Lionblaze Stole the Stars

Chapter 10: Less Then 3 is Just a Tease

Hollyleaf awkwardly picked at her food, glancing up at Tigerheart to see if he noticed the way Tigerstar was glaring at her. He didn't. Hollyleaf sighed and shoved another fork full of roast beef into her mouth.

"There's a dog in my soup!" Tigerstar suddenly bellowed. Hollyleaf jumped in surprise.

"Don't be weird," Flametail, Tigerhearts brother, snapped. Tigerstar grumbled something inaudible and packed even more roast beef into his already full mouth.

"We're not eating soup," Tigerheart said flatly.

"I'm aware," Tigerstar growled. Tigerheart sighed and decided not to say anything.

Meanwhile

"Less then three is just a tease!" Lionblaze shrieked out the window.

"Will you stop that?" Jayfeather snapped. "It sounds really suggestive."

"No it doesn't," Lionblaze said defensively.

"Where did you hear that, anyway?" Jayfeather asked.

"It's from a song I heard off Cloudtails ipod," Lionblaze explained. "Id sing the rest for you but I think that would be inappropriate."

"I can imagine," Jayfeather sighed. "Anyways, I've been meaning to ask you, what are you getting Hollyleaf for her birthday? It's tomorrow."

"I was gonna put a bow on my head and jump out of a cake," Lionblaze grinned.

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life," Jayfeather said. "What use is that gonna be?"

"I dunno. I just want to see the look on her face."

"I don't know what to get her," Jayfeather sighed. "She already like, has everything."

"Get Cloudtail to pole dance for her."

"What? No," Jayfeather turned bright red. "That would be ... really weird."

"How old is she turning, anyway?" Lionblaze asked, looking not even slightly embarrassed that he had forgotten how old his own sister was.

"She'll be twenty one," Jayfeather replied.

"Oh okay, that's what I thought," Lionblaze lied. "How about we throw her a surprise party?"

"We party all the time," Jayfeather grumbled.

"I know," Lionblaze said happily. "But this could be different! We can make it the biggest fucking party we've ever had!"

"That would be a good idea if we had any friends here," Jayfeather pointed out. "In case you've forgotten, we live in New York now, not friking Calgary where we knew everyone."

"I'll take care of the people," Lionblaze grinned.

"Okay... what can I do?"

"I'll make you a list," Lionblaze said, scribbling down something on a piece of paper. When he was done, he thrust it at Jayfeather. Jayfeather didn't even bother reading it, he just shoved it in his pocket. "You better get at least twenty people to come," Jayfeather said. "And fast. The party's tomorrow night and it's already six in the evening right now."

"I'm on it," Lionblaze said, voice serious and businesslike as he picked up the phone. Jayfeather sighed and left the room, wondering just how the heck they were gonna be able to pull this off before tomorrow without Hollyleaf finding out.

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Jayfeather looked down at the list Lionblaze had given him and inwardly groaned. His writing was so messy it was barely readable. Jayfeather squinted his eyes and after a solid four minutes, he was able to read the list.

1. Alcohol, and lots of it.

2. Cigarettes!

3. Cake (not some shitty one from Safeway. No one likes those.)

4. Lots of munchies :3

5. If you randomly see someone you know while buying these items, ask them to come to le party.

Okay, Jayfeather thought to himself. Might as well get this over with. He walked into the nearest gas station he could see, which was Chevron. He grabbed six bags of every kind of chips and brought them up to the counter. The guy working looked at him disapprovingly.

"I'll also need two cartons of Export A Golds," Jayfeather snapped, not caring that the guy looked very annoyed at him already. "And one pack of Canadian Classics."

"Okay," the guy hissed, pulling out the requested cigarettes and placing them next to the chips. "That'll be 256.53$ please."

"I'll use my debit card," Jayfeather said, wondering just how it was possible to spend that much money on chips and smokes.

"You having a party?" a voice behind Jayfeather said. Jayfeather turned around to see who was talking to him and nearly died.

The most beautiful human being Jayfeather had ever seen stood before him.

"Uh, yeah," Jayfeather stammered, racing to punch in his pin number into the machine at the same time. "It's my sisters birthday."

"Ah I see," the boy smiled, then he lowered his voice so the cashier guy wouldn't hear him. "Would I be able to bum a smoke off you?" he whispered.

"Uh, sure," Jayfeather said, mentally kicking himself for sounding so eager. "But only if you help carry this stuff out to my car."

The boy smiled his agreement and picked up half of Jayfeathers bags. When they got out to the car, the boy whistled, impressed. "This is your car?" he asked.

"Nah, it's my sisters. Lionblaze and I just borrow it, since we don't have a car." Or jobs, Jayfeather thought to himself. He was glad Hollyleaf made enough money for the three of them, and Cloudtail (being rich and all) helped quite a bit too.

"Interesting," the boy murmured. "Can we smoke in it?"

"Yeah," Jayfeather replied. "Hollyleaf tells us not to but in the end it's pointless cause she smokes in here all the time."

"I see," the boy said. "My name is Scourge, by the way."

Scourge.

What an ... interesting name, Jayfeather thought, not to sure what to think of it. "And I take it you're not old enough to buy smokes then, are you Scourge?" Jayfeather grinned. "Or else you would have bought a pack in the store."

"Yeap," Scourge sighed as he lit the smoke Jayfeather gave him. "But I'm pretty damn close though. I'm eighteen."

"Eighteen is pretty darned close to the age limit," Jayfeather pointed out.

"I know, I know."

They sat in silence for several minutes before Jayfeather spoke again. "What are you doing tomorrow night?" he asked.

"Nothing," Scourge said, a little sadly. "Why?"

"You should come to my sisters party," Jayfeather offered.

"That would be great," Scourge smiled kindly at him.

Jayfeather felt his heart start to beat faster in anxiety.

I just invited someone very attractive who is not Cloudtail to come drink with me, Jayfeather thought to himself, feeling slightly queasy.

I've done nothing wrong, so why do I feel so sick?