We Celebrate the way the night hides scars

Songs of punk goes Christmas filled every nook and cranny of the house as I set neatly wrapped presents under the tree. Everyone was at Mom and Pop Fuentes’ house for dinner, I was supposed to go with them, but I was having really bad morning sickness earlier and I wanted to take the opportunity of everyone being out of the house. Well, it was a mix of the being sick excuse and the fact that I was still waiting for the call from the university with the results of the paternity test, which is weird cause they most likely close down shop around 5.
I’m kind of sad that I’m missing Christmas dinner, but I’d also rather be ahead in presents. It was about 7:30 when I had finally finished putting the presents under the tree. I stepped back to look at them, I was pleased with my selections for everyone. I got Vic a bedazzled microphone (I don’t really know why I just thought it would be funny) and a Coraline blanket. I got Tony a build a bear yoda and a ninja turtle blanket, Aliyah a cardboard cutout of the joker along with a joker belt and I somehow found joker condoms (I believe the best-fucking-friend award will always belong to me… just sayin…), Mike a Harry Potter blanket and a jack skellington snuggie, and Jaime a toy story blanket with a Buzz Lightyear pillow. And as a little extra for them, I got all the boys a framed picture that I took of me with each of them when I went to Reno with them.
Since I finished with the presents early, I decided to go to the dinner anyways. I quickly got dressed and started out the door. No sense waiting for the phone call, they probably won’t call till tomorrow. On my way out the door my phone started ringing, I pulled it out of my pocket just to see Aliyah’s name on it. I swiped to answer and put the phone to my ear and I locked the door, “Hello?”
“Hey, are you still cooped up at Vic’s house or did you go back to the apartment?”
“I’m just leaving Vic’s. I was thinking about coming to the dinner after all, the university didn’t call so I have no reason to stay away and miss Christmas dinner with the Family.”
“That’s great! Are you just taking my car then?”
“Yeah, is that okay?” I laughed
“Why wouldn’t it be? Dinner is almost ready, if you hurry you wont miss a thing.”
“Okay, I’ll be right there. Tell ma I’m commin. Love you Aliyah, I’ll see you soon.”
“I’ll tell her, and bye sweets. Love you too.” She hung up and I hurried to the car. I stopped by the grocery store and grabbed some V8, I’m sure they’ll have non-alcoholic drinks there, but you can never be too careful right?
After I stopped at the store it was only about a 15-minute drive to their house. It went by pretty quick, once I parked the car I quickly got out and walked up to the door. I was a little hesitant about it; all my nerves were built up and about to burst. I felt as if I was back at the age of 17, knocking on my favorite bands bus door. I couldn’t just turn and run, there was nowhere to go, plus mom already knew I was coming. I took a deep breath and reached for the door handle, just as my skin made contact with the cold metal, my phone went off. I switched my juice to the other hand and I pulled it from my pocket, “hello?”
“Emily, I’m glad I caught you. The university called me and gave me the results for your paternity test.”
“Oh good, what’s the results.” The breath caught in my throat and I froze, waiting for the answer.
“The father of your child is Jaime Preciado.”
The breath released and tears of relief fell. “Oh my god, I cannot tell you how relieved I am. Thank you so much, Dr. Nesbit.”
He laughed, “You are very welcome Emily, I hope you have a great evening.”
I thanked him again and we said our goodbyes and hung up. The second I opened the door and put my phone in my pocket, I had a sudden burst of happiness and confidence. Nothing could bring me down tonight, absolutely nothing.
“Emily, I’m so glad you’re feeling better. Come, come, everyone is in the back yard.” Vivian ushered me to the back door, “Are you sure you don’t need any help, ma?”
“I’m sure, Aliyah has already helped me carry everything out, now it’s just saying grace and we’ll be able to eat.” We both walked out to the table, I sat on one side of Victor and Vivian sat on the other. She was also by Tony; I was between Victor and Mike. Everyone greeted me, saying they’re glad I’m feeling better and that I was able to join them.
