Hello! Okay, so, before I begin, I must address these BEAUTIFUL reviews and then add a few of my own quirky comments and excuses for how late this is ;)
LOL SO EVERYBODY KNOWS I DIDN'T MEAN TO REVIEW MY OWN STORY! XD That was meant for an online message to my friend, Heath, and apparently my brain started typing in my review column. Yes, I know, I'm such an IDIOT! XD
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Now... TO THE STORY!
Aloe sighed as she walked back into her room. She was so tired, after being hauled in an ambulance to a hospital, being tested, poked, studied, and measured to the point that she snapped one nurses' thermometer. The nurse had almost started yelling at her, but with all of the cops and soldiers and SWAT team members waiting for Aloe in the room, she decided to keep her mouth clamped.
After being tested and purified of the last of the weird poisons that Aloe had come by in Yin's trap, Aloe was supposed to stay the night at the hospital, but Vick pulled some strings and got her to go home with a bag of medications, a bunch of wired cords that the toxicology ward at the hospital had told Aloe to use every so many hours. "Right, because Aloe's going to let us hook her up to more machines when she gets home." Shawn had remarked.
Aloe nearly collapsed on her bed, only catching herself with her hands, so that she was bent over her bed. She fought the urge to just flop onto her bed and fall asleep, but she had promised Juliet, Shawn, Gus, Maddie, Lassie (Whom she had lovingly dubbed "Knight Carlton" after he had cocked his gun at one of the nurses who was going to have Aloe go through another blood test), Henry, Buzz & Kate McNabb, and a ton of SWAT team members and Snipers who she had befriended during the hospital visit.
She yawned and walked towards her closet, throwing on a new set of clothes. This one smells too much like deranged serial killer for me.. Aloe mused. She pulled on a pair of shorts, mumbled something about how ugly and fat her legs looked in them, but continued to throw on a much-too-large-for-her shirt that read "Pineapple Convention '07" and pull her hair into a ponytail.
She kicked her dirty clothes into the corner of her room to sit there, and think about what it had done.
Walking out of her bedroom, Aloe joined her friends and family inside of her's and Juliet's apartment. There was many people there, including new friends she had just made today.
"Hey Aloe!" Conner McVoyle said, turning everyone's head in her direction.
Shawn jogged over to his sister from the Doritos bowl on the table. "Guess what I got?"
"Cookies?"
"Actually, that was us!" Buzz called, grinning from ear to ear with one long arm draped over his wife, Kate.
"Oh!" Aloe smiled at them. "Thanks!" She turned back to Shawn. "Was it the Deviled Eggs?"
"Are you kidding? I hate Deviled Eggs, and so do you." He said, crossing his arms and pouting. "It was Dad, by the way.." Aloe and Shawn turned towards Henry, who was currently sipping a drink that Aloe prayed was not beer, but probably was.
"The.. pizza?"
"Nope."
"Doritos?"
"Ha, that was Gus!"
"How about the beef ribs?"
"This is getting pathetic," Shawn informed her. "I brought the chocolate cake!"
Aloe raised an eyebrow. "There isn't any chocolate cake."
"Well, there was, before I got peckish.."
She couldn't help but smile. "You are such a child, you know that Shawn!" She gave him a shove, which was actually pretty pathetic, and he shoved her back with a grin; his shove equally as pathetic.
"Of course I am!" He said back, starting to tickle her.
She giggled and shook her head, running away from Shawn in the first direction she could. He chased after her, until she ran into a hard object: Lassie.
He braced her as she jumped backwards, causing a bit of an awkward moment. Lassie had his arms wrapped around Aloe, who was a foot above the floor, staring up at Lassie. Shawn stared, eyes huge, at Lassie and his sister. And, as if on queue, everyone looked over at them. They stayed there for a good five seconds, before Lassie pulled her up and let go of her, staring at the floor awkwardly. Aloe too held one arm behind her, staring at the floor as if she were trying to become it.
Maddie, the hero of the day, came to her daughter's rescue. "Aloe, do you know why everyone is here?"
"Because I'm out of Yin's clutches?"
"Well, slightly, but not really."
