Bro Day, Part 2

**Bro Day, Part 2** is the seventy-sixth chapter of The Gift of a Best Friend. It was first published on January 28th, 2019.

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**Jasmine's POV**
“Hey, I have an idea,” I said. “Since school hasn’t started yet, how about we enjoy these last few days by spending one of them at W.O.O.F.?”
They all stared at me.
“What’s WOOF?” Matthew asked.
I raised my eyebrow. “Woof? Oh! I didn’t realize that that’s its acronym name until you just said so.”
“Acronym name for what?” Annabeth asked.
“You don’t know?”
“Obviously not.”
“Johnathan, do you know what W.O.O.F. stands for?”
“No,” he said. “I don’t even know what acronym means.”
“It means . . . oh, never mind,” I said. “W.O.O.F. is a place we go to at least once a year. It stands for Worlds and Oceans of Fun.”
“Oh!” they each exclaimed.
I rolled my eyes. “Yeah. So do you guys want to go?”
“We’ve never been before,” Matthew said.
“Yeah,” Bobby agreed.
“Really?” I said. “Then we have to go. What do you two say?”
“Yes,” Johnathan said.
“Do I have a choice?” Annabeth asked.
“Does it matter if you want to go?” I asked.
“I do.”
“Then it’s settled. We’ll try to go tomorrow. Of course, you guys are going to have to ask your parents first, and I don’t doubt that mine will say yes.”
“Let’s go ask them now,” Bobby suggested.
“I’ll go with you,” Johnathan said.
“Last one there is a rotten egg,” Matthew said.
And off our brothers went.
Annabeth and I moved over to the swings. Toothless and Komodo stayed near us.
“You should probably go with them,” I told Annabeth.
“Yeah,” she agreed. “I doubt my dad and Savanna will let them go unless I go with them. But, Jasmine, I don’t want to be outnumbered by our brothers.”
“Well, we’re only outnumbered by one. And if you add the ages together: you and I almost being thirteen, that’ll be twenty-six; and our brothers, mine being seven and yours both being six, that’ll add up to nineteen. So we outnumber them by seven points.”
Annabeth stared at me. “That makes no sense at all, Jasmine.”
“I know. I just wanted to try that. But if you want, I can see if Whitney can come. Or Elizabeth.”
“Or both.”
“Ok. You go find our brothers, let me know what your parents say, and I’ll get us tickets to go tomorrow, ok?”
“Ok.”
I held my arm out with my friendship bracelet on it to her, and she bumped it with her friendship bracelet. Our own way of giving each other a high-five, or fist bumps, though sometimes we forget to do that.
“Come on, guys,” I told Toothless and Komodo.
And off we went.

I went home, but I didn’t find my parents there. So I went to my grandparents house, but my parents weren’t there either. So then I went to my aunt and uncle’s house and rang the doorbell.
Peter answered the door.
“What do you want?” he asked.
I glared at him. “Are my parents here?”
“Maybe. Why do you want to know?”
“Because they’re my parents. Now are you going to let me in, or do I have to push you back? And you know damn well I can do that.”
“Then do it.”
He braced himself in the doorframe. I summoned enough super-strength to push him ten feet away from the door and into the house with no problem.
“Thanks,” I said sarcastically, then walked into the house.
Both of our parents had been watching us from the living room.
“Here we go again,” Uncle Zack said.
“He started it,” I said.
“I know,” Dad said. “We saw.”
“What happened to you two?” Mom asked. “You use to be close when you were little.”
“Yeah,” Peter agreed. “Until Annabell showed up.”
“Annabeth,” I corrected angrily. “And jealous much?”
“Oh, yeah, I’m jealous of you. I think you’re the one who’s jealous of me.”
“In your dreams. And what would *I* be jealous of *you* for?”
He couldn’t come up with anything, though I could come up with a few things that he’d be jealous of me for.
“Jasmine!”
Elizabeth came running down the stairs and up to me with a hug.
“Hi,” I said, hugging her back.
“What are you doing here?” she asked.
“What? I need a reason to see my favorite cousin? Which, I guess, is one thing I’m jealous of you for, Peter. But I did come here for one thing, and that’s to ask my mom and dad if me, Annabeth, and our brothers can go to Worlds and Oceans of Fun tomorrow, and bring you along?”
Elizabeth’s eyes widened and so did her smile. “Can we? Can we?”
“I don’t know. Mom? Dad?”
They both looked at each other for a moment, then back to me.
“We don’t have a problem with that,” Mom said. “But if you want Elizabeth to go, you have to ask her parents.”
I looked at Zack and Selena.
Elizabeth went up to them.
“Can I go?” she asked, bouncing on her feet. “Please?”
“Only if Peter goes too,” Selena said.
I stared at her.
“What?” Peter and I both asked.
“I mean it,” Selena said. “Elizabeth isn’t going to go unless Peter goes too.”
“But that’s not fair to her,” I complained.
“And you think it’s fair to have her go and not her brother just because you dislike each other?”
I didn’t answer. I guess it kind of wasn’t.
I crossed my arms over my chest. “Why?”
“All I want you to do is settle your differences,” Selena replied. “At least for one day.”
“But Peter’s an asshole.”
“Jasmine,” Mom scolded.
“What? He is.”
“And you’re a bitch,” Peter said.
“Peter,” Selena scolded.
“First of all, I prefer being called a badass bitch,” I said.
“At least we agree on that,” Peter said.
“Second of all, do you even want to go?”
“No.”
“Too bad,” Selena said. “Either Peter goes or Elizabeth doesn’t.”
“Please, Jasmine. Please, Peter,” Elizabeth begged.
I was going to lose it with her begging to me like that.
I looked at Peter. He looked like he felt the same way.
Even though I think he’s an asshole, I never realized how much he cared for his sister like I do until now.
He looked at me, and we silently agreed on a truce.
“Fine,” we both said.
“Good,” Selena said. “Then Elizabeth can go.”
“Yay!” she cheered. Then she ran to me and gave me a hug. “Thank you, Jasmine.” And she did the same to Peter. “Thank you, Peter.”
He smiled at her. “You’re welcome.”
Watching Peter right now, at this moment, doesn’t make me think of him as an asshole anymore.
“I’ve never seen you so feisty before, Selena,” Zack said.
“Well, considering I’ve known your family since I was born, I thought it was about time that caught onto me,” she replied. “Do you like it?”
“Hmm, yeah.”
He gave her a kiss.
“Oh, save it for the bedroom,” Mom said.
“We will,” Zack said with a quick raise of his eyes.
“I’m going to be sick,” Peter said.
I laughed. “You know, that’s how you came into existence.”
“I don’t want to know that.”
“Well, you have to know that whether you want to or not. Anyway, now that I’ve got you two coming with us, I’m going to see if Whitney can come too.”
“Are you going to video call or visit her?” Dad asked.
“I’m going to visit her.”
“Ok. Say hi to everyone for me.”
“I will. Bye, guys.”
I went outside to get Toothless and teleported us and Komodo to my other grandparents house.

