Well, if there's one thing Jessie was right about, it was about Bonnie's cousin's bringing their own toys and leaving them while they went on a road trip. Bonnie's two cousin's only brought three toy's each. One brought a fluffy white monkey with Velcro hands to hug you with, named Fruit Loop, a large sock monkey named Jannet, and a stuffed gray and white wolf named Silver.
Silver seemed to take a liking to Woody almost instantly, the moment she saw the cowgirl she got low and started to wag her tail happily. Slinky and Bullseye both felt an odd pang of jealousy as Woody played with the large stuffed animal like she would any other dog.
The other cousin brought a brown haired Barbie named Raquelle and she was everything their Barbie wasn't and not in a good way. Raquelle made it simple she was the most beautiful and had to be the center of attention, she tried to play it off as leader by ordering everyone around and almost seemed like she was going to attempt at roll call, however, Woody made it pretty clear that she was in charge by the fact that she had already done roll call and pretty much told Raquelle to take it down a peg.
Aside from Raquelle, there was Jewel a stuffed white tiger with black stripes and a clear red heart on her chest, and the final one was Candy a fluffy purple bunny rabbit with a matching bow around their neck. Everyone was happily communing with one another, Slinky and the rest noticed how Woody seemed to be pinned under Silver, the wolf laying on the cowgirl's lap as she just sort of laid there awkwardly.
"No, please, just lay on me. I have no where to be right now." Woody sarcastically said to the wolf as she laid on the ground. Whether or not the canine fully understood her, Silver rested her head and flopped over to her back, paws in the air, clearly planning on not going anywhere.
"I DIDN'T MEAN LITERALLY!" Woody cried out before groaning and resting her head on the ground.
"Ha, Ha." Hamm laughed at the sight. Suddenly, the lights to Bonnie's room dimmed down and the many Christmas lights that the child decorated the room with became the only light source, giving the room a nice holiday feel. The toy's mumbled to themselves for a moment before music started to play from the computer, it wasn't exactly Christmas music, but it was nice enough to dance to.
Jessie and Buzz were the first to break the ice, the two of them got to the middle of the floor and started to dance along, the next couple to dance was Totoro and Silver, the giant plushie probably saw Woody's dilemma and decided to help her out.
Slinky turned his head back to Woody, his friend now sitting cross legged on the floor, her hat slightly askew on her head, the Christmas lights seemed to dance around her, she had a nice smile on her face, as she probably expected someone to come up and ask her to dance, but, Slinky knew it wasn't going to happen for a while. He watched as a couple of attempts were made by Fruit Loop and Jannet as the two monkeys started to approach her, but the Potato heads did their jobs and quickly rushed in to take the monkey's away.
"You wanna dance?" Slinky heard, turning he looked up at Jewel, the tiger looking a tad lost, with a shrug, he allowed himself to dance with the tiger for the rest of the song, it was awkward and all together clumsy, but fun. When Slinky turned back to Woody, she was still sitting on the floor cross legged, her smile still there.
The next started to play, another fast one, they all continued to dance, Dolly danced with Buttercup for this one, and the three peas danced together as well.
It seemed like Silver wanted to try and dance with Woody, but Jessie was quick to take the wolf's paw's in her own hands and dance off. Slinky watched as Woody's smile seem to falter a bit. Instantly a bit of dread filled the slinky toy, Woody wasn't dumb, of course she'd pick up that something was up by this point, still, she said nothing and continued to sit there, waiting patiently.
Slinky felt bad, he kinda wanted to dance with his friend just so she didn't feel left out, but, if he did then Jessie would probably give him a good piece of her mind. Candy came hopping up to her from behind, and like lightning, Mr. Potato head practically tackled the rabbit into the closet, This caused Woody to turn, but once she saw nothing behind her she shrugged and went back to watching all the others dance. Slinky opted to dance with Jewel again, like before it was rather awkward and a little less fun for him.
Finally, the song faded out and the next one started.
It went on like that for a while, Woody sat there on the floor, waiting for someone, anyone to dance with her, slowly her smile started to fade and eventually she just looked awkward and lonely. It must of been forty minutes or so till the first slow song came on. People coupled up, Buzz and Jessie, Dolly and Pricklepants, Slinky and Silver, Rex and Trixie, and Fruit Loop and Jannet. Almost everyone was on the dance floor, but at the same time, they weren't really dancing.
Everyone practically had their eyes glued to Cap, who at this point had figured out that no one was dancing with Woody. Everyone held their and watched eagerly as they slowly spun around waiting and watching as Cap started to approach the cowgirl. Jessie was hitting Buzz excitedly, Slinky could hear her excited whispers of 'It's working!' and 'I told you!'
Cap was just behind Woody when the plan went up in flames. Before he could ask her, Raquelle came sprinting up to him and grabbed his arm, pulling him away from the cowgirl. Cap, being a gentleman took the Barbie's request and slow danced with her before anyone could stop them. By the time Slink got to turn around again to see Woody, she was gone.
