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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jun 20, 2006 17:12:33 GMT -5
so good! more?
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Post by Carie on Jun 20, 2006 18:20:22 GMT -5
its getting good! post more!
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jun 20, 2006 19:06:10 GMT -5
ooohh goodness it's getting even better! i'm so proud of teddy telling ashley off (crazy just how into this story i get!) ps...nice use of kristen's "intense"
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Post by smile♥ on Jun 20, 2006 21:22:59 GMT -5
ooohh goodness it's getting even better! i'm so proud of teddy telling ashley off (crazy just how into this story i get!) ps...nice use of kristen's "intense" haha i had to put the intense thing in there.. it just fit brilliantly..
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Post by smile♥ on Jun 20, 2006 23:06:03 GMT -5
We were on Fall Break this week, and I was more than happy to not have to wake up early every morning for classes.
I sat on my bed overlooking the little green field playing a This Providence song on my guitar.
"Did you ever stop to think a thief in the night has come to steal your loved ones? Did you ever take the time to see the world around us is falling apart?"
"Knock, Knock," Kristen said as she entered my room and sat on the end of my bed. "That's a good song. You're really talented."
"Thanks. I'm not that talented, though. I just play other people's songs and make up my own music. I'm not good with words."
"Well, I just thought I'd tell you that I've made a new record for myself." She smiled. "I haven't been to a party in over a month."
"Good job," I smiled.
"And there's this guy.. he's like.. wow." She smiled. "Super cute. And sweet. He's in my Chemistry class."
"So what is his name?" I asked curiously.
"Well, I'm not exactly sure yet." She laughed. "We had one of those movie moments where the two characters run into each other and drops their books and they help each other pick them up.." She laughed again.
"I know what you mean." I smiled. "Maybe you should talk to him. Find some stuff out about him, you know, see what kind of hobbies he has and get to know him." I suggested.
"Oh I plan on it," She laughed. "I'm off to find a job now. I'll see you when I get back."
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Another month went by and I hadn't talked to Ty or Teddy. I naturally assumed that Ted was still mad at me for "acusing" his girlfriend of things. I avoided Ty at all costs. No matter what, I avoided him. The last time I talked to him was when I called him to tell him I hated his guts.
I knew after the first month what he wanted. It was made very obvious that he was stupid and had cheated his whole way through high school.
It was almost Christmas vacation, which meant my very first semester of college was almost over. Hallelujah.
Jaimie walked into my room where I was working on packing one of my suitcases.
"So we need to talk about the whole flying home situation." She stated.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Well, Ted said his parents offered to fly us to NYC for New Year's."Jaimie informed me. "You two should make up."
I rolled my eyes. "I don't have anything to say to him. He didn't believe me and got mad so... that's all she wrote."
"Tay!" Jaimie said as she plopped down on my neat pile of neatly folded shirts. She messed everything up, which I couldn't take. I had to have everything neat and orderly.
"You just messed, like, my whole rhythm up." I said and began refolding everything.
"Look, I just think you should, you know, apologize."
"I'll see what I can do." I said as I continued folding my clothes and putting them exactly back into the order they were in.
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"Tay!" Teddy called as I was about to pile everything into my navy blue Ford Escape. I turned to face him. He held up and envelope. "I just got these. They're the tickets to New York. You guys leave, like, three days before."
"Ok." I nodded. "Thanks." I turned to hoist my heaviest suitcase into my vehicle, but it didn't work so well. Teddy immediately bent over to help.
"So... " He said as I leaned up against my vehicle after putting my guitar case in. "I guess I'll see you later."
"Yeah." I felt awkward for some reason and I assumed he did too, because he was doing the swinging arms thing. I crossed my arms. "So. I better get going, Jaimie's probably getting antsy."
"Ok." He said awkwardly. "Bye."
"Bye." I waved as I looked down at my light blue All Stars and then my jean jacket where my arms were crossed. I almost felt like calling out to him to say something, but all I could think to say was 'I'm in love with you.'
What do you guys think of this??? Tell me... hehe...
