December

12-1

Today was also a juggle between happy and pissed, but I don't want to talk about the bad anymore. All it seems to do is make things all kinds of worse. Well, on the plus side of things, I had a nice laugh in science class.

Today in science, we did a lab with Jell-O and pineapple, testing the effects of enzymes on other things.

"Today we'll be working with pineapple chunks, gelatin, and small plastic cups." Misses Polivka informed us. "Just fill in the blank spaces on these papers."

The funny part was watching Buck's face when misses Polivka said the words, 'Pineapple chunks'. he went all pale and starting to sweat.

She handed us some worksheets with things on 'm like, 'What is your hypotheses?' or 'Why is it that you think that?' and the instructions for the lab we would do. I got mine finished first, so I could talk to my 'pregers teach', as Tina would call her. I went to the front when everybody was finished and talking.

"Miss Polivka." I said, grabbing her attention.

"Yes?"

"See, Barrett is allergic to pineapples," I explained, "he gets a bad rash, and sometimes hives." I tried reading her mind, but I couldn't for some odd-ass reson.

Well, I saved Buck from that assignment, but he still had to do the worksheet.

12-2

So Friday could have gone better, so what? I was focused on one thing, trying to get through Friday without once saying, "Silence! I kill you!" or "You know what? I'm pissed." and I did! Well I did say, "Silence! I kill you!" to Megan M, once, she called me China Goat, witch royally pisses me off.

I didn't get to talk to any of the guys much in the morning. Mostly because I was pretty pissed in the morning; the other night, Anthony woke me up at three A.M., hence me being pretty grumpy.

Lunchtime was one rare chance that I got to sit alone with Buck. Well, alone meaning with other friends besides Tina, Cassie, or the guys. Well my other friends (including Brittany Wilson, Brittany Forman, Ashley, Sydney, and kamery.) were all over Buck's case about girl stuffs. They asked him about England, what his favorite color was, what kinds of TV shows aired in England, things like that. A few times, the girls just asked him to say random things with his accent so they could giggle about it. He seemed sooo uncomfortable with all of that girl craziness.

"So, did you have to learn all about British history, like their plans in the revolutionary war?" Kamery asked, she didn't seem to be flirting, unlike some of the others.

"Yes, it's a lot different than here, we learned about what we planned to do, and some things didn't go as planned. I, personally, think it's good that we lost the war. I mean, really, it gave us a chance to get over ourselves and learn not to start shit like Germany." Buck answered, he must've actually paid attention when we had the mind helmet session.

"Wow, that's exactly what I was thinking! Germany just loves to start shit." Brittany Wilson said.

"At least Canada minds their own damn business." I said.

*LINE*

Well, later wasn't that bad. We checked our science projects on the effects of enzymes. Turns out, fresh pineapple chunks screw up the Jell-O working correctly.

*LINE*

Later mom said we had to go to Mathew's place, that wasn't even semi fun. I got thrown into a shower, fully clothed! So I had to change, twice.

12-3

"Buck!" I said, falling into my very understanding boyfriend's arms. I was fed up with today, (not cause I was angry, just bored) and just too happy to see him. I had a good time, I was just missing him something terrible, so I called and said I was using the amulet to come see him.

"How's my Suzy cue?" he asked, hugging me.

"I'm, I…" I didn't say anything else.

"So that's how you're doing? Well, come with me, we'll listen to some CDs or something. Oh, I have a surprise for you." he guided me into the family room, "I think you'll like this," he opened the door.

"Sid!" I half yelled, I was never so happy to see that boy before.

"Hi Suzy!" Sid said, his loveable lateral lisp showing greatly.

"God, I'm so happy to see you!" I said, giving him a big bear hug.

"Yeah, it's like we're all family huh?" Sid suggested.

"Oh my gosh, I just had an idea!" I used the amulet to bring my computer there. "How would you two like to meet my cousins?"

"Sounds great love." Buck said.

"K, I'll get a Skype channel up and running." I logged on to my computer, then set up the Video Chat room. Next I called Cara, the older of my two cousins, and told her to get on the video chat so I could introduce her to my friends, and hot BF.

*LINE*

"Hey CC!" I said, hearing my other Cousin Annie asking her what was up in the Background. "Hey Annie BB!"

"Asia!" Annie said happily, coming into the room to see me.

"Hey Cara, Annie. Hey listen, I got somebody a want ya'll to meet."

"Okay," Cara said with a wink.

"Who is it Asia?" Annie asked, her sweet little southern-accented voice was so high, so cute, it reminded me of Peaches.

