Chapter 5: The Bummer Birthday
After Jimmy lead Jenny through the back door to her room, as he said they didn't want to get the carpet wet, the two headed up to their rooms to get dry.
Jenny wrapped a towel around herself as she looked into her closet full of recently unpacked dry clothing and picked out a nice shirt, pair of pants, and sweater to wear.
With in moments she was in warm and comfortable clothing, her hair was a bit damp, but she didn't mind as she re-did her hair, but this time she put it in low pigtails, each held by a red bow.
She left her room and at the same time so did Jimmy.
"Hey Jimmy." Jenny said with a smile.
"Hi Jenny, sorry about making you ride that rocket, especially on your birthday." Jimmy apologized.
"No apology needed, besides, it was fun." She said with a grin.
The two headed down stairs, but then Jenny gave a confused look, "Why is it so dark down here?"
Jimmy snickered, "Because … IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, and suddenly the lights went on and confetti went everywhere.
"Surprise!" Many voices yelled.
Jenny gasped with surprise and excitement, "Oh my gosh!" And tears fell from Jenny's eyes, "You guys are the greatest!"
The room had her aunt and uncle, Goddard, friends Cindy, Libby, Carl, and Sheen and the whole room was decorated.
Jenny continued to walk down the steps and Mrs. Neutron said, "I had Jimmy and distract you this morning so we could set up for your birthday party after Jimmy told us your birthday was today last night."
Jenny turned around to Jimmy who was standing there smiling with his arms and hands behind his back.
Jenny laughed, "Why you little .." Then she bent down and gave him a huge hug, when she stood up again she said, "You know you're the greatest little cousin a girl could ever have!" Then she rubbed her fingers into his hair, purposely trying to mess it up a little.
Jimmy laughed, "Hey! Stop that!" As he tried to bring his hair back together as one massive tall lump it was, then he said, "And I have another surprise for you." He had behind him a phone and handed it to Jenny.
Jenny looked confused, and then Jimmy said, "Just say hi into it!"
"Hello?" Jenny said, not expecting much.
Cindy and the other kids didn't know what it was, and Cindy walked up to Jimmy and Jenny with a confused look, then pushing back her own blonde hair which was now in a pony-tail, as she heard some reply and then Jenny had a huge smile and her eyes full of tears.
"Mommy! Daddy! Oh my gosh, thank you so much!" Jenny squealed as she went into the other room to continue to talk on the phone.
While everyone moved up to watch Jenny on the phone, Jimmy and Cindy remained the only people in the room, they both smiled and then looked at each other for a moment.
"That … that … that was a really sweet and nice thing for you to do Jimmy," Cindy said slowly with still a huge smile.
Jimmy smiled back, and for a moment the two stared into one another's eyes, unable to say anything, let alone look anywhere else.
And some how it seemed as if they had moved closer, although none of them had really realized how, they where just a few inches away, and it seemed as if they where about to kiss one another, except all of a sudden.
"Bye mother, bye father. Yes, I know … yes, I'll see you in a year or more. I know, I know, the government is depending on you, yes I understand. Yes, I love you two, goodbye." And the phone hung up, and Jimmy and Cindy where brought back to reality.
Cindy lost eye contact and looked to the other room, where Jenny had apparently burst into tears now, and everyone was trying to calm her down. Cindy bit her bottom lip with a worried look on her face.
Jimmy had barely loss eye contact, he though to his self, that she looked so pretty … no, beautiful, even when she looked worried, there was just this sense of trust and love in her, which made him smile, then the sound of Jenny's crying brought him back to reality, and he frowned.
Breaking the ice of the soundless moment between Jimmy and Cindy, Jimmy finally said, "Something sounds wrong with Jenny, we better go check." Jimmy sounded a little disappointed, although in a normal sense he wanted to be anywhere, as far away from Cindy as possible, but in a bit of reality he had wished he could kiss her, that the moment could have lasted a bit longer, but he felt heartbroken a bit, he couldn't just stand their kissing a girl when his dear cousin was in tears.
Cindy nodded, "Yeah … we better see what's wrong."
In that short walk from the living room to the kitchen, Cindy's head spun at what ALMOST happened, she had almost kissed Jimmy Neutron, it was a rather weird seemingly thing, as for that moment she wanted nothing more than to kiss him, but then when Jenny's tears brought her back to reality, she felt almost disgusted, and yet right now just hearing Jenny cry almost made Cindy cry, and at that moment she wondered what it would be like, to be crying and then Jimmy hugging her and patting her back as tears fell from her eyes, him doing anything to make her smile, and then kissing her. Cindy smiled from that thought, but then Jenny crying louder as they got nearer, brought Cindy back and then she frowned and she fallowed Jimmy as they came nearer to the kitchen.
