My New Brother

Part 7

"It's locked." I said to Vanessa taking the key out of the hole thing.

So here I am, at work, like every other girl on their birthday. When Vanessa told me that we have work, I thought she was joking, but when I got home she told me that it was for real. I had to get myself dressed in my uniform (which took forever to find) and find my car keys, which I didn't find, so Conner had to drop us off.

I wasn't so pleased. I guess it wasn't really a problem that he dropped us off to work, but Vanessa inviting him in. That was just upsetting. He did deny at first, and it put a smile on my face, but then Vanessa offered him a free meal, and like every other guy, he couldn't deny.

"Why are you ladies still out here?" Conner asked coming towards us.

"The doors locked." I told him.

"Why would the door be locked?" Conner asked us with a what the heck just happened expression. I turned to Vanessa so she could answer. I didn't know the answer myself.

"Um," Vanessa started twirling her hair, "Well, they were closed for today, but they are having a Halloween party, so we are hosting, so yeah."  

I sighed. "So, how do we open this now?" I questioned to the both of them.

"Oh I can't take it. Hillary, give me your bobby pin." Conner said putting his hand out in front of me. I did as he told me.

"What are you doing?" Vanessa asked him.

"I'm going to open this door." He told us.

"How?" I asked him.

"Can you not see what I'm doing? I'm opening it with a pin." He said gesturing to the lock.

"But that's, illegal." I said forcing the words out of my mouth. I'd never done anything illegal, or seen anyone do anything illegal, unless it's on TV.

"No shit Sherlock." He said to me with a rude attitude.

Vanessa and I watching him opening the door in silence. It took him about a minute. As soon as we heard the click, I took my pin back. The three of us walked into the room, and I went over to get the light switch.

"Surprise!" I heard when all the lights turned on. I saw streamers and balloons and people all happy, and Devon.

Of course Devon would be here, he's my boyfriend. If he wasn't here then I'd be really upset and mad. "Happy Birthday Conner and Hillary." They all screamed. I smiled. I looked to my right where Conner was standing and he had a big smile on his face.

"Thank you." I said to them.

"Well, we don't want to waste time, lets cut the cake." Someone from the crowd said.

I walked over to the big rectangle table set up in the middle. The table had a white paper cloth on it that said 'Happy Birthday" with streamers and balloons in multiple colours. On top of the table was two cakes. One that was pink, which said "Happy Birthday Hillary!" and another that was blue and said "Happy Birthday Conner!"  Beside each cake was a knife. I went and stood behind my cake, and look over to my left, where Conner stood behind his.

"Okay, before we cut the cake, let's get a few pictures, for memories." Ryan shouted out loud so he could be heard over the voices of the people.

I stood there awkwardly as people took pictures of Conner and I. Then after, all the jocks came over to the table and took pictures with Conner. I was leaving away from the table so I woudn't get in the shot.

"Wait," one of the jocks said. It was Derek. "We need a picture with the birthday girl." he said. He gestured my to get back to my spot. I made my way to my spot while they took a picture with Conner.