Christmas Eve: Party at the Marchese place
Juice has driven him, Kyle, and Dot over to the party - he's wearing a red suit, with an outrageous pimp daddy santa hat.
Nica was doing the final decorating. Tinsel garlands wrapped with colored strands of lights hung on the walls near the ceiling, all the way around the living room and dining room. There was a big bowl of punch and a big bowl of eggnog, with dippers and glasses nearby.
Sherry was helping. She was tasting the eggnog.
Trays of baklava and cookies were located in various places.
Becky was actually helping Nica set out food.
"How is it?" Nica asked. "Does it need more brandy?"
Kyle was hanging out with Juice, making sure he didn't do anything too stupid... er, curious.
"This has brandy in it?" asked Sherry
"That sounds like a 'no' to me," Nica said, and went to the kitchen.
"...That's not what I mean" Sherry said, trying to think of a way to keep Nica from liquoring up the eggnog
"It came upon a midnight queer," Juice sang as he got out of the car in front of the Marchese place and headed for the door.
"Honey, let's not sing the dirty sex songs, okay?" Kyle said.
"At least not until you're drunk."
"....aww, okay babe," Juice said, taking Kyle's hand. He'd promised to be good.
Nica returned with an amber colored bottle. "Hey, if you don't know it's there, then it's too subtle," Nica said.
Dot trailed along behind Juice and Kyle, quietly.
Juice knocked on the door cheerfully.
"We're heeeere," Kyle catcalled.
"Let me add it." Sherry said, taking the bottle from Nica
Anna answered the door,and went back to curling up with Vito.
"Hi guys," Juice said. "Merry Christmas type stuff!" He bounded on in.
"Okay," Nica said to Sherry, and headedoff to hug the nw arrivals. "Hey, guys!"
Dot waved. "Merry Christmas, everybody."
Sherry tucked the bottle into her purse.
Juice hugged and grinned. "How's it going, Marcheses?"
"Hey, everyone," Kyle said, waving.
"Hey!" Sherry smiled
"JUICE!" BEcky hugged her friend
Juice hugged Becky and smiled. "Hey Bex, how goes?"
"I'm good! I'm good! Oh my god, guess what? You'll never, ever, ever guess."
Becky seemed in a really good mood
"Is your dad back?" Juice guessed.
"Did Ethan propose marriage?" Kyle guessed.
"No, no, but My Dad is going to come back, and he said he's got a plan to get rid of the British invasion, and then they'll be gone, and it will be great, and he said he's going to let me get my drivers license."
"Beatle repellent?" Nica suggested, and offered a platter of sweet stuff to Juice.
"Oh, awesome!" Juice high-fived. "Does that mean David can lose his boobs soon?"
"Yeah!!" Becky Highfived "Isn't that the absolute best news ever?"
"Yeah, that'd be sweet," Juice agreed.
"I dunno, he has nice boobs," Kyle commented, amused.
Dot picked various sweet things off the tray, making outrageous use of her height. "I think my mom had a crush on Paul," she added, thoughtfully.
"Who is Paul?" asked Becky "Oh, I want to get some cookies." she ran off before she could get an answer
"Bass player, wrote peppy love songs mostly," Nica said. "Nice guy." She sampled the eggnog. "Mmm ... you got it just right, Sherry, thanks."
"Not a problem, sweetie." Sherry smiled
"Checking out my brother's boobs is weird," Juice said to Kyle, then snagged some food
"And funny," Kyle added.
"Aren't we in the wrong area of the country for that sort of thing to be accepted?" Dot laughed, just a little.
Becky returned with cookies
"Why? I'm not related," Kyle said.
"Yeah, plus he's only half-gay," Juice said, making a face.
"I'm not gay at all." Becky said
Nica raised an eyebrow at Becky.
Dot shook her head. "Oh, that's right. Sorry, I must have missed that part."
"You guys want music? Oh, I have a present for you Dot, and one for Kyle." Becky ran off to get those
"Presents for me? I do like presents," said Dot.
"Presents!" Kyle cheered.
"Heh ... I have a few presents to hand out, too," Nica said. "Later."
"Woo!" Juice said. He loved presents. "Uh, we have stuff for you guys too but like... we're waiting for tomorrow on actual Christmas. You're coming to the Sunset for Christmas, right?"
Becky returned, and handed a box to Dot and a box to Kyle.
"Totally," Nica said.
Dot nodded. "I'm gonna be a busy bee, but yes! Also, you boys are invited to visit for Christmas. It was a friendly demand, actually," Dot said.
"Ooh, will they have food?" Juice said. "The food totally rocked for thanksgiving"
"Free food is our weakness," Kyle confirmed.
"If we were super heroes, it would totally be our Kryptonite," Juice agreed.
"Of course they'll have food," Dot assured them.
"You guys are getting free food?" asked Becky
"Yeah - Dot's folks are going to feed us," Juice said, grinning.
"Cool." Becky said "That rocks."
Dot grinned and nodded. "They are good parents! Thanks for the present, Beck! Can I open it?"
"Yeah!" Becky said "Ethan's parents are nice, and they really liked me. They asked if I was on Ritalin, though"
Becky had given Dot a Chia Pet.
Dot squeaked. "Ooh!"
"Oh neat! Ch-ch-ch-chia!" Juice sang
Kyle grinned.
Dot carefully set the box down, then hugged Becky. "That is super-thoughtful! Thanks!"
Becky smiled and hugged "I'm glad you like it, and now we can be friends and can hang out and stuff. When the zombies take over you'll be totally safe."
Dot hugged again, then nudged Kyle. "Hit her with the speech, why don't you?"
"Speech?"
Dot nodded. "The 'careful what you wish for' speech."
"No, I've seen the back area of the Sunset. She's probably right," Kyle said.
"The zombies will eventually slaughter everyone who isn't with good friends."
"Oh, I already know that." Becky said "Bad stuff happens all the time, and if we have enough cows and chickens, we should be fine when the zombies come."
Juice was quiet a moment, thinking.
Dot shrugged. "Okay, I'll grant you that."
"Precisely," Kyle said.
"And she didn't say anything like 'as long as I live'. That's the real killer," Kyle said.
"What are you talking about?" asked BEcky
"Satsu," Juice said.
Dot nodded, and sighed. "She's doing much better. I was JUST there before we came here, in fact."
"Yeah, she said something about 'as long as I breathe' and then she got stabbed a few hours later.
" Kyle nodded seriously.
"Oh..." Becky said "Well, that's bad. Is she going to get to leave the hsopital soon?"
"That's always a bad thing to say," Juice said.
Kyle shrugged. "Dunno."
"Hopefully. I don't know -- they won't tell me that, even though I'm there all the time." Dot sighed. "The nurses all like me, though."
"You could look at the records." Becky said "Jist look for her room number on the chart, and try to read it"
"And hope it doesn't say Bundy," Kyle said.
"I'll try that, next time. I've been too tired to be sneaky, though." Dot shrugged and nibbled on a cookie.
"I'd look for you, but hospitals freak me out." BEcky said "But if you find the chart, you can find out way too much info. They chart EVERYTHING. It's freaky."