I woke up in the morning and started to get ready for school. I noticed that Karen seemed to awake already in the bathroom. She was taking a shower. I supposed that one thing that didn't change even as a girl. I was kind of worried about how she was changing so much, but she really wouldn't listen to me. It sounded like she was taking a shower or at least running some water. I was taking showers at night for the most part and simply brushing my hair before going to school. I started to look for something to wear. One of the many things about being a girl that I didn't like was that I had a lot more clothes to choose from and it was hard to choose sometimes.

I ended up choosing to wear a blouse and shorts. I wasn't going to lie and say that skirts and dresses didn't feel comfortable, but I still wanted to avoid wearing them as much as possible because they made me feel more like a girl. It was also bad enough that I was wearing bras. Our birthday was only a few days away. I didn't want to turn 15 as a girl. Though I couldn't help but wonder if I could make another wish to go back to normal.

At that point, Karen walked into the room. Both her and her hair were wrapped in towels.

"So we need to start planning for our birthday party.' She told me.

"I didn't even know that we were going to have a party." I commented. We hadn't had any in a few years because we weren't kids anymore.

"All of the popular girls have big birthday parties." She pointed out. I thought that was something that they did when they turned 16, not 15.

"We don't turn 16 for another year." I reminded her.

"That doesn't matter. We still need to show everyone how great we are." She argued. "We need to figure something out that we can do within a few days. We probably should have started planning this weeks ago."

"We've only been girls for a few weeks." I pointed out.

"Yeah I know, but it means that a lot of good venues are already going to be booked." She replied. "We need to come up with something grandiose that we can do with the limited amount of time that we have. Hmm…what about a sleepover?"

"I don't think that this place is really equipped to handle a sleepover." I declared. Our room was kind of small and I didn't know how many people she planned on inviting to it. "How many people were you planning on inviting to this?"

"Probably about ten or so. You can invite some people too." She offered. I was pretty sure that the only person that I could invite was Gwen. I didn't really have a lot of friends who were girls.

"We're definitely not going to be able to fit over ten people in this room." I declared.

"Then we'll have to figure something out. Maybe we could rent a bigger suite." She mused. I didn't know if that was going to happen. "Let's go ask Mr. Moseby before we head to school."

When we got downstairs, the first that I noticed was that there were a lot of barbershop quartets in the lobby. It was then I remembered that there was a convention this weekend. I was pretty sure that it may an issue with getting a bigger suite.

"Come on. Let's go ask him." Karen remarked as she dragged me to the desk. "Hey, Mr. Moseby."

"What do you want, girls?" He asked.

"I was wondering if there was a way that we could book a bigger suite for this Saturday night." Karen requested.

"I can't do that." He responded.

"But we're willing to pay for it." Karen argued.

"Even if you have the money to pay for it, the hotel is completed booked for this weekend with the barbershop quarter convention." He explained.

"But we really wanted to have a big sleepover for one birthday here." She whined. Did she think that was going to work on him?

"I'm sorry, but you'll just have to do it in your own suite. Now I have to fax London her homework in Scotland…even though I'm pretty sure she won't do it." He replied, muttering the last part.

He walked away and I couldn't help but notice a devious look on my sister's face. I had a bad feeling about that.

"What are you thinking?" I asked her.

"We can have the party in London's suite." She proposed.

"I don't think London or Moseby will go for that." I remarked.

"Who said that either are going to know?" She questioned. "I'm going to start inviting people and you should invite anyone that you want. Now we need to go to school."

Okay, that sounded like something that I would do, but I would pretty sure that something like this would go wrong. And while I wasn't above a good scheme, I didn't really see the point of this. I didn't know why Karen cared so much about this party.

We took the bus to school. One thing that I learned was taking the bus to school was not considered cool anymore. It was mainly because a lot of students had cars and drove themselves. As soon as we walked in, she immediately ditched me to go invite some people I guessed.

"So your sister doesn't seem like she really wants to talk to you at school." Gwen stated as she walked up to me.

"Well we don't have to do things together at school." I said. "We do see each other at home a lot."

"So what's new?" She asked.

"She wants us to have a big birthday party." I explained. "It's supposed to be a sleepover on this Saturday, but I'm not entirely sure how it's even going to work."

"Can I come?" She inquired.

"I mean yeah I was going to invite you, but I just don't really know what we're doing yet." I admitted. I did see her eyes light up when I said yes. "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"

"No." She replied.

