CHAPTER TEN
THE PRE-PARTY EVENTS
Viola was standing over a still slumbering Duke and keep reaching over and shaking his shoulder.
"Come on Duke, you said you wanted to come with me, so wake up." Viola said reaching over to shake him a little harder.
A mumble came from Duke but Viola couldn't understand what he said, so she leaned in closer and kissed him on the cheek and said, "Fine lazy you stay in bed, I'll be back in an hour."
Viola turned to walk out of the room when she felt Duke grab her hand and pulled her back into the bed.
"How about we just stay in bed today and sleep?" Duke said in while letting out a big yawn.
"But you seemed so energetic about coming with me yesterday." Viola said snuggle closer to Duke.
"Yeah well that was yesterday and today is today. Come on tomorrow we are heading back to the school and back to a regular schedule and I promise you and me will go jogging everyday rain or shine. But for today we should enjoy our vacation." Duke said never opening his eyes.
"Fine, we'll do it your way, but this means we have to do double the distance for the rest of the week." Viola told Duke, while kicking off her sneakers and pulling her legs completely into the bed.
"You are cruel you know that." Duke said kissing Viola on her forehead.
"I know, I pride myself in that." Viola said.
"OK sleep time, its only five thirty." Duke said pulling the blankets back up around them.
Viola not ready to go back to sleep said, "So you're gonna be a big brother?"
Realizing Viola was not ready to go to sleep and that she probably wasn't going to let him go back to sleep either, Duke opened his eyes a crack and said, "Apparently."
"How could you not know that your mother was pregnant?" Viola asked.
"Well you know how your mother wants to be part of every aspect of your life, regardless of your feelings. Well my parents are the opposite. They chose to be outsiders of every part of my life, they shipped me off to private school the minute I was old enough. Besides that I'm lucky if I get a call on my birthday or Christmas. Though I'm sure if I do anything important in my life they'll be right there beside me pretending to be the glowing proud parents." Duke said.
Taking Duke's hand in her's, Viola said, "I'm sorry. But just think you're gonna be a big brother no matter what."
"Yeah, with an age gap of almost eighteen years." Duke pointed out, "I'm sure my parents would have called me with the birth announcement or the Christening."
"So are you going to call your parents and talk to them about all of these." Viola asked.
"Probably not, no point in trying to create a relationship with them that will never be there." Duke said then added, "But I can't wait to see if I'm gonna have a little brother or sister. Definitely gonna corrupt them from birth."
Laughing, Viola said, "You're gonna be a great big brother."
"Yeah we'll see." Duke said then added, "Can we go back to sleep now, gonna be a big night tonight with the party and all."
"Fine, but you owe me a jog." Viola said.
"What ever makes you go back to sleep." Duke said.
Viola brought her head up onto Duke's shoulder and pulled the blanket around her tightly and went back to sleep.
A couple hours later Viola and Duke were still in bed sleeping when they were rudely awoken by Toby throwing Viola's soccer ball at them in bed.
"How can the two most energetic people be the most laziest people on vacation." Toby asked laughing.
"We're not lazy, well at least I'm not lazy, I'm the one who gets up every morning to go running before practice. Duke here was the one that wouldn't let me get out of bed today." Viola said stretching out, wondering like she did every morning why it was easier to get up at five to go for a run then it was to get up at ten.
"Yeah well they don't call it a vacation because you follow your normal patterns, they call it a vacation to get a break away from all of that." Duke pointed out.
"So who conned you into coming and walking us up?"
"Well the girls did it yesterday, so all us guys were going to do it, but Sebastian chickened out because he was worried he was going to walk in on something," Toby started to explain when Viola cut him off saying, "And that's when you volunteered to run up here and wake us up, right?"
"Well you know." Toby said. "Olivia made breakfast, powers back on, and we have to start getting ready for the party, I told people they could start arriving right after lunch."
"Get out and we'll get up." Viola told Toby.
Turning around to leave, Toby said, "You got ten minutes to get down here or all the food will be gone."
Once the door was closed Viola rolled over and buried her face in Duke's chest and said, "Do we have to?"
