Matt and Jordan stood in the bathroom of Matt's house, holding a tube of black lipstick. Jordan looked down at the lipstick questioningly, before slowly opening the cap.
"Are you sure this is what we use for eyeblack?" Jordan asked warily.
"Yeah almost positive" Matt said, "just hurry up and put it on. We only have a couple more hours."
The boys were decked out in all black outfits and began to apply eye black under their eyes because Matt insisted it made them look more intense. They grabbed their stuff and ran over to Grant's, who was still out with Zach. They walked into the Newman house hold, where the rest of the CLC was waiting, sans Bex and Grant.
"Hey y'all," Jordan greeted, before throwing the party supplies onto the kitchen table. Grants house was an absolute wreck, there were overturned tables, cushions ripped off couches, and just general disarray.
"The place looks awesome!" Matt yelled as he wandered through the living room.
"You're welcome!" Macey chimed in, walking down from the upper level, which Nick trailing behind her. Nick and Macey were both dressed similarly to Matt and Jordan in all black. Macey had a camouflage bandana tied around her head and Nick had it around his wrist because they "had to match."
"Where are Bex and Grant?" Matt asked, "Everyone else is in the kitchen."
"I don't know, they said they were going to get something from the basement an hour ago." Macey replied. Matt turned and headed down the stairs, but stopped short when he turned the corner. Bex and Grant were in an intense make out session, and things were getting a little R rated.
Matt cleared his throat, looking at the couple expectantly. Bex gasped in surprise and Grant turned, shooting a pissed glance over towards Matt.
"What the hell man!"
"Sorry to interrupt your little make out session, but I'd just like to point out that Cammie is supposed to be back here in an hour, and the too of you are canoodling down her instead of helping us get ready."
"Dude, who the hell even says canoodling..."
Matt rolled his eyes and headed upstairs. Pausing on the middle step, he called, "Hey! Weren't you guys supposed to trash the basement?"
"Don't worry," Grant called as a lamp crashed in the background, "we're on it."
As Matt reached the top of the stairs, he saw the wavy dark brown hair he had been waiting to see all day. He walked up to her and covered her eyes with his big hands.
"Guess who?" He asked in a high pitched, squeaky, girly voice.
"Hmm, I hope not my incredibly ugly boyfriend?" Kenzie teased, and then she turned around to look at him. "Oops, I guess it is."
"Hey now-" Matt began, before he was interrupted by another large crash from the basement that sounded a lot like the flat screen TV.
"BEX! We weren't supposed to break that!"
Brad stood with Tyler and Jordan in the game room, surveying the mess they had made with looks of approval.
"What else do we have to do?" Brad asked.
"Liz and Jonas went out to get some last minute food, because you and Grant ate half of what we had gotten originally." Tyler said jokingly.
"Hey, me and Grant gotta eat what me and Grant gotta eat. I love you man!" Brad bellowed through the house.
Seconds later, Grant replied, "Love you too man, don't let the haters get you down!" Brad and Grant had a bit of a bromance, simply because they were so similar. Brad flashed a grin towards Tyler and Jordan before they moved to the kitchen.
Tyler reached for the bag of supplies that Jordan had brought and dumped it out across the kitchen counter. It contained a myriad of guns of all different kinds, some were snipers, some were pistols, and some were rapid reload shotguns. Jordan spread them out neatly and looked at the other to boys. "There's enough so that everyone has two. Initial ammo is 50 for everyone, with reloads hidden around the house."
"Excellent" Brad said, already fiddling with a shotgun.
"Aren't there two extra?" Tyler asked uncertainly, looking at the armory laid out in front of them.
"Yeah, about that, me and Matt heard that Josh was back in town and we didn't know if we should invite him."
"I don't know, I'd probably say no, you know how Zach can be..." Tyler trailed off uncertainly.
"Wait. How can he be?" Brad asked, not catching on.
Tyler sighed, before saying "You know how he gets all protective about Cammie, Grant too, and especially if he found out how Josh used to like her I think that it would be better to just leave him out of this."
As they were saying this, Liz and Jonas returned with the food. They began to dump chips into bowls and threw all the drinks in the cooler.
"Is everyone ready?" Jonas asked.
"I think so, we have about fifteen minutes before the love birds get back." Brad replied.
"So we can just hang out and watch TV in the basement until they get back." Jordan said, walking over to the stairs.
