Thank you to: Smily1994 I’m sorry you almost cried but you weren’t the only one. WhatisDoneLEtItbe I tried to warn you it would happen. You get Shannon in the other one so it doesn’t matter. Thanks for the compliment. evilresa16 Thank you so much! BubblyShell22 Welcome to the group!

A/N: I know the last chapter was unexpected and sad but I have plans and the humor isn’t far away! I’m starting to realize this story is going to be SUPER long but I’m pretty sure nobody will have a problem with that :D This chapter will be a combination of funny and sad so let’s get to it!!! I got a little blocked at the end but I think it turned out decently.

The mood in the air could only be described as despair. Everyone was sitting around Cleo’s living room in complete silence, everyone focused on their own thoughts. Even though the guys didn’t know her too long they still had formed a friendship with her so it hurt them too. The girls were speechless after their long night. It seemed to them like it was a nightmare and Sara would walk through the door any minute now. That wasn’t going to happen.

“Um, I have an idea.” Cleo whispered.

“ Yeah?” Kari questioned.

“ I think we need to plan a wake or something. I know Mrs. Roberts will handle all of the plans for the …funeral but I think we should do something too.”

“ Great Idea Cleo,” Merya said as she put an arm around Cleo’s shoulders.

The idea of something to do seemed to put life back into the room. Everyone gathered around the table and started planning what to do for the wake. The plan was for the groups to split up tomorrow (with Sara’s group separating amongst the other girls) and get the supplies that were needed.

After all the plans were made, Cleo’s house phone rang and she went to answer it.

“Oh Hi Mrs. Roberts….Yeah, we wanna have a wake after the funeral….Ok, I’ll tell everyone….. Call if you need help…..bye.”

“What’s up?” Kane asked as she walked back over to the table.

“ Mrs. Roberts said the funeral will be on Thursday at 2 and she said that she likes our idea of a wake. I was thinking that we can make it easier on her by making some of the phone calls, like to our friends and stuff.” Cleo answered and explained.

“ Do we have to do that now? I don’t wanna sound heartless or anything but I really wanna stop thinking about this. Can we do something else?” Kari questioned.

“ I agree with Kari. Any ideas?” Merya asked the group.

Everyone looked around and started to ponder what they could do to cheer themselves up. Finally Hunter came up with an idea.

“ Anyone up for a movie?”

“ That actually sounds like a good idea. What does everyone wanna see?”

Everybody all called out movies they wanted to see at the same time. After a few minutes of argument, they all decided to go watch ‘ Horton Hears a Who’. To save the guys from having to sit on each others laps, Merya offered to drive any extras in her moms van.

Paul, Brian, Rey, and Shawn hopped in the van as the others filed into their own cars, ready to follow Merya to the movie theater. Merya decided to drive the long way there because if she went the normal route, they would have to drive by the same hospital they were in last night and the point of this movie was to avoid all bad thoughts.

Once all the cars were parked everybody headed into the theater. It was time for the twilight showing so all the tickets only cost $4. The ticket buying went by fast, the concessions however, was a completely different story. Almost everybody had their snacks and pops and were ready to go to the theater but things couldn’t be that easy with DX around.

Shawn couldn’t determine which kind of candy he wanted and Hunter was demanding to have one of everything. It took about 10 minutes just to get one of every kind of candy for Hunter then another 15 minutes for Shawn to decide that he wanted popcorn instead of candy. The rest of them let out a sigh of frustration as they kept waiting. As they all finally made their way towards the theater, they had 2 employees following them, carrying the rest of Hunters food.

Everybody quickly sat down because thanks to the appetites of DX they almost missed the opening credits. Hunter thanked the employees and gave them a tip before he settled himself into a seat with his food in a pile next to his chair.

Even though the movie was animated, it really was hilarious for all the adults/teens. Everybody laughed from beginning to end. Halfway through the movie, everybody else ran out of snacks so they kept whispering down to Hunter to share. Hunter however decided to be selfish and kept ALL his snacks to himself. As the movie ended everyone slowly filed out of the theater.