Duke started to laugh at Viola's reluctance to get out of bed. "How can you be so gun ho about getting up to go jogging at first sun light but to get up at a normal person's time we have to drag you out of bed."
"Well I go jogging to stay in shape so I can keep up with you guys. Getting up now has no big importance there fore no motivation to get out of bed." Viola explained.
"Viola you don't have to worry about falling behind us guys, you are better then a lot of them out there. Besides I wouldn't let you fall behind." Duke said.
Sitting up in the bed, Viola said, "That would get me lots of friends on the team. Date the captain, get special privileges."
"You know I wouldn't go that far. Dating the captain means you get to work out with him all the time so there wold be no way that you would be able to slip."
"So I can stop jogging and just get some private lessons with the captain, you know what I think that sounds better." Viola said smiling.
"So no more five am jogging adventures?" Duke asked.
"No there will still be jogging adventures, it just means we are going to be in twice as good shape as the rest of the team." Viola said smiling.
"I had a feeling you were going to say that." Duke said.
"Well seeing you have gotten me all figured out, what am I going to say now?"
"Its time to get up and get downstairs before all the good food is gone and we are stuck eating toast." Duke said.
"Actually I was thinking that we should hide out here all day, but I am pretty hungry so I guess we should get going." Viola said jumping out of the bed and grabbing a sweatshirt off the floor and quickly pulled it on over her tank top. However as soon as she had it on she remembered the letter she found yesterday. Looking over at Duke she asked in a serious voice, "You don't have any secrets from me do you?"
Smiling, though on the inside Duke was a little nervous feeling in the pit of his stomach due to the letter he believed was from Olivia. "Is this your own private version of truth or dare?"
"Just curious." Viola said, then asked again, "Do you?"
"Do you have any secrets from me?" Duke asked back, remembering the time she had kept the problem with Justin a secret till things started to get out of control.
"You know I tell you everything." Viola said smiling though the minute she said that the conversation with Andrew came back to her, she didn't completely understand what he was talking about. She was worried that he was talking about her, but they didn't have time to finish their conversation.
"Don't worry, I tell you everything." Duke said reassuringly, though part of him felt guilty that he didn't tell her about the letter.
Viola tried to smile back at him though she knew he was lying, as much as she wanted to call him on it, she wasn't ready to hear what he said, no matter what it was.
"Let's go get something to eat." Viola said.
On the way out of the door Duke took Viola's hand and turned her around to face him, leaned down and gently kissed her before saying, "I love you Vi, you know that right."
Smiling, feeling a little more reassured, "I know, love you too."
Duke and Viola got downstairs and sat down with everyone else and started to eat what was left of the pancakes that Olivia had made for breakfast.
"So Toby when exactly did you tell these people you invited to show up?" Sebastian asked through a mouth full of pancakes.
"Any time after lunch, figured they could go swimming, lots to do." Toby said, then said, "Throw me another pancake man."
"That is like your twentieth pancake, don't you think you've had enough?" Olivia asked tossing another pancake that landed perfectly on Toby's plate.
"When did you tell your band to get here?" Duke asked Sebastian while covering his pancakes in syrup.
"They should be getting here a little bit before supper, though I told them we probably won't set up until later on this evening and play when the party really gets going." Sebastian said.
"Well at least the weather cleared up." Kia pointed out, "Now we can go swimming, have fires, have the band out on the patio."
"Perfect for another soccer game." Viola said smiling.
"Viola seriously you need a hobby." Olivia said.
"Come on, guys seriously, it would be lots of fun. The rest of the team is coming, plus some of the girls from my old team. It could make for an interesting match." Viola said.
"She really is helpless isn't she?" Olivia asked Sebastian.
"Your telling me. I don't think I've heard anything but soccer since she was old enough to talk and I was old enough to listen." Sebastian said.
Rolling her eyes, Viola said, "Guys I don't have issues, I have goals."
"Yeah like the ones she's always kicking into the nets." Andrew said.
"That would be balls smart ass." Viola said.
"Ok guys you need to calm down." Olivia said, "Vi you can do what ever you want."
"I always do." Viola said.
"So did you invite the cheerleading squad?" Andrew asked Toby.
"Of course, who do you think I am." Toby said laughing, "They will be here at supper time and they are looking for a big party."