"Yeah there is no basement TV anymore, BEX." Grant chimed in as he walked into the kitchen holding hands with Bex. Bex just laughed. She turned to the group and began talking about how bloody awesome it was.
Meanwhile, Cammie and Zach pulled up in front on Cammie's house, and she turned to get out of the car. Surprisingly, Zach turned off the car and followed her inside the house.
"What are you doing?" Cammie asked as she unlocked her front door and stepped inside the foyer.
Zach didn't respond, but he instead pulled out the same blindfold from before and said "Birthday Surprise Round Two!" He pushed her upstairs into her bedroom. Macey had come over while they were out and picked out an outfit for her to wear. It followed the same pattern the rest of the CLC was wearing, all black, and Cammie also had a camouflage bandana.
"Put this on," Zach said as he pushed her into her bathroom and he turned to get changed himself.
Cammie didn't say anything, she just excitedly changed clothes, wondering what they needed all black attire for. As she stepped out of the bathroom, Zach asked for her black eyeliner.
"Hmm Zach are you going through an eyeliner phase, because if so black is so not your color." She teased.
"Okay sassy, it's for eyeblack, it's a part of the look." The pair quickly put the eyeblack on before Zach made Cammie put the blindfold on once again. He walked her outside, then spun her around in circles a few times before heading over to Grants.
They entered the foyer of Grants house, where the rest of the CLC had already scattered. As they walked in, Zach pulled off Cammie's blindfold and she gasped. "Why is Grant's house a wreck?"
Before Zach could respond an automated message started playing. "Welcome to your eighteenth birthday battle. In the kitchen you will find your weapons, you have 50 rounds already inside additional rounds are hidden in key places around the battlefield. Anywhere inside the house is fair game, off of The Newman property is out if bounds. The two of you are on a team, work together. The winner will receive the ultimate prize. This is Nerf Battle. Good luck."
The message clicked off and Cammie squealed with excitement. We're having a Nerf battle?" She whisper-shouted.
"You bet, grab your stuff, we have to get out of the open." They rushed to the kitchen to grab their guns and Nerf darts. Cammie's gun came with a birthday tiara, which she laughingly allowed Zach to put on her.
"Are you ready?" She asked Zach excitedly.
Zach smirked at her.
"Lock and Load Princess."
hey guys!
I am so incredibly sorry for the long wait. It's just college apps and soccer and school and ugh. Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me! It's been quite a journey, has it not?
In other news, thank you too all my wonderful reviewers, we didn't hit 150 but I hope we can this time! You're support keeps me motivated to keep working. At the end of the day, I am writing for you!
eek fall is so pretty with all the leaves but then it gets all depressing leading up into winter I find it very bittersweet.
ok so part of the reason I haven't updated in a while is because I've been playing Around with this other story idea I had. the trailer is below, so read if you like, but just tell me what you think if I should develop it or not!
The rain pitter-pattered loudly as it beat against the wet asphalt. She dove stealthily down the dark alleyway, ducking in between buildings and in alcoves as the sirens wailed in the distance. She saw the red and blue lights flashing in between the buildings of the New York City alley. Pausing for a moment, she turned, glancing behind her shoulder towards the panicked calls of civilians and policemen. Her long blonde curls whipped behind her shoulder as she turned back to the narrow pathway in front of her. Her combat boots pushed off against the the cold stone ground and she took off again, dashing through the night.
That was the last time she looked back.
"What the bloody hell is wrong with you?"
"Every time you say that all I can think of is periods."
"What math class did you take, one plus one equals two?"
"Grant, that question shouldn't even be dignified with a response."
"Where have you been?"
"Guys I've literally been with you the entire time!"
"Grant, we weren't asking you..."
"You know who you remind me of? The girl from "The Devil Wears Prada."
"I remind you of Anne Hathaway?"
"Oh, no I meant the bitchy old lady who ended up alone."
"You're cute when you blush."
"Wish I could say the same about when you smirk."
"Do you want to go out with me?"
"You mean like in public?"
"Are we an item?"
"Did you just quote Justin Bieber?"
so yeah please let me know if its worth continuing?
same as usual, comment horse for a sneak peak, or swirls if you read the whole an and trailer.
so I hoped you liked my chapter, it was super fun to write and I'm excited for the next one :) review and lemme know whatcha think.
so sorry for the log wait, thanks to everyone whose keeping with me!
so c'mon, stick around, see how it ends :)
xoxo
Tara
