"Adopted By" Oneshots!

Josie Block's Sweet Sixteen Extravaganza!

Book: Adopted by Falsettos
Josie's Age: 15, almost 16

Day 1

"It's my birthday." I said to myself, rubbing my eyes to wake myself up.

I took a look at my desk calendar and sighed. The calendar read May 23, 2022.

"Well. Almost my birthday." I sighed and got out of bed, trying to find a sufficient outfit for school. I felt someone tap my shoulder and I yelped, jumping back with my dress in my arms.

"GEEZ, MAMA! I LOVE YOU, BUT DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!" I said, putting my dress back on my bed.

"I have pancakes!" Stephanie said cheerfully. I rolled my eyes and said, "I'm going to slap you with one in a minute." Stephanie laughed and then I said, "I'm going to take a shower, I have to be at the bus stop in 45 minutes."

"You're not going to school this week."

"I'm sorry, what? It's almost final exam week!"

"It's also your birthday week! And I have a special surprise for you..." Stephanie said. She handed me a fancy piece of paper and I looked at it in confusion.

"Josie Block's Sweet Sixteen Extravaganza? Mama, what is this?" I said. Stephanie laughed and said, "Since you hate large parties, we're gonna have a family party this week! Every single day this week leading up to your birthday, we're gonna go out as a family and do something fun! First order of business, mini golf!"

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"Christian, why do you have all the golf balls in your pocket. Give me mine!" I said.

"Which one is yours again?" Christian said, pulling out all the golf balls and handing me a random one. "This is Tracie's, try again."

"I forgot."

"IT'S THE DARK PURPLE ONE." I said. Brandon ran up to us and frantically tapped my shoulder. "What do you want?"

"Is that the way to speak to your father, Josephine?"

"Oh my God...Christian hoarded the golf balls and we're all trying to remember which one of us got the hole in one cause I know some of us won't be honest about it! Where's the score card?" I asked, holding my hand out.

"What score card?" Brandon said, blinking a little.

"BRANDON URANOWITZ!" I said. "Great. We need to start over."

"I'm going first this time." Andrew said. I sighed and said, "I go first cause it's my Sweet Sixteen." Andrew sighed and moved over and I smiled. "Watch and learn, peasants! I'm not on the varsity soccer team for nothing!"

"Remind us never to play competitive sports with each other ever again." Tracie said.

"Oh, how funny! We're going bowling tomorrow!" Stephanie said cheerfully.

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Day 2

"Thank God this place keeps score for us automatically." Brandon said. "Josie, put the pickle down, it's your turn." I smiled and got up and watched as Betsy got a gutter ball from the lane next to ours. Because we had eight people, we split up into two teams of four.

"Don't steal my pickle while I'm up." I said, rolling the bowling ball. "Yes! I got a strike! Josie wins!"

"Whizzer wins..." Andrew said under his breath.

"You got what I was trying to do there." I said. Andrew smiled and then said, "Christian, it's your turn!"

"Wait, huh, what?"