“Emily, would you mind saying grace?” Victor smiled at me, so of course how could I refuse?
“Of course, Papa.” Everyone held hands as I said grace, and let me tell ya, for being the only Mormon in the group of Catholics, praying is kind of nerve wrecking. I’ve never actually heard a Catholic pray, so I don’t exactly know if we pray differently. But then again I didn’t really know how to pray anyways, I was never taught how. After I said grace, everyone started dishing up and started the topic of the dinner table; Europe in the winter was the choice.
“Oh ma, it’s beautiful! We’re going to have to take you one day, it’ll take your breath away.” Vic said in an over dramatizing voice, causing everyone to chuckle. The conversation went on for while, everyone joking about how Jaime fractured his foot and everyone making fun of him, Vic hurting his foot the last day of tour when they went bar hopping, the pranks they played, just everything. After a while Mike noticed that I wasn’t drinking, apparently I’m not allowed to be healthy. “Why don’t you have a beer?”
“No thanks, I’m just sticking to juice tonight.” I smiled and Mike grabbed me a Corona, not taking no for an answer. “Here, you look really tense, just drink one and I’ll leave you alone to drink your bitch juice.” He smiled
I laughed, “Mike I said I’m fine; and for your information, I love my bitch juice.”
“What happened to you while we were gone?”
“What do you mean?” I asked while taking a drink of my ‘bitch juice’.
“The Emily I know would never turn down alcohol, so I repeat, what happened when we were gone?”
I guess it’s time to announce it anyways; I sighed, “Well, it’s better sooner than later.” I grabbed my knife and started hitting my plastic juice bottle and making the clinking noises, “clink, clink, clink, clink, clink.” Everyone looked at me and laughed, causing me to smile, “I have an announcement to make.” I stood up from my seat and took a deep breath, “Back when I was in the hospital for the crash, I had to get a CT scan, but it fell through. The reason that the doctor told me for not being able to perform the scan, really surprised me.” I looked around at everyone’s faces, everyone who knew had smiles, Mom and Pop were holding hands under the table while listening, and so were Vic and Aliyah. Tony and Mike had confused looks and Jaime was looking straight at me with a look that seemed like, hope. “The doctor had told me that I couldn’t do the scan because I was pregnant.” Mike, Tony and Jaime all gasped causing everyone who knew to laugh.
“All this time I thought it was impossible because of the form of birth control I had, but I was informed that it didn’t always work the way it was supposed to. Aliyah and I had gone to the doctors on the 20th to find out the gender and because of some certain circumstances, a paternity test.” By this time, I was crying and it looked as if Jaime was too, but he wouldn’t let anyone know. I straightened my body and took a deep breath, making eye contact with him, “Jaime, remember when I asked you those questions about kids? Well, you’re the father of a brand new baby boy.”
Jaime didn’t even hesitate; he jumped from his seat and ran to me while everyone cheered. The second he got to me he wrapped his arms around me picking me up spinning me, and connecting my lips to his. I was so happy in that moment; I just wanted it to last forever. Jaime put me down, but kept his forehead against mine and looked me in the eyes, “I love you so much Emily Vogel, words cannot express.”
“And I too love you, Jaime Preciado so much words cannot express.” I smiled and kissed his nose, causing him to laugh. “So that’s why you asked me those questions about kids; I should’ve known.”
“I’m pretty tricky when it comes to covering things up, don’t beat yourself up about it. Oh and I forgive you for being an ass over skype the other night, just to clear that up.”
Jaime laughed and looked down, “yeah, I’ve been meaning to apologize for that… Sorry.”
I sighed and pushed myself away from Jaime, “ It’s too late to apologize! It’s too late!” I broke into the song apologize by one republic, making everyone laugh and Jaime put his hand over his eyes, peeking through his fingers to see if I was done. After I finished I walked back up to Jaime, laughing. “Are you sure you want to keep me around? Cause I am so not afraid to do that in public.”