Aloe frowned and stared at her mom. "Then.. why are they here?"
"You can't think of it?"
Aloe looked to Carlton for some help, but he stared in the opposite direction, still embarrassed. She looked to Gus, who zipped his mouth and mouthed "Vault of Secrets". Aloe turned to Shawn hopelessly, who was trying really hard to suppress a laugh.
"Is it.. the day Beethoven debuted as a pianist in Vienna?"
Everyone looked around, and McNabb blurted out, "Actually, yeah! It is!"
Maddie shook her head. "No, not that. Can you really not remember?" She stared at Aloe. "Anything.. special about this day? Perhaps sixteen years ago?"
"Oh! That's right, the man who played Spock in the original Star Trek died?"
"No, you're thinking of the man who played Luke in Star Wars." Gus corrected. "But, no."
"You're kidding!" Juliet objected. "Luke died?!"
"FOR GOODNESS SAKE'S, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" Henry shouted, fed up with all of the nonsense.
Aloe's eyes got huge. "Oh, right! That!"
Shawn snorted. "That little detail."
"Completely insignificant." Aloe played, poking Shawn in the shoulder. "But it's really my birthday? This is awesome!" She beamed at everyone. "Oh, thank you all for coming, then!" She turned to Shawn. "Wait, does this mean that you ate my birthday cake?"
"Well," He said thoughtfully.
"No." Lassiter answered her. "We knew that he'd eat the cake he got, so your mom put me in charge of the cake." Aloe smiled at him. "Oh, and so you know, it's a Carrot-Cake." Her eyes got even brighter.
"Carrot cake!" She shouted, throwing Lassie into a hug, then pulling in Shawn, and Gus joined in, followed by Juliet, then Henry, and eventually it was a giant group hug. Over carrot cake.
After they had eaten, and Shawn had humorously throw the lampshade on his head, they partied like there was no tomorrow. First there was music that Fred, one of the Sniper-Men who had befriended Aloe when she hid in the hall closet to avoid one of the nurses in the hospital, had turned on. Then they played games like "Who can guess what they're eating" and "Dating Game: Awkward Edition".
After all of it, Aloe sat down outside on the balcony, exhausted. She heard the door open, and she expected Maddie or Henry or Shawn to join her, but instead, Lassiter sat down beside her.
Lassiter had been thinking about it for a long time, and while he wasn't thrilled by the idea, he had decided that if it meant a lot to Spencer, that he would tell Aloe he wanted to wait a while before moving into a relationship. After all, she was just sixteen.
"Aren't you cold?" He asked her, shivering slightly as he sat down on the metal bench Juliet placed on their balcony months before.
Aloe shook her head. "A little bit, but I like it."
Lassiter didn't understand that. He grew up in California, where it was always hot. He didn't like the cold, because he was not used to it. But, so had Aloe, and she had the exact opposite idea.
"You can't really see the stars." She told him, but she turned and smiled at him.
He looked up at the stars briefly. He didn't really ever look at them. But now he saw them, he could appreciate them. "No, but you don't really need the stars right now."
She raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
He couldn't help himself, "You're bright enough to light it up." He didn't dare look anywhere but the sky. "The sky, I mean."
Aloe nearly jumped. That was the last thing she had expected him to say to her. "T-thanks," She smiled.
"Aloe I.." He paused. He looked at her, not for any longer than a millisecond.
Aloe placed a hand on his shoulder. "I'm not ready for a relationship yet.. I mean, I'm in highschool. Who knows where I'll be in five years, and three people have tried to kill me in the past half-year." Carlton looked up at her. She paused to breath for a moment and then continued, "I really like you, but I'm afraid of the stupid decisions I might make now that could ruin us later, and plus," He stared in to her eyes, causing her to falter.
"I understand." He couldn't help but smile. It made it so much easier on him not having to say that to her.
"But, in the future.." Aloe murmured, her eyes twinkling. She grabbed his hand and gave it a squeeze, then let go and started to walk inside quickly.
"Wait, in the future what?" He asked quickly, jumping up from the bench.
