The party

(Katie's POV)

*beep beep beep*

I hit the snooze button and sighed. I glanced up at the clock. 7:17 am, way to early. Then I remembered why I set the clock, Marie's birthday. We still have to make the cake and go shopping for new outfits and then we would be set for the party. I stumbled out of bed and threw on a black T-shirt, blue skinny jeans and my converse. I checked myself in the mirror after doing some light makeup which brought out my ocean blue eyes. I grabbed my brush and ran it through my chocolate brown hair. Then jogged down the stairs, yelling for my sister, Annabelle, to get up. A few minutes later I saw her promenade to the fridge.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Getting a bagel." She replied.

"Well just hurry up and get dressed so we can go."

"Where?"

"We have to go shopping for clothes and cake ingredients, remember?"

"Ohh yeah, that's today?"

"Yes Annabelle, now take your hair out of that messy bun and put on some real clothes."

She slugged back up the stairs and I grabbed my keys, ready to go. After a few moments she came back down in a white tank top, black skinny jeans, and some vans, her blonde waves flowing behind her. "Come on." I said nodding towards the back door leading to our garage. We climbed into my red 1967 Chevy truck. We bounced our way to a little dress shop in town. When we walked in we where greeted by a middle aged woman with a cheeky smile.

"How may I help you girls?" She asked.

"Hi we where looking for some dresses for a birthday party. You know nothing too fancy." I said.

"Well, we have some cute little sundresses over here." She replied as she walked to a corner of the store. We followed.

"Thanks." Annabelle smiled.

We started searching through the dresses until we found a few we liked. We tried them on and settled with a light yellow strapless sundress at knee length for Annabelle and a medium blue sundress with spaghetti straps for myself. We checked out and left.

"Now we have to stop at Walmart and get some cake stuff." I said hopping back into the truck.

When we got there I grabbed a cart and walked through the entrance.

"Okay, I'll go get like the first 6 things on the list, and you get the rest of the stuff." Annabelle said.

"Kay. Meet back here in like 5 minutes?" I asked.

"Yup." Annabelle replied walking away.

I looked at the list on my phone. First, flour. I walked to the aisle and grabbed a bag. After about 4 more ingredients I found myself right where I started. I stood there waiting for Annabelle. She finally walked up, trying to juggle the groceries in her hands.

"Okay I got everything." I said.

Me too, oh wait, candles. I forgot candles." Annabelle replied.

We started walking toward the candle lane but were stopped when a cart suddenly ran into Annabelle's side.

"Ahh! Oww." She squealed.

"Oh my gosh! We're so sorry! Louis, look what you did!" A blonde haired boy said, giggling.

"Yes I see. I am so sorry. I didn't see you there and we where just going so fast, I didn't have time to stop." The brown haired boy I'm guessing's name is Louis.

"Louis is so inconsiderate! At least I stopped my cart." A dark brown, almost black haired boy said.

"Guys, manners! Hi, I'm Liam. I'm sorry Lou almost ran you over with a cart." The boy with light brown hair said sticking out a hand. We shook his hand in politeness.

"That's Luke, Calum, Louis, Harry, Michael, Zayn, Niall, and Ashton." Liam said pointing at each boy.

"Hi, I'm Annabelle. And that's my sister, Katie." Annabelle smiled.

"Hey." I waved.

"So what are you two doing?" Niall asked eyeing all the food in our cart.

"Oh, our friend Marie's birthday is today so we're throwing a party." I replied.

"PARTAY!" Zayn exclaimed throwing his hands in the air making everyone laugh.

"Yeah we just need to make the cake and we'll be all set. It's gonna be awesome. We invited a bunch of people and it's gonna be at Marie's house." Annabelle said.

"Can I come?" Calum asked smiling.

"I don't know..." I said. I looked at Annabelle and she smiled and nodded letting me know it was okay with her.

"Well, okay." I replied.

A huge smile grew on all their faces. Niall started clapping and jumping up and down excitedly. Ashton and Harry high-fived. We chatted a few minutes longer and exchanged phone numbers and gave Marie's address. Then said our goodbyes. We finally got some candles and paid for everything. Afterwards we drove back home and started making the cake. After popping the cake in the oven we rushed upstairs to get into our new dresses.

(Annabelle's POV)

I pulled on the yellow dress and adjusted it. Then I figured I should curl my hair so I turned on the curling iron. I put on makeup while I waited. When the curler was ready I curled loose curls in my hair. After spraying it with hairspray I put on my silver flats. I checked myself in the mirror one last time before flopping down the stairs. Soon enough Katie came down wearing her blue dress with white flats, her hair flowing straight down.

"You ready?" I asked.

"Yeah, but the cake." She replied.

"Ohh yeah."

I ran over to the oven, put on some oven mits and pulled out the marble cake. Quickly we iced it with purple chocolate icing.

"Okay, let's go." Katie said.