I Never Planned On You

Day 2/13- Cookies

"Please can we make cookies?" Chaz begged for the 3rd time.

"Chaz, for the last time, we. do. not. have. a. kitchen!" I told him and he pouted. Aww he's so cute. Maybe I can find a way... "You know what, Chaz? My Godparents lives about 45 minutes from here, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind letting us use their kitchen for a couple of hours." I smiled.

"Really?!" He asked, jumping up and down.

"Yeah, let me just give them a call." I said grabbing my phone off of my bed, walking out of the room. I dialed their home number and my Godmother picked up in a matter of seconds. "Hey, Aunt Cindy!" I said into the phone.

"Hi, love! I am so sorry we couldn't make it out to your big night last night! But, we're still coming to see you tomorrow!"

"Great! Well, I was wondering if a couple of people from the cast and I could come over to bake cookies at your house. It won't take a long time, we just don't have a kitchen at the hotel and we really want homemade coo-"

"Of course, Andie! It would be lovely to meet your friends! Oh! I have to go to the grocery to get supplies to make cookies!" She said. Aw, she's so sweet.

"Okay, thank you! We'll come over in about an hour! Love you, Aunt Cindy!"

"Love you too, sweetheart!" She said before hanging up.

"WE'RE MAKING COOKIES!" I yelled as I walked back into my room. All of the boys got very excited about the cookies.

"You are a saint, Andrea Collins." Chaz said, once he calmed down a bit.

"I know I am." I laughed. "Okay," I said to the boys - Chaz, Josh, Nick, and Ben, "We're leaving in ten minutes, so all of you should probably use the bathroom, it's a long car ride."

"Okay, mom." Josh said, going into the bathroom

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"Uncle Jim!" I exclaim, hugging my uncle once he opens the door.

"Andie! Come on in, everybody!" He motioned for the boys to come in. As soon as we walk in, we are greeted with pictures of me, Evan, and our cousins. Of course, Josh and Ben have to get a closer look at all of the pictures. I come to this house every summer, so there are a lot of pictures of me. Great!

"Oh my gosh, this is the best picture I have ever seen!" Josh laughed, holding up a picture of me the year I decided to dress up for the town's 4th of July parade. I was Abraham Lincoln. The picture was taken this past summer. Yeah, summer 2015 was kind of a low point in my life.

"Uncle Jim! I told you not to print that!" I said, hitting him on the arm.

"Hey, I bet you were the prettiest Abe Lincoln that Hillsboro has ever seen." Ben said in a teasing voice, putting his arm around my shoulder.

"I guess I was." I laughed, blushing.

"Ooh, this is a good one. You're so cute!" Chaz said as he motioned over to one of my dance recital pictures. This one was from 5 years ago when I was Dorothy in my musical theatre dance class.

"This dance picture is better!" Nick insisted, grabbing a frame which held a photo of me from 8 years ago, wearing a neon yellow and green body suit for gymnastics, making a weird/trying-to-be-sassy pose.

"I like this one." Ben said, looking at a picture of me and Evan laughing together around a campfire.

"I like that one too." I agreed, taking a better look at the photo from the summer of 2014. We both looked so happy, like nothing on earth could bring us down in that moment. Even though he just left this morning, I already miss him. It's weird being at this house without him. Gosh, it sounds like he's dead or something, I laugh to myself.

"Andrea, dear!" Aunt Cindy said, walking in the room, enveloping me in a hug.

"Hi, Aunt Cindy! I missed you!" I said, as she led us to the kitchen, where there were tons of supplies for chocolate chip cookies. I swear I could hear Chaz gasp at all of the chocolate chips, Cindy had bought 10 bags.

"Oh my, we are gonna be eating chocolate chip cookies for as long as we live!" Chaz said, excitedly.

"I figured you all would only want a few today, so I am going to make more tomorrow and bring them to the theatre when we see the show!" Aunt Cindy said.

"You're seriously the best!" I laughed.

"Well, I will leave you all to your baking. Andie, I assume you still remember how to make these?" I nod "Great! See you!" She said as she walked outside with Uncle Jimmy.

"Alright boys, let's get down to business!" I said, grabbing the stand mixer out of a cabinet.

"Aye aye, captain!" Josh saluted me as he and the boys started doing just as I told them to.

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"Phew, I have never worked that hard in my life!" Nick said, wiping his arm on his forehead, making a mark of cookie dough there.

"Dude, you got a little something on your face." I said.

"I know. It's called beauty." He replied.

"No, it's called cookie dough, actually." I laughed handing him a towel for his forehead.

"Y'know, your Godparents are really cool." Chaz said, "Do you think they would mind some company outside?" He asked.

"Go for it, buddy." I laughed as he walked outside.

"Can we look at more weird pictures of you?" Josh pleaded. I knew he would ask this at some point.

"I guess so." I shrugged.

"I'm gonna go hang out with Chaz, Cindy, and Jim." Nick announced, exiting out of the sliding glass door.

Josh eagerly ran towards the pictures. "Josh, there are even more pictures upstairs." I told him, and he smirked before running up the stairs. He really wants to see those pictures, I guess.

"Hey, thanks for trusting me with the whole Brandon thing last night." Ben said, bumping his shoulder into mine before we starting walking up the stairs.

"No problem, but can we please not talk about him anymore? I just never want to think of him ever again." I sigh.

"Yeah, of course." He smiled right when we heard Josh scream.

"OH MY BACON! BEN GET IN HERE RIGHT NOW!" So, of course, Ben ran up to see what was so exciting.

"Oh. My. Gosh." Ben said, his jaw dropping before he busted out laughing. What is so funny? I grab the photo album from Josh's hands. Oh no. They found pictures from a party my mom threw me when I was 11. It was a period party. Yes, my mother threw me a party when I got my first period.

"You had a period party!" Josh said in between laughs.

"I swear if either of you tell anyone about this, I will kill you both!" I threatened the two boys.

"Not even the girlsies?" Josh pouted.

"Not even the girlsies." I confirmed, putting the album on the very top shelf of the picture album bookshelf.

"You guys," Ben said, looking at his phone, "If we don't leave right now, we're not going to make it to the theatre in time for the show!"

"Crap. Okay, You guys go get Nick and Chaz, I will get the cookies." I said, grabbing my phone so I could order an Uber. Ben and Josh went to go get Chaz and Nick as I got a Ziploc bag out of a drawer in the kitchen.

In a matter of 5 minutes, everybody was rounded up, the cookies were safe in my hands, I said goodbye to Aunt Cindy and Uncle Jim, and we were in the Uber.

The car only had 4 seats in the back, so Chaz, being the oldest, sat in the passenger seat, while I was being crushed between Josh and a window. Even though these boys are skinny, they are still pretty big. This will be a long trip.