Author's Not: Okay, here it is: Entry 10. What I'm going for with these is to release one every weekday as long as I can keep that up, but three a week at a minimum… hopefully… Anyway, I hope that you enjoy this one, and please leave your opinion, fav, follow, etc.

Entry # 10: Age 14

Dear Mr. Diary,

So I had my first-ever SLUMBER PARTY!

Ehem…

What I meant to say was that, for my fourteenth birthday, Mom let me invite some friends over for the night…

Glynda Goodwitch does NOT squee.

As it turns out, I'm actually the oldest of any of my friends… sure, the biggest age difference is six months but still… I refused to accept that Yin Xiao Long is that much younger than me! I just don't get it!

Happy place… find a happy place…

Well anyway, I invited Cinder, Yin, Emmy… Oh, and Summer Rose too. I don't really know Summer that well, but apparently she's good friends with Yin, so I figured, 'why not?' Maybe it would make her more comfortable coming. I don't know why I don't talk to Summer more to be honest; she's really nice – I mean, she'd have to be for Yin to be comfortable around her – maybe it's because that big brother of hers is just so protective. It's not like Summer needs it; Summer's a perfectly capable huntress-in-training from what I can tell.

Anyway, the party was set to start at five, but Cinder showed up at four-thirty… she said that she was just really excited. Really loves slumber parties apparently. Emmy and Summer showed up at five, but we had to wait almost a half an hour for Yin… apparently she got lost… Still, everyone did show up, and it was nice to know that everyone wanted to come to my birthday…

So we had dinner we ordered pizzas – three of them in all, but Emmy ate most of it – and after that it was PJs and uh… games… I'm actually kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I've never actually had a slumber party before… or been invited to one… so I didn't exactly know what to do after dinner. Fortunately, everyone else had ideas. Emmy suggested 'pin the tail on the sloth… but I vetoed that when she insisted that Yin had to be the sloth… Summer suggested we play cards. Cinder… well she suggested either spin the bottle or twister, both of which Yin responded to by hiding behind me and Summer in a panic…

We went with Summer's idea…

So after a few rounds of Rich Man, Poor Man and Old Maid for a while, Emmy insisted that we do presents. Frankly, I seem to recall asking them not to bring me anything, but all of them seem to have ignored me. Let's see… Summer got me a cape… kinda like the one she wears, but black on the outside, and purple on the inside… I don't know why she thinks I'd wear something like that, but it's the thought that counts, right? Yin got me a really cute T-shirt, but unfortunately, she didn't know my size, so she went with hers… needless to say, it's a little… loose… in certain places… She offered to return it and take me out to buy one that fit, but I told her that the shirt was fine.

Shut up… I'll grow into it…

Moving right along… Emmy got me a stuffed penguin. I don't suppose that I've mentioned this, but penguins are my favorite animal….. and he was big, and fluffy, and soft… I think he's supposed to be an Emperor penguin too… He's AWESOME! Ehem... Thus, I have decided to call him Lord Fluffy the Terrible… It's an excellent name!

As for Cinder... She got me a swimsuit –because summer's coming up, she said… I'll have to grow into that too, it seems…

Of course, before I could put Lord Fluffy the Terrible on my shelf, I got hit in the back of the head with a pillow! It was Emmy of course. She wanted a pillow-fight, Hmph. So I gave her one. I couldn't exactly tell you what happened after that… it was all pillows and chaos… What I do remember for sure is that Yin hid behind the couch. The one time she did try to throw one, Emmy got her in the face, and Yin dropped her pillow. I feel sorry for her… but it was still pretty funny...

After that we sort of settled down and talk for a while. Mostly about what we were going to do with our vacation, but we never got around to Yin… she fell asleep by nine… So cute… Or as Summer said, and I quote, "totes adorbs." Cinder was kinda disappointed when it was time for lights out though… she wanted to play Truth or Dare too. I could have sworn that I was the last one asleep – I was too excited to sleep right away – or at least I thought I was the last one asleep, but apparently not, because I was the first one awake, and somehow Emmy – and I know wit was Emmy – had drawn a mustache on all our faces with a marker! I guess it was funny when she drew on own her own face too.

Still, I can't believe Yin didn't notice until Dad pointed it out at breakfast…

Officially fourteen years old,

Glynda