He thought for a minute, “hmmm. Yeah, I’m sure.” I smiled and looked over at Tony and Vivian, “hey Tone, Mom, can Jaime and I trade you two seats?”
“How exactly is that going to work?” Tony laughed
“You sit where Jaime was sitting and mom sits where I was sitting.” He looked confused for a minute, “Oh okay.” He and mom switched places so Jaime and I could sit together. The rest of dinner went smoothly, everyone congratulated Jaime and I. no matter how many times someone would say something good about Jaime and I, I couldn’t help but feel bad about Mike. He’s been participating in the conversations about Jaime and I, he’s been acting happy all night. But every so often, when no one’s paying attention to him, I glance over to see him looking down and playing with the food on his plate looking completely depressed. I decided just to shake it off; he’ll be fine… won’t he?
After everyone was done eating and just talking, Jaime and I offered to take care of the dishes. We both gathered all of them and took them to the kitchen; Jaime scraped them off while I washed them. “Jaime, you’re happy to be a dad now, right?”
“Of course, why wouldn’t I be?” he came by me and kissed my cheek before returning to the dishes.
I shrugged, “I don’t know. I was just wondering. Do you think Mike wishes he was the dad?”
Jaime finished scraping the dishes and came to the opposite side of me to dry the ones I’ve washed and put them away, “I don’t know, probably. I know that if he could, he would go back in time to make it so you fell for him and not me. He would do anything to get you, and to be completely honest, I do think that he’s sad he’s not the dad of Andy.”
I laughed, “Okay, I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t over thinking things. And we are not naming our child after toy story.”
“Fine, what do YOU want to name him? It’s probably something like Steve or something ordinary like that, huh?”
I finished washing the last couple dishes and Jaime dried and put them away. I turned to him and popped my hip, “For your information I want to name him Axel. It is not an ordinary name that you hear everyday. It took Aliyah all day to help me come up with it and by all day I mean all day.”
Jaime stood silent for a couple seconds, “I like that name, we can keep it… Axel Preciado… sounds great.”
“Good.” I paused and laughed, “Wanna know something funny?”
“Sure.”
“When you guys came stomping onto the bus and I was skyping Vic, I was actually talking to him about baby names and stuff. And that’s when Aliyah told me the name Axel.”
He laughed, “Really? Oh god, that makes me feel like an even bigger ass now.”
“Good!” I stuck my tongue out at him and we rejoined the others at the table outside.
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“Jaime, I need to sleep.” I groaned as Jaime lay on my legs, talking to my stomach, “do you really think he can hear me?”
It’s been a couple days since dinner, it’s now 12am and I am dying to sleep. Jaime has been talking to Axel since we went to bed, which was at 9. You’d think Axel would just settle down and let me sleep, HA! Jaime is getting a kick out of Axel moving and bouncing around. “Yes, he can hear you. Why do you think he’s moving so much, it’s not like he’s fangirling over toy story or something.”
Jaime kissed my belly and rolled off me and scooted up the bed, “Okay, I guess I’ve talked to him long enough tonight.”
“Thank god! Praise Jesus, Halleluiah! I can sleep!” I cheered turning to face Jaime and pulled the blanket over him and I.
Jaime had his eyes closed, and I couldn’t help but smile. Ya know people would kill to have what I have right now. After waiting and wishing for so long, I can finally wake up and kiss the love of my life good morning. I don’t have to call them; I don’t have to keep wishing that they were with me. Yeah we had our rough patch, (okay it wasn’t really a rough patch. It was like lying on a bed of nails, putting another board over you and having a truck drive on top of you. That’s my way of describing it anyways.)
Jaime’s breath pattern changed, so I knew that he was asleep now. Everything in my life right now was going so good; I can’t imagine it getting any better.
“I love you Jaime.” I shut my eyes and welcomed the feeling of sleep.
