The Surprising adventures of Jimmy D. Terrible
BEEP! BEEP! Who would have thought a little Mickey Mouse clock would ever make so much noise, but it does and it just sits there teasing you knowing sooner or later you'll have to get up and turn it off ...the balls on that bastard to think we don't need anymore sleep. Poor Jimmy didn't even realize the ear-piercing screech of that little mouse, he just finished a double shift yesterday and was in the weeds for half of that day. Jimmy was a recent graduate from culinary school and was still getting the hang of the controlled chaos called a working kitchen, it was a symphony of pots and pans, the random screams of self mutilated workers (the f*cking new guys). Jimmy lives in a small bustling city on the outskirts of L.A. County called Long Beach, California he lives right off ocean and Cherry Street. If you're thinking he's some sort of beach bum you are sadly mistaken my friend for these two reasons 1.) he's lazy, unfit and terribly skinny 2.) the water down at the beach is not what id like to call clean, here let me give you a hypothetical situation, if you happen to jump in without protection you might come out with a new strain of a std or maybe even pregnant...yes it's that dirty. Poor jimmy begins to wake up but all he could muster was a quick glance and a grunt as he laid back down and turned over. DING!!!! Jimmy lifts his head and slightly looks over at the wall sees his poor Mickey clock on the ground in a few broken pieces and lays his head back down
"JESUS F*CKING CHRIST DUDE!! Turn off your god damn alarm, be considerate of the other people who live here you douche bag!" yelled his roommate Carlos who was also half asleep and disturbingly nude
"Did I wake up your date?" Murmured Jimmy "cause if I did ask her if she can go to the store and get the shit for tonight's shindig" he rolled over once again
"No she's going to be a little busy" yelled Carlos as he walked away from the doorway.
(F*ck it I'm up) thought Jimmy
"Ok ask her in about 2 minutes please! Oh and when you're done.....PUT ON SOME F*CKING BOXERS!!" yelled jimmy as he sat up on his bed with his eyes half closed. It was hard enough for him to get up but to keep his eyes open was pushing it a little too far.
Carlos was jimmy's old High School buddy they actually met accidentally, they were forced to be lab partners and the first thing they both said in synchrony, "don't expect me to do any work cause I have no idea of what I'm doing" at that moment they thought their sarcastic humor and their intellect was enough to deserve a little friendship that bloomed into what you just saw happen. It's actually pretty odd that Carlos woke up cause of the alarm, he can actually sleep through a lot but usually the sleep was induced by a night of binge drinking and snacking. Jimmy's other roommate was Mike who he also met in High School but their story is different, Jimmy was reading his report on the existentialism movement in philosophy when mike just blew his idea that the transcendentalist movement had influenced the existentialism of the mid 20th century right out of the water providing key examples in the separation of time between the two. This is neither here nor there but this actually led Jimmy to admire Mike's thoughts and also Jimmy's report had been the only thing to get mike to talk.....ever Jimmy was more surprised that Mike's voice was so deep than the shredding of his bullshit ideas that were hastily put together on the bus ride to school.
Jimmy was a light sleeper but when he slept it was as if he had just been thrown out of a bar completely ass over tea kettle drunk. He made his way down a narrow hall full of family portraits and pictures of parties, concerts that him and his buddies have attended in the past few years. There was one that was near and dear to his little naively romantic heart, it was the main picture on the wall, his own family portrait: Mike, Carlos, Sophie, Jimmy and Camilla don't worry about the two girls you'll meet them soon enough. Jimmy finally made it to destination A, The bathroom but it was occupied, doing his little pee dance. Like always jimmy has to be doing something ridiculously stupid when a cute girl is near, just as he was about to finish dancing the door opens up and guess who it was...the cute date that Carlos brought over last night.
"Oh! I'm sorry I didn't mean to take long I hope you weren't waiting there for long" the amazingly cute girl ask jimmy as she made her way through to the hallway
"Oh no you're fine haha I just do this little dance all the time, as you can tell I'm still no good at it but practice makes perfect! Heh, heh" Jimmy that little sly dog, he tried playing it off but if you haven't noticed...he's not too good at it. Jimmy couldn't help but think, why is it that the douche bags always attract the cute girls? Is it the look? Or maybe the persona that they try to put off? Or maybe it's the yearning for that "badass" that they see on TV? Well Jimmy wasn't jealous about Carlos's catch, he was just wondering cause the girl he was enthralled with just dated douche bag after douche bag. Poor Jimmy had been chasing after Sophie for a good 3 years but had feelings for her long before that. They've always had feelings for each other and through the years it was more apparent than other but they were too stubborn to accept it.
