Sara sat in front of her mirror in her bedroom, and brushed her hair. It was
finally the day of Jenni’s big pool party. She smiled, excited to see Brian.
Neither of them had talked much since Brian had explained about being a
Backstreet Boy two days ago. She was stunned at first, and then wondered why
someone famous had ever wanted to go out with her. Her smile faded, thinking
about the only time she had left to spend with Brian. The phone rang,
interrupting her thoughts.
“Sara?” Jenni’s voice immediately asked, as Sara picked up the phone.
“Hey Jen! Sup?”
“You were suppose to be here.. oh.. an hour ago!” Jenni said, sounding
irritated.
“I know, I’m sorry, but with my parents back and stuff they wanted to spend
time with me. I’m on my way over in about 10.” Sara relieved Jenni.
“Okay, hurry up, we’ve got some work to do before everyone gets here!” Jenni’s
voice was relieved, but in a hurry.
“Okay, okay I’m on my way.” Sara said. She hung up the phone, and grabbed her
purse and things and headed downstairs.
“Mom, Dad, I’m headin over to Jenni’s. We’re having a get-together with
friends.” Sara hoped to slip away quickly.
“We just got home yesterday and you’re leaving us! Didn’t you miss us?!” Her
mother protested.
“No, you know I missed you! It’s just I haven’t seen much of my friend’s since
the beginning of summer. It’s gonna be a blast, come on, you gotta let me go!
I promised Jenni I was on my way over to help her set up!” Sara pleaded.
“Oh alright. You’ll be home later, then?”
“No, I’ll probably spend the night..... if that’s okay with you??” Sara said,
trying to give a pleading, innocent face. Her mother’s face seemed to show a
little bit of anger, but she didn’t protest.
“Alright. Call me tomorrow. But when you get home...” She began.
“I know.” Sara said, she already knew she was going to be staying in for a
while, her mother didn’t need to finish. “Thanks!” She said, and kissed her
parent’s cheeks and hurried out the door before they could change their minds.
“Honey, do you think Sara was okay while we were gone? I mean she seems so
different.” Sara’s mom asked her dad.
“I don’t know.. I wonder.” Was all her dad said. Sara’s mom shook her head and
went upstairs to her room.
Sara popped into Jenni’s house without knocking. First off, she knew no one
else would be home, and secondly, they’d always done that for as long as they
could both remember.
“Honey, I’m home!” She yelled, walking through out the halls of the house.
“Hey Sar, back in the yard.” She heard Jenni’s reply from the back yard. She
walked through the kitchen, out the patio door.
“Hey w’sup?”
“Duh, let’s see...” Jenni paused and looked up at the sky. “Well, that one
looks like a bunny rabbit, and that one looks like A.J.’s hear, and well that
one sorta resembles his foot, and...” She referred to the clouds.
“Oh, I wonder who’s head has been day dreaming in the sky all day.” Sara
laughed.
“Yeah, my guess is too much sun.” Jenni laughed, then pulled a strap of her
tank top and showed an old tan line next to a darker new one.
“Haha, farmer’s tans kick ass!” Sara laughed. “So, what’s the plan?”
“Well, basically to get everything ready before everyone gets here.” Jenni
replied, in a sarcastic tone.
“Haha, yes General Bubbles!” Sara saluted her best pal. She use to always call
Jenni ‘Bubbles’, because of the way, when they were little, she’d always end
up spilling the bottle of bubbles over everytime they were blowing bubbles.
“Shut up! I thought we got rid of that nickname a long time ago.”
“Well think again. I’m making sure that things goes on your wedding
invitation. HAHA”
“Oh don’t even start. We got a lot of work to do. Okay, first we get the 2
tables out, and lawn chairs, and table cloths out and then the food. Then the
streamers and balloons. Then the big stereo and everything else.”
“I thought this was just a small ‘get together’?” Sara asked, following Jenni
into the garage.
“It is.” Jenni laughed. The two girls began to work, like busy bees (LOL).
After moving the 2 tables, taping the tables cloths, and the lawn chairs
out of the garage into the hot scorching sun, the girls headed in for a drink.
Jenni opened the fridge.
“Let’s see, we got Coke, Sprite, A&W, Mountain Dew, and Fresca.”
“Coke all the way!” Sara said cheerfully. Jenni handed her a Coke, and a
Mountain Dew for herself. They both took extremely large gulps, and then had a
short burping contest.
“UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” Jenni burped then giggled.
“Oh yeah.... UGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!” Sara let out an even louder one. They
started laughing harder and harder as their eyes filled with tears.
“Okay okay,” Jenni hiccuped out through her laughter,” we still gotta do
more.” She set down her MD and headed to the garage.
“Oh, could we play with these!?” Sara cried, running to the corner of the
garage. She pulled out about 5 plastic floaties, 4 water noodles, and 2 beach
balls. “Sheesh, spoiled much!?” She yelled to Jenni, referring to all the
water toys. Jenni just stuck out her tongue.
“Sure, through ‘em in the pool. Come on now, I don’t want this to be a total
disaster when they all come!”
“Okay okay.” Sara said glumly. The still had a lot of work to do.
After about two and a half hours of setting up and arranging things, they
fell into the lawn chairs. A doorbell disturbed them, as soon as they fell.
“What? People aren’t suppose to come for another hour.” Sara said, confused.
Jenni got up and headed through the patio door, Sara quickly followed.
“It’s the V.I.P. guests.” Jenni said with a smile.