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To my REAL sister. For keeping my secrete, for loving me so, and for just being you. I LOVE You Tami, as a SISTER you are great, as a friend you are the BEST!

Julie and Karen finally made it out of the bedroom (about 25 minutes later), and mom looked upset. Mom looked at Karen and Karen replied with a grin apparently to signal that everything was fine.

Mom called Julie closer so she could present her to everyone that showed for the party. As Mom was babbling on about something Julie scanned the small crowed. It was mostly full of friendly faces (family and close family friends), but in the middle of the crowed, she noticed a face that she knew, but couldn’t put a name to the face.

Just then this semi-stranger in the crowd saw the look on Julie’s face and lifted picture. It was a picture that Julie recognized. The picture was of her friend Sharon from the Internet. Then it hit her. That semi-stranger was SHARON!

“Oh My Gawd!” Julie screamed as she ran over and embraced her friend in a deep hug. Julie was astonished not only that her mother had called Sharon and invited her, but that she actually got Sharon to come because she was very paranoid about meeting people from the internet. Before they got into anything else, Sharon was asking all kinds of questions about how she was doing and making sure everything was ok.

See, Sharon’s parents lived in Reno Nevada, but Sharon attended school in San Diego. Sharon was going to school to be a Nurse while Julie was still stuck in High School Hell. Well, it wasn’t exactly hell. I mean she had a few friends. Oh Shit. Her friends. What were her friends at school going to think?

Julie put these thoughts aside and went back to giggling and chatting with her long time on-line friend. Julie felt like she had an instant bond with Sharon. While they had never met in person, Sharon knew Julie’s innermost feelings from the get go.

After the general giggling and newness had warn off, Julie whispered something in Sharon’s ear and Sharon responded by shooting a look towards Mom.

As the party started to flow, and everything started to settle, Mom turned out the lights and Karen entered from the kitchen holding a birthday cake brightly light with candles. Everyone began signing “Happy Birthday” to Julie. Mom came over and put her arm on Julie’s shoulder. Julie jerked away and hesitantly blew out the candles.

After the cake it was time for presents. Julie wasn’t quite as enthused towards the presents, as she had been earlier. Karen began bringing her boxes and bags one by one.

The first was a present from mom. It was a small box. Julie opened it to find a silver jewelry box with what looked to be pearls embedded in a decorative pattern. It was beautifully elegant and when Julie opened the lid it began playing a beautiful song and was lined in the softest white velvet.

Now most girls would have had tear of joy in their eyes as they ran to their parents and gave them great big hugs. But not Julie, not today. All Julie did was set it down and muster a gentle “thank you” to her mother.

The next box was from her father. She opened the box with mixed anticipation; she wanted so much to embrace her fathers present, especially after he had tried in his own way to warn her. But in her mind, everything was lost. The box contained what looked to be a pink canvas laptop case. As she pulled it out she noted two things about it: The first being that it had “To my Daughter” carved into the leather nameplate, above the name “Julie”. The second was the fact that it seemed a bit heavy to be just a case.

She went to open the zipper ignored to find out what was inside, only to find out that there was a small padlock that kept the 2 zipper pulls together. She looked up at her father who tossed her a small key chain. Before inserting the key into the lock, Julie looked closely at the fob on the key chain. It was probably one of the most beautiful things she had ever read and vowed then to cherish it forever. The fob was shaped like a heart and read “My Daughter, My Princess, My Precious Gem. While you will always have my love, when you carry this, you shall have my heart.”

After standing there and letting a tear or two flow down her cheeks, Julie proceeded to unlock the zippered case and opened it to find a translucent laptop.

The laptop sported an AMD Athlon™ 1.2Ghz processor, 256MB RAM, a 20.4GB HDD, DVD Rom, and a 13.4” TFT LCD Screen. There was only one problem with it, it ran MS Windows XP (but that could be fixed by installing Linux. After all, she’s not a techno-idiot like her friend Lisa Hansen).

For a laptop it was an awesome system. Compared to what Julie was used to using it was a gift from the gods. Julie had been using her Parent’s old P133 (which she had managed to upgrade here and there via scraps from her friends) to communicate with her friends on ICQ.

Julie’s first impulses were to open it up and play with it then continue to the rest. But she knew she couldn’t. She had to get through the rest of the party and then figure out what to do from there.

