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I woke up the next morning with a massive headache. And an even bigger mess to clean up. Gerard did drop Lia in the pudding. I tried to help her out but she pulled me in. Frankie was enjoying himself, um a little too much, I guess -watching us and Chrissy got real pissed and pushed him in to it too. Soon everyone was covered except Mikey and Marie. They were the only ones who avoided the pudding. Probably cause they weren't drunk. They left and went back outside to umm 'talk'. Or so they said. I insisted everyone who was 'pudding'ed' wash off in the hose outside even though it was like 40 degrees out and the middle of the night... Bob dragged the pool outside for me and helped me rinse it off on the deck. We all came back in wet and freezing cold. I pumped up the heat and everyone curled up in towels and blankets and whatever else they could find and just crashed wherever.
So that's how I woke up- with a massive headache in pile of bodies on the living room floor. Somehow we all ended up laying together under the kitchen table, which was still in the living room. I sat up and barely missed knocking my head in to the table.

I crawl out from under it and stumbled into the kitchen. I know I have some aspirin in here...somewhere... I'm fumbling through the cabinets looking for it when Lia comes in.

"Hey." She says as I pull out the aspirin bottle. She holds out her hand and I pour a few into it. She shrugs and pops them all into her mouth.

"Those were for us to share Li!" I moan pouring some into my hand. She shrugs and doesn't say anything. No one else is up yet, which is good cause I really wanted to talk to her still.

"Li I wanted to talk to you." I try to say and she nods.

"Yeah I know what was that all about yesterday anyway?" She says opening the drawer and pulling out my cigarettes.

"Well I was talking to Gerard-" I say as she lights one up.

"You want one?" She interrupts holding the box out for me.

"Oh gee thanks." I say sarcastically. She's offering me my own cigarettes! I take on from her. "So I was talking to Gerard." I say pausing to light it.

She looks over through the doorway and makes sure no one else was up yet. "I know what you're gonna say Elle" She tells me and I shake my head no a little. " No really I do. I know you, I know what you're thinking and let me tell you - you're right." She says pulling me closer to her.

"I'm right?" I say biting my lip a little.

"About Jessica." She whispers in my ear.

"What?.. no.." I stutter. "I didn't want to talk to you about Jessica." I say and she makes a face.

"Its alright Elle. I heard everything." She says looking over at the doorway again. "And I'm telling you- don't say anything." She tells me.

"About what?" I whisper back.

"About not liking her with Paul." Lia tells me and I roll my eyes. "No I'm serious Elle. Trust me on this one." She says and I roll them again. "If you start arguing with him over this he's gonna think you still got something for Paul." She tells me.

"You know that's not true." I say a little loud.

"Shhhh." She hisses at me.

"Jessica's the one who's got something for him." I tell her and she nods.

"I know Elle. Trust me I don't even know her and I can see it." Lia tells me and I sigh. "But don't fucking say anything."

"Why not?" I say a little loud. "You know she just fucking wants him to stop her you know, that's why she's fucking around with Paul. I just don't know why Pauls with her!"

"Pauls a fucking dick. He'll sleep with any old whore." She says and I just look at her. "Come on Elle. You know that's true." She tells me pushing my arm a little.

"Yeah and?" I sigh.

"And- if you fucking defend him she's gonna use that to come between you and Gerard. Mark my words Elle." Lia tells me as Mikey walks in. Lia nods at me knowingly.


I don't know maybe Lia's right. Maybe I just shouldn't say anything. If Jessica's stupid enough to get involved with Paul then she deserves what ever she gets. I mean I can't blame Gerard for caring. He's a caring guy. But I can't just sit back and watch him defend her honor.

Lia's busy fumbling through the junk drawer. "Ah-hah!" she cries out pulling out a large safety pin.

"What are you doing?" I ask her as she holds it up smiling evilly. She totally ignores me.

"You're gonna dump me in the pudding? HA!" She says to herself. "Its wakey wakey time." She says smiling as she went into the living room.

"Oh god no Lia." I say running after her.

She picks up a balloon and holds it close to Gerard's ear and pops it with the pin. Pop! It echoes out so loud I winced. My head is throbbing still... Gerard jumps up and smacks his head against the table.

"Fuck!" he yells at her rubbing his head. She laughs.

"Oh my poor baby!" I cry out reaching for him. Lia started popping balloons left and right. Everyone started getting up complaining. The more they complained the more she laughed. "There's something just not right with her," I tell Gerard as we head into the kitchen. I hand him the aspirin bottle and he smiles at me.

"Thanks." He mumbles opening it up and shaking one out into his hand.

"You want an aspirin honey?" I say noticing Bob walking in. Gerard looked up at me like I already took an aspirin Elle. In fact he was still holding it. "I was talking to Bob." I say smiling a little. Gerard looked over at him and didn't say anything.

"Naw I'm all right Elle." Bob mumbles stretching a little. "You want us to help clean up or what?" He yawns looking around the room.

"Aw Bobby, you're an awesome husband but uh no." I laugh.