Well after a few steps out of the bathroom and into the kitchen Jimmy heard a knock at the door. A little startled by the early intrusion and still half asleep jimmy reached the door not without running into the same damn corner twice.
"Jimmy!!! I'm surprised you're up, I was going to wake you up the old-fashioned way" Camilla said holding a pot
"Old-fashioned?"
"Yeah you know: cold water, loud noises, no blankets...the usual"
"Ohhhh the shock and awe! Yeah I know sorry im just half asleep I need to get some coffee to wake me up"
"Well, are you the only one up cause I don't want this great surprise to go to waste. OH! I know, Carlos! That bastard is never up this early and he still owes me one......ew! speak of the devil" Camilla said with disgusted taste and face to match.
"Huh?" Jimmy looks back and sees Carlos once again walking around completely naked, the odd thing is that he struts around like those lions on the discovery channel, you know the ones that seem to be the king of the little shaded area of his kingdom. "SON OF A BITCH DUDE!! Put on some f*cking boxers! Can't you see that Camilla is here?!" Jimmy yells, fully awake and embarrassed by his friends behavior.
"Ahhhh..... if it isn't the spawn of Satan himself" says carlos as he rummages for food in the sparsely packed refrigerator "And anyway she knows she wants all this!" finishes with the awkward slap of the ass.
"Dude there's no food I already checked" jimmy said as he let Camilla in, the apartment they lived in was a small two bed on bathroom apartment with mike taking up the couch dude to a bad hand at poker. Old cups littler the hallways like Jehovah's witnesses' pamphlets in front of a strip club. You would think they're always partying but actually the parties just end up showing up because they've been kicked out of every other house they've been to, Camilla walks cautiously around so mike won't wake up
Camilla threw her stuff on Jimmy's race car bed. Yes he has a red race car bed because he thinks it is the coolest shit since sliced bread or those little cocktail weenies. His room was an ode to the childhood room he never had. Growing up in a Latino family there was no such thing as privacy...ever... The color of his walls were once white but even Jimmy couldn't tell you because 3 of them were full of posters, stickers, white-boards (with useless mottoes and exercise charts) multicolored post it's about bills past due and the scattered picture here and there. The one wall that has nothing posted on it is actually his pride and joy it's a wall he dedicated to his friends. He wants all of his friends and acquaintances to sign and leave a little memento on it about the day they spent hanging out it's almost like a growing year book. As for the floors, there were no floors it was littered with old recipes, cookbooks, clothes which seemed to move a few inches everyday. The one clean area in his room was the entertainment corner that held such things as: Xbox 360, small TV, laptop and his old school boom box which Carlos remodeled into an Mp3 player.
"Well guess who's going to be here tonight?" Camilla said as she began to hum the song playing in the background "From the ritz to rubble" by Arctic Monkeys.
"Who, Someone Important?" Jimmy responded as he attempted to close the door behind him.
"Nope, well kinda, she's important to you...AH!!!! I can't help it, it's Sophie, she really wants to see you again!!!"
"Sounds great, I guess" said Jimmy recuperating from the high pitch scream something akin to hyenas giving birth or the proverbial nails on a chalkboard.
"Ok don't be enthusiastic!......... Asshole" Camilla responded coldly, see Camilla wanted Sophie and Jimmy to get together already because they were both ready and capable at handling a long-term relationship. The thing that Camilla didn't know about Jimmy was that he was great at hiding his true emotions when it came to women. Inside Jimmy was running thought scenarios of what might become of the night. Jimmy had to hurry and also think of an apology because if Camilla was upset, she'd get all emotional and Sophie being the good friend she would spend all night along her side consoling her and leave Jimmy all by himself.