“ That movie was hilarious!” Randy commented as they waited outside the bathroom for Hunter who had drank 3 slushies and 2 large pops.

“ My favorite line…In my world, everyone’s a pony and they eat rainbows and poop butterflies!” Jeff added as he started to giggle again.

“ I swear Katie is my hero!” Merya exclaimed, laughing along with the group.

Finally, Hunter made his way out of the bathroom with a smile on his face.

“Hunter, why are you smiling like that?” Shawn cautiously asked his best friend.

“ No reason, but I think we should be leaving like NOW.”

Everybody bolted for the door. They knew Hunter enough to know that they didn’t need an explanation to know whatever happened in that bathroom would probably get them banned from the theater if they were caught. Nobody even stopped running, they all just jumped in the cars and all 4 of them peeled out, headed for the mall to hang out some more.

The large crowd walked into the mall entrance, still laughing from the scene at the theater. Everyone walked to the center where the seating arrangement was set up and all sat down.

“ So what does everyone wanna do?” Kane asked the group.

“Hot Topic!” Screamed The Hardyz, Shannon, and Kari.

“Arcade!” Hollered the group of Punk, Cody, Jericho, Horny and Merya.

“ Food!” Shawn, Hunter, Cena and Tista all said with a smile.

“ Moon bounce Room!” exclaimed Cleo, Rey, Paul, Brian and Rock.

“ I want the bookstore.” answered Jimmy as Austin, Khali and Kane agreed.

“ Ok so that’s settled, Where are you gonna go Randy?” Paul asked with a smile.

“ Um….I think I’ll go with the extremists over there.”

“ You’re going to Hot Topic?!” Kari questioned.

“Yeah, I can find a gift for Samantha.”

“AWWW!” all the girls exclaimed.

Everybody got with their group and went their own ways.

***Hot Topic***

Randy felt completely out of place inside the goth/rocker store, but he knew Samantha would like it so he headed towards the makeup section.

Jeff, however, felt perfectly at home. As soon as he walked in he bee lined it the Cds. He started jumping up and down with glee when he saw the special edition Pearl Jam cd he had been looking for. While he was rocking out to the CD, Kari snuck up behind him and covered his eyes.

“Guess who.” she smiled.

“Um, let’s see. Smooth, soft hands, smell like Jasmine, and I feel long nails……..I know…..it’s Shannon!” Jeff exclaimed.

“Nice try.” Kari answered, lowering her hands.

Jeff smiled back at her.

“Will you tell me why smooth hands, Jasmine scent, and long nails made you think of Shannon?”

“Long story. Let’s just say we had an interesting Halloween party.”

“I don’t even want to know. Anyway, can you do me a favor?” Kari asked.

“What?”

“Can you help me pick out a hair dye color?”

Jeff chuckled before agreeing and following Kari over to the hair dye stand. After a lot of arguing and complaining, Kari finally got red and Jeff grabbed purple and blue to put in his hair later that night.

Shannon and Matt suddenly came running over to them. Shannon had about 5 pair of gauge earrings and Matt had a few Affliction shirts he found, one of them was for Randy who kept complaining about needing new shirts. With all of their stuff in their hands, they went to get Randy, who had found nice makeup for Samantha, and all headed for the register.

***FOOD COURT***

“Let’s get our grub on!” Hunter exclaimed while rubbing his hands together.

“You didn’t have enough a the movie?!” Cena asked incredulously.

“He’s a bottomless pit.” Shawn explained.

As they all turned the corner for the food court, they stopped and looked around at their choices. There was a variety of different foods and none of the men agreed on where to eat.

They all split up to get the food they wanted. Shawn had Chinese, Hunter went for the Italian, Cena took the easy route and had McDonalds, and Batista got some Subway. They found a table in the middle and all sat their trays down.

After most of their food was gone(and a couple of food fights) Tista spoke up.

“So what do you guys think about this ordeal today?”