The next box that Karen delivered to her sister was from mom. Inside the box was a cell phone. The cell phone was an Audiovox and had all kinds of cords and instructions. Mom looked at her new daughter and said, “It’s prepaid for the year. You get 3500mins a month Nation Wide, no-roaming..

Dad was beginning to look nervous. He looked up and motioned to Karen. Karen went over and took a box from his hand and she delivered it to Julie. Julie opened the box (never having said anything to mom about the cell phone), and inside was what looked like a phone cord on one end, and a big block shaped like the bottom of the cell phone on the other.

“The guy at the store said it’s a ‘Data-Adapter’” announced Dad. “He said it would let you get online via your laptop and cell phone wherever you were.”

This sent Julie into a frenzy that could not be held back. She really did love her father, even though they had had differences in the past, she knew that he loved her. She only wished that she got the same impression from her mother, but in fact, no matter how nice her mother was being now, no matter how much she wanted this to all be real, Julie knew that there was something terribly wrong.

After all the presents had been opened, the cake had been cut, and eventually the guests had left, Julie was feeling somewhat better than when she had entered the party.

Her family was accepting this, and more than that, many of them were very supportive and offered to help, or be there whenever Julie needed to get away from this, or to talk to someone.

But the one thing that kept drawing her down was her mom.

Julie went to bed sill very uneasy. She dreamed of everything to come, and unfortunately, there was more bad then good; there was no freedom, no doing what she wanted.

After some prodding, and promises of Cinnabon, Julie got dressed, and left for the mall with Karen.

They started with “the GAP” and then “Hot Topic” and after several trips to the car to drop off bags, and visiting at least 85% of the stores in the 2 story mall, they finally made there way to the food court.

It was about 20mins after three, and they were both a bit hungry, so they decided to skip Cinnabon and instead headed for “Sabaro” for some pizza. As they walked up, they couldn’t help but noticed the ultra cute guy behind the counter. He had blond hair, blue eyes, wasn’t fat, but had some meat on his bones, and a face that could melt the polar icecaps.

Julie instantly fell into a dazed dreamland, trying to imagine what it would be like, standing at the alter with him, having his babies… Everything seemed so ideal, so euphoric, and then…

“Sis, don’t spaz on me now” Julie heard, as she was jolted away from her dreamland.

The guy smiled and proceeded to ask her what she wanted on her pizza (for the 5th time according to Karen), and Julie blushed.

After an awkward pause, Julie decided that she wanted Mushrooms Olives, and Extra Cheese, and walked away to find a table.

As Julie sat down, she glanced towards the front of the restaurant, and noticed Karen heading over with a bright smile on her face.

Just as Julie was about to plead with her to not laugh, Karen passed a piece of recipt paper in front Julie’s face and sat quietly.

Julie sat there for a moment, dazed and confused at what she saw and looked at her sister with a puzzled expression.

“He asked me to give it to you, honestly” Karen said with a grin that made Julie giggle with excitement.

On the paper, scribbled in blue ink was, “Brian, (916) 555-4683”.

Their Pizza was done in 10 minutes and instead of calling their number, Brian brought it over personally.

Julie couldn’t help but notice the toppings were A LOT thicker on her side, and that she mushrooms seemed to form a heart.

This must have been some very twisted coincidence, right?

The day was fun, full of surprises and lots of clothes. But nothing could knock the feeling out of Julie’s head that something was wrong.

At the end of the day, Julie laying in her bed… She contemplated what was ahead of her, and what she had given up….

Surprisingly… there was nothing in either direction…

A chill ran over her body as she reached for the knife she kept under her pillow, for her soul knew what was to come next…

Julie awoke with a start, her nightgown covered in sweat, her pillow soaked with tears. There was definitely something bothering her. Something that she couldn’t seem to figure.

“Has this all been a dream?” She thought to herself, but she reached down to find that she was  still missing a certain mound of flesh, and  looked over to the dresser to find that the birthday banner lay there folded neatly.

Mom had definitely been in here. Everything was picked up, and arranged neatly. All the dirty clothes were stuffed in the hamper.

But what had caused her have that dream?

Karen hadn’t told Julie about the plan, and that made her feel very uneasy. I mean, how could they go about planning something like this without her approval, or without even knowing. What else could possibly be planned? What if Julie had decided that she didn’t want to have anything to do with this?

And then it hit her.

There was no chance of Julie not accepting.

That’s why Karen was being so nice, because if anything went wrong, mom was going to force the situation.

That had to be “The Plan”!
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