A/N- WARNING: This chapter has some strong language in the form of name-calling, but it is in playful fun, at least between the girls it is.
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 6:45 a.m. :
"Ugh!" I moaned turning off the annoying alarm. Time to get up and hit the gym before it gets too busy with the other guys. I didn't feel like getting up though. I flopped back down on the bed with my arms stretched across the bed and slowly began drifting back to sleep. Suddenly, for no reason, my eyes popped wide open and I sat up. Still tired, but I needed to get up. "Ooh." I breathed in sharply at the cold floor beneath my bare feet. "Usually I wear socks to bed, why didn't I last night?" I asked myself shivering a bit. "Hate the cold." I muttered grabbing some clothes to change into for a work-out. Changed and headed down to the gym, I thought no one would be in there, but Jared was in there.
"Hey." I smiled.
"Hey yourself." he smiled back. "What cha doing up so early?"
"Workout." I sighed getting ready to stretch. "I usually get up early, but with Kelly's birthday…bashes my sleep pattern is all screwed up."
"It was her birthday? When?" he asked making light conversation.
"It was this past Saturday, we went out Monday night. Then on top of that last Tuesday was my birthday, so that also contributes to the weird sleep pattern lately." I explained bending over reaching for my toes.
"Well happy belated birthday. How old does that make ya now?" he drawled out.
"I'm 21." I smiled standing back up and right back down for the stretch.
"And Kelly?" he asked.
"She's 24, but acts as if she's still a teenager at times." I laughed standing back up.
"Don't we all." he laughed, then turned serious. "You feeling better with whatever happened the other night?"
"Yeah, I'm good." I said genuinely. "Just someone being a jerk-off, but it's all sorted out."
"Good… Uhh, so I hear you have a sister." he smiled.
"Yeah, Steph, she's back home in PA." I said getting ready for some cardio.
"She's a photographer right? What type stuff does she like to photograph?" he asked interested.
"Uh-huh. She mostly does scenery, animals, and some with actual people for her studio. Purchased a studio about… I think it was…eight months ago. She got published on the front page of New York Times two months after that and since has been busy with everyone wanting her business." I gushed. "I know it's a mouthful, but I'm her big sis so I'm allowed to brag about her success." I said proudly.
"I'm sure that she brags about her big sis as well." he laughed. "Well, it was nice talking to you. See ya around."
He left and I was all alone in the gym for a total of 30 minutes, when Cody and Ted walked in joking around with one another. Like nothing happened yesterday.
"Men." I mumbled to myself stepping off of the elliptical and towards the low row machine.
"Morning Amanda." Cody said sitting at the machine next to mine.
"Morning Co-Rho." I smiled at him and started my reps. "Ted." I nodded as he sat on the other side of me.
"I'm gonna call you smiley." Ted teased.
"If you call me smiley, then I'm going to call you jackass." I responded between reps.
"And that's different from the norm how, smiley?" he stated logic.
"Jackass." I replied laughing.
"We were thinking about going out tonight for our last night here, wanna come?" Cody asked keeping up his pace in his reps, concentrating on something on the other side of the room.
"Yeah." I agreed with a nod.
"Good." Ted clapped letting the bars go on the machine he was at. "We're having fun tonight! No, clubs or bars though. We're goin'…"
"Well then what are we going to do?" I asked stopping my reps abruptly.
"Oh gee, I don't know. Maybe get drunk and jump off of Mount Rushmore with no gear." Ted replied sarcastically and I made a face at him sticking out my tongue.
"Now look at who needs to grow up." Cody laughed, pausing his reps for a brief moment.
"Shut up." I retorted glaring at him, turned back to Ted, "What are we doing?"
"Some of the other divas were talking about this party down by this lake about 20 miles outside the city limits. It's a super secret party going down for Kelly that Vince and the rest of the roster planned for her." Ted explained.
"Awesome more drunken moments for all of you to put in the record books." I moaned resuming my reps.
"Guess who's the designated driver tonight?" Ted asked Cody pointing to me, smirking evilly.
"It's always either me or Charlie that is the designated driver." I glared at him.
Ted laughed me off.
