Slumber Party, the Altered OC Version
Summary: After hearing about Tommy's first slumber party, which equals one of my least favorite Rugrats episodes, Rosie decides to tell Tommy the story of her first slumber party, which, while it was a miserable experience for her, her slumber party's events are different from that of Tommy's first slumber party. Read this multi chaptered story to learn more! Story takes place post the events of Baby Races, Rugrat Style! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own the original Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I own Reggie, as well as any OC'ds you don't recognize, while Rosie and her family, and Skyler are owned by Nairobi-harper, Hanna Parkerson and Hazel are owned by HazelNutSwirl, Courtney is owned by Tropical Blue Jay, Natalie is owned by Emma Pickles, and Aaron is owned by Sean-Darin.
Chapter 1, Baby Races Dinner Celebration and Tommy's Story
The Halls and Pickles had recently finished up their participation in the special episode of Baby Races, that would be airing sometime very soon on ABC Family, featuring the Halls' daughter Rosie, and the Pickles' son Tommy as the cute adorable contestants, as Baby Races celebrates twenty years since it originally aired on The Family Channel. Hungry, and being close to dinner time, the Halls and Pickles were trying to figure out a place to go eat some dinner.
"So what do you recommend?" Shannon asked Stu and Didi, who had a phone book in her hand, while Stu was surfing the web on his phone.
"Oh I don't know, but it needs to be something quick, Stu and I have a plane to catch very late tonight to get back to California." Said Didi.
"Yeah we do too. We flew in last night to attend the show, and agreed to head back to Boston after the show, as Terry and I have work tomorrow, and can't miss it." Said Shannon.
"I'm in the mood for pizza." Said Terry.
"Well what do you know! They have Piggy's Pizza Palace here in Orlando, Florida. I didn't realize they had that here." Said Stu excitedly, as he looked up from his phone and smiled at the adults.
"We've never heard of it, is it good?" Terry asked.
"It's awesome! They have an anamotronic stage show, and back home at the restaurant in our home town anyway, they have a Reptar pinball machine. My brother Drew and I went there one evening and took the kids to play, while we played Pinball." Said Stu.
"Wow, sounds nice! We sadly don't have this restaurant out in Boston, so, let's check this place out." Said Shannon.
"We're not for Reptar in our house, but Pinball is awesome! And if their pizza is any good, well then, let's go!" Said Terry, as he pulled out his phone and started dialing for a cab.
While the adults were getting arrangements made to take them to the restaurant, Mary, Rosie, Tommy, and Dil, were near by, Rosie in her single umbrella stroller, while Tommy and Dil were in their twin double stroller, and Mary was watching over them.
"Did you hear that Rosie? We're going to see Piggy!" Said Tommy excitedly.
"Piggy? Never heard of him." Rosie replied.
No sooner had Rosie said this, when two cabs pulled up to the curb outside of the studio where they had been to tape Baby Races. The Pickles got into one cab while the Halls got into another cab, and headed off to the Orlando, Florida location of Piggy's Pizza Palace. Upon arriving at the restaurant, they stepped out of the cab and walked inside to the large red building, that resembled a large barn.
"Hey there folks, I'm your old pal Piggy. Come on in and pig out on our pizza!" Said a robotic pig at the door as the two families entered the restaurant.
They arrived to find a long line waiting for a table. A man in a pig costume walked up to the Halls and Pickles.
"Hey there and welcome to Piggy's Pizza Palace. Have fun, but remember to play nice and follow the rules. Or Rickster the Bull will have to come over and remind you to play nice." Said the man in the pig costume.
"Excuse me, but how long of a wait is there for a table?" Didi asked.
"Shouldn't be too long, but here. This will let you know when we have a table available." Said the man in the pig costume, as he handed Didi and Terry buzzer buttons that would go off when a table was ready.
"Actually, we're together, but thank you." Said Terry.
"Ok, well in that case, it might take longer since you're a party of eight." Said the man in the pig costume, before he went back behind the counter to see to other customers.
The adults turned to one another.
