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I must've apologized to Marie for Pauls' behavior a hundred times on the drive back to my house. I can't believe he was with Jessica either. What was that all about anyway? We pull up to my house and its almost nine o'clock. Nine o'clock! Fuck. As we get out of the car I notice no one else's car is here except Lia's and Bobs. Bob is sitting on the front step smoking. And he's all alone.

"Where the hell is everyone Bob?" I ask him and he smiles. "Bob?" I insist.

He smirks and flicks his cigarette butt onto the lawn. "Lia sent them home." He says standing up.

"What?" I gasp. "What do you mean she sent them home?" I say to him. What the fuck is going on here?

"To change." He clarifies. "Uh Ray and Frankie took the girls back home to change into their suits." He says nodding at Marie.

"Suits?" She asks him.

"Bathing suits." He tells her and then looks over at me. "Apparently someone has a Jacuzzi they forgot to mention... and Frankie wanted to get his camera too." He adds smiling a little.

I roll my eyes and head up the steps. "And Gerard?" I ask.

"He umm went with Mikey to the store for some smokes- wait Elle don't open the door." He says blocking the way.

"What is it Bob?' I said feeling a little nauseous again. I try to go around him.

"I tried Elle." He says spreading his arms so I couldn't pass. "I swear to fucking God I tried! That girl is just... she's crazy." He said shaking his head.

"Bob just move!" I yell pushing him out of the way and opening the door. The hall way was filled with balloons. I mean the floor was covered in them. You had to push your way through them to walk. Okay so Lia likes balloons. I've always known that. This isn't the first time she's went a little balloon crazy. It's not a big deal.

"Wow um balloons!" Marie giggles a little at the sight of them.

"This isn't too bad Bob." I smile at him and he bites his lip. "Bob." I say and he looks away. "Bob is this what you were worried about." I repeat and he doesn't answer. We're still standing in the front hall.

"Did you blow all these up?" Marie asks Bob liked shed be impressed if he did.

"Lia rented a pump." He tells her and I made a face.

"Rented?" I asked him. That sounded expensive. And she had my bankcard...

"We um. compromised." He says weakly. I sigh. "She um wanted to fill the house with helium balloons." He tells me and Marie. 'You know, floor to ceiling."

I shake my head. "Bob you wouldn't be able to walk if it was filled with balloons like that- let alone have a party."

"I tried to explain that to her Elle." He says shaking his head. "She just didn't care though." He laughs.

"Oh Bob, I'm so sorry I left you with her." I say laughing too. "I know she can be..."

"Well I finally explained to her that if we did that-then you know no one could smoke... cause, you know 'KA-BOOM!'." He says waving his hands in the air. Marie started giggling.

"Well this isn't too bad Bob." I say kicking the balloons out of the way as we walked into the living room.

"Wait no Elle!" he calls out. "that's not.."

"Why is the kitchen table in the middle of the living room?" I say to Bob loudly.

"Oh your back Ellie!" Lia calls out and appears in the kitchen doorway smiling.

"Yeah that was a uh -another 'compromise' Elle." He sighs.

"Compromise on what?" I say roughly to him.

"I figure if she's going to do it at least do it in the kitchen." He tells me looking down.

"Do what??" I say shaking my head at him. Lia's smiling widely. Bob wont look at me. Marie is smiling nervously back at Lia.

"Remember last year... when you missed my birthday to go skiing with Paul." Lia tells me smiling.

"Umm yeah." I say hesitantly. I try to look around her to see what's in the kitchen but she's blocking me.

"Well remember you said that the next year I could throw a party and do what ever I wanted?" She asks me and I start to get real nervous.

"Its not your birthday yet Lia." I tell her and she shrugs.

"It's the same thing." She says not making any sense. I push her out of the way and go into the kitchen. Where the table use to be she's got a fucking inflatable kiddy pool filled with.. with.. what the fuck is that?

"Is this chocolate pudding Lia?" I say sticking my finger in it.

"Uh- huh!" She smiles.

"Why is there a pool full of chocolate pudding in my kitchen Lia."I say biting down on my lip.

"I told Frankie since he wasn't old enough to see my 'act' at the club I'd show him here." She says quite proudly too.

