids were in the pool, splashing each other and laughing.

Tony was sitting on the edge of the pool with two girls, a brown haired one and a blonde in a red swimsuit. Ziva was looking around to see if she could see anyone else they knew when Tony shouted

'Hey Zee, came down already'

'In a minute.' She called back and took a breath; Tony had just splashed one of the girls who playfully splashed him back.

'Go on Bub, what have you got to lose' Ari said and gave her a little push in the back.

* ** ** ***

They walked down the steps and down the garden then through the pool gate and hung up their towels. Ziva didn't want to have to take off her over dress in front of all these people but as Ari stripped off his shirt and jumped in the pool she slipped off her dress and quickly tied her hair back in a messy ponytail.

'Cute swimmers' the girl on Tony's right said

'Thanks'

'They were my favourite swimmers when I was in year eight, I don't think I took them off all summer.' Ziva couldn't decide if the girl was trying to criticises or compliment her.

'So Zee, what do you think of my girl?' Tony put his left arm around the brunet she smiled and said

'Hi, I'm Kate'

'Hi, I'm Ziva, but you already knew that' Ziva blushed.

'You coming swimming?' Kate asked.

'Maybe'

'Well at least your dressed for it' Kate smiled then dived in chasing after Tony.

'So, your that girl who tied up Mrs Wilkinson' a girl spoke who was sitting in the corner of the pool, she was in a black set of swimming trunks

'Oh, you heard of that'

'I'm Abby by the way'

'Hi'

'Come sit down'

Abby patted the ground next to her; Ziva went over and sat down in the water.

'So how long have you known Tony?'

'Since I can remember'

'Cool, it would be great to have friends that have known you for ages'

'How long have you known the DiNozzo's?' Ziva asked swinging her legs in the pool.

'Um, around 36 hours' Abby laughed and added 'we moved around 3 minutes from here and Mrs DiNozzo came and introduced herself and said we had to come today '

'That sounds like her' Ziva smiled. Mrs DiNozzo always was making new friends and making people feel welcome.

'So which school are you going too??'

'Just the local high school, State High, I think'

'Well I go there so you'll know someone.'

'Cool!' Abby smiled then cannon balled into a group of prissy girls, who squalled when their hair was covered by a tidal wave.

* * * * * *

The way they interacted with each other, made Ziva ache, she wanted a guy to hold her hand, push back her fringe, and kissed her shoulder as she waited for the salad to be served.

Tony was so oblivious to how Ziva felt about him that it sort of made her being in love with him easier. For she could look at him and he'd just think he'd spilt sauce on his cheek or that there was a spider in his hair, not that she was memorizing his smile or the colour of his eyes.

Kate was too perfect, she had a beautiful smile, a harmonious laugh, she got on with ever one and had perfect cloths. Ziva was torn between hating her guts and becoming best friends with her. She decided to he civil and polite and suss her out a bit more before her final judgement.

'Ziva, come sit over here with us' Kate called and Tony smiled then stole a tomato off her plate when she wasn't looking.

'Okay' Ziva got up and walked over taking a seat next to Abby, then her day got just that bit more embarrassing when her little copy cat sister came over and sat next to her.

'Hello, I'm Tali and I'm Ziva's little sister.'

'Hello' Kate said and smiled at her.

Dinner went on without a hiccup but then as Tali tried to squirt sauce on top of her steak she missed and got it all over Ziva. Ziva just sat there covered in red gluggy tomato and starred at her sister.

'Oops, sorry' everyone cracked up. Ziva's eyes filled with tears, Abby sprung to her feet and pulled Ziva away from the table, then dragged her to the bathroom.

'Sorry for dragging you, but I thought it best that you got out of there' Abby said as she found a face cloth and wet it under the tap, then dabbed it on Ziva's red spotty face.

'Thanks' Abby just smiled and handed Ziva the towel to clean her dress with

'I'll be waiting outside' Abby then left Ziva to clean up her dress and silently cry.

* * * * * *

'Zee, open up' Tony hammered on the door, Abby had just ducked out to the balcony to grab a drink for Ziva and Tony had seized his chance.

'No, go away'

'Not going to happen, now open up or I'm going to go get my pocket knife'

'And why would you do that?'

'Because I know how to pick this door's lock, just one little flick and...' Ziva opened the door and glared at him.

'I think your forgetting that it was me you thought you that'

'Oh yeah, so what's wrong'

'Nothing' She lied, Tony pushed past her and closed the bathroom door.

'Talk' and he sat down on the bath.

'It doesn't matter, ok just leave it'

'Zee, I'm your best friend I have a right to know what's up setting you'

'Just because we are best friends doesn't mean you get to know every detail of my life.'

'Oh so you telling me last year that you threw up all over your shoes in health class, or the time that you freaked out because you thought your boobs were shrinking...'

'Did not!' She blushed ok, so they shared nearly everything, he told her stuff too, but not always stuff she wanted to hear like how perfect Kate was and what he wanted to get her for Christmas.

'Zee...'

'Fine. My life is a bit complicated at the minute, happy now? You know what's going on'

'No I'm not happy, I want to help'

'Well you can't so just get back to the party and have fun, I'll be out in a minute'

'Promise?'

'Promise' she grinned back

'By the way Zee your boobs aren't shrinking' he grinned and ducked the shampoo bottle that she threw at him.

Bones

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