"You're a freaking jerk." I retorted leaning as far back as I could without falling off of the seat on the machine.
"Back bothering you, again?" Cody asked.
"Yeah, fell asleep on the couch last night watching TV curled up and woke up at about three in the morning, then officially went to bed. Tossed and turned for the next few hours and just about fell asleep when the damn alarm went off this morning." I explained sitting back up.
"Want me to crack your back again?" he asked.
"Remember where that got you the last time?" Ted glared.
We both glared at him, "Shut up."
"No." I said to Cody. "It's just sore."
"Is a back rub going to come into play soon?" Ted teased.
"You want to be castrated?" I asked glaring at him.
"Back to that?" he asked annoyed.
"You make the decision." I still glared.
"I'll keep my manhood." he stood up and went to the squat rack on the opposite side of the room from we were. Cody soon followed him over there and had what they thought was sneaky conversation while I pretended to listen to music on my iPod. Okay I did listen to music I just had the music turned down real low and just eavesdropped on their talk.
"Think Amanda might know that the party is also for her and Charlie as well as Kelly?" Cody asked Ted.
"Why? She didn't seem to connect the dots. Plus I played it off cool." he smirked at his friend in a loud whisper.
"Played it cool? You told her about it." Cody said through tight lips and looked back at me, but I'm better than good at pretending; so he thought I was listening intently to my music during my very concentrated workout.
Cody turned back to Ted, who was defending himself, "I held back that it was also for her."
"Whatever man." Cody said continuing his workout. "If she does find out, it's your fault."
'It's both your faults, idjits.' I giggled to myself. I finished my workout and left to shower feeling icky. The warm water helped my back a bit and was highly refreshing. "What else could I do today,…until tonight?" I mumbled to the emptiness of the living room. "Call Charlie." and called her.
"Bonjour, Meandering Mandy!" Charlie happily answered.
"Bonjour, mon amie! Comment ça va, Charlie?" I greeted her as my friend and asked how she was in French.
"Je suis moy bueno." Charlie answered mixing her French and Spanish saying she was very good. "What cha want?"
"I'm bored." I told her. "And I still have your sunglasses."
"Bring 'em over. We need to talk anyway." Charlie said excitedly.
"On my way." I said closing my room door.
"How soon will you be here?" she asked.
"Oh I don't know." I sighed.
She laughed, "Long night with Jensen?"
"No. Interesting thought though." I laughed and knocked on her door.
"Hold on someone's at my," she started running to the door. "…door. Get your ass in here." Charlie pulled me in.
"Nice to see you too." I said closing my phone as she shut the door.
"There's a party for us tonight at some nearby lake." Charlie smiled widely. "And for Kelly too."
"How'd you find out?" I asked smiling knowing the answer already.
"Cody and Ted are lame at keeping secrets. All I had to do was pretend I was actually watching TV while they talked over here in the kitchen. They can't whisper softly for the life of them." she laughed.
"I found out in the gym." I laughed as well.
"Did they give you any details?" she asked.
"No. Just that it was 20 miles outside city limits, was super secret, and that Vince and the rest of the roster planned it for Kelly. Knew something was up when they said 'and the rest of the roster' because we weren't involved in the planning."
"Well what are we going to wear?" she asked.
"We can't go in there wearing something too casual or too dressed up." I told her.
"Too dressed up is fun though." she smiled.
"Remember the other night when I got too dressed up?" I asked her.
"Fine you dress casual and I'll get too dressed up." she smiled holding her hands out as if to say 'I'm awesome'.
"You're such a girly-girl." I teased her.
"That makes you a tom-boy." she teased back.
"That makes me the girl next door, not the tom-boy." I tried to correct her.
"I don't know why you're complaining. Tom-boys get more action than the girls next door." she sighed getting comfy on her couch.
"Are you saying I'm a slut?" I asked her laughing under my breath while sitting on the chair to the side. This is what would normally start our friendly banter.
"Yeah, you're such a skank." she said all valley girl like.
"Oh. My. God. You are like…such a like…hoe. Like so bad." I retorted in my valley girl tone crossing my legs, looking to the ceiling shaking my head too much and over emphasizing my hand movements playing with my hair.