"You gonna clean all this up yourself." Gerard smirks.

"Naw. I'll just call the cleaning service and see if they can send someone earlier." I yawn.

"You use a cleaning service?" Gerard says looking at me funny.

"Well yeah Gerard, when my papa got sick we started using them." I say like he should've known that.

"Elle how am I suppose to fucking know that?" He laughs.

"Well how the hell do you think this place stays so clean?" I ask him reaching for the phone and yawning again. He must've really thought I was some kinda clean freak. I really wasn't. I just hated for the lady to come and think I was a slob so I usually try not to make a big mess.

He shrugged and watched me call them. They said they couldn't come any earlier, so we decided to go out for breakfast, well it was actually closer to lunch.

All the girls ended up in my room to change. Marie brought a bag with some of her clothes and shit, she started pulling out her clothes and laying them out on my floor... I was so surprised Chrissy didn't have a shirt to change into her bag. I mean she fucking carries everything else in there. Lia told her not to worry. She opens my closet and her and Chrissy and Sara start tearing through it. I open my drawer and pull out a joint and light it up.

"Oh Gosh Elle you have sooo many nice things." Chrissy squeals. I don't answer her. I threw myself onto the bed and closed my eyes inhaling the smoke...I was so fucking beat still. I don't know why I thought getting high was gonna help...

"So um Marie." I say rolling over onto my stomach and propping my head up. "Are you and Mikey like...." I say and she blushes.

"Awww." Lia cries out jumping on the bed next to me, she grabs the joint from my hand and takes a hit... "Mikey asked you out! that's too cute!" she laughs coughing on the smoke. She holds it out and Chrissy takes it from her. I didn't know Chrissy smoked, but she took it from her and then passed it to Sara.

"Yeah well. I mean he didn't ask me out yet." Marie says softly.

"What?!" I yell in disbelief.

"She said he didn't ask her out yet." Lia repeats like maybe I didn't hear her.

"I fucking heard her." I say smacking Lia with my pillow. "I just don't believe it!"

Sara went to hand the joint to Marie and she shook her head no.

"What's the matter Marie?" Lia says raising her eyebrows slightly.

"I don't smoke." Marie says softly. I reach over and take it from Sara, inhaling deeply from it.

"You don't smoke! why not?" Lia says to her a little annoyed too.

"Leave her alone Li." I say taking another hit from it.

"Aaah. I'm just trying to loosen her up." Lia says taking the joint from me. She takes a hit off it.. "Come on Marie." She says holding it out to her.

"No um I just don't smoke, sorry." Marie says softly.

"Its not like its gonna kill ya Marie." Lia laughs blowing the smoke right at her. Marie gets up off the floor and picks up her bag. She looked like she was gonna cry.

"Lia stop." I say getting up and pulling Marie towards the mirror.

"I'm just saying it might loosen her up." Lia laughs stretching her legs out on my bed. "Maybe Mikey'd make a move on her then....it'll make her a little less...plain!" She laughs taking the last hit from the joint. The room was full of smoke. I should've opened the fucking window but it was so cold out still.

Lia grabbed a nail file from my drawer and started filing away, still stretched out on the bed. Sara and Chrissy were busy trying on tops from my closet. Marie held up the plain blue high-necked shirt she brought and frowned looking at herself in the mirror.

"Don't fucking listen to her." I tell Marie putting my hand on her shoulder.

"Why didn't he ask me out Elle?" She says softly sitting down on the stool I had by my vanity.

"I don't know." I sigh. "He's shy like that." I say and she shakes her head no.

"No Elle Lia's right I'm just plain." She says frowning.

"You're not plain Marie." I say not sounding too convincing.

"Uh yes she is." Lia yells over from the bed. I give her a nasty look. "Look I'm just telling you the truth Marie." Lia says getting up and standing behind her. She looked at her in the mirror. "Your plain. And boring." Lia says bluntly. "You got this whole catholic school girl thing going on here." She says touching Marie's hair.

"I thought that's supposed to be sexy." I say getting up and opening my drawer.

"no no that's slutty catholic school girl." Sara corrects me. "And this is so THAT!" She cries out holding up a short green and blue plaid skirt she took from my closet. I laughed. "Can I try this on?" She says and I shrug.

"I could never wear something like that!' Marie said blushing a little.

"Then Mikey's never gonna ask you out." Lia says taking a step back. Marie looked over at me. I shrugged. I didn't know what to say. I mean she was kinda right.

"Look Marie." Lia says smiling a little. "Let me give you a make over." She tells her. I made a face. Marie was fine. I mean she was nothing special but Mikey liked her. Just the way she was. Im not sure we should be changing her.
Marie takes a deep breath. "Okay." She exhales. "Go 'head. Make Mikey want me." She says and Chrissy squeals with delight coming out of the closet.

"Oooh. This is gonna be so much fun!!!" Chrissy cries out dumping her purse out on my bed. She holds up her pink lip-gloss. I roll my eyes.

Lia looks over at Chrissy and smirks. "um no Chrissy... pink isn't really the color I'm going for..."