Cruel Summer - C. Sturniolo

Six | Stella's Birthday

"Matt you ready?" I asked him while grabbing my bag

"Yeah, what about Chris?" he asked pointing towards his room

"I checked his location and he's with Stella" I responded opening the door

"This is why I don't share my location with you" he pointed at me

"Jeez my bad I wanted to check before we wasted time going into his room" I said raising my hands

It quickly went quiet, Matt walked right next to me as we cut through the lawn going to Stella's house. We knocked on her door to the point where Matt obnoxiously rung the doorbell.

"Good thing I'm over frequently to the point where I know where the spare key is" I told matt as I reached on top of the porch light

"Maybe I should come over too" Matt mumbled

"Yeah" I agreed

I unlocked the door and let matt in, closing and locking it up again. Instantly matt went for the stairs.

"Matt!" I shouted

"What?!" he looked back

"Your shoes!" I shouted at him

"Oh right" he said taking them off

We walked up the stairs and went into Vela's room to check in on her, only to find out that she wasn't there. We headed towards Maria's room to find she wasn't there either. Then we found a note on the counter listed for us.

"Why is Chris' name crossed out?" Matt asked

"Because he's already here stupid" I said grabbing the note

"Oh right" he nodded

The note said that we had a whole week for ourselves, saying we could stay over and take her and Vela's room. Me and matt looked at each other and did our handshake knowing we were going to stay here.

"Alright let's hopefully not walk in on them" Matt said opening her door

"We probably would've heard something by now" I said peering in

"Oh they're asleep" Matt said stopping

"We have plans remember?" I hit him

"I'll wake em up"

Matt slowly went into bed, cuddling up to chris and rubbing his hair. I already knew where this was going to go.

"Wakey wakey" matt whispered in his ear

Chris sharply inhaled lifting his head off of Stella's shoulder, looking behind him and seeing matt there with him.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" he asked rubbing his eye

"We had plans for Stella's birthday asshole" Matt said in a normal tone

"Ten more minutes" Chris waved at us going back to Stella

"Nic" Matt gestured to take a picture

"On or off?" I gestured towards the flash

"On" he nodded

Matt got off the bed as I put my phone over them, taking a dozen of photos of them. I heard Stella sharply inhale, she repositioned herself to the point where her face was practically in Chris' hair.

"Go away" she mumbled

"Stella we have plans, get up" I said snapping one last picture

"We stayed up all night, let us get a few more hours" she said holding up a one