"Sophie!" I yelled, hot tears welling in my eyes. Sophie nearly tripped over herself getting out of the van. "Oh my god! Sophie!" I was crying tears of joy, sobbing in her arms, this would have to be my favorite day. The best day of my life. "Sophie! Oh, Sophie! I missed you so much!" I sobbed.

"Hey, hey, langirre." Sophie answered, looking at me, "I remember why I used to call you red! ...Dammit, girl, you went and cut your bangs again!"

"Oh my god! I thought you were dead." I stopped crying and looked at her. She was just as I had often thought she would, her emo hair, her sweet grin, her baby blue eyes. In terms of facial features, she resembled Alice from Twilight, only younger and definitely skinnier. She also had bigger eyes, and longer eyelashes.

"Didn't you read my letter?" Sophie smirked. "Jackal would've killed my ass had I stayed. Besides, at least I know about the humans... and how you and Buck are an item." she grinned slyly and winked at me.

I blushed, "Yeah, well... you know." I grinned back.

"Yeah, I know." Sophie winked again. "I heard you were almost preggers, like, twice!"

"Hell-to-da-yeah!" I said, "Buck and I tried to have kids, but then we died, and we became humans, and all that other bullshit." I smirked, "I know one thing, tonight we're going to a party."

"Oh yeah! That's my red! Getting' us into a party on my first day!" Sophie gave me a sisterly love fist-bump.

"Well, I see you have some catching up to do." Ray said, then began wheeling himself towards the back of the van.

"Wait," I pulled away from Sophie and went over to Ray, "thanks." I gave him a hug, a Sid style bear hug.

Ray turned very red and got one of those Goofy Goof grins; I wouldn't have been surprised if he went "Garsh, eyuck" ...if I spelled that wrong, sorry, just making it sound like the loony toons suggests. Anyways he wheeled himself towards the back once more and attempted to talk, but ended up just having the mind-reading chauffeur tell us to call him later.

Once they drove off, Sophie started giggling the words, "What was all that about?"

"I don't know, Bumble Bee, maybe it's 'cause he just got hugged by a Victoria's Secret angel." I laughed, "Or it might be that you're giggling like you're watching Comedy Central on a Jeff Dunham marathon."

Sophie laughed out loud, then gestured to Aunt Joanie, who we could clearly see from over the fence... She was dancing to Bad Romance by Lady Gaga. Have we discussed Aunt Joanie's dancing? No? Well she's good, but not very discreet about it. I laughed out loud with Sophie, until we were interrupted.

"Suzy cue, dearest heart? Whatever is the matter I heard you crying and-" I cut Buck off right there.

"Okay, first, before you say anything else..." I looked at the little foam wii remote baseball bat in his hand, "What were you gonna do with that? Wii remote 'm to smithereens?"

Buck blushed, "No, I just grabbed the first- OH MY GOD!" He noticed Sophie, "Sophie! We thought you were dead!" he paused, "Or, maybe you are dead and those berries I ate are turning on me." Buck looked pondering off into space. For a moment, I thought that might be it too.

"Yup, that's Buck all right." Sophie grinned slyly.

"Nope, I'm not seeing colors, so I do believe a hug is in order!" Buck went over and gave Sophie a huge bear hug, a Sid worthy bear hug. "God, you're in for a guild of crazy peeps in there." Buck pulled away and ushered us towards the door.

"Awww," Sophie whispered, "He studied your dialect!"

I mouthed, "I know right?!" and gave her a huge smile.