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So, it all started when James and Aiden were throwing a pool party to celebrate Valentine’s Day. They accidentally bought a little too many hot dogs.
“Oh my god there’s hundreds..” Aiden says distressed, seeing the hundreds, no, almost thousands of hot dogs in the trunk.
“You said they wanted hot dogs!” James argued.
“yeah but NOT THIS MANY!!” Aiden yelled at James, who sheepishly chuckled awkwardly.
Aiden sighs “what are we gonna do…” he puts his hands on his face disappointingly.
“Just wait till you see the receipt.” James said to himself.
“What.” Aiden looked at him, ready to put James into a choke-hold.
“James. Show. Me. The. Receipt.” Aiden commanded, saying it in a quiet but threatening tone.
James starts to tremble as he slowly gives Aiden the receipt.
Aiden snatched the receipt to see the price.
“1.. hundred.. DOLLARS!?” “YOU SPENT ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ON HOTDOGS!?” Aiden yelled loudly, as he tackled the influencer.
“OK OK IM SORRY!” James apologized.
“ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS BY THE WAY!” Aiden puts his legs around James neck.
“IM SORRY” James cried.
Jake was outside gardening, he heard in the distance some yelling, and looked up to see Aiden choking James Homer Simpson style.
Jake instantly dropped his hose and ran next door.
“GUYS GUYS!” Jake tried to separate the fight.
“STOP!” He yelled, as James was slowly turning purple.
“Fine.” Aiden jumped off of James as James breathed like he just got access to air.
“Now, what could have possibly happened for you guys to be doing this?!” Jake yelled.
“Self explanatory.” Aiden gave Jake the receipt and opened the trunk.
Jake read the receipt: “1.. hundred dollars..?” “On hotdogs?” Jake looked up, shocked just to see the hundreds of hotdog bags just laying there.
Tom stood next to Jake and saw the hotdogs, his eyebrows raised.
“Woah that’s a lot of wieners.” Tom pointed out.
“YOU THINK?” Aiden yelled.
“What’s this even for?” Tom asked.
“For the valentines party we’re having tonight.” James said.
“Aiden said that most people voted hotdogs in the poll for food.. so I bought hotdogs.. but I might of gotten, just a little carried away.” James told the married couple, both of their faces confused.
“All of this.. for the party?” Jake asked.
“As I said, I got carried away.” James once again told.
“Wow.” “I’m speechless.” Jake commented.
Aiden still angry, sighs.
“I mean, we could donate what’s left to charities, I’m sure the kids would like it.” Aiden said, gently grabbing a bag of a five pack of hot dogs.
“Oh yeah, charities.” James agreed, smiling.
“I’m still mad though.” Aiden reminded James.
“I’m sorry!” James said.
“Welp, it’s four o clock, gotta get ready!” Jake said as he checked the time. “Bye!” Jake held Tom’s hand as they walked away back to their house.
Aiden and James waved goodbye.
“Ok, so we cook a hundred and freeze the other… 150?” Aiden asks.
“Aye aye!” James saluted as he grabbed the bags and entered the kitchen.
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Once James finished cooking all of the food, and Aiden finished decorating (and also finishing filling the pool floats) most of the guests already arrived.
While everyone was at the pool, Benji suddenly had an idea, a 'great' idea.
Tristan noticed Benji’s face, already knowing what’s going on.
“What is it Benji?” Tristan asked as they stood next to him.
“I have, an idea.” Benji said, looking at the hotdogs.
'Oh no what's his idea..'
“What’s.. your idea..?” Tristan asks, a bit curious yet scared of what exactly Benji is going to say.
“See those hot dogs right there?” “We should have a hot dog competition!” Benji suggested.
“Who’s interested?”
“I'm out, not good with hotdogs..” “sorry benj..” Tristan apologized.
“It’s fine tris!”
“I’ll do it!” Tom raised his hand as he swam towards them.
“I can do it!” Ally said.
“Are you sure about this?” Hunter whispered.
“Oh yeah, definitely, I’m the one who ate 16 hot peppers after all!” Ally told Hunter confidently.
“If you say so..” Hunter said, doubtingly.
Hunter looks at Tess as Tess just shrugs.
“Ok! Any more volunteers?” Benji asked.
“I could try I guess.” Zaid raised his hand, walking towards Benji.
“CHEERING YOU ON ALFREDO LINGUINI!” Ivy said from the distance, which caused Zaid to blush.
“Hey Nura, you should definitely try this!” Dunia said chuckling.
“In your dreams!” Nura answered, crossing her arms.
“Please?” Dunia asked, giving Nura the puppy eyes.
Nura gets flustered.
“No.”
“PLEASE!!”
“Fine!” Nura answered as she raised her hand. ‘Anything for my girlfriend I guess.’ She thought to herself.
[time skip after Aiden and James set up the competition]
Everyone is sitting down, either filming or just simply watching.
“I’m Aiden!”
“And this is James!”
“And this is the hot dog contest!” They both said in unison.
“We have six people who volunteered to compete to see who can finish their plate of hotdogs first, and who could win the competition!” Aiden said, mocking Derek and Trevor.
