Chapter 17
Oct. 15-
About 4 months had gone by and we had been extremely busy. Steph had turned 14 and Zoe was 22 now. Today was the day before my birthday. I'd be 16 tommorow.
The best part was tommorow we were absolutely and totally free. We had nothing else to do.
Today Fatima wanted me to help her come up with new dance moves to our song Take Your Time. I didn't think it was just cause she wanted my help though. I knew for a fact that they were doing my birthday shopping. I overheard them talking last night. I walked into the rehearsal room at about 1:00.
"OK AC let's get started," Fatima chirped. She was in an awfully good mood today. She turned on the music and we worked for 2 hours.
"Are we done now?" I asked for about the 20th time.
"Yup"
"Really"
"Yes now get your scrawny butt outta here." I ran out and decided to take a long swim before the others got back.
2 hours later I had finished swimming and had taken a shower. We were going to eat in the hotel cafeteria today.
"Hey everybody," I chirped (I had caught Fatima's good mood).
"Hey," they returned. We ate quickley and went back upstairs to our rooms. I felt exhausted so I just conked out immediately.
"Surprise!" Was the first thing I heard when I woke up that morning.
"What the HECK!" I shrieked.
"Happy Birthday," Brian told me and handed me a gift. I opened it.
"Oh it's beautiful," I gasped.
"I knew you'd like it." It was a gold necklace with a basketball charm on it with an inscription that read: FRIENDS NOW AND FOREVER Oct. 16.
I immediately put it on.
"Guys," I said,"I hate to throw you out but I need to shower and then we can celebrate."
They groaned good naturedly but left anyway. When I had showered and dressed I went to Brian's room. On his bed was a pile of presents.
Of course I opened them. Zoe had given me a picture of the group from when we first met, Ariana- a Kentucky poster, Ash- Marvin the Martian watch, Steph- flowered earings, keychains from Kevin and Howie (I collect them), and bouncy balls from Nick and AJ (I collect them too).
"Thanks so much everyone. I love this stuff," I thanked them. The rest of the day wasn't too interesting. We ate McDonalds for lunch, played basketball and video games, and had a movie marathon.
Then I went to bed happy about finally turning 16
and all my friends being there for me.