Hello, everyone!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. The character Britney Harper was an idea given to me by StephanieandMichelle4life.


February 14 arrived with sunny skies, a sheet of endless blue without a single cloud in sight. It was oddly warm for a February morning in Colorado. Maybe the universe decided to give the Harper Quads some good luck (Heaven knows they need it. If they don't find trouble, trouble finds them) on their twelfth birthday.

Britney smacked a hand on her alarm clock the second it went off, and she glanced at Dawn's bed and sighed in relief when she found her sister sleeping soundly, even snoring slightly.

Britney sat up and swept her blankets off of her body and silently placed her feet on the floor, tip toeing across the rug until she reached the bedroom door.

February 14th had fallen on a Saturday, thank goodness, and dawn (sunrise, I mean. Not Britney's sister) had come and had barely went when Britney awakened long before her parents and siblings. She needed to prepare the presents for her brother and sister and needed to get the location ready. She wouldn't have their parents finding out the gifts she had prepared for her siblings, or she'd be grounded for life. And would have to explain where she got the money, which would mean telling them she'd taken some of the money out of her college fund…

Britney wasn't even twelve years old yet (her birthday wasn't for another few months); she had six years to replace all of the money she borrowed from her college fund before Tom and Anne would even notice.

If she was even in this foster home for that long…

Britney tried not to think like that, but it was hard not to. Tom and Anne had yet to officially adopt her after almost two years, or even suggest adopting her. She knew they loved her, but she wasn't sure if they loved her enough to make Britney living in this house a permanent situation. She would be lying if she said that didn't hurt.

A little after her eleventh birthday, she'd started writing Britney Harper on her school assignments by accident and would cringe as she erased the last name and replaced it with Miller.

Because she wasn't a Harper. Not yet, anyway.

But that didn't mean she wasn't going to make this the best birthday ever for her brothers and sister!

Britney picked up her cell phone and dialed the number for her best friend, Katie MaKentire.

"Is everything ready?" Britney questioned.

"Yep. Everything is checked, double checked, triple checked, and quadruple checked," Katie answered. "Get it? Quadruple… because they're quadruplets? Get it?"

Britney chuckled. "I get it," she told her friend. "Mission Make This The Best Birthday Ever For My Little Siblings is ago!"

"Yay! Wait… little siblings? Aren't they older than you?" Katie asked.

Britney shrugged, even though Katie couldn't see her. "Yeah, but they treat me like their protective older sibling and I treat them like my siblings that need protecting. It works."

"Okay, then… Mission Make This The Best Birthday Ever For Britney's Little Siblings Who Are Actually Older Than Her But She Still Acts Like An Older Sister And They Still Treat Her As An Older Sibling Even Though She's Younger Than Them is ago!"

"Okay, first order of business, think of a shorter name for this operation," Britney decided. "Second order of business… wake up call!" she said before hanging up and creeping up the stairs and into the boys' room.

Britney knelt over Ricky's bed and whispered, "Ricky… someone else is training to become the first astronaut lawyer in space!"

Ricky sat bolt up right, nearly conking his head on Nicky's bunk. "What?" he hissed while Britney held a finger to her lips.

"Shh," Britney murmured with a grin. "I'm kidding. Don't wake Mom and Dad. You and the other three are about to have the best birthday of your lives, but Mom and Dad can't know or they'll spoil the fun, so shhhh!"

"Shhh!" Ricky returned with a teasing smile while Britney straightened up and peered at Nicky's slumbering face. He looked so peaceful…

"Nicky, quick! The germs are growing so big that they're swallowing people whole!" Britney cried quietly.

Nicky went to scream as he awakened immediately, but Britney clapped a hand over his mouth and chuckled at his panic and suddenly alert expression.

"Calm down, germ-a-phobe," Britney laughed. "I'm taking you and the others to have the best birthday ever, but we can't wake Mom and Dad, or they'll ruin it."

Nicky nodded. "Okay, but just in case the germs do start growing and swallowing people, I'm prepared!" He exclaimed quietly as he pulled a gigantic bottle of hand sanitizer out from under his comforter.

"Why do you have that in your bed?" Ricky questioned.

Nicky shrugged. "Did you expect me not to? I also have my lucky spoon," he told them, showing them his wooden spoon, which he pulled out from under his pillow.

Britney shook her head with a fond smile at her brother's weirdness as she approached Dicky's bunk.

"Dicky, your hair's coming out in clumps," Britney mock sobbed, and Dicky was up in a flash, pulling a mirror out from under covers to check his hair. "I'm just kidding, bro. You're going to have the best birthday ever, and I had to wake you up quietly, so we don't wake Mom and Dad. And why do you keep a mirror under your covers?"

"You don't?" Dicky asked as he slipped the mirror back under his blanket.

"You keep a mirror in your bed. Dufus over there keeps a bottle of hand sanitizer and his lucky spoon under his covers. What do you keep in your bed: A book?" Britney demanded, turning to Ricky, but when he inhaled and opened his mouth to reply, she held up a hand in a stop motion. "Don't answer that. Now… let's go get Dawn and have the best birthday ever!"

The boys cheered, but Britney shushed them, not wanting to wake their parents, and the boys continued to cheer, only in a whispered voice.

Britney crept into the room she shared with Dawn and frowned when she found her sister's bed vacant.

A hand touched her shoulder and a voice hissed from behind her, "Boo!"

Britney jumped a foot in the air as she spun around to face a laughing Dawn.

