Title: High School Years
Chapter 4: The Birthday Party (part 1)
AN: After much debate, I've decided to move the story line along. Sorry that it's taken so long, but I was having a bit of writers block, and a lot of homework. Now I have time to write because I'm at work, and very bored. I hope you all like this, and please read and review.
"So why do ALL of us have to go?" Josh questioned as he ate another chip. It was Friday and everyone was excited for the long weekend that was coming their way.
"You all don't have to come," Donna clarified, emphasizing the word don't. "Only Josh has to come. The rest of you are all more than welcome to join us and help with the festivities.
"Why am I the only one that has to go?"
"Because, you were whining and complaining, plus you are my boyfriend, it's your job.
"Yeah, alright." Josh resigned. He was actually excited about going to her little brother and sister's birthday party. They were twins, and turning 7. They both worshiped Josh although no one knew why.
"Donna, I'd be happy to help out." Said CJ as the rest of the ladies nodded their agreement.
"Good, it's Saturday at 2. We'll all be meeting at my house then carpool all the kids down to the pool. Sam you're coming, right?" She asked, as they would also need the space in his car to get all the kids down in one piece.
"Donna, where are your parents? Why aren't they planning this?" Questioned Charlie, he was not very well informed on the workings of her parents.
"They left a week ago for a month long Alaskan cruise." She stated with a sad look in her eye. Donna's parents were they type that weren't around very much. They were wealthy, as her father's family owned a chain of successful jewelry stores, and sometimes Donna felt like she should be living in Beverly Hills, not Georgetown. Mr. and Mrs. Moss spent most of their time traveling and partying with the high society. CJ, in their 13 year friendship had only met them a handful of times, and Josh hadn't met them at all.
"Anyway," Said Sam, "I'll definitely be there with tons of presents."
"Good," She smiled, as Josh put his arm around her shoulders and she leaned into him closely.
Saturday was an early start for Donna and Joshua. Donna awoke at 6:30, an hour she was positive wasn't supposed to exist on the weekends, to the sound of two almost seven year olds sneaking into her room. Sara came around to Donna's side while Jared came to Josh's side.
Yes, that's right Josh spent the night. He'd done so many times since they had started dating so the twins were used to it. The two also had their lies straight. Jared and Sara believed that he was just one of her friends spending the night, like CJ did. Donna's parents didn't know anything about it and most likely did care.
And Josh's parents, however, thought he was spending the night with Sam, because they had to work all night on the layout for the school paper because they published every Monday. Which wasn't a complete lie, Josh and Sam were the co-editors of the Kennedy and they did work very hard to make it one of the top 20 high school newspapers in the nation, they just never worked on it Friday or Saturday nights. Josh's parents were actually more intelligent than they sound, they probably did see right through the lie, but since they had no proof of wrong doing, they gave him the benefit of the doubt.
Donna held her finger to her lips, motioning for both of them to be quiet, as Josh was still sleeping. Sara climbed into bed beside Donna; it was obviously not her idea to wake up so early. Just then, Jared jumped on top of Josh, and Josh immediately woke up when it became hard to breathe because of the 55 pound weight on his chest.
"Hi." He said to Jared, who was smiling down at him.
"Hey," the little boy said excitedly. "I'm 7 today!"
"Yes, you are. What time is it?" Josh asked.
"Um… there's a 4, 3 and 6. But I'm pretty sure they don't go in that order." It didn't really matter to Josh what time it was, all he cared about was that is was way to early on a Saturday morning for anyone to be awake.
"You know," Said Donna, while Sara got under the cover to hide from the early morning chill. "Now that you are seven; you're going to need to learn to tell time."
"Alright, but not today, today is our birthday!" Jared shouted while pumping his fist in the air.
Josh turned on his side to look at Donna, and in the process dumped Jared into the middle of the queen sized bed. "Crap, their birthday is today? Why'd we plan the party for tomorrow?" He said in a teasing manner while winking at Sara so she would know he was tricking her brother. She smiled and let him continue, as she usually did. Sometimes her brother deserved the jokes that were played on him.
"DONNA! You didn't do that did you?" Jared shrieked
"Is today September 4th?"
"NO!"
"Then why would you birthday party be the day before you birthday?"
But our birthday is September 3rd!"
"Then I guess it is a good thing your party is today." She smiled at him; sometimes he was such an easy target.
He turned around and gave Josh 'the look,' the same one that he was positive all Moss' possessed, as it was identical to the one he'd received from Donna on numerous occasions. "Josh, you're not supposed to do that!"
"I'm sorry I couldn't help it! Just like I couldn't help this!" he said as he began tickling the child mercilessly.
"Stop…Stop…" he said through giggles as he squirmed around.
"Say uncle!"
"Uncle!" the little boy shrieked just as he kneed Josh in the stomach.
"Ella, I thought you said he wasn't going to do that anymore!" he exclaimed with this arms crossed trying to appear mad, but the huge smirk on his face ruined the entire look.
Donna shrugged at her younger brother, "Sorry man, that's out of my control."
They spent a few more minutes in bed until Josh's stomach growled. They all laughed, "So who's up for breakfast?" asked Josh.
The two little ones shouted that they were while Donna grimaced, for such small things they could certainly make a lot of noise. "Alright, go pick out what you want." Josh said as they both scooted off the bed and headed for the kitchen.
Josh rolled to his side and put his hand on Donna's bare stomach where her shirt had ridden up. For some reason, unknown to both of them, Josh love the feel of her stomach. It was warm, soft, and smooth. "Why don't you go take a shower, while I get them some breakfast?" Josh suggested continuing to stroke her stomach.
She smiled at him, and gave him a kiss. This was their normal routine. That's right they were 17, and they had a Saturday morning routine. Josh would make Sara and Jared breakfast, usually cereal because Josh couldn't make any thing else, then Donna would help them get dressed, while Josh took a shower.
After a few more kisses, Josh reluctantly stood up and with one last look at Donna, he went down to make sure Sara and Jared started their day off right.
"So did you decide yet?" He asked when he entered the kitchen and picked Sara up. Although she was the older of the two, by a whole 11 minutes as she will tell you, she was much smaller. She weighed almost 20lbs less than her brother and he was a good 4 inches taller. She liked it when Josh carried her around though; it made her feel like a princess.
"Yes, I would like cheerios." She said from his arms as she grabbed the box off of the counter. "And I want Coca Puffs" Jared asserted himself from beside Josh.
"Sorry dude, Donna said that since you're going to have tons of birthday caked later, you have to eat a healthy breakfast, which means…"
"Cornflakes with cut up strawberries and bananas." He finished rather glumly.
"You got it." Josh said as he set Sara on the counter top and began pouring the cereal.
AN: Well this was originally going to be the whole birthday party but it became to long, I think anyway. Please read and review!
