Chapter 38- A Late Night Chat

Jojo and Carey walked back toward Carey's house and on the way there they saw James and Amy sitting on the fountain they were still in the cloths they had been wearing at school.

"Dude! What's up?" James yelled calling them over.

"Not much, just coming back from having some ice cream."

"Sounds like fun, hey Carey, wanna go dress shopping with me and the other girls tomorrow… I mean you are going to the dance right?" She looked over at Jojo.

"Yes I'm going, and sure I'll join you, I will need help picking one out anyway, and I am not very good at doing that sort of stuff myself." Carey replied shrugging.

"Awesome!" Amy tackle hugged her, "we are dragging Steffy along too! Oh this is going to be so much fun!"

"Well, while the girls are doing that you wanna come over and play some video games?" James asked scooting away from his squealing girlfriend.

"Sounds like a plan." Jojo looked down at his phone and sighed. "Hey sorry but I need to go home now, I told my mom I would be home to help with dinner." They all said their farewells and went their separate ways.

Sally was already in the kitchen when Jojo got home.

"Hello, honey how was your day?"

"Great actually." He replied standing on the stepstool by the sink to wash his hands. "What are we making for dinner?"

"Stir-fry, will you cut the bell peppers?" she said handing him bowl of red and yellow peppers and a knife. The small Who nodded and set about cutting the vegetables. They were quiet for a while just working on dinner until Sally cleared her throat.

"So how did things go with Carey?"

"Fine," he said trying hard to hide the smile on his face.

"I can tell it went more than just fine, tell me about it," his mother insisted. Jojo blushed.

"Well," he began trying to find the right words. "She really liked my observatory, and um… I asked her…and she said yes and then we had ice cream."

"Oh, how nice. Well we will have to get you some dress cloths… do you still have those dress pants I bought you last year?" Sally asked putting the rice in the wok.

"Yeah, I mean I haven't really grown mom." Jojo laughed slightly putting the peppers he had cut in with the rice.

'Oh, Jojo you have grown so much more then you know.' She thought smiling at her son.

Meanwhile Carey was being questioned as well by her sister.

"What happened? How did he ask? What did you say? What are you going to wear? When is the dance? Did you kiss him?" Holly rambled on as Carey set up her school stuff so she could do her homework completely ignoring her.

"Come on Carey tell me!" she whined loudly flopping on to the bed. "I'm your only sister you have to talk to about this stuff it's like the rules!"

"He asked and I said yes… that's it," she didn't really want to go into detail about how she panicked and everything.

"Are you going dress shopping? Can I go with you?"

"I'm going tomorrow with my friends and no you can't go." Carey said working on her math homework. "I will show it to you when I get home though," she replied in response to the pouty face Holly was making. She cheered up real quick at that.

"Okay! Oh you are gunna look so cute!" she squealed and ran out of the room. Carey laughed shaking her head and continued on with her homework.

It was about 11:45 before she was done and Carey felt drained after staring at the textbook for so long. She put her school stuff away and laid down on her bed; but try as she might she could not fall asleep. She wondered over to her desk and opened up her laptop.

"Maybe something interesting is happening on Whobook." Carey mumbled logging on to her account. The first thing that popped up was a notification that Amy and James were together. This made her smile. 'They sure are cute together.' She scrolled down for a bit stopping to read a funny post are look at a cute picture. There was a ding that made Carey jump but she realized she had received a message.

Jojo: Hey, why are you still up? Are you thinking about zombies again?

Carey: Haha no, no I just can't sleep for some reason, what about you?

Jojo: Same, just got too much on my mind as usual.

Carey: What's bothering you?

Carey: Maybe I can help… if you want…

Jojo: IDK… I've just been thinking about my dad and the future and stuff. Like I know what I want but is it really the right choice? There are a lot of expectations of me and I want to do well and do what's right but I don't think I can.

Carey took a moment to think about what to say, this was some pretty heavy stuff and she wanted to help her best friend make the right choice what that choice may be.

Carey: Jojo, I want you to be happy. I want to see you become a great Who whatever that may mean. You have skills that most Whos don't have and that makes you special. You have an amazing voice and a huge heart; and being a bit shy and reserved isn't a bad thing it means you are careful and make sure you understand things before you act. That's important Jojo.

The chat was silent for a while and Carey was worried she had said something to upset him. The truth was Jojo was staring at his computer with tears in his eyes and a smile on his face.

Jojo: Thanks Carey, that helps a lot. I think I know what I should do now… It's going to be really hard… will you help me?

Carey: of course I will that's what friends do. Whatever it is you need help with I will be right by your side. What is it that you need help doing?

Jojo: I think I want to talk to my dad about being mayor.

AN- Ooooo what does Jojo mean talk to his dad about being mayor? Is he going to tell Ned about wanting to peruse music instead? Has Jojo changed his mind on being mayor? The dance is only a few days away what is going to happen?