"Hey I'm sorry it's just that I've been going after her for so long now and to no avail. I'm starting to doubt my chances and well I really think she's beginning to move on" Jimmy said, actually everything he said was sincere. He really want a chance to be with her but he felt as if he wasn't good enough to date her. Most of her Exs can break poor little Jimmy in two. He wasn't the type of guy she wanted, she is going through what Jimmy likes to call the douche bag phase
"Oh shut up Jimmy, you know that's not true" Camilla responded but in all actuality she did believe him but wasn't sure of the extent, she was just the messenger between the two stubborn and ill-informed lovers. The hours passed as they sat and listened to CD after CD. The house was "cleaned" up (in layman's terms they hid the existing trash under the pull out sofa) Mike had woken up and gone out to buy the ingredients and beef needed for Jimmy's little shindig that night. Camilla was trying her hardest to clean up Jimmy's so-called room and Carlos finally put something on, something closely resembling a Speedo except it was in leopard print. Just as Mike was coming up the stairs he remembered one important detail he forgot, the flank steak. The moment Jimmy opened the door, glanced over at the bags and saw Mikes face he knew what was missing.
"You forgot the flank steak didn't you?"
"Yeah.....haha I got a little side tracked with the Korean lady's daughter" Mike said with a quiet grin on his face.
" Ahhhh....So she's there today? Well I guess I have to go and see if she's ready for that date she keeps saying no to" responded Jimmy in a very sarcastic tone "Hey Camilla I'll be right back!"
Little did Jimmy know that he just gave Mike and Carlos the perfect opportunity to prank him. See Mike was an undergrad at USC and the person we least suspected to have even graduated H.S. is an M.I.T. dropout, yes you heard it correctly, the man who behaves like primeval mammal is one of the smartest guys in the house. Carlos is a smart little cookie he just hates doing work, the only reason he makes money is by giving seminars on how to count cards at the local YMCA to a bunch of over eager alcoholics. 15 minutes passed as Jimmy began to make his way up the gloomy and baron looking stairs leading to his dim-lit apartment. He begins to have this sensation of utter fear halfway up expecting that Carlos lubed up the last set of stairs, Jimmy grasps the rickety railing that haven't been fixed since Woodrow Wilson was president. Jimmy can still remembers the last prank they pulled on him it was actually very ingenious. Carlos and Mike replaced the lock on the door so Jimmy's key wouldn't fit so naturally Jimmy grasps the knob to try to turn the key a little harder when Jimmy noticed that he couldn't pull away his hand. They had super glued the whole knob when they heard him coming up the stairs. Jimmy still has the scars from that day, he doesn't have any fingerprint on the middle and pinky fingers. Jimmy knew something was wrong when he felt the house was a little too quiet so he tested the door knob with the plastic bag, nothing. He felt around for trip wire, nothing again.
"Please god stop them" asked jimmy in a jokingly fashion. Just as he opens the door Jimmy collapses on his knees holding his most valuable possession, the jewels. The contraption designed by Mike and helped by Carlos was actually pretty simple for their standards. It was a pendulum held up by a stick connected to the door, when the door swings open the stick would push the pendulum a little further back and let go when the door was completely open so it wouldn't block its trajectory, mission name "humpty dumpty".
"SON OF A BITCH !!!!, holy f*ck what....what was that?!" Jimmy mustered out through the tears and girlish squeals.
"Where did it get him?" yelled Mike from the other room
"Looks like you got the thigh! You owe me ten bucks!" responded Carlos from the couch.
"No, mission accomplished, you got the full package...ok please someone get me an ice pack and Mike if I can't have kids I'll come back as a ghost and haunt yours you asshole!" yelled an aggravated Jimmy from the floor.
