New Chapter is finally up! Sorry for the wait. With work and family business, finding time to write or draw isn't as frequent as i would like. I'll try if I can to at least update once a month or once a week when I get the time. Anywho enough jibber jabber on to le chapter! I don't own anything mentioned by Pixar, yadda yadda etc...Do I have to put that every time? Feedback, and questions much appreciated :)
Flick frantically rummaged around his closet to find a shirt to wear occasionally throwing a few items into the room nearly missing his friend's head by inches.
"Whoa! Hey! Was that a shoe? Flick your gonna give me a concussion, and I know you won't drive me to the hospital."
Flick halted his search making a mental note to search the pile of clothes in front of him again, as he got up to start looking in his dresser drawers.
"Well I don't see you helping me. Are you sure you haven't seen it?"
"Maybe if you cleaned your room once in a while you'd find your things"
"We can't all be neat freaks like you Walle"
Walle kicked a nearby laundry basket over, and picked up a blue button down shirt that fell from it and handed it to Flick.
"Tada."
"Where the hell did you find it?!" He asked as he quickly snatched it and dressed himself.
"Thank you Walle. Anytime Flick." Walle mockingly retorted. Flick rolled his eyes and grabbed a pair of shoes to put on.
"Yes Walle thank you for trashing my room even more."
Walle snorted "Yeah like you needed my help with that."
"Whatever. You know you really should come to the party. Woody and those guys invited practically the whole school. And it's in the parking lot so you really have no excuse."
Walle fell back on Flick's bed and fiddled with a Rubix cube that he was close to completing for the fifth time since he'd been there.
"Nah. You know parties aren't my thing. Plus they never have any vegan options when it comes to food. Not everyone is a carnivorous beast. Done. What's my time?" He asked as he finished the puzzle.
"I wasn't keeping track, I was too busy mourning your social life."
Flick's phone vibrated revealing a text from a friend asking where he was.
"Dot wants to know what's taking so long and if you're coming."
"Tell her maybe another time."
"Come on, you don't even have to do anything just kinda hang around."
"Exactly why it's pointless for me to go. Listen there is nothing you or anyone else can say that's going to get me out of here."
"Really? Cause she just sent me a text saying Atta and that girl Eve are there now."
"Bro where's my shoes?"
Nemo dodged his fifth beer can that evening, stepped on another cigarette, was offered yet another Trojan, and picked bread crumbs that somehow managed to get in his hair, and he was having the time of his life. The only parties he ever attended were birthday parties of children that his dad had to approve of first, so this one was something he could only envy through his imagination. He made his way over to Dash's truck in the middle of the parking lot, and hopped in the truck's bed where Dash was seated drinking a Pepsi.
"No beer?" Nemo questioned thinking Dash would be one of those under aged cool kids who drank.
"And screw up my running? No thanks. Plus I don't know what they put in that stuff. I heard one time that Buzz dude drank something at a party, and thirty minutes later he was running around with a glass bowl on his head saying he was from star command, zapping people with a laser pointer saying something about defending the galaxy"
The boys laughed, as they looked on at the crowd of people in the parking lot either dancing, chatting, or committing borderline rated R activities. Dash reached over through the rear shield of his truck to the inside to grab a bag of hot Cheetos but ended up empty handed.
"What the? I left the stuff back here. Hey did you see anyone near the truck? "
Nemo glanced down on his side then craned his neck to scan around. Seeing no one he shrugged his shoulders. A moment later they heard a tap from the roof and looked up. There were the chips along with a girl with long jet black hair, blue eyes, wearing a dark blue hoodie, sitting crossed legged with the bag in her lap occasionally eating a few.
"Really Vi?! How did you even get up there I didn't even see you!"
The girl tucked her long locks behind her ear only to have it fall in her face again.
"I guess I'm just that good."
She hopped down to the bed dropping the bag near Dash's legs, hopped down again to the ground and walked away in the opposite direction. Dash shook his head. "Weirdo".
He looked to Nemo to ask if he wanted some chips but found him in trance staring off into the direction where the girl just left.
"Earth to Nemo. Hey Nemo!"
Nemo snapped out of it and a wide grin spread across his face. "Who was that?" He said in awe.
Dash stared at Nemo for almost a minute with a look of disgust.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Before Dash answered back, he feigned nausea and dipped his head over his side of the truck making gagging noises.
"Oh God. Dude that's my older sister! She's... My older sister!"
"So? " Nemo shrugged in confusion.
"So it's gross if you think she's... you know"
"Hot? "
Dash quickly covered his ears
"Oh great lord why are you punishing my ears so! Make it stop!"
Nemo rolled his eyes. "You're overreacting"
"Nope nothing more from your vile mouth demon!"
" You sure you didn't have a drink? Or two?"
Woody sat in the bed of his truck surveying everything around him. He made sure to watch out for the crazy drunks who would keep them from doing anything like this again. He didn't want another Buzz mishap, which thankfully the headmaster had either forgotten about or just trusted Woody enough that it wouldn't happen again. With that thought in mind he turned his attention on Buzz who was at the moment participating in a Buffalo wing eating contest. Better him get a tummy ache then arrested for attempting to hijack a bus to report back to Star command. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Jessie and Bo returning from the bathroom of the school, Bo looking more down than yesterday with Jessie patting her on her shoulders presumably reassuring her about something. Woody leaped out the truck and quickly closed the distance between them wanting to know now what was going on.
