After school, I drove home and packed my night time essentials in a small duffle bag. Looking at the note Grace gave me after lunch, I searched for directions to her house. She had told me she really enjoyed having lunch with my friends and I; hoping she can eat with us more often. When I told Jerry that she said that, he was pretty stoked.
"Where do you think you're going?" My mom stood by my bedroom door.
"My friend's sleepover, I'll be home by tomorrow." I zipped up my bag.
She raised an eyebrow, "Who said that you can go?"
I shrugged, "Me. I said so."
"Just be home exactly at 3:15 tomorrow." She said simply.
"Yeah, I will. Any reason why?"
"I'll let you know tomorrow." My mom then walked away.
What the hell was that?
"I'm so glad you could make it. You were the only one who could on such short notice." Grace laughed when she opened the door.
"Was this some emergency sleepover or something?" I asked, stepping inside Grace's gorgeous house.
"No, I just felt like having a sleepover all of a sudden." She said simply.
"You have a gorgeous house by the way." I told her.
Grace smiled, "Thanks. I'll show you where you can put your stuff."
She led me to a huge room, with a few couches and a giant flat screen TV. By the walls, there were shelves filled with a ton of DVDs. On the ground was a rolled up sleeping bag and snacks.
"Hey, who said we were going to be sleeping tonight?" I joked.
Grace laughed, "I think we should just have a movie marathon."
I nodded in agreement, "Most definitely."
She helped lay out the entire room to make it comfortable to lay on.
"Anything you want to drink?" Grace asked me.
"Water, thanks."
All of a sudden, a voice startled Grace, "GRACIE HONEY IS YOUR FRIEND HERE?"
I watched as Grace rolled her eyes, "Yes, she's here."
At the corner of my eye, I noticed a tall auburn haired lady dressed in a maxi dress running towards me. I was soon welcomed by her arms, "Welcome to our home, hun."
I wrapped my arms around her, "Thanks, I really appreciate it. You have a lovely home."
She stepped back and gave me a smile, "Thank you." Grace's mom then turned to Grace, "I'll be leaving for the party with daddy soon, don't ruin the house okay?"
Grace sighed, "I won't, stop being so worried."
She hugged Grace tightly, "I love you."
"I love you too." Grace replied.
Ah, nothing like mother-daughter love. I walked to the shelves, admiring the hundreds of DVDs she had.
"You have so many DVDs." I said, pointing out the obvious.
She laughed, "I know. My family and I are kind of huge movie addicts. So what's going to be the first pick of the night?"
My eyes scanned the whole section; I then came across my all-time favourite movie, 27 Dresses. I picked it up and turned around grinning.
Grace started jumping up and down, "I love this movie! Wait, before you do that, I want to address something to you…"
I turned around, "Is it serious? Is it about me? I swear I didn't do it."
"It depends how you take it, Donna said she would 'swear revenge' on you because you took her 'precious Jack'" She told me.
I laughed and fell on the ground, "Swear revenge? Like make me look like a fool? Hurt me? She can barely hurt a fly."
Grace looked at me seriously, "She's done some pretty drastic things in the past. I wouldn't want to mess with her."
I rolled my eyes, "Jack is just a friend okay? She's got nothing to worry about. Maybe the fact that Jack doesn't want anything to do with her."
Grace put her hands up defensively, "I'm just saying. Whatever you say, Kim."
I ignored her remark and popped the movie in and hit play.
"Tess is such a b-" Grace started.
"Shh, this is her speech." I hit Grace with a cracker.
I watched the slideshow in the movie with pictures of Tess and George. I was glad Jane finally did what she wanted to do.
"But she looks so hurt now." Grace changed her mind.
I nodded, "Yeah, maybe she didn't deserve all of that."
"She lied though! Who lies just to get in a relationship?"
"Tess does." I laughed.
"Oh this is my favourite part. PEDRO!" Grace cheered.
We watched as Pedro announced that Tess has been paying him to clean George's apartment, making it amusing and hilarious.
"Okay, now I kind of pity Tess." I said as Tess came back into the scene, letting Jane know the wedding was off.
"She's still sucks, I'm not going to lie."
I shrugged, "Meh, AH KEVIN!" I pointed at the screen in excitement.
"Awe, he gave her a new phone." Grace awed.
"No don't walk away!" I screamed, nearly in tears.
"They were so perfect." She gushed.
"And poof, he's gone." I said sadly.
The movie goes on and gets to the final scene where Jane finally gets married to Kevin. This is when we just all mainly pay attention to Kevin because that's the best part of the wedding right?
"He looks hot." Grace said simply.
I laughed, "He has the 'that's my girl' look on his face."
After several moments of gushing over the ending, we pop in The Notebook.
The Next Morning
"Wake up!" A cheery voice intercepted me.
My eyes groggily opened, "What time is it?"
"It's time for school!" Grace shook me.
"No…" I rolled over, snuggling in my blanket.
"Yes!" Grace grabbed my arm and dragged me up, leading me to fall right back down.
"Give me a few more minutes." I covered my face with a pillow.
"There's food in the kitchen." My friend told me.
This was what motivated me to get up. I got up quickly and headed towards to the smell of delightful scrambled eggs.
"Good morning." Someone greeted me.
"Morning." I muttered, grabbing a plate with scrambled eggs, sausages and a breakfast sandwich.
Grace walked in with a smile on her face, "Food is always the motivation."
I nodded, "This is really good."
"Thank you." The person from earlier said to me.
"You're great." I smiled at him.
Grace laughed, "That's Patrick. He's our chef."
"Patrick like The Fault in Our Stars! Except you're a chef…" I trailed off.
He laughed, "Sure."
"Breakfast food leads me to what Hazel said, what makes breakfast food, breakfast food?"
Grace shrugged, "I don't know. Although, I am very curious."
"Right? This is like a life mystery of some sort." I ate my breakfast sandwich deep in thought.
After I was done, I packed my stuff up, recollecting the memories from last night. Grace and I managed to get through four movies before completely falling asleep. Screaming was involved and it was hilarious. If our lives were a reality show, it would be pretty amusing.
I may not have known Grace for that long, but it feels like I've known her for ages. I'm really glad to have a friend like her.
I drove home quickly right after school ended, just as my mother requested. I got home and searched for her.
"Mom?" I called out.
"In here." I heard her voice in the dining room.
I walked towards the sound of her voice and saw her, fumbling with a piece of paper.
"What's that?" I referred to the paper she was holding.
"It's a message from your father." She said simply.
"D-dad?" I stuttered.
"Yes, it's shocking since you haven't seen him in a while. He's going to be back in a few weeks. I want you to go with me to pick him up." My mother said.
"M-me?"
"Yes, you." She laughed.
I smiled, "I would love to."
I couldn't believe I was going to see him. I don't care if he's my temporary father, but I missed having a father figure in my life.
This is all the stuff I wanted to include before I actually start an actual new chapter. NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE IN JACK'S POV I'M SO EXCITED. Questions? Concerns?
OKAY CAN WE ALL TALK ABOUT WASABI FOREVER AND HOW HARD I CRIED. THE LAST SCENE JUST BROKE MY HEART.
Also, TFIOS TRAILER HOLY I'M NOT OKAY. I'VE READ THE BOOK LIKE THREE TIMES AND IT'S AMAZE BEANS. THE TRAILER WAS FILLED WITH QUOTES FROM THE BOOK AND YOU HAVE NO CLUE HOW HAPPY THAT MADE ME. Anyways, if you haven't read it, you should. TFiOS stands for The Fault in Our Stars, if you didn't know.
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