-DYLANS POV-
“Dylan! Get your ass up! You are going to be late for school!” My older brother bangs on my door loudly.
“Está bien!Está bien!Cállate!” [Okay! Okay! Shut up!]
Yes, that is Spanish.
Got a problem?
I climb out of bed and shuffle into my bathroom.
Stripping out of my pajamas, I slip into the shower.
Once I am done, I blow dry my hair and straighten it.
After putting on a smudge of make up, I change into a cute but simple outfit and slip my beanie onto my head.

I trudge downstairs and see my parents at the kitchen table.
“Morning.” I sigh and sit down across from my dad.
“Morning, love!” My dad says cheerfully.
Yes, my dad is Australian.
No, my mom is not Australian.
“Buenos díasmi amor!” [Good morning my darling!] My mom comes around the table and kisses my cheek as she walks by me.
My mom is Mexican.
Weird how that ended up right?
They met in America.
My mom was a photographer and my dad was there to follow his dream of traveling the world.
Weirdest part?
They met in a bar.
We lived in The United States until I was in 5th grade when we moved here toAustralia.
I have lived here almost 7 years and I still haven’t picked up an accent.
So frustrating by the way.
We speak Spanish in the house becuase my mom thought that since we were living where my dad was born then we should learn something from our other side of the family.
Am I the one that thinks this is totally crazy?
No?
Ok.
“Hey squirt, still need that ride to school?” Ryan passes by me and steals my beanie.
“Yes,a ride would be nice.” I giggle and try to get my hat back.
Ryan is 22 and is home from college for the week to celebrate my birthday.
Did I mention my birthday is tomorrow?
After finally getting my beanie back, I playfully punch my brother on the arm.
He pouted and rubbed where I hit him.
Suddenly I heard my phone ringing on the kitchen counter.
It was the ringtone I had set for my best friend.
Ashton was calling.
My brother and I look at each other at the same time, then dashed for where my phone was sittting.
I, being smaller and quicker, reached my phone first but as I was running past him he snatched it out of my hand and ran the other direction.
“Damnit! Ryan give it back!”
“Hello?” He sung into the phone as I chased him around my house.
“Hey Ashton! Yeah she isn’t available at the time! What is she doing? She is……taking a dump!”
“RYAN!” I shrieked and tackled him to the ground.
I am going to kill him later.
I grab the phone out of his hands and took off for the stairs.
Getting to my room, I lock my door and take a breath.
“Hellloooo? Dyl? You there?” I hear him laugh from the other side of the phone.
“Hey, sorry about that. Ryan was being……Ryan.” I sighed again.
“It’s okay Angel. How are you?” He asks.Ashton has had this habit of calling me Angel. That has been my nickname since the day I moved in. It was frustrating for the first few years but he refuses to stop so I have learned to live with it.
I still don’t know why but everytime I ask him, he avoids the question.
“I’m ok. A Little lonely considering i haven’t seen you in 3 months but I still have Lilly and Jake so they are keeping me company.” I tell him.
Ashton and I have been friends for what seems like forever. He was in my fifth grade class and I had him in almost every class after that.
We would be the two kids who piss off the teachers constantly.
“I’m sorry babe, but to make you feel better, I am shipping your present to you tomorrow!” He says excitedly.
“Really?! What is it?!” I ask now bouncing around from anxiousness.
“It’s a surprise you dumb ass!”
“Oh boo hoo! Just tell me!” I whine while stomping my foot.
I am glad no one else was here to see that….
“Nope! Guess you will have to see tomorrow.” He sighs.
“I hate you.” I growl.
“Yeah yeah! You won’t hate me after tomorrow. Now get your ass to school.” Ashton laughs and i check the time on the clock by my bed.
“Shit! I am going to be late!”
“Bye Angel! Love you!”
“Love you too boo now im hanging up!”
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“Get your weird ass out of my car before you are late.” My brother chuckles pushing me out of his car.
“Thanks Ryan. Love you too.” I grumble and climb out of his car.
“Hey you better be nice to me because I am taking you out to dinner tomorrow. Just you and me, any place you want.” He smiles.
Even though he can be an annoying asshole, I still love him to death.
Rushing through the halls, I get to my locker and grab my shit.
I was almost to the classroom when my best friend Lilly stops me.
“Hey almost birthday girl!”
“Hey Lil! What’s up?”
“I need to take you shopping tomorrow.” She says smiling.
“I would but I am going to dinner with my brother tomorrow.” I explain.
“So? We can go shopping right after school then you can meet your brother at the restaurant. Pleeassseee D!” She pokes her bottom lip out and me being the push over I am, I accept.
“Yay! See you later!” She hugs me and runs off.
I make my way down the hallway and as soon as I step foot in my classroom, the bell rang.
I let out a breath of relief and find my way to my seat.
Usually, I wouldn’t care as much about being late and stuff but tomorrow is my 18th birthday and I don’t need detention on one of the biggest days of my life.
It just kinda sucks that I won’t be able to spend it with Ashton.

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(NEXT DAY)
I woke up to the beeping of my alarm clock.
Groaning in protest, I slam my hand on the snooze button and climb out of bed.
Suddenly realization hits me.
“Holy fudge! It’s my birthday!” I squeal and take off towards the bathroom.
After showering, I changed into a white lace skirt and a black long sleeve T-shirt. I
leave my hair wavy and added some makeup. As an added touch I put on a cute fedora hat and some necklaces.

I head downstairs expecting to bombarded with hugs and ‘Happy Birthdays’ but instead I find no one.
Huh.
Shrugging my shoulders, I head over to the kitchen to make myself some tea when I find a note on the refrigerator.
Buenos días Dylan, tuve una reunión esta mañana temprano y papá tuvo que reunirse con un cliente. Ryan está en casa de un amigo y no volverá hasta después.

