Sophie

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"Michael, can you help me maybe?" I asked struggling to zip up my dress.

We were about an hour away from our party starting and I was just getting ready. I should've planned ahead but I had struggled for three hours to get Michael out of his room so I could wrap his presents.

"No, I won't help since you didn't let me open my birthday presents," he said.

I could see him behind me and his arms were crossed and there was a pout on his face.

"Don't be a douche and help me," I whined struggling to reach the zipper.

"No, I like seeing part of your bra anyways," he mused and I reached over to hit him but missed.

"If I let you open one present will you please zip up my dress?" I asked finally giving up. I wanted to be able to be ready by the time people started getting to the place.

The boys were already at the place it was being held at setting up while Michael and I were "getting ready" supposedly. Michael was already dressed in black skinny jeans and a white button-up. His button-up had the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and he had the first few buttons unbuttoned. He had been ready for about an hour and he kept me entertained while getting ready.

He sat on the toilet seat while I was in the shower and he helped me blow dry the parts of my hair I couldn't reach after that.

He walked over and finally zipped up my dress. Before he left he placed a kiss on my cheek and patted my butt.

"You're so cheeky," I said rolling my eyes.

"Present. Now," Michael demanded and I just laughed because he looked like an angry kitten.

I bent down and reached under the bed to pull out one of the presents from under the bed.

"I knew I should've looked under the bed," he muttered causing me to giggle.

"You're such a dork," I said through my giggles and I rolled my eyes.

I looked over and saw him blushing. I'm pretty sure he could see up my dress but since it was Michael I didn't really care.

"But I'm your dork," he said pulling me onto his lap. We were now sat on the bed and I had the present in my hand.

"If you don't like it I can't return it so you better like it," I said smiling cheekily and he laughed.

"Since it's from you I'm sure I'll love it," he said smiling.

He took off the red bow and placed it on my head and then started ripping off the paper. He threw the paper at me and I threw it back but he dodged.

I needed to work on my aim, damn.

Michael shook the box and when he realized he couldn't hear anything he decided to open it.

"If it's a tarantula I'm blocking you on every social media and unfriending you and sending you back to Michigan," Michael muttered.

"Why the fuck would I get you a tarantula? I can barely look at spiders without passing out," I asked.

"Last year, Ashton put a tarantula in a box with a Green Day CD so I had to move the spider to get the CD," Michael grumbled and when he did I couldn't stop laughing.

"Oh my god, did you scream?" I asked still laughing.

"Maybe," he muttered.

He continued opening the box until he stopped moving and kept looking at the object in the box.

"You got me customized guitar picks?" He gasped pulling them out.

On some of the picks there was a penis, on others there was the 'X' he always wore, and on others it was just a random design.

"Yeah, I designed them," I said scratching the back of my head.

"This is sick, I don't ever want to use them so they stay in perfect condition."

"There's over 500 in the box. I don't think that'll be a problem," I said laughing.

"You're the greatest," he said pulling me into a hug.

I hugged back and we sat there for a few minutes before I pushed myself off of him.

"I have to finish getting ready," I said getting up.

He followed me into the bathroom and we listened to Iron Maiden while I finished getting ready.

***

"Happy birthday Michael and Sophie!" Calum said walking over as we walked into the place.

He pulled us both into a giant hug and we hugged back.

"Wow Sophie, you look hot," Calum said once we had pulled back from the hug and he had looked me over.

I was wearing red heels and I had managed to curl my hair with minimal dropping of the curler. It hurt like a bitch though when I dropped it on my foot. Michael "kissed it better" but I think he just didn't like seeing me upset. I had done more dramatic make up with winged eyeliner and eye shadow and red lipstick to match my heels and when Michael saw me, his jaw dropped. I would say I felt a bit accomplished. Okay, maybe a lot more than "a bit".

I looked around the place the party was at and I was in awe. There were hundreds of black and white balloons around the place and the place was set to match the theme. There were balloons that spelt out 'Michael' and 'Sophie' and the only lighting in the room was a bunch of white Christmas lights.

There was a place for presents and a place for cakes. The cake was four-layered and it had our names on it with the numbers '19' and '18'.

I could see the guitar I got for Michael was there and I went and placed the other presents there. There were a few people already there and I decided to sit down on one of the couches. They had rented out a house outside the city and it was gorgeous.

"Are you sure you're going to tell him tonight?" Calum asked.

He came over and sat down next to me, throwing an arm around me. I cuddled into him and his face nuzzled into my neck.

"I think I am, we'll see how the night goes," I said.

I looked over and saw Michael glaring at Calum.

"Maybe I will tell him tonight," I said smiling.

"I promise he likes you back. He never shuts up about you," Calum said rolling his eyes.

"I don't know whether to be offended or flattered," I said.

I was excited for tonight.

***

"Hey Soph, I want you to meet someone," Michael said calling me over. I thought he would've talked to me all night but I was kind of sitting lonely in the corner. Luke and Calum had talked to me a bit but eventually they left. The four people I knew had left