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When you're near me, my heart skips a beat

I can hardly stand on my own two feet

Because I love you, I love you, I do

Angel Baby, my angel baby

I danced around the kitchen, singing along, rather loudly, to The Rosettes. This happened to be new favorite song.

"Storm, will you please, shut up?!" Vern shouted from the living room. "We're trying to watch the 'Untouchables'!"

"Oh, blow it out your ass!" I shouted back. Every Friday evening, Vern invited his four best friends over to watch that stupid show, while Billy ran off to God knows where and I was stuck doing the dishes. But tonight, oh tonight, Lou was here to help me. Yep, good ole Lou was spending the night. Lou and I had quickly become best friends. We were washing the dishes and singing along to the radio. True best friend activities.

Please never leave me, blue and alone

If you ever go, I'm sure you'll come back home

Because I love you, I love you, I do

Angel baby, my angel baby

We had now added a dance routine, which consisted of swaying back and forth and swinging our dishrags through the air.

"My angel baby." Lou sang into a spoon she had just washed. I giggled, and started doing Brodway dancing. You know, swinging my arms back and forth, waving my hands in the air, and jumping up and down. "That's the worst dancing I've ever seen."

"Please, you think I'm bad? Wait till you see Billy dance. It's like a cow having a seizure." I told her. She laughed, then widened her eyes.

"Storm!!! That's horrible! Funny, but horrible!"

I shurgged. "I'll just let you see how horrible it is when you see him dance. American Bandstand gives it three moo's."

We giggled again, and we kept giggling as we finished the dishes. "So, how're things with Ace?" I asked. Lou and Ace had "officially" begun to see one another the week before. Lou was beside her self with happiness.

"Things are fine." She smiled. "He's really sweet."

"Did you kiss yet?" I asked her teasingly. She blushed.

"Yes, like ten times."

I grinned at her. "Let's go upstairs to my room."

She threw down her dishrag. "Alright. Is it cold up there?"

She was asking this because now that it was mid October, the temperatures had taken a sudden drop. Since Lou was used to the warm Arizona weather, and I was used to California, we were always cold.

"No, Uncle Dan and Aunt Charlene have central heating. It's the same temperature all over the house." I poked my head in the living room. "Vern, we're going upstairs, okay?"

Vern, or his friends, never took their eyes from the screen. "Kay."

Lou and I giggled again. "They're obsessed with that stupid show."

"Karen is the same way!"

When we got upstairs, we did.....................a whole lot of nothing. Mostly, we listened to the radio, read magazines, and talked about our boyfriends. Oh yeah, and we ate.......and ate.......and ate.

"Does Eyeball ask you to help him with his homework all the time?" Lou asked, between bites of her Oreo.

I rolled my eyes. "Yes!! He acts like, if I don't help him, he's gonna fail every single subject."

"Ace does the same thing. I'm like, you're not stupid! Figure it out on your own!" Lou finished her cookie, and opened a bag of chip.

"I know, then he's all pouting and saying 'since you're his girlfriend it's your job to help him', right?"

"Right! It's so stupid." She looked at the chip bag, which was now practically attached to my face. "We're gonna get fat, you know."

I shrugged. "That's okay. Eyeball say's I'm too skinny and I need some meat on my bones."

Lou snickered. "Please. He could use a little meat off his bones." I giggled.

"That's mean, but God it funny. It's not really funny, it's just......funny." I said, gasping for breath.

"I shouldn't make fun, but I just couldn't resist that."

Outside we heard car doors slam. "Sounds like Billy and the others are here." I said. Lou looked down at her blue, flannel, pajamas, then at me, in my plaid pants and gray sweatshirt. Both of us had wet hair from our showers, and no make-up. Well, do you blame us? We weren't expecting them.

"Oh my God! We look like the League of the Dead!!!!" Lou shrieked, as we heard the front door open. "Lock the door, lock the door!"

"It doesn't have a lock!!!" I told her.

"Well, shut it!! Maybe they won't know we're here!"

I quickly shut the door, and turned down the radio. We sat on the floor, quietly. I don't know why we were doing this. Eyeball and his friends had seen me in my pajamas before. It wasn't that big of a deal. I guess it was to Lou, though. She and Ace had just started dating, and she didn't know our friends really well. She held a finger to her lips, and I rolled my eyes.

"Hey, I think Lou's spending the night with Storm tonight." I heard Billy say. "Let's see what they're doing."

"Act naturally!" Lou hissed. She grabbed a magazine and pretended to read it. I calmly turned it right side up as Billy flung the door open.

"Oh yes, Billy, you can come in. Thanks for knocking." I said sarcastically. He just grinned as they all piled into my room. "Hello, we're trying to have a sleepover here!!"

"No, it's okay." Lou said, grinning as Ace sat down beside her. Eyeball hopped into my desk chair and spun it around.