"It's these guys!" I said, turning the computer towards the boys.

"Hi!" The all four said in unison. I laughed out loud.

"Asia, my sister, I'm dying to know, witch one are you dating?" Cara asked.

"This one right here." I kissed Buck on the cheek, "This is Barett."

"Hi!" Sid Waved, "I'm Ricky."

"Hi Ricky!" Annie said, waving back at Sid, "I'm Annie, and my sister's name is Cara." she pointed to Cara.

"Oh god, you guys. This better be pretty friggin' important. You woke me up, and it's only like, noon." Diego said, yawning and scratching his head, his hair looked like a rat's nest.

"Hey hot mess, wanna meet my cousins." I gestured to the lap-top.

"Sure. Hey, what's up small children?" Diego said, sitting cross-legged next to us on the floor. "I'm Diego."

"Hi, I'm Cara and this is Annie."

"Hey, what's with the group of people around the computer?" Crash said out of nowhere.

"We're video-chatting with my cousins." I explained.

"Cool! I wanna meet your cousins Suze!" Eddie said, popping up next to his twin.

"This is Cara and Annie." I said, just then, I remembered our cousin-nana-aunt-uncle-mom-brother-sister trip to Disney World in six days.

"I'm Eddie,"

"And I'm Cranston."

"We're Twins." The boys said in unison.

"I'm goanna get some Orange juice, Rick, buddy, you gotta take that supplement the doctors gave us." Diego said.

"Right, k." They both got up and went into the kitchen.

"Are all of ya'll brothers? Cause ya'll look nothing alike." Cara said.

"We're all adopted, all except Emily." Buck explained.

"Oh, I see. Hey Asia, how excited are you that we get to go to Disney World? Six days left!" Cara said.

"Hey Asia," Annie said, she sounds so sweet when she says my name. she says it like "Age-a" it's so cute. "Where's Anthony?"

"He ain't here. We're at these guys' house and he's with mom at her friend Mathew's house.

"Oh, I see. So what else-" she was cut off by a loud noise and a cuss word from the kitchen on my end of the video chat.

"I'll go check on them." I said, getting up. "You guys converse."

"Wait! What does that mean?" Crash asked.

"It means talk!"

*LINE*

"Shit, shit! Double shit!" Diego said, holding a napkin over his thumb.

"What is it now?" I almost stepped on Sid, who was passed out on the floor.

Diego showed me a broken glass covered in blood and orange juice. Then his bleeding thumb. "Damn it!" I said, "Eddie! Cranston! Barrett! Get in here and help me really quick!"

"I don't need help." Diego said, the moron's pride will literally kill him one of these days, I swear to god.

"Uh, yeah ya do, and Sid needs help too." I checked to see if he was breathing, or had any glass puncturing his skin.

"What is- Oh my god!" Crash said, Eddie looked grossed-out.

"Buck, you help Diego. Crash, help me with Sid, we gotta get him into the living room. Eddie, go in the living room and entertain my cousins with your personality. Go!" then we all got to work.

By far the best part of today was watching Sid teach the girls how to do the Sid dance, once he came to.

12-5

All that went through my mind today was, How in the hell will I be able to do all of this homework? or How in the hell will I cope in Florida for a whole nine days without my buds? And it sure didn't help that we had to go ice skating, witch I suck at.

Well, as for the good points, this morning Buck was wearing one of those special hats with mistletoe hanging from it. Also on the bright side, I don't have all that much homework after all! Another good thing is, Brock had in-school suspension, that made me happy. The funniest thing about that, though, is what he got busted for. Brock pantsed Jamison, I laughed out loud when Cassie told me that.

We started packing for the trip to Florida today; mom had to tell us what was presentable and what wasn't. Only about half of the things that I had originally picked out made the cut. I was, however, able to sneak in the shirt of Buck's that I sleep in.

12-5

All that went through my mind today was, How in the hell will I be able to do all of this homework? or How in the hell will I cope in Florida for a whole nine days without my buds? And it sure didn't help that we had to go ice skating, witch I suck at.

Well, as for the good points, this morning Buck was wearing one of those special hats with mistletoe hanging from it. Also on the bright side, I don't have all that much homework after all! Another good thing is, Brock had in-school suspension, that made me happy. The funniest thing about that, though, is what he got busted for. Brock pantsed Jamison, I laughed out loud when Cassie told me that.

We started packing for the trip to Florida today; mom had to tell us what was presentable and what wasn't. Only about half of the things that I had originally picked out made the cut. I was, however, able to sneak in the shirt of Buck's that I sleep in.