"And your 'act' involves a pool filled with chocolate pudding?" I start to yell.

"And Crystal!" Bob laughs. I look over at Marie. She looks like she's about to run out of here screaming. I told her this was gonna be a nice normal party... Nothing freaky...fuck...

"No, um Lia. You invited Crystal? To perform? Here? Now?" I say panicking a little.

"No" She says plainly. "You owe me one remember so I thought that you could-"
I cut her off. "What's in all these fucking trash bags Lia?" I say opening one up. There was fucking like ten trash bags lined up against the wall.

"Okay Elle that is not my fault." Bob says taking a step back. I pull out a single serving sized empty pudding cup and hold it up.

"That's a pudding cup Elle." Lia tells me plainly.

"Did you?" I look over at the pool and then back at the trash bags lined up against the wall. "Did you fill the pool with these?" I ask her.

She nods. "Well duh!" She tells me.

"You filled the pool with single sized snack cups?" I repeat.

"Well that's what pudding comes in Elle." She tells me nodding a little.

"Lia do you have any idea how many of these little fucking snack cups it takes to fill a pool like that?" I yell.

"Two thousand, nine hundred, and twenty-six." She tells me plainly. My jaw just dropped open. "I mean it literally took me all day too to find that many." She says to Marie and Marie shrugs. "Thank god for Wal-Mart they sell them in bulk you know."

"They also sell LARGER containers Lia!" I scream at her. "Do you know how much these fucking cost!" I say waving an empty one at her. "Like a fucking dollar each right?"

"Chill out Elle!" Lia laughs. "They're like um 1.99 a four pack." She shrugs.

"Lia you bought two thousand of them on my bank card!!!" I yell tossing my hands in the air. She shrugs. "I'm gonna kick your fucking ass." I tell her.

"As long as you do it while we're covered in pudding Elle, that's all I'm asking." She tells me smiling...


Gerard and Mikey must've come in when I was screaming at Lia. Cause at first I didn't notice them. I heard Mikey say something to Marie about going outside to get away from all the craziness and then they left. They went out on the back porch. I can see them sitting on the porch swing. They looked so cute too. Mikey casually had his arm outstretched on the seat behind Marie and she was casually trying to lean back to get him to put his arm around her...It was so sweet... I kinda got distracted watching them. Gerard was helping Bob take all the garbage bags to the curb and Lia was pouting over my refusal to fucking wrestle her in pudding.

"This is my life, do you believe this?" I say to Frankie as he walks into the kitchen smirking at the pudding pool.

"I brought my camera Elle." He tells me smiling widely as he holds it up.

"I got a picture for you Frankie!" I tell him flipping him off. Ray, Sara, and Chrissy were in the living room. I know cause I can hear Chrissys giggle a mile away.

I turn back to Lia. "We need to talk about last night." I tell her as Bob walks back in. Lia was pulling the jello shots from the fridge out. She hands me one and I down it with out even thinking. She does the same.

"Put these on the table babe." She says to Bob and he takes them from her after drinking one himself.

"I thought you guys broke up?" I say confused.

"We did. I mean we're seeing other people Elle." Lia says as he walks out. She hands me a beer from the fridge.

"Like Crystal?" I say drinking from it. Lia froze for a second.

"HE told you that?" She said with her back to me.

"No. I was talking to Gerard." I tell her and she makes a face. "Lia I think we need to talk." I say as he walks back in. She frowns and takes the now empty beer bottle from me.

"Hey what took you so long to get back with Marie Elle?" Gerard interrupts us and doesn't even realize it... He lights a cigarette up and hands it to me..."I was kinda worried about you, you know." He says to me... He's so fucking good to me I swear...

"Huh?" I say taking it from him. I take a nice long drag from it. Letting the smoke fill my lungs.

"Did you stop and return his 'jacket'?" He scoffs a little. Lia looks over. She doesn't know what he's talking about.


"Yeah." I nod exhaling.

"And?" He says waiting for me to go on.

"And it took longer than I thought." I sigh. Lia started pulling out all this crap from the fridge and handing to Bob to bring into the living room. "I had to feed 'em and put 'em to bed." I say reaching over and grabbing another beer from Bob's arms as he walked by.

