Chapter Five

New Year's Eve came faster than expected this year. Alice came over to see Drake, and brought him some food from her work.

"Look what I got!" Allie said excitedly. She pulled out two red hats out of a bag.

"Wow, red hats with Chinese on them. I love it." Drake said sarcastically. She didn't mind though.

"Yes you do love it, they came in today. They're the Chinese New Year's hats! One for me," she placed one on her head, "and one for you." She put one on Drake's head. Megan came into the living room where the scene was taking place and laughed as she saw how stupid they both looked.

"Great now you two have matching Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum hats." Megan grabbed some of the chips Drake had on the coffee table and walked up to her room. Allie turned to Drake.

"Don't listen to her. They're cute. So about tonight, I have to be home for my mom's party, but I promise I'll meet you." Drake looked at Allie, and slowly pulled off the hat.

"Allie, I'm grounded, and I can't leave the house. I can't come tonight." Alice looked down for a moment, unable to meet his gaze.

"Okay, it's fine. One year, it's no big deal. Wear the hat though. You look cut. Very sexy!" She looked at the table, "Oh I got you a fortune cookie. I know how much you love them. See you later."

Drake was worried that lice was really upset about him not going tonight, but didn't know how to tell. Josh and Grammy walked in and went straight into the kitchen with a bunch of grocery bags. This gave Drake an idea.

"Josh, I need your help." He yelled Josh came running in like it was a real emergency.

"What? What happened?" He searched the room.

"I want to go see how Allie is. Please man, I think I got her really upset." Drake's face was pleading with his brother's.

"Yeah, I'll do it, but you have to help Grammy put all the groceries." Grammy walked in with four more bags of groceries. As Josh walked out Drake let out an aggravated groan.

"Where's he going?" Grammy asked Drake. She gave him a suspicious look. "You put him up to something didn't you?" He gave her a confused look.

"Listen he's doing me a favor. It won't get him in any trouble, I promise." Drake said honestly. She gave him a once over then continued to pull out groceries.