"Why do I feel my head's gonna kill me?" Chocolates cried with her head lying directly on the table. Her blue eyes widened when Sparks left a tall glass in front of her. "Doll, this helped me so I hope it does the same with ya"
"What's dat?" Spaz asked while she sat next to the table. The four girls that shared the apartment had spent almost all morning the mess they had made being drunk the night before. For most of them that awful headache was gone, but not for Chocolates.
"God... Poor girl" Bookworm lamented. "Chocolates only had a shot of tequila and in one minute she was singing that "Ode to Joy" song even in Spanish!"
"But... what's that?" Chocolates pointed the glass.
"That cold beer is gonna help ya to get rid of that... intoxication."
"Am I intoxicated?!" She asked worried again.
"That's gonna help ya!" Bookworm cheered her up. "C'mon, c'mon.... drink!"
"Remind me not ever to drink again..." She slowly took the beer.
"Dun worry... by the way, where didja sleep, Choco?" Spaz looked at her. "We saw you walking around the house in Jack's shirt."
"In my bed, well I at least woke up in my own bed." Chocolates assumed.
"With Jack?" Sparks raised an eyebrow.
"Uh-huh" Chocolates nodded.
"Da's why we saw you all mushy dis moining... Ahhhhhh!" Bookworm yelled. "You... you...you... you'll have to tie the knot now! Wha... What if you're pregnant?"
"No! We didn't..." Chocolates informed.
"Ya didn't?" Bookworms looked at her. "Ya didn't what?"
"What do you mean with what? You're the one that assumed we slept together, made love... don't know how to put it for ya guys!"
"Well technically you did sleep taggedah... you shared da bed, da love nest... Dunno how to put it up fer ya!" Sparks joked.
"Oh God...." Chocolates thought "I'm... I'm a whore!"
"Nah, yer not, we all slept with our men, in da floor or da same couch and so and so..." Bookworm explained.
"Den, why didja wake up with his shirt?" Sparks asked.
"Long story..."
"Oh! Tell us, we listen." The girls said in chorus.
"But da whole story!" Spaz smiled.
"Okay. I wake up and feel an arm around me, but a very strong arm around me. I turn around to see who was in my bed with me it's a normal reaction, right?"
"Uh-huh... go on"
"Then I see Jack... shirtless so I was totally freaked out!" She laughed. "Like wouldn't you be freaked out too?"
"We would, yeah... terrified." Spaz commented.
"Imagine my reaction, I woke up Jack immediately and told me 'Goily ya came ta wake me up... da's nice!' and I told him "No! You're in MY BED!' Poor thing he jumped immediately and then told me that nothing happened and then explained me that he noticed I was cold so he gave me his shirt. Well... In a way, I think that's it!"
"And how is he... ya know, he's not that skinny anymore. Is he like strong or somethin'?" Sparks giggled.
"I didn't have time ta think of that!" Chocolates yelled.
"Everybody has time for that, Right Spaz" Bookworm looked at the other girl.
"If ya say so..." Spaz answered.
"Ok." Chocolates gave up. "His shoulders were like... um... wide and his chest was like a... dunno and his stomach was like, like a... I don't know!"
"Like whom... foah example?" Turtle sneaked into the house.
"I didn't see ya arrived, dear. Well, like those steel workers or something. But not that big... he was more like—"
"Soft?"
"Turtle!" The girl blushed. "Yeah, I guess he was like that."
"By da way, aren't ya suppose ta lunch with Jack today?" Spaz sat down again.
"Yeah, at one o'clock he comes for me."
"Well goily it's 12:30"
"What????"
"Go get dressed... if he comes we'll entertain him" Sparks added.
"Okay, thanks." Chocolates entered the room and started to get dressed. More than punctual, Jack arrived at 1 o'clock but Chocolates wasn't still ready. He was told to sit down and so he did. The girls joined him and laughed hysterically next to him. Poor Jack, he had no idea of what was going on, he decided that laughing too could be the best solution. "What are ya doing to him, women?"
"Are you'se ready, doll?" Jack kissed her cheek.
"Yes, let's go!"
On their way to a small restaurant, not Tibby's, Jack offered his arm and Chocolates took it. After more than a year of relationship things were starting to change. Jack once heard of the difference between 'being in love' and 'love'. 'Being in love' was that necessity he had of kissing her and hugging her every minute, that desperation to be with her, that feeling of madness. He knew he wasn't in love anymore. He knew now that he could be with her forever that she could be a good permanent company and he could trust her. The feeling of madness had left and that real feeling was left: it was love, and he truly loved her. He still didn't know if Chocolates was in that phase, he was confident that his girl was in love with him, he didn't know if she'd love him the way he loved her. That confused him a little.
They finally arrived to a small and elegant restaurant, were he led Chocolates to the table. He smiled and checked the menu.
"So doll, what are ya having?" The waiter came to them.
"Roast beef, please" She politely asked.
"I'll have the same, please." He handed the menus back. "I need ta tell ya something..." Ya started to give her the 'being in love and love' speech and Chocolates understood every word of what he was saying. "So... do ya love me, Choco?" he looked at her sweetly.
"Of course I do!" she caressed his cheek.
"But in da way I'se just explained?" he asked shyly.
"Oh Jack! Since a long time ago" Not even before she finished her phrase, Jack got on his knees and asked the hardest question in his life with a breathtaking shyness and innocence. He took a small blue box with an amazing diamond ring he had bought with the money he had saved for over a year.
"Would... would you marry me, doll?" For the first time in a long time, he cried.
"Oh, Jack...." Chocolates looked surprised. She was crying too....
Ok, her answer on the next chapter. And no, that's not the 'twist'. The twist is very, very sad. Thanks to...
Serena Conlon
TheAngryPrincess13
Cinnamon
Goily
Inscrutablex
WannabeNewsie
Dimonah Tralon
I'mNotAMary-Sue
AniIRONY
But especially thanks to.... ShortAtntionSpaz and Sparks Kelly
Luv ya all!
Chocolates