"You put Paul to bed?" Gerard says loudly, giving me a funny look.

I laughed. "No his little brothers!" I say twisting the top off and taking a long sip. "He fucking left them downstairs eating peanut butter and jelly while he was upstairs fucking around." I scoff...

"Elle Mikey and I use to eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the time. I'm sure they'd survive." He laughed.

"No you don't get it." I try to explain. "They were eating it from the jars." I say and Lia laughs. "And he was fucking upstairs just fooling around with Jessica!" I tell him and his face drops. "I mean she could've fucking fed them something you know!."

"Jessica?" He says shaking his head a little.

"Yeah they were upstairs." I say plainly.

"My Jessica?" He says loudly... My Jessica? Is that what he just said? I felt like he took a knife and plunged it into my heart. I just stood there. "He was fucking around with Jessica Elle!" He says loudly, getting real worked up.

"Wow." I say taking a step back. Lia looked over.

"Who's Jessica?" She asks leaning over.

"Obviously some one who's very important to Gerard still." I say choking back my tears.

"Elle baby I..." He says reaching for me. I pull away. I don't believe this. He still loves her. Its obvious now...God how could I be so stupid. I was always so worried he thought I was using him to make Paul jealous. I never considered that he might be using me to make Jessica jealous...

"Don't Gerard." I say shaking my head at him. "I get it...I so get it..."

"He's an asshole Elle." Gerard says loudly waving his hand a little. "I told her to stay the fuck away from him." He grumbles to himself.

"So you're saying this is about him and not her?" I say raising my voice slightly at him. Who the fuck is he trying to kid?! "Really Gerard!" I laugh at him in disbelief.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" He shakes his head at me.

"Cause you use to date her remember?" I say and Lia frowns and comes over towards us.

"So fucking what?" He tells me.

"So fucking what? So is any girl who gets involved with him gonna piss you off or is it just her that you're worried about?" I demand. He just looked at me and didn't answer. "Well do you have a problem with it cause its Paul or cause its Jessica?" I yell at him.

"Its both of them Elle!" He yells back at me.

"Okay calm down." Lia steps in between us.

"He's a motherfucker Elle." He scoffs. "And SHE should know better!" He yells again. Ray came in to the kitchen doorway to see what was going on.

Lia folds her arms and glares over at Gerard. "Okay really is that it?." She sighs and looks over at me.

"Is everything okay in here?" Ray says looking over at us. I think he was worried Lia and Gerard were fighting again.

"Yeah we're okay." I say looking over at Gerard. I reach up and wipe a tear from my eye. Gerard frowns a little at me. He didn't like to see me upset. His face softened a little.

"I just don't want to see her get hurt- that's all." He says softly looking into my eyes..

I bite down on my lip and look away. "Cause you still love her right?" I say.

"Naw, Elle!" He says stepping around Lia and pulling me towards him. "I don't love her." He says softly in my ear. " That's not why... I mean you know I love you." He says and I press my face into his chest. "And only you." He says as I take a deep breath.

"I just.. you know how he is." He says hugging me. I can feel him tensing up again. "He knew this would piss me off." Gerard mumbles pulling me tighter.

I pull back a little. "You think he came on to her to piss you off?" I laugh a little.

"Why else Elle?" He tells me. Very seriously too.

"Gerard. She was in HIS room." I say and he looks at me blankly. "I mean she went to him." I say and he looks at me like I'm crazy.

"She wouldn't do that. She knows how I feel about him." He tells me taking the beer bottle from me and finishing it off it one big gulp. "He was taking advantage of her Elle." He tells me shaking his head a little. And that's when it hit me. She knew Gerard didn't like Paul. She knew this would get his attention. She went there knowing I'd find out. I bet she knew I was gonna go return Pauls jacket too. She wanted me to catch her there and tell Gerard. I don't know how she knew I was going. But I know she knew. It couldn't have been a coincidence...What a fucking bitch...
Lia's looking at me out of the corner of her eye. Trying to figure out what I'm thinking. "Are you guys good now or what?" She says looking at me and then at Gerard.