A few hours had passed and the party was just starting, the flank steak was in the oven braising away and a Marchand de vin staying warm in a Bain Marrie just waiting for the bone marrow to be put on top to finish off the bordelaise. Jimmy was only concentrating because he had to, he was overly anxious to see the girl who just drives him ass over tea kettle. As the party roared on Jimmy heard a knock at the door. He knew who it was but yet ask "who might that be?" he placed the final spoon full of sauce on top of the flank steak and asparagus. As he opened the door it was Camilla and to he left stood Sophie, she was wearing a black and white polka dot dress with black flats, her eyes were a cross between dark blue and a emerald-green, they danced around as if they were in a perpetual waltz. Her hair used to be brown but she hit a phase where she loved blonde highlights and it flowed like the white water rapids of the mighty Colorado. Her face was sparsely covered in make-up, just a little blush on her snow-white skin. She wasn't drop dead gorgeous type of girl who would date jocks exclusively, she was cute and that's what Jimmy loved about her he was never much for looks more about the attitude and how they presented themselves. Through his eyes she was perfect and indeed she was a good catch for any guy douche or not, This is why she was the only girl Jimmy saw when she entered a room. All other girls weren't as interesting to Jimmy when Sophie was around, the curious thing about this situation is that they flirt as if it were going out of style but they've known each other since the 7th grade. At the time Jimmy's neighbor had moved and a new one moved in he was a divorced dad with two dogs and a basketball court one day he noticed that a woman came by and dropped off a girl. She was sitting on the porch waiting for her dad to get back from work and to this day Jimmy still remember when and how they first met. It was that same day she was dropped off Jimmy felt curiosity take over and he took his bike for a ride to check who this new girl was. She curiously enough was wearing a similar dress to the one she showed up with that night, and well at the time Jimmy was going through a change of personality and style. He was wearing tattered up jeans, chucks (also tattered up) and his favorite "the strokes" t-shirt he could find that oddly wasn't tattered up. As he rode down the street he acted as if he was just looking around, you know the casual glance here and there, he thought he was the cats pajamas then it what would seem to become a regularity in Jimmy's life, he hits a hole, poor little Jimmy flips over the handle bars and lands right on his ass. Jimmy dashed back to his feet and acted as if it were part of his master plan all along, Sophie just stared and chuckled which stopped her crying. See the woman who dropped Sophie off, was actually her mom, a drug riddled, booze chugging corpse. She had dropped off Sophie with her dad because she couldn't maintain both her daughter and her addiction at the same time her inhibitions ended up taking over. Ever since that day they had this ever-growing crush that just remained that, a crush. They dated once or twice but usually she broke it off not wanting anything too serious but Jimmy had made up his mind, he had become weary about habitually dating the same types of girls. He knew what he wanted but he also knew he wouldn't have it because of the way their relationship was going. This is what led us to this pathetic attempt at a conversation
"Camilla! Sophie! Welcome to the party come in, come in do you guys want something? Food? Drinks? Anything?"
"No we're fine, hey has Travis called? He was supposed to meet me here with a friend of his" asked Camilla as Sophie just stood there looking beautiful and painfully shy at the attention they were getting because the just arrived.
"No I'm sorry uhm, ask mike he might know, I was getting everything set so I didn't pay any attention."
"Ok well I'll be back I'm gonna call him, I'll leave you two to chat it up" as Camilla walked away she mouthed two phrases behind Sophie's back "Ask for a date!"
And the second one was a usual that Jimmy already knew "don't f*ck this up!" all he did was to giver her a smirk and a thumbs up.
(That's where I stopped I haven't finished writing the rest please tell me what you think even if you just want to rip it apart)
"JESUS F*CKING CHRIST DUDE!! Turn off your god damn alarm, be considerate of the other people who live here you douche bag!" yelled his roommate Carlos who was also half asleep and disturbingly nude
"Did I wake up your date?" Murmured Jimmy "cause if I did ask her if she can go to the store and get the shit for tonight's shindig" he rolled over once again
"No she's going to be a little busy" yelled Carlos as he walked away from the doorway.
(F*ck it I'm up) thought Jimmy
"Ok ask her in about 2 minutes please! Oh and when you're done.....PUT ON SOME F*CKING BOXERS!!" yelled jimmy as he sat up on his bed with his eyes half closed. It was hard enough for him to get up but to keep his eyes open was pushing it a little too far.
Carlos was jimmy's old High School buddy they actually met accidentally, they were forced to be lab partners and the first thing they both said in synchrony, "don't expect me to do any work cause I have no idea of what I'm doing" at that moment they thought their sarcastic humor and their intellect was enough to deserve a little friendship that bloomed into what you just saw happen. It's actually pretty odd that Carlos woke up cause of the alarm, he can actually sleep through a lot but usually the sleep was induced by a night of binge drinking and snacking. Jimmy's other roommate was Mike who he also met in High School but their story is different, Jimmy was reading his report on the existentialism movement in philosophy when mike just blew his idea that the transcendentalist movement had influenced the existentialism of the mid 20th century right out of the water providing key examples in the separation of time between the two. This is neither here nor there but this actually led Jimmy to admire Mike's thoughts and also Jimmy's report had been the only thing to get mike to talk.....ever Jimmy was more surprised that Mike's voice was so deep than the shredding of his bullshit ideas that were hastily put together on the bus ride to school.
