Chapter 114: Popular Girl Street Cred (2)

Chapter 114: Chapter 114: Popular Girl Street Cred (2)

[General POV]

The pitter patter of Haley's footsteps who was trying to set up for the party made Mitchell feel guilty about doing nothing while sitting on the living room sofa. He sighed and stood up before asking, "Haley. Do you need any help?"

"Huh? Yeah Uncle Mitch! Go Make Alex change out of her gaudy clothes." Haley turned to Mitchell and pointed her finger toward Alex. She had finished setting up the snacks station, and brought out a dozen soda bottles.

The iconic red plastic cups were arranged neatly on the concession stand. Popcorns, pretzels, donuts, and various foods filled the living room with a sweet smell. The sound system was set up by Phil, and it was currently playing the song, [Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love]

For entertainment, a ping pong table was set up in the backyard. A Wii tennis game was also set up in the living room, together with a game of cards, jenga, and a few others.

"Hmm...I think I got it all." Haley mumbled to herself.

[Mitchell POV]

"Today is Sunday...and After a long week at work, I just wanted to relax a bit." Mitchell said with a tired face. "Why can't I relax at my house? Ha!!." He laughed self-deprecatingly as he faced the question.

"Maybe because I'm just so sick of the baby talk."

-Flashback-

"Aguuggugu. Adadadada."

"Uwauwaua. Dadadada. Come on Lily. Say it with me."

Mitchell walked in the living room, and turned back as soon as he saw Cam with Lily sitting on the couch.

The silent Lily was wide-eyed as she gazed incomprehensibly at the babbling Cam, who recently just learned that baby talk may increase affection among baby and parents, which in turn placed Mitchell in an unending noise pollution torture by his partner.

-Flashback ends-

"I just...I just need to get away from it...just for a little bit." Mitchell confessed. That was also the reason why he came by so early to meet up with Claire.

[commentary ends]

"What's wrong with my clothes?" Alex protested.

Haley turned to her sister and said, "Well first of all, that's a cookie-"

"It's the EARTH! This is a NASA shirt!" Alex retorted as she showed the blue Nasa logo on her oversized white t-shirt.

"More like, 'NAAAA, You ain't wearing that to my party, go change.' I already picked out some clothes for you. Go put that on."

Both Mitchell and Alex were taken aback when they heard what Haley said. "You did?" Mitchell asked.

Haley replied in frustration, "Uncle Mitch, My name is written in a magazine today! I have a reputation to keep. If you're staying for the party, I will ask you to go change your shoes too."

"What's wrong with my shoes?!" Mitchell asked in disbelief as he showed his shoes.

Alex grunted and walked to Haley to protest, but Haley stopped what she was doing and glared at her until she backed down.

"...Okay okay. I'll go change." Alex rolled her eyes before stomping her foot to her room to change.

As Mitchell was left alone with Haley, he asked whisperingly while wearing a concerned smile, "Seriously, What's wrong with my shoes?"

Haley avoided his eyes as she had a lot of work to do right now, and didn't want to spend 30 minutes telling Mitchell what was wrong with his outfits today.

Mitchell sighed and asked, "Aren't you changing your clothes too?"

Haley was still in her casual clothes, and she finally realized it when Mitchell pointed it out. "Thanks Uncle Mitch. Also, if the cake comes, can you help me pay for it?"

"Sure." Mitchell replied casually as he took the money from Haley.

The doorbell rang just a minute after Haley had gone upstairs. Mitchell thought it was the cake guy, therefore he went to open the door.

"Hey-yo! What's UP Haley's Uncle! Beautiful Day, yeah?" A few teenage boys had already arrived at the party and they entered the house without any warning. They high-fived Mitchell and he responded instinctively towards them.

"Um. Wait-" Mitchell tried to stop them after getting his sanity, but to no avail.

"Hi. Can we also go in?" A group of teenage girls appeared and greeted Mitchell too, following the leads of the boys.

"Ummmm...." Mitchell didn't know what to do at this moment as Phil was still at the store, and there weren't any other adults there at the house.

He sighed and said, "Sure. Haley will come down in just a minute." He took out his phone and texted Claire about the situation, hoping that she would come back soon.

...

-Port-

"Of course his name wouldn't be in the list. He's sneaking in!" Claire mumbled to herself as she read the guest list for the party today.

The ship's crew were getting ready to sail into a different port to pick up the celebrities guests at the appointed times, bringing stocks of foods and alcohol into storage as they cleaned up the ship's deck.

[Claire's commentary]

"What's the plan here? The plan is simple. I just get into the ship, find out where Edward is hiding, and then bring him out. He promised to be there for the girls' party, so he needs to keep that promise."

[commentary ends]

Following her plans, Claire snuck into the ship in search of the teenager.

"I mean. I do wanna see how you scurry when he comes here after this." Jenna said with a smirk, which made Haley laugh out loud, and Madelyn's face turned red in embarrassment!

