Make My Way

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Authors note: the majority of the pictures of the house are from the realfithousewife.blogspot.com

Stella's POV

When I woke up in the morning, I pulled out a piece of cold pepperoni pizza. Aria hadn't been in bed when I woke up, but she probably just woke up before me. Aurora had been on the bed in my parents room, but I figured she just really didn't want to sleep with Blake. I heard footsteps coming down the stairs and leaned over to try to see who it was. Xavier turned the corner and saw my pizza. He tried to grab it out of my hand. He knew I loved cold pizza. "Hey! Get your own," I told him, gesturing to the fridge.

"Lila won't be up for a while," he told me, "She insisted on watching the Lion King last night after the game. She stayed up until almost six watching that movie and she's kinda known for sleeping in." I nodded.

"Willow, Liam, and Everly will probably be up soon though. They went to bed at three and it's already eleven," I said to Xavier and he nodded.

"Is anyone else up?" he asked, "I thought I heard voices out by the hot tub.

I shrugged, "Maybe."

"I don't think I saw Easton and Adrian in the bunk room on my way down."

"Yeah, Aria wasn't in our room either. Maybe they went out to the hot tub this morning. Did you hear anyone come into my room this morning to get swimsuits or something?"

"I might've. I was out pretty hard for a while. I do think I heard a car starting, but I could've imagined it," I said, second guessing himself.

I shrugged and took the last bite of my pizza before going to go check the hot tub. Sure enough, there was Aria, Everly, Easton, and Adrian. Everly was wearing one of my simplest black bikinis that laced up the front of the top and the sides of the bottoms. Aria must have left one here at some point because she was wearing a maroon-orangish bikini with a almost lace-like part to the top.

I opened the door and peeked my head out. "Hey guys," I said.

Aria waved at me. "Hey! Sorry, we just woke up and decided we wanted to use the hot tub. Hope it's okay with you...."

"You're fine! So what's the plan for the rest of the day then?" I asked.

Most of them shrugged and Easton said, "We can go to my place for the afternoon if you guys want."

"You guys go ahead but I can't. My parents are coming home from my dads conference in L.A. around two," I told them.

They decided that they would and came inside. They dried off and we ate lunch. The people who were still sleeping straggled in one by one. I brought out the leftover pizza and made coffee. By 1:30, everyone was out of the house.

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"Honey, we're home! How's it been?" my mom asked as her and my dad entered the house.

"Good!" I ran over and hugged her. "There might be some extra blankets in some of the rooms because I had some people over last night."

"Okay, that's fine. We have a surprise for you though!" my mom said.

"Oh really?"

"Yep. For your birthday...." my dad started.

"We're taking you out to the cabin!" Mom finished.

"Really!?" I exclaimed. It had been years since I had been to our cabin. It was up in the mountains and had an incredible view but we had been so busy these past few years that we hadn't gone.