I'm sorry, Brit, but I couldn't get a hold of "More than Friends". Here's this
one!
Sangria Surprise
or
One Too Many
by Brittany Griffin
"Thanks for taking me along you guys" a 16 year old Jonny Quest grinned from
the backseat of the car at his two best friends. "Where is this party anyway?"
Jessica Bannon, aged 17, turned around in her seat "Chris's house"
"but arn't Chris's parties known for being rather....over the top?"
"Yep, but this time the entire class is going, and It's suposed to be a nice
party..but you have to behave yourself ok? Hadji's our designated driver and
we're only staying for an hour or so to be on the safe side and be home
before curfew, got that?"
"Geez Jess, I'm not a kid you know, I can take care of myself!"
"I will belive that one when I see it my friend"
"Big help you are"
Hadji pulled the car into a long driveway and parked near the front of a
large house on the edge of a lake, torches lighted a path to a large backyard
lighted by chinese lanterns.
"wow"
"Jonny shut your mouth, your going to be cathing flies soon"
Jonny clamped his mouth shut and looked around. He spoted some people from
his english class near the food and headed over. Jessie watched him go and
shruged, if he got into any trouble she could just beat him up later.
"Hey Jonny" Chris greated him "The foods there, the soda's are in in that
cooler over there and the beer and wine are over there"
"Thanks" Jonny snaged a chip with some nine layer dip on his way past the
food table and opened the cooler. It was filled with mello yello and sprite
"eww" Jonny thought looking around, a lot of people were drinking cokes and
things, he must have missed the good drinks, Hadji's fault for driving so
slow. He headed over to the alchoholic beverages, his dad let him have wine
sometimes so maybe he could have a little now. "Hey Jenny" He asked a girl
standing nearby as he spotted a large bowl of what looked like fruit punch
"what's that?"
She gave him an odd look like he should have known already "It's sangria"
"What's sangria?"
"Fruit punch with red wine" she rolled her eyes and moved off to talk to some
other people
"ok, thanks" jonny yelled after her. Fruit punch and wine huh? That sounded
rather in-toxic, good even, maybe he'd try just a cup.
Jessie walked up to where Hadji was talking with some people near where the
band was playing. she discretly siped at her small cup of white wine. It was
cheap stuff and way too sweet, but that would only help keep her from
drinking too much. "Hey Hadj, I haven't seen Jonny around in a while, have
you?"
"I Belive he is over at the food"
"Typical"
"Indeed..want to dance?"
"love too" She dumped the rest of her wine into the bushes and threw the cup
into a garbage can. it was too sweet anyway, later she'd go and get a sprite
and some food.
"i've had three"
"well i'm up to four and I'm not even tipsy so there!"
Jonny watched the exchange and looked back to his own cup of sangria, it
tasted like normal punch to him so he had gotten another glass after he had
finished his first one. He looked back at the group of people around him,
they seemed rather impressed at the game, well if they could do it he could
too. He quickly downed the last of the sangria in his cup and got another
glass, the other person was on their fourth cup he thought as he swirled the
rudy red liquid around, watching the fruit chunks spin. He had to keep up, oh
well, it was just wine, he downed the cup, and got another before returning
to the group. "I'm on my fourth"
Jessie and Hadji were walking with a group of firends over to the food table
to nab some snacks when they spoted a group of rauckus teenagers who had
obviosly been drinking. And right in the middle of it was Jonny. "Wonderfull"
Jessie rolled her eyes and grabed Jonny's arm, pulling him off a few feet
from the rest.
"What's up Jess?"
Well at least he wasn't drunk yet, tipsy maybe but not drunk.
"Jonny, You are planing on staying sober tonight right?"
"Sure, I just want to get a little tipsy, you know, to see what it's like,
I'll be carefull" Jonny replied as he finished the last of the sangria in his
cup.
"You had better be"
"Jessie I'm not a baby! I can take care of myself! Just quit bugging me ok?!"
"Ok" Jessie replied doubtfully before she returned to the group of friends
she had been talking with
(Authors note, this is where all similarites with my experiance end)
While Jonny re-joined the group of people who were participating in the
sangria drinking game
"I'm on my sixth, anywhy, anyone here dat joke about da doctor an preist an
the..."
"Jessie" Hadji said noding towards where people were dancing to the band " Do
you think Jonny's had a bit to much?"
"It wouldn't surprise me, But everytime I try and tell him so he tells me not
to treat him like a baby" She looked over at Jonny, who was curently trying
to start a moshpit during a slow-dance song
"Then perhaps we should leave"
"Why not just let him get drunk? It'll teach him a leason and we're here to
make sure he dosn't do anything stupid"
"you mean like that?"
Jessie looked back over at the dancers. At first she didn't spot Jonny but
then a movement of to the side caught her eye. Jonny was standing atop a
plastic lawn-table dancing around and singing at the top of his lungs.