"Get the hell out of that chair!" I told him. He stuck out his lower lip and pulled me down onto his lap. "Let me up!"

"No!" He said, kissing the back of my neck. "I haven't seen you all day."

I giggled. "You saw me at school, Richard."

"That doesn't count! I was learning!" He said. Vince laughed.

"Since when do you learn, Eyeball?"

"Since I met Storm. She makes me want to better myself."

"Awww!" I threw my arms around him. "That's so sweet!!!!"

Eyeball grinned. "I know."

"He's using a line on you." Fuzzy told me, bouncing on my bed. "He told his last girlfriend the same thing."

"Ah! Well, that's just nice!" I told Eyeball. "I'm mad at you!"

"He's lying Storm!" I turned my head and refused to answer. "Who're you gonna believe? Me or Fuzzy?" I still didn't answer. "You're the most beautiful girl in Castle Rock!"

I threw my arms around him again, and kissed him on the forehead. "Okay, I forgive you."

"Wow," Eyeball looked amazed. "That was easy." He grinned and we kissed.

"Get your lips off my little, innocent, cousin!" Billy said. I rolled my eyes. He'd been doing stuff like that more and more lately. It was embarassing and it really pissed me off.

"Billy, can I see you in the hallway a minute?" I climbed off Eyeball's lap and went out to the hall. Billy followed me.

"What?"

"Don't ever, ever, do that again, Billy. I mean it."

"What're you gonna do, huh?" He asked. I grinned.

"I'll tell everyone about Fernando."

Billy gasped. It was almost a girly sound, and it was really funny. It took all my self will to keep myself busting out laughing. "You wouldn't!"

"Oh, I would." I told him. "And if you don't lay off me and Eyeball, I will."

"Alright! I won't say another word about it."

"Promise?"

He smiled, and touched my shoulder. "I promise. Let's go back in your room, before they send out the S.W.A.T team for us."

I giggled and we walked back in the room. Lou and Ace were making out on the floor. I looked at them as I climbed back on Eyeball's lap. "I'd tell you two to get a room, but we're already in one." Ace sent me the finger and I laughed. "So Billy, where's Val tonight?"

Billy rolled his eyes. "Her's mom's still sick. She's been taking care of her."

I turned to look at Vince. "What about Sandra? She wasn't in school today."

"She's sick, too. She has the flu." Vince said.

"Again?" Charlie asked from the floor. He was looking at one of my magazines. "Didn't she have the flu last week?"

"Yeah." Vince looked at the floor. "I'm worried about her. She keeps getting sick."

I smiled sypathetically at him. "Everyone gets sick this time of year. I'm sure she'll be fine."

"Yeah." Fuzzy added. "Fine like a, um, non-sick person. Fine."

Vince didn't look encouraged at Fuzzy's words. "She'll be fine, Vince." I told him. "Count on it."

"Yeah, man. She'll be fine." Charlie pipped up from the floor. "Here, have one of Storm's magazines. They'll take your mind off things." He handed Vince a magazine, which surprisingly Vince took. Eyeball laughed silently, and I elbowed him.

"Ow!" He whispered. "That hurt!"

"Stop laughing!" I told him. "Vince is upset!"

"So?"

"So, how would you feel if I was sick?"

He grinned. "I'd use every excuse I could to sneak up here and make out with you."

I rolled my eyes. "You are one sad, sick, little man."

"Thank you."

"Okay, okay." I stood up. "It's been nice, seeing all of you, but Lou and I trying to have a sleepover. Do you think you guys could leave?"

Lou finally detached herself from Ace. "Yeah........"

"But, we're not finished with our magazines yet!" Charlie protested.

"Take 'em with you." I told him. "Just go."

"Alright, alright." They went down stairs, till only Ace and Eyeball were left.

"Alone at last!" Eyeball said. "Now we can, you know." He put his arms around me. Ace and Lou were attached at the lips again.

As tempting as that sounded, I shook my head. "Hey, don't count your chickens buster."

"Alright, fine." He turned to Ace. "Come on, man." He gave me one more kiss. "Bye."

I smiled. "Bye."

"So, then the tiger say's 'Don't forget to keep those monkeys hopping'!" It was 3:00 in the morning, and Lou had just told the millionth stupid joke of the evening. I giggled. Looking back now, I realize, it wasn't that funny. But hey, after you've had about 15 Coke's and 20 candy bars, it's hilarious.

"Okay, okay, I have one. What's gray, red, and white?" I asked, opening another soda.

"What?" Lou giggled, even though she hadn't heard the punchline yet.

"Campbell's Cream of Elephant Soup!"

We both erupted in laughter, and Lou fell off the bed. Once, again it wasn't that funny, but hey, whatever.

"You girls be quiet!" Uncle Dan shouted from down the hall. "Some of us have to work in the morning."

"Sorry!" Lou and I called back.

Then we started giggling again.