The next morning Machelle tried to turn over, but couldn't. Dean was snuggled up to her back and she was almost on Roman's chest, snuggled in to him. She looked over at the clock that was beside Roman on the nightstand it was eight o'clock.
Once El Torrito heard someone stir he jumped up on the bed stepping on Dean's legs on the way up the bed. He went over to Dean and gave him a kiss up the side of his face, then did the same for Machelle and Roman. Once everyone was awake he laid over all their bodies, feeling very proud of himself for waking them.
After they all petted him and played with him for a bit, they all got out of bed. Dean and Roman went to their rooms to change and Machelle went down stairs. She made coffee and then let El Torrito outside.
When the coffee was finished she grabbed the cups. Just as she was going to pour, the guys came down. Handing them their coffee, Machelle sat on one of the stools.
"I never got a chance to tell you guys last night, but guess what happened?" she took a sip of her coffee before telling them anyway, "The house is sold."
"What? That was fast," Roman said, looking between Machelle and Dean.
"Tom called last night and told me that there were two people interested in the house. There was a bidding war and well, I couldn't refuse." Machelle said
"Awesome," Dean said.
"So, I was thinking of having a going away slash thank you, BBQ for the guys that helped. Maybe invite the neighbours, they all knew Jamie. I know Jamie liked them all," Machelle said then added, "I asked Stephanie, to put up a sign at head office."
"So, when is the Party? I mean, how many days do we have to plan it?" Dean asked
"I planned on Saturday. It's pot luck, so I was thinking of renting a bouncy castle for the kids, burgers, and hot dogs, maybe chicken or a salmon-". Machelle started rambling but, was interrupted by Roman.
"Okay. Okay, slow down. First, let's write all this down, then we can figure out what we need," Roman said.
"It makes sense, Machelle," Dean said when Machelle shook her head.
"Okay, fine," Machelle said rolling eyes.
They sat at the kitchen island for an hour planning things. They looked in the phone book to rent the bouncy castle. Then they decided they should go to Costco to get the other things they would need like chips, Hamburgers, hot dogs and buns for both.
After about an hour of walking around Costco, filling their cart with what they needed, Dean started to get bored and began acting like a child, saying "Can we go now? I'm hungry!" in a whining child's voice. Machelle and Roman just rolled their eyes at him while others in the meat department started to laugh.
When they were standing in line, waiting to pay, Dean took off and came back with boxes of chocolate bars marshmallows, graham crackers and furry stuffed animals. "Dad can we get this?" He asked Roman, in that same childish tone, "I love chocolate and look at this bunny, isn't he soooo cute?" That was the last straw for Roman, he took him out of the store while people in the line laughed at Dean who was pretending to have a temper tantrum on the way out. Machelle just rolled her eyes and smiled.
When Machelle came out of the store, she started laughing when she saw Roman and Dean by the car, Roman looking as if he were giving Dean a stern talking to, while Dean still played the part of the naughty child. When the car was loaded, they decided to go out and get something to eat, just to make Dean happy. He perked right up after that.
When they got home they all helped bring the groceries in and helped Machelle put them away.
Dean and Roman wanted to go to the gym down the street, since the gym equipment was down at the youth centre. Dean asked Machelle to come but, then remembered she wouldn't be able to do much working out.
Roman rolled his eyes and gave Dean a smack on his head, which really did nothing more than ruffle his hair. Considering how bratty Dean had been at the store, Machelle couldn't help but laugh at this. Dean shook his head, but accepted Roman's "slap" realizing himself that asking Machelle to the gym really wasn't one of his brightest moves.
Machelle assured them that she would be fine and said she was going to take El Torrito for a walk and maybe ask Mr. Horton if he wanted to join them. The guys got into the car as Machelle went over to the neighbours.
Mr Horton agreed to the walk and as they were walking Machelle told him about the BBQ. He thought it was a great idea to invite the neighbours as Jamie was always helping them. Even if it was mowing their lawn or helping them by bringing their garbage cans in for them after the garbage truck came. As most of the people were older, Jamie just wanted to help.
On the way home from the park Machelle and Mr Horton were stopped by some of the neighbours. They had all seen the sign in front of the house and wanted to know what was going on. After Machelle explained, she told them about the BBQ. All of them said that they would bring something and pass along the message to others in the neighbourhood.
When Machelle got home, Dean and Roman were back and had brought home dinner. As they sat and ate Sushi in the kitchen, she told them about inviting the neighbours. It seemed that this party was going to be a big hit.
For the rest of the night they watched TV. Dean talked through all the shows. Roman knew it was a reflex that Dean had when he was trying not to fall asleep and that he didn't mean anything by it. He explained this to Machelle when Dean went to the kitchen for another bottle of water.
Dean had fallen asleep on the couch about an hour into NCIS. Machelle wanted to get back at him for being a brat in Costco, so she looked at Roman with an evil smile on her face. He smiled in return knowing that she was going to do something mischievous to Dean.
She went up stairs and came back down with a bag. She pulled out some blue eye shadow and put it on Dean's eye lids and drew hearts on his face with red lipstick. Then she took out some shaving cream from the bag and put it in his hand. She grabbed a feather from a display Jamie had on the fireplace mantle.
"You do know he is going to get you for this right?" Roman said.
"That's what you're here for to protect me if it gets to bad." Machelle said. Roman just nodded his head.
She then took the feather and tickled Dean's nose with it. Roman watched all this trying not to make to much noise. After a minute Dean went to smack it away and SMACK he had shaving cream all over his face.
Dean went to chase Machelle but, El Torrito got in the way and Dean stepped on his foot. Dean, feeling bad, went to console the big dog and see if he was okay. The dog had went behind Roman to get away. Machelle grabbed the can of Shaving cream and ran outside as to not make a mess in the house. Dean went to go out the patio doors when Machelle got him again with the shaving cream. Roman came outside to see what Dean would do.
Mr Horton heard the screaming and barking from El Torrito coming from next door, and went out on to his back deck and started laughing at the whole scene.
Dean went to grab her but, she ducked behind Roman. When Dean went to hug Roman, Roman side stepped him leaving Machelle exposed for Dean to grab her getting the shaving cream all over her back and in her hair.
"Why didn't you save me Roman?" Machelle asked.
"He's smart, he knows I'd kick his ass," Dean answered for Roman.
Roman was about to say something when Machelle got him with the rest of the can of shaving cream. Roman chased her around the yard. Dean was right behind him. They finally caught her when she was trying to get into the pool house that just happened to be locked. Then they both hugged her being careful of her arm making a Machelle sandwich getting shaving cream all over her this time.
They all laughed. Dean was rolling on the ground, El Torrito felt left out so he went and plopped down on Dean's chest and wouldn't let him up until Machelle grabbed his collar.
They all apologized to Mr. Horton for disturbing him. He just laughed and said it was okay he needed a laugh.
Then they went inside and cleaned up. Returning to Machelle's room to help her clean up, after they went over to the bed and watched the rest of NCIS and fell asleep again in her bed.