"So, how did you guys get picked to be on Baby Races?" Didi asked Shannon.
"We found the entry form on the back of a box of Dummi Bear Sugar Lumps. Excited by this, as Terry use to watch the show when he was little, we thought we'd send in a postcard and enter Rosie. We didn't even know she got picked until two days ago. I'm just glad we could take off work long enough to bring her to Florida for the taping of the show." Said Shannon.
"Oh, well Peter told us about the competition, and he thought Tommy and Dil would be interested. Upon looking at the official rules online, we decided to enter Tommy, and, well, here we are. Had we known you guys had been picked, we would have said something sooner and could have arranged more plans to hang out together." Said Didi.
"It's ok. Just being on the show together was fun, and getting to have dinner together tonight will suit us just fine." Said Shannon with a smile.
Didi nodded and smiled back at her.
While the adults conversated while waiting for a table, the kids were looking around in awe at everything in the restaurant. As Tommy looked around, he noticed how familiar everything looked.
"Yep, this is Piggy's place." Said Tommy to Rosie.
"Wow, you and Dil have been here before?" Rosie asked.
"Nope, just me, with Phil, Lil, Chuckie and Angelica. That's when Piggy tooked Angelica's ribbon." Said Tommy.
"Oh no! I bet Angelica was really mad." Said Rosie.
"Uh, yeah. And it was up to us to get her ribbon back so she could get the Cynthia car she wanted." Said Tommy.
"Did you guys get it back?" Rosie asked.
"Yep." Tommy replied.
"You know Tommy, with what you guys go through for Angelica sometimes, I have to wonder if she really appreciates the things you guys do for her." Said Rosie.
"Sometimes I wonder that too." Said Tommy.
"Yeah, she's always so yucky to us." Added Dil.
"Well Dil, I know she's not exactly nice to either you or your brother, but seeing that you guys are cousins, and Tommy, you're olderer, I bet she's really been mean to you, even back when you were practically Dil's age." Said Rosie.
"You mean since I was barely a year old?" Tommy asked.
"Uh huh?" Rosie replied.
"Well yeah! I already toldid you on one of those Facetime calls about the time she threw my ball into your grandmother's yard and we had to get it back." Said Tommy.
"Yeah, and you didn't even know it was my grandma's yard back then." Said Rosie.
"Nope, I didn't." Tommy replied.
No sooner had he said that, when the buzzers sounded on the devices that Terry and Didi were holding.
"Looks like tables are ready for us." Said Terry, as a lady dressed in a warthog costume came out to greet them.
"Good evening, please, walk this way." Said the lady in the warthog costume, as she led the two families back to two tables that were adjacent to one another.
"Can I start you guys off with something to drink?" The lady in the warthog costume asked.
"I take it you're our waitress?" Terry asked.
"Yes, I'm Wilma, the waitress warthog, and I will be your server this evening." Said Wilma.
"Thank you. Well, my wife and I will have water." Said Terry.
"And I want a Sprite please." Said Mary.
"Rosie, would you like a root beer?" Shannon asked her daughter.
The pink haired two-year-old looked up at her mommy and smiled.
"Yes." Rosie replied.
"Get us a rootbeer for Rosie please." Said Shannon.
"Sure thing. And what can I start you guys off with this evening?" Wilma asked Stu and Didi.
"I'll take a diet coke." Stu replied.
"Water with lemon for me will work. And, we'll get a milk for Dil." Said Didi.
"Hey Champ, you want a chocolate milk?" Stu asked Tommy.
The purple haired two-year-old pointed to the glass of chocolate milk on the drink menu that was sitting on the table and smiled up at his daddy.
"Uh huh!" Tommy replied excitedly.
"Yes, a chocolate milk for Tommy please." Said Stu.
"Ok, I'll be right back with those. And we have a lovely play area if you all are interested. Our Pinball machine is sadly broken right now, but everything else is in proper working order, including our newest toy, a dancing karaoke game, where the kids can make their own music videos that will play on the big screen up there, when our anamotronic stage show isn't happening." Said Wilma.
