Present 15: KATIE
"Now that we've gone over the rules let's start. Kids under 21 pick from the bowl shaped like Santa and the Adults pick from the one with the Snowman." A deeply tanned man explained gesturing to a pair of holiday bowls next to him stuffed with pieces of paper.
One by one the large crowd of people gathered in the food court of the mall, swarmed the bowls and retrieved a piece of paper waiting with various degrees of patience as the Santa and Snowman were emptied.
Only then were they allowed to unfold the slips of paper. As the names were revealed to their eyes most smiled or simply nodded before folding the paper once more. Some however were far more vocal.
"SadieSadieSadieSadieSadieSadieSadieSadie". Katie chanted in her head as she slowly opened her paper. Seeing the Letter S followed by the Letter A had caused the thin BFFFL to grow excited.
"EEEEEEEE!!!! EEEE EEEE EEEEEEEE!!!!" Katie squealed in delight seeing the long line following the Letter A undoubtedly belonging to the letter D. Katie then shifted her finger. Hearing the excited squeals abruptly die out Sally and Sam looked at each other with horrified expressions on their faces.
The preppy girl and the skater teen remembering all too well the pink elephant and the boy band CD past gifts ago had wasted no time in blurting out appropriate gift ideas. Absently the tanned skin BFFL nodded before her ever present smile was back once more.
"Your turn Sadie!" Katie chirped watching as her best friend nodded eagerly and started to open her own slip. The rest of the group however just sighed bracing themselves for the next chorus of excited squeals.
"Oh my gosh. Sadie don't you just love the annual block party Secret Santa?" Katie commented a few hours later as the pair came out of the music store each carrying the newest shopping bag over their arms. "I love love love it!" Sadie replied happily. "I'm so glad that we could find Sally's and Katlyn's gifts at the same store."
"Seriously! Do you know how really bad it would be if we had gotten someone else?" Sadie nodded her head in agreement. "I know! Didn't Sam want some kind of cheese?" The plump BBF asked only for Katie's smile to disappear. "Salami and Olive. And…and….." Katie winced as she tried to get out the rest of the spoken request.
Sadie meanwhile grabbed Katie's hand. "I'm here for you Katie! Whatever it is we'll get through it! It can't totally be that bad." Katie after several minutes had passed had finally gotten the courage to speak. "And a bottle of grape jelly to dip it into."
"EWWWWWWWW!!!" The BFFL's cry of unified disgust echoed above the usual clamor of holiday mall shoppers and announced their approach to the food court. Several of the waiting adults chuckled and shook their heads.
By the time the best friends had returned, boxes of hot pizza were already ready and waiting on the long tables. Smiling happily the mismatched pair dumped their purchases on their table before heading over to makeshift buffet.
Ignoring the more unique topped pizzas, the girls headed down the line to where the normal flavors had been placed. They had been lucky. There were exactly two slices of sausage pizza remaining.
Smiling happily, Sadie had retrieved her own piece, but when Katie went to do the same the slice had disappeared before her eyes. Katie and Sadie turned glaring at Sam. "You jerk! That was Katie's!" Sadie yelled out only for the skater boy to smirk as he took a large bite.
Before tempers started to flare, one of the other parents had kindly informed them of the second order. Though still peeved at Sam, both girls returned to their table to wait. "Some guys can be so totally rude!" Katie commented through bites of her half of pizza. Sadie rolled her eyes holding the other half. "Seriously! They cut in line, they take your food...."
"Well sometimes they can be like nice." Katie admitted earning a questioning look from her best friend. "Remember the blueberry pancakes?" Sadie smiled brightly clapping her hands in excitement. "Yes! At the Gopher Flambé at Playa des Losers!" Both BFFL's squealed happily their anger from before quickly forgotten.
At Playa des Losers there were two restaurants. Gopher Flambé and the Belly up Bass. However the former was only open for breakfast and for good reason. Waffles, eggs, crepes, croissants fruit, omelets and much more…just about every single food item that could exist for a morning meal had been placed somewhere on the long buffet table, pleasing greatly the varied tastes of the voted off campers. Well all except one glaring exception.
The surprise addition of pancakes to the breakfast buffet one morning had been immediately taken advantage of and the popularity of the golden disks of joy disappeared at an astonishing rate.
