New Beginnings
Chapter 13
Rachel drove Emma, Steph and Shawn over to the sleepover. When they got there, Rachel just dropped Emma off, said bye and to have fun, and drove away. Emma walked up to the door, and instead of knocking, she just opened it and walked in. Courtney told her that everyone in their group could do that, and that they were always welcome. Emma took a quick peek at Shawn and Steph, and, surprisingly, they weren't gaping at how big or nice Courtney's house was. They just followed Emma in, looking around a little. "This is a good sign," Emma thought. "They are either used to this kind of thing, or it just doesn't phase them. Either way, it's really good."
"Oh, hey Emm, you're here. I'm so glad. I really need to talk to you," Courtney said when she saw Emma.
"Okay, should I come to your room?"
"No, not 'til everyone gets here. But just come into this room. You guys can sit down if you want," Courtney said to Steph and Shawn, motioning to the huge leather couches that they were standing next to. Emma followed Courtney into the next room.
When they got there, Courtney squealed, "OMG he is so0o0o hot! But that's not the point. I was thinking, and I decided that we should get boys in our group also. I mean, I know that we hang out with boys and stuff, but we need to have some in our group. And, also, I just noticed this. Steph and Shawn aren't blonde, so if we let them into the group we'll have to change our name. But that doesn't bother me. The Blondies are kind of old fashioned anyway."
"Okay, that's fine with me, but what should we change our name to?"
"Yea, I was thinking about that, and I decided that we should think of names at the sleepover tonight. I mean, they won't definitely get in, but they might have some good ideas. Also, this will give us a chance to see how their minds work."
"Okay, that's a really good idea. BTW, I noticed something when I was walking in, and it's really good. Steph and Shawn just walked in like it was a normal house. They didn't seem phased by the size or anything."
"Ehmigod that's really good. And, also, I decided that no one else is going to come to the sleepover tonight, just me, you, Shawn, Steph, Allie and Jenna. If Steph gets in, then we don't have to have another sleepover for girls. But even if Shawn does get in, we still need more boys so we'll have to have another sleepover for them. I was thinking we should have one more girl come in, so that might be Steph, and five boys, so that we have the same number of boys and girls." Suddenly they heard Allie and Jenna in the hall so they went back to where Shawn and Steph were sitting to say hello.
"Hi, guys." Courtney said. "Me and Emma just went over this whole big thing, so she can tell you about it while I finish setting up my room." Courtney went upstairs and Emma quickly told Allie and Jenna what she and Courtney had been talking about. When she finished Courtney came downstairs and told everyone that she was done with her room.
"Okay, you all have to come up now," Courtney instructed.
Everyone followed Courtney up, and when they got to the closed doorway leading into her room, she stopped and gave them all a piece of paper that looked like this:
WELCOME
To My Sleepover
I hope that you all enjoy it!
The schedule is as follows:
Sleepover Starts: 7:30
Makeover for Steph: 7:45
Truth or Dare: 8:15
Never Have I Ever: 9:00
Eat Dinner: 10:00
Gossip: 11:00
Eat Dessert: 11:45
Gossip: 12:30
Never Have I Ever EXTREME: 1:00
Scary Stories: 2:30
Fridge Raid: 3:15
Eat/Gossip: 3:30
Truth or Dare EXTREME: 3:45
Group Name: 4:00
Then she led everyone inside her room, and they started Steph's makeover.
It took about the time that Courtney had predicted it would, just a little less, so Steph took the extra time to admire herself in the mirror. Courtney liked that.
"Well, my motto is, 'if you have time, look at yourself in the mirror,'" Courtney said.
Then they started playing truth or dare. It wasn't very fun at first, because people were just doing boring things, like, 'have you ever lied to a friend?' for the truths and 'I dare you to go run downstairs and back up in the dark' for the dares, but then it got a little more interesting with a little kissing and stuff like that. Truth or Dare was never as fun as Truth or Dare Extreme, though.
Then they played Never Have I Ever, but first Courtney had to explain how to play to Steph and Shawn.
"Okay, what you do is, we sit in a circle and one person says, 'never have I ever...' and then they say something. Like, it could be, never have I ever kissed someone that I just met. Then, whoever in the circle did do that, they have to take a sip of coke. And even if you did do that, you can still say that you didn't and then take a sip of coke. Then the next person goes, and they do the same thing. You're supposed to do it with beer, but we're not alcoholics."
Then they started playing. Courtney went first. "Never have I ever let a boy see me in just my bra on top." Everyone but Shawn took a sip. Courtney said to him, "if it's something like that, for you it will be never have I ever seen a girl in just that." Then Shawn took a sip.
