Chapter Thirteen – Good Night
Songs used in this chapter are 'I Got A Feeling' by Black Eyed Peas, and Mindy McCready's 'You'll Never Know'. (the latter song is only the first part, the rest of the song didn't fit entirely but I love the song.) Again, I do not own copyright, yada yada.
"Everyone," Rochelle pitched her voice low into the mic later that evening. "This is a slow dance, that I would like to dedicate to the sweetest couple in the room. Jessie and Buzz. Come dance, you two," she called them over, indicating the centre of the dance floor. Buzz led a blushing Jessie out as all the others stared. That was Jessie?
Rochelle motioned to Woody to press the button on the stereo across the room from where she was standing on the sofa. She noticed, despite the eyes watching them, Jessie wrapped her arms around Buzz's neck as he swayed with her around the dance floor to the music as Rochelle started to sing.
I bought a new red dress
To lift my spirits up
Just like you did honey
It cost me way too much
Next time you see me
I betcha you'll take a second look
You'll wonder why I look so good
You'll never know
How much I missed you
You won't see it in my face
You'll never know I'll never find another
That could take your place
Cause I'll be smiling when I see you
No my tears won't ever show
Yeah I might always love you
But you'll never know.
When the dance finished, the two of them stood together shyly while the other toys applauded. Rochelle was the first to approach, leaping down off the sofa to the carpeted floor. "I'm so happy for you," she grinned enthusiastically.
"I can't get over how good my Jessie looks," Buzz admitted, his eyes roving over Jessie's shapely figure in the red dress.
"Take a good look ranger. Tomorrow this is coming off," Jessie warned him with a smile, well aware of his looking her over.
Buzz just laughed. "We'll see about that. I'm sure I can find the superglue..." he started, and Jessie pounced and tackled him to the floor. In the scramble there was a ripping sound and Buzz snorted from under her. "Oops?"
"Not really," Jessie laughed. She stood up again and Buzz chuckled as he saw she was still wearing her cowboy pants under the dress.
"Cheat," he teased her, and she merely grinned.
"Well, looks like I get my way, Buzz. I won't be wearing this tomorrow, after all."
Amused solely by watching the two of them play fighting for a moment, Rochelle looked up at the TV. She walked across to the remote sitting nearby and flicked the mute button so the music blared from the TV, as the next song started up. A funky beat filling the room, she glanced across to the group of toys on the floor - then to where Woody was standing talking to Slinky - then across to Jessie and Buzz. Then she was walking through the crowd, pushing to the middle of the dance floor. As she started to dance, she suddenly found herself singing at the top of her voice.
I know that we'll have a ball
if we get down, and go out
and just lose it all
I feel stressed out, I wanna let it go
Lets go way out spaced out
and losing all control
She bounced up and down energetically in the middle of the floor, spinning in circles as the other toys merged around her. Suddenly Jessie was there besides her shimmying...followed a few minutes later by Woody, and then Buzz. She laughed, "I thought you guys didn't know how to dance!" She hollered, and Jessie laughed and shouted, "We had a good teacher! We only have to watch you to see how it's done!"
With that said, Rochelle shouted along with the song on the TV. "Tonight's gonna be a good good night." She sang happily, and to her surprise she found the others joining in.
"Tonight's the night," Woody and Buzz shouted, "Let's live it up!"
"Lets live it up!" Jessie chimed in.
"I got my money," Woody clamoured.
"Lets spend it up!" Rochelle continued.
"Go out and smash it" Woody and Buzz whooped together.
"Smash it!" Jessie repeated.
"Like oh my God," Woody laughed.
"Like oh my God," came Buzz's repetition.
"Jump off that sofa," Woody jumped on the spot.
"C'mon!" Buzz threw his hands up in the air.
"Lets kick it – UP!" Rochelle kicked out her leg fiercely.
"Fill up my cup," Woody held his arms aloft.
"Drink!" Jessie punched the air.
"Mazel tov!" Buzz declared.
"Le haim!" Jessie rolled the words off her tongue.
"Look at her dancing," Woody pointed at Jessie.
"Move it, move it" Jessie shimmied her hips.
"Just take it – off!" Rochelle laughed.
"Lets paint the town," Woody cried.
"Paint the town," Buzz reiterated.
"We'll shut it down," Woody exclaimed.
"Shut it down." Buzz echoed.
"Lets burn the roof and then we'll do it again!" Rochelle and Jessie cheered together.
They continued to dance together until the song came to a end. "Woohooo..." Rochelle sang along to the final part of the song, flinging her arms out happily.
Later on, when everything was tidied away and the other toys had trailed off to bed, Woody, Buzz, Rochelle and Jessie wound their way to the desk. They knew Bonnie would be home soon, and so Rochelle had to be helped back into her box.
Before she went back into the box she gave each of them a big hug, although Jessie's hug proved a little more hyper than either hug she bestowed on Woody or Buzz. "I guess I'll see you soon as a regular feature at the club," Rochelle teased Jessie, and the cowgirl rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, I expect you will." She went along with Rochelle's antics, and the blonde haired doll smiled, retrieving Jessie's shirt, boots and ribbon from where she'd stored it with her box and accessories.
"It was nice to see you looking fabulous," Rochelle whispered, "and for the record I think Buzz appreciated it too."
Jessie cleared her throat and shifted a little awkwardly, tying her hair back into a makeshift ponytail with the ribbon. "I don't think it's something I'm going to do often, Rochelle. I think I prefer being Jessie the cowgirl."
"Well, whatever you choose for yourself, just remember that you're Jessie with the musical yodelling," Rochelle reminded her.
Jessie smiled warmly, slipping her bare feet out of the sandals she'd been wearing, and tugging on her cowboy boots. "Don't worry, I don't intend to lose my music." She glanced over at Buzz and then just as quickly away. "Ever again," she added.
While Jessie wandered off for some privacy and to change back into her shirt, Buzz and Woody assisted Rochelle into the box and left her to wait out the hours alone on the desk until Bonnie's return. Woody went back to the bed, and Buzz hung around for Jessie.
The flame haired cowgirl eventually appeared, looking like her normal self, except her hair was still tied back in a ponytail instead of braided. A look that suited her, Buzz thought, as his girlfriend walked towards him.
"Howdy," he drawled, putting on a fake southern accent, and she sighed inwardly. 'He never changed,' she thought. But she wouldn't have him any other way, really.
"Howdy, spaceman. Everything okay?"
"Yeah, just the little matter of me escorting you back to the bed remaining," Buzz said, taking her hand in his and leading her down off the desk.
From the inside of the box on the desk, Rochelle pondered the happenings of the past week. Funny really. She'd made it through, and come out on the other side knowing herself better, too. And she had friends despite it all, who she thought she'd had pegged, and really, she didn't.
Only one thing she couldn't cover up, and she was pretty sure Bonnie wouldn't be able to figure it out either.
The little matter of the brown wrapping paper shredded and littering the desk around her box.
Fin.
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