Title: 'Smooth sailing...or is it?' [Chapter 8]
Sequel to 'Boy was I wrong'
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Chapter 8
I don't want to yell at her. I don't want to scare her away. I have to control myself. I don't know why I can't control my temper at times like this. I have to take a deep breath and calm down before I screw this up completely.
Did I hear her right? Did she say this has nothing to do with me? This has everything to do with me!
"What are you talking about?" My voice is finally not as harsh anymore.
"Sit down Josh." Oh no. I don't like this tone of hers. It's the same one she had when she first told me about the rape. I can't handle anything like that again.
I sit down anyway at the couch opposite from where she is sitting.
"Josh, I never told you this..it's not like I was keeping it a secret from you. It's just, it has become something so insignificant in my life and it was for such a short period.." What is she rambling about?
"Donna...please speak in coherent sentences..what are you saying? What is it?" I look at her intently.
"Josh, I was engaged before." WHAT?!! My jaw drops. Something insignificant??!! This is not insignificant!!
"It lasted just two weeks." Oh. Still, that doesn't justify not telling me.
"Who were you engaged to? When?" I have uncountable questions in my head right now.
"To Nick." Nick? Where have I heard that name before?..Oh, I remember.
"You were engaged to Dr. Freeride and you didn't tell me??"
"Josh, I promise you I wasn't keeping this from you on purpose, it just didn't come up. I never ever think about it anymore.not until.." She stops.
"Not until what?" Now I'm completely confused.
"Until I saw you with Amy. Josh, Nick and I were planning to elope to save on having a wedding. We planned to get married three weeks after he asked me to marry him. Anyway, two weeks after he proposed, there was this massive sale for wedding gowns and I figured every bride should have a nice gown even though I was eloping. I told Nick I'll be out for a longer time but I found a dress quicker than I imagined. So when I came back and opened our apartment door..I found him...... naked with this woman on top of him on our couch."
Oh my god.This is unbelievable. Donna had just picked up her wedding dress when she walked in to see Amy kissing me.
"My heart told me there's no way you would do that to me.but my head kept screaming that this was too much of a coincidence for me to just accept your explanations. Josh, you can't imagine the amount of images in my head with you and Amy being together like Nick and that woman. It just killed me. I kept telling myself not to be a complete idiot and fall for a man's lies again. I felt like this whole thing was happening to me again and all my growing up and maturing since I started working with the campaign was all fake. That I was still the same lost, insecure and naïve girl like I was back in Madison."
Single tears roll off her cheeks.
"But you went off to him again and left me that couple of months." I can't help but wonder. How could she go back to this horrible being?
"I know. Like an idiot, I fell for his pleas and his words of love. I had no money left and no one to turn to. I didn't know any of you guys well enough to come to you. I slept in my car for a few days, Josh. I didn't eat except for the free coffee and some food lying around the campaign offices. I didn't know what else to do. I didn't want my parents to think I was such a failure so I didn't go to them. I couldn't bare to disappoint them again.It wasn't just the accident and him stopping for a beer that made me come back, Josh. It was the fact that I missed all of you and couldn't stop thinking about you especially. It didn't make sense to me as I've only known you for such a short time. I'm pretty sure I was in love with you back then but was too dumb to realize it." She says all this looking at me only from time to time.
I can't sit here so far from her anymore. I have to touch her. I have to hold her.
"I'm pretty sure I was in love with you back then and was too dumb to realize it as well." I smile slightly but Donna still has such sadness in her eyes.
"I was crazy when you were gone. I was a maniac.. shouting at everybody, hating the temps. No one could stand me. I didn't know why I was so erratic that time but I do now." I start moving to where Donna is seated.
I sit next to her and take her hands in mine. She still doesn't look at me.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all this. I'm sorry you didn't tell me about this earlier." I state.
"Me too. You have to believe me that it wasn't my intent to keep this from you." She turns her head and finally looks at me, directly into my eyes.
"I do, Donna. I do believe you." She looks at me with such relief.
I pull her towards me and she lays her head on my chest. We hug each other like it's been years since we even touched. It certainly felt like years.
"I love you Donnatella."
"I love you too Joshua. And I promise I will from now on trust you implicitly."