"Yeah we're good." I say reaching up and kissing Gerard's lips lightly. Its Jessica whose gonna have a problem...
Mikey and Marie come back inside. He's holding her hand and she was blushing. It was so cute. Lia pulls out another tray of Jello shots. I really didn't think we made that many. She's starts passing them out. She hands me an orange one. I make a face.

"Fuck you and you're fucking colored foods!" She teases switching my cup for a red one.

"I just don't like orange." I laugh.

"What flavors red?" I hear Mikey ask as I swallow mine.

"It doesn't have a flavor. Its just red." I tell him and he laughs.

"Everything has a flavor." He says.

"I think its Cherry." Marie says.

"Really?" I say taking another one from the tray Lia's holding.

"Elle slow down." I hear Gerard say behind me.

"I'm just trying to taste what flavor it is." I say laughing a little. I stumble a little following Gerard into the living room. Maybe he's right and I should slow down.

We go into the living room. Ray and Sara are on the couch. Frankie and Chrissy (ugh) are sitting at the kitchen table in the center of the room. They had the radio on. And the TV too. They weren't watching either one. Just talking amongst themselves. I was gonna say something too. I mean electricity's not free. And now that Lia ran up my card with pudding... I'm fucking broke...

Bob went and sat on the loveseat. Mikey pushed some balloons out of the way for him and Marie to sit on the floor leaning back on the coffee table. Gerard sat in one kitchen chair and motioned for me to sit in the other one next to him. I wanted to curl up on the couch but what ever. I sat on the hard chair and pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around them. I leant my head forward on my knees and looked over at Gerard talking to Mikey. I just watched him. How could he be so cute and so fucking stupid? I mean it was so obvious Jessica wanted him back. I mean how could she not want him. He's perfect... How could he not see she was trying to get his attention. I mean could he really think that-

"Elle?" Lia says loudly in my ear. I jump a little. "You okay you're spacing out there." She laughs.

"Uh... Yeah I'm fine." I say standing up. Lia shrugs. Sara looks up at her from the couch. I think she was kinda afraid of Lia. I mean that's the look she was giving her at least. I know Lia saw it too. Now if there's one thing Lia loves more than balloons- its making trouble. She smiles at Ray and walks over and sits next to him on the couch. Sara's on one side of him and Lia's on the other now. She could've went and sat next to Bob, but nooo... fuck.

Sara looks over at her nervously. Lia smiles. Rays shifts a little. I bite my lip and look at Bob. He shrugs and smiles slightly amused. I reach for another Jello shot. Chrissy stands up.

"No wait Elle." She giggles. "You can't drink it!" She says taking it right out of my hand.

"Why the fuck not?" I blurt out and I hear Gerard sigh behind me.

"Were gonna play a game silly!" she tells me and I roll my eyes.

"Um cant we just drink Chrissy?" Gerard says pulling me into his lap.

"No!' She whines. "It'll be fun!' she says smiling widely at us.

"Are there cards involved?" I say making a face.

She laughs. "No Elle!"

"Then what do you do Chrissy?" Gerard says getting a little impatient.

"Okay Gee the first one will be for you!" She smiles at him. Did she just call him Gee? What the fuck is her problem? First she's staring at him in the movies and now she's giving him a pet name? "Sooo what you do.." she carries on. "Here." She says handing him a shot glass. "Like I'll say 'I never 'dot dot dot'.' and if you never did it you don't have to drink."

Everyone's nodding. I'm so fucking confused. "Wait you DON'T drink?" I ask and Chrissy nods. "I though the whole point was to drink?!"

"No only if you did do it. " She says like that explains it.

"Did what?" I ask.

"Dot dot dot." Sara says.

"What the fuck is dot dot dot?" I say and they're all looking at me like I'm nuts.

"Its whatever we say." Chrissy explains.

"I don't get it." I say shaking my head a little.

"Okay here." Chrissy passes shot around. "If I was to say, and this ones for you Gee cause I know you're tired of waiting." She says smiling at him again. I was so close to reaching over and choking the life from her but Gerard pulled me tighter to him. "Okay I never kissed Elle." She says and she puts her cup down. I just looked at her. "So everyone who has kissed Elle, keeps their cups and everyone who hasn't puts them down." She says. Sara puts her cup on the table. No one else does. Chrissy gives me a funny look.