“And the winner will win…” James pulls out his wallet to see what he could give.
“A twenty..?” “I mean–twenty dollars!” James showed the twenty dollar bill to the so called ‘audience’.
“Damn it, should have volunteered.” Ellie sulked as she sunk into her seat.
“Let’s get the party started!..” Aiden said as he grabbed an air-horn from the table.
“On the count of three I will blow this air-horn, once i blow the air-horn, the competition will start..” Aiden tells the competitors.
“Well no shit–“ Fiore said as Alec covered her mouth to prevent her from speaking.
“Shush Fiore, this is cinema.” Alec whispered into Fiore’s ear.
“3.. 2..1…” James and Aiden both said in unison.
“Go!” The air-horn blew as The competitors started absolutely gobbling up the food.
James quickly sits down to film it on live. “Oh this is gonna be golden!”
Benji so far, ate the most hotdogs,which is ten, ally in close second as she ate 8 hot dogs, and counting.
Nura quickly falls behind, as she only ate 6. ‘Damn it I need to find a new technique!’ She then rolls up her sleeves then squishes a few hotdogs into one, and eating that.
“YOU GO GIRL!” Dunia cheers.
Nura almost chokes as she smiles softly at dunia.
Zaid tops most of the players, who now has ate 20 hot dogs. Ivy cheers for him jumping out of joy like a cheerleader.
After like five minutes the competitors are halfway through their bowls, ally and Benji currently tied at first with 36 hot dogs, Tom is second with 32, Zaid in third who has eaten 29, and Nura in last place as she eats 26.
“COME ON ALLY!!” Tess yells as Hunter looks at Ally worried and smiling at the same time.
After Tess finishes cheering, she looks at Hunter, her face now looking concerned.
“What’s wrong?” Tess asked Hunter.
“One thing I know about ally is that she’s good at eating things, but not good at digesting things if you know what I mean.” Hunter mentioned.
“Remember tom and Jake’s wedding, and how she ate all of that cake?”
“Yeah..?”
“Well, most of that cake went both in and out of her mouth…” Hunter told Tess.
“Oh? I didn’t know about that..?” Tess said looking at Ally and then looking back at Hunter.
“Yeah..” “there’s at least a 54% chance that she isn’t gonna feel well afterwards..”
“But then again, doesn’t everyone not feel good after eating 38 hotdogs? Because I sure wouldn’t.” Tess told Hunter.
“Yeah.” Hunter nodded in agreement. “Let’s just see what happens.” Hunter said.
“Alright.” Tess crosses her fingers, even though it’s just a silly competition.
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After 8 minutes the contestants are almost done with their hot dog bowls.
suddenly, Benji starts to turn green.
“Oh my god..” gabby notices benjis face.
“Ellie look!” Gabby points at Benji’s face.
“I’m out!” Benji says as he runs away towards a bush to throw up.
“And Benji quit!” “Ally is now in first!”
James announces.
Allys eyes widen as she sees Benji run away. She at least tries to stuff a hotdog into her mouth but doing that is like trying to eat raw squid legs.
She covers her mouth and looks at Hunter and Tess with tears in her eyes.
Tess and Hunter gesture for her to stop.
Suddenly, Tom collapses right onto the table.
“Tom!” Jake instantly runs towards him, being the concerned husband he is.
Nura looks at tom and sighs. “I’m out.” She walks back to Dunia.
“Oop, it’s now up to ally and Zaid!”
Aiden says, awkwardly.
“Nope I can’t–“ ally bent down on her knees and grabbed her stomach in pain, as Hunter and Tess quickly rushed to her to the car.
“Oh, and now Zaid wins!” Aiden says smiling awkwardly.
“Someone should really go check on them..” He says through his teeth.
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After 10 minutes of well, cleaning up the mess. The party somewhat goes back to normal.
Benji and tristan both sit on the pool chairs, their stomachs still upset.
“So, not the best idea i had apparently…” Benji said.
“Yup, I don’t think I could ever look at a hotdog the same way again..”
Ally said, in a zoom call.
“Oh my god I wish I never competed in this godamn competition..” Tom said, woozy.
“I wish I never came up with the idea..” benji said.
"But hey, it was a great concept, just only on paper.." Tristan told Benji.
“All of this for twenty dollars? Dang, should have sued them for emotional distress to get me at-least a 60.” Zaid jokingly told Ivy.
“At least you won something..” Ellie commented.
“I don’t need the money, want it?” Zaid asks Ellie.
Ellie then proceeds to tackle Zaid for the money.
"WHAT THE FUCK ELLIE!?" Zaid screamed like a girl.
“I wanted that More than anything.” Ellie said, admiring the money while walking away.
Gabby chuckled. “She learned that from me!” She said as she followed her girlfriend.
“Sure did babe..” Ellie smiled as she kissed gabby’s cheek.
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A few days later, on another zoom call:
“Hey You guys remember the hot dog contest?” Benji reminded everyone.
Benji then proceeds to get jumped by every person on that call.
The end.