Author's Note: Sorry for more lateness, I wasn't home hardly all day! Hope this is decent!
Character(s): Jade and Cat
Pairing(s): Cade friendship
December 11th, 2011
"Jade, your stepmother and I are going out for the day."
"Fantastic. I'll text you when I start to give a flap."
Jade's father's jaw tightened in annoyance at his daughter and her facially pierced ways, but he said nothing in response as he and his latest wife walked out of the house, shutting the door behind them.
Like she needed their company. Or wanted it. She had three episodes of Celebrities Underwater to watch, and if there's one thing Jade actually enjoyed, it was watching idiot reality stars and has-been actors drown.
"Oooh, looks like the Kardashians just lost one of their twenty chizz for brains relatives," Jade chuckled to herself with something that could resemble a smile as she kicked one of her legs over the other. "Looks like plastic surgery doesn't function as a floatation device."
As another celebrity hopped into the water, who Jade figured must have been a housewife of wherever, her PearPhone let out a beep. She paused her program and rolled off the couch to get her phone off the coffee table. She had a new text, and she almost deleted it after she saw all the exclamation points and smiley faces.
New Message From Cat
hiiii! can i come over? i need to wrap xmas presents! :D
Xmas? Did anybody really still call Christmas 'Xmas'?
New Response To Cat
No.
Jade tossed her phone on the floor and, too lethargic to get back onto the couch, grabbed the remote and made herself comfortable on the carpeted floors as she started watching her show again. The housewife hadn't lasted long, since the moisture was starting to ruin her dye job or some nonsense Jade didn't care about.
Speaking of nonsense that Jade didn't care about, she got another text from a certain redhead.
New Message From Cat
why not? :c
Jade almost rolled her eyes, but quickly realized Cat couldn't see it. Or maybe her eye rolls were so intense, Cat could still sense them. That was entirely a possibility.
New Response To Cat
Because, I'm watching celebrities drown. Can't you wrap them at your house?
After that was sent, she realized she hadn't had any lunch, and her father sure as sherbet didn't make anything for her when he and his fluffy wife had lunch. That meant she had to make something herself.
Jade hated doing stuff.
She also hated starving to death.
She only made it halfway to the kitchen before she got another text from Cat.
New Message From Cat
well i would but when my brother sees wrapping paper, he thinks someones gonna wrap him up and sell him for Christmas, and I dont wanna freak him out. at least not until he has his special medicine.
After Jade walked over to the island and opened her dad's laptop, she pulled up the website for Omar's Pizza. Ordering herself some food meant she wouldn't have to actually cook it. And she memorized her dad's credit card number anyway.
But before she placed her order, she groaned and begrudgingly tapped out her response.
New Response To Cat
Fine. Bring Peppy Cola.
/ /
Jade heard the doorbell ring, and she almost thought it was the pizza guy, but she was pretty sure she wouldn't have heard the pizza guy giggling through the door.
Yay, Cat was there.
When she opened the front door, she was greeted by several boxes and about nine rolls of wrapping paper with two pairs of legs sticking out. "Hi!"
"Hey, Cat." Jade leaned against the doorway. "Did you bring the cola?"
A hand with a two liter of Peppy Cola stuck out of the present and paper wad. "Yep!"
Jade grabbed the bottle and stepped out of the doorway. "You can come in then."
The redhead waddled in and after dropping her stuff on the living room couch, she spun around and grinned at her best friend. "Thanks for letting me come over!"
"Whatever." While Cat got prepped for gift wrapping by spreading out everything she needed on the floor, Jade walked into the kitchen to pour herself a glass of cola.
Cat rolled out some paper and placed the boxed gift she got for her father onto it. Before she had a chance to cut the paper, she heard furious bubbling coming from the flat screen TV mounted on the wall in front of her. She looked up and was horrified by what she saw. "Aw. Poor Corey Feldman…"
Jade came back into the room soon enough, holding two glasses of Peppy Cola. She sat down on the couch and placed the other glass on the coffee table where Cat could reach it. "Here."
Cat gratefully smiled and asked, "Can I have a bendy straw?"
"We don't have straws, bendy or non."
"Poo."
Jade was almost relaxed, but the doorbell rang just as she found her permanent but spot on the couch. "Ugh. I hate exerting energy."
Everyone does. Jade knew it. If they didn't, they were just weird.
She sat her drink down, walked past Cat and opened the door. An acne ridden teenage boy held out her pizza. "You paid for this online, right?"
"Uh huh."
"… Don't I get a tip?"
"Stop washing your face with chicken fat." With one flick of the wrist, Jade slammed the door in his face.
She grabbed the box with both hands and dropped it on the coffee table. "Ooooh, pizza!" Cat exclaimed, looking up from taping her dad's gift. "Can I have some?"
"If I eat it all myself, I'm going to gain five hundred pounds, so sure."
"Yay!" Both girls took a slice and dug in, and Cat decided to sit with Jade on the couch. "I love Omar's pizza!"
Jade shrugged. "It's not terrible."
Sheloved Omar's Pizza.
But she also hate saying that she loved things, so that was that.
Jade looked at the plethora of presents Cat had managed to carry in. "What up with all the gifts?"
"It's Christmas!"
"… So?"
Cat nibbled on her pizza and said, "Christmas is the time of year you give presents to everyone you love!"
"Yeah, but there are like eight presents there. I don't think I eventalk to that many people."
Cat laughed and hopped off the couch to point at the boxes that contained her gifts. "I got a present for my mom, dad and brother, Tori, Trina, Robbie, Andre, and Beck!" She bounced on her knees, giggling like an ecstatic little girl.
"… Oh." Jade took a bite of her pizza. "Uh, okay."
Jade knew Cat was forgetful, but she wouldn't have forgotten to mention her, would she? There were only enough boxes for the people she listed, anyway… Jade didn't throw around relationship labels around much with anyone except Beck, but Cat was the closest thing she had to a best friend. Wouldn't she have gotten her a gift?
If Jade didn't know any better, she would have thought her feelings were hurt.
Good thing she knew she didn't have those.
But seriously, she got Trina a gift and not her? Trina was barely even a person!
As Jade gnawed on her pizza some more, Cat started wrapping another one of the white boxes, which had Robbie written on it in permanent marker. "Yeah, these gifts were pretty easy to find… The last one's going to take a little longer."
"Who's that one for? Your imaginary friend?"
"No! You, silly face!" Cat shook her head and started snipping some metallic wrapping paper. "Leroy and I agreed not to exchange gifts this year."
… Oh. That tiny feeling in the bottom of Jade's chest that totally wasn't sadness disappeared. Good.
And now she didn't have to throw Cat's rabbit fur purse in the fireplace.
An underwater shriek made both girls look back at the television. Cat looked like she was ready to cry and Jade looked disturbingly content. "No, not Dave Coulier!"
Jade shook her head, a satisfied look on her face as she finished off the crust. "Looks like there'll never be a Full House reunion.