"Say, is this restaurant a world wide chain?" Terry asked.
"We're working on it. We have several locations in California, this one here in Florida, and a restaurant out in Houston, Texas." Wilma replied.
"We're from Massachusetts, and had never heard of your restaurant before so we're just curious." Said Shannon.
"Oh, where in Massachusetts?" Wilma asked.
"Boston." Shannon replied.
"Oh, not sure if we'll be opening up a location there any time soon, but you can always check our website at piggy's pizza palace dot com to see our menu and learn where we're located." Said Wilma.
"Thank you." Said Shannon, as she picked up a menu and started browsing through it.
While the adults started looking through the menu, and Wilma went off to get everybody's drinks, the other kids looked around at all of the fun activities there were to do, only to grow quite tired, as Rosie and Tommy were tired out from all of the games they had played earlier that day on Baby Races, and wanted to just, relax and talk to each other. Dil and Mary though, were getting ancy.
"Mommy, daddy, can I take Dil and we go play till our dinner comes?" Mary asked.
"Didi, is that all right?" Shannon asked.
"Oh, I suppose so, but keep a close eye on him please." Didi said.
"I will, I watch my little sister Rosie all of the time." Said Mary, as she grabbed Dil's hand and the two of them ran off to play in the balls bin.
"From what it looks like, I see our little Baby Races stars are tired out." Said Terry, who looked over at Rosie and Tommy, who were still sitting at the table, their eyes looking droopy.
"I bet some pizza will make them feel better. And look, here's a nice special. Get one pizza with one or two toppings, and get a second pizza for free." Read aloud Shannon from the specials section of the menu.
"Well, I know Tommy and Dil will eat cheese pizza." Said Didi.
"So will Mary and Rosie." Said Shannon.
"I'm in the mood for some pepperoni pizza." Said Stu.
"Really? Me too." Said Terry.
"Ok, so we'll get one large pepperoni pizza for us to split, and a cheese pizza for the kids to split then?" Terry asked.
"Sounds good to me." Stu replied, just as the waitress came back to take their orders and bring their drinks.
"Are we ready to order?" Wilma asked.
"Yes, we see your special here of get one pizza with one or two toppings, and get a second pizza for free." Said Shannon.
"Yep that special is still in effect, so, is that what we're going to do this evening?" Wilma asked.
"Yes." Shannon replied.
"And what may I get for you guys?" Wilma asked.
"Well, the kids are interested in splitting a large cheese pizza, and the rest of us are going to split a large pepperoni pizza." Shannon replied.
"Very well then. I'll get those ready for you and will have those to you shortly." Said Wilma, as she picked up the menus and headed back to the kitchen to get their orders ready.
Once the waitress was gone, Rosie and Tommy turned to each other, as their parents engaged in grown up conversation.
"So Tommy, besides Angelica throwing your ball into my grandmother's yard, what would you say is your nextest earliest memory of her bullyings?" Rosie asked.
"Well, there was my firstest slumber party." Tommy replied.
"Oh boy, this couldn't have been good. What happened?" Rosie asked.
"Well, Angelica came over with her daddy, and mommy toldid me it was my firstest slumber party. Then at nappy time, Angelica complained of how my room smelled and opened my window. I guess it was really cold or something, cuz after that, I gotted sick and didn't feel well. It was so bad, that I didn't eat any dinner, but still drank my bottle. Mommy putted me to bed early where I must have had some strange dream, only it wasn't a dream. I sawed everybody, mommy, daddy, grandpa, uncle Drew and Angelica in the figures of the mobile on my crib. But in actuality, they were all trying to figure out ways to make me feels better. Grandpa wanted to feed me apple sauce, but daddy didn't like that plan. Then mommy and daddy sang me a lullaby, after Angelica made some comment about me faking it. Well I wasn't faking it, and to prove it to her, I threw up all over her." Explained Tommy.
"I bet Angelica had to go home after that." Said Rosie.
