A/N- Okay so this story was inspired by a friend of mine who had a similar experience….. it was just too funny to pass up…… I still laugh when I think about it… lol…. AJ is six here.
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Emily arrived home to a house full of children. Children who apparently had eaten just a tad too much sugar.
"JJ, what is going on?" Emily asked as she put her ready bag down on the floor.
"Oh hey, welcome home." JJ smiled and planted a gentle kiss on Emily's lips. "Your daughter's PeeWee Soccer team won their first game today so to celebrate, they are having a team sleep over." JJ smiled again.
"And this was the only house available?" Emily asked with a groan.
"Something like that." JJ laughed. "It's not that bad. They are pretty hyped up right now but give them about and hour and they will all be down for the count. The bigger the sugar high, the harder the crash."
"All part of your evil plan?"
"Exactly." JJ gave Emily another quick kiss. "So how was Kansas? You catch the guy?"
"Yeah, it was a long couple days though. I'm exhausted. I was hoping to come home and spend a quiet even at home with my wife and daughter, but I guess that will have to wait." Emily said with a groan.
"I'm sorry sweetie, but I promise I will make it up to you tomorrow." JJ said wagging her eyebrows.
"Oh really and do you care to elaborate?" Before JJ could answer AJ came running into the foyar where JJ and Emily were still standing.
"MOMMY!" The six year old screamed as she through her arms around Emily's leg.
"Hey there pumpkin." Emily smiled as she picked her daughter up. "I heard you won your first soccer game today."
"Yep!" AJ beamed with pride. "And I scored another goal."
"Way to go honey." Emily smiled as she put AJ back down on the ground. Even at the young age of six it was clear that AJ was going to be an amazing soccer player. Just another trait she inherited from her mother. Once back on the ground AJ took off back to the basement where all of her friends were. "Wow how much sugar has she had?" Emily laughed.
"A lot." JJ smiled as she and Emily walked into the living room.
Just as JJ had predicted all the girls 'crashed' about two hours later. Seemingly having dropped in mid movement, there were kids spread out throughout the basement and for the first time in four hours, the house was completely quiet.
"See I told you." JJ snickered as she and Emily made there way around the basement checking on each of the kids before heading off to bed themselves.
"Peace and quiet at last." Emily smiled as she leaned over to kiss AJ on the forehead. "Good night baby girl." Emily whispered in her ear before taking JJ hand and heading back up the steps.
Around 2am Emily awoke to the sound of crying. She grabbed her robe and made her way towards the living room, where she found a little girl sitting on the couch crying.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?" Emily asked as she sat down beside the little girl.
"I want my mommy." The little girl cried.
"I'm sorry sweetie your mommy is not here. Did you have bad dream?" Emily asked and little girl nodded her head. "It's okay, come here." Emily pulled the little girl into her lap and wrapped her arms around her.
Twenty minutes later JJ found Emily still sitting on the couch holding the now sleeping little girl.
"She had a bad dream. She wanted her mommy." Emily told JJ quietly. "She feel back asleep pretty quickly but I didn't know what to do next. I'm afraid if I move her she will wake up and start crying again."
"She looks pretty out of it. I bet if you laid her on the couch I bet she would be okay." Emily gently moved the sleeping girl to other end of the couch and as easily as possible slide her arm out from under her. Once that was accomplished and the little girl didn't wakeup, Emily and JJ made there way back to bed. "That was very sweet of you." JJ smiled as Emily wrapped her arms around her.
"I know." Emily teased before they both drifted off to sleep.
By noon the next day all the kids were gone except for April, the little girl that Emily had comforted the night before. Finally at around 1pm, April's mother arrived.
"I'm so sorry I'm late. Traffic was crazy." Mrs. Houston said as Emily let her into the house.
"That's okay." Emily smiled.
"Was she okay? Did you have any problems? This was her first official sleep over." Mrs. Houston smiled.
"She did wake up last night after she had a bad dream asking for you but it didn't take long for her to fall back asleep."
"Well that is good. I was really nervous." She laughed. "April honey get your stuff we need to go. Thanks again for inviting the team over. I'm sure they all enjoyed it."
"Oh don't think me, this was all JJ's idea." Emily said about the time that JJ came down the stairs carrying April's sleeping bag, with AJ and April following close behind.
"Hey honey, did you have a good time?"
"Yes I did." April smiled.
"Ok, well tell AJ bye. We really need to go before the pharmacy closes. The doctor gave us another prescription for that special shampoo." Mrs. Houston said as she took the sleeping bag from JJ.
"Special shampoo?" JJ asked.
"Yeah, April spent last weekend with her cousin and came home with a head full of lice." Emily and JJ just stared at the woman dumbfounded. Surely she wasn't stupid enough to send her daughter to a sleep over when she knew she had lice.
"Well, thanks again for inviting her. Bye." Mrs. Houston left before JJ or Emily could say anything.
"Did she really just say what I think she said?" JJ asked after the front door closed.
"You had better hope not." Emily replied. "Because if she did you are about to become a single parent, cause I am fairly certain I'm going to drop dead right now."