12-7

The by far best part of today was trying to teach Buck, Diego, and Sid how to ice-skate. Now the lovable lisper, Sid, did pretty well until he had to stop. Diego was way clumsy, and hated it all. Buck, of coarse, went head-long doing everything he hadn't thought through once. As for my skating, I was pretty good without the chair, I only fell once.

Ray sure wasn't able to skate, however he could DJ. He played all kinds of good music, which aspired to a lot of figure skating, and 'spirited' hockey games. He and Megan's song played probably about three times, not that I'm complaining, it is a good one anyways, Lips Of An Angel by Hinder.

Well, all in all today was alright in my book.

12-8

My eyelids fluttered open; it was six-thirty A.M. I knew today was the day we'd leave to Florida, so I noted how my room looked, how the covers felt around my feet, and the smell of my Enchanted Mist scentsy. I got up and woke Anthony up, he was passed out on the couch; he didn't put up a fight like usual, just whined a lot.

Well today was real happy at the beginning, but sad at the end. In the beginning, I sat next to Tina, and her cousin Sam, plus a few friends of Sam's. We didn't have homeroom today, so we all had to go to the commons area where we all usually eat lunch.

I almost didn't feel like seeing Buck, it would be a tear-soaked hello, so to speak. I would think about saying goodbye, and then I'd start crying, or get all sad. He decided for me, though. He came over and covered my eyes from behind and whispered, "Guess who?"

"Hey, babe." I said, turning around into an unexpected kiss.

"Hey, get a room or at least away from the security cams." Sam groaned. "No PDBFGFA."

"No what?" almost everybody said.

"No Public Displays of Boyfriend/Girlfriend Affection." Sam explained.

"Oh." we all said, followed by muttered, "oh, I see." or "that makes sense I suppose."

*LINE*

We had to get all of our crap in the white work truck and some other stuff in our backpacks before we left for the Bismarck AirPort. We all have different ways of dealing with travel; mine is to stay the hell away from everyone else and do what I am told. Also, taking all kinds of crap from everybody else is inevitable. Anthony's is being a miscreant and embarrassing mom, which brings us to our next subject, mom's dealing method. Mom's way of dealing with travel, as far as I know, is trying not to yell, and laughing nervously.

When we got to the hotel, I took a hot shower, and checked my messages on ; I had a lot having to do with Buck. Some people from the Ice Age fan club added me as a friend and put me on their watch list, including Megan D.

12-19

My day went awesome in the beginning. I freaked out when I saw the guys, crazy giddy man. Buck got one big kiss on the mush and a hug that could've lasted forever.

The next guys we tracked down were the twin tornadoes. Crash and Eddie were going out of there ways to see who could get to me first, (Eddie) and tripping over themselves as they went.

"Suzy!" they yelled in unison.

"Hey guys!" I gave them each a kiss on the cheek and hugged them in a group, "I missed ya'll sooo much!"

"Let's go find the others." Buck suggested.

*LINE*

"Ricky!" I half yelled, running up to Sid. I almost called him by his real name, but remembered that we were in a public place.

"Suzy!" He gave me a big bear hug, "You're back! We all missed you."

"I missed you all too." I gave him another squeeze and a kiss on the cheek, like I had done the twins.

"Hey Suzy!" Diego came from down the hall. "What's up guys?"

"You're no exception, D." I hugged him tightly, and kissed him on the cheek. I know Diego hates hugs and stuff, but I was excited to see them all.

"Hello! Ray still exists." Ray came rolling down the hall.

"Hey Ray old buddy old pal!" I went over and hugged him and kissed him on the cheek as I had done the other guys.

"Hello! Megan, and Tina still exist!" Megan M came walking down the hall, Tina followed.

"Megan, you're back!" I hugged her and the girls, and then she explained how there were complications with her being in the Worriers books.

"Since they're still being written," Megan explained, "I can't be there, because the writer doesn't know about me."

I looked at Ray with worry, "Does that mean…?"

"No, the guys are replaced, since they died in their world, with new guys." he looked at the guys with wide eyes, "Same characters, different realism."

*LINE*

Later we played floor hokey in gym class, and I sucked ass. Not kidding. I had to switch teams from blue to yellow because we needed to be equally matched, and beforehand the yellow team was winning. When I got on the yellow team, we were losing big time.

Megan M blamed me for the yellow team's loss, but Sid was nice about it, like he always is.