In the small yet homey kitchen, at the table sat Jenny with her face in her hands and the tears from her eyes pouring through them as everyone surrounded her, patting her back and saying everything was going to be okay.
"What happened?" Asked Jimmy in a worried voice, and Cindy nearly smiled, she adored his voice in that way, such a sensitive and caring way it sounded.
She came back to reality again, "Are you ok Jenny?"
Jenny only answered in more tears, and Libby said, "Jenny's parents will be working on that government project for over a year, and they said the nation-wide child care center requires her parents to live with her, otherwise they'll have to move her to an orphanage."
Jenny only cried more.
"Orphanage?" Both Jimmy and Cindy said loudly at the same time.
Jimmy had that look of concern on his face. "B..b..but … but mom, can't Jenny live with us? Like she's doing now?"
Jimmy's mom shook her head no, "Her parents never filed us as her god parents, in fact she has no god parents, and unless they file for us to be her god parents we'd be keeping her here illegally."
Cindy looked concerned as well, "Mrs. Neutron, why doesn't Jenny's parents just file you guys as her god parents … I mean it can't be that hard!"
Jenny replied in sniffles and sobs, "They're too busy with their stupid government project to do anything! They said they might be able to get to it next month. I even asked if at all possible it could be my one and only birthday present!"
Jimmy came up to Jenny and hugged her, pat her on the back and tried to calm her down, saying softly that everything would be alright, and Cindy watched him and tried to imagine him doing that to her. At that moment she really felt like crying but she knew she would look like an idiot doing that. She even felt a tear in her eye, and it fell softly down her cheek, Jimmy watched it fall off her face and hit the ground from the corner of his eye, and he had this feeling inside that if Jenny wasn't crying, and Cindy was that he should have pushed that tear off her face and gave her a hug.
But he would have looked like an idiot, and he thought against it as he sat there trying to calm his poor cousin down from her unusual crying fit.
After Jimmy lead Jenny through the back door to her room, as he said they didn't want to get the carpet wet, the two headed up to their rooms to get dry.
Jenny wrapped a towel around herself as she looked into her closet full of recently unpacked dry clothing and picked out a nice shirt, pair of pants, and sweater to wear.
With in moments she was in warm and comfortable clothing, her hair was a bit damp, but she didn't mind as she re-did her hair, but this time she put it in low pigtails, each held by a red bow.
She left her room and at the same time so did Jimmy.
"Hey Jimmy." Jenny said with a smile.
"Hi Jenny, sorry about making you ride that rocket, especially on your birthday." Jimmy apologized.
"No apology needed, besides, it was fun." She said with a grin.
The two headed down stairs, but then Jenny gave a confused look, "Why is it so dark down here?"
Jimmy snickered, "Because … IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, and suddenly the lights went on and confetti went everywhere.
"Surprise!" Many voices yelled.
Jenny gasped with surprise and excitement, "Oh my gosh!" And tears fell from Jenny's eyes, "You guys are the greatest!"
The room had her aunt and uncle, Goddard, friends Cindy, Libby, Carl, and Sheen and the whole room was decorated.
Jenny continued to walk down the steps and Mrs. Neutron said, "I had Jimmy and distract you this morning so we could set up for your birthday party after Jimmy told us your birthday was today last night."
Jenny turned around to Jimmy who was standing there smiling with his arms and hands behind his back.
Jenny laughed, "Why you little .." Then she bent down and gave him a huge hug, when she stood up again she said, "You know you're the greatest little cousin a girl could ever have!" Then she rubbed her fingers into his hair, purposely trying to mess it up a little.
Jimmy laughed, "Hey! Stop that!" As he tried to bring his hair back together as one massive tall lump it was, then he said, "And I have another surprise for you." He had behind him a phone and handed it to Jenny.
Jenny looked confused, and then Jimmy said, "Just say hi into it!"
"Hello?" Jenny said, not expecting much.
Cindy and the other kids didn't know what it was, and Cindy walked up to Jimmy and Jenny with a confused look, then pushing back her own blonde hair which was now in a pony-tail, as she heard some reply and then Jenny had a huge smile and her eyes full of tears.