Katie and Sadie had squealed in delight as they reached the head of the line and discovered the pancakes were more varied then they had first thought. It took a few seconds for them to decide. "Blueberry please!" The girls chimed happily.
Nodding the server took Katie's plate and filled it with the fluffy treat, but when it was Sadie's turn the server smiled apologetically causing a feeling of dread to descend on the pair. The words "Out" and "Sorry" had confirmed that fear.
Before Katie and Sadie could become truly upset, a pale hand took away the empty plate and replaced it with one filled with the much desired pancakes. Oblivious to the surprised looks he was receiving from the BFFL's Ezekiel proceeded to order another type before the homeschooler headed over to the fruit table.
"Sadie look! He gave you his blueberries!" Katie gasped out glancing from the blueberry pancakes to Sadie and then to Ezekiel. Sadie nodded a smile now touching her plump lips. "Oh my gosh! That was so super nice of him!"
"Totally nice! I didn't even know Ezekiel liked blueberry!" Katie said her bright smile turning to thoughtfulness as she watched the prairie raised boy heading towards one of the side tables. Exchanging another look with her best friend the pair walked over as well.
Ezekiel had been taken aback by Katie and Sadie wanting to sit with him, but had quickly agreed. The pair had scarcely sat down at the large table before Eva, Izzy, Lindsay, Beth and Cody approached. "You don't mind having a few more GIRLS sitting at your table right?" Eva darkly grinned. Ezekiel quickly shook his head.
While the homeschooled teen was slightly improving socially it had been obvious to the group of females and Cody that Ezekiel wasn't entirely comfortable with their presence, but he was attempting somewhat. Besides answering a simple question every now and then the toque clad teen had kept his mouth shut, something that had pleased Eva greatly.
Cody meanwhile had been studying the homeschooler with a sly eye and a smirk on his face. Opening his mouth the tech teen prepared to say something. However it was then that Ezekiel was suddenly waved over by one of the workers. Ezekiel nodded simply before leaving the table.
Shortly after Courtney and Bridgette entered the restaurant and sat down a few tables from their own. Ezekiel started to head back over to their table when Geoff, DJ and Duncan ambushed the brunette from the side and navigated the boy out to the restaurant.
"What do you supposth that was all about?" Beth wondered out loud. Katie, Sadie and the other females shrugged while Cody simply shook his head.
"KATIE!" The call from Katie's dad ended their musings. Running over the pair had expected to see the latest round of pizza boxes. An ordinary brown box decorated with simple green trees had been unexpected.
"Almost forgot. This came for you this morning and I thought you would like it now." Katie's dad grinned as he handed Katie a pair of scissors. Squealing in excitement, the best female friends for life attacked the box and pulled out the treasures within.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
As the squealing from the pair grew in both excitement and volume, most of their neighbors had walked over curious to the reason behind the girls' joy. Katie held in her hand a metal cookie cutter of a pigtailed gingerbread carefully balancing on one leg. The other was propped high in the air. Metal arms were extended and slightly curved.
Sadie on the other hand was holding a pair of gingerbread girl cookies in her hand. One represented the cookie cutter Katie held to a t and had been carefully iced to look like the sweet girl.
The other gingerbread girl was almost identical to the first with the exception of being a little chubbier, the shorter pigtails and the angle. It had also been iced to look like Sadie. "And look! They can hug each other! GBFFL's!!!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Two plates. One foor the person I met on the island and the other to share with friends and family eh.
And In case I never said soo, I didn't knoo I was hurting people with my woords and I'm really really really soorry for what I said on the island before eh!
And Sadie starts with S…I did noot forget her eh.
Happy Holidays, Katie
Ezekiel
I'm ironbloodaika from
freezing Missouri in US, my favorite characters are Duncan, Courtney, Eva,
Harold, Leshawna, Bridgette, Geoff, Izzy, and Noah. I just want to wish all my
friends, both real world and on the net a safe and awesome Christmas/Holiday!
Imagi's Ramblings: Wow I think that's my longest one yet! Hope you enjoyed the first half of the BFFFL's! :)
And as vague as they are this time Sally and Sam belong to me…there not official characters or anything. ;)
Let's see…we're down to 8 campers, but this is far from over. ;) Thanks again everyone for the reviews! :)
Til next camper! :D
Imagi