"IIIII'MMM EVERY WOOOOMMAN! IT'S AAAAAAALLLL IN MEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Jessie burst out laughing in spite of herself and nabed one of her father's
camera pens out of her small bag. She started taking snapshots of him. He
noticed and started striking model poses as he struted around. Jess continued
to take pictures untill he started pulling at his shirt.
"what is he DOING?!?!"
"I think now would be a good time to leave"
"Yeah, good idea Hadj"
Just then Jonny took a wrong step and fell off of the table.
Hadji and Jessie ran over to him
"Jonny you ok?" Jessie asked as she leaned over him
"Hiya CARROTS!" Jonny yelled and grabed a handfull of her hair
"OW! HEY!" Jessie yelped before she slammed a fist into his side, causing him
to let go
"Come my friend, time to go home"
"otay turban-boy just let me get my drink"
"Oh no you don't" Jessie grabed him around the waist and forced him to walk
towards the car
"Beautiful!!! I never knew you cared!!" Jonny cried, flinging his ams around
her neck
"ACK! Hadji HELP!" Jessie let go of Jonny, which caused him to fall face
first into a puddle on the side of the sidewalk
Together Hadji and Jessie manhandled Jonny into the back seat of the van,
Jessie sitting with him to help keep him upright.
"well this was certianly an interesting party"
"No kidding, at least your not back here smelling his dragon-breath"
"Jessie...."
"I say we find some way to teach him a leason"
"I heartily concur my friend"
"JESSIE!!!"
"WHAT???"
"I..Don't...Feel so good"
Jessie took one look at Jonny's face and promptly moved up to the front
pasengers side seat, leaving Jonny to lay across the very back seat of the
van.
"hey where'a you goin??" Jonny slured
"Watch the bumps turban-boy!! You been takin drivin lesons from speed
what's-his-face!?!?"
Jessie started looking through the glove compartment "we don't happen to have
any of those air-sick bags left do we?"
"I hope so"
"I really dont feel too......."
"EEWWWWWWW!"
"I can't belive he did that"
"Better out the back window than in the car"
"But we still have to wipe down the side of the van... oh I am going to get
him back for this!"
"Count me in, perhaps it is a good thing everyone's asleep" Hadji said as
they tossed the wet rags they had been using into the washing machine and
started it.
"Well at least some people are going to get some sleep" Jessie added "we have
to stay up and make sure Sangria-man dosn't sleep on his back"
"Oh wonderfull, I can hardly wait" They put Jonny in his bed, on his stomach
and pulled his shoes off. Jessie tossed a blanket over him and sat in the
chair by his desk as Hadji sat on the floor.
"oh I can't belive I did that..my dad's gonna kill me"
"Jonny..."
"What?"
"Shut up and go to sleep"
"okay"
"Jessie. why not do this in shifts, I will go first while you sleep and then
I will wake you up later..it would not do to look as if we had hangovers in
the morning."
"oh my dad's going to kill me..."
"Good idea Hadj" Jessie nabed a blanket ad lay down on the floor "wake me up
in..oh say two hours? then we can plan out what we're going to do to get back
at him"
He smiled at her "alright"
"oh my dad's going to kill me....."
"SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP!"
"geez..you get a little tipsy and everyone gets mad at you...."
Jonny woke with the bright morning sunlight in his face. He involentarily
squinted and then hid his head under the blanket covering him.
"Oh man did someone get the licence plate of that steamroller?"
Causiosuly he poked his head out from under the blanket, eyes half closed
aginst the bright light. very slowly he got out of bed, trying to ignore the
pain shooting through his head every time he moved. He noticed he was still
wearing the clothes he had worn to the party, wait a sec...what had happened
at the party? he could remember having a little sangria and telling
jokes..and dancing maybe..then there was something about hitting his head and
pulling Jessie's hair....
"Oh man maybe she was so mad about that she knocked me out and that's why I
can't remember anything"
He changed clothes, stoping every so often to lessen the sledge hammers in
his head. He went over to his desk and sat in his chair for a long time.
Then, like he did every morning, fliped on his computer to check up on his
mail. As the comp was booting he nabbed his sunglasses from his desk and put
them on, the sun was just too bright and it hurt his eyes. He turned back to
his computer and stoped short as he saw the picture prominetly displayed on
the desktop...."okay...i'm sure there is a very good explination why I'm
table-top dancing....." He opened his mail and found one marked "One Too
Many?" he quickly opened it...
From: JessieBan@Questworld.com
To:JonnyQ@Questworld.com
Subject: One Too Many?
Like the pic? Lucky I had one of dad's camera pens on me last night..it
was no problem at all to turn it into wallpaper for your comp while you were
sleeping off that sangria..Bye the way do you even know what sangria is? It's
friuit juice with red wine, whiskey, and rum..and knowing Chris it was
probably spiked with a million and one other types of alcohol. You threw up
out the van window last night too..and you owe Hadj and me BIG for getting
you to bed without anyone noticing..just remember we''ll be watching you..and
there are a lot more pictures where that one came from
Love ya Sangria-Man,
Jessie
Jonny just layed his head on the keyboard and wondered where it would all
end.
