Miracle- Noah Sebastian (SEQUEL TO THE GREY)

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*Noah's POV*

It's really weird to even try to feel okay with planning a birthday party in the thick of a pandemic, but at least my closest friends live with me. We decided to not do a full Halloween party, but just to get obliterated and hang out at our house. I went to Target and grabbed cases of White Claws and Modelo before stopping at a liquor store to grab vodka and rum. I still can't drink whiskey.

When I walk in the house with my first round of cases, I notice that the guys had set up a beer pong table in the living room, which made me laugh. "You gave us one mission, which was to get violently drunk," Nic reminded me. 

"You're absolutely succeeding tonight," I concurred. I get everything situated, throwing in a bag of ice into a cooler, doing a layer of White Claws and beer, doing another layer of ice, and doing another layer of drinks. You get what I'm saying?

"Why are you going through all of this trouble when we're just... home?" Folio picked on me. 

"It adds to the ambiance," I joked, making him laugh at my stupid train of thought. I looked at the clock and it was 6 o'clock. I told Sutton and Danielle to come over at 7, so I went to go take a shower since I still felt gross from my run that I did before I went to the store. I take my hair out of my bun and realize that I am honestly getting really tired of how long it is. Honestly, I can almost sit on it at this point. I don't know how short I want to go, but I know that I need to do something with it. 

I just get dressed in some black jeans and a black and white striped shirt, deciding to leave my hair down since I may get rid of it soon. I go downstairs and all of the guys had already grabbed beers, so I decided to go ahead and grab a White Claw. I sit down next to Orie, who roughly wrapped his arms around me and pulled me into a hug. "Happy birthday, birthday boy! Is it 25 this year?" he mused.

"Sure is," I said through a laugh. "Thanks man." Nic plopped down next to me and joined in on the cuddle session, making me laugh more. I noticed a flash and Folio had taken a picture of us and thrown it on his Snapchat story. We heard the doorbell go off, and Folio skipped over to the door to let the girls in. Orie and Nic kept laying on me, making themselves put their full weight on me so that I couldn't move. Sutton and Danielle came around to where they could make eye contact with me and started laughing.

"Hey, how's it going?" I ask casually.

"Are you comfy?" Danielle joked.

"Not even in the slightest," I shot back, making Orie and Nic laugh and lift themselves off of me. I took a big dramatic breath and got up to go hug Danielle and give Sutton a kiss.

"Happy birthday," Sutton mused as we pulled away.

"Get a room!" Folio taunted. Sutton and I just chose to shake our heads and laugh in response.

"So we have drinks in the cooler in the kitchen, but I also wanted you guys to be our tie breakers as to what food to order," I said with a chuckle.

"What are the options?" Sutton asked cautiously.

"Pizza or Chinese."

"I feel that Chinese with this many people is way too complicated," Danielle answered honestly. 

"So true, so pizza," Sutton concurred with her. Jolly nodded and walked off to order it. Sutton grabbed a watermelon White Claw and Danielle grabbed a lime one before heading back to the couch.

"You know what fuckin' time it is," Nic says excitedly as he turns on the Switch and starts handing out remotes. Sutton and Danielle take one, but Folio has a stare down with me.

"I refuse to play Sutton," he says through laughter.

"What did I do to you?!" she asks dramatically.

"You beat our asses every time, even Nic's! I thought that that wasn't even possible!" Folio yells back, making her laughter.