"Don't even go there. You're like…the queen hoe bee." she replied snapping her fingers at me.
"You're both hoes." Ted smiled as he and Cody walked in Charlie's door.
"What'd I tell you about knocking?" Charlie glared at him.
"You're not allowed to call us that." I yelled at him.
"Why not?" he asked slightly offended.
"Cause you are a guy." I said in a 'Duh' tone.
"And you're our friend." Charlie added in the same tone.
"Awww, you finally admitted it." Ted teased sitting closely beside her and pulling her close to him with an arm around her shoulders.
"Ugh." she pulled away from him and moved over to sit on the armrest of the chair I was sitting in not wanting to be near him. "You're a pig."
"Are we going to see some girl on…" Ted started smirking, but stopped when we both glared at him.
"Seriously I will castrate you." I fired at him angrily.
"I'm pretty sure you popped an ovary on that one." Ted huffed.
"New rule. Right here. Right now." I said sitting up straighter. "If you say something sexual or about our ovaries or anything of the sort we deem inappropriate, you have to do as we say."
"Nope." Ted said as if it was definite.
"Do you really want to test me on this little boy?" I glared the hardest I ever had at him.
"You're glare doesn't scare me." he smirked. I picked up a book off of the side table and chucked at him, hitting him in the head. "What the hell was that for?" he yelled.
"Being an dickhead!" I yelled back pissed off.
"Been thinking about it?" he smirked glaring.
I picked up another book and hurled at him. "You're a fucking asshole!"
"Stop throwing books at me!" he yelled standing up. I stood, picking up a glass ashtray and pitched it at him, but he ducked. "What the hell is wrong with you?" he shouted moving threateningly towards me.
"You!" I shouted matching his threatening movements, not about to back down now.
"You don't scare me one bit." he said through tight lips.
"You should be." I replied still staring him down, he backed off a bit.
"You on the rag?" he asked.
"Arrggghhh!" I charged him pushing him back onto the couch. "Why are you such a pig!"
"Whoa!" Cody pulled me away from him before I even had the chance to hit him.
"Let me go!" I shouted still trying to reach him to smack him.
"Calm down!" Cody yelled at me pinning my arms against my body.
"I will once he accepts the rule!" I said to Cody, but directed the yelling to Ted at the same time. Ted came closer and I tried to kick him, but Cody pulled me away.
"Huh, you think you're so tough." Ted shook his head.
"No, I know I'm tough." I shot back at him trying to uselessly kick him because Cody yet again pulled me away.
"Back off Ted! Or else I will let her go!" Cody warned him as he started towards us again.
"You would pick her over me? Even after she broke your heart?" Ted asked unbelieving.
"Yeah, you're being unbearable right now! That's why! Back off!" Cody warned him again.
Ted sat back down on the couch, "Not accepting the rule." he said stubbornly.
"You going to be civil?" Cody asked me, he let go when I nodded.
"So you mean to tell me the two of you can come up with a rule that if we call you 'cute' we have to do whatever you say, yet we can't make rule?" Charlie asked angrily.
"Yeah. Pretty much." Ted said blatantly.
"Ted." Cody scolded him.
"What?" Ted asked like he did nothing wrong, Cody glared harder at him. "Alright, it's a rule." he surrendered.
"Was that hard?" I asked him sitting back down on the chair, still pissed.
Ted smirked about to say something inappropriate, then decided against it when Charlie held up a lamp. "Yes."
Charlie and I smiled at each other, "Just for being such a jerk, you have to tell us all about this party tonight." I said.
They looked between each other wondering how to get out of this one, "Uhh, what are…" Cody stammered.
"Oh come on!" Charlie rolled her eyes, "You two are bad at keeping secrets. So tell us. We promise that we'll act surprised when we get to the party that was planned for us and Kelly."
"No." Ted tried to confirm it.
"Rule." I glared at him, then eyed another book on the table.
"Okay." he said quickly holding up his hands, "what do you want to know?"
"Casual or dressy?" Charlie asked.
"Casual dressy." Cody answered.
"Who is in on it?" I asked.
"Everyone." Ted answered.
"Is there going to be music?" Charlie asked.
"Yes." they both answered.
