Written by: Sister-Cousin
Friday has ended and now it is time to start the weekend... but nobody will be able to forget the events of the week. So much has happened and the number one question was who has been causing all this trouble? Everybody has been scratching their heads trying to find the answer. It's a complete mystery.
"Toby are you in here?" Ashley shouted as she entered her house. "Toby where are you?"
Then Toby yelled from the kitchen. "I'm in here."
"Oh hey! Today at lunch where did you go? All of a sudden you disappeared and I didn't even see you leave."
"Oh that makes me feel a lot better." Toby said sarcastically.
"What's wrong with you? I know something has been bothering you. Just tell me what's going on! I'm am your sister after all."
"Yeah I know you are. Nobody is denying that."
"I'm just worried."
"Don't be. I'm just really upset that JT and I aren't friends anymore. And to top it off my girlfriend broke my heart. A lot of stuff has been going on in my life and nobody... nobody seems to care."
He got out of his chair and began to talk away. Ashley stood there and watched him walk away.
She shouted back, "That's not true, Toby. It's not true!"
Toby didn't even acknowledge her last couple sentences. This scared Ashley because she never saw her stepbrother act like this. He seemed to be pushing people away. Ashley wanted to cheer up her brother. Yeah, that's all he needed. Then maybe he would realize that people did care about him.
"A party!" Ashley thought. "But where should we hold it?"
Emma was at her house watching a movie with Chris. Her parents were out of the house for the whole night. They had to a dinner date with their best friends from high school so they had the house for themselves. The phone rang so Emma picked it up.
"Hello Emma is speaking." She greeted in a friendly tone.
"Hey Emma! It's Ashley."
"Wow do you know you're calling me?"
"Yeah... so I wanted to throw a party for Toby tonight. He's been really down lately and I really wanna cheer him up."
"Oh how sweet, but what does this have to do with me?"
Ashley replied, "Well Toby has been moping around the house all day and I feel rude just asking him to leave and I was wondering if I could---"
"Have the party at my house?" Emma finished Ashley's sentence.
"Hey how did you know? Well can I?"
"Yeah definitely. My parents are out all night lucky for you. Chris and I can go pick up some munchies and stuff."
"Oh that's awesome. Emma, I really appreciate it. Well I'll meet you in like an hour."
"Alright and I'll also try to call some people."
"Thanks I will too. I hope they can come. This is very last minute."
"Don't worry about a thing. Bye!"
"Bye!" Ashley said and hung up the phone. She walked into the living and saw her brother lying on the couch watching the National Geographic channel.
"Who was that?" Toby asked.
"Oh it was Paige. She wants me to come over tonight for a little girl's night so I'm going to go." Ashley responded.
"Alright."
"Oh and I forgot to tell you, Emma called earlier and told me she needed your help."
"With what?"
"Oh... her computer jammed and she's having trouble with it."
"Alright I'll call her back later. I'll check it out tomorrow."
"But she wanted you come over tonight. It's an emergency."
Toby gave Ashley a strange look. "Alright I'll go over there in a little bit. Besides nothing exciting is going on around her. You're leaving me."
"Bye!" Ashley said and headed towards the door. She ignored his last comment. "He better appreciate what I'm doing for him." Ashley said to herself.
Manny and Craig have already spent practically the whole day together. Manny really didn't feel like being alone and Craig couldn't just leave her. He liked spending time with her. They were sitting in the movie theater watching some chick flick, then Craig's phone rang.
"Craig turn off your phone." Manny demanded. Instead he picked it up. Someone was text messaging him. It said, "You're Invited To Toby's Surprise Party. In one hour. At Emma's House."
"We're invited to a party." Craig said to Manny.
"Really? Whose?"
"Toby's. At Emma's."
"Do you wanna go?"
"Only if you want to."
"Heck yeah. Besides this movie really sucks. Some people really shouldn't act." Manny shouted a little too loud making people to tell her to be quiet.
"Come on let's get out of here."
Craig and her left the movie theater and laughed uncontrollably.
"You have popcorn if your hair!" Craig shouted and laughed some more.
"I do? Where? Get it out." She screeched and he laughed harder.
"Okay let me try. Hey stop moving."
"I'm not moving. You just have an unsteady hand."
"I do not."
"Okay you don't. Is it out?" Manny asked.
"Yeah it's out."
"Oh great now my hair probably smells like butter."
"Ah girls and their hair. When will the insanity end?" Manny punched him in the arm and laughed.
They made their way out of the movie theater hand in hand surprisingly. Today they have gotten really close to one another. They understand one another.
"I can't believe we spent the whole day together." Craig mentioned.
"Yeah me neither, but I had a really...good time." Manny replied.
"Yeah me too. I couldn't think of any better way of spending it and now we get to go to a party."
"It makes it complete."
"Yep..."
"Yep..."
"Manny!"
"What Craig?" He was silent.
"Manny?"
"Yeah?"
"Never mind."
Then Manny stopped and looked him in the eyes. He stopped too and there was silence making the moment very awkward.
"What is it Craig?" She asked again. He became silent and then he kissed her. It was a long kiss, a long passionate kiss. Manny had almost forgot what it felt like to kiss Craig, but now she knew she had missed it.
Ashley decided to go to Jimmy's so he walked over to his house. Jimmy always seemed to be home by himself. She was pretty sure he didn't have anything else to do. Jimmy answered the door his boxers.
"ASHLEY!" He screeched.
"Hey Jimmy! Did I interrupt something?" She said and laughed.
"Come inside! Let me go find some pants."
"Alright." He came back into the room no more than a minute later.
"So what are you doing here?" Jimmy asked.
"Oh well I'm throwing a surprise party for Toby and you're invited."
"Oh joy!"
"Look Jimmy I know you and him don't exactly belong to the same clique, but can you please forget about that for one night? Do it for me. Pretty please." Ashley said and made puppy dog eyes.
"Okay fine I'll come."
"You're the greatest. Come on we better go now!" Ashley said and dragged him out of the house.
"So what's going on between you and Hazel?" Ashley asked.
"Well nothing unless something changed from last time I checked."
"I feel like this is my fault."
"Don't blame yourself. It's not your fault. I wanna make that person pay whoever took those pictures. Maybe it was Paige."
"Paige? Paige would never do anything like that."
"Well what if she did. Maybe she wants Hazel all to herself."
Ashley giggled. "You can't be serious. You're talking crazy."
"Am I?"
"Yeah I think so!"
"Okay maybe it wasn't Paige, but who?"
"I don't know! I really don't know! But I really want to find out."
"So are we going to the party?" Hazel asked Paige.
"Um I don't know..." Paige replied.
"Huh did I just hear you right? You love parties. You're actually thinking of not going? Are you feeling okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, but it's kind of late notice."
"So...and you're point? We're young and free."
"...I don't know. What if Spinner shows up? Even worse what if JT goes?" Paige gasped.
"You're just Miss Popularity aren't you."
"Hazel this is serious. I can't chose."
"Yes you can!"
"No I can't!"
"Yes you can!"
"No...I can't!"
"What is this, the third grade? We should work this out like young adults."
"Ugh!!!" Paige sighed and laid on her bed holding her pillow tight.
Jimmy and Ashley arrived at Emma's house twenty minutes before the party was supposed to start.
"Hey Chris!" Jimmy said as he entered her house.
"Hey Jimmy and Ashley!" Chris replied. "Emma is upstairs getting ready!"
"Cool, can I play some music?" Jimmy asked.
"Sure...the stereo is over there." Chris said and they went over to the music area. Music started to play and it finally felt like a party.