“I can’t imagine what the girls are going through. I mean, yeah we’ve lost people but none of them were as close to us as the girls. They were all sisters and now…” Cena answered solemnly.

“Yeah I know what you mean,” Hunter interjected,” but I think we need to make sure the girls don’t get too down in the dumps.”

“PARTY!” Shawn screamed, causing everyone around them to look up in surprise.

“Alright Heartbreaker, we can have a party.” Tista granted with a smile.

“Where can we have it?” asked Cena.

“Um…If it’s a big party then I think we could use the high school gym. That principal seemed nice. I’ll have to ask him when the girls decide they are ready for school again.” Hunter suggested.

Everyone agreed and threw away their trash as they wandered around the mall.

***ARCADE***

Punk, Cody, Jericho, Horny, and Merya were all jumping up and down with excitement as they walked up the stairs to the arcade.

They stopped in the doorway and looked around as all the bright lights and fun noises invited them in. once all of them had their tokens, they split off, running for their favorite games.

Cody found his game and inserted his tokens as the balls released and rolled down to him. He always had to play skeeball when he was in an arcade. His first few throws fell into the default slot but then he started tweaking his wrist the right way and began getting into the 300 and 400 slots. As the tickets kept coming out, he continued feeding tokens into the machine.

Hornswoggle, however, was getting frustrated with his game of choice. He chose the boxing game and thanks to the stupid sensors, he kept having to jump up in order to swing a punch. The good part of it though was the fact that since he was below the sensors, he was never hit with the oncoming hits.

Jericho was also getting interactive with his game. The only difference, his wasn’t an actual interactive game. Chris had chosen Guitar Hero and was currently rocking out as if he was onstage with Fozzy. He was spinning the guitar around him and singing at the top of his lungs, effectively causing passer bys to give him questioning looks.

No matter how loud Jericho sand, majority of the arcade patrons were on the far wall watchign Punk and Merya duke it out on Dance Dance Revolution. Merya had won the first competition and Punk won the second, they were currently dancing the tiebreaker. It was Merya’s turn to pick the song and she picked a fast one knowing she had a better chance of hitting the combos then Punk did. The song ended up being faster than she expected and at the end, both Merya and Punk collapsed from exhaustion. As they looked up at the screen they saw that they had tied again. Rather than dancing more, they congratulated each other and hobbled off to find their friends.

***Bookstore***

Jimmy, Austin, Khali, and Kane didn’t find the bookstore too interesting so they started wandering around. Eventually they wanted to sit and the closest spot was the Kids Fun Area so they decided to just sit down in there.

The kids immediately made them interact. Khali began to get climbed all over because the kids mistook him as an actual tree. He started to walk around in an attempt to lose them but they just hung on for dear life thinking he was like one of those trees from Lord of the Rings. As Khali continued walking around, he was growing fond of the kids and began playing along with them.

As Austin watched he started to laugh to himself before almost falling over when a kids jumped on his back screaming “PIGGYBACK!” Austin just giggled before running around the little area with the kid laughing and giggling on his back. It didn’t take long for other kids to notice and line up for their turn on the redneck pig! Austin finally collapsed from exhaustion after the 12th kid finished his ride.

Even Kane got roped into playing with the kids too. A large group of little girls had run up to him and tapped him on the lap screaming “TAG, you’re it!” and running off in the other direction as the Big Red Monster ran after them. The girls had the advantage though because they were able to hide under the jungle gym where Kane couldn’t reach them to tag. Poor poor Kane wasn’t able to tag any of the girls until one finally decided to be daring and came running out, once he got her, he went and dropped down next to Austin.

Jimmy watched from a distance as all his friends had fun with the kids but he couldn’t bring himself to join in. Seeing all the little boys and girls playing only reminded him of his daughter that he was missing to be with the girls in their time of need. Sitting there, Jimmy came up with an idea he would ask the girls about later that day.

***Moon bounce Room***

One great thing about the mall in town was that they had a room full of different blow ups for kids, and adults, to play on. That was the destination for Rey, Paul, Brian, Rock, and Cleo.