"Donna, where's your ring?" She lets go off me abruptly when I ask her.
I just can't stand her ring not being on her finger any longer. "It's in my bag."
I smile. She didn't let go of me completely after all.
"Can I have it?" She looks at me with a little confusion but looks through her bag anyway.
"Here." She says softly.
I look at it for a while. No matter how beautiful the ring is, it still looks a whole lot better on her finger. I take her hand and without saying a word, I slip the ring onto her finger.
"So you still want to marry me huh?" She asks smiling cheekily.
"You can't get rid of me that easily. You're stuck with me for good." I tell her.
Her face becomes more serious but she's still smiling. "I promise never to take it off my finger again."
"I'm glad." I lean in to kiss her lips soundly. Then, I hold the sides of her face and kiss all over it.
She giggles. "Maybe we should continue this some place more comfortable?"
"I couldn't agree with you more, Donnatella." I carry her off the couch and into the bedroom.
I never knew make up sex was even more mind-blowing then regular sex with Donna! Not that I would ever think that sex with Donna was anywhere near regular.
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It's now a little more than a week before the wedding. Donna is ever so tensed up. She's completely freaking out about it. She thinks something horrible is going to happen during the wedding like the cake is going to fall off or something similar to that. I think she just wishes our wedding didn't have to be such a big event with media coverage and with so many prominent people of the government being there. Don't get me wrong, she's really completely thrilled that the First Family will be there but it's just all the other senators and congressmen that we couldn't care less about will be there as well. It just makes the whole wedding less personal I guess. I do agree with her but doing what I do, it's just really hard to have a private wedding unless we only have family there. But we also don't want that because our family now is the people working in the west wing of The White House. However, having our colleagues in our wedding makes it sort of a must to invite all the others. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
"Joshua, you have to get out of here in a like a minute!!" Ah, there comes my sweet bride-to-be barging into my office.
"Why?" Maybe not the best question to ask judging by her tone.
"Why?! Joshua, you have your tuxedo fitting with Sam! You guys have postponed this so many times already. At this rate, we are going to have a groom with sleeves up to his knee!!" Okay, even you would agree she's exaggerating.
"Donna, we got the right sizes already.It's just extra fitting stuff. Which by the way I think is absolutely unnecessary."
"Joooosh." She drags my name and slumps, with her face covered by the palm of her hand. I shouldn't make this more stressful for her. She's already doing almost all the other wedding stuff.
"Okay.I'm sorry. I'll go now." I head towards the door and drop a kiss on Donna's head.
"Donna, it's all going to be okay. I promise. We are going to have the perfect wedding. Nothing is going to go wrong."
Sam and I somehow managed to leave work and reach the suit maker's place only slightly late. Sam and I were given the suits and we try it on.
I picked Sam as my best man and Toby and Charlie as my groomsmen. Which is quite a large difference in number compared to Donna's never ending list of bridesmaids. It's obvious that Donna's more loved than I am.
"Hey, so how are things between you and Donna?" Sam asks me as the tailor checks the suit on me.
"Great, couldn't be better."
"You know, you didn't really tell me what happened. The last thing I knew was that Donna took off her engagement ring and was staying with CJ. And all of a sudden, you two were all lovey-dovey again. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier for you but I was just wondering how that happened."
Sam and I didn't have much of a chance to talk about anything personal for the last few days. I told him everything was fine with me and Donna but didn't explain anything.
"Donna sort of overheard a heated conversation between me and Amy. The whole truth came out then." I just sum it up.
"Oh." Sam simply says. He has an odd tone when he said that. I wonder what's up his ass.
"What?" I ask and shoot him an annoyed look.
"No..it's just.Does that mean she wouldn't have believed you if she didn't overhear that conversation? Josh, I love Donna like a sister, but she should have more faith in you than that. I know she used to." Sam can never stop looking out for the ones he cares about.
"I know.I felt the same way. But we talked after that and it turns out Donna had some issues in her past which sort of triggered her to distrust me the way she did. I was quite shocked to hear about it. We talked it out and it's all good now. I promise." I don't want to go into the details about Donna being engaged to Dr. Freeride. It's not my story to tell.
"Oh really? I'm sorry I didn't know that." Sam sounds a little embarrassed.
