As Long As You Need

13-Happy Birthday B*tch

Tomorrow is Delilah Scarlett Anders' 18th birthday. 

Every year I do something big for her to remind her just how thankful I am that she chose to be my best friend. 

I have been trying to work out all the kinks of my plan. First I talked to Caleb seeing if she could miss a day of school since what I had planned is out of town. Once he agreed I had to figure out what to do about Matt.

They have been attached to the hip since they started dating. I want a weekend alone with Delilah and I know with Matt around it won't be. So now I am currently sucking up my pride to ask Brady and Noah to hang out with Matt tomorrow. Neither of them like him which I am starting to see why. 

Either way I need to make sure Matt is busy so I can get her away for the next three days.

I take a deep breath before opening Brady's door. 

Him and Noah are sitting on his bed both have an x-box controller in their hands. They seem heavily engrossed in whatever game they are playing.

Brady turns to me, "What do you want?"

I huff stepping into the room, "I need to ask a favor. Actually both of you." 

They set the controllers down and look at me waiting for me to continue. 

"So you know how its Delilahs birthday tomorrow? Well I need the two of you to I don't know invite Matt somewhere so I can get her alone without him shadowing her."

Noah runs a hand through his hair, "What would we get in return?" 

"Why would I give you guys something?" I ask.

Brady laughs, "Cause it's Matt." Noah nods his head in agreement. They have a point.

Now I'm going to have to resort to begging. Woohoo. 

"Pleeaaasseee." I say stretching out the word and batting my lashes. 

Noah leans back against the wall, "Bails have you met the guy? What are we supposed to do with him?"

I roll my eyes, "I don't care invite him over to play video games or watch a football game or something just please." I sigh defeated. I really want this time with my best friend. 

"Give us a moment to discuss." Brady says like its some secret plan. I head out of his room and close the door. 

I wait outside the door for what feels like forever. 

Brady opens the door, "We'll do it." I smile in victory.

"If-" shit smiled too soon, "If you take dad out somewhere on the 14th next month so Noah and I can have friends over."

I scoff, "How do I know you won't go throwing a party again?" he rolls his eyes.

"I promise its like 3 friends. If you agree we'll deal with Matt."

I think it over in my head. He says three friends. Can I trust it's only those three? I could ask Noah but he might lie to me even though he has never lied to me before. I do need them to make sure Matt stays away. 

With a groan I accept, "Fine." I say through gritted teeth. 

Now that I have everything in place I turn on the water and take a long shower. After that I throw on a hoodie and sweats before laying down in bed. I scroll through social media before falling asleep. 

I wake up ready for the big day ahead of me, I quickly get ready wearing a pair of light wash mom jeans, a maroon long sleeve crop top and my doc Martens. I grab mine and Delilahs bag which I packed when I went to go see Caleb the other night. 

I get into Brady's truck he says Noah is already at school looking for Matt. 

We arrive and I rush out of the car Brady on my tail. We figured if Noah couldn't find Matt he was probably with Delilah. So while Noah kept looking Brady and I would stick together and look too. That way if we found them together Brady could distract Matt while I took Delilah.

Wow it sounds like we are planning a kidnapping. Fun. 

As we make our way through the hallways I can't help  but think about the fact that Brady is actually letting people see me with him in school. He really wants to hang out with his friends at the house.

Finally I see strawberry blonde hair peeking from around the corner. We make it over there and sure enough Matt and Delilah are standing there talking together. 

The two of them see us and look up. 

No one says anything so I elbow Brady.

"Fuck." he says holding his side. "Hey Matt can we talk for a sec." Matt looks confused.

"Why?" he asks skeptical. 

Then I see Noah turn the corner and see us, "Matt man how've you been?" He claps a hand on his shoulder. I have never seen Matt so confused in his life its hilarious. 

"Good? Why are you guys talking to me?" Brady and Noah look at each other silently asking who's going to speak. See didn't I tell you guys they're the twins. 

"Come with us." Noah says pushing Matt down the hallway Brady following behind. 

He turns and gives me a thumbs up.

"What was that all about?" Delilah asks and I turn towards her.

I smile, "Happy Birthday bitch." I squish her into a hug. 

She laughs pulling away. I grab her hand dragging her towards the exit. 

"Where are we going we have class."

I shake my head, "Not today we have plans."

She begrudgingly follows me to her car. I throw our bags in and ask for her keys. After a lot of pleading she gives them to me. I did manage to get my license but I still don't like to drive.

The trip to the spa is full of us catching up. With Matt consuming most of her time we rarely see each other. Turns out Caleb has applied to cooking school. I'll have to congratulate him about that when we get back. 

I update her on Derrick and how my dad thought Noah and I were together. Even she said she could see it. 

Once we arrive I check in taking the things to our room before heading to our first activity of the weekend. A massage. 

We go into the room they tell us to stripping out of our clothes besides we lay face first on the table a towel draped around us. 

Most of that time is just spent relaxing it's good to get away. 

That night I pull out two fancy dresses we do our hair and makeup and go to this nice restaurant. We take pictures in front of the big fish tank and post them to our story. 

As we eat are eating the slice of cake they brought out for her birthday I get a notification that someone slid up on my snap. I open it to see it's Noah. 

Noah_Scott9🏈: Nice necklace. 

I look down and notice the necklace I grabbed was the one Noah got for me last year on my birthday. It's a silver chain with a purple gem for my birth stone. I reply with a quick thank you.

Looking back at his message I realize I never changed his name on snap. I quickly change it to 'Little Bitch' to match his contact before turning my phone and focusing my attention on Delilah. This is her weekend.

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