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jun 21, 2006 7:04:07 GMT -5
ooo i loove it! Teddy won't hold a grudge....he's not mad at Tay..she just needs to let him know how he feels...and i'm pretty sure he'll feel that same haha keep it up
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Post by Carie on Jun 21, 2006 9:50:11 GMT -5
awww its so cute i love it post more soon
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Post by teddyfan01 on Jun 21, 2006 10:18:53 GMT -5
Love the story & want to know what happens next.
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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jun 21, 2006 10:39:37 GMT -5
i love this! more please!
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Post by just like gravity on Jun 21, 2006 18:48:03 GMT -5
aww!!! oh my gosh! moree???
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Post by smile♥ on Jun 21, 2006 20:56:25 GMT -5
The whole ride back to Tulsa was spent talking about how much fun we would have in New York. We had been once - to one of Ted's shows - but we were only there for two days. This time we were spending a whole week.
"You honestly need to tell him how you feel." Jaimie told me from the passenger seat.
"I can't do it." I told her. "There is absolutely no way he still feels that way for me after I treated him like crap."
"Some guys get turned on by being treated that way," Jaimie laughed. "I mean look at Desperate Houswives, Rex was so excited it gave him a friggen heart attack."
I laughed at her as she put in a new cd. It happened to be one Teddy had recently released. "You had to put this one in, didn't you?" I joked as tears actually started forming behind my sunglasses.
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Teddy sat next to his friend Josh after just arriving home. Josh had come over to welcome him back, and he was the only friend who cared he was back. Most of his friends had called him a sell-out for leaving and touring and going to college, but Josh never cared. He was his best friend no matter what.
"I can't get her out of my mind, man." Teddy told him and smiled. "I haven't been able to since college started. I mean, we were good friends before, but for some reason something changed, and I can't explain it." He smiled to himself.
"Well, maybe you should tell her." Josh told him and lightly punched his shoulder. "She IS coming up here isn't she?"
Teddy nodded. "She seemed kind of mad when we left Cali, though."
"You never know until you step outside your comfort zone." Josh told him. "I've got to go, though. I got a big family get together thing going on and I told my Mom I wouldn't be gone too long. She said hey, by the way. Oh and she misses you hanging around. She said you should come by for some of those cookies some time."
Teddy smiled. Josh's Mom made killer cookies. "I will. Maybe I'll bring Tayah and Jaimie along too."
"Man, you didn't tell me she has a friend." Josh laughed.
"Don't worry, she's taken." Teddy laughed as he and Josh gave each other manly hugs and Josh got into his Mustang and left.
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"Tayah, Jaimie," Lea started. "Can you guys come with me to tell Mom and Dad? I don't think I can sit there in front of them, alone."
We both nodded and followed her out of my room with teal colored walls. We went to the kitchen where our parents were fixing a small dinner. Jaimie was going to her house soon, so Lea needed to make this quick.
"Mom... Dad?" Lea started. "I um... need to tell you something."
They stopped what they were doing to stare at all three of us like we were mad criminals on the loose after robbing a Seven-Eleven.
"What is it, hon?" My Mom asked.
"Well, I met this guy, Auburn. He's British and he's really sweet," She began before injecting more adjectives into the sentence before finally telling them she was pregnant.
"Well why didn't he come with you to tell us this?" Our Dad asked.
"He had to go home too, just like us." She explained and they understood. They didn't get angry or anything, they just put on understanding faces and smiled.
"We're getting old," My Mom said to our Dad and he nodded.
"We sure are," He laughed as Jaimie and I left so she could get home also.
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"Now you two be extra safe. You've only been once before," Jaimie's Mom said to us.
"We'll be fine, Mom," Jaimie informed her and our parents smiled.
"Scream real loud for us, ok?" My Dad said and I nodded as they called the final call for our plane.
"See you back at college," Lea yelled at us before we entered the plane.
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Teddy sat with Josh in the airport waiting impatiently for them to arrive.
"Would you sit down, man?" Josh laughed. "I'm going to have to break out the tranquilizers."