My grandparents let Whitney come with us to Worlds and Oceans of Fun, which isn’t a surprise since my mom says that they trust me more than my dad when he was my age, and she came back home with me to spend the night.
Annabeth’s dad and stepmom said yes to her and her brothers going and they came and spent the night too, so did Peter and Elizabeth.
And as a result, we stayed at my other grandparents house since there’s a lot more room there and we all got our own bed. My mom worked on getting us or tickets.
Tomorrow was going to be a fun and crazy day.

**Annabeth’s POV**
Jasmine’s right about that, as always.
The sleepover was fun.
We did most of the stuff that Jasmine and I usually do. But I wouldn’t sing.
We did most of the stuff that Jasmine and I usually do. We spent time in the music room and played music, but I wouldn’t sing no matter how much Jasmine begged, and she did a lot. But we did everything else that Cj and Raylee have in their house and then finally we went to bed, which was just before midnight.
We did most of the stuff that Jasmine and I usually do. We spent time in the music room and played music, but I wouldn’t sing no matter how much Jasmine begged, and she did a lot. But we did everything else that Cj and Raylee have in their house and then finally we went to bed, which was just before midnight.
Worlds and Oceans of Fun have separate parking lots, and we were dropped off at Oceans of Fun because it closes three hours before Worlds of Fun did, and since they’re connected, we can go to Worlds of Fun later.
But Oceans of Fun wasn’t as fun as Worlds of Fun was. There were a couple of good water rides, but not many. I think my favorite was the Typhoon.
They also had a pool, obviously, and some kind of obstacle where you had to get on floating inflated lily pads and logs and hold on to a very flimsy rope above you to keep from falling. We all did that and it wasn’t fun. Well, it was, all of us trying to keep from falling into the water and holding on desperately to the rope to reach the other end. There was also kayaking, which was ok.
We went on another water ride called the Monsoon, and I like Jasmine’s review on it: “I thought it would be cool until I got on it and noticed how short and slow it was until we *finally* dropped. It mostly sucked.”
We all laughed at that and agreed. But we kept going on it every year.
But where we got off the ride is actually where Worlds and Oceans of Fun connected. So after we got some lunch, that’s where we went next, which exited out between the rides Fury of the Nile and the Mamba, the tallest roller coaster in the whole park, which, of course, we went on, and every other roller coaster too. I like roller coasters.
The Scrambler was probably one of the best rides. If you’re feeling down, that ride is bound to make you smile. You just can’t help it. Especially if you’re crushing the person next to you or they’re crushing you.
It was a really fun day. I think the funnest I have ever had there, especially with my brothers with me this time, and they definitely love me more as their sister for bringing them there and giving them a new friend, which was actually Jasmine’s idea.
That was one of the greatest days that I will never forget.

**I'm slowly continuing to write this story. Since updating again, I've only completed writing one chapter, and trying to complete the next, hopefully by the end of today. It kind of helps that I've been getting pissed off more and more lately and use it as a motivation to continue writing, even if sometimes I have no idea how I want the chapter to go, which is why it can take some time to finish it, as well as actually having time to work on it as well, much to my frustration. I'm not giving up!**
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## Character Appearances

### Main Characters

* Jasmine Saturday
* Annabeth Chase

### Minor Characters

* Johnathan Saturday
* Bobby Chase
* Matthew Chase
* Peter Hollinger
* Elizabeth Hollinger
* Zack Hollinger
* Selena Hollinger
* Zak Saturday
* Sarah Saturday
* Whitney Saturday

### Pets

* Komodo Saturday
* Toothless