"Games?" Charlie posed.
"Yes." they smiled.
"Presents?" we asked smiling widely.
"What me and Cody aren't enough for the two of ya?" Ted smirked.
"No." we said and Charlie continued, "You two are like the bottom of the bottom of the cream crop."
"That hurts." Ted held his heart emotionlessly, shrugging it off.
"I can see the pain written all over your face with your crocodile tears." I mocked.
Cody laughed at us and Charlie asked, "What time does it start?"
"At 8, but we're leaving at 7:15." Cody answered.
"Can we bring dates?" Charlie asked smirking evilly.
"Yeah." Ted answered looking at Charlie, then over at me and Cody, and quickly back to Charlie.
'Please don't ask me. Please don't ask me. Please don't ask me.' I prayed that Charlie wasn't going to ask me what I thought she was going to ask me.
"Are you going to ask Jensen to come?" she asked smirking remembering my comment earlier.
'Crap.'
"Why should I? It's just for us and our friends." I smiled, more that I was able to back my way out of that one fast.
"And we can bring dates." Charlie added.
'Shut up Charlie!' I mentally shouted at her as I still smiled.
"Bring Jensen along. It'll be fun." Cody assured me with a quick nod and forced smile.
"No, it's just for us." I said pulling Charlie into a strong punishing hug for bringing up Jensen in front of Cody, "Plus, I want to spend some time with my best friends."
"No offence, but I don't want to spend time with you tonight." Charlie smiled devilishly.
"And who would you want to spend tonight with over your best friend?" I glared playfully at her.
"A friend." she smiled.
"Who?" me, Cody and Ted asked.
"A friend." she repeated sitting down on the side chair.
"Spill." I said still standing looking down at her.
She smiled goofily, "You're not going to believe this."
"Who?" I asked holding my hands out like 'get to the point here.'
"Jake." she smiled.
I turned to Cody and Ted with a WTF face.
"Who?" we all asked at the same time.
Charlie hung her head with a laugh, "Amanda I am surprised that you think you're the only one lucky enough to land a Winchester actor."
My jaw dropped, "What? Jake Abel?"
"Yep. Apparently he was supposed to be there too, but due to some scheduling conflicts he couldn't make it right away. I bumped into him yesterday and we kinda got to talkin'." she bit her lip excited about the entire situation.
"You bringing him along?" I asked.
"Yeah…, but only if you bring Jensen." she countered.
"No." I said quickly. "You bring Jake and I'll fly solo. Besides bringing two and not the other isn't fair."
"Bring one and not the other two isn't fair either." Charlie countered.
'Damn she's quick.' I thought to myself.
"You mean Jared?" Ted asked.
"So bring both." Charlie answered simply.
"NO!" I said surprised at her suggestion wanting her to just drop it.
"Your persona wouldn't have a problem with that." Charlie smirked.
"I'm not going into this as my persona." I retorted.
"Oh shut up and just bring them along." Ted tried to end the discussion.
"What are you two still doing here? Get lost." I said starting to shoo them out.
"Oh yeah, Jensen is waiting for you in the lobby. Said something about roast or something." Ted added like it was not a big deal at all.
"What?" I asked panicked, "Why didn't you tell me sooner?" I asked starting to the door hurriedly.
"Oh wait, no. He gave it to me and said see ya…sometime." Ted said like no big deal again. I turned, walked right up to him and punched his shoulder, "What is with the abuse?" he yelled at me bringing his hand to his shoulder.
"That's for not telling me." I yelled and started to leave once again.
"You like him don't you?" Ted smirked still rubbing his shoulder.
"I already told you I did." I said.
"No, before that was just as friends. Now,…*nods*… you really like him." Ted's smirk turned to a soft smile.
I hesitated a bit and swallowed nervously while fidgeting with my hands at my sides. "…Yeah." I said quietly and left. Phew, that's over. Wait did he really give it to Ted. I reopened Charlie's door, "Did he really give it to you?"
"Nah, he's waiting downstairs." Ted said, I narrowed my eyes trying to figure if he was being genuine. "Go get your roast." Ted wiggled his eyebrows.
I stuck my tongue out at him before leaving.
