"Do you like the idea or not?" Jason asked everyone grumpily as he looked at the clock for the umpteenth time.
It was close to 2 am and they hadn't even gotten through half of the things they had wanted to. Adam had fallen asleep about a half an hour earlier and Josie wasn't far off it herself. Jason was in a terrible mood and snapped at anyone who even glanced at him. Amy, who was exhausted too, rested her head on Matt's shoulder. He was tired, but as he had told Josie before, he could hardly ever get much sleep after a big show. Jeff was looking at everybody amused, he wasn't even the least bit tired.
"Come on Josie, help me make everyone a coffee." Amy sighed and forced herself to get up. Josie groaned and buried her face in the pillow she was lying on. "Come on. A coffee will wake you up. We need to finish this." Amy grabbed Josie's arm and helped her up.
"I don't drink coffee. It's disgusting!!!" She made a face and Amy giggled.
"Well, have a can of coke then."
"Fine!"
"Will you guys shut the hell up?" Angel sat up and glared at no one in particular then lay back down, covering her head with her pillow.
Angel and Gabrielle had been asleep since the others had arrived and not woken up once, which surprised Jason, because as a light sleeper he didn't understand how anyone could sleep through the amount of noise that they had been making that night. Josie suddenly looked at Angel with a wicked glint in her eye. Jeff noticed this immediately and stifled a laugh.
"What are you planning?" He asked curiously.
"Nothing." She replied, giving him her most innocent smile.
"Don't give me that bullshit, you're up to something. I know that look." Jeff insisted.
"Jeff invented that look." Matt informed her.
"What? Me?" Jeff gasped and everyone who was awake, including Jason, had to laugh.
"Just wait a second." Josie walked over and gently shook Gabrielle awake.
"What?" She asked, looking around. Josie motioned for her to be quiet and removed the pillow from Angel's face.
"What are you doing?" Angel asked without opening her eyes and Josie giggled.
"Nothing. You're about to suffocate yourself with the pillow...by the way, your ears look really nice tonight." Angel's eyes popped open and her hands flew to her ears.
"WHAT DID YOU DO???" She squealed. Jumping out of the bed she fell on top of Adam who woke with a start and quickly sat up, looking at the blonde in his arms in confusion. By this time everyone in the room had cracked up.
"I didn't do anything!" Josie protested in wide-eyed innocence, which caused everyone to laugh even more.
"What is going on?" Adam asked as he helped Angel up.
"I just thought it was time for a wake-up call. If we have to put up with Jason's mood, I figured that you should too." Josie joked and ducked a cushion that came flying at her head, courtesy of Jay. Gabrielle was laughing louder than the others.
Angel glared and pointed at her. "Don't you start bitch! I'll bet you put her up to it!"
She accused and Gabrielle looked offended. "ME???"
"Yes YOU! She never does anything to me when you're not around." Gabrielle started laughing again.
"No, no. Gabrielle's innocent. It was all me." Josie looked remorseful. "But I didn't mean for you to fall on poor Adam. You should really watch where you put your feet."
Angel glared at her friend, trying not to laugh. "I am soooooo going to kill you!" She jumped on the bed and Josie squealed and jumped off. Angel chased Josie for a little while before catching her and attacked her with a pillow. Gabrielle grabbed another pillow and threw it to Josie who knocked Angel's pillow out of her hands. At that point, Angel suddenly backed off and started to walk away with her hands held up in surrender.
"I'm really sorry Jose. I didn't mean it! Please! Put the pillow down!" She begged, giggling. Josie just watched her, suspiciously.
"What are you up to?" She asked and took a couple of steps toward her friend.
"Nothing!" She shook her head with an innocent look on her face. Josie took another step forward. "Perfect!" Angel said lunging forward, and pushed Josie backwards, whereby she lost her balance and fell into someone's lap.
"What the..." she looked up straight into Jeff's eyes and realised what Angel had done. She couldn't help but laugh. "Hi!" She said to Jeff who grinned back.
"Help me?" She whispered and he laughed.
"Of course." He whispered back
"Hey! What are you two up to?" Angel asked suspiciously, putting her hands on her hips.
"Nothing that would interest you." Josie retorted with a glare, got up and walked over to the kitchen sink.
"Are you pissed off?" Angel demanded and Josie shook her head without saying a word.
"Josie! That's not fair! I didn't get angry at..." Angel squealed as she felt herself being lifted up by Jeff. "HEY!!!"
"Alright! Enough is enough!" Adam decided and walked over to Josie throwing her over his shoulder before she could defend herself. "Jeff, put Angel down, or..."
"Or what???" Jeff asked, laughing.
"Or your little girl here gets it."
"Excuse me!!!" Josie said indignantly and pinched the back of Adam's neck, just hard enough to get him to put her down. "I'm no one's little girl and you'd better remember that, okay??" She said, trying not to laugh.
"Oooh! Looks like you've just been told Adam." Jeff grinned with a raised eyebrow and Adam rolled his eyes.
"Okay, Okay! Jeff, just put Angel down. We still have work to do." Jeff sighed resignedly.
"HEY!" Angel yelped indignantly as Jeff threw her unceremoniously onto the bed and sat back down on the floor.
"Why on earth did you get so worked up about your ears Angel?" Matt asked, still laughing softly. Angel glared at Josie.
"Because THAT bitch," She pointed at Josie who was trying her best to look innocent, "decided that it would be funny to put nail polish on my ears one night while I was asleep. When I woke up the next day, She and Gabby kept telling me how nice my ears looked. I walked around with blue polish on my ears almost all day before I realised what they'd done." Everyone looked at Josie who was pretending not to notice.
All of a sudden she looked around. "What?" She asked all innocent and Jeff cracked up laughing.
"I'll have to remember that." He grinned with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Ohhhhhhh, no you don't!!!" Matt moved back and covered his ears with his hands.
Jeff just kept grinning until Josie started laughing helplessly. Jeff watched her for a second and couldn't help but join in. Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Great!" Matt groaned.
"This is a match made in hell alright!" Adam agreed with a worried laugh.
"Don't worry." Josie sweetly replied. "We'll try to be good."
Jeff nodded. "Yes we'll try." He grinned and they both cracked up again.
Just this one for tonight...but if I get bored I might come back and post more.
Thanks Phoenix Satori for the review. Hope you still like...
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