Teddy laughed and sat down as they announced the arrival of flight 67. "That's them!" Teddy said with a shocked tone. "They're here."
"Calm down. It's ok." Josh couldn't help but laugh at the situation. "Just don't faint like a twelve-year-old at at - - "
"If you say it.." Teddy warned.
" *N Sync concert," Josh flniched and then fake coughed something that sounded a lot like Teddy Geiger.
Ted jumped on his back and began trying to take him down to the ground like they were six again and play fighting with each other in their back yards.
They heard someone clear their throat and they looked up sheepishly. "Sorry." Josh laughed. "I'm Ted's friend Josh, by the way. Nice to meet you two lovely ladies."
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I felt more than awkward standing here in front of Josh, who I had met once, a few years ago, and Teddy, the object of my affection.
"Hey. I'm Tayah." I said to Josh after he introduced himself.
"Yes." He wiggled his eyebrows. "I remember."
I laughed at his goofiness and introduced Jaimie.
"But I do not remember you," He smiled. "Hello pretty."
"Hi." She said sort of shyly. "You should know that I AM taken."
"So I've heard," He looked at Teddy. "Ted's told me ALL about you two. Especially you Tay. I already knew you, but he felt the need to introduce you to me mentally so I would know that you have a birthmark on your left shoulderblade and that you secretly got a tattoo of a your name right at your waistline printed in script with a little heart at the end of the 'H'."
I raised my eyebrows. No one knew about that. Not even Jaimie. Jaimie looked at me curiously. "I swear I didn't tell him. You were going to be the first person I told, but I sort of never got around to it."
"When did you get it done?" she asked.
"A couple months ago." I said.
"Oh. Well then how did you see it, Ted?" Jaimie looked at him curiously, begging him for an answer.
"Well, one day in Psychology, you stood up and stretched right as class was over, and your jeans kind of fell a little, and your teal long -sleeved shirt rose..." He looked at me with a guilty look. He remembered every detail. It was quite scary.
"Can we see it?" Josh asked curiously. "Again." He looked at Ted with a fake disapproving frown.
I lifted my hoodie and t-shirt to show them. "It's nice." Jaimie told me. "Very you."
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Jaimie and I were sharing the guest bedroom in Teddy's house. It was a very nice room with a full sized bed and light blue walls with a yellow cover for the bed. It was very... homey. I loved his house. It made me want to smile. It wasn't much different from my house in Tulsa, but for some reason when I was here, I was happier.
"Tay?" I heard him call up the stairs. "Can you come in here for a minute?"
I looked at Jaimie curiously and she had a mischevious smile on her face.
I slowly walked down the hall with my socked feet sticking out from under my jeans lightly gracing the cream colored carpet. I pulled at the hem of my white and maroon baseball t-shirt that had my name on the back with a big 24 printed on the back, before pushing the slightly ajar door open even more to reveal tons of candles scattered about the room. He was sitting on the floor, indian-style, with his guitar across his lap.
"Happy Birthday." He smiled at me and I touched my hand to my mouth. He began playing me a song. My most favorite song of all time, 'Ain't No Sunshine'.
"You remembered," I smiled with tears in my eyes as I looked around the room and he nodded.
"That I did." he told me and I stood to get my camera. "Where are you going?" He asked curiously.
"I'll be right back, don't move."
He smiled as I re-appeared with my camera in hand and began snapping pictures of the dimly lit room. "Come here." He said to me and placed his guitar on his bed. He leaned back and I sat between his now spread out legs and he put his arms out in front of us with the camera in hand and snapped yet another picture. "I have a present for you." He said as he reached under his bed and pulled out a very small shiny bag.
I opened it to find a velvety black bag inside. "Open that bag," He said and I shook the contents out. It was a silver heart with four rhinestones in one side of it on a brown leather string.
"Wow." was all I could muster out of my mouth. He grabbed the two ends and secured them at the back of my neck, where he gently kissed and I rested back against him. "I'm so sorry." I told him sadly. "For whatever I've done to you... everything."
