
Jess was having a wail of a
time. All of a sudden, everything was feeling really good.
She wasn't even bothered about having a huge party in two days
time. To be precise, she'd forgotten about it. In the meantime,
the most important occupation was pinning the tail on this damn
stupid fluffy donkey.
Kylie spun her around (well, she thought it was fun, so she
decided to enforce it upon others), until she was even more
disorientated than when she began.
Kylie let her go and Jess staggered around a little, trying to
regain composure and strength in her legs.
With her punch still in her left hand, she stood up straight with
confidence and held out her right hand with the pin on it. She
lunged forward and blindly pinned the pin on Jack Nicholson's
arse.
Everyone cheered.
"Did I do it?!" Jess pulled off her blindfold hurriedly
and looked at the donkey.
"JESS RULES!" Everyone started to chant, (apart from
Jack Nicholson who had leapt suicidally off the side of the
cruise-boat in pain.) "JESS RULES! JESS RULES! JESS
RULES!!"
Brad Pitt and Sting lifted her onto their shoulders and paraded
her around.
Hannah peered at Keanu subtly as he still talked to George
Clooney and Jennifer Connelly.
"JESS RULES!" Graham Norton chanted, walking over to
Hannah.
"What did you just say?" She asked him.
"JESS RULES!" Graham repeated.
"Who?" Hannah said, nonplussed.
"JESS!" Graham said, pointing.
"OH." Hannah nodded and smiled proudly.
"Yeah, she's my best friend."
"Yeah right!" Graham said sarcastically and
walked off. "People who lie should be sent to hell!" He
disappeared behind Nicholas Cage.
Hannah looked put out.
"Bugger it."
She turned around to where Jess had finally been put down.
"What did you do to make yourself so popular?"
"I pinned the tail on the donkey!" Jess explained.
"That was Jack Nicholson." Hannah replied.
"Oh." Jess looked crestfallen.
"No, it's ok!" Said Brad Pitt, walking past. "We
didn't have a donkey, so we used Jack."
"Oh." Jess repeated, slightly less crestfallen.
Suddenly there was a shout from the boat's helm.
"LOOK!" Shouted Hugh Grant. "I don't think we've
been passed this island before!"
"So?" Asked Hannah, bored.
"SO - it might mean we're out of the Bermuda
Triangle!" Carrie-Ann Moss yelled from the crowd.
"OH." Hannah nodded. "Does that mean we're saved?!"
"Could do
" Bruce Willis called up from the
navigation room. "The radar says we're out!"
Everyone cheered.
"We might get home in time for our party!" Jess said,
happily.
Hannah looked around at the vast expanse of ocean.
"OR, maybe we won't." She concluded,
sadly.
Jess slumped onto the
railings at the front of the boat and dropped her punch drunkenly
on a seagull. She looked down at the bird in shock. "Oh my
God! We've got to be close to land because of the bird!!"
"You idiot," Hannah commented, pointing at the passing
island.
Jess hiccupped and tripped over Sharon Stone's foot on her return
to the punch bowl.
Hannah strode through the crowd and arrived in the room with the
helm (quite possibly it's called the helm-room, but I'm not a
boaty person and this isn't an educational book so it doesn't
matter). She pushed the accelerator control up to maximum and the
boat gained speed. "Someone's got to get us home
"
She muttered. "If
we drive in one direction for long enough we're bound to find
some land." She said, optimistically.
"Hannah
slow down!" Jess said, shakily,
trying to stand up.
"NO!" Hannah continued to speed along at a
moderate 427 miles an hour. "I want to get home, have a
Christmas party and get HIM-" She pointed at Keanu.
"Under the mistletoe." She increased the speed.
"Oh
when you put it that way
YEEEE-HA!"
Jess yelled.
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