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“Emily, wake up!” Jaime’s voice interrupted my dream, “Jaime, what do you want?” I groaned as I opened my eyes, Jaime wasn’t in the bedroom.
“You’ve gotta come see this! Come on!”
“Where are you?” I got up out of bed and walked down the hall looking in every room to see if he was in there.
“I’m downstairs.”
I looked at my wristwatch as I walked downstairs, “Why in gods name are you waking me up at 7am? Haven’t you ever heard of beauty sleep?”
“Stop being so grumpy, Mr. Grumpy gills.” He held my phone in his hand showing me my own instagram. I gave him a confused look, “You can pull up instagram, good job. What am I suppose to be looking at?”
“You now have over a couple thousand followers! That’s a lot compared to your old 15 followers. Just sayin.”
I rolled my eyes and walked to the kitchen, “Big deal, more fans following me. I mean what’s the big deal with a band member’s girlfriend? It’s not like I tour with you and inspire people.”
Jaime followed me and sat at the bar, “You’re not just any band members girlfriend you’re and I quote, the girlfriend who’s really nice, kicks ass at singing with Austin carlile and gets people to stop being dicks. End quote.”
“What the hell ever, they lie.”
“Oh you’re just grumpy because I woke you up before noon and you’ve been living off of nothing but healthy food. I don’t get why you don’t just have a cheat day and get a burger or something greasy.”
I shut the fridge with my grapefruit and water in hand and walked over to him, “I want our baby to be as healthy as it can possibly be, and if that means eating like I’m training for the Olympics for nine months than so be it.”
Jaime chuckled
“ OH! Just so you know, we need to go to the grocery store, I need to stop by the shop to talk to Jensen about my hours, and we are meeting up with Vivian to go baby shopping. I hope you haven’t already planned out your day.” I smiled, kissing his cheek and ran off to the bedroom to get ready.
~After getting ready for the day~
I ran to the Tattoo shop first so Jaime could get ready. It took about an hour and a half, but I got my hours situated. I also made the quick stop to the grocery store so Jaime should be ready now and if he’s not that’s sad, he’d take longer than me.
“Jaime, are you ready?” I yelled as I ran through the door and to the kitchen and set the groceries on the counter before running up to check the bathroom.
“Yeah, one minute!” Jaime stood in front of the mirror straightening his hair, I leaned against the doorway and laughed, “You take longer than I do to get ready, and I pray that Axel does not take that long when he’s older.”
“Oh hush, I’m almost done.” He straightened the last of his hair, shut the straightener off and started spiking it up, I groaned, “Jaime, you’ve had an hour and a half, why can’t you be ready already?”
He finished and turned towards me, “Well, an hour out of that time I spent in the shower so really I’ve only taken half an hour.”
“Okay. Smarty pants, can we go now?”
“Yes Emily, we can go.”
“Yay! Baby shopping!” I squealed and ran out to the car. Vivian just wanted us to meet her at kid to kid and then we’d take the same car to other stores from there. It was about a half hour drive from the house to the store and when we got there, she was already waiting. I got out of the car smiling, “I hope you haven’t been waiting long.”
“Oh, no I haven’t. I just barely pulled up.” She smiled and I walked over to hug her. Jaime opened the store door for the both of us and we all walked in. Vivian went to the toddler section and I went to the newborn, Jaime was just wandering from rack to rack.
I looked through rack after rack of clothes and only found a couple of outfits. Although, I did find a really cute ripped up denim vest in both newborn and toddler. Since the newborn section was on one side of the store and the toddler was on the other, by the time we got through all of the racks Vivian and I had met in the middle and shared the outfits that we found with each other.
“I am so happy that you know what I like.” I went through the clothes that Vivian had picked and she did the same with mine, “Well you’re more like the daughter I’ve never had so I decided to actually pay attention to your likes and dislikes. I’ve paid more attention that I ever have with any of Vic or Mike’s friends, to be completely honest you are really the only one I actually like, besides Jaime and Tony anyways.”
