Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Chapter#22 - Halloween

Cheryl's POV

'Ummmm mom?' I asked her, 'Can I go trick or treating with Alice tomorrow?'

'Trick or treating?' my mom asked in disbelief, 'You're seventeen Cheryl. And Alice is turning seventeen next month.'

'Yeah but it's fun,' I whine, 'Please?'

'No, you're coming with us to our family party,' she said.

'To the family party? What is the family party?' I asked her.

'What do you mean? It'll be our family. Aunt Diana, Aunt Linda, Aunt Lucy and Uncle Hansel. And some of my and dad's friends.'

'Friends?' I asked suddenly curious.

'Yes, Mr. Abel and Mr. And Mrs. Smith. Also, Tia my college friend? She got divorced last year, she's coming with her son, he's twenty three.'

'Henry? I hate that egotistical person,' I told her.

'Yeah I know. He has a pretty big ego but you're still coming to that party. It's in Aunt Linda's house on Friday. I already told Alice she has to come, she might be your friend but right now she's the part of this family,' that put a smile to my face, 'And she happily agreed. You have to come too.'

I went over to her and hugged her from the back, 'Thankyou. You're the best!' I said.

'Why are you thanking me? One second ago you didn't want to go and now you're thanking me? You've become weird.' she said and I laughed.

'You said Mr. Smith and Mr. Abel right? Wait, Mr. Abel?' I asked suddenly remembering that it was Zayn's surname.

'Yes. Yes. Zayn's father, they are invited too. They are your father's business partners, Cheryl. And Zayn's mom, Hailey is my friend, we used to be best friends in university but because of a business rivalry, between our company and their, our friendship broke but then the partnership resumed and so did our friendship. Maybe not as strong as before but it is still a good one.'

'And I didn't know that my boyfriend's family and my family has history together? Does Zayn know?' I asked her confused.

She nodded, 'Yes he does.'

'What?! And nobody told me?' i suddenly felt irritated by all of this. Was I this unimportant?

'You know now, don't be mad. It wasn't that important....' she reasoned.

'But Zayn knew,' I said.

'Now you know too,' she said again with a smile, 'It'll be nice introducing my daughters to her, specifically you.'

'Mom, now you're making me nervous.'

'Nervous about what? Meeting your future mother in law?' she smirked. SMIRKED.

'Mom!' I said laughing and ran off to my room again.

I came into my room and shut the door behind me, groaning, 'God. Why can't my mom be normal?'

'Woah, are you blushing?' asked Alice chuckling.

'Shut up,' I said, 'Let me show you what you're being tomorrow. And you didn't tell me that mom told you to come to the party. And now she's telling me to do it too.'

'Come on, it'll be fun,' she said, 'Now where's my dress?' I excitedly went into my closet and took out the shopping bag from there. I came back and sat on my bed and then sprawled out the blue full length flowy dress and blue bow that I had bought for Alice. She eyed it trying to guess what it was.

'Wendy?' she said and I nodded vigorously. She squealed loudly and I put my hands on my ears.

'You like it?' I asked her.