Once they all walked in, the families that were gathered around the room looked up and they all stared at the men (and Cleo) in front of them. The guys didn’t seem to notice because they were already running for what they wanted to play on!

Rey wanted to practice some moves a little bit before his doctor appointment, which had been rescheduled due to recent events for Friday so he could attend the funeral, so he headed to the empty moon bounce to jump around on. Once inside, he just started off slow by hopping up and down to get momentum before doing a couple of front flips and back flips. After a while he started to get more fancy with his moves by practicing his splash and a hurricanrana. Eventually the strenuous activity aggravated his arm so he climbed out and headed over to where he saw Cleo.

Meanwhile, Brian and Paul wanted to be competitive so they headed for the big obstacle course set up in the middle of the room.

“Go on three. One, two, THREE!” the instructor screamed as he waved a green flag around signaling the Hooligans to dive into the tiny hole in front of them. Since both men were tiny and very fast the obstacle course was surrounded by a big audience, wanting to see who the winner would be. Inside the obstacle course, Brian and Paul were both rushing to get ahead. Brian flew through the parallel bars but the mini wall slowed him down while Paul flew past both but then fell when he had too much speed and had problems getting up due to lack of good grip under his feet. Both men got up and made it to the big wall at the same time. They looked at each other before vigorously climbing the wall to get to the top and slide down for the win. It was tied until Brian’s foot slipped and Paul jumped over the top of the wall and slid past the finish line, with Brian only a few seconds behind him. Breathing heavily, both men put their shoes back on and went on a search to find Rock and Cleo.

They found both of them at the Bungee Run section, getting prepared to run down the lane. Rey was already on one side cheering them on.

“You ready for this old man?” Cleo smiled over at Rock.

“Bring it, Little Girl!” Rock countered.

Both of them smiled at each other before they got ready to run.

They took off at the same time but once they got halfway down the lane, the bungee started to pull back on them. Cleo got down low and tried to claw her way further while Rock just kept the stance he had and pulled against the bungee.

“Ah shit!” Cleo exclaimed as she felt it pulling her back. She placed her ’football’ on the Velcro before she stopped fighting and let the bungee win the war. Once she got her wits back, she stood up to see where Rock was at. He was a little distance behind where her ’football’ was and he was trying desperately to get ahead of it. With a primal growl, Rock pulled against the bungee and made it down to the end of the lane before placing his ’football’ down and flying backwards. The only problem was he jumped when he was done and the bungee pulled him back too hard.

Cleo jumped over the mini wall to check on Rock while the other guys started making their ways towards their fallen comrade.

“Rock, you okay?” Cleo asked as he started to stir to life.

“ Yeah, I’m good. Did I win?” He questioned as he let Cleo help him to his feet.

Cleo responded by smacking him in the chest and laughing as they all headed out of the moon bounce room in search of their friends. Once they were back in the main hallway of the mall, Cleo’s phone rang.

“Hello.” She answered.

“Hey!” Cleo heard four other voices say.

“ Who all is on the phone?”

“Shannon, Shawn, Punk, and Kane” they all answered for their own names.

“Ok, are you guys all done with what you were going to do?”

“Yep, that’s why we’re all calling. You done too?”

“Just finished. We will meet you guys in the middle, where we started off.” Cleo announced before hanging up her phone and leading the group towards their starting spot.

All of the groups showed up in the middle at the exact same time, coming from different directions. Everybody noticed Rock limping.

“Man, what happened to you?”

“Cleo beat him up!” Jeff suggested.

“No, the bungee run beat him up.” Rey answered with a smile.

Everyone got a good laugh out of that as they all headed out to their cars, and back to the house to work on the plans for the wake. Cleo had to help Rock out to the car.

Awww, can anyone tell some of the couples I’m working into the story. Merya’s coupling will come later LOL. Next chapter will be planning for the wake and the funeral/wake itself. Once we get past that things cheer up again. READ AND REVIEW PLZ