"It's ok." he said to me.
"Can I ask you a question, though?"
"I think you just did," He giggled as I playfully elbowed him in the ribs.
"No seriously." I smiled. "That night I accidentally stumbled into Ashley's room..."
"Nothing happened. I'm not even sure how I got to the state I was in." He laughed. "I was slightly intoxicated."
I giggled. "Me too." He laughed at me as he wrapped his arms around mine. His long, soft arms. I rubbed his forearm gently and kissed it lightly.
"Teddy!" His Mom called from down the stairs and we both laughed. "Come here for a second. I need you to do something for me."
"Sorry," He smiled.
"It's ok." I told him. "I'm going to bed now. I'll see you in the morning."
I walked down the hall to my room, where Jaimie was already asleep and crawled up next to her after taking the necklace off. She rolled over to face me and blew a big gust of air in my face.
I giggled and cut out the light before falling into a deep sleep.
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Post by crazy4teddy15 on Jun 21, 2006 21:09:05 GMT -5
ahh so cuteeeee! more please!
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Post by [.j.a.i.m.i.e.] on Jun 22, 2006 7:14:34 GMT -5
ooohh goodness it just keeps getting better and better! i most def love this part....
"Calm down. It's ok." Josh couldn't help but laugh at the situation. "Just don't faint like a twelve-year-old at at - - "
"If you say it.." Teddy warned.
" *N Sync concert," Josh flniched and then fake coughed something that sounded a lot like Teddy Geiger.
haha it was too funny!
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Post by Carie on Jun 22, 2006 10:45:25 GMT -5
awwww its so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love it more?
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Post by smile♥ on Jun 22, 2006 20:57:05 GMT -5
We had been here two days and we still hadn't got to go into the city, which was mostly due to tons of snow fall covering the ground. I had never seen so much so, or took so many pictures.
Jaimie, Teddy, and I had each had a snowman building contest to see who could make theirs the tallest. Teddy had won, but only because he was the tallest.
We broke out into snowball fights very often, especially when one of us was least expecting it.
I picked up a wad of snow and rolled it up in my gloved hands. It was possibly the biggest snowball I had ever seen. I threw it as hard as I could in Teddy's direction and watched it fromt my position behind a car until he turned around and it hit him right in his left cheek.
He fell backwards into the snow, facing the sky. "Ouch!" He cried plainly and I couldn't help but laugh. Jaimie even looked away from her recently formed snow angel and laughed. "It's not funny!" he yelled at us as I walked over to help him up.
"I'm sorry." I told him. "But I was only getting you back for putting the snow down my shirt."
"Oh come on," He said. "That wasn't as bad as this."
"It was the front of my shirt!" I laughed and pushed him back down in the snow.
"Tay!" He whined. "I'm gonna have a bruise!"
"Aww, the popstar is injured," Jaimie laughed and I couldn't help but laugh along.
He poked his bottom lip out to show he was pouting and I finally held out my hand to pull him up. We met face to face, and to the common onlooker, Jaimie, it probably looked as if we were about to kiss, but his cell phone began to ring.
He rolled his eyes and dug into his pocket. "Hello?"
The sound of a girl's voice could be heard from the speaker of the phone.
"Julie?!" He asked surprised. "Wow. I haven't seen you in forever. Sure... awesome." His eyes had that glow to them. Who the hell was Julie?
He smiled at Jaimie and I before running in the house yelling something at his Mom.
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"Like, oh my gosh, Jaimie." I giggled like a silly valley girl. "When Daddy's yacht ran out of gas in Italy, I was so totally bummed until I saw all the tons of amazing shops."
"I know," She said back in the same voice. "Shopping is like a must when traveling. How else is a girl supposed to pass the time? Or meet hot guys?"
I laughed at our impressions of Julie. I did not like her - AT ALL. She saw me and immediately stuck her nose up in the air as if to say, 'Yes. I am better than you because my Daddy owns four major hotels. In four major tourist sites.'