I smiled, “Really? You think of me as your daughter?”
She nodded, “Yes, and I might even love you more than the boys. Just don’t let them know that.” we both chuckled and she hugged me.
“Mom, are you upset that Mike isn’t the father?” I rounded up all the clothes that we picked and put them in my cart to get ready to check out.
She sighed, “ I’m kind of bummed cause I really wanted grandchildren, but I’m not upset about it. I’ve seen you and Mike together and you guys clash. But you and Jaime, you two are great together. I’ve seen the way he looks at you, in all of the time that I’ve known him, he has never looked at another girl the way that he looks at you.”
“Really?”
“Really, really.” She chuckled
“I hope he’s as good with Axel as he is with other little kids.”
“You’re naming him Axel?”
I looked at her and smiled, “Yeah, do you like it?”
“Yes, but even if I didn’t it wouldn’t matter. As long as you like it, it’s good enough for me.”
I laughed, “But it does matter that you like it because he’s going to be calling you grandma. I know that if you didn’t like it you would call him by something other than Axel and he would get confused as to which one to go by.”
“You’re really gonna have him call me that?” she had a surprised look and I shrugged, “Even if you aren’t his biological grandmother, you’re still his grandmother whether he likes it or not. Just like the boys and the other band members we’re friends with are going to be his Aunts and Uncles.”
“That means the world to me, Emily. But I do wonder, why so many people?”
“I grew up with no family other than my brother, I don’t want him to grow up like me, having no one to go to. The only family I have besides my brother is my grandparents that live in Idaho that I also haven’t seen since I was little.”
“Well, I will gladly be whatever type of family member you want me to be. As long as you stay a part of my life, I am happy.”
“Thank you, Ma. And I will gladly play the role of being your only Daughter.” We both smiled and she hugged me, “well, should we get your toddler and check out?”
I gave her a confused look before I looked over at Jaime who was now sitting in the kid’s corner playing dinosaurs with a little boy. I laughed, “Nah, lets let him play for a little longer. We can check out and then get him.” She agreed and we headed to the counter to pay for everything.
Over all, we had gone to 13 different stores and filled the bed of the truck. You’d think that it was a lot of clothes, but it really wasn’t. We got a certain amount for each age range, a crib, the thingy that hangs above it with animals on it, a changing table and some new paint to re-do the guest room. The only reason we went to so many stores is because Vivian had heard about them from other people and wanted to check them out.
Jaime and I just got home from shopping; I ran some bags into the living room and then I heard my skype ringtone start up so I ran to the kitchen to answer it, Austin called
“Hey Austin.” We both smiled, “Hey Em, I hope I didn’t catch you at a bad time.”
“No not really, Jaime and I just got back from shopping. What’s up?” just before Austin talked we heard Jaime yell for me. “Oh hold up, I’ll be right back.” I ran into the living room to see Jaime stuck in the doorway, I laughed and walked over to help him, “Jaime, I told you not to try to bring all of the bags in at once.”
“I know, but two trips is for wimps.”
“You’re such a dork.” I grabbed half of the bags from him and set them down on the floor by the couch, “Austin’s on skype, wanna come say hi?”
“Sure.” Jaime set all of his bags by the rest and walked to the kitchen with me, “Hey, bro.” Jaime waved to Austin and went straight for the fridge while I sat down at the table.
“Hey Jaime, how’s it goin?”
“Horrible! I was dragged from store to store for baby clothes and such and didn’t even get a say in what we bought.”
I rolled my eyes, “The only reason he didn’t get a say is because he wants to dress Axel like a douche bag.” Austin laughed, “So that’s his name? I like it.”
“Oh yeah, I’m so sorry I forgot to tell you! Oh gosh, I can’t even imagine how dad’s going to react.” I put my hand on my mouth to cover the ‘oh’ expression.
