It All Started With A Fight || Quinton Griggs

Chapter 20: Sweet 16

Recap: I fell asleep not long after...

It's my birthday today and I got to wake up with two of my favorite souls this morning! Quinton and Atso. Well I technically only woke up with Atso because when I woke up I was holding a pillow.

"Quinton.." I said stretching.

Why am I holding a pillow and where's Quinton?

That was my first thoughts on my birthday. It was still dark out. I checked my phone and saw it was only 5:30. I then heard footsteps coming towards the door.

"Quinton?"

"hey Harper. Sorry, did I wake you up?" he asked.

"no you just stressed me out. Don't leave me like that. Where did you even go?" I asked rubbing my eyes again.

"I just needed to pee." he said and got back into bed.

"oh ok." I said laying my head on his chest to tired to care and rapping my arms around him and he played with my hair as I fell asleep.

I woke up and saw Quinton was gone again but this time the sun was up and it was probably 11am now I got up and Atso jumped off the bed with me. I went to Quinton's room but he wasn't there.

"Quinton?" I called through the hallways but no response.

"Quinton?" I called down the stairs.

"I'm down here!" I heard him call back.

"omg Quinton you scared me you have got to sto-"

Quinton's POV:

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" my mom and I yelled an I popped a confetti canon. We got a '1' shaped balloon and a '6' shaped balloon and put them next to each other so it made 16. Then we also got a cake for her that said 'happy sweet 16 Harpy' since harpy is her nickname that I use.

Harper's POV:

"so this is why you woke up so damn early!" I said and looked around. They just started laughing. There were balloons and one of Quinton's friends was recording my reaction. I tried to keep in my tears but I couldn't. I ran over to Quinton and gave him a tight hug and cried into his shoulder.

"thank you guys." I said and hugged his mom.

"anything for Quinton's girlfriend." she said and I just giggled.

"I'm not his girlfriend tho." I said.

"you might as well be.. Well I'm going up stairs. Good luck cleaning this by the way." she said.

"will do!" I called and hugged Quinton again.

"is my job done? Can I leave now?" his friend asked and I just laughed.

"yes Caden you can leave." Quinton said. "thanks bud." he added on.

"nah anytime bro!" Caden said and left.

"you didn't need to do this.." I said looking at the mess he made with the confetti.

"i know. But you're worth the time it's gonna take me to clean this up and so much more. Harper this is your day. You only turn 16 once. So live your life to the fullest! Oh and I also got you this cake." he said stepping aside and revealing a white and pink cake that said 'happy sweet 16 Harpy' and I started tearing up.

"how many times am I gonna be the cause of you crying while we're here?" Quinton asked me and we laughed.

"as long as you're gonna be so sweet, I'm gonna cry every time" I said and kissed his check.