Doll Parts
Chapter 1
"They were Mark and Vanessa Loring and they were beautiful even in black and white."
Juno thought to herself as she ripped out the section in the Penny-Saver ad. She really hadn't thought about how hard it would be to actually give her baby up, after having it grow inside her for 9 months only to go through hours of the pain and agony only to just give it away. Eh, she figured if she's mature enough to make to decision to even have sex, she was certain she could handle this.
"Ok, you ready June-bug?" Mac called out as he walked out the door.
Juno just finished up the small details of the very little make-up she wore. "Yeah!" she shouted as she raced downstairs. They arrived at St. Cloud and starting searching for the house.
"All of these houses- wait, mansions look the same. Whatever happened to simple houses? Who really needs 9 bathrooms?" Mac rambled on and Juno tried her best to ignore it.
"Ooo that one!" Juno shouted as she pointed to the beautiful home of the Loring family. They pulled in the driveway and Juno raced to the door.
"Hi!" A voice greeted as the door opened. "I'm Vanessa, you must be Juno and Mr. MacGuff, Hi." she invited them in and offered them a seat.
Juno's eyes widened as her eyes grazed the immaculate home. "Wicked casa! Love the whole home-y feeling, plus it smells terrific in here!" Vanessa gave her a funny look.
"And this would be my immature, yet oddly enjoyable daughter Juno." Mac said as he sat on the couch.
"Hello hello." A voice came from the stairs as the husband came running down.
Mark Loring. Juno looked up from the couch and nearly laughed when she saw this man in his cute little blue sweater, perfect hair, dorky smile, and oddly fascinating voice.
"Sup Mark-o?" Juno greeted him with a nod.
Mark stuck out his hand, "Nice to meet you, Juno." Juno looked down at his hand and instinctively gave him a fist for a pound. Mark smiled and pounded her fist. "So, uh, Juno…is that like the city in Alaska?"
"Kind of, except it's not spelled the same and it doesn't have any similar meaning whatsoever." She shot him a smile, which he smiled back.
"Ok, Juno this is Gerta Rousse. Let's get started shall we?" Vanessa stated as they began discussing the terms and all that good stuff. Several times Juno found her mind trailing off…as it usually did when she found herself to be in boring situations. She caught herself a few times accidentally just staring at Mark, luckily he only noticed once, and besides, he was sitting there all smiley faced with his arm around his wife anyways…
"Alright, should we go over the preliminary documents you've drawn up for us." Vanessa said as she flipped her perfect hair behind her ear.
"Uhh, before that could I use the facilities? This whole baby thing makes me pee like frickin' racehorse I'll tell ya." Juno said and she shot up off the couch.
Vanessa gave her a funny look, "Oh, uhm, ok you have the use the upstairs bathroom, you go up and turn-"
"Yeah yeah, fancy room with toilet, gotcha." as she ran upstairs she heard Mark giggle, which was probably one of the cutest things she'd ever heard. Wait, what the hell am I talking about? Juno thought to herself while glancing through Vanessa's massive amount of expensive perfumes. Pffft I can't like Mark, although he is pretty damn cute….she found her mind trailing off as she exited the bathroom. She was sniffing her sleeve from which she squirted a dab of Vanessa's amazing smelling perfume, when she looked up and nearly ran into Mark at the top of the stairs.
"Whoa! Hey, sorry didn't mean to run you over." Mark said with a smile.
"Oh, nah it's cool…wait, were you checkin' to make sure I didn't steal anything or somethin'? She said raising her eyebrow.
"What? No, of course not." He sarcastically and laughed.
"Well, I stole a squirt of your wife's perfume. You caught me." she said as she stuck out her arm.
Mark bent down slowly and sniffed. "Mmmm, smells terrific on you." Juno smiled, she was almost certain she was blushing by this point…
"Well, trust me there's nothing in this house that couldn't be replaced." He said looking around. "Except of course for my baby."
"What baby? The thing growing here in my stomach?"
Mark laughed. "No, no a different baby." he paused and looked at her. "You wanna see what I'm talking about?"
Juno grinned. "Phuket Thailand yeah!" Mark led her across the stairway to a room that instantly lit her eyes up. She looked around and saw a Les Paul, 2 Fenders, 2 amps, a bunch of posters and like a million CD cases.
"Holy shit!" her mouth dropped open. "That's a Les Paul! Mahogany right?"
"Yep. That's my baby." Mark plopped on the chair and watched her as she carefully picked up the guitar and eyed it with amazement. "You play?"
"Hm? Oh yeah, I used to be in a band but you know it's kinda hard to rock out with a sweet guitar when you have this thing." She said pointing to her stomach.
"Ah." Mark said. He stood up and grabbed his black Fender, then sat back down. "Well, sit down here, let's play a song. Show me how good you are since you're in a band." He grinned and Juno sat down next to him.
"What do you wanna play?"
"Uh, well I'm gonna play a few riffs of one of my favorite songs and you being a rock lover, you could impress me if you know it, but you probably won't." He grinned as he strummed once and began singing, "I am" four strums "doll eyes" four more strums "doll mouth" four more "doll legs"
Juno glanced over at him and smiled, his voice was surprisingly amazing! She adjusted the guitar and began playing chords. "Yeah they really want you, they really want you, they really do." She sang, and felt pretty confident it was right in tune.
Mark's mouth dropped opened as Juno continued to play. He joined in her singing, "Yeah they really want you, they really want you, and I do too... I wanna be the girl with the most cake." they continued playing when they caught each other's eyes.
Something stirred inside Juno and she instantly got goosebumps. At that moment her whole view of Mark was completely changed. He went from dorky, rich, perfect guy to amazing, guitar rocking, music loving normal dude…..who is still rich of course. Juno's thoughts faded when Mark stopped playing. He stared at her.
"You know, for a kid, you're actually kind of the shit, I'm impressed!" he smiled as she looked up at him.
"Kid? Pffft…No, no. Clearly I'm an adult." they sat there for some time as if they had completely forgotten about the rest of the world. Juno found it strange that she had just met this guy, yet she felt like she had known him for years.
Mark took in a breath getting ready to speak when Vanessa stormed in the room. "Hi!"
"Oh! Hi." Mark slid farther from Juno and set his guitar down.
"Uh what are you guys doing? We still have a lot of stuff to go over downstairs." Vanessa said as she pressed her hands together impatiently.
"Ok, yeah. We'll be down in a sec, just gotta put this stuff away here.." Mark stood up and reached for the guitar Juno handed him. Vanessa walked back downstairs.
"Yikes. Hope I didn't get you in trouble Mark." she said standing up.
"Oh, nah. She just hates when I'm not doing something productive, or 'contributing' as she calls it." he set the guitar back down and pushed in his chair. "So? What'd you think of Kimber?"
"Whoa, you're guitar's named Kimber? Nice." she smiled. "My axe is named Roosevelt. You know, after the hot president with polio." she laughed.
Mark chuckled. "I see, so you're into older men eh?" Juno felt her goosebumps return. Before she could answer Mark walked out of the room and had already bolted down the stairs and into the living room, which was probably a good thing, because she had no idea what to say to that. She wasn't normally attracted to older men, although Mark wasn't old at all…there her mind went wandering again. She took off down the stairs and finished the insanely boring meeting.
...to be continued
Chap. 2 coming soon :D