"THIS ISN'T OVER!" Maldelyn stomped her feet and turned back quickly. Before she knew whether Ed was coming or not, she couldn't do anything against the party. She was feeling dejected as the party was hyped out to be the party of the year by the entire school, but she couldn't be invited into it.

"If I cannot be there, then....I WILL MAKE SURE THE PARTY IS RUINED!" She vowed to herself as she walked to the car where her ex-boyfriend Brian– who once tried to jump Edward and got his ass handed to himself, was waiting for her.

"Hey-"

"Shut up!" Madelyn shouted at the boy before he could even say anything.

Inside the house. Haley's eyes darted between her group of friends as she took a sip of the soda with an anxious feeling gnawing at her heart. Alex walked by and whispered, "He's not answering the phone."

"Hmm. Try to check with Pepper." Haley said.

Abby noticed Haley and Alex's action. She leaned in and said, "What's wrong?"

"N-Nothing. Ed will be here." Haley replied nervously before she walked away.

"I'm not asking about that." Abby mumbled to herself.

*Crash*

"Oh my god! What happened!" Haley ran to the source of the sound, and found a broken lamp on the floor.

"Sorry." A dumb hunk said apologetically as he continued opening his pretzel packet and ate it as if nothing happened.

"Ugh! Idiot!" Haley mumbled before she asked everyone to stay away and reached for the broom. But as she was picking up the broken glass, it cut her finger and blood flowed out from the wound.

"Ouch!" She exclaimed. She sucked the blood in her mouth as she thought to herself, 'Is Ed really not coming? It's almost 4.'

There were over one hundred people in the beginning, but more than 3o people had left the party due to its being overly packed and lack of presence from the teenage artist whom Haley promised would be there.

"You should've been more careful." Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded from behind Haley as she was trying to see the wound in her fingers. Her face brightened up instantly, and she turned around in excitement.

"ED!" Haley hugged Edward who appeared out of knowhere without even doubting who he was. She released him and suddenly hit his chest, "Why are you so late!"

"OWw!" Ed exclaimed with a smile on his face. "I got here 10 minutes ago though?"

"Huh?" Haley widened her eyes, confused.

"Just kidding. I just got here." Ed said with a mischievous grin as he slowly grabbed Haley's hand. "We need to get this taken care of. JACOB!" He yelled suddenly.

"What?" Jacob responded, finally separating his lips from Elsa. They were making out at the corner of the house, and didn't even notice that Edward wasn't here.

"Can you help me clean this?" Ed asked.

"Sure." Jacob replied before reluctantly separating from Elsa to go sweep the broken shards away.

[Edward POV]

I walked in front of Haley to open up a path as we went through the crowd to get the first aid kit in the kitchen. Mitchell was sitting in the kitchen island chair alone, sighing as he was forced to be the guardian today as Phil suddenly had something to attend to.

As Mitchell told Phil he wanted to go home 10 minutes before, Phil suddenly received a call about a potential buyer for a pretty expensive house that was listed on the market for 3 years now. He asked Mitchell for a favor to watch over the kids as he went to close the deal, and promised that he would be back in under an hour.

"Oh my god. What happened?" Mitchell gasped as he saw the blood on Haley's hand.

"It's just a little wound." Haley replied to her uncle.

"I need to disinfect it." I said as I reached for the medical kit.

"Haley. You should've been more careful-" Mitchell tried to lecture, but Haley whisperingly shouted at him, "Uncle Mitch. Go away. Now."

"Huh?" Mitchell was confused, but as he turned towards me, he finally realized what was going on.

[Mitchell commentary]

"Haley wanted some time alone with Edward. Maybe...Maybe for her, dressing up her wounds...is romantic? I don't know-" Mitchell guessed exasperatingly, already tired from today's event.

"All I want...ALLLLLL I want....Is just to have some time to myself!" Mitchell complained. He found himself being surrounded by horny and decadent teenagers, and couldn't help but sigh.

"But God knows how I ran away from my family...and now, he's punishing me for it."

[commentary ends]

"How was your interview?" Haley asked excitedly as I opened up the alcohol sterilization pad to disinfect her wound. It was only a tiny cut on her left hand index finger, but still, I needed to take care of it properly.

"It was quite fine. Grit your teeth." I said.

"Huh? Why- OWOWOWOW!" Haley squirmed in pain as I cleaned up the wound. The searing pain when the alcohol entered the open wound made her a bit teary, and she couldn't help but kick me a few times for it.

"You should've warned me!" She yelled angrily.

I laughed a bit and said, "You're cute when you're angry."

"Hmmph!" She pouted angrily before slowly rubbing her legs on my shin which she had kicked before– apologetically, not precariously. By this time, my presence there was already exposed, and a few teens were giggling as they pointed at me, whispering about how I was flirting with Haley and the possibility of her being my girlfriend.

I put a bandaid on the wound and said, "Here. All done."

"Great! Now I can finally show you off!" Haley said as she grabbed my arm and pulled me into the center of the party. I smiled wryly, but I didn't complain as I already knew she was going to do this before I even got here.

"I just hope that I can get through this without causing any trouble." I whispered to myself.