Jimmy was a light sleeper but when he slept it was as if he had just been thrown out of a bar completely ass over tea kettle drunk. He made his way down a narrow hall full of family portraits and pictures of parties, concerts that him and his buddies have attended in the past few years. There was one that was near and dear to his little naively romantic heart, it was the main picture on the wall, his own family portrait: Mike, Carlos, Sophie, Jimmy and Camilla don't worry about the two girls you'll meet them soon enough. Jimmy finally made it to destination A, The bathroom but it was occupied, doing his little pee dance. Like always jimmy has to be doing something ridiculously stupid when a cute girl is near, just as he was about to finish dancing the door opens up and guess who it was...the cute date that Carlos brought over last night.
"Oh! I'm sorry I didn't mean to take long I hope you weren't waiting there for long" the amazingly cute girl ask jimmy as she made her way through to the hallway
"Oh no you're fine haha I just do this little dance all the time, as you can tell I'm still no good at it but practice makes perfect! Heh, heh" Jimmy that little sly dog, he tried playing it off but if you haven't noticed...he's not too good at it. Jimmy couldn't help but think, why is it that the douche bags always attract the cute girls? Is it the look? Or maybe the persona that they try to put off? Or maybe it's the yearning for that "badass" that they see on TV? Well Jimmy wasn't jealous about Carlos's catch, he was just wondering cause the girl he was enthralled with just dated douche bag after douche bag. Poor Jimmy had been chasing after Sophie for a good 3 years but had feelings for her long before that. They've always had feelings for each other and through the years it was more apparent than other but they were too stubborn to accept it.
Well after a few steps out of the bathroom and into the kitchen Jimmy heard a knock at the door. A little startled by the early intrusion and still half asleep jimmy reached the door not without running into the same damn corner twice.
"Jimmy!!! I'm surprised you're up, I was going to wake you up the old-fashioned way" Camilla said holding a pot
"Old-fashioned?"
"Yeah you know: cold water, loud noises, no blankets...the usual"
"Ohhhh the shock and awe! Yeah I know sorry im just half asleep I need to get some coffee to wake me up"
"Well, are you the only one up cause I don't want this great surprise to go to waste. OH! I know, Carlos! That bastard is never up this early and he still owes me one......ew! speak of the devil" Camilla said with disgusted taste and face to match.
"Huh?" Jimmy looks back and sees Carlos once again walking around completely naked, the odd thing is that he struts around like those lions on the discovery channel, you know the ones that seem to be the king of the little shaded area of his kingdom. "SON OF A BITCH DUDE!! Put on some f*cking boxers! Can't you see that Camilla is here?!" Jimmy yells, fully awake and embarrassed by his friends behavior.
"Ahhhh..... if it isn't the spawn of Satan himself" says carlos as he rummages for food in the sparsely packed refrigerator "And anyway she knows she wants all this!" finishes with the awkward slap of the ass.
"Dude there's no food I already checked" jimmy said as he let Camilla in, the apartment they lived in was a small two bed on bathroom apartment with mike taking up the couch dude to a bad hand at poker. Old cups littler the hallways like Jehovah's witnesses' pamphlets in front of a strip club. You would think they're always partying but actually the parties just end up showing up because they've been kicked out of every other house they've been to, Camilla walks cautiously around so mike won't wake up
Camilla threw her stuff on Jimmy's race car bed. Yes he has a red race car bed because he thinks it is the coolest shit since sliced bread or those little cocktail weenies. His room was an ode to the childhood room he never had. Growing up in a Latino family there was no such thing as privacy...ever... The color of his walls were once white but even Jimmy couldn't tell you because 3 of them were full of posters, stickers, white-boards (with useless mottoes and exercise charts) multicolored post it's about bills past due and the scattered picture here and there. The one wall that has nothing posted on it is actually his pride and joy it's a wall he dedicated to his friends. He wants all of his friends and acquaintances to sign and leave a little memento on it about the day they spent hanging out it's almost like a growing year book. As for the floors, there were no floors it was littered with old recipes, cookbooks, clothes which seemed to move a few inches everyday. The one clean area in his room was the entertainment corner that held such things as: Xbox 360, small TV, laptop and his old school boom box which Carlos remodeled into an Mp3 player.