“Relax Emily, he’s not going to be mad. Knowing him he probably forgot about that appointment anyways.”
“HAHA you forgot! You can’t say you don’t forget anything anymore, Mr. Smarty Pants!” Jaime teased me and stuck his tongue out at me, I glared at him, “If you stick your tongue out any longer I’ll bite it.”
“No you won’t.” He stuck his tongue out again, so of course I bit it. Jaime shrieked and pulled away and I laughed, “I told you that I would bite it, stop thinking that I won’t do what I say I will.” Austin laughed in the background, “You guys are the most entertaining couple I have seen; why can’t we hangout more often?”
“Cause you’re a touring artist and you live your life traveling and are only home for a couple months then you’re gone again. That’s why we can’t hangout that often.” I smiled and Austin sighed, “Oh yeah, that’s why. Well, I just wanted to see what was goin on and how you guys were. I’ve got to go now, Alan is bugging me to get off and play videogames with him. Love you guys.”
“Love you man.” Jaime waved and left upstairs.
“I love you too Austin, tell the guys I love and miss them too. I’ll see you in a bit.”
“Okay, I will. Bye Em.” We waved at each other and ended the call. I shut my computer and sighed.
“Hey Em!” Jaime yelled from upstairs.
“Yeah?” I yelled back
“Do you want to go to dinner tonight?”
“It depends, where?”
“I was thinking that once fancy restaurant downtown.”
“La Trateria?”
“Yeah, that one.” Jaime came walking down the stairs holding the instructions to the crib with a confused look on his face.
“Jaime, don’t you think we should paint the room before we set everything up?” I laughed and he nodded, “Oh yeah, I knew that.”
“Sure ya did. So I’m gonna need to dress up for this dinner, huh?” I sighed, “Yeah, I know it sucks.” He laughed sarcastically.
“Well, I better start getting ready now.” I got up and dragged my feet up the stairs and to the bathroom to shower, Jaime following.
“Why start right now? It’s only like, 3?”
“Because, I’m gonna be dragging my feet the entire time so it’s going to take twice as long.” When I got to the bathroom I immediately started shedding my clothes with the door open.
“Well fine, but I’m not getting ready until 5 and you can have Aliyah over to get ready together and what not while I go and hangout with the guys, deal?” Jaime walked in and leaned against the doorframe while I started the water and jumped in when it got to the perfect temperature.
“Sure I guess, but why would Aliyah be coming over to get ready with me? Wouldn’t she be helping me get ready period?”
“No, cause it’s not just us two going to dinner. I invited everyone else, so it’ll be us two and everyone else’s dates. I told them we could since we didn’t go to the new years party. ”
“But what about Tony and Mike? They wont have dates, they’ll be loners.”
“Well, I brought that up to them and Mike said that he was bringing Angelise since they’ve been talking more and Tony said that he met this new girl like last week I think? All I know is she’s pretty and owns a Bakery.”
I laughed, “Mike and Angelise? Together? I can’t believe it worked! After everything that happened it still worked! YES!! Ten points for Emily!”
Jaime laughed, “Yeah, well I’ll just have the boys text their dates and have all of them come over so you guys can get ready together and all the boys will get ready over at Vic’s. We’ll pick you up around 6, sound like a plan?”
“Yepperoni! Go have fun babe, I’ll text Angelise and Aliyah. Oh and have Tony give that girl my number so she can text me if she needs directions, kay?”
“Okay, love you.”
“Love you too, Jaime. I’ll see you in a little bit.” I leaned out of the shower to get a kiss from him, shampoo still foaming in my hair. He laughed and kissed me anyways, “Be careful now, it’s gonna run into your eyes.”
“Oh whatever, go hangout with the boys and talk about dick size or whatever the fuck you guys talk about.” He laughed and left, leaving me to finish my shower.
