27. Sweet 16

"Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Cambrey. Happy birthday to you." Everyone sang to me at our dinning room table. I am officially sixteen now. I have no idea when I am getting a car though. All of my family is here even my dad. Jace and his mom came. My mom and Jace's are in the living room talking. I already opened my presents.

"Cambrey honey I have something else for you." My mom said as she walked into the kitchen. I looked confused. "Come on." She continued. We all walked into the garage and my mom turned on the light. "SURPRISE!" my mom and dad said together. I looked into the garage and saw a red BMW m3 convertible. It was so cute. I looked from my mom to my dad.

"Thank you so much." I said and hugged both of them at the same time. They laughed and we went into the house. After a while everyone left. Even Jace but with the promise that he would be back.

An hour later I was in shorts, tank top and an Abercrombie jacket. I had my IPod head phones in my ears and I was running down the side walk. I ran for about ten minutes longer. I walked in the house. "HELLO!" I yelled. No one answered, guess no ones home. I went up to my room and saw nail polish on my desk. What the heck? I don't remember putting nail polish there.

"Hey Cambrey do you know where the nail remover is?" I heard a voice ask.

"Left cabinet upper right." I responded. Wait why was I responding? This is the part where I say 'who are you and how in the world did you get in my house.' Jace came out of my adjoining bathroom two seconds later with nail polish remover.

"Hello Cambrey." He greeted. He didn't think it was weird at all that he was in my house.

"Hi umm… Jace how did you get in my house?"

"Oh back door. You should really start locking those." He responded nonchalantly. I thought I learned my lesson when he came in a saw me dancing, guess not. I stood there dumfounded.

"Ok why are you getting out nail polish?" this scene is getting weirder by the second.

"I'm panting your nails why else?" he asked me as though it were obvious. Ok I am so confused right now.

"Why in the world are you going to paint my nails? You don't even know how to paint nails you are a guy."

"I just thought you would like it." He sat me on the bed and opened up a tube of red nail polish and took my hand. He started on my right hand thumb. This is craziness. I wonder if my mom knows my boyfriend sneaks in through the back door randomly to… paint my nails?

After five minutes he was done and they were dry. He took my hand and stood us up. "Ok Cambrey now go put on a casual out fit and meet me downstairs." He said and closed the door behind him.

Minutes later I came out of my room in a pair of dark fitting jeans with a couple of holes that were not see through. A ruffled sleeveless green flowered shirt and purple opened high heels. I grabbed my matching purse and made my way downstairs.

"I'm ready Jace." I said as I got to the bottom step. He took my hand and we got in his car. We drove down a road. I knew this road all to well. We drove into the parking lot. "What are we doing here?" I asked, but I was smiling inwardly. This is my favorite restaurant. A.K.A our first date.

We sat down at the same booth. This is officially our one year anniversary of dating. This is so cute. God I love him. But I still don't get the panting my nails part. I ordered the same thing.

"Do you like it?" he asked me.

"I love it. This is so cute. I am telling everyone what you did later." I said and smiled. He smiled back but it wasn't the same smile. It was the I-know-something-and-you-don't smile.

"Have you noticed that no one was home when you got there? Or that Berkley, Paisley, Cara even Preston hasn't called you in over two hours? Cambrey your mom doesn't even work today." He stated. I realized that everyone already knew. In fact they were in on the whole thing. And I thought you couldn't keep a secret in my household.

I smiled as we ate. We talked about how fun being sophomores is going to be. And about my dad and his brother and sister. Then he asked a question.

"So tell me about your family." He said and I smiled. He really was going to reenact the whole night. We did the whole conversation over. I ended on my last line. The last thing before the part where he drove me home.

"Define exciting Jace." I said. He did something instead of laugh though. He reached into his jean pocket and pulled out a ring box.

"Happy birthday and one year anniversary Cambrey. I love you." He told me and picked up my hand. He kissed it then turned it over and placed the box in the palm of my hand. I opened it and tears started filling my eyes. There was a pearl ring inside. My birthstone.

"Jace oh my god, thank you. I didn't get you anything though." I told him as he finished paying the cashier.

"I don't want anything."

"I feel bad for not getting you anything."

"I don't want anything." He repeated. He is going to get something whether he likes it or not.

A day later Jace and I were at the park having a picnic. All my siblings were here. My dad was talking to David and my mom was talking to Jace's mom. My brothers were playing basketball. And my sisters were doing nails and hair. I lay on my back watching the clouds go by trying to make pictures out of them. "Cammi come play." Chase said coming towards us. Jace looked at me confused.

"Chase you know I don't know how to play basketball." I said in a 'shut up' tone. He didn't get it though.

"Yes you do we all used to play basketball with you when you were little." He said matter-of-factly. Let's just say Jace doesn't know I'm good at other sports other than track. "Come on Cammi." He pleaded. I looked at Jace and got up. I knew he was dying to see how I played. Dang.

I scored every time I shot. It was Landon, Devon, and I against Chase, Blake, and my dad. Our team ended up winning, mostly because of me. I high-fived everyone.

"You were amazing. Why didn't you tell me you could play?" Jace asked as I made my way over to where he was standing with both our mom's.

"I just didn't." he nodded. We went home later. He dropped me off at my house. I managed to get everyone to stay at the park. I got dressed and waited Jace should come back about four.

"Cambrey!" Jace yelled loudly. "What is up with the rose petals? Cambrey!" he yelled again. I could hear him from all the way in the dinning room. I had everything perfect. Apparently he followed the petal track. "Why didn't you an- whoa." He stopped himself.

I had a table set for two. Exactly like the romantic dinner scene you see in movies. Except I wasn't wearing a dress. I was wearing an old t-shirt and jeans. If he didn't like the casual outfit with the romantic setting he didn't show it. "What is this for?" he asked.

"This is your present. Well one of them." I replied smiling as we ate. We finished and I did the dishes. I grabbed a bag off the kitchen counter and walked back into the dinning room. "Hold on I will be right back." I stated and walked into the hall.

A few minutes later I tapped Jace on the shoulder. He turned around and just stared. "Do you like it?" I was wearing a white t-shirt with a number seven in blue color on the front and 'Benet' on the back.

"I love it. When are you going to wear it?"

"Every basketball game." I responded. We talked the rest of the night. I enjoyed my present and he loved his. I need to say 'I love you' more often. We fell asleep on the couch with our song playing. What a perfect night.