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"The number you have reached is no longer in service".
"Of course." Woody sighed. He should have guessed his sister's phone would be off, she never paid it on time. He decided to call his girlfriend to see if she was available. No answer. Where was everybody, it was Saturday for Pete's sake! He sat there alone on the school bleachers, an usual site if anyone who knew him saw, head in his hands bored out of his mind. His last semester of school was starting in two days, and all he wanted was to hang out before classes started. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a young blonde, spikey haired boy, probably freshman, make his way to the track field. It was 7 o'clock in the morning and Woody thought he would be the only one out at this time. As the kid started his laps, at astonishing speed Woody noticed, his cellphone buzzed. The opening star wars theme was interrupted when he answered.
"Hey what's up? I've been trying to call you all morning. Oh really. No sure I believe you. She is? Well wake her up. No no I'll be there. Alrighty then. Bye."
Woody groaned as he stood up from the bleachers and made his way over to his truck to head right back home.
"What the - Buzz?! Are you serious? You're not doing anything important!" He exclaimed as he saw his best friend lounging on the sofa eating Cheeto puffs and watching cartoons. Buzz looked over his shoulder.
"That's more than little miss thing is doing right now" which came out a bit inaudible, with the chips stuffed in his mouth.
Woody sweared under his breath at Buzz while heading to another room.
"I heard that!"
Woody opened the bedroom door and stepped into the near pitch black room. As he clumsily maneuvered around the dark messy bedroom, he made his way over to the curtains and yanked them open, forcing blinding light to spill in.
"Wake up! " he shouted.
He looked into a pair of green eyes glaring at him from under the covers.
"You can't sleep forever Jessie."
Jessie stuck out her tongue at him.
"Try me" she said as she turned the other way and completely covered herself in her blankets. Woody, knowing the possible consequences, but too bored to care snatched the covers from her and threw them across the room. As quickly as he did that, Jessie pounced him, and did something so horrible, so torturous, so unimaginable...
She tickled him.
Buzz heard screaming come from the room and turned up the volume, without really thinking. A second later he jumped up from the couch, knocking Cheetos everywhere, and ran into the room.
"Jessie! Are you alright?! I...heard screaming."
Jessie looked up and grinned at Buzz
"Howdy. " she said as she was straddling Woody's back and had his face in the floor.
Buzz raised an eyebrow then doubled over in laughter.
"BWAAAHAAA! Oh man Jessie, you got him good. You alright there Woody?"
"Dust pine" he mumble into the carpet.
Buzz gave Jessie a thumbs up and left the room to resume watching cartoons. Woody tapped the floor frantically signaling to Jessie that he couldn't breathe.
"Gasp! For goodness sakes, Jessie get off!"
Jessie hopped off of Woody's back but not before giving him a noogie. "Oh lighten up cowboy. Now thanks to you I'm wide awake."
Woody stood and wiped at the wrinkles in his jeans.
"Good. I called you earlier because I wanted to see if you, Buzz, or Bo wanted to hang out today."
"Sure. Actually you know I was recently thinking we should all do something big before school starts. Something really neat to ring in the new semester."
Woody contemplated it for a second then nodded in agreement.
"Sounds good. Why don't we round up the gang and discuss it over at Pizza Planet?"
Jessie gave him a thumbs up and went to go inform Buzz, who had fell asleep in the middle of a Jetsons rerun.
"Alrighty everyone, I now call this meeting to -"
"Whoa there cowboy " Buzz interrupted. "If this is gonna be another one of your meetings, I'm out"
The gang arrived at Pizza Planet fifteen minutes prior and took their spot in the usual booth, Woody and Bo seated on one side, Buzz and Jessie on the other. The placed was packed with kids running about, teens trying to get first dibs on the arcade games, and frantic parents trying to keep up with everything to no avail. To the gang it was just another perfect Saturday.
"What? My meetings are great right guys?.. Guys?"
Jessie seemed distracted by the playing children, while Bo twiddled her fingers.
"Ah come on they're not that bad."
"Well sweetie you tend not to get to the point quick enough, and frankly they're... kinda boring." Bo admitted.