"I think you did great Suzan." Sid told me after the game.

"Ah, thanks buddy." I answered.

"Hey, look. It's China and the spit storm!" Some blonde dude walked by us, his jersey said PHILL in big bold letters.

*LINE*

Later, after science, the same blonde boy made the biggest mistake of his life. He walked up behind me while I was talking to Nicky and a few other girls, and grabbed my behind.

"Hey, how's the skirt?" he said with a devilish grin.

I picked him up by his shirt and slammed him against the locker doors. Then I held my fist an inch from his chin. "You want a knuckle sandwich asshole?" then I kneed him someplace you do not wanna be kneed. "That's for grabbing me," I let him down hard and slapped him, "that's for Ricky," then I pushed him to the ground, "and that's for good measure!"

"Holey shit!" I heard Megan D's voice behind us, "You go girl!"

*LINE*

"Come on Asia!" mom was calling me from the living room.

"I'm coming!" we had to go to someone's house for dinner. "I'm ready."

"Gag me! Think you've got enough perfume? You smell like a French hooch." she looked grossed-out.

"It's the same way with cigarettes." I muttered, putting on my white shoes.

"Easy smart-ass." mom said, putting her brown work-coat on.

12-20

Crime a niddly (if you don't know what that means ask someone else 'cause I'm too pissed to explain it), are some girls airheads? I think they are. The reason behind my thinking this is, at lunch the ALL girls wanted to sit with Buck, just so they could hear him talk British.

"So what is it that men in England and Britten and such call department stores?" one blonde (unnaturally blonde) girl asked.

"Well, men's stores, we call haberdasheries. My mum never mentioned women's stores to me." Buck explained, he looked uncomfortable.

The pin-heads tittered amongst themselves when they saw me approaching. "Hello girls, Barrett." I said, grabbing a seat right next to Buck.

"Hello darling." Buck kissed me on the cheek. "How are you today?"

"I'm good, and how's my number one?" I smiled at the sneering faces of the Missies.

"Oh, love. I adore your American speech terms." Buck answered, playing along with what I'd trained him to say in this type of situation.

"As we were saying," the bottle-blonde continued, "When do you eat crumpets with your tea?" ignoramus.

"Usually in the early morning or noon-time, in the evening we usually enjoy cookies or rather any other desert than crumpets." he looked at me with his famous heart-melter grin, "I have a question for you American girls that I cannot seem to figure out all on my own, if you would. What in the world is so attractive of this Bieber fellow?"

The girls all giggled, "Oh, nothing." the only brunette in the group said. "He just has that something." gross.

"I didn't realize the two of you were still dating." one girl said out of nowhere, "I thought you dumped her." wait for it… Oh HELL no!

"Being gentlemen, I'll take that in the best way possible." Buck started, looking eight times as mad as me. "Yes madam, we are still happily together." he lifted up my left hand, showing off my ring to a bunch of horrified girls.

"Well… we'd better get to our table." the bottle-blonde bimbo said, with that, the pack left for their spot- their den in the far corner.

(Author: Ray: Hey guys, it's me, Ray and I'm sooo pissed that so much shit Asia doesn't know about goes on, good and bad, in this school. So now for something we haven't had in ages! POV from Raymon!)

Later, after lunch, some of the guys were congregating by Buck's locker, talking to him and the others (Sid, Crash, Eddie, and Diego) about, quote, "their girls". And some meat heads actually didn't know that Buck and Asia were dating. The whole shooting match ended in all of the guys, (Buck, Sid, Diego, Crash, and Eddie) including me, getting pissed off.

"So B, dude, which gal did you snatch first?" one kid (unnamed) asked. "You know all the girls are drooling over the new kids."

"Actually, I've been in a relationship with one gal, as you call them, for about two years now. She goes to this school with us." Buck explained.

"Oh? Who is she?" another guy asked.

"Oh, there she is, locker number 58 I believe." he pointed to Asia. "Ah, isn't she stunning?"

"Her?" a blonde kid, I think his name was Phil, ha, Philly from Philly.

"Ha, didn't she kick your ass the other day?" I laughed, Megan had told me about it, but it was hard to believe.

"Uh…" Phil didn't answer.

"Yeah, and I'd gladly do it again." Asia bumped Phil's shoulder with her own as she walked by.

"Yep, that's her." Buck stated proudly, grinning.

"Really? You could do sooo much better, dude." unnamed said.