She turned her head, hand on the door handle, and winked. "I don't know yet. Once said by Eleanor Roosevelt, 'Tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.'" Her smile was only contagious.
As she went in, Lassiter sat back down and stared into the window. Shawn walked up to Aloe and gave her a hug, saying something the Lassie assumed was complete nonsense, then turned his eyes toward Lassie.
Lassie nodded respectfully at Shawn, and Shawn grinned back, gesturing at Lassie to come inside with them.
Carlton looked at Aloe one more time before opening the door. Her red hair had gotten longer, but you couldn't really tell because it was pulled back. She had gained a couple more freckles, just because she had been in the sun a lot more, her arms were slightly longer and she had gained some height on Shawn, her legs were still the same size: slightly larger than average, but muscular; and her t-shirt was hand-me-down and baggy. There were some things that never changed.
Lassiter walked into the room, just in time for Juliet to announce that it was "Guess What You're Smelling" game time. He frowned in disgust, but walked up to play anyways. "Why not?"
Aloe woke up the next morning to the sound of someone using her toilet. She thought for one moment before realizing what the sound was, and, "SHAWN!" She shouted, rolling out of bed.
She threw on a jacket since it was freezing, Don't we have an A.C.? I mean, I love the cold, but when it gets down to 40 degrees, there's a problem. She walked to her bathroom, and knocked on the door. "Shawn! How many times have I told you, this is my bathroom! We have a guest bathroom, you know!"
She heard the toilet flush, and she shook her head. "Please tell me you lifted the seat!"
The fossit started running, and she crossed her arms, ready to scold Shawn when he came out. But who came out, wasn't Shawn.
"Oh my gosh!" She shouted, jumping up about two feet and flying into the wall.
A tall, muscular man about 6'5 walked out of her bathroom. His arms were ripped with muscles, and beneath his shirt she had no doubt that there was a six-pack. The man frowned and stared down at Aloe, then started to laugh a little.
"Hey Jule? Have you told Aloe that I'm staying the night here?" The man shouted.
Juliet rushed in. "Oh my goodness, no, I'd better go-" She looked between Aloe, who looked like a deer caught in the headlights of a truck, and Ewan, who was just grinning.
"Um," Juliet said, blushing. "Aloe, this is-"
"I'm Ewan O'Hara, and I'm Jule's older brother." Ewan introduced, holding out his hand.
Aloe stared at the hand, which was slightly larger than her face. "H-hi. I'm-"
"Aloe Spencer," Ewan finished for her. "Age: sixteen, height: 5'5, weight-"
"Alright let's not go there.." Aloe interrupted, blushing now. She turned to Juliet. "Does your brother always introduce himself like that?"
Juliet shook her head. "Oh, no, sometimes he-" Ewan held a finger to his lip, as if telling her to keep it a secret. "-oh, right.. 'top secret info'.." She said, using air-quotes and smiling.
Aloe laughed. "Oh.. okay then!" She approached Ewan and looked up, arms crossed. She stood on her tiptoes and measured herself against him, holding her hand over her head and measuring across to Ewan, but not even as tall as his shoulders. He raised his eyebrows and stood on his tiptoes too, making Aloe grin. Juliet joined in on her tiptoes, but she wasn't much taller. She was already about 5'7.
"Should I make us breakfast?" Aloe asked them after a few moments on tiptoes.
"Yeah," Said both O'Haras.
As Aloe looked over them, she realized they did bear some resemblance. Their eyes, for example, shined the same way, Juliet's posture mirrored Ewan's, and they both had a similar smile.
"Oh, should I invite Shawn over too?" Aloe offered.
Juliet looked between Ewan and Aloe, then shrugged her shoulders. "It is Saturday, so I have off."
Ewan squinted his eyes for a moment and knitted his eyebrows together. He wasn't really excited about bringing Shawn back in after he had gotten her arrested, but then again, the little man was pretty funny. "Alright, I'm good for it. But we're having a contest for how well you know your sibling."
Aloe giggled and nodded. "Deal!" She dialed up Shawn, who was already on his way over to Juliet's, thank goodness I got to him before he walked in on me eating breakfast with a giant WWE wrestler.. Aloe thought to herself. "Oki-dokie! See you soon," Aloe called into her phone.