"Why don't you have any other friends?" I asked. I hoped that she wouldn't be offended by me asking that.

"It's just…" She stammered. "I'm mainly scared of talking to people because I'm afraid that they'll think that I'm weird. That's why I was shocked when you came up to me."

"You seem like you're pretty normal to me." I commented. Okay, she was a little bit weird, but I didn't want to tell her that. She did seem like she was someone who wanted to have friends but wasn't very good at making them.

The rest of the day, I couldn't help but think about this party. I knew that this was something that we could get in a lot of trouble for. There was even a possibility that it was illegal. I wasn't entirely sure because I wasn't completely sure what Karen's plan was or if she even had one yet.

I didn't know how I felt about being at a sleepover with a lot of girls. On one, there was going to be a lot of attractive girls there, but on the other hand I was going to be one of them. I had never hung out with a big group of girls and I didn't know what happened at sleepovers. I had seen some TV shows, and I had to admit that I had wanted to go to a girls' sleepover before, but in that fantasy, I was not one of the girls at the sleepover

When the two of us got home, I decided to see if Karen had any idea how we were going to pull this off.

"So how many people did you invite today?" She asked as we walked into the lobby.

"I only invited one. How did you invite?" I questioned.

"I invited 12." She stated. So we were going to have to come up with a space for 15 girls.

"Do you even have a plan for how we're going to get into London's suite to have this party?" I questioned as I looked and saw Maddie going to the elevator that went to London's suite. Karen brought us over there.

"Hey, Maddie." I greeted her.

"Hey, you two." She responded. "I don't have a lot of time right now. I need to go and feed Ivana."

"So you have access to London's suite then?" Karen asked hopefully. I wasn't sure why she asked because I was pretty sure that was what it meant.

"Yeah…" Maddie responded, probably wondering why she was asking.

"Zoey and I need a place that we can have our birthday party this Saturday and I was hoping that you would help us out with that by letting us into London's suite." Karen explained.

"You know I'm really not supposed to let people into the suite." Maddie stated.

"I'll give you a $100 for every hour that we're there." Karen declared.

"I guess I can let you girls in," She replied. I couldn't help but wonder if that counted as a bribe. Well I was pretty sure that it was only illegal to bribe public officials.

So on Saturday, after I was done working, I began to grab my things to get ready for the party. I was still nervous about this, even though this sounded like something that I would do. I had to figure out what I was going to wear. On unrelated note, Mr. Moseby made me wear a button saying that it was my birthday…and my tips were pretty high. I supposed that he was doing me a favor.

After I had all of my things, we were supposed to meet downstairs for us to all head up to London's suite together. It was then that I realized that I actually did know someone else amongst the girls that Karen had invited. It was the British twins, Jessica and Janice, even though I wasn't quite sure which was which.

"So everyone this is my sister Zoey, the other birthday girl." Karen remarked. At that point, Maddie came over to us.

"Is this everyone?" She asked.

At that point, I noticed that Gwen was running over to us.

"Now it is." I answered.

"Alright, everyone, I'm Maddie. I'm going to be your master of ceremonies for the evening." She declared. "Now let's go up. Once we get into the suite, you're not going to be able to leave for the rest of the night, so you need to make sure that you have everything you need."

I imagined that was to make so Mr. Moseby didn't know what we were doing. I still wasn't sure if this was illegal or not. I mean technically, we had been invited…just not by the person who owned the suite.

We headed up to the suite and from there, we all started to get changed into our pajamas. I supposed we were just going to wear them all night. Additionally, Karen and I would both be wearing tiaras on our heads.

"So what are we going to do with all of this?" One of the girls asked.

"Well Dana, we have some pizza and some cake and we play some games after we eat." Karen remarked.

"Thanks for inviting me." Gwen whispered.

I had to admit that the pizza was pretty good and so was the cake. It seemed like it was off to a nice start. Maybe I didn't need to be worried about it. After we were done, we all went to the living room.

"Now we need to start with the best part of any sleepover." Dana declared. I couldn't help but wonder what we were going to do. "It's time for truth or dare."

"Who's going to go first?" Janice asked.

"Well I'm going to be the first one to ask a question and I think one of the birthday girls should go first." Dana declared. "Zoey, truth or dare?"

It felt so awkward to be on the spot like that. I was pretty sure that they wanted me to say dare.

"Dare." I answered uneasily.

