"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Shadow, happy birthday to you!"
"Happy twentieth birthday Shadow!" Max gave Shadow a present and a kiss on the cheek
"Wow, you're finally twenty, now you will be the same age as us for a little while!" Masquerade started laughing, Venom joined in a second later.
"I think twenty suits you..." Andy gave her a card in an envelope, along with screamo lessons.
"Oh my God, thank you!" Shadow hugged Andy and went to open Max's present. She tore off the wrapping and pulled a single edged short sword, around the handle was engraved with the word Shadow.
"Oh my God, this is AMAZING!!!!" Shadow jumped out of her seat and swung her new sword around.
"Shadow, stop it! Remember what happened last time?" Venom pulled her jeans down and showed her the giant scar down her left leg, along with showing everyone her bright orange underwear..hadow Monte fell off his chair, CC got very close to touching Venom's bare hips.
She zipped up her pants and sat back down. Shadow put the sword on the table very carefully. "Thank you." Venom smiled as she helped Monte back to his chair.
"We gotta hang out sometime, please Venom?" Monte made his eyes look large and puppy-like, Venom almost melted from the hotness, but acted as cool as ever.
"Yeah, sure. Tonight at the club we can chill all by ourselves." Venom moved her aviators down her nose and winked at Monte, who nearly fell off his chair again.
"Shadow, here's something I thought you would like." Masquerade handed Shadow a present that was wrapped in black paper and had a white ribbon around it. Shadow ripped the paper apart a pulled out a shiny new pistol.
"Great, now I can have a nice new hole in me, thanks sis!" Venom sounded as sarcastic as she could possibly be.
"Don't worry, it's not loaded, and the safety is turned on." Masquerade sounded proud.
"OK, Shadow, you better appreciate this, because I kept it hidden for quite a while and I thought it might smell..." Venom was holding something behind her back.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" She showed Shadow what was behind her back.
Bieber's head. On a pole. What the fuck. Shadow held the pole and looked valiant, then put it in her guitar stand from their mum and wrapped her arms around Venom. "You didn't have to do this, thank you so much." Faker hugged her little sister tight
"I love you and I would do anything for you. You know that."
"Oh come on! Can't I have a hug as well?" Masquerade almost looked upset, but was very happy. Shadow pulled her sister into the hug, they all forgot that anyone else was around, until Dante coughed very loudly.
"Hey Shadow, I got a text from a certain lover boy and he said it was your birthday today. So, here's three tickets to our concert this year, these are the first three, with backstage passes."
"Thanks Dante!" All the girls hugged Dante at the same time, he nearly fell to the floor.
"No problems girls, just making sure everyone's happy!"
"Dante, are you gonna come to the club with us?" Asked Andy, hoping he would say yes.
"Nah, I have some stuff I got to do at home. Just wanted to pop in and give the girls their present. Happy birthday Shadow."
"Thanks again Dante." Shadow was so happy with all of the new things surrounding her. They got to the club and Monte and Venom got a booth. All they could hear as they walked off was Monte saying,
"So, can I see that scar again?"
About 100 beers were consumed between all of them, everyone was incredibly drunk. Shadow awkwardly walked over to Andy and put a hand on his shoulder.
"You know what, I've wanted to say this to you for a VERY long time. Andy, I love you." And Shadow kissed Andy on the lips, in front of Max. Shadow walked away, and Max approached Andy,
"If you even touch her, you won’t have a fucking heart to love with." He snarled at Andy,
"And you think I made her do that? She's drunk Max, she probably didn't mean it." Max was too drunk to reason.
"Don't touch her. Easy. Or you will die. Got it, Asshole?"
"Fuck off Max, you're just as drunk as her." Andy walked away. Max walked over to Shadow, and kissed her.
"Max, hi!"
"Do you love me?" Max had rage in his eyes.
"Yes I do Max, I've always loved you..."
"Then what about your precious Andy?"
"Well, can I explain this when I'm not fucking drunk off my brain?"
"I'm going to kill that little bastard." Masquerade ran over to Andy.
"He's gonna kill you!"
"What? No, he wouldn't. I think you've had a little too much to drink." He took the half full beer bottle out of Masquerade's hand.
"That's what he said! I saw."
"OK, I'm gonna go home for a couple of days. Tell Shadow when you see her."
"Yep! See you later!"
Venom and Monte were the first to get home, Robert was standing in Venom's room, beer bottle in hand.
"I think you guys got your clothes out of the wrong wardrobes." He was looking at Venom's pants, they were Monte’s purple jeans.
"Shit." Venom took off Monte's jeans and said "can I have mine back please!"
Robert stared at her bright orange underwear, "nice." Robert tossed Monte his pants and closed the door on him as he pushed Venom onto the bed.
Masquerade got back next, with Ronnie.
"Lets not break a pattern, Mask." Ronnie was already pulling Masquerade's shirt off as they walked over to her room.
Shadow got home last, sat down on the couch, and cried. Max walked in a few minutes later, "What's wrong Shadow?"
"What were you thinking when you said that? Don't you get it when I say I will explain? Why are you doing this to me?"
"I'm sorry, I would do anything to have you all to myself, I wasn't thinking." He kissed her
"Please, make this go away."
"I will,” and he lead her into her room.
To Be Continued
