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I woke up at about 1 in the afternoon, usually I'm not tired when I wake up this late, but my mind decided to play visions of my birthday until 6 in the morning and keep me wide awake. I groaned and slowly pulled the covers off of me, and then swinging my legs off of the bed and getting up, mindlessly shuffling my feet along the carpet as I made my way to the wardrobe. This alone took me about 10 minutes. I threw on a dressing gown and continued dragging my feet along. I slowly stepped down the stairs walked to the living room, tying my hair into a ponytail

"Happy Birthday Tess!" Everyone yelled, except Electra, she was too busy on her phone, I ignored that though.

"Thanks guys, but how did you know?" I asked,

"Liam told Gus, who told everyone else." Tee answered, looking at Liam

"He overheard me and kept asking about it." Liam pointed out. I smirked at him and walked over to Liam, Rick and Frank, who were playing a game of pool

"Do you mind if the birthday girl joins in?" I asked.

"Sure Tess, we were just starting."

"As long as ya aren't as cranky as ya were in the morning!" said Liam

"What did I do?" I said, my memory was fuzzy

"Whacked me in ta face with a pillow when I tried ta wake ya up."

"Shouldn't have tried to wake me up then" I said as Rick passed me a pool cue. "Since there are only 2 cues, I'll go with Tess, and Liam, you go with Frank."

"Alright." I said, as Rick handed me the pool cue. I started first, then Frank, then Rick, then Liam. We played for about 20 minutes, until we both drew.

"Winner takes all?" Rick suggested

"Can we do something else instead?" I asked

"Video games?" Liam suggested. We nodded our heads in agreement. Liam and Rick started playing FIFA 13, I decided to sit out due to a lack of interest in football. I got my phone and started playing random games, until Liam pinched my sides

"When's ya friend picking us up?"

"5" I replied.

"Where did you put the costumes? I spent ages looking for them" asked Liam.

"Fine I'll give you your costume." I said, getting up and walking to my room to get the costume, Liam went with me. I rummaged through all the stuff under my bed, pulled out Liam's costume and handed it to him.

"I swear you are hopeless at finding things. Put the costume on later, I can't be bothered to be in a zombie costume for 2 hours and then get picked up"

"Ya don't need a zombie costume to look like a zombie." Said Liam, as he gave me one of his classic grins. It didn't stop me hitting him though.

"They why are you going out with me if I look like a zombie?" I asked

"Maybe I have a thing for 'em." Liam replied

"You'd be weird."

"But I'd still have a thing for zombies."

"Am I a pretty zombie?" I asked

"Duh!" He said,

"I'm going to get ready, since I have to dye my hair." I said.

"Alright." Liam said, as he left my room. I got the dye from the bag and went to the bathroom. I combed the dye through the tips of my hair, making sure that I covered all of the purple in my hair. After 20 minutes of tirelessly waiting, I washed out the dye and frantically dried my hair. The tips were now electric blue, instead of its usual purple. I admired it for a few moments and put everything away. I went back to my room and put on the cheerleader costume, and then I got the zombie costume. I put the grey power over my face, arms and legs, and put black eye shadow all around my eyes, then I got the fake blood and put most of it around my mouth, and on my arms and legs. I took a look in the mirror, I looked dead, but I guess that's how I was supposed to look. I rummaged through my wardrobe and found a pair of white trainers in my bag and put them on, and then I put my Iphone in the side of my shoe, since I didn't have pockets on my costume. As I left my room I bumped into Liam. Our first reactions were to laugh at each other in shock at the same time. He looked pretty much like a zombie in his costume. I took my phone out of my shoe.

"I need to take a picture." I said.

"Of us?"

"Yep, and I'm tagging this as 'My First Birthday'" I said, as Liam put his arm around my waist. I put my phone in front of us and took about 3 pictures, Liam took another one of us both doing funny faces.

"I wonder if we're ta only people dressed in costumes." Said Liam

"It's a costume party, I doubt that. But even if that happens, at least we didn't disappoint." I said, flicking through the photos we just took.

"True, wanna play some video games, everyone 'as ta see us sooner or later." Said Liam

"Fine." I said, mentally picturing everyone's reactions. "By the way is it cold outside?" I asked him

"Kinda, why?"

"This skirt is so short." I said, feeling like some of the cliché girls in my year who roll their skirts up way too high.

"Yeah I noticed." Said Liam.

"Let me get a hoodie then." I said, walking back to my room. I quickly got a black zip up hoodie and put it on, before going back to Liam.

"Ready to get laughed at?"

"Yep, I know you're used to it." I said.

"Oi!"

"You said I look like a zombie, I guess we're even." I pointed out, shutting Liam up. We walked down the stairs, expecting the worst. Carmen, Lily, Tee, Tyler, Johnny, Rick, Electra and Frank were there. Surprise, surprise, the moment they saw us they burst out laughing.