Woody clasped his hand over heart and gasped. "Ete tu Bo?"
Bo shrugged her shoulders and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek to make him feel better. It worked. A little.
"Well fine I'll just get to it then. So basically I think that we should-"
Buzz held out his hand to interrupt Woody again and stood up.
"Before you get to it, how bout I get us some pizza? I know I for one, am starving"
As he wove his way around various screaming kids running around, and towards the food counter, Woody glanced at Bo, who seemed lost in thought, with a half hearted smile on her face as if she was trying to be happy about something but couldn't quite manage.
"Hey, everything alright?"
She snapped out of her trance and nodded. "Yeah. I'm fine."
He also noticed Jessie looking at Bo with a sullen look. Jessie was always bad at poker faces and hiding her feelings so he knew something was up.
"Okay what's going on? Bo you know you can talk to me"
Before she could say a word, Woody heard the sound of shuffling of feet behind him even over all the noise of the playing and shouting.
"RAAAAAWWRRR!"
"Hey Rex. " Woody said without even turning around. The middle aged Pizza Planet employee came around to face the gang and threw his hands in the air. "Oh come on I still didn't scare you?! Not even a little?!"
Jessie raised her hand "You sure scared me" she lied to make their old friend feel a little better. He grinned and struck his attempt at a heroic pose.
Buzz returned with their food a second later to Jessie's dismay.
"Hey you forgot our drinks!"
Buzz groaned and started to make his way back to the counter, but after hearing his stomach grumble he thought twice about it and sat down to eat. Jessie clicked her tongue, and hopped over him out the booth to go retrieve the drinks. Woody turned his attention back to Rex.
"Hey where's Slinky, Pork, and Mr. Potato Head?"
Rex shook his head at Woody. "Now you know the boss doesn't like you calling him that... no matter what his head is shaped like" he added, more so to himself. Buzz raised an eyebrow at Woody. "Hey everyone here gets nicknames, what about me? I want one." He said through a mouthful of cheese pizza.
"Buzz, we gave them those nicknames when we were kids. "
"So? "
"Fine. Your nickname is Buzz."
"That's my real name"
"Buzzy?"
"Nicknames are overrated."
Jessie came back distributing the drinks and hopped over into her seat.
"Alright what I miss?"
"Buzz here wanted a nickname so we're calling him Buzzy from now on."
"The hell we're not" Buzz countered through another bite of pizza.
Jessie giggled and patted his cheek.
"I think it's cute. Our little Buzzy wuzzy".
Buzz through mid swig of his soda, turned beet red and choked on his drink. Jessie noticing too late that she practically just gave her friend a pet name blushed with embarrassment, causing the surrounding party to burst into laughter, all except Woody who didn't find the mishap between his best friend and his sister all too amusing.
"If you two are done, I would like to get on with my plan."
Jessie made the zipped shut gesture to her mouth giving Woody his chance to speak.
"Thank you. Now seeing as tomorrow is the last day of break, we don't have a lot of time to do anything too major so I was gonna suggest we-"
Buzz slammed his hand on the table roughly, inadvertently causing everyone to jump.
"Wait a minute! I got it. We should throw a party!"
Woody's jaw dropped as his friend cut him off to declare the idea he was just about to voice. "Buzz! I was gonna say-"
"Oh! And we should probably have it somewhere kinda big so the school can come.
"Ooo like the parking lot or the track field!" Jessie added.
In a way Woody was grateful that Jessie spoke up because his initial thought was to have it here at Pizza Planet but now thought twice about it since:
1. It wouldn't be big enough to fit even the senior class let alone the whole school.
And 2. This place was more so the gang's special place, something more sophisticated people their age wouldn't even think about attending. Some people liked going out for beer, nachos, and pool, they enjoyed root beer, greasy pizza, and air hockey. Jessie and Buzz had already whipped out their phones sending mass texts informing people of the plan and to bring drinks and food, while Woody slumped in his seat a bit and pouted. Bo giggled and brought Woody's head to rest on her shoulder, as she patted him like the child he was portraying.