"Alright. I dare you to call up your crush and tell him that it's your birthday and you want to kiss him." She replied. I blushed at that. Fortunately, I wouldn't have to do that for obvious reasons.

"I don't have one." I told her.

"Okay, then call up a boy in your phone." She declared.

"I don't have any boys' numbers." I responded. Fortunately, Bob didn't have a phone.

"Fine. Then talk to this guy." She said before she called a number. It looked like I wasn't going to get out of it.

"Hello?" The guy on the phone answered.

"Um hi…it's my birthday and I would love a kiss." I told him while I was blushing. "Bye."

I then noticed my own phone was ringing. It was Maddie. I figured that I should take it.

"I need to take this. Karen can ask the next question." I declared as I went out into the hallway. "Hey Maddie."

"So we have a bit of a problem." Maddie remarked.

"Did Mr. Moseby find out about this?" I questioned.

"Well it's not as bad as that, but it's still bad. London's coming back tonight." She explained.

"But she wasn't supposed to be back until tomorrow." I declared in surprise.

"I think she decided that she wanted to come back tonight…or her plane was early." Maddie answered.

"Well what are we going to do. I don't think we can just stop the party. It just started." I declared. I also couldn't help but wonder what would happen if we did that.

"I can try to stall her." She offered.

"Thank you." I told her. "I'm sorry that Karen bribed you to help us."

"She's really been acting weird these past few weeks." Maddie remarked. "Is she okay?"

"I don't know." I admitted. "Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help."

"Go back to your party right now." She instructed.

So I went back to the party to see one of the girls was belly dancing. I didn't know how accurate it was, but she was clearly attempting it. I then took a seat back down.

"What was that about?" Karen asked.

"I was just talking to Maddie." I answered.

"Hey, you, truth or dare." The girl who been dancing asked Gwen.

"It's Gwen Stacy." Gwen remarked.

"Whatever. Truth or dare." The other girl repeated.

"Dare." Gwen answered. I couldn't help but wonder if she had ever played truth or dare before.

"I dare you to give Zoey the kiss that she wants so bad," The girl asked her. I blushed and Gwen blushed before she came over and kissed me for a few seconds.

"I like it." Dana stated. At that point, I got a text from Maddie saying that London had just walked in and she could use some help. I sighed.

"I'll be right back." I declared as I put some shoes on. Thankfully, I was wearing pants.

I headed out into the hallway and down to the elevator. You know it was probably the first time that I had ever gone down in my pajamas, even though that really wasn't that weird of a thing for a hotel. I started to look around for Maddie.

"Where is she?" I asked.

"I've got her distracted for the moment at the gift shop but I don't think that will last for very long." Maddie remarked.

She may have been underestimating London's ability to get distracted. At that point, London came up to us.

"Maddie, what the fuck is going on?" London asked. I was a bit surprised to hear her curse. "Why can't I go to my room…and why is Zoey wearing a tiara?"

I tried to think of a good reason for what was going on. It was then that I had an idea. What if I just told her the truth? Not to mention, it wasn't even my idea and Maddie and I just went along with it, so she probably wouldn't hurt us.

"Alright. Karen had the idea to have a sleepover birthday party for us in your suite and we have a bunch of girls in there right now and I had to call up this guy and tell him that I wanted to kiss him." I explained. I then realized that I probably didn't need to tell her that last part. "It was a dare during truth or dare."

"It's your birthday?" London asked.

"Yeah." I responded. "Are you mad?"

"Well I'm a little mad…that you didn't invite me." London answered.

"Come again?" Maddie asked in surprise.

"You could have just asked me and I would have said yes to it." London replied. "So how old are you again?"

"15." I answered.

"Well come on, let's go celebrate your birthday!" London replied as she took my hand. "You too Maddie."

"But I don't have any pajamas." Maddie declared.

"Then you wear something of mine." London asked as she took us both up to the suite to go back to the party.

I had to admit that I managed to have a lot of fun for the rest of the night. I didn't know that a birthday party could be so much fun. I didn't really understand why we were watching a movie, or why it had to be a movie for girls, but the popcorn was really good and I did find myself getting invested in it a little. I had to say that it was probably the first time that I actually enjoyed being a girl, but that didn't mean that I still didn't want to turn back. I kind of hoped that my birthday wish would come true and in the morning, I would be back to normal.

So this was an interesting chapter to write since it was the episode that Meaghan was in. As you can tell, I'm not going to be going quite in order with these and more going with what flows better. It seems like the girls had a good birthday. Please don't forget to review.