"So why didn't any of these people that you've invited have other plans for the long weekend?" Olivia asked.
"They did, but they changed them to take part in our party. When your popular." Toby said with a shrug like it was nothing.
"He would like to think he is popular, but really everyone just wants to come out here and party and Toby gave them an unsupervised place to do it at." Sebastian said.
"Does your Dad have any patio lights?" Yvonne asked Viola and Sebastian.
"Not to sure what he's got but you never know with him." Sebastian said.
Viola shrugged, "I don't know, but we should take a look and start getting this place party ready."
"And what do we have to do to make this place party ready?" Andrew asked.
"Bring up the rest of the chairs from under the cabin for people to sit on." Sebastian said, "And probably lug out some more wood and make a couple fire pits for people to have their bomb fires at."
"We should probably move this table against the wall and put the food there for people who want it. Also we should move this furniture out of here or against the walls to make more room for people." Olivia said glancing around the livingroom, "And maybe we should keep these doors open instead of always having people opening and closing them."
"How many people are we expecting anyways?" Viola asked.
"Anywhere's between thirty and fifty people." Toby said.
"You want to say that again." Viola said a little shocked by how many people were coming.
"Well there's the soccer team, and any of them who have girlfriends are bringing them, then the cheerleading team, the band, the girls from the Cornwall team that Kia and Yvonne invited, then there is all the people those people will be bringing. Doesn't take long to get that many people coming." Toby quickly explained.
"I can't believe the girls from Cornwall are actually coming." Viola said.
"Well any excuse to go to a party I guess." Kia said laughing.
"Ok well we'd better get to work before everyone starts showing up and we forget about the whole getting ready part." Sebastian said.
Viola, Kia, Yvonne and Olivia volunteered to move the chairs up and move the furniture around while the guys went out and started to build some fire pits. It didn't take long for the girls to do their part seeing they divided it up and got to work right away. When they were finished they all went on a hunt around the house to find some patio lights and amazingly enough found some in the basement amongst all the other odds and ends that Viola's father had.
They quickly set them up around the patio but didn't bother plugging them in yet cause it wasn't dark enough to even have any effect.
Looking down on the beach they saw the guys were carrying on more then they were working so the girls decided to make sure the food was already to go, and brought down lots of bowls for the chips and brought out the paper plates.
"Ten to one this place is going to be full of alcohol before the night is out." Kia said.
"True but the guys won't go to crazy cause the coach will kill us all on Tuesday if we are still hung over and sick. Even worse if we get hurt out here doing something stupid. But its to be expected that people will be bringing liquor. Party with no parents, out in the middle of no where's, just a given." Viola said.
"I was talking to Paul, he said he'll be back around three to help us finish getting ready." Kia said.
"I can't believe he got called back to the salon for an 'emergency'" Yvonne said doing her finger quotes when she said emergency.
"Pretty much someone screwed up and he had to pay for it." Viola said, "At least he's getting to come back for the party, though he did miss fun male torture and last nights game."
"Gonna be fun with him, its just not a party without Paul." Kia said. "Though usually he is the one talking us out of all the crazy acts that we try to participate in."
"Probably because he is trying to keep us out of jail." Viola said laughing, "Like the time when we were fifteen and we got the brilliant idea to steal my Dad's new Porsche and go for a spin around town. Well Paul somehow actually convinced us that it was a very bad idea and that we should maybe avoid getting a criminal record until we are at least sixteen."
"I so remember that day to, we were so close." Kia said.
"And when we turned sixteen your Dad decided he was going to sell it and we never got the chance again." Yvonne said.
"You guys were going to steal a car?" Olivia asked.
Shrugging her shoulders like it was nothing, Viola said, "Its not technically stealing, it belonged to my Dad, so technically its called borrowing. But we've done lots of other things that haven't gotten us caught."
"Remember that party we through the weekend your mom went away and we got your entire place trashed." Yvonne said laughing.
"Sebastian was so mad at me." Viola said.
"Why what did you do to Sebastian?" Olivia asked.
"Um, well I was trying to keep his room off limits but someone must have gotten in there cause when Sebastian got the next day and was lecturing me on having a party without him when he went into his room and found out someone puked in his bed." Viola said.
