No Escape From 1D

The Beginning

   Every teenager dreams about their sweet 16 birthday party. Where they will invite all their friends, have lots of present, get the biggest cake, and finally have their dream car. I'm not that kind of spoiled brat. In fact, I'm not a spoiled kid at all. I'm not even middle class, I'm below low class.
    I live with my alcoholic step brother, Zager, and his best friend Cooper. All they do is drink all the time, and throw parties. They don't have real jobs, and I don't even know how Cooper affords his house. My guess is his parents must pay for most of it.
     When I was 14, and Zager was 19, our parents died in a airplane crash. That left my brother in charge of taking care of me. Zager couldn't afford our house we use to live in, so we now live at his best friend's house.
Cooper's house is a 3 bed room, 2 bathroom, with a basement, and an attic. Even though it's bigger then our old house, I miss my room, and I miss living out in the country. Cooper's neighborhood is in the city, where it's always noisy (hearing the sound of cars, transfer truck, and sirens from police cars, or fire trucks drive by every minute,etc.). Took me awhile to get use too.

   My name is Catherine, my best friend Sue calls me Cat for short.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I was born September 19th,1999.
My sweet 16 dream is to go to One Direction's concert, but I doubt that will happen. So to celebrate my birthday Sue, and I are having a slumber party at her house. Going to the movies tomorrow, then the next day, we're going to Sky Zone. I'm staying at her house for the weekend. She's doing whatever it takes to help me have the best 16th birthday ever.

   As I'm finishing up packing my duffel bag, my brother barges in my room, and startles me. "Knock much?"
Zager chuckles."Sorry. Was just stopping by to give you your present."

I look at him confused. I'm surprised he even remember my birthday."You actually remembered my birthday?"
I zip up my duffel bag.
He takes a sip of his beer. "How could I forget my little sister's 16th birthday. It is all you, and your girl been talking about for 5 months straight."
He leans against my closet door, and starts missing with my stuff on my desk.

I hate when he refers Sue as my girl. I find it disrespectful.
I roll my eyes at him."My girl, has a name. It's Sue." I scoff "You can remember my birthday, but you can't remember Sue's name, who's been my best friend since I was 5..."

Zager rolls his eyes."Just shut up, and take this." He forcefully puts an envelope in my hands.
I snap at him."Okay!" I back away from him, shoving his hand off of me.

It feels like two cards inside. My guess is that it's a gift card. I open the envelope, and couldn't believe what was inside of it. I was in shock.
How the hell did he get these??? There sold out.
It's 2 VIP passes to One Direction's concert. I know these cant be stolen, because of the bar codes on the passes.

I look over at my brother."I thought these were sold out."

He smiles at me." They are. I won them. I know they're your favorite band, and you been wanting to see them for your birthday. I been calling that Star radio station you like, for a month, trying to get them. I won them two days ago, and got the last VIP passes."

Knowing this is for real now, I squeal in excitement, and jump up and down.
I huge my brother."Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

Zager was holding his ears, laughing at my reaction.
He hugs me back,"You're welcome. Happy Birthday Lil Sis."

"This is the best birthday present ever! I love you!"
I give Zager a kiss on the cheek, that caught us both by surprise.
I haven't gave him one of those in a very long time. We also haven't said the words "I love you" to each other in a long time.
He smiles"Love you too."
Zager leaves my room closing the door behind him.

   OMG! I can't wait to tell Sue, she's going to freak out. I plan on telling her in the car when her brother picks me up. Sue said her and her brother Ron, are coming to pick me up at 5:30pm, and it's now 5:03pm. I quickly change out of my work clothes, into a dark lavender purple top, dark blue jean shorts, and wear my favorite One Direction red converse high top shoes. It has a heart outlined in black on the side of the shoe with "1D" written in the middle, and below it has small shadow figures of the boys. On the other side of the shoe it reads "One Direction". In big words.
I grab my cross body purse to put my VIP passes in. It already has my small sketch book, led pencil, inhaler, chapstick, and wallet inside. My purse is big enough to put those two big things, my phone charger, my phone in it, and some girl needs just in case my monthly decides to start. The outside of the purse is blue, and has a picture of Stitch from my favorite Disney movie Lilo and Stitch on it. I lay my purse onto of my duffle bag.
  I put my hair up in a ponytail, and put on my friendship bracelet that Sue gave to me, on my 13th birthday. She made it with embroidery thread. She used the colors pink and orange to represent our favorites color, and the colors blue and green to represent the color of our birthstones. Sue's favorite color is pink, and mine is orange. Her birthstone is peridot green, and my birthstone is sapphire blue.
   Sue and I met during kindergarten, and been best friends ever since then.
Sue is a month older then me. Her birthday is August 29th,1999.
We have a lot of the same things in common. We share the same zodiac sign, Virgo. Our favorite sport is soccer, and we're even on our school's team, both goal keepers.
We do have are differences. I'm more of the tomboy type, and she is more girly girl then me.
She loves ballet, tennis, track, gymnastics, and ice figure skating.
While I like karate, baseball, basketball, freestyle slalom skating, and skateboarding.
Together we enjoy dancing, horse back riding, swimming, and enjoy being involved in theatre performance. We also love creating art, playing video games, watching movies, and go shopping. We love exploring the outdoors, and having fun adventures together. Her and I have spent so much time together, that we are close enough to be sisters. Sue's parents are always happy when I come over, and include me as part of their family. They're the closets thing I have to a family.

   My phone rings, and I see Sue has texted me.
I open the text and it read "Here. Come outside."
I text her back "On the way out now."
I quickly put my phone in my purse, zip it up, and put it over my shoulders. I grab my duffle bag, and walk down the stairs, now in the living room.
I hear Cooper's voice yell at me. "Happy Birthday Kitty Cat!"
I see him and Zager watching tv on the couch.
I roll my eyes in annoyance. He knows I hate being called that.
I smile at him."Thanks pooper sCooper!"
I gave him that nickname ever since he called me Kitty Cat. I know he hates that nickname.

I hear him chuckle."It's my house, I could always ground you on your birthday..."

I run to the door, and open it, standing in the doorway. " But I'm not in you're house."
I playfully stick my tongue at them."Bye. Be back Monday."
I close the door behind me.