"Well guess who's going to be here tonight?" Camilla said as she began to hum the song playing in the background "From the ritz to rubble" by Arctic Monkeys.
"Who, Someone Important?" Jimmy responded as he attempted to close the door behind him.
"Nope, well kinda, she's important to you...AH!!!! I can't help it, it's Sophie, she really wants to see you again!!!"
"Sounds great, I guess" said Jimmy recuperating from the high pitch scream something akin to hyenas giving birth or the proverbial nails on a chalkboard.
"Ok don't be enthusiastic!......... Asshole" Camilla responded coldly, see Camilla wanted Sophie and Jimmy to get together already because they were both ready and capable at handling a long-term relationship. The thing that Camilla didn't know about Jimmy was that he was great at hiding his true emotions when it came to women. Inside Jimmy was running thought scenarios of what might become of the night. Jimmy had to hurry and also think of an apology because if Camilla was upset, she'd get all emotional and Sophie being the good friend she would spend all night along her side consoling her and leave Jimmy all by himself.
"Hey I'm sorry it's just that I've been going after her for so long now and to no avail. I'm starting to doubt my chances and well I really think she's beginning to move on" Jimmy said, actually everything he said was sincere. He really want a chance to be with her but he felt as if he wasn't good enough to date her. Most of her Exs can break poor little Jimmy in two. He wasn't the type of guy she wanted, she is going through what Jimmy likes to call the douche bag phase
"Oh shut up Jimmy, you know that's not true" Camilla responded but in all actuality she did believe him but wasn't sure of the extent, she was just the messenger between the two stubborn and ill-informed lovers. The hours passed as they sat and listened to CD after CD. The house was "cleaned" up (in layman's terms they hid the existing trash under the pull out sofa) Mike had woken up and gone out to buy the ingredients and beef needed for Jimmy's little shindig that night. Camilla was trying her hardest to clean up Jimmy's so-called room and Carlos finally put something on, something closely resembling a Speedo except it was in leopard print. Just as Mike was coming up the stairs he remembered one important detail he forgot, the flank steak. The moment Jimmy opened the door, glanced over at the bags and saw Mikes face he knew what was missing.
"You forgot the flank steak didn't you?"
"Yeah.....haha I got a little side tracked with the Korean lady's daughter" Mike said with a quiet grin on his face.
" Ahhhh....So she's there today? Well I guess I have to go and see if she's ready for that date she keeps saying no to" responded Jimmy in a very sarcastic tone "Hey Camilla I'll be right back!"
Little did Jimmy know that he just gave Mike and Carlos the perfect opportunity to prank him. See Mike was an undergrad at USC and the person we least suspected to have even graduated H.S. is an M.I.T. dropout, yes you heard it correctly, the man who behaves like primeval mammal is one of the smartest guys in the house. Carlos is a smart little cookie he just hates doing work, the only reason he makes money is by giving seminars on how to count cards at the local YMCA to a bunch of over eager alcoholics. 15 minutes passed as Jimmy began to make his way up the gloomy and baron looking stairs leading to his dim-lit apartment. He begins to have this sensation of utter fear halfway up expecting that Carlos lubed up the last set of stairs, Jimmy grasps the rickety railing that haven't been fixed since Woodrow Wilson was president. Jimmy can still remembers the last prank they pulled on him it was actually very ingenious. Carlos and Mike replaced the lock on the door so Jimmy's key wouldn't fit so naturally Jimmy grasps the knob to try to turn the key a little harder when Jimmy noticed that he couldn't pull away his hand. They had super glued the whole knob when they heard him coming up the stairs. Jimmy still has the scars from that day, he doesn't have any fingerprint on the middle and pinky fingers. Jimmy knew something was wrong when he felt the house was a little too quiet so he tested the door knob with the plastic bag, nothing. He felt around for trip wire, nothing again.
"Please god stop them" asked jimmy in a jokingly fashion. Just as he opens the door Jimmy collapses on his knees holding his most valuable possession, the jewels. The contraption designed by Mike and helped by Carlos was actually pretty simple for their standards. It was a pendulum held up by a stick connected to the door, when the door swings open the stick would push the pendulum a little further back and let go when the door was completely open so it wouldn't block its trajectory, mission name "humpty dumpty".