I rolled my eyes at her and immediately went upstairs to the guest room and pulled out my guitar and began playing around with different chords and lyrics until I had actually came up with my own song without knowing it. Jaimie had been in the shower and didn't meet Julie until she went downstairs to get a drink.
"Girls," Teddy's Mom said as she gently knocked on the already cracked door and pushed it open. "Dinner is ready."
"Thanks." I smiled at her and she smiled back. I really liked her. She always made me feel so at home, even though I wasn't.
All through dinner we had to hear 'Daddy bought me this..' and 'Oh did I tell you that Daddy's yacht has a hot tub?'
I shoved a piece of chicken in my mouth. "So are you going to college?" I asked.
"No, see Daddy told me I'll inherit the hotels. Who needs school for that?" I heard Jaimie choke on her water from trying not laugh and I grinned. "Are you going to college?"
"Yeah. I find that very important so I can be a criminal profiler one day so I can catch evil-doers who kidnap people like you for large amounts of money." The table went silent, and I could've sworn I heard Ted's Dad snicker.
"Well. I don't see why women should have to work at all." She said as she threw her long un-naturally straight bleach blonde hair over her shoulder. "We should just sit there and look beautiful and feminine for our husbands." She wrinkled her nose at my choice of blue jeans and a long sleeved blue shirt.
"Just so you know, Julie." His Dad interjected. "To run a hotel you have to have some experience in business management and in my opinion, I think most men whose wives work find it very attractive, almost a turn-on." He said to her.
"Seriously?" She asked. "I don't think so. See I dropped out of college, books, they aren't for me."
"Well we can't all be smart, right?" I commented and she looked at me with a confused look. I had more than finished my plate and had decided to excuse myself to the bathroom simply because I could literally hear my IQ dropping like a cartoon where you hear the anvil fall on that coyote chasing the roadrunner. It was like that.
I sat on the floor of the bathroom to make it seem like I was actually doing something. I flushed the toilet and then walked back down the hallway, stopping at each photo to take a look. His siblings were so cute. They had been relatively quiet all dinner, but that was because they didn't really know me or Jaimie.
I sat down in the chair I had previously occupied and smiled at everyone.
"I hope you washed your hands." Julie said. "There are so many germs in a bathroom."
I busted out in laughter. I couldn't hold it in any longer; This Julie character was killing me.
"I don't see why that's so funny," She mumbled to Teddy and he nodded.
"Tay?" He asked me. "Can you quit laughing?" This only made me laugh harder. He was sticking up her her. What was going on here? Was I in some kind of dream where stupid people were looked up to?
My laughter gradually ceased, and everyone had pretty much left the table. Teddy's Mom was taking our plates from us and sticking them in the dishwasher.
"I think I'm going to make some cookies later if you guys want any." His Mom smiled at me again and I nodded.
"Thanks."
"They don't happen to be low-sugar, do they?" Julie asked and I felt another fit of laughter coming on, so I stepped out of the living room and decided to take a look at the rest of the house.
I felt like I had been in that Pink music video with all the stupid girls with spray-on tans and bleach-blonde hair and tiny dogs. Had Julie brought in a dog?
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Jaimie hadn't been feeling well, so she had gone to bed early, and Julie didn't want cookies because of the amount of sugar they contained, so she and Teddy were in the living room catching up on 'Daddy's hotels'.
I sat at the table with a cookie placed on a napkin and a glass of milk with both of Ted's parents.
"You know, I really do find your major interesting." His Dad said to me. "I like to see kids, especially girls, with ambition. It seems like all the girls now want to be famous or models and they end up being waitresses at local restaraunts. You and Jaimie are smart."
"Thanks."
"What made you interested in this?" He asked.
"Well, when I was little, I remembered always being scared that I was going to be abducted or something because my Mom always told me not to talk to strangers and never go anywhere alone because the world was getting so bad. I was so paranoid everywhere I went that I was literally looking over my shoulders and paying attention to every detail; body language, the way people's bodies moved when they were just acting normal, and stuff like that." I had never told anyone this. "I'm still paranoid, but I think that with learning about it and defending people against it and helping put a stop to it, one day my children or my friends' children won't have to have bodyguards just to play on the swingset in their backyard."