"What are you doing up so early?" Dawn asked.

Britney shrugged. "Oh, I don't know… giving you the best birthday ever. Come on!" she urged, and she dragged Dawn down the stairs, followed by their brothers, and out the door.

Katie was already waiting out front; her older sister Brenda was in the driver's seat of the car, and Katie was in the middle of the front row of seats. Britney slipped into the seat beside Katie while her four siblings squeezed into the back seat (it only had three seats, but the Quads were so scrawny, the four of them fit into three seats easily). They were only driving for ten minutes, anyway.

Brenda drove the five siblings and her own little sister to her house roughly ten minutes away.

Brenda and Katie's parents were rich, and I mean filthy rich. Their house was so big, Britney had been Katie's best friend since the foster child moved into the Harpers' house, and she spent most of her time at this house and still got lost. Their parents lived in a mansion with eight cars (who even needs that many cars?) and seemed to have everything. Katie liked being rich, but she wasn't a snob about it and was still very humble and insisted on attending public school instead of the fancy private school her parents had tried to convince her to attend.

"What is the surprise?" Dawn demanded as Britney escorted them to a nice room on the first floor and opened the door to reveal a cake that had Happy Birthday, Harper Quads. Try not to make so many messes this year written across it in icing. How they fit all of that on the cake, I have no idea. The cake was split into four parts. One part was pure chocolate (Dicky's favorite); one was pure vanilla/white cake (Ricky's favorite); one part was ice cream cake (Nicky's favorite); and the last part was marble- vanilla cake with a swirl of chocolate cake in the center, for those of you that don't know what marble cake is- cake (Dawn's favorite).

There were streamers and some of the Quads favorite games (whack-a-mole, a basketball arcade game, magic theme games, and much more) were all around the room. There was a table with three gifts on it. There was a small box beside a large rectangular present that had a smaller present stacked on top of it.

"Welcome to your party!" Britney exclaimed. "But before anything else, presents."

"Mom and Dad never let us open presents first," Dawn said in excitement.

"Mom and Dad aren't here!" Britney cheered. Ricky opened his mouth, but Britney interrupted him, "And Ricky, before you ask, I did tape a note to Dad's forehead telling him we're at Katie's and will be back by noon. Just in time for them to give us more cake! Now, Ricky, you first."

She handed Ricky the small individual present and he ripped off the paper before squealing in excitement when he found the latest smart phone in his hands.

Britney handed Dicky his present next (the two presents stacked on top of each other), and he opened the larger package to reveal a stack of Playboy magazines before opening the smaller one and finding a box of condoms.

"I expect you to hide those magazines well," Britney told him. "I know you've hit puberty and will probably become sexually active very soon. I'm not going to try and stop you, but I do not want to become an aunt too soon, so do both of us a favor and use those condoms."

Dicky chuckled. "I will," he told her.

"Nicky, your present is a little different," Britney said to him. "I asked around school and found some girls that like you before deciding which girl you would like… and…"

She opened the door and a pretty girl with long brown hair and almond shaped eyes stepped into the room, smiling at Nicky.

"You got me a girlfriend!" Nicky gaped.

Britney nodded. "Yep. This is-"

"Georgina Pepperson," Nicky whistled. "Um, it's nice to see you."

"While you two get acquainted," Britney stated before turning Dawn around so that her back was facing Britney and wrapped a blind fold over her eyes, "Dawn, your present is outside."

Britney led Dawn to the garage, and the minute they stepped outside, she ripped the blind fold off to reveal a silver sports car, and Dawn's jaw dropped.

"Now, Dawn, this car is not a toy, and it comes with rules. You are never to drive it without me with you," Britney said, sternly. "You can only drive it in empty parking lots and on back roads where there are no other cars, at least until your fifteen and have a permit. And you are not to tell Mom and Dad that I got you this. It will stay at Katie's house; her parents have so many cars, they won't notice another one in their garage. On your sixteenth birthday, I will 'surprise' you with it, but until then, Mom and Dad cannot know."

Dawn cheered, saying thank you over and over again, as she hugged Britney, tightly.

"Best birthday ever," Dawn decided.

Britney smiled, ruffling Dawn's hair. "Glad to hear that, little sis."

Dawn's eyes lit up as Britney called Dawn her sister (to Dawn's face and not when she wasn't in the room) for the very first time.


A few notes:

I do not agree with giving a twelve year old a car or a twelve year old Playboy magazines or a box of condoms (as I do not agree with encouraging twelve year olds to have sex), nor am I saying these objects are appropriate presents for twelve year olds. I do not recommend giving these objects to twelve year olds as presents. I don't judge people who believe these gifts are appropriate for 12 year olds, but I don't encourage giving these gifts to 12 year olds either.

Also, Britney did not necessarily 'give' Nicky a girlfriend. That would imply that I agree with treating girls like objects to be given and taken away whenever the person pleases, which I do not agree with. Britney helped the relationship along, but she not 'give' Nicky a girl. The girl liked Nicky; Nicky liked her, but a girl is not a gift. I'm a girl, and I would find it very demeaning if someone gave me to a boy as a gift, so Britney is not saying the girl is the gift. The gift is the fact that she is helping Nicky with his dating life, not the girl herself.

Finally, I apologize for any spelling errors or mistakes. I wanted to get this posted as soon as possible, so I did not thoroughly edit it. I edited it quickly, but if I missed any mistakes, I apologize.

Thanks for reading! Goodbye, everyone!