Jenna went next, and it just went on like that until ten o'clock when they all went to eat dinner. Courtney's mom was a great cook and she had made Fettuccini Alfredo, which they all not only ate what was on their plates, but the leftovers in the pan, too.
Then they went up to Courtney's room, and it was time for gossiping. They gossiped about everything, from the high school where Courtney, Emma, Allie, and Jenna lived, to the high school that Shawn and Steph had gone to. Shawn and Steph had been born four months after their father died in war. Their mother died in childbirth, so they were taken to an adoption center where they were adopted after one year. The couple that had adopted them was too old to have kids of their own, and they died after fifteen years. One month ago, Phoebe and Mike had gone into the adoption center because they wanted to adopt kids, and they saw Shawn and Steph. They had known that they were going to adopt two kids, but they thought that it would be even better if they got twins. Then they had decided to move to Miami because they wanted to be near Rachel and Ross, but also because Mika had grown up here, and they ended up buying the house that Mike used to live in, right next door to Rachel and Ross.
Then they went downstairs and got a lot of ice cream. They ate it, then went upstairs and gossiped some more.
After that they played Never Have I Ever Extreme, which was the same as Never Have I Ever, except if you have done it, you have to do it again. "Like if you say, 'never have I ever eaten a carton of ice cream in five minutes' and you haven't, then you don't have to. But if you have, you have to do it again, kind of like you're proving it. But only the person whose turn it is has to do it. You can repeat ones that we did in regular Never Have I Ever. But we still have to take a sip of our soda if we did it."
Emma started this time. "Never have I ever kissed a boy." Then she took a sip of her coke. Since the only boy was Shawn, she would have to kiss him. Courtney narrowed her eyes and mentally took off one point from Emma. Emma and Shawn stood up, and then kissed. It wasn't a quick peck as Courtney would have liked it, but it wasn't exactly a French. At least, not any that Courtney could tell.
The game went on like that and at two thirty they told scary stories that weren't very scary. Then they raided the fridge and gossiped, and at three thirty they played Truth or Dare Extreme. It was the same as Truth or Dare except if you're doing truth and you have done it, you have to do it again.
There weren't really any juicy details in that one, no kissing or anything, but after that they had to pick a group name. There were a lot of suggestions, and Courtney wrote them all down. She showed us her list when everyone was out of ideas. It looked like this:
Group Name:
U Kno U Luv Us
Friends: Forever, Really It Ends Never, Dance Soon
U Wish
MTV: My Total Vote
So they decided that they wold be Friends. It was a good name, and since they made all the letters stand for something, it really summed up everything about them.
It was already four thirty, and Emma suggested that, even though you're not supposed to sleep at a sleepover, they should, because they had done a lot of things and she was a little worn out. Courtney agreed, so they all spread out their sleeping bags and laid down. In ten minutes, everyone was asleep. Except for two people. Shawn and Emma. They were downstairs. Emma had quietly asked everyone if they wanted to quickly get something to eat, but they were all asleep. Except for Shawn. So he went downstairs with her.
"What do you want?" Emma asked Shawn.
"Umm... what is there?"
"Everything. They have like, the whole supermarket in their kitchen."
"I'm not gonna have anything, actually. I'll just wait here," Shawn replied.
Emma was gonna ask why he came down then, if he wasn't gonna eat anything, but she decided that it was better this was. Instead she said, "So, do you play any sports?"
"Yeah, I play soccer. At my old school everyone played football and everyone was always like, 'you should try out for the football team!' and I said, 'I don't like football, you don't seem to understand.'"
"I know what you mean. I play soccer and I cheerlead, but I used to live in New York City and my best fiends played softball, so everyone was always saying that I should play softball, but I didn't like softball. I just moved here in September, so I haven't had a chance to join the soccer team yet, but I am on the cheerleading team."
"You lived in New York City! Is it really pretty?" Shawn asked.
"Yea, especially around this time of year when they have the big tree. My apartment was close to it, so I could just look out my window and see it. I would always invite my best friends over and we would have a party. Surprisingly, though, most of my friends were boys. I only had one really good friend that was a girl. It was really fun because we would all end up kissing when they turned on the lights on the tree." Emma's eyes were starting to glisten, and Shawn moved closer.
"It sounds really nice." This time Emma moved closer.
"Yea, it was," Emma said softly, then looked up into Shawn's eyes, down to the table and back to his eyes.
Then, before either of them knew what was happening, they were kissing, and it definitely was not a little peck.
omg this chapter was so0o0o long. It took me so long to write. I hope you like it though, really. PLEASE comment back, I really want feedback so I know what to improve. Also, please tell me which parts you liked best so that I can try to fit more things like that into the story.