"Nah, I think her daddy just cleaned her up. But after doing that, I fell asleep and was all better the nextest morning, when me and Angelica had pancakes and apple sauce for breakfast." Said Tommy.
"And what about Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Zack and Jesse? Didn't they attend the slumber party too?" Rosie asked.
"No, I didn't know Zack, Kimi or Jesse back then. And Chuckie, Phil and Lil, I knowed them but they weren't there neither. It was just me and Angelica." Said Tommy.
Rosie just gave Tommy a look, crossing her arms.
"What?" Tommy asked.
"That, has to be by far, the laimest slumber party story I've ever heardid. And besides, it wasn't even a real slumber party." Said Rosie.
"What do you mean? My mommy said it was a slumber party." Tommy replied.
"Tommy, I have an olderer sister, and she's had plenty of sleepovers and slumber parties at my partment, and believe me, there's a difference. What you had was a sleepover, not a slumber party." Rosie replied.
"Really?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah, really. You see Tommy, a sleepover is when you have one friend or family member sleep over, like in the case with Angelica that time, or when you came to visit me and attend my birthday party. A slumber party is when a bunch of your friends sleep over at the same time, got it?" Rosie asked.
"Yeah, I get it, and I have had all of my friends over before. Good thing too. One time, my house turndid into an airplane when they slept over, and we had to keep my family from going out into the clouds." Said Tommy.
"Wow! I don't think my partnemt has ever done that." Said Rosie.
"So, have you had your firstest slumber party?" Tommy asked.
"I sure have, and no open windows gotted me sick neither. In fact, I don't think it was the window that gotted you sick." Said Rosie.
"You don't?" Tommy asked.
"No Tommy. You said you had a bottle before you threw up on Angelica?" Rosie asked.
"Uh huh." Tommy replied.
"You must have had some sour milk. My mommy says that can make your tummy not feel good. Yeah Tommy, I think your slumber party was a big joke." Said Rosie.
Tommy just looked at her.
"So, what happened at your firstest slumber party? Was Reggie there?" Tommy asked.
"Yes, Reggie was there, as well as all of my other friends, and I can't say it was the most funnest experience I had, but it was a slumber party, that I will never forget." Said Rosie, just as Wilma came back with their pizzas, and Stu and Terry went off to find Mary and Dil.
A few minutes later, everybody was seated at the table with slices of pizza on their plates.
"So what happened Rosie?" Tommy asked, as he bit into the slice of cheese pizza on his plate, and took a sip of chocolate milk.
"What happened at what?" Mary asked.
"My firstest slumber party." Rosie replied.
"I can't even recall your first slumber party." Said Mary.
"Nope, you weren't there. You were at your friend Krystal's first slumber party. That's why mommy let me have one." Said Rosie.
"Wow, the one story my sister still has yet to tell me about." Said Mary, as she took a sip of her Sprite.
"Yep." Said Rosie.
"Tell us the story!" Dil pleaded.
"Well Dil, I don't know what your firstest slumber party was like, hopefully, it was better than your brother's." Said Rosie.
"At my firstest one, we toldid ghost stories and I put drool in the story, and Angelica was chased away by a worm and my brother and friends went to find the light in the attic." Said Dil.
"At my firstest slumber party, I had the whole kindergarten class there to celebrate my fifth birthday, and we stayed up all night and watched Dummi Bears videos." Said Mary.
"Yes, I remember that party, that was back when I still had blond hair." Said Rosie, who was starting to grow impatient.
"Ok Rosie, so what happened at your firstest slumber party then?" Tommy asked.
"Well Tommy, I wouldn't rush eating that pizza or drinking that milk, cuz I've gots a long story to tell. Like I said earlier, it was probably just as miserable of an experience as you had at your firstest one, but very different things happened." Said Rosie, as she took a sip of her root beer, before beginning to tell her story.
And we'll hear her story in the next chapter, so please, do stay tuned!
Author's Note: I need to clear out my doc manager, as it's full, and go find me a bite to eat for dinner, but I should have the next chapter up by sometime tomorrow, if not sooner, and the next chapter, will be in Rosie's POV.