Buck turned bright red with anger from the neck up, "Excuse me, Dude -god I cannot get used to that word- My Suzy is the best I could ever dream of, she's most beautiful, loving, caring, and all-around amazing woman in the entire world." He was getting closer and closer to the unnamed boy, "Make fun of me, make fun of this eye of mine! Make fun of my origin, make fun of my accent! But if you even think of saying another word against my girlfriend, I believe I won't be called a gentleman anymore!" do you see what I mean now? Oh, I was pissed too!

"Hey, dude-" I cut off Phil.

"Listen Dude, I may be a cripple but if you try to back this asshole up, I'll kick your ass worse than the girl did!" he kept his mouth shut after that, smart boy. A prick, but smart.

"Dude-" unnamed was cut off again, this time by Buck.

"Do not call me Dude, do you even know what it means? In England anyway." Buck asked. All of the guys looked at each other like morons. "It's short for dudeen, a smoking pipe." he gave a thinking expression, then continued with his anger, "Listen, I've had it with people making fun of her! If you want to be a useless cad, do it where we can't hear! Come on lads." with that, Buck stomped away, pissed off as all of us. We all fallowed, and I just flipped the guys off without looking back.

Later, after Buck cooled down and spent some time with Suzan to get his mood in order, I decided that I could stand him after all. I'm not saying we're old chums, I'm just not jealous anymore.

"I respect you." I said when we were alone at the L7, that's the spot in the school's entrance way that kids go after lunch to converse.

"Thanks Ray. You've earned my respect as well." Buck answered, "You know, even when I knew you wanted to punch my lights out, but knew I was doing the right thing, you didn't. And today, you sure told that Phil chap off."

"Yeah, I sure did. And you came up with some pretty good smack talk yourself." I answered.

We both grinned, laughed, and high fived before parting ways for the rest of the day.

12-21

Today my heart got heavier, know why it was heavy? Cause yesterday was basically pick on Asia day. I heard everything the boys said about me in the hall, and Buck was pretty upset about it. Another thing about it that was disappointing was, the fact that Megan M won't leave me alone. Her new nick-name for me is Gee Gee Goody-Goody. Well mine for her happens to be Judy Juvy.

Anyways, no more dwelling on what was bad yesterday, today was sooo much better. One reason behind that is, I found out that I scare the crap out of Phil now, and he flinches when I pretend to almost hit him. Another reason is, the guys all came over to deck the halls with the bro and me.

"I love the holidays already." Crash stated, helping Eddie set the angel on top of the tree.

"Me too." Eddie added.

"Sure is fun Suzy." Sid said happily, tying a bow to the door knob.

"You know something, Sid, I agree." I answered. "How 'bout you Tigey Wigey? Enjoying yourself?" I looked at Diego, who was working on something in the kitchen.

"Hm? Yeah, it's a lot of fun." Diego answered.

"Hey Buck? Buck?" I called, looking to see where he was.

"He's outside Suze." Eddie informed me.

"Oh? What's he doing out there?" I said under my breath as I headed for the door.

Sure enough, Buck was playing with my brother and the neighbor kids on the trampoline. Having a good old time too. He was playing around and tried pulling a weasel move with his human spine, but didn't get hurt, just fell on his butt. Good thing he was on a trampoline.

I giggled, then went back to helping the boys do the Christmas tree.

12-22

Today I had a heart-to-heart with Buck. After watching Because Of Winn Dixie , I decided it was high-time Buck and I got to know each other much better. Much better.

"So, what do you want to know, love?" he asked.

I answered with, "Things that interest you, things that scare you, things nobody knows."

"Well," he began, "I have a pathological fear of thunderstorms. Sophie was right. And things that interest me are, you, and adventures, and being in this time. It's weird you know."

"I knew you were afraid of thunder." I said, "Well what scares me would be, heights. Not flying or anything, just being up high without anything holding me up." I smiled, "That's why, well kind of why, I held onto you on the pterodactyl." I blushed. "Things that interest me are, you, art, music, and not sports unless it involves going fast and turning left."

Buck Chuckled, "How about favorite songs, flowers, old movies, books?" he asked.

"Anything sung by Tim McGraw, or really anything country. Flowers, yellow roses with baby's breaths. Old movies, would be Old Yeller, Matilda, and Because Of Winn Dixie. And so far, books would have to be Calla Lilly Ponder, and A Long Time Between Kisses." I answered. "Okay, tell me about your fam."

"My mother was something else, beautiful, smart, an all-around great mum. My father was anything but a weasel, kind and honorable. My sister was an 'independent' young woman. And my twin Mark was- enough said." Buck laughed. "And I know your mum, and your brother, how about your other family?