"Hey, how could you? I didn't even know. But it doesn't matter anymore. It's all smooth sailing now." I mention.
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"Donna, are you coming?" CJ calls me from a few feet away from my desk.
"Yeah. Just a second." CJ and I decided to have lunch together to plan the schedule for the week of my wedding. I'm a good organizer but I haven't scheduled such a huge event all by myself. I'm so glad CJ is helping me with it today. The last thing I need is to go berserk if anything doesn't fit in or clashes.
We head to a café about three blocks away. I order a smoked chicken salad and CJ gets a ham and cheese toasted sandwich.
"Okay, it's Thursday today. That means, my parents will be coming a week from today. Josh's mom will be coming a day before that." I state as I write everything down in my wedding schedule book.
"Where will they be living? When is your sister's family coming down?"
"My parents will be staying at 'The Madison'. Josh's mom will be staying with us. Unfortunately my pregnant sister can't make it to the wedding. Her doctor advised her against traveling. But my brother-in-law and niece will be here. They are only coming on the day of the wedding. They didn't want to leave my sister alone for too long, so they are going back the day after the wedding. They'll be joining my parents at the same hotel."
We go through the schedule in more detail. There's just so much to fit in within such a short time.
"Well, I guess that's it. I hope to god I didn't miss anything." I say as I take another glance at what I've written.
"There's one more thing Donna." What? I can't fit in anything else in this.
"Oh no. What did I miss?" I open my eyes wide at her.
CJ chuckles. I'm glad I'm a source of amusement for her.
"I'm just talking about the bachelor and bachelorette parties. Sam's planning for Josh and I'm doing it for you. Yours is going to be a bridal shower and bachelorette party all put in one. I am you maid of honor after all. It's my utmost duty to plan the most spectacular event for your last night as a single woman."
I smile at her. I did forget the parties mainly because no one had brought it up earlier.
"So, will I be expecting a hot body with very little clothing, rubbing all over me during this spectacular event you have planned?" I ask her with my eyebrows raised.
"Oh, wouldn't you like to know." CJ wiggles her eyebrows and I laugh out loud.
"As long as there's no stripper in Josh's bachelor party, I will be happy." I doubt Sam would dare to call a stripper. After the 'accident' with Laurie, this would be the last thing he needs.
"I'd hope Spanky would know better than that by now." CJ turns serious again. I think she's visualizing the headache she would have if the guys did hire a stripper.
"Alright, I'm going to go to the ladies room." I announce and leave the table.
It seems like everything would be perfectly organized and not rushed at all. This is of course assuming nothing would go wrong at the last minute. Knowing my luck, I actually allocated some extra time to fix anything that might have gone awry.
I'm just heading back to the table and something catches my eye. Shoot! I think my heart just skipped a beat. Will this nightmare ever end??? I just saw Amy walking into the café. There's no way in hell I'm going to let her see me. Oh shit!!! She spots CJ. I quickly turn around. I've got to hide!!!
Ah, I see a tree right behind the booth CJ is sitting at. I have no time to head further from that. I quickly bend down and leap towards behind the big plant as I hear Amy's voice booming.
"CJ Cregg! What a surprise to see you here?" Her voice gets closer by the second. She must be standing right at our table.
I don't hear CJ responding. I turn around and try to steal a glance through the leaves.
"Um. Amy." That's all CJ manages to say I think. Well, who could blame her? I told CJ about everything that happened that night Josh and I made up. She deserved to know the whole story as without her push, Josh and I may not be together right now.
"Are you here alone? Can I join you?" I think Amy's actually pulling a chair to sit down! That bitch invites herself for just about everything, doesn't she? I can see CJ's stunned face from the side.
"I do have something rather unsettling to discuss with you. It's about the family health bill. I heard a deal was made to allow pamphlets of anti- abortion.." I tune out when Amy starts rambling on about the bill. She would try to get whatever she wants no matter where or with whom she's with!
"You have some nerve Amy." Did CJ just say that?
"Excuse me, CJ?" Amy asks sounding puzzled.
"Don't you think I would know about what you did? Didn't you think for one second, that I could possibly know what a complete home-wrecking bitch you are." I cannot believe CJ just said that!!! I'm stunned out of my mind!!
