"BRIDGET! DEIDRA!" Kerry Hennessy yelled up the stairs. "COULD YOU TURN THAT DOWN?!"
Loud pop music filled the house.
Kerry waited a moment or two before hearing Bridget yell back loud as she could.
"WHAT?!" Bridget cried.
Kerry rolled her eyes, looking at her best friend Candy on the couch, slightly embarrassed.
It may have been Friday night but Candy had talked Kerry into studying for a test they had coming up on Monday no long after she came over to spend the night.
Unfortunately for Kerry, Bridget had the same idea when she invited her best friend Deidra to spend the night as well.
Now Briget and Deidra were up in the room Kerry shared with her older sister, listening to CD after CD for the past hour and a half.
Their choice for their next CD: Britney Spears.
"I SAID TURN IT DOWN!" Kerry yelled.
From her spot on the couch, Candy looked up from her textbook for a moment and rolled her blue eyes.
Sure, Candy had witnessed Kerry and Bridget fight before and, even she had admit, she found it hilarious at first.
But now, it was just annoying her.
By now Bridget had appeared at the bottom of the stairs, the music still high in volume.
"You said 'turn it down'?" Bridget asked, obviously doing this to push Kerry's buttons.
Kerry threw her hands out in exasperation.
"Yes!" she cried, getting more and more aggravated by the minute. "What do you think I've been standing here for the last five minutes shouting!?"
"How about you BOTH stop shouting?!" CJ Barnes shouted as he walked into the living room, his thumb and forefinger rubbing his temples. "I can hear you guys yelling all the way from downstairs!"
CJ is Kate Hennessy's nephew. He moved in along with Kate's father to help out when he Kate's husband Paul died suddenly.
"Why don't you tell that to Bridget?!" Kerry demanded, looking at CJ.
"Ok, ok!" Kate cried, coming in from the kitchen. "Would someone please tell me what in the world is going on?"
Everyone in the room turned to look at Kate.
"Bridget and Deidra have the music WAY to loud!" Kerry explained before Bridget could cut in. "And Candy and I are trying to study for a test next week!"
Bridget gave Kerry a weird look.
"Studying?" she asked, an eyebrow raised in confusion. "On a Friday night?"
From her spot on the couch, Candy spoke for the first time during the whole conversation.
"This test is worth 85% of our final grade", she explained.
Bridget rolled her eyes before heading up the stairs again.
"Ok, truth or dare?" Bridget asked Deidra.
The two girls were now sitting on Bridget's bed, playing Truth or Dare.
Deidra thought about it for a moment.
"Truth", she said finally.
'Oh', Bridget thought as a smirk formed on her face. 'This is gonna be good!'
"Do you like CJ?" Bridget asked, excitement coming over her face.
Deidra felt her cheeks go red.
That was all Bridget needed to see.
"You do!" she exclaimed. "You DO like him!" Her eyes grew wider every second as wll as her smile.
Deidra looked down at her bare feet.
"Yeah", she said quietly. "I do."
Bridget was so excited she put the music on again, dancing and jumping around the room.
It was later that night and Bridget had fallen asleep on her bed.
Deidra had just come out of the bathroom when she heard the sound of the front door open and close.
She stuck her head over the top of the stairs just in time to see CJ put his coat on the hook.
"Hey", Deidra said quietly but just loud enough from CJ to hear.
He looked up in the direction the voice was coming from.
"Oh, hey Deidra", CJ replied.
Deidra walked down the stairs, stopping in the middle of the living room, smiling a little.
"S-So, what're you up to?" she asked.
"Just picking up some medicine for the old guy downstairs", CJ said with a laugh.
Deidra nodded, the smile on her face growing a bit.
There was silence.
"Y'know", CJ told her, eyes narrowed. "You look cute in those pajamas."
Deidra looked down at her aqua blue tank top with matching pajama pants with black and hot pink peace signs all over them.
"Thanks", she said quietly. "I've had these forever."
She paused before saying: "That jacket looked real good on you."
CJ walked towards her, moving a piece of loose long, dark brown hair out of her eyes.
"Thanks", he said in a near whisper.
Deidra could smell his breath on her neck.
The next thing they knew, they were leaning towards each other until their lips met.
CJ deepened the kiss by wrapping his arms around Deidra's waist, Deidra wrapping her arms around his neck, rubbing up and down his back.
The last thing they remembered was falling back on the living room couch...
...moving downstairs to the basement soon after.