The Deal

briefs party

Narrator's Pov

- Do you want to give me a heart attack? - Lars said after jumping back.

- Surprise! - Zack and Derick said at the same time as they opened their arms and approached Lars as if they wanted a hug.

Lars' pupils were dilated and he felt like his heart was going to jump out of his mouth.

Zack was the first to approach Lars, wrapping him in a warm hug. Lars felt Zack's strong arms wrapping around him and pressing him against his body.

Zack hugged him and lifted him two inches off the ground.

- You're going to break my bones, Zack - Lars said, clenching his teeth and barely able to say anything.

Zack abruptly released him and Lars took a deep breath and put his hand on his chest until he was enveloped in another hug, but this time by Derick, who put an armlock around his neck and put his closed hand on his head.

- You're suffocating me, Derick - Lars said, pushing Derick's embrace away a little.

Derick shook his brown hair and let go of him. Lars ran his hands over his head, smoothing it.

- What are you guys doing here anyway? - Lars said, looking at the two of them with a slanted face.

Derick scratched his chin as if he was trying to remember something.

Zack thought it was something involving Lars, but he could barely remember what it was.

- And your birthday - Derick said, as if a light bulb had been turned on over his head.

- And that's it - Zack said.

- You didn't forget! - Lars said, happy that everyone had remembered something that was so important to him.

- Thank you - Lars said, hugging them both at the same time.

- I have a surprise for you - Derick said, touching Lars' back with his right hand.

- Where? - Lars asked excitedly.

- At my house - Derick said, ruffling Lars's hair again.

Lars ruffled his hair and began to follow Derick and Zack away from there.

- Where are we going? - Lars asked excitedly.

Let's have a little party at my house - said Derick.

- Isn't your house over there? - asked Lars.

- Let's go to my other house - said Derick.

The cell phone in Zack's coat pocket started ringing, Zack took the cell phone and put it to his ear.

- We're almost there - said Zack and Lars and Derick looked at him with curious faces as if wanting to know who was talking.

- And Trevis, we'll have to go by his house to pick him up, Laphin and Frazz - said Zack.

- Wait a minute, who's driving? - asked Zack.

- I'm going, I'm 17, did you forget? We failed - said Derick.

- I had forgotten - said Zack.

- Happy birthday Lars - Trevis said when they arrived at Trevis' house, Laphin wished him a happy birthday discreetly, Frazz gave Lars a tight hug making Laphin feel a little jealous.

- Let's go in! - Trevor said opening the door to his house.

- I thought it would be at my house - Derick said.

- No, it will be at mine - Trevis said insisting that Lars come in.

- It will be at Derick's house - Laphin said a little seriously.