"Okay seriously I want to know what's up. Bo what's the matter hun?"
Bo thanked Jessie before shooing her away to give them some privacy. They walked back to his truck, sitting in the bed side by side before Bo spoke up.
"Okay I'm just gonna get to the point. I'm leaving."
Woody shifted in the bed to turn so that he was facing Bo.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well you know that fashion internship I did last year?"
Woody nodded.
"Turns out they checked out my portfolio and they love it. They're offering me a full time position in Paris."
"You're not even finished with school yet."
"I have enough experience, plus what they're paying me will be enough to cover the rest of tuition."
Woody desperately tried to look for an excuse to keep her at the school, and with him.
"But... what about... I mean...It's just that well.. sigh"
He could see she was close to tears.
"And that's not all... I leave tomorrow."
Woody's heart sank. He was torn. On the one hand he didn't want her to leave, on the other he knew it was what she wanted, and he didn't want her missing out on the opportunity of a lifetime. A tear spilled on her cheek, as he held her in silence, for probably one of the last times in a long time.
Their moment was interrupted when Buzz came over, with Buffalo wing stains on his shirt, and a big grin on his face.
"You're looking at the wing champ guys! Yeah! Oh man I'm gonna have serious gas tomorrow, Oh well got twenty bucks out of it... Hey what's going on?" He asked, his smile fading as he noticed Bo in Woody's arms crying.
"Bo's leaving for Paris tomorrow, she got... a great job offer." He explained trying hard to keep his voice from cracking.
"Oh man. Well at least it's a good thing. You're following your dreams" he reassured Bo while patting her knee.
"And hey guys don't sweat it. Thanks to social media you can still at least talk to each other , and Skype right?"
Woody and Bo looked into each other's eyes knowing it wouldn't be that easy. Bo would be too busy with her job, even on most holidays with traveling and other things, and with Woody in school there would be barely any time for each other and sadly they knew that.
"Yeah Buzz. Thanks partner." He mustered a smile for his naive friend, who reached up gave him a pat on the shoulder and went off into the crowd.
Jessie came bounding towards them a minute later and immediately addressed Bo
"You told him?" She asked already knowing the answer. Bo wiped her tears and smiled, nodding to Jessie not wanting her to worry so much.
"Hey Jessie can you go get Buzz for me?" Woody asked as a thought just popped into his head.
"Sure where is he at?"
"He just left so he isn't too far and knowing him, wherever there is food"
Jessie went in search for Buzz while Bo looked up at Woody.
"Why do you need Buzz?"
"I figured since this is your last day..." he stated solemnly "We should spend it alone. I'm just gonna let Buzz know we're leaving."
"Okay where to?"
"Well first little lady I'm taking you out to dinner" he said with a smile, wanting to make her last day with him a worthy one. "And we can go back to to my place and just hang out."
"...Hang out?" She asked with a mischievous glint in her eye that Woody didn't catch until after he realized what he said and what Bo thought he meant.
"Yeah probably watch a movie and... Oh... you.. you meant the other hang out".
Bo giggled, something Woody was gonna miss hearing, and held him closer until Buzz and Jessie walked back up to them.
"Got him."
Buzz gave a loud rude burp, waving the air in front of him.
"Whoa those burritos was something else. What's up cowboy?"
"I sent Jessie to get you because... geez Buzz! Really? You're sleeping on the couch tonight. Anyway me and Bo are calling it a day."
"Why? I thought we were all hanging together? Especially since Bo is leaving." he asked confused
Not wanting to give all the details Woody tried explaining it the best he could. "We have the morning. Plus me and Bo, kinda want to say our goodbyes...alone ."
Buzz still confused asked "Why don't you say them tomorrow?"
Woody shook his head at his naive best friend. "Different kind of goodbyes Buzz."
"I don't understand what do mean -"
"Oh for crying out loud! They want private time Buzz!" Jessie shouted a little too loud to Woody's embarrassment, as a few people passing by noticed, some making wolf whistles, causing Woody and Bo to blush.
"Private ti- Oh. OH! Oooooh" Buzz said finally putting the pieces together.
Woody hopped down from the bed, red faced trying to get out there as quick as possible. He jumped in the front seat, Bo in the passenger and started the ignition. He could hear Buzz laughing from outside the truck.
"Haha you two have fun! Ow Jessie that hurt."
Woody turned the Bo apologetically "Sorry about him. You know how he gets."
"He's right though"
Woody looked at her in bewilderment
"The hell about?!"
"We should have fun" she concluded in the sultry manner that would always make Woody weak in the knees and damn near forget his name. He smiled as he kissed her hand,and held it for the rest of the drive.
He would miss her like crazy, and she would miss him, though they knew they had memories. Ones to keep, ones to make, and hopefully ones to look forward to. Woody knew someday they would be together again, no matter how long, he would wait for his doll to come back to him.