"Sorry." He apologize to Silver before rushing up to see where his friend had gone, He could hear several of the other toy's groan out as he ran out of the room. He looked down the dark hallway and could see Bonnie's mother's room slightly ajar, lights flashing from inside the room, it was clear it wasn't Christmas lights and the sound of people talking told Slinky that Woody was watching TV. Pushing the door open, he found Woody sitting on the headboard, remote next to her as she watched TV.
"Hey." Slinky greeted her, she looked down at smiled.
"Hey." She smiled and went back to her show, some sort of Christmas special. Backing up, Slink ran and jumped on the bed, careful not to slip his hind end off of the edge, Slinky walked up to the headboard.
"You alright?" Slinky asked her, she shrugged and rubbed her arm.
"I'm fine. Just thought I'd make myself scarce. It's pretty clear that nobody was going to dance with me...Go back and enjoy the party Slink." She told him simply and went back to the show. A part of Slinky almost wanted to go back, however, seeing Woody all alone up there just watching TV while everyone else had fun made Slinky shake his head. Jumping up on the headboard he somehow managed to keep his balance and lay his head down on Woody's lap.
"So, whatcha watchin'?" He asked and She chuckled.
"I think it's about these two women that swap homes for Christmas. One's British while the other is American..."
For a while they sat like that, just watching the movie, nobody else came to check up on them, Slinky was going to give someone an earful later, but for now he just sat watching the movie. By the time it had ended, Woody had already fallen asleep in a rather awkward position on the headboard, she half on her side with her head down on Slinky coils, but also still sitting normally on the board. As silently as he could, Slinky slowly moved out from under her, her head hit the wooden headboard but she didn't wake. Jumping down from the board he looked back up at her, her soft breathing confirmed that she was fast asleep.
Silently he slipped out of Bonnie's mother's room and back to the party, when in her room he noticed that the festivities had died down, music was still being played and some toys were still dancing but most of them were just talking to one another now.
"Oh, I say, you've been gone for almost two hours. I take you found Woody?" Pricklepants asked him and Slinky nodded,
"She's asleep now." He told Pricklepants, Jessie frowned as she walked up to him.
"Asleep?"
"Yeah, she just settled on watching a movie seeing how nobody wanted to dance with her." Slinky told Jessie a little sternly, the cowgirl opened her mouth then shut it.
"I told you we should of had someone dance with her, even if it was just once." Mr. Potato head came in.
"How was I to know that Cap was going to dance with that Barbie? Urg...Once again my match making was ruined by a Barbie." She growled out.
"Quiet. Raquelle will hear you, the last thing we need is her pulling your hair now." Mrs. Potato hushed her. She crossed her arms in a slight pout and shook her head before saying,
"Still!...I feel bad now, I mean, Woody's probably feels lonelier than ever now...It's been hard on her and I just...I just wanted her to have someone...I just made things worse." Jessie sighed with a headshake, she then clutched onto her arm before added, "I see some of the looks she gets when she sees me and Buzz, or even the Potato heads...I just wanted to help her."
"Caaaap!"
Everyone heard Raquelle whine, they all noticed that Cap seemed to have up and vanished from the party.
Slinky had a pretty good guess on where the Captain possibly was at the moment as he turned to Bonnie's door that was now open. Letting out a slight hum, he excused himself from the group and left the room once more. Making his way to Bonnie's mom's room, he silently opened the door and looked up at the headboard. Yep, his suspicions were confirmed as Cap sat next to the sleeping cowgirl, it seemed he had moved her legs so she was in a more comfortable position.
"You know, if she wakes up and sees you watching her sleep she'll most likely punch you." Slinky told him with a soft chuckle, Cap let out a sigh in response before grabbing on to the headboard's pole and expertly sliding down it adding a bit of a spin at the bottom.
"I...Overheard Jessie." Was all Cap had to say to Slinky, it was time for Slinky to sigh out before shaking his head.
"Look, Don't feel too bad, yes, we had a plan, and yes it kinda went up in flames...But, that's not truly your fault. I mean we probably should of told you to avoid what happened." Slinky told him and Cap gave Slink a look before rubbing his arm. "Lets just leave her be for now, go back to Raquelle before she starts pulling her hair out looking for you."
"Yeah. I guess..."
Cap left and Slinky looked up at Woody, she had one arm now draped over the side of the headboard and her hat was now half off of her head ready to fall to the floor below. Slinky cautiously jumped back to the bed, reaching up to the headboard he grabbed her hat in his mouth and carefully placed in on Bonnie's mom's pillow, if he lost that hat, oh there'd be hell to pay. Once the hat was safe, he grabbed the remote and turned the TV off, placing that next to the hat, he jumped down from the bed and shut the door.
The party didn't last too long after that, seeing how the main attraction of getting two toy's together failed everyone just sort of went about their own ways, music still played but nobody really danced with one another, after a while Slinky fell asleep under the play table.
He was woken up by Jessie running in to Bonnie's room screaming like a mad woman, he wasn't the only one woken up by her as he could hear several toys groan as the bedroom light was flicked on and off at a frantic rate.
"Jessie, calm down, tell us what's wrong." Buzz said as he made his way to her.
"Well, I went to go and check up on Woody and...She's gone! I checked the whole house! I CAN'T FIND HER ANYWHERE!"