"Oh..... Come on CJ, Donna Moss didn't know what she had! It's her own damn fault." That bitch just hates my existence, doesn't she?
"Amy, YOU are a pathetic excuse of a woman. Look at yourself in the mirror, Amy. Don't you have any pride at all? Any dignity? You are so low, I am ashamed to be of a same gender as you are! I do not sleep well anymore, knowing that someone like you can be a representative for women. Go, do us all a favor and work for some other movement. Like 'bitches- extraordinaire'." OH MY GOD!!
"I will not sit here and be insulted like this CJ!" Oh, what a come back from Miss 'bitch-extraordinaire' herself.
"Well, who the hell invited you to sit here anyway? Go ahead and leave..don't let the door hit you on the ass." I take another closer peak through the plant.
Amy literally looks like she has steam coming out of her ears. Her face is all red with anger. She gets up from her chair furiously and gives another fuming glare at CJ before she turns and walks away. That was absolutely unbelievable.
I finally get away from my hiding place only to I find a bunch of people starring at me. Oh, how embarrassing. I think I'm pink right now. I try my best to ignore their glances and return to our table.
"Donna! Where were you? You saw her, didn't you?" CJ asks me. She looks pretty stunned herself.
I only manage to nod.
"Did you hear anything?" Boy, did I hear anything!
"Uh huh. CJ..I was hiding behind that plant to eavesdrop and spy on you two." I confess.
CJ smiles softly as I sit down and take a big gulp from my glass of water.
"I didn't mean to blow up like that or make a scene but I just couldn't help it. I wanted to punch her face out!!"
"Don't worry about it CJ. I'm.I'm actually positively thrilled with what you said. Amy had no come backs! She just sat there and I could see her face all red and flustered like anything!! You shut her up CJ! You shut that bitch up!!" I start grinning thinking about how stunned Amy looked.
"I did, didn't I? She just had to take it. And she thought she could just come up to me and discuss politics like I'm her friend or something? Who does she think she is?"
"Exactly." I haven't felt this good for so long. I mean, I have felt really good very recently in fact but I'm talking about a different good.
TBC...............
Sequel to 'Boy was I wrong'
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Chapter 8
I don't want to yell at her. I don't want to scare her away. I have to control myself. I don't know why I can't control my temper at times like this. I have to take a deep breath and calm down before I screw this up completely.
Did I hear her right? Did she say this has nothing to do with me? This has everything to do with me!
"What are you talking about?" My voice is finally not as harsh anymore.
"Sit down Josh." Oh no. I don't like this tone of hers. It's the same one she had when she first told me about the rape. I can't handle anything like that again.
I sit down anyway at the couch opposite from where she is sitting.
"Josh, I never told you this..it's not like I was keeping it a secret from you. It's just, it has become something so insignificant in my life and it was for such a short period.." What is she rambling about?
"Donna...please speak in coherent sentences..what are you saying? What is it?" I look at her intently.
"Josh, I was engaged before." WHAT?!! My jaw drops. Something insignificant??!! This is not insignificant!!
"It lasted just two weeks." Oh. Still, that doesn't justify not telling me.
"Who were you engaged to? When?" I have uncountable questions in my head right now.
"To Nick." Nick? Where have I heard that name before?..Oh, I remember.
"You were engaged to Dr. Freeride and you didn't tell me??"
"Josh, I promise you I wasn't keeping this from you on purpose, it just didn't come up. I never ever think about it anymore.not until.." She stops.
"Not until what?" Now I'm completely confused.
"Until I saw you with Amy. Josh, Nick and I were planning to elope to save on having a wedding. We planned to get married three weeks after he asked me to marry him. Anyway, two weeks after he proposed, there was this massive sale for wedding gowns and I figured every bride should have a nice gown even though I was eloping. I told Nick I'll be out for a longer time but I found a dress quicker than I imagined. So when I came back and opened our apartment door..I found him...... naked with this woman on top of him on our couch."
Oh my god.This is unbelievable. Donna had just picked up her wedding dress when she walked in to see Amy kissing me.
