X-What?
"Happy Birthday toooo yooooooou!" It was Maureen's birthday and all of the bohos had gathered at the Life Café to celebrate. They'd just finished singing happy birthday as a waiter brought out a cake for the diva.
"Oh my gosh is this for me?" Joanne nodded and pecked Maureen on the lips.
"Yep, I got your favorite kind too; chocolate cake with chocolate frosting," The lawyer replied smiling.
"Aww Pookie, I love it!! Thank you guys so much!" All of Maureen's friends smiled as Joanne lit the candles for Maureen's cake.
"Well are you gonna blow out the candles so we can eat this, or what?" Collins asked as Maureen sat in her seat admiring the candles.
"Jesus Collins, have some patience, I was trying to think of a good wish!"
"Oh well excuse me… forgive me for wanting some cake your majesty."
"I guess I can…"Maureen said smirking, "Okay, I got it now; I'm gonna blow out my candles." The restaurant got quiet as Maureen closed her eyes bent over to the cake and blew with all her might. Maureen opened her eyes to see if she'd blown out all of the candles and was shocked to see that she'd only blown out three.
"Pookie, can you help me?" the diva asked with her signature pout on her face.
"Sure, no problem…" Together the couple managed to blow out all of the candles.
"Congratulations Maureen, you've made it into adulthood…"Mark said as he captured the moment on film. Angel had a confused look on her face and leaned in to whisper something to Mimi.
"Chica, didn't Maureen turn 21 already?" Mimi quietly giggled and whispered back to Angel.
"Yeah, 7 times, to be exact. But if you ask her, she'll tell you with a straight face that this is the first time she's turned 21." The friends began laughing uncontrollably with each other at the joke and soon the rest of their little group was looking at them.
"Um, can I ask you what's so funny m'dear?" Collins asked his lover as she convulsed with laughter.
Angel tried to calm herself down as she answered him, "Nothing, nothing…it's an inside joke."
"I wanna be inside!" Collins mock whined.
"Thomas, you're inside me every night…what are you talking about?"
"Whoa!" Roger exclaimed covering his ears, "That is not something I want to hear about…aw great; now that's gonna be in my head all day long. Thanks a lot, lovebirds."
"Your welcome," the couple answered in unison.
Maureen cleared her throat, "Erm, back to me now! Let's open presents!" Just as Maureen was about to open the first present, Benny walked into the Life Café.
"Oh, hey guys…what's up?" he asked rather casually.
"Well, well, well, what brings you down here Mr. Coffin? Muffy kick you out the house again?" Mark asked sarcastically. Benny rolled his eyes at the immaturity of his old friend.
"Actually yeah. She got me an X-Box for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, and she says I play with it more than I play with her…so I have to throw it away."
"An X-What?" Maureen questioned, quickly becoming interested in the conversation.
"And X-Box; it's this new gaming system and its amazing!"
"Hmmm, really…well, Benny I have a proposition for you: you give me your X-Box as a birthday present and I give you a piece of this lovely cake in exchange. How does that sound?"
"You know what Ms. Johnson? I think we may just have a deal…but one more thing."
"What's that?"
"I have to be allowed to come over at least once a week to play it."
"As long as you don't walk in on Pookie and I doing the nasty, I personally don't care. Pookie?" Joanne nodded her head in agreement.
"Yeah, just knock before coming in or you may end up seeing some wild and crazy lesbian sex…"
"And there's a problem with that?" Joanne punched Benny in his arm.
"Just knock first asshole." Benny agreed to all of the conditions and went to his Range Rover to get the X-Box. When he came back in, all the bohos were amazed at how sleek and cool it looked.
"Dude, this is gonna rock!" Roger proclaimed when he saw the new gaming system.
"I'm gonna be over MoJo's house all the time!" Collins noted.
"Yeah, me too…" Mimi added.
Angel smiled, "I usually don't like these types of things, but this is amazing looking. I'm gonna be all over this."
Collins smiled and looked at Joanne, "Mrs. Jefferson…can we come and play at your house with Maureen after the party??"
"Pleeeeeease?" The others including Maureen and Benny added together.
"Well, I guess so…" Joanne said smiling.
"WOOOO! PARTAY AT MY HOUSE!!" Maureen screamed, "Now, to more important things, let's eat some cake!" Maureen cut the cake and handed out pieces of the delectable chocolaty goodness as they stuffed themselves silly with cake and beer.
Wooo! R&R please! Next chapter: The bohos play X-Box for the first time…