Listening through Jonny's door Jess heard a thump-click-clack, as if
something heavy had hit a computer keyboard. She was able to make out the
faint words "Oh my God....". grinning she gave Hadji a thumbs up. Mission
acomplished, now for the fun part.
Jonny splashed some cold water on his face and looked into the mirror. He had
to admit that right now his face was perhaps the most hideious thing he had
ever seen in his entire life. He quickly put back on his shades to cover the
bags and blood-shot eyes. Carefully he moved downstairs and into the kitchen.
Race was sitting at the table reading the paper and Jess was rooting around
in the fridge. She looked up at him and gave him a friendly smile. but
somehow he got the feeling she was up to something.
"morning sleepyhead.....want a _drink_?"
Jonny backed up a step and looked nervosly at Race.."NO! I mean ah.um..I'm
not thirsty!" he finished lamely as he hurried from the room
"What's with him?" Race inquired. Jessie just shruged and smiled inoccently.
"All I did was ask him if he wanted a drink" She replied while pouring
herself some orange juice.
Jonny went into the living room and ploped down on the couch. "maybe i'll
watch a little TV to get my mind off of it..yeah good idea" He thought as he
turned on the tube.
He saw a guy in a white suit screaming " REPENT OF YOUR SINS OR TERIBALE
RETRIBUITON WILL..."
Jonny quickly turned the TV off. Groaning he let his head fall and hit the
armrest of the sofa and just lay there.
Hadji came in and smiled at him "Good moring My Friend, Sleep well?"
"uh...sure Hadji, yeah I slept like a log"
"Glad to hear it, I am just going to play some music, don't mind me"
"no problem" Jonny said as he settled down to take a nap on the couch, not
really listening to the music blasting from the stereo, Untill the chorus
that is.
"I'm Every Woman, I't's All In Meeee..."
Jonny bolted upright, ignoring the pain it caused, and rushed from the room
covering his ears. Hadji hid a small mischeivous grin and tuned the CD player
off.
"Um, Dad can I tell you something?" Jonny timidly entered his father's Lab.
He stoped short when he noticed That Race was there too. Both men abruptly
stoped their conversation and looked at him expectiantly.
"Of course son, what is it?"
"Promise not to get mad?"
Race gave him a stern look "Perhaps you had just better tell us"
"Ok...Um...Well..At the party last night I
kinda....Drankalotofsangriaandgotdrunkandthrewupoutthevanwindowandnow
HadjiandJessiearemakingmylifealivinghellbecauseialreadyfeelguiltyandthey
keepremindingme!"
Jonny stoped to take a breath but before he could continue Benton held up his
hand to forstall any more explinations.
"We know"
"HUH??!!?"
Race gave him a small smile "I've been wasted too many times when I was
younger not to reconize a hangover"
"I'm just glad that you had this experiance where Jessie and Hadji could keep
an eye on you and not by yourself in some bar somewhere"
"But dad aren't you.."
"Mad? No..Disapointed, Yes"
"I Hope you learned a leason kiddo"
Jonny rubbed his temples "oh yeah,, no way am I doing that agian"
"Good, of course that dosn't mean we shouldn't think of some type of
punishment.."
Jonny groaned "Isn't this headache punishment enough?"
Race laughed and Benton tried to surpress a smile. "What do you think Race?"
"I think He should go back to bed before he passes out"
"Good idea, in fact why not keep him at home for a couple of weeks or so?
Just to be on the safe side"
"Sounds like a smart thing to do"
"Your grounding me for TWO WEEKS?"
Benton turned him around and pushed him toward the door "You had better be
grateful it's not for a month, now go to bed before you get really sick"
Jonny stumbled out the door as Benton and Race started talking about his
little experiance. He wasn't happy that this had happened but it was a relife
to have it out in the open. Even if he was getting punished.
He spoted Jessie and Hadji nonchalantly leaning aginst the wall on the far
side of his bedroom door. "I confessed, happy?" He growled as he opened his
door.
"Very" Jessie replied smiling sweetly. But Jonny couldn't help noticing that
in her hand she twirled a camera pen.
The End.....
~~Or is it? I say They should sell the pics at school..humiliate the
tow-headed twerp and get some money on the side~~
(Naw..I think now that Brit's got some of the AGALAIAHRA out of her system
she's going to finish SITC..)
~~::gag:: The only good part about that story is the part i wrote~~
(You were having Jihad saduce Jessie!)
~~Yeah, twisted arnt I?~~
Well forget it Sith-Girl...I may have decided to let Jihad live but I'm not
going to let him win
~~Darn~~
COMMENTS???? Either on this part or the story as a whole? must know!!!!!!
Brit=)
~~Nakita
(Kira)
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