"My heart told me there's no way you would do that to me.but my head kept screaming that this was too much of a coincidence for me to just accept your explanations. Josh, you can't imagine the amount of images in my head with you and Amy being together like Nick and that woman. It just killed me. I kept telling myself not to be a complete idiot and fall for a man's lies again. I felt like this whole thing was happening to me again and all my growing up and maturing since I started working with the campaign was all fake. That I was still the same lost, insecure and naïve girl like I was back in Madison."
Single tears roll off her cheeks.
"But you went off to him again and left me that couple of months." I can't help but wonder. How could she go back to this horrible being?
"I know. Like an idiot, I fell for his pleas and his words of love. I had no money left and no one to turn to. I didn't know any of you guys well enough to come to you. I slept in my car for a few days, Josh. I didn't eat except for the free coffee and some food lying around the campaign offices. I didn't know what else to do. I didn't want my parents to think I was such a failure so I didn't go to them. I couldn't bare to disappoint them again.It wasn't just the accident and him stopping for a beer that made me come back, Josh. It was the fact that I missed all of you and couldn't stop thinking about you especially. It didn't make sense to me as I've only known you for such a short time. I'm pretty sure I was in love with you back then but was too dumb to realize it." She says all this looking at me only from time to time.
I can't sit here so far from her anymore. I have to touch her. I have to hold her.
"I'm pretty sure I was in love with you back then and was too dumb to realize it as well." I smile slightly but Donna still has such sadness in her eyes.
"I was crazy when you were gone. I was a maniac.. shouting at everybody, hating the temps. No one could stand me. I didn't know why I was so erratic that time but I do now." I start moving to where Donna is seated.
I sit next to her and take her hands in mine. She still doesn't look at me.
"I'm sorry you had to go through all this. I'm sorry you didn't tell me about this earlier." I state.
"Me too. You have to believe me that it wasn't my intent to keep this from you." She turns her head and finally looks at me, directly into my eyes.
"I do, Donna. I do believe you." She looks at me with such relief.
I pull her towards me and she lays her head on my chest. We hug each other like it's been years since we even touched. It certainly felt like years.
"I love you Donnatella."
"I love you too Joshua. And I promise I will from now on trust you implicitly."
"Donna, where's your ring?" She lets go off me abruptly when I ask her.
I just can't stand her ring not being on her finger any longer. "It's in my bag."
I smile. She didn't let go of me completely after all.
"Can I have it?" She looks at me with a little confusion but looks through her bag anyway.
"Here." She says softly.
I look at it for a while. No matter how beautiful the ring is, it still looks a whole lot better on her finger. I take her hand and without saying a word, I slip the ring onto her finger.
"So you still want to marry me huh?" She asks smiling cheekily.
"You can't get rid of me that easily. You're stuck with me for good." I tell her.
Her face becomes more serious but she's still smiling. "I promise never to take it off my finger again."
"I'm glad." I lean in to kiss her lips soundly. Then, I hold the sides of her face and kiss all over it.
She giggles. "Maybe we should continue this some place more comfortable?"
"I couldn't agree with you more, Donnatella." I carry her off the couch and into the bedroom.
I never knew make up sex was even more mind-blowing then regular sex with Donna! Not that I would ever think that sex with Donna was anywhere near regular.
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It's now a little more than a week before the wedding. Donna is ever so tensed up. She's completely freaking out about it. She thinks something horrible is going to happen during the wedding like the cake is going to fall off or something similar to that. I think she just wishes our wedding didn't have to be such a big event with media coverage and with so many prominent people of the government being there. Don't get me wrong, she's really completely thrilled that the First Family will be there but it's just all the other senators and congressmen that we couldn't care less about will be there as well. It just makes the whole wedding less personal I guess. I do agree with her but doing what I do, it's just really hard to have a private wedding unless we only have family there. But we also don't want that because our family now is the people working in the west wing of The White House. However, having our colleagues in our wedding makes it sort of a must to invite all the others. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
"Joshua, you have to get out of here in a like a minute!!" Ah, there comes my sweet bride-to-be barging into my office.
"Why?" Maybe not the best question to ask judging by her tone.
"Why?! Joshua, you have your tuxedo fitting with Sam! You guys have postponed this so many times already. At this rate, we are going to have a groom with sleeves up to his knee!!" Okay, even you would agree she's exaggerating.
