13 Going On 30: Another Life

Chapter 2

"Ooohhh! How about this... No! It's not perfect! What about... Ugh!" I screamed in frustration as I tried to pick a cute outfit for my birthday party. Almost everything I had was from dorky school girl to fat hippie. Why is it so hard to find something nice to wear?! I had just finished writing Lucy's report for her school project too and I'm exhausted! I still have to set up my party and bring the food out as well. Six Chicks like chips and dip right? *Sigh* I'm getting nowhere with this... Time to call in for help! I called Matt over from the front yard so he could hear me "Matt! I need help with putting my party together! Please come help!" His face peaked right outside of a window on the 2nd floor of his house and he said "All right! I'm coming down! Get started I need to get some stuff." "OK!" I said and I went back inside my house and put up a table and organized different brand chips and a variety of dips along with some soda. By the time it took me to do this Matt was sure taking his sweet time to get here... I hope he's coming I hope he hasn't thought about how Lucy would be here and how she might insult him again... :( Ay... So I went back upstairs to find an outfit that would make me look sexy and hot! I finally settled on a small blue dress (after minutes of arguing to myself which one would look right) and I did my makeup and hair to try to make it look pretty like models in magazines. I also tried to solve my small boobs situation and I stuffed tissues into my bra so they could look bigger. That'll definitely get Chris's attention... I heard a thumping on the stairs and assumed it was Matt coming up but instead it was my parents...

"Happy Birthday, sweetheart!" They both said. "So how's it feel to be 13? Finally a teenager huh?... Hey why is your chest a little big?" they said. "No! Mom stop!" My Mom started to take the tissues out of my bra and was preparing to give me a lecture. "Now, honey, you don't need to make your boobs a little bigger just so you can be more pretty. You're pretty just the way you are." my Mom said. "Your mother's right kiddo." my Dad said. "But... I don't want to be pretty in my own way! I want to look like these models in magazines!" I said. I showed them the magazine that had all these gorgeous women in there posing and looking all beautiful unlike me... "Well those aren't models. I don't even know what they are." said my Mom. "30, flirty, and thrivy. Why the 30's are the best years of your life... I want to be 30..." I said. "You will be but right now you're my beautiful 13 year old." my Mom said and after that she left my room with my Dad. I instantly started shoving the tissues I had lost back into my shirt.

I then went downstairs to the basement to find that the decorations were already set up and my whole party was all set and ready to go and I found Matt putting up the final touch. "Hey Jenna, I hope you don't mind but I went ahead and decorated the place while you were changing. Do you like it?" he said. I said "Yes I do thank you very much. But... how did you know I was...?" "I heard you from down here saying "Argh! This doesn't go there!" Matt said. I felt a little embarassed that he heard that from in the basement, but I was more worried if my parents heard me too...

"Oh yeah before I forget, I got a present for you Jenna." Matt said. He then took a cardboard box wrapped with a pink bow on the top and put it on a table so I could see. "What is it?" I asked. "You know how you've always wanted a doll house?" I nodded. "Well, I decided to make you your own Jenna house here!" Matt said and he opened the wrapped present to reveal a barbie like doll house with a bathroom, bed, kitchen, and living room along with mini versions of me and Matt together. "Aww! Thank you so much Matt!" I thanked him so gratefully. "That's not all. Check this out. Wishing Dust. It says "It knows what lies in your heart. What you truly desire for your wish" said Matt. He teared off the top part of the item and started to pour the condiments all over my doll house. I could feel something special about that dust I'm not sure why... I thought "What I truly desire huh? Well... I wish..." I was interrupted by a door bell ring *Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong!* "Oh no! They're here already! OK Matt I'm just going to hide this so... there'll be more room for dancing!" I said panickly and put away the doll house into the closet.

I went upstairs leaving Matt in the basement and opened the door to invite the Six Chicks in. "Hi Tom-Tom and the other Six Chicks! The party's downstairs so go ahead and... Oh Hi Chris..." I said while staring at him and then he said "Hi Jenna" and followed the Six Chicks downstairs. I came down after them and we were all together now except Matt for where . "So where's our report Jenna?" Lucy asked. "It's over by that coffee table." I pointed out to the far left. "Thanks! So let's play a game now. 7 minutes in heaven... And since it's your birthday Jenna. You should be the one to go first!" Lucy said with a very sinister voice. I responded "Um... OK! How does that go again?" Lucy came towards me and put a blindfold on me while explaining the rules of the game. "So what you do in this game is you go in a closet with a blindfold on and then some lucky guy comes in and gets to do whatever he wants with you for 7 minutes. And guess who wants to go first?" Lucy said winking at me. "Who?" I asked nervously. "Chris Grandy" she said. It was like a rocket just blew up inside of my heart. Chris Grandy?! The guy of my dreams?! And he wants to play 7 minutes in heaven with me?! And do whatever he wants to do with me?!?! YES!!!!!! Lucy guided me into the closet and slowly closed the door and whispered "And just so you know Chris loves going for second base." and she closed the door. I started to take out the tissues stuffed in my shirt from all this excitement!

{Outside of the closet} "Alright we're done here we have the report and that's all we need. My brother bought us some beer so let's take whatever we want from this table of goodies and leave this poor girl by herself." Lucy said laughing quietly with her friends. Jenna was waiting patiently and feeling so anxious as to what she was thinking Chris would do to her in 7 minutes in heaven. They scarfed up the whole table of food and were bringing it upstairs when Matt was coming down at the same time. "What's going on here?" asked Matt. "Uh... Jenna's waiting for you in the closet." Lucy said full of lie in her.

Matt had a crush on Jenna even if she didn't know it and when Lucy told Matt that Jenna was waiting for him in the closet it got his hopes up that she would like Matt too. Matt slowly went up to the closet door and opened it gently to see Jenna sitting on the floor with the blindfold one and she said "I thought you weren't gonna come." Matt smiling went down on the floor with Jenna (although she thought it was Chris) and saw she was holding out her hands and he grabbed them feeling so happy. "Oh... Chris..." Jenna said. To Matt's dismay, he let go of her hands with a disappointed look on his face and said "Chris? This is Matt." Jenna took off her blindfold and looked outside of the closet to see that everybody has left. "Where's Chris?" I asked. Matt said "He left. Everybody left." Jenna feeling so sad and angry said to Matt "What did you do?" "Nothing!" he said. "Yes, you did!" Jenna said angrily. Matt said "No! I swear I was just getting my casio..." Jenna then pushed him away and said "Get out!" while shutting the closet door. "Jenna! Please! Let me talk to you!" Matt begged. "No! Go away! I hate you! I hate me! I hate everybody!" Jenna screamed. "Jenna, what are you talking about?!" said Matt. "I wanna be 30!" Jenna said. "Wait, look let me just play you a song! It'lll make you feel better!" Matt said. "I wanna be 30!" Jenna said ignoring Matt. Then she started to hit the back of the wall saying "30, flirty, and thrivy, 30, flirty, and thrivy, 30, flirty, and thrivy..." While she was saying those words she was banging her doll house that Matt made for her too. Little specks of Wish Dust were falling on to Jenna as she kept repeating "30, flirty, and thrivy, 30, flirty, and thrivy..." revealing her true desire to be 30 years old and, thus, granting her wish...