"Your kidding me right?" Olivia asked.
"No," Viola said, "he was not impressed at all, and it took a lot of convincing to keep him from telling Mom on me."
"Those Cornwall guys are hard to control." Kia said.
"At least we are switching them up for the Illyria boys. Hopefully they are easier to control." Yvonne said.
"Let me guess Paul tried to talk you out of the party." Olivia asked.
"Well he tried, so we told him we canceled it, and invited him over and told him when he saw all the people that they just didn't get the memo." Viola said laughing.
"He may not admit it but he had fun." Kia said, "I think he likes our outrageous ideas, he just won't admit it to us."
"Maybe we should start getting ready for the party, we don't want to wait till a bunch of people arrive to take off to start getting ready." Olivia suggested.
"Yeah we probably should start, we still have to make Viola over like we promised we would do." Kia said smiling evilly.
"Fine lets get this torture over with." Viola said.
Yvonne ran out onto the patio and yelled to the guys that they would be upstairs getting ready, then came back inside and they all headed upstairs.
Once up in Kia and Yvonne's room they started to pull out a million pairs of clothes, when Viola finally said, "Can you pick something I can easily wear over my bathing suite cause we'll most likely be going swimming."
"Good point." Yvonne said. "Maybe we should all put our suites on first then we'll work over that."
The girls all quickly went into their own rooms, with Kia going into the bathroom and quickly put on their suites, then returned to the bedroom.
"Viola we figure something simple but girlie for you." Yvonne said tossing Viola a white cotton skirt that was extremely short and deep green halter top. Viola quickly pulled it on over her bikini and said, "What do you think?"
"Perfect, especially for the heat that today seems to be pouring out." Olivia said. "Plus that green really brings out your eyes."
"Ok lets get her hair and make up done." Kia said, "Before she escapes."
"Don't you guys have to get dressed too?" Viola asked hoping to escape the tortures of getting her hair and makeup done.
"You are getting done up first." Olivia said.
Kia quickly got to work on Viola's hair, while Yvonne did her make up and Olivia painted her finger nails and toe nails green to match her shirt. Kia did a simple high pony tale due to Viola most likely going out in the water and there was no point in trying to do anything fancier with it. Yvonne pretty much followed that same principle with her make up keeping it very natural, but with Viola usually wearing only eyeliner it still made a big difference.
"Done." the three exclaimed as they backed away to examine their handiwork.
Viola went to check herself out in the mirror and turned around and said, "This is weird, but not bad."
Yvonne whispered to Kia and Olivia, "Its only weird cause there isn't a layer of dirt on her face from playing out in the soccer field."
Kia and Olivia started to laugh, and Viola said, "I heard that."
"That would be the point." Yvonne said laughing.
The other three girls quickly pulled on their outfits and did a quick makeup and hair job then headed down stairs. When they got to the bottom they saw Sebastian answering the door and a crowd of guys and a couple girls all walked in.
Viola went up to the guys who she recognized were from the soccer team.
"Wow that must be Viola's twin sister." Mark one of the guys from the soccer team said after most of the guys had to take a second glance to recognize Viola.
"No wonder Duke hides you under those uniforms." Jeff said laughing.
"His girlfriend is really hot." Adam said checking Viola out.
Olivia, Kia and Yvonne all started to laugh and Viola said, "So you guys didn't think I was hot before?"
"You were just one of the guys before." Mark said.
"And now..." Viola said then added, "I'm hot."
Just then Duke walked in with Toby and Andrew, and they went over to the guys and did they guy style hugs and did hellos and did some quick hello to the guys girlfriends.
"Dude you never told us that your girlfriend was hot." Jeff said to Duke.
"You guys better shut up, Viola may hear you." Duke said going up to Viola and wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
Elbowing Duke in the stomach, Viola said, "Careful or your girlfriend may dump you and you'll go back to your pitiful existence of not being able to get a date on Saturday night."
"Ouch dude, that there is the Viola we all know." Adam said laughing.
"Brutal honest, sucks doesn't it." Viola said. "Come on girls lets go."
Viola motioned for the guys girlfriends to come with them.
"Let the party begin."