After I got out of the shower, I went straight for my phone to text Aliyah and Angelise. They said that neither of them had dresses for the occasion. Luckily for them, all of us wore the same size clothes and I had a couple of extra dresses. After I told them that, they both said they’d be over in a few. As I was waiting for them, I decided to throw some clothes on, blow dry my hair and listen to music.
After about 15-20 minutes I heard the front door open, “Honey, we’re home!” Aliyah’s voice chimed followed by Angelise’s laugh.
“Up here!”
They both came into the bedroom, “Sorry about the mess guys, I haven’t had a chance to clean it and Jaime insists that the floor is his laundry hamper.” I laughed and ran around to pick up his clothes while they chuckled. Aliyah put her stuff down and helped me, “It’s fine, Em. Vic is the same exact way.”
“You’d think that he was the most clean out of the four boys, but no it’s Tony.” Angelise chimed in and helped us pick up the last of the clothes and throw them in the hamper.
Aliyah and I straightened the bed before we set out all of our stuff to get ready. “I didn’t know you dyed your hair, Ang! It looks so cute now! What made you want to put purple in it?” I walked over to her and started playing around with her hair, twisting it into different hairstyles.
“I’m not sure. I just kind of wanted something different.” she shrugged and started wiping off her make up from earlier to re-do it.
I walked to my closet to get each of their dresses out along with my own and laid them out on my bed, “Okay, take your pick out of these two.”
They both walked over and studied them, “I call this one.” Aliyah grabbed the short strapless one and angelise got the other and smiled. “I like this, I wish I had a dress like this.”
“Consider it yours.” I laughed and she looked kind of shocked, “Really?”
“Yeah, I hardly ever wear it so you can have it. I actually think that I’ve only worn that once anyways.”
“Oh my gosh thank you! This will probably be the most expensive thing in my entire wardrobe. Oh, and would you mind doing my makeup for me to match my dress? I’ve just always liked the way you do yours.” She chuckled
“Thanks! I would love to.” I walked over to my closet once again to look for shoes, “Shit! You guys, I don’t have any shoes to go with them. I guess we’ll have to stop and get some on the way to dinner.”
“But aren’t the guys picking us up?” Aliyah looked at me with her eyeliner half done causing me to laugh a little, “Yeah, I guess we’re just going to have to get ready and then run to the shoe store and get some then hurry back. We can make it.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes I’m sure, Aliyah.” I rolled my eyes and walked over to Angelise once again, “Would you like me to do your hair for you?”
“That would be great! I just can’t think of a hair style that would look cute with that dress.”
“That’s what I’m here for, my love.” I walked over to my ipod dock and pressed play, letting the sound of All-American rejects – Dirty little secret pound from the speakers. After I rounded everything up that we would need to do our hair and makeup, I returned to Angelise. Just before I started to work my magic on her hair, the doorbell rang. “Hold up guys, that might be turtle’s new girl.”
I ran downstairs and flung open the door once I was in reach, causing the girl to jump. She smiled anyways, “You must be Emily, right?”
“That’s my name, don’t wear it out! And I am so sorry, Jaime didn’t tell me your name.”
“Erin, my name’s Erin.”
“Well it’s nice to meet you Erin, come in to my lovely home. Okay, it’s Jaime’s but whatever. I’ll be living here soon enough.” I laughed and motioned her to step inside. She laughed and stepped inside.
“Well, we’re all upstairs in the bedroom. Follow me and make yourself at home.” I smiled and started my way to the bedroom. When we both walked in, Angelise and Aliyah were sure to welcome her with warm smiles, “Whoa, Tony never warned us about you being this pretty. I think us girls might have some competition for the boys after all.” Aliyah laughed
“That’s Aliyah, she’s Vic’s and the other one is Angelise, she’s Mike’s flavor of the week.” I laughed and Angelise stuck her tongue out at me.
“Well, it’s great to meet you all. Does anyone know what we’re doing tonight? All Tony said was to bring dress clothes and come to this address.”
“Jaime told me we were going out to dinner at that one really fancy restaurant downtown.”