"Hey Aloe, can you make pancakes-" Shawn's voice died as Aloe hung up. She knew he'd keep asking for food unless she hung up now. Last time, he had gotten four types of pancakes, two differently cooked eggs, french and regular toast, turkey bacon, regular bacon, and tofu bacon (which he hated), hashbrowns, waffles, and also a giant breakfast cookies with whipped cream out of one phone call because Aloe didn't have the heart to hang up on him.
Aloe skipped into the kitchen, where she and Juliet baked breakfast- tofu bacon (Juliet and Aloe couldn't get enough of the stuff, to Shawn's disgust), toast, eggs, pancakes, and Ewan was trying to convince Juliet to make hashbrowns.
"Jule!" He argued as she she shook her head stubbornly, flipping pancakes. "You promised hashbrowns!" Juliet continued to shake her head.
Ewan saw Aloe starting to walk back to the kitchen after putting the eggs on the table, and grabbed her. Aloe yelped as Ewan picked her up and placed her upside-down over his shoulder, holding her by her legs.
"Juliet!" Aloe squeaked, but she wasn't upset. She was laughing her head off. She started to kick, trying to get down, but Ewan was much stronger and in turn began tickling her feet. She giggled and squirmed, trying to get free.
"Ewan!" Juliet objected, but she couldn't help but laugh too. "Alright, alright! I'll let you have hashbrowns, just stop strangling Aloe!" She was laughing so hard, she could barely get over to the fridge where the instant-hashbrowns were.
Aloe was determined to get Ewan back, and began tickling him back. Unfortunately for her, Ewan wasn't ticklish, and she only earned herself even more tickling. "Hahaha!" She shouted, throwing herself around uncontrollably.
"I brought donuts!" Called Shawn as he walked in, only to drop the boxes of donuts when he saw Ewan holding Aloe over his shoulder, Aloe squirming, and Juliet frying hashbrowns. He jumped at Ewan in an attempt to knock him over, but it was like trying to knock over a stone pillar.
"Relax," Ewan told him, placing Aloe on the floor, looking dazed. "I was just using her as a hashbrown ransom." He kept his face completely straight somehow.
Shawn frowned, but eventually started laughing. It was pretty hard not to laugh at that.
"What type of donuts, Shawn?" Asked Juliet, helping Aloe up and greeting Shawn with a kiss.
Aloe couldn't get used to Juliet and Shawn dating, and she saw Ewan make the same face as her when they kissed a second time.
"Blueberry and.." He opened one box. "Pineapple!"
"How many donut shops did you go to for a dozen pineapple donuts?" Aloe asked, eyes huge.
"Oh, just seven. 'Missy Kate's Oriental Dough-Balls with Holes in the Middle' sells them in surplus." Shawn told them. "Note to self: talk to Missy Kate about her donut shop's name.." He said, frowning thoughtfully.
Aloe grabbed a donut and took a bite, grinning at Shawn who was explaining why his pineapple obsession was so incredible. It can't get any better, She thought.
Pineapple donuts, Ewan, and some funnies along the way! How was that? I need reviews. They function as coffees, which I desperately need! ;)
QUESTION TIME: I need to know what my reader's think of this idea that I got in a PM. The reader who sent in these ideas has asked to remain anonymous, but I would like to run the idea by you guys before I toss it in because it may cause you to not read. Her/His idea was for there to be come Shawn and Lassie whump, and for Shawn and Lassiter to get into a car crash. I liked it well enough, but also questioned it slightly (no offense!) and I wanted your opinions! PLEASE TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK!
Also: Please check out the Psych Roleplay I've mentioned before, and it's url is: forum/Pineapples-and-Crime-Scenes-a-Psych-Roleplay/127434/ please visit! It's tons of funn!
Oh, and you might notice, I did NOT throw in any Lassie+Aloe, only because I got those reviews questioning it, and I wanted to keep my readers. You may now express gratitude in REVIEWS XD
Lastly: Please tell me any ideas you have! AND REVIEW! I love you guys (in the writer-reader way) !