"Mommy! Daddy! Oh my gosh, thank you so much!" Jenny squealed as she went into the other room to continue to talk on the phone.
While everyone moved up to watch Jenny on the phone, Jimmy and Cindy remained the only people in the room, they both smiled and then looked at each other for a moment.
"That … that … that was a really sweet and nice thing for you to do Jimmy," Cindy said slowly with still a huge smile.
Jimmy smiled back, and for a moment the two stared into one another's eyes, unable to say anything, let alone look anywhere else.
And some how it seemed as if they had moved closer, although none of them had really realized how, they where just a few inches away, and it seemed as if they where about to kiss one another, except all of a sudden.
"Bye mother, bye father. Yes, I know … yes, I'll see you in a year or more. I know, I know, the government is depending on you, yes I understand. Yes, I love you two, goodbye." And the phone hung up, and Jimmy and Cindy where brought back to reality.
Cindy lost eye contact and looked to the other room, where Jenny had apparently burst into tears now, and everyone was trying to calm her down. Cindy bit her bottom lip with a worried look on her face.
Jimmy had barely loss eye contact, he though to his self, that she looked so pretty … no, beautiful, even when she looked worried, there was just this sense of trust and love in her, which made him smile, then the sound of Jenny's crying brought him back to reality, and he frowned.
Breaking the ice of the soundless moment between Jimmy and Cindy, Jimmy finally said, "Something sounds wrong with Jenny, we better go check." Jimmy sounded a little disappointed, although in a normal sense he wanted to be anywhere, as far away from Cindy as possible, but in a bit of reality he had wished he could kiss her, that the moment could have lasted a bit longer, but he felt heartbroken a bit, he couldn't just stand their kissing a girl when his dear cousin was in tears.
Cindy nodded, "Yeah … we better see what's wrong."
In that short walk from the living room to the kitchen, Cindy's head spun at what ALMOST happened, she had almost kissed Jimmy Neutron, it was a rather weird seemingly thing, as for that moment she wanted nothing more than to kiss him, but then when Jenny's tears brought her back to reality, she felt almost disgusted, and yet right now just hearing Jenny cry almost made Cindy cry, and at that moment she wondered what it would be like, to be crying and then Jimmy hugging her and patting her back as tears fell from her eyes, him doing anything to make her smile, and then kissing her. Cindy smiled from that thought, but then Jenny crying louder as they got nearer, brought Cindy back and then she frowned and she fallowed Jimmy as they came nearer to the kitchen.
In the small yet homey kitchen, at the table sat Jenny with her face in her hands and the tears from her eyes pouring through them as everyone surrounded her, patting her back and saying everything was going to be okay.
"What happened?" Asked Jimmy in a worried voice, and Cindy nearly smiled, she adored his voice in that way, such a sensitive and caring way it sounded.
She came back to reality again, "Are you ok Jenny?"
Jenny only answered in more tears, and Libby said, "Jenny's parents will be working on that government project for over a year, and they said the nation-wide child care center requires her parents to live with her, otherwise they'll have to move her to an orphanage."
Jenny only cried more.
"Orphanage?" Both Jimmy and Cindy said loudly at the same time.
Jimmy had that look of concern on his face. "B..b..but … but mom, can't Jenny live with us? Like she's doing now?"
Jimmy's mom shook her head no, "Her parents never filed us as her god parents, in fact she has no god parents, and unless they file for us to be her god parents we'd be keeping her here illegally."
Cindy looked concerned as well, "Mrs. Neutron, why doesn't Jenny's parents just file you guys as her god parents … I mean it can't be that hard!"
Jenny replied in sniffles and sobs, "They're too busy with their stupid government project to do anything! They said they might be able to get to it next month. I even asked if at all possible it could be my one and only birthday present!"
Jimmy came up to Jenny and hugged her, pat her on the back and tried to calm her down, saying softly that everything would be alright, and Cindy watched him and tried to imagine him doing that to her. At that moment she really felt like crying but she knew she would look like an idiot doing that. She even felt a tear in her eye, and it fell softly down her cheek, Jimmy watched it fall off her face and hit the ground from the corner of his eye, and he had this feeling inside that if Jenny wasn't crying, and Cindy was that he should have pushed that tear off her face and gave her a hug.
But he would have looked like an idiot, and he thought against it as he sat there trying to calm his poor cousin down from her unusual crying fit.