“Oh, okay. Well, where should I begin?”
“Umm, you can do your make up and I’ll do your hair if you’d like?”
“Oh gosh that’d be great!” she smiled widely
I chuckled, “Okay. I’ll start with Angelise and then I’ll do yours.”
“Okay, that works.” She nodded and everyone started going to town.
After I finished with Angelise and Erin, Aliyah wanted me to do hers as well because she couldn’t seem to get it right. My hair didn’t take that long, so once I finished hers I only had about 20 minutes and I was done with myself; I decided that I’d top it all off with a flower crown that Jaime’s niece had made me the other day.
By the time all four of us were completely ready besides the shoes, it was 5:30.
“Okay girls lets move! We have half an hour until the boys will be heading our way and we need to get shoes!”
Erin gave us a weird look and I chuckled, “We realized that we don’t have any shoes that go with our dresses so we were going to run and pick some up before the guys got here.”
She nodded, “Oh okay. Lets go then.”
All of us ran out the door and piled into Aliyah’s car; we made it to the shoe shop and back literally in just enough time.
We burst through the door and slammed it shut. We ran upstairs to the bedroom once again and tore apart the shoeboxes. Aliyah, not having that great of balance anyways, tripped and fell as she was trying to get them on. We all hurried to get them on and we got everything settled just as we heard the front door open, “Honey, I’m home!” Jaime’s voice echoed through the house.
“Be right down!” I yelled back trying to straighten everything, “Okay, are you ladies ready?” I whispered as all of them nodded.
“Okay, lets go.” I smiled and we all walked downstairs, looking smoking as ever.
All the boys were in a little huddle and talking, not noticing us as we came in. I cleared my throat causing all of them to lookup, once they made eye contact they all whistled.
Jaime walked up and kissed me, “Damn you look hot. I didn’t know that it was possible to be more attractive than you already were.”
I laughed sarcastically and smacked his chest, “Oh you.”
“Oh you.” Aliyah smirked and walked over to Vic, planting a kiss on him unexpectedly. All of us girls were now standing by our dates, chatting and laughing.
I looked around the room at my new family and couldn’t help but smile.
Three years ago, I was in a shitty house in a shitty neighbor hood, with a shitty life. Three years ago, I had to convince myself each day was worth fighting for. Three years ago, I was addicted to self-harm. Three years ago, I met the man of my dreams. Three years ago, I made the decision to change my life. Three years ago I moved to San Diego for a fresh start.
Three years ago, I would’ve never guess that my life would be what it is today.
Absolutely Perfect.

Notes

And that’s a Wrap! It’s been great writing this story for you guys and getting feedback! I am so happy you guys liked it. I’m actually sad that it’s over; I have nothing to do with my life anymore. But also I’m glad because my brain needs a break from it. Haha yes, I’m thinking about doing a sequel, but it all depends on the feedback I get and how much of it I get. I’m sorry if I sound like a greedy bitch, but if I’m going to spend more time writing a sequel, I want to make sure that I’ll actually have some readers ya know? I am so glad to be a part of your life, even if it is only to entertain you with my writing. Thank you all for the wonderful feedback I have gotten, up to this point and all of the support you have all givin me. I love you all very much. Stay golden!
<3/Emilio
Emily: (At christmas dinner) : http://www.polyvore.com/christmas_dinner/set?id=107600239
Emily: (at dinner) http://www.polyvore.com/emily/set?id=107228205
Jaime:http://www.polyvore.com/jaime/set?id=110371004
Aliyah:http://www.polyvore.com/aliyah/set?id=109580135
Vic: http://www.polyvore.com/vic/set?id=110373871
Angelise: http://www.polyvore.com/angelise/set?id=109578678
Mike: http://www.polyvore.com/mike/set?id=110372475
Erin: http://www.polyvore.com/erin/set?id=110376321
Tony: http://www.polyvore.com/tony/set?id=110373267