"Donna, we got the right sizes already.It's just extra fitting stuff. Which by the way I think is absolutely unnecessary."
"Joooosh." She drags my name and slumps, with her face covered by the palm of her hand. I shouldn't make this more stressful for her. She's already doing almost all the other wedding stuff.
"Okay.I'm sorry. I'll go now." I head towards the door and drop a kiss on Donna's head.
"Donna, it's all going to be okay. I promise. We are going to have the perfect wedding. Nothing is going to go wrong."
Sam and I somehow managed to leave work and reach the suit maker's place only slightly late. Sam and I were given the suits and we try it on.
I picked Sam as my best man and Toby and Charlie as my groomsmen. Which is quite a large difference in number compared to Donna's never ending list of bridesmaids. It's obvious that Donna's more loved than I am.
"Hey, so how are things between you and Donna?" Sam asks me as the tailor checks the suit on me.
"Great, couldn't be better."
"You know, you didn't really tell me what happened. The last thing I knew was that Donna took off her engagement ring and was staying with CJ. And all of a sudden, you two were all lovey-dovey again. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be happier for you but I was just wondering how that happened."
Sam and I didn't have much of a chance to talk about anything personal for the last few days. I told him everything was fine with me and Donna but didn't explain anything.
"Donna sort of overheard a heated conversation between me and Amy. The whole truth came out then." I just sum it up.
"Oh." Sam simply says. He has an odd tone when he said that. I wonder what's up his ass.
"What?" I ask and shoot him an annoyed look.
"No..it's just.Does that mean she wouldn't have believed you if she didn't overhear that conversation? Josh, I love Donna like a sister, but she should have more faith in you than that. I know she used to." Sam can never stop looking out for the ones he cares about.
"I know.I felt the same way. But we talked after that and it turns out Donna had some issues in her past which sort of triggered her to distrust me the way she did. I was quite shocked to hear about it. We talked it out and it's all good now. I promise." I don't want to go into the details about Donna being engaged to Dr. Freeride. It's not my story to tell.
"Oh really? I'm sorry I didn't know that." Sam sounds a little embarrassed.
"Hey, how could you? I didn't even know. But it doesn't matter anymore. It's all smooth sailing now." I mention.
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"Donna, are you coming?" CJ calls me from a few feet away from my desk.
"Yeah. Just a second." CJ and I decided to have lunch together to plan the schedule for the week of my wedding. I'm a good organizer but I haven't scheduled such a huge event all by myself. I'm so glad CJ is helping me with it today. The last thing I need is to go berserk if anything doesn't fit in or clashes.
We head to a café about three blocks away. I order a smoked chicken salad and CJ gets a ham and cheese toasted sandwich.
"Okay, it's Thursday today. That means, my parents will be coming a week from today. Josh's mom will be coming a day before that." I state as I write everything down in my wedding schedule book.
"Where will they be living? When is your sister's family coming down?"
"My parents will be staying at 'The Madison'. Josh's mom will be staying with us. Unfortunately my pregnant sister can't make it to the wedding. Her doctor advised her against traveling. But my brother-in-law and niece will be here. They are only coming on the day of the wedding. They didn't want to leave my sister alone for too long, so they are going back the day after the wedding. They'll be joining my parents at the same hotel."
We go through the schedule in more detail. There's just so much to fit in within such a short time.
"Well, I guess that's it. I hope to god I didn't miss anything." I say as I take another glance at what I've written.
"There's one more thing Donna." What? I can't fit in anything else in this.
"Oh no. What did I miss?" I open my eyes wide at her.
CJ chuckles. I'm glad I'm a source of amusement for her.
"I'm just talking about the bachelor and bachelorette parties. Sam's planning for Josh and I'm doing it for you. Yours is going to be a bridal shower and bachelorette party all put in one. I am you maid of honor after all. It's my utmost duty to plan the most spectacular event for your last night as a single woman."
I smile at her. I did forget the parties mainly because no one had brought it up earlier.
"So, will I be expecting a hot body with very little clothing, rubbing all over me during this spectacular event you have planned?" I ask her with my eyebrows raised.
"Oh, wouldn't you like to know." CJ wiggles her eyebrows and I laugh out loud.
