Hey hey heyy! 'Kay, so I originally wrote one big chapter, but then divided it into two chapters. Honestly, this is not the best thing I wrote, but i guess it's... okay-ish.

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I was lying on the bed in my room and listening to music. Well, actually I only had one song on repeat, 'Bring the fire'. I listened to this song five times already, but it helped me remember him, how we danced together to it...

"...I feel unsteady

But now I'm ready

So come and get me

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Oh yeah, oh yeah..."

I still knew all the moves by heart. I was obviously going crazy. It would be better if I forgot about him forever, then I would live a normal life without worries. And you are probably thinking: "Does Cece Jones suddenly miss Gunther Hessenheffer?" To be honest, I also missed him before I lost my memory, but I tried to ignore this feeling. But I was even more angry with him. He considered me his friend and then left without even saying goodbye?

Yes, I played pranks on him and even tried to deport him from the country, but this was our thing and I never thought that he would actually ever leave! Sometimes we flirted, or rather he flirted and I could say something back (when no one was around, of course). However, there was nothing more than friendship (or what should we even call it?) between us, and we both knew about it, we were just fooling around. We were, as Rocky said, frenemies.

"...Do it up, do it up, do it up on the floor

Aye aye, yeah yeah..."

The song ended, I reached for the phone and pressed replay. Again. Sixth time.

I saw a new message and picked up my phone to read it. It was from Rocky: "Wanna go to the Crusty's? :D" Sure, why not. Everything is better than whatever I'm doing right now. So I typed a quick response: "Ofc, how 'bout 4?". A second later she wrote "See ya there!"

Time to end it all and get back to regular CeCe Jones. Okay, what will I wear? I spent half an hour choosing what to wear. When I looked at my watch and realized that I was already late, I quickly threw on a T-shirt with black and white stripes and black shorts. Even though the colors matched, I didn't like the way it looked, but there was no time to change anything. I grabbed my jacket and ran out of the apartment. Luckily today mom and Flynn went to some amusement park.

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When I finally came, my friends were already there.

"Oh, hi Rocky, Ty, Deuce," I waved to them. "Where's Tinka?"

"Hi CeCe," They said in unison and there was an awkward silence for a moment. Rocky was the first to speak. "That's why we all gathered here today."

"What do you mean, did something happen?" - I sat down at the table with them. There was pepperoni pizza on the table, I took a slice and started eating.

"Do you know what date it is today?" Were they all waiting for me to remember something?

"Um, no, I don't really keep track of dates." Okay, something was definitely up.

"Eighteenth of March, Tinka's birthday is in 5 days."

Oh great. Gunther and Tinka's birthday. How could I forget.

"She's been in a depressed mood lately because it's her first birthday without her brother. And since Tinka's our friend now, we are planning a surprise party for her!" Rocky stared at me as if she was waiting for my approval.

"Oh, it's a good idea actually!" Maybe planning a party will help me take my mind off everything.

"Great, so it's settled," Rocky smiled, took a whole stack of papers and started handing them out to everyone. "Here are all my ideas."

"Rocky, maybe you'd better tell us all your ideas? I don't want to read all of this," Deuce looked through everything Rocky gave him. "There are 10 sheets! With small text!"

"He's right," Ty agreed.

"Well, since we're throwing a party for Tinka and she doesn't expect anything, we can be less secretive..."

"Umm, well now we better be more secretive and hide all of this," Ty pointed to the door with a worried look on his face. Tinka was outside and about to open it.

"Hide, hide, hide!" Rocky was panicking and started stuffing papers into her bag.

I noticed that Ty also put some in her bag, and some under the menu. I couldn't think of anything other than to put my stack of papers under me.

"Oh, hi guys! I was looking for you," Tinka had dark circles under her eyes as if she had not slept all night, and her clothes were rather... Plain.

"Tinka, what happened?" I stared at her in complete shock.

"Everything is terrible, terrible!" She sat down with us and did a dramatic pose. I really hoped she didn't notice the papers I was sitting on because they made me look taller than everyone else. "We agreed to write letters to each other every week. But this week I wrote a letter and didn't hear anything from him!"

"From whom?" Deuce asked.

"Gunther, who else!" Tinka looked annoyed. "What's this?" She picked up the sheet of paper that was lying near Deuce and began to read:

"Idea number 8..."

"Those are... Menu ideas! For Crusty's!" Rocky quickly snatched it from her and Rocky's face clearly said that when Tinka leaves, she will kill Deuce.

"Oka-ay," Tinka didn't look convinced, but continued. "So, he always sent me letters and they were delivered every Thursday, but it's Sunday already!"

"Maybe the letter just got lost in the mail?" Ty suggested and ran his hand through his hair. "By the way, how did they get here so quickly before? I mean, don't you have to wait several weeks for it to arrive from another continent?"

"We have our ways. Oh well, I see that no one cares, so I'll just go..." She smiled sadly, got up from the table and started to walk away.

"N-no, wait Tinka, of course we care!" Rocky stopped her. "But I'm sure that everything will be fine, Ty is right, maybe the letter got lost in mail and it will arrive soon."

"Well I am not sure!"

Tinka stormed out.

After the sound of the door closing, there was an awkward silence (again!) and Rocky reached into her bag to take out the papers.

"Well, that was unexpected! Okay, back to planning the party. I've already decided a lot, everything will be held right here at Crusty's, and we need a theme. Bu-ut I've already decided on that too," She smiled her 'I've already done everything' smile and flipped her hair. "We need a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot! Of glitter, sequins and sparkles. Can you handle that?"