"There is no reason to panic yet, we will just clean all the sheets and we will…."
"Clean the sheets hell, I contemplating burning the whole damn house down." Emily sneered. "LICE JJ. LICE!!!" Emily yelled. "I held her in my arms. Oh god I need a shower." Before JJ could respond Emily was already in the bedroom stripping her clothes off. JJ couldn't help but laugh.
"What is lice mommy?" JJ's laughing instantly stopped when she looked down at her daughter who was scratching her head.
Twenty minutes later Emily came back out of the bedroom to find JJ on the phone.
"Okay, thank you Andy, we will be right over. I appreciate you doing this for me on such short notice." JJ closed her phone and turned to Emily.
"Oh don't even tell me." Emily groaned.
"We don't know anything yet. I just figured it would be better to safe than sorry. Andy said to bring her over and he would take a look. I could hear Amy laughing in the background." JJ teased.
"Yeah well she wouldn't think it was funny if it was her house." Emily said as shiver ran down her spine. "I think I need another shower." Emily bolted from the living room and once again was headed for the shower.
"Come on AJ, let's leave you crazy mother alone and go see Uncle Andy." JJ said laughing as she took AJ's hand and made her way to the car.
Three hours later, JJ was returning from the Andy's with thankfully a lice free child. AJ ran off upstairs to her room while JJ walked in the living room to find a pile of clothes, blankets, sheets, sleeping bags and various other items piled in the middle of the floor.
"What is going on?" JJ asked as Emily brought in another arm full of sheets.
"So what did Andy say? I swear to god if you tell me she has lice and I'm going the have a heart attack."
"Nope, she is completely lice free; so I ask again what is going on?" JJ asked again pointing the pile on the floor.
"This is everything that April might have come in contact with. It's all going in the trash."
"Don't you think that is a bit excessive? I mean we can just wash them. Andy said that it highly unlikely that she transferred any of the lice anyways."
"I don't care JJ. It's all going." Emily said with disgust. JJ looked down at the pile of stuff and pulled out her grandmother's quilt.
"You are out of your mind if you think I'm throwing away my grandmother's quilt."
"I'll buy you another one." Emily replied.
"You're going to buy me another 100 year old quilt that was hand crafted by my grandmother?" JJ said with raised eyebrows.
"Okay well maybe you can wash just that, but everything else gets thrown."
"Woman you have lost your mind."
"JJ that little girl had lice. Nasty little LICE!"
"I know that. I just spent the last three hours confirming that our daughter doesn't have them. Geez if you are this anal about the lice, god forbid Midnight ever get fleas."
"Don't even joke about something like that." Emily snapped. "That is way we spend a 100 dollars a month on that ridiculously expensive flea prevention medicine. It's making me itch just talking about fleas and lice. Gross."
"What about ticks?" JJ laughed finding this side of Emily extremely funny.
"Are you trying to kill me?"
"Ok, ok I'll stop." JJ said still laughing. "I just never realized that married such a 'girl'. I'm guessing you weren't much of a tomboy growing up uhn?" "
"Honey, I grew up the daughter of an Ambassador; what do you think?"
"Point taken." JJ smiled. "Do you want me to help you carry this to the trash can?"
"No I got it." Emily said as she gathered up the pile and carried to the garage.
Twenty minutes and another shower later, Emily joined JJ on the couch in the living room.
"I feel much better now." Emily smiled.
"Good, I'm glad." JJ teased. "You know, I could see if mom and dad can watch AJ tonight. I do believe I promised to make up for last night."
"Oh really." Emily snickered as she pushed JJ down on the couch and kissed her.
"I'm thinking that nice quiet night alone, just to the two us."
"Sounds nice." Emily replied kissing JJ again as she slowly undid the top button of JJ's shirt.
"You know your daughter is just upstairs."
"I don't care." Emily teased as she slide her hand into JJ's shirt. "OH SHIT!" Emily yelled as she jumped up from the couch.
"Well not quite the reaction I was hoping for." JJ said as she sat up. "What's wrong?" JJ asked as she re-buttoned her shirt.
"April slept on that couch."
"And?"
"I can't have the couch here knowing that there could be a whole army of lice on it. Grab your purse, we're going shopping."
"Are you serious?" JJ stared at Emily in shock. "In the middle of a make out session you decided that we need a new couch?"
"LICE JJ, LICE!!!" Emily yelled as she grabbed her car keys and headed for the front door.
"Good lord that woman is nuts." JJ mumbled under her breath but unfortunately loud enough for Emily to hear.
"Yeah well I may be nuts, but at least we'll lice free." Emily said she opened the door. "Now get your daughter so we can go shopping." JJ just rolled her eyes as she climbed the stairs to get AJ. "And don't roll your eyes at me, you love shopping." Emily said waiting impatiently by the front door for JJ to return.
"Yeah well I love what we are doing before a lot more." JJ replied with a smirk as she and AJ made their way to the car.
A/N- See funny right??? Of course my friend didn't think so when it was happening to her…. lol……. I hope you liked it…. PLEASE REVIEW…..