"SON OF A BITCH !!!!, holy f*ck what....what was that?!" Jimmy mustered out through the tears and girlish squeals.
"Where did it get him?" yelled Mike from the other room
"Looks like you got the thigh! You owe me ten bucks!" responded Carlos from the couch.
"No, mission accomplished, you got the full package...ok please someone get me an ice pack and Mike if I can't have kids I'll come back as a ghost and haunt yours you asshole!" yelled an aggravated Jimmy from the floor.
A few hours had passed and the party was just starting, the flank steak was in the oven braising away and a Marchand de vin staying warm in a Bain Marrie just waiting for the bone marrow to be put on top to finish off the bordelaise. Jimmy was only concentrating because he had to, he was overly anxious to see the girl who just drives him ass over tea kettle. As the party roared on Jimmy heard a knock at the door. He knew who it was but yet ask "who might that be?" he placed the final spoon full of sauce on top of the flank steak and asparagus. As he opened the door it was Camilla and to he left stood Sophie, she was wearing a black and white polka dot dress with black flats, her eyes were a cross between dark blue and a emerald-green, they danced around as if they were in a perpetual waltz. Her hair used to be brown but she hit a phase where she loved blonde highlights and it flowed like the white water rapids of the mighty Colorado. Her face was sparsely covered in make-up, just a little blush on her snow-white skin. She wasn't drop dead gorgeous type of girl who would date jocks exclusively, she was cute and that's what Jimmy loved about her he was never much for looks more about the attitude and how they presented themselves. Through his eyes she was perfect and indeed she was a good catch for any guy douche or not, This is why she was the only girl Jimmy saw when she entered a room. All other girls weren't as interesting to Jimmy when Sophie was around, the curious thing about this situation is that they flirt as if it were going out of style but they've known each other since the 7th grade. At the time Jimmy's neighbor had moved and a new one moved in he was a divorced dad with two dogs and a basketball court one day he noticed that a woman came by and dropped off a girl. She was sitting on the porch waiting for her dad to get back from work and to this day Jimmy still remember when and how they first met. It was that same day she was dropped off Jimmy felt curiosity take over and he took his bike for a ride to check who this new girl was. She curiously enough was wearing a similar dress to the one she showed up with that night, and well at the time Jimmy was going through a change of personality and style. He was wearing tattered up jeans, chucks (also tattered up) and his favorite "the strokes" t-shirt he could find that oddly wasn't tattered up. As he rode down the street he acted as if he was just looking around, you know the casual glance here and there, he thought he was the cats pajamas then it what would seem to become a regularity in Jimmy's life, he hits a hole, poor little Jimmy flips over the handle bars and lands right on his ass. Jimmy dashed back to his feet and acted as if it were part of his master plan all along, Sophie just stared and chuckled which stopped her crying. See the woman who dropped Sophie off, was actually her mom, a drug riddled, booze chugging corpse. She had dropped off Sophie with her dad because she couldn't maintain both her daughter and her addiction at the same time her inhibitions ended up taking over. Ever since that day they had this ever-growing crush that just remained that, a crush. They dated once or twice but usually she broke it off not wanting anything too serious but Jimmy had made up his mind, he had become weary about habitually dating the same types of girls. He knew what he wanted but he also knew he wouldn't have it because of the way their relationship was going. This is what led us to this pathetic attempt at a conversation
"Camilla! Sophie! Welcome to the party come in, come in do you guys want something? Food? Drinks? Anything?"
"No we're fine, hey has Travis called? He was supposed to meet me here with a friend of his" asked Camilla as Sophie just stood there looking beautiful and painfully shy at the attention they were getting because the just arrived.
"No I'm sorry uhm, ask mike he might know, I was getting everything set so I didn't pay any attention."
"Ok well I'll be back I'm gonna call him, I'll leave you two to chat it up" as Camilla walked away she mouthed two phrases behind Sophie's back "Ask for a date!"
And the second one was a usual that Jimmy already knew "don't f*ck this up!" all he did was to giver her a smirk and a thumbs up.
(That's where I stopped I haven't finished writing the rest please tell me what you think even if you just want to rip it apart)
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