9 pm on a Saturday

home alone on my birthday

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The blessing sound of the school bell rings through our classroom and through the hallways of our school, dismissing us all from this long school day. I wait for everyone to leave the classroom until I can walk off of there, so the hallways wouldn't be so crowded.

"still down to celebrate your birthday alone at home with only me and Aaliyah?" Bailey says after she finishes packing her stuff and walking to my table. I nod in agreement, sighing out a "yes". All my life I've been celebrating my birthday with my family only and no one else. Sure, my friends love to celebrate my birthday with me, but I'd rather spend it with my family.

These past two years I celebrated my birthday with Karen, Manny, Shawn and Aaliyah. But since only Aaliyah is staying with me on my fifteenth birthday, I'm only spending it with them.

"what's the plan for tonight, birthday girl?" Aaliyah says as we arrive at our lockers. "watch Netflix, watch Netflix, watch Netflix, and... watch Netflix." I list out my mentally memorised to-do list, dogging through my locker. "sounds about right." Aaliyah says. Bailey raises her eyebrows, eyeing both me and Aaliyah in shock.

"we're just going to watch Netflix?" Bailey says unbelievably. Aaliyah and I nod slowly. "how about we have a slumber party? Just the three of us. We play loud music in Shawn's room," Karen and Manny had recently soundproofed Shawn's room, "get a makeover, order pizza, make Musical.lys, post pictures, play with snapchat filters, and most importantly, find you girls boyfriends!"  Bailey exclaims.

Aaliyah and I look at each other in amusement, but mentally agreeing to Bailey's idea.

"sounds fun."

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"wow, your house is gigantic!" Bailey exclaims as we walk into our home. "wanna see my room?" I ask her. Bailey nods, still staring at our living room. "Louise's room is the best room in our house. Certainly not the biggest, but the best." Aaliyah tells Bailey.

And just after I open my door, Bailey gasps at the sight of my room. "wow, Lou, I don't know what to be amazed about. Your room, or the fact that you've been taking care of a dog." Bailey says. Aaliyah chuckles, sitting on my bed. "this is BamBam." I say. Bailey immediately starts petting the dog with a big smile.

"how old is she?" Bailey asks. "he is just three years old." I say. Bailey mutters an apology for calling the golden retriever a she.

We all decided to order pizza after just chilling in my room. Aaliyah also decided to look through my closet along with Bailey.

Suddenly Aaliyah gasped, followed by another, and then another. "oh my God, why didn't oh tell me you had these!" Aaliyah says. I raise my eyebrows, looking over to what she's talking about. She was holding a ton of lingerie.

A soft chuckle leaves my lips and I stand, "my old friends from my old school bought me those as a joke on my birthday." I explain. Bailey, however, doesn't seem to believe me. "you sure? With that body of yours, I'm pretty sure you bought at least one of them for a special event."

Aaliyah then looks at me suspiciously, silently asking of answers. "oh for the love of God, I just turned 15!" I exclaim. I was telling the truth. I have never used or even bought any of those lingerie. All of that were from my old friends and I didn't really bother to throw it. I guess I just forgot that I had them.

"I mean, some girls—"

"Aaliyah!" I shout, cutting her off. Bailey smiles amusingly, shaking her head. "well if we still have time and we don't have anything to do, maybe we could try these on." Aaliyah suggests. Bailey and I consider the decision and then we nod, looking through the pile of lingerie that is now on my bed.

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"hurry up, Lou!" Aaliyah shouts. Right now I am in the bathroom, looking at myself in the mirror and debating if I should just bail on this and but on some clothes.

The girl in the mirror is someone I don't recognise. She is wearing a one piece black lingerie with black heels and her brunette hair is flowing down until her shoulders.

Before I can bail and put my shirt back on, my hand is already on the door knob, twisting it open and Aaliyah and Bailey is in front of me, wearing lingerie too.

Bailey is wearing a red one piece with black heels which matches her a lot and Aaliyah is wearing a white two piece with black heels too.

"I don't know how I should feel in this." I squeak out. Bailey replies with "you look gorgeous, Lou." I smile, walking to the mirror to check how I look like again.

"wow, I—" and right before I could finish my sentence, the not so loud bell rings and all three of us look at each other with the same thought.

pizza.

And then the bell rings again. And then again. Then the person who is at the door starts spamming our door bell. "wait! I'm coming!" once I say that, the door bell stops and then we make our way downstairs. Suddenly, the door bell starts ringing again and we all groan.

I look through the little hole of the door to see if the pizza person is a guy or girl. It was a guy. And not just any guy, it was Caleb. And his other two friends, Justin and Connor. With our boxes of pizza in their hands.

"it's Caleb and his other two friends with our pizza." I groan out. Aaliyah rolls her eyes but Bailey raises her eyebrows, giving off the expression that a lightbulb just went off over her head.

"maybe we could tease them a little with our lingerie on." Bailey says, as the door bell is still ringing through the house.

And with that, I open the door with the two girls next to me, striking a pose. "hey boys, we've been waiting for you for soo long." I say, looking at Caleb with hungry eyes.

The three boys exchange glances to each other but they stay silent, clearly enjoying us three in only our lingerie and nothing else.

Justin and Connor were smirking while Caleb had no expression at all. He never has any expression. I decide that my goal for tonight is to get an expression from him, so I put my arms around his neck and the pizza box in between us falls to the floor. I push it to the side with my foot and then take a step forward so I can get closer to Caleb.

Then I press my body closer to his, lips right next to his ear. "wanna come inside?" I whisper into his ear. I expect Caleb to nod an agreement or mutter an "okay", but instead he places his hands on my waist.

My breath hitches in my throat but I gulp it down, not sure what to do or say. What is he going to do next?

"I see what you're doing."

Caleb also whispers into my ear the same way I did before. He then bows his head to the level of me, and bites his lip.

Why is he so hot?

Wait, no. Louise, what are you thinking?

"and what is that thing that I am doing?" I say, pretending play dumb. Caleb chuckles, a soft smirk playing on his lips.

Wow, I've never seen Caleb smirk or chuckle.

Definitely looks better on him.

"you're trying to make me like you." he says. I laugh inwardly. Oh, he has no idea. "oh, is that so?" I ask. "yeah," Caleb replies. I lean in closer, tilting my head up slightly.

I lean in, but instead of going for his lips, I lick his cheek then pull back with my arms of my sides. I then turn my body around, bending down to pick up the pizza box and standing up slowly to tease him.

"bye boys," I say. Bailey and Aaliyah then go to my side and wave them a goodbye as we get into my house.

"oh my God, that was so badass!"