"My Nana is great, and my great-granny Rosa Lee is something else. You met my cousins…" I told him all about my family, and all the time I was talking, he was listening, it felt good for someone to listen.

12-24

We watched the ice age Christmas special today! I know what you're thinking, HOW? I thought the same thing, but then I called Ray and he told me that that's just a reproduction of the characters, and not to worry about it. Well it was really fun because of how they reacted to the reproductions' actions.

Crash was on the back of the couch, and Eddie was under him. I was in between Eddie and Sid, and Diego was on the far side of Sid. Buck was on the back of the couch a slight ways in between Sid and me.

"Ha, "Something about that mistletoe!" right guys?" Sid repeated, he leaned in towards Diego, who shoved him away, Sid ended up pushed into me, since we were all on one couch.

"Touch me and you're dead." Diego growled.

"Come on buddy, you know it's all in tradition! See, Suzy doesn't mind." Sid kissed me on the cheek, holding the mistletoe over us. I laughed and returned the kiss.

"Oh, I do!" Buck shoved Sid over to Diego.

"Come on now, boys. No roughhousing it's Christmas." I said in a whiny, yet warning tone.

"Does that apply to us?" Eddie asked, he and Crash were all tangled up in a knot already.

"Ugh… guess not." I answered, and the boys continued fighting.

"Hey look, Diego's playing with yarn!" My brother pointed out.

The real Diego blushed hard. "It happens to be twine, and it happens to be fun."

12-25

Christmas morning, we opened presents and got things all set up before we invited the guys over, which was my doing.

"Hey mom, can we invite the guys over?" I asked, tying the trash bag up.

"Why?" She asked.

"It's Christmas." I answered. Mom gave me "the look" and a groan, "Just humor me, would you?" I asked, "They're family, that's what this day's all about. Besides, Ray's probably getting them together anyhow."

"Fine, they can come over once this mess is all cleaned up." Mom groaned, "But don't let Sid near the China, and don't let the twins roughhouse near the tree."

"Yay!" I jumped up and down and clapped, damn that made me think of Sophie. "I'll fix up the rooms." I used the magic necklace to tidy up the house, and then blew on it like it was a smoking gun.

"Why can't you do that every day?" Mom asked.

"Because I can't use the forget-me stick on Anthony every day." I joked, he wasn't in the room.

"Well, use that thing to get your buddies over here so I can go back to bed." Mom told me, going back into her room.

"But Manny and Ellie are coming too!" I called after her.

"I'm tiered, you've got a good personality and a magic necklace, use them!" Mom called back.

I groaned really loud, just to make sure she knew I was not amused! Then I got to work, calling Ray and the others. Of course, they showed up two seconds after I'd called them. Literally. They were there in the time it would take you to snap your fingers, for a ninja to snap his fingers!

"Hey y'all!" I said as they entered, all wearing really big sweaters, and PJ pants. "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas my mammals!" Sid Called, running up the stairs last, well, him and Peaches.

"Hey, my Sloth! How's it?" I asked, "Merry Christmas."

"I'm great Suze, just getting used to this human body still." he almost tripped, "Now I'm top-heavy instead of having that beer-gut."

"Ha, I know how that is, I no longer have a flexible spine." I cracked my aching back, "Wanna dance-in?" I asked, smiling at the pair.

We all got to talking and laughing and eating, and being a family. Little Peaches was telling funny jokes, but I think mom took the prize.

"Okay, let's say I'm the director of the new ice age film." Mom started, "I decide that in this next one, Scrat does not get the nut, because we need to keep this series going. Well we took a vote with everyone in this film's cast and crew voted yes except one man, one pessimist. Now that one guy was Denis Leary, the voice of Tigey Wigey." Mom looked at Diego and smirked, "And I asked Denis, "Why Did You vote no, why were you the grouch?" and he told me, "I was staying in character.""

We all cracked up at that one, oh big time. Even Tigey Wigey laughed his head off at that one.

"God, Crystal, that was funny even to me!" Diego laughed.

"Asia told me to say it ahead of time." Mom said… busted ^^

"Why ya picking on me?" Diego asked.

"Because everybody already picks on Sid!" I laughed.

"An excellent point!" Sid added.

"Sid? I thought his name was Ricky?" Anthony said, entering the room.

"Shit!" I zapped him with the magic necklace, making him forget the last twenty seconds of history.

"Nice shootin' Tex." Ray commented.

I once again blew on the necklace like a smoking gun.