JACK AND ROSE PRESENT TIME 2: JUNIOR YEAR
Chapter Eleven
"Thanks for coming over an hour
early," Dominique said as Jack and Rose entered her house. "I just
hope that everyone doesn't trash this place," she finished as she looked
around her neatly decorated house.
"I'm sure everything will be fine,"
Rose assured her friend.
"You two look great," Dominique
said, noticing her friends' costumes. "What are you supposed to be,
anyway?"
Jack looked at Rose, proving to her that he
had been right when he told her no one would know who they were. "We're
Romeo and Juliet," Rose said with a sigh. "You really can't
tell?"
"All I can tell is that you're showing
way too much cleavage," she replied.
"I told you," Jack said.
Just then, they heard the doorbell ring, and
Dominique raced to get it. "Hey, Tommy," Dominique said as she opened
the door for her friend. "I can't believe you're actually wearing
that!"
Rose and Jack started to laugh when they saw
Tommy with just a Speedo. "What?" Tommy asked, looking down at his
costume. "I decided to come as a swimmer," he smiled. "A really
good-looking swimmer, might I add." Tommy looked at Rose, "A little
too much cleavage there, Rosie."
Rose started to get mad when Jack tried to
put his coat on her. "Rose," Jack said a little bit angry.
"There are going to be guys here!"
"Oh, my gosh," Rose said throwing
his coat back at him. "We're all friends anyway. Besides, this is how
you're supposed to wear this dress."
Jack looked at her again, and then pulled her
closer. "All right, just stay by me the whole night, all right?" he
asked as he kissed her nose.
Rose smiled. "Fine."
"I have to go put my costume on,"
Dominique said, running up her long staircase.
Tommy went over to the big table and started
to eat some chips. "Does anyone know what Fabrizio is coming as?"
Rose and Jack shook their heads. Just on cue, there was a knock at the door.
"That's Fabri," Rose said, opening
the door. "Nice costume," Rose said, actually meaning it.
"Thanks," Fabrizio said, coming
into the house. Tommy and Jack began to laugh when they saw him. He was dressed
like Howie from the Backstreet Boys. His shirt read, "Howie D", which
totally gave it away.
"So," Tommy said, trying not to
laugh. "You decided to come as a backdoor boy?"
Rose, getting frustrated with the two guys
being so mean, said, "I think you look great, Fabrizio. You really do look
like Howie." But, her comment seemed to make the two guys laugh more.
"And, Howie is totally hot," Rose said, finally ending the laughter.
Rose turned to look at Dominique come down the
stairs. "Dom, you look great!"
"No, I don't," Dominique said.
"What are you supposed to be?"
Tommy asked.
"Brandy, duh."
Tommy nodded, not wanting to go there.
"You look cute Fabrizio," Dominique said. She heard the other guys
making fun of him, and she thought he deserved a compliment. He did look good,
anyway. Fabrizio smiled back at her.
About an hour later, the party had begun, and
everyone was there.
"Hey, Dom," Fabrizio said, very
casually. "Wanna dance?"
Dominique smiled at him and couldn't help but
say, "Sure."
Rose watched as two of her best friends
danced with one another. Tommy was now standing on top of one of the counters,
dancing like an idiot. "Ready to make all of those people jealous?"
Jack said, holding out his hand to take Rose's.
"Right," Rose said with a laugh,
and gladly accepted Jack's proposal. They went out into the middle of the room
and began to dance. “Do you think those two will ever get back together?"
Rose whispered into Jack's ear as she watched Dominique and Fabrizio make their
way across the dance floor.
Jack looked over at them and smiled. "I
hope they do," Jack said. "It'll keep them both out of trouble."
Rose nodded and then leaned her head on
Jack's shoulder. She was really tired, and she didn't know why. Out of the
corner of her eye, she saw something: Cal and Alexia were dancing. She didn't
even see them come in, nor knew that they had been invited. But, then again,
most of Dominique's parties were almost like open house.
"Take a look at that," Rose
muttered to Jack.
Jack turned his head and now was really
convinced those two were dating. He though Alexia was smarter then that, but
maybe he was wrong. "She's totally going down the wrong road," Jack
said, looking Rose in the eyes. "I hope she knows that."
It was a fact Alexia knew that, Rose knew for
sure. But why was she hanging out with such jerks? Rose didn't know, and didn't
even really care. It did bother her, but she decided to forget it...for the time
being.
"You feeling okay?" Jack asked,
lifting Rose's head up.
Rose smiled. "Yeah, I feel fine..."
Jack returned the smile and gave her one of
his sweet kisses. "I love you."
"I love you, too."
Jack and Rose started to laugh when Tommy
jumped off the counter. He came up to them, with one of his arms around a
blonde girl. "What's up?" Tommy asked.
"Not shit," Jack said. "Who is
this?"
Tommy smiled. "This is Caroline, but
she's only here for tonight. She's from France," Tommy said with a smile.
"What more could I ask for?" And the he left to dance with his French
girl.
"I worry about him sometimes," Rose
said.
"Me, too," Jack agreed.
"And I worry about you a lot," Rose
said, smiling at Jack.
"I hate it when you worry about
me," Jack said as he kissed her again. "You know that..."
"But that won't stop me from doing
it."
Jack smiled. "I know."