"Wow, you guys are really into Halloween!" Carmen said, holding back laughs

"I'm guessing you guys are trick or treating?"

"Nope, we're going to a party, I guess we'll go trick or treating if it sucks."

"And what will Mike say?" asked Tee

"What Mike doesn't know won't hurt him. But can you guys cover for us? Just say we went trick or treating." I asked

"Sure"

"What if it's a regular party?" Asked Tyler

"It's a costume party. If it's not, then, I guess we'd get extra points for trying" I said, as I checked my phone, it's 4.45.

"Rick I need you to help cover for me."

"How?" He asked

"If Mike asks where we went, say we went trick or treating."

"Alright, but you owe me one." Said Rick.

"Fine by me." I said. Liam and I left through the door. If we were going to be trick or treating it wouldn't make sense to go out the window

"Where ta car? Liam asked, the chilly winds hit me instantly.

"I told them to park down the road so Mike wouldn't see them. Let's get there quickly I'm fucking freezing!" I said, as we walked down the road towards Keira's brother's car. We got in the back. Keira was sitting in the front seat

"Hey Tess, love your costumes!" said Keira, and then she noticed Liam, "I remember him! He was with you when you were grocery shopping for your care home!"

"Yep."

"Are you guys going out now?!" Keira asked, as if she was waiting for us to go out.

"Keira!" I yelled in embarrassment

"Yeah we are now." Said Liam.

"Fiinally, I thought you guys looked good together!" Said Keira, as her brother started the car. I realised that he had his headphones in. I put my earphones in and listened to music, while Keira quizzed Liam on extremely random things. When we got there, Liam stared at Keira's house in shock.

"Ya didn't tell me Keira was rich!" said Liam, as he stood outside the car,

"I'm not rich!" Keira yelled

"Sure…" I trailed off, as we went into her house. "Please tell me everyone else is wearing costumes."

"They are, I just haven't changed into mine yet, I'm going to change now, I'll be down soon." Said Keira, as she went up the stairs to her room. We waited in the living room, watching TV in the living room.

"So what's it like at ya school Titch?" Liam asked to break the painfully awkward silence.

"It's alright, some girls are complete slags though, if they turn up I bet they'll be all over you." I replied.

"I'll just tell 'em that I've got a girlfriend."

"That won't change anything for them." I said, making Liam laugh. Liam changed the channel to Match of the Day, whilst I went on my phone. After another 25 minutes Keira was done getting ready, she was wearing short Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland costume, with Black . The costume suited her, with her flaming red hair tied into a topknot, and red lipstick.

"What do you think Tess?" Keira asked me,

"Good choice, it looks good on you." I said, I got my phone and took a picture

"Why are you taking pictures?" Keira asked, with a puzzled expression on her face

"I'm making a Halloween album." I lied, I didn't get round to telling everyone that it was my birthday, most of them didn't know that I was abandoned.

"Oh alright. By the way, what time is it?"

"6. When does the party start?" I replied

"6." Keira replied, as the doorbell rang. "I'll get it." She said, hurrying off to the front door. Since I was guessing that people were starting to arrive, I switched off the TV and put my phone in the side of my shoe again, hoping that it wouldn't fall out. When Keira opened the door, about 20 people came in at once.

"Shit! Keira, how many people did you invite?"

"Lots, I don't even know half of the people coming." Keira replied bluntly, as more crowds of people pushed their way in.

"Hey Tess!" said one of my friends, Rylie, she had dyed her blonde hair dark brown, and she was wearing a Tinkerbell costume and she had dyed her dark brown hair platinum blonde, and she had straightened her hair so that it went to her waist. The emerald green of the dress matched her emerald green eyes

"Hey Rylie!" I said, "Where's Laura and Texas?" I asked

"They're not here yet, so wher's your boyfriend?" Rylie asked

"How did you know?"

"Keira called me, Texas and Laura, her voice was so high pitched I nearly went deaf!" said Rylie. "So where is he?" She asked again, and I looked around to see where he went, until I felt someone pinch me sides. I turned around to see who it was, surprise, surprise, it was Liam.

"Ow! Can you stop pinching my sides?!" I yelled, rubbing my sides

"Sorry Titch, who don't ya introduce me to ya friend?" Liam asked.

"Is this him then?" Rylie asked me, raising an eyebrow

"Yep. Liam this is Rylie, Rylie this is Liam." I said.

"You guys seem like a good couple" said Rylie. At that moment some guys start talking to Liam.

"I know 'em from primary school, and some of 'em went ta the same care 'ome." Liam explained. I smiled at him and turned back to my friends.

"Thank god we don't have school on Monday." Said Rylie

"We don't?"

"Yeah it's a bank holiday." Rylie told me.