Did I just spill my guts out to two people I hardly knew? That was not like me.
"I also think that self-defense helps to make you not so paranoid. I took karate when I was thirteen, which helped me a lot. I still remeber those major moves to help you get away from somebody, you know?" I laughed. "Gah. Sorry, I'm rambling. Psychology and stuff like this is one of my passions. I love studying it. Behavioral analysis is amazing."
They smiled at me. Were they laughing on the inside? No. They liked hearing what I had to say.
"I love it when people have ambition." His Mom smiled. "Do you have any other hobbies?"
I nodded and went on the explain all about music and how I liked to play the guitar even if it wasn't my own, and I told them about how I had written my own song and they wanted to hear it. I hadn't even shown it Jaimie yet.
"Seriously?" I asked. "You really want to hear it? It's probably nowhere near as good as Ted's."
"We want to hear it." His Dad said. "In fact, go get your guitar and Jaimie and I'll get the other two down here and you'll perform it in front of all of us."
I was suddenly nervous. Wow. I had never been put on the spot like this before and it was almost enough to make me pass out.
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Jaimie was asleep, and I felt bad for waking her up, especially after she almost took my head off, but I had to.
"Get up." I told her. "You have to come downstairs. I'm showing everyone something."
She glared at me through squinty eyes because I had turned on the light. "I'm in my pajamas," She whined.
"It's ok." I told her. "Wrap that blanket around you or something if you don't like it."
She rolled her eyes at me and grabbed the blanket before following me downstairs and taking a seat next to Teddy's Mom.
"Ok. So I wrote this earlier today." I said nervously as I looked down at the frets and began playing the opening notes.
I sang my heart out, hoping that it didn't sound to bad. I had ignored the fact that I had an audience and just closed my eyes and let it all fall out passionately.
At the end of the song, everyone was quiet for a moment before clapping, except for Julie, who rolled her eyes. I smiled at the rest of them and said 'Thank you' before excusing myself to get ready for bed.
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"Mom, is it ok if Julie goes to New Years' with us?" I moaned to myself as we walked down the streets of New York City. Yes, we finally got to come.
"OOH! A toy store!" I said and began walking towards it as everyone followed.
"I don't know if it's such a good idea for her to be there tomorrow night," His Mom said, trying to convince him to un-invite her.
"But Mom." He said. "We haven't seen each other in, like, three years. Can we just please spend time together?" I moaned and rolled my eyes again. Why did everything good have to be ruined for me?
"Fine." His Mom threw her hands up in the air and looked at me and Jaimie. She mouthed and apology to us and we nodded.
"Oh look!" I said. "A giraffe. I love giraffes. They're so cute!" I pinched what little cheek I could and grinned to myself as Jaimie rolled her eyes at me.
"Giraffes aren't cute." She told me. "Now elephants, those are some cute animals."
"Whatever," I rolled my eyes, not wanting to start an argument.
"Hey Ted, come look at this giraffe," I said to him, but he didn't hear me because he was on his cell phone. He looked at he and held up a finger to say 'Just a minute'.
I rolled my eyes and threw it down on the shelf before following Jaimie off to the Barbies. We threw in a few jokes about Julie, which his Mom laughed at, as well as his siblings.
My day had gone from really good, to crappy, and all because he had decided to be a little turd about everything.
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I bought myself two shirts at the Hard Rock Cafe. One was a fitted black tee with a white guitar on it and it read 'Hard Rock Cafe' across the top and 'Fender' underneath the guitar. The other was the generic white Hard Rock t-shirt with the yellow and maroon emblem with the city underneath it plastered across the middle.
I once again took very many pictures, making myself look like a total tourist. It was possibly the highlight of my day, that is until Julie showed up.
Jaimie and I stuck with Ted's Mom the rest of the day, feeling completely rejected and unwanted. I made it a point to ignore anything he said to me the rest of the day.
Ok . . so what do ya'll think? Let me know!!!
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