Bebé cumpleaños feliz.

-mamá
[Good morning Dylan, I had a meeting early this morning and dad had to meet up with a client. Ryan is at a friend's house and won't be back until later.

Happy Birthday baby.

-mom]
Wow, of course I am home alone today of all days.
Whatever, I am not going to let my stupid family ruin today.
Grabbing my tea and my book bag I set off on foot towards my school.
The high school I attend is only a couple of streets down from my house so it only takes about 20 minutes on foot to get there.
I put my headphones on, turned on Ed Sheeran’s Give Me Love, and took in the scenery around me.
I live in a Little town called Hornsby. It’s near Sydney and it is gorgeous here.
Everyone knows everyone and the school I go to is sort of small but it’s nice and I love it.
As I walk, I watch the clouds slowly move in the bright blue sky.
It’s almost Summer vacation and I am so excited to be out of school.
We have about 3 weeks left and I already finished all of my end-of-year exams.
So honestly, if I wanted to skip school for the rest of the year, it wouldn’t matter.
But I wouldn’t do that because it’s not there is anything for me to do outside of school anyway.
After 10 more minutes of talking to myself, I finally made it to school.
As I walk in, I hear whistles from some guys behind me.
I turn around to smack the shit out of them when I notice that I know who these boys are.
My friends Jake, Matt, and Andrew were standing there with big grins.
“You are lucky you guys are you becuase I was about to come over and smack the shit out of every single one of you.” I laugh as I walk to my locker and they follow.
“Happy birthday D!” Jake picks me up and spins me around from behind while I squeal.
“Put me down you barbarian!” I laugh some more and try to get out of his strong hold.
He gives me a friendly peck on the cheek before setting me back on the floor.
Jake and I have been friends since the begining of last year when Ashton left. I had to partner up with him in science and at first I thought he was just an annoying jock from the Soccer team. He turned out to be super funny and we bécame friends after the first few weeks.
“Usted esun idiota.” [You are such an asshole.] I grumble.
“Look I am not from Asia and have no bloody idea what the fuck you just said.” Jake points his finger at me.
Yeah the crayons in his color box are not that bright.
“First of all Mexico is a part of North America. Wrong continent my friend. Second of all, you take Spanish!” I scold him.
“I thought I took french?” He looks at his friends confused.
Without saying another word I bang my head lightly on the locker.
“Hey, hey, hey! No hurting your pretty little head today! It’s your birthday and I know for sure you don’t want a bruise on your forehead while people are taking pictures.” Jake pulls me away from the locker.
I stop and now I am the confused one.
“Why would someone be taking pictures of me?” I ask him wearily.
“Uh…..no reason. By the way nice skirt! We don’t see your legs very much, huh lads?” He wiggles his eyebrows at me while his friends giggle.
I give them the ‘You better run now’ look and he takes off.
“Gotta go! Bye love!” Jake laughs while running down the hall.
Idiot.

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“C’mon Lily! My brother is probably already at the restaurant.” I whine as we look through yet another clothes rack.
“Shut up and try this on.” She pulls out a gorgeous dress.
“What?! No way! That thing is probably as expensive as a diamond ring!” I yell at her.
“Just try it on. Please.” My best friend whines.
I am such a push over.
I grab the dress from her, head into the changing room and put it on.
It fit perfectly.
Walking out of the small space I look around for Lilly.
She comes running over but when she sees me she dropped whatver she was holding to floor.
“Holy fuck.” Lilly gasps.
“What does it look that bad?” I ask her as I take a look in the mirror once more.
“No! It looks bloody amazing! Annnndd I have shoes to go with it!” She holds up gold sparkly converse.
She knows i can’t say no to converse!
I have a pair for every color!
“We are buying this and I don’t care what you say.” She snaps at me and pushes me back into the tiny closet of a room to change.

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After we bought the dress, she made me change into it in the mall bathroom.
Lilly had brought a curling iron in her purse and makeup too.
We are now driving to where I am meeting my brother.
She got me all glammed up for no reason and won’t let me take any of it off.
Suddenly we pull up to an old building that looks sort of like a warehouse.
“What the fuck?! Lilly what are we doing here? I am supposed to be meeting my brother!” I whine.
“Just come on.” She giggles and pulls me out of her car.
Just before I open the big door, I heard her mumble something like ‘Ash is gonna drool.’
What?
The lights turn on and blind me before I hear, “Happy Birthday Dylan!”
The warehouse was filled with people.
The ceiling was filled with lightbulbs hanging from strings and a giant disco ball was set up above a dance floor.
And in the very front, there was a stage.
My mom came running over to me and gave me a big hug.
“Baby you look stunning!” She starts to tear up so I hug her more.
(Dylan’s outfit: http://www.polyvore.com/untitled_102/set?id=102727658 )
I give my dad, Lilly and even Ryan a hug before I see someone on stage.
It’s my mom.
“Okay I need the birthday girl to come onto the stage because we are going to give you your first present.” She says into the microphone.
I make my way through the big crowd of people and thank them for coming as I pass.
When I get to the stage I climb up the steps and look to my mom.
She hands me an envelope.
I smile and open the envelope.
I was expecting it to be cash or maybe concert ticket but I wasn’t expecting what I got.
“Plane tickets?” I ask her.
“Yup you are going on tour.” She smiles.
“With who?”
Suddenly everything goes dark.
Someone’s giant hands were put over my eyes.
“Me.” A voice that I could never forget whispers into my ear.
I turn around and see my best friend standing there smiling.
“ASHTON!”

Notes

This is what her school outfit looked like on her birthday. (It wouldnt let me put it in >:( )
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