"When did they say that?" I asked

"In assembly, you were too busy sleeping on Keira's shoulder. I don't even get how you didn't get caught!" Rylie said, making us both laugh, at that point, Laura and Texas come up to us,

"Hey guys!" They said in unison. Laura was wearing a Superwoman costume, and Texas was wearing a Batwoman costume. I took pictures of everyone individually, and in a group

"Hey" We replied, as more floods of people came in. Then came a person none of us wanted to see. Her name's Christina Hughes. Keira can't stand her and they get in a fight whenever they talk. She's one of those cliché slags. We used to be best friends, until she slept with Keira's boyfriend and spread rumours about everyone. Here goes another fight.

"What are you doing here?! This is my party!" Keira yelled, I decided to stay out of it, because I had a feeling that the same thing would happen, Keira makes fake tan jokes about Christina, then they get in a fight.

"So?"

"So I want you to leave." Keira said firmly.

"How about… no." she said. Her eyes scanned the room we were in, until she laid eyes on Liam, who was at the opposite side of the living room, talking to some guys. "Never seen him before." She said, as she started to walk towards him. "Stacey, he's got a girlfriend" Keira added

"Doesn't matter, I can make him forget about her in a heartbeat." Stacey said, as she applied a layer of gloss to her already shiny lips. The very thing I was dreading was going to happen, and instead of getting angry, I did the thing nobody expected me to do, which was burst out laughing,

"Ummm, Tess? Why are you laughing? She's going to try and flirt with your boyfriend!" Rylie asked me.

"Because, she's crap at flirting!" I said, trying to hold it back.

"True, this I've gotta see, but are you sure you're not mad?" Rylie asked

"Yep," I said, as a smirk came up on my face. Liam had a look of pure discomfort on his face as Christina tried to flirt with him, then all of a sudden she grabbed his shirt and tried to pull Liam closer to her, but he pushed her away. At this time we were all laughing so hard we couldn't breathe. "I guess I'll have to bail Liam out now." I said, as I walked over to him

"Alright get off of him." I said to Christina calmly, trying not to burst out laughing

"Why? I can make him forget about his girlfriend in seconds"

"Sorry whateva ya name is, but ya can't" Liam said, as he pushed her off of him one last time and walked over to me.

"Fine, I'm Christina, and you?"

"Have a girlfriend, and she's right there." Said Liam, as he pointed to me. Christina glared at me with a look of complete rage in her face, if looks could kill, I would have definitely been dead. She finally turned on her heel and stomped off.

"Thank god she's gone." I said, still snickering

"Why are ya laughin'?"

"B-Because, she was trying to flirt with you, and she just failed!" I said.

"Wait you saw that?" He asked.

"Yep, Keira got mad at her and she saw you. I told her you had a girlfriend, but that didn't change anything."

"When ya said some of the girls don't take no for an answer, ya weren't kiddin'" Liam remarked. I quickly got my phone from my shoe and checked the time, it was 7.50.

"Liam we need to go before Mike suspects something" I said to Liam

"Alright,"

"Keira, can your brother drop us off now? My head careworker doesn't know that I'm here."

"Um, sure, should I go with you?" She offered

"You don't have to." I answered

"Don't worry I'll come with you, by the way, where does he think you've gone?"

"Trick or Treating." I answered

"He'll think something's up if you haven't got any sweets." Keira pointed out. Shit, I didn't think of that. "Wait here." She said, before walking off to her kitchen, Liam and I waited for a few minutes until Keira returned with 2 shopping bags full of sweets.

"Shit, where did you get these!" I asked

"Snack table." Keira said,

"There was a snack table?!"

"Think of it as a party bag." Keira said, as we got in the car. There wasn't any traffic, surprisingly, so we got back to Elm Tree at half past 8. As soon as we got in, we walked into Mike

"How long does it take to go trick or treating?!" Mike asked us, obviously annoyed

"Sorry Mike, we got carried away." I lied, gesturing to the bags Keira gave us.

"Next time you get here this late I'll have to sanction you."

"Ok Mike," we said in unison, as we went to the living room and sat down.

"So how was it?" asked Frank.

"It was fun, until this girl in my year started hitting on Liam." I said, snickering. I got my bag, went to my room and dropped it on my bed, and then I changed into purple shorts and a grey t-shirt. I went to the bathroom and washed all the make-up and fake blood off of my face, which took me about 15 minutes, and then I that I would dye my hair back tomorrow, I took out the contacts and went back to my room. I stared at my homework, and decided that I would do that tomorrow as well, since it was a bank holiday. I got my phone and texted Austin.

"Hey do you want to come over tomorrow?"

"Yeah sure, when?" Austin replied

"Um, like 1?"

"Yeah that's fine, see you then sis" he said. I plugged my phone into my charger, pushed the bag full of sweets off of the bed and climbed under the covers, awaiting tomorrow.