Six Girls, Five Guys, One Summer (One Direction)

Chapter 29: The Eleven Throw A Birthday Party

Lucy’s POV

To be honest, nobody celebrates my birthday actually on my birthday except my family. It’s the same for the soul twins, Lizzie and Kelly. All of our birthdays are within ten days of each other, and theirs are actually the same day! Mine’s the 21st, and theirs are on the 31st.

We always would have a birthday party together, because that’s what we’ve done for years, but this year we’re not so sure. We also wanted to be good and celebrate Liam’s birthday, possibly as a surprise party, but we didn’t exactly know. In fact, I didn’t even know if we were celebrating my birthday at all! We’d been so busy these past few weeks that we hadn’t had time to even talk about it!

Either way, I already had a gift for each of them. I had bought Kelly a new art kit, complete with new paints, brushes, oil pastels and everything. Lizzie was going to get a new guitar for her Rock Band game, since we only had one guitar and the game supported two. And Liam, I had decided to get him a gigantic chocolate bar (it was a foot wide!), since I knew he loved chocolate. I had hidden them behind a large chair in the home office, and thankfully Simone hadn’t been snooping to bring them over to their real owners.

We had had a nice party earlier for me on my birthday, but that was only with my family. Simone had told me she wanted to save my present for later. Now, it was the middle of the ten days, and I hadn’t heard a thing about it.

My ringtone for Simone, which was that Koo Koo Kangaroos song Rollin’ In The Minivan, went off. I had slept in today, and she had gone off to do something. I picked up the phone and started singing into the phone. “We’re rollin’, in the minivan. We’re rollin’ in the minivan.”

“You’re kidding me, right?” Simone asked. “Did you really just do that?”

“What do you expect me to do? Why can’t I sing along with your ringtone?” I asked.

“That’s your ringtone for me? Are you kidding?” Simone asked, trying to sound annoyed, but she couldn’t hide her happiness. She loved that song, and the music video for some reason.

“Not kidding,” I smiled.

“You are such a strange girl, Lucibelle Cole,” Simone laughed.

“Lucibelle? Did you just use Jasmine’s nickname for me?” I asked.

“Yup, but that’s not the point of why I’m calling,” Simone answered.

“That’s kind of easy to tell,” I said, laughing. “What’s going on?”

“Well, can you come down to Courtney’s house? We have something to show you,” she asked.

“Sure, why not? I’ll be down in fifteen,” I said, grabbing my hairbrush. “Are you providing breakfast?”

“Are you kidding? Did you just wake up or something? Since when do you sleep this late?” Her voice was filled with shock. She was right; I was normally up around seven or even eight. This had been much later.

“I don’t know, I guess I’m just tired. The summer’s been so great, but so tiring,” I mused, brushing out my hair and slipping it into a side ponytail.

“True…” she trailed off. “Anyway, so you’ll be here in fifteen minutes?” She asked.

“Yup, so I’ll see you then,” I said before hanging up. I quickly changed into my favorite t-shirt and pair of shorts, running down the stairs to grab a quick breakfast and brush my teeth.

“Someone’s in a hurry,” Dad laughed from the home office as I sped by.

“Yeah, I have about seven minutes to eat and get to Courtney’s,” I called, making myself a Pop Tart and pouring some orange juice for myself.