Oh my God, I got THE best present ever for my birthday (no, not the laptop. me and my mom are going to look at laptops tomorrow night. YAY!). But honestly, I think this is the best present I've ever gotten. Well, in one way at least. The way I see it, there are two types of awesome presents. Presents that you use all the time and can't live without, like my ipod for example. It's my baby and I use it every day so if you think about it logically, it's the best present I've ever recieved. But then there's those gifts that go a little deeper. Up until now, my favourite present ever was this little purple bracelet my brother picked out and paid for with his own money. It's not like I would have boughten it myself, but it just meant a lot to me. Okay, so the present I got didn't really trump that, but still. My best friend got me the movie Man on Fire which I wasn't THAT thrilled about at first because I'd never seen it so i wasn't sure I'd like it, but it's just such a good movie. I cried for like an hour. It's just so touching how much he loves that little girl...okay enough about that. Read. Please. Before I start crying again.
Tawni's POV
James and I sat on the couch in our living room together as a group of people fussed over Lily. Everyone seemed to think she was the cutest baby on earth. I couldn't say that I disagreed.
"Okay, guys, it's present time," myy mom announced. Everyone shut up and sat down. My mom picked up a rectangular box wrapped in pink paper off of the table that held the baby shower gifts and handed it to me.
"From Nico," I read aloud from the tag. I ripped off the paper and opened the box. "Aww," I exclaimed, holding up the dresses Nico had bought for Lily. All the women awwed right along with me, but Chad crinkled his nose in disgust at the frilly outfits. Nico chuckled, as if at some inside joke, but then quickly returned to the somber expression he'd been wearing all day. What was up with him today?
"Thank, Nico, they're adorable," I said.
"Sure, no problem," he mumbled. Malena put her arm around him and patted his shoulder, but he didn't cheer up much.
"Open mine next," Sonny piped up, pointing at a light green gift bag. "There's something for you and something for Lily." My mom handed it to me and I reached inside. The first thing was a box set of Dr. Suess books for Lily and the second was a disc.
"What is it?" I asked. Sonny gestured towards the blu-ray player (apparantly DVDs are thing of the past) and I put it in. And image of a sixteen year old version of Sonny and I appeared on the screen with the word "Play" across the bottom. I hit enter and Sonny's song "Work of Art" started playing, along with a montage of video clips of us on So Random. There was the Check it Out Girls sketch, the Real Princesses of New Jersey, and...seriously? We actually ended up doing Sonny's Soy Story sketch? Finally, I watched Marshall say goodbye to Sonny on her last episode of So Random and me throw my arms around her and cry. After that, came a montage of picture of us as we grew up into adults, pictures of the two of us with Ellie, a picture of Sonny, Chad, and I, posters of movies I was in and then the picture we'd taken of the two of us while we were visiting Chad at the hospital. The music faded out and the screen went black. Everyone was silent.
"That was the best gift I've ever gotten, Sonny," I exclaimed. I hugged her and my mom handed me another present. Once everything was opened, we all went back to being obsessed with Lily. Even Chad seemed to be having a good time, despite his aversion to James and the fact that I'd cheated on him. The only person who wasn't having any fun was Nico.
After the baby shower ended, James put Lily to bed and then returned to the couch. We'd finally gotten around to moving my stuff over to his place so chad could have his house back once they got around to moving Sonny and Ellie's stuff.
"That was nice," I said, kissing James.
"Yea," he agreed. But his mind seemed like it was somewhere else.
"What's wrong?" I asked. Wait, don't tell me. You're already married? You hate blondes? Oh, I know. You realized that you want Sonny now that she's with Chad? Just what I need! More drama.
"Nothing," he answered. "I just...wish I had friends like yours. They're amazing." That's it?
"Well, you'r part of our 'family' now," I told him. "My friend are your friends." James' face lit up.
"I've never really had friends," he confessed. "I've had co-stars and I've had girlfriends, but never friends. I kind of like the idea though."
"And I like the new you," I told him. James kissed me and another jolt of electricity shot through me. Every time. I thought to myself. For a couple seconds, everything was perfect. Then I remembered that James still had no idea about the time machine. I couldn't keep hiding the truth from him. It just wouldn't be right. The wedding was in a couple of months and I didn't want to marry him without him knowing first. I guess now was as good a time as any to tell him. I opened my mouth to speak, but I was interrupted by the sound of crying from upstairs.
"I'll go check on her," James said, running up the stairs. Great. Now I'd have time to talk myself out of telling him. And believe me, I would.
Well, that's a coincidence. I didn't even remember that half of this chapter was about Sonny giving Tawni the best gift ever and that's what my author's note was about. LOL. K, so about progress on this story, I've manage to write ANOTHER chapter so I think I may be overcoming my writer's block. The plot is getting more detailed every day and I've gone back and made a few changes in the first few chapters to make it work so I think I'm okay now. THANK GOD! I HATE writer's block.
Well, I'm off to go get a slice of dairy queen cake. Peace out suckahs!