"I'm very affectionate?" I offer.

She laughs. "Okay I mean like 'kiss' Elle... like on the mouth." She says and Mikey puts his cup down. "Like with tongue people." She laughs. Bob chuckles and puts his cup down too.

"Aw shucks." Ray says jokingly putting his cup down. Sara smiles at him.

"Frankie!" Chrissy says glaring over at him. He was still holding his cup tightly looking down.

Ray starts laughing. Chrissy looked pissed. I bit my lip and tried not to laugh.

"What?" Frankie cries out picking up a balloon and throwing it as hard as he could at Ray. It just hung in the air. He punched at it and it slowly floated towards Ray. This just made everyone laugh harder.

"Marie you're still holding your cup." I hear Mikey say. I look over and she's blushing covering her mouth a little. Mikey looks up at me. I look away. "Elle!" He says loudly. I grab a cup off the table and swallow it down.

"I told you I'm very affectionate." I say looking up at him. Everyone's still laughing.

"I just don't believe that you've never kissed Bob. Out of everyone here he's the only one you should be kissing I mean he is your husband!' Mikey laughs. I shrug and look over at Bob.

"Shut the fuck up Mikey." Gerard says downing another shot.

"Yeah he's right. I feel gypped." He laughs.

"Oh I'm sorry Bobby." I got up and sat down on the loveseat next to him. This was so much more comfortable. I think I'm just gonna stay here. I curl up next to Bob.

"I dare ya Elle." Mikey says smiling at me.

"To kiss him?" I laugh. Mikey nods. I shrugged and leaned over towards Bob.

"No!" Gerard yells out loudly laughing a little. I look over at him. "No Elle" He tells me shaking his head at me.

"But he dared me!" I protest.

"Leave it alone." He tells me and I shrug and sit back a little.

Gerard stands up grabbing another shot glass from the table and downing it. "And the next motherfucker who dares her to do anything. I'm gonna kick their ass. Guy- girl. I don't give a fuck." He says pointing his finger at all of them. Mikey shrugs. Gerard reaches for a beer off the table and takes a drink from it.

"Hey Ellie." Frankie leans over and whispers loudly at me. "I double dare ya."

"Fuck it." I yell and jump up onto Bobs lap straddling him. I grab his face in my hands and press my lips to his forcing my tongue into his mouth. He didn't resist. I shut my eyes slightly taking in the taste of him.

"Motherfucker." I hear Gerard yell out and then a crash and popping of balloons as Gerard tackled Frankie onto the floor.

Bob had his hands down at his sides. He didn't reach up and touch me or grab me closer as I kissed him He just let me press my tongue into his mouth. And then all of a sudden- he kissed me back. He pushed his tongue into my mouth and I was surprised. He was so forceful. It caught me off guard. He still didn't touch me. Just pressed his tongue so deep into me I felt like I was melting into him.

Lia grabbed a beer bottle from the table and shook it up and sprayed it on us. "Hey take it easy." She laughed as she soaked us.

"Again!" I yell getting up soaking wet off of Bob. "This is the second time you drenched me today Lia!" I yelled at her. Gerard got up off of Frankie and laughed at me.

"Serves ya right." He smiles at me. He was drunk. Fuck I was drunk... We all were. Except Lia she seemed to be the only sober one.

"You were getting a little carried away there, don't ya think Ellie." She says giving me a funny look. She looked over at Bob. He got up and took the empty bottle from her.

"That was my fucking beer Lia." He tells her.

"Well if you still want it you're gonna have to lick it off her." Lia says smiling at him.

Gerard laughs and wraps his arms around me from behind. "Yeah right." He says breathing into my ear.

"Go 'head Bobby I dare ya." She smirks at him. Bob smiled

"That's it!' Gerard yells and grabs Lia and throws her over his shoulder.

She screams as he carries her into the kitchen. "Put me down! Stop! Not the pudding Gerard please." You can hear her yell begging him not to drop her in it..

"Wait!.. Wait!... fuck!!" Frankie jumps up and knocks Chrissy down running towards the kitchen doorway.

"I don't have my camera ready!!!"