"As long as there's no stripper in Josh's bachelor party, I will be happy." I doubt Sam would dare to call a stripper. After the 'accident' with Laurie, this would be the last thing he needs.
"I'd hope Spanky would know better than that by now." CJ turns serious again. I think she's visualizing the headache she would have if the guys did hire a stripper.
"Alright, I'm going to go to the ladies room." I announce and leave the table.
It seems like everything would be perfectly organized and not rushed at all. This is of course assuming nothing would go wrong at the last minute. Knowing my luck, I actually allocated some extra time to fix anything that might have gone awry.
I'm just heading back to the table and something catches my eye. Shoot! I think my heart just skipped a beat. Will this nightmare ever end??? I just saw Amy walking into the café. There's no way in hell I'm going to let her see me. Oh shit!!! She spots CJ. I quickly turn around. I've got to hide!!!
Ah, I see a tree right behind the booth CJ is sitting at. I have no time to head further from that. I quickly bend down and leap towards behind the big plant as I hear Amy's voice booming.
"CJ Cregg! What a surprise to see you here?" Her voice gets closer by the second. She must be standing right at our table.
I don't hear CJ responding. I turn around and try to steal a glance through the leaves.
"Um. Amy." That's all CJ manages to say I think. Well, who could blame her? I told CJ about everything that happened that night Josh and I made up. She deserved to know the whole story as without her push, Josh and I may not be together right now.
"Are you here alone? Can I join you?" I think Amy's actually pulling a chair to sit down! That bitch invites herself for just about everything, doesn't she? I can see CJ's stunned face from the side.
"I do have something rather unsettling to discuss with you. It's about the family health bill. I heard a deal was made to allow pamphlets of anti- abortion.." I tune out when Amy starts rambling on about the bill. She would try to get whatever she wants no matter where or with whom she's with!
"You have some nerve Amy." Did CJ just say that?
"Excuse me, CJ?" Amy asks sounding puzzled.
"Don't you think I would know about what you did? Didn't you think for one second, that I could possibly know what a complete home-wrecking bitch you are." I cannot believe CJ just said that!!! I'm stunned out of my mind!!
"Oh..... Come on CJ, Donna Moss didn't know what she had! It's her own damn fault." That bitch just hates my existence, doesn't she?
"Amy, YOU are a pathetic excuse of a woman. Look at yourself in the mirror, Amy. Don't you have any pride at all? Any dignity? You are so low, I am ashamed to be of a same gender as you are! I do not sleep well anymore, knowing that someone like you can be a representative for women. Go, do us all a favor and work for some other movement. Like 'bitches- extraordinaire'." OH MY GOD!!
"I will not sit here and be insulted like this CJ!" Oh, what a come back from Miss 'bitch-extraordinaire' herself.
"Well, who the hell invited you to sit here anyway? Go ahead and leave..don't let the door hit you on the ass." I take another closer peak through the plant.
Amy literally looks like she has steam coming out of her ears. Her face is all red with anger. She gets up from her chair furiously and gives another fuming glare at CJ before she turns and walks away. That was absolutely unbelievable.
I finally get away from my hiding place only to I find a bunch of people starring at me. Oh, how embarrassing. I think I'm pink right now. I try my best to ignore their glances and return to our table.
"Donna! Where were you? You saw her, didn't you?" CJ asks me. She looks pretty stunned herself.
I only manage to nod.
"Did you hear anything?" Boy, did I hear anything!
"Uh huh. CJ..I was hiding behind that plant to eavesdrop and spy on you two." I confess.
CJ smiles softly as I sit down and take a big gulp from my glass of water.
"I didn't mean to blow up like that or make a scene but I just couldn't help it. I wanted to punch her face out!!"
"Don't worry about it CJ. I'm.I'm actually positively thrilled with what you said. Amy had no come backs! She just sat there and I could see her face all red and flustered like anything!! You shut her up CJ! You shut that bitch up!!" I start grinning thinking about how stunned Amy looked.
"I did, didn't I? She just had to take it. And she thought she could just come up to me and discuss politics like I'm her friend or something? Who does she think she is?"
"Exactly." I haven't felt this good for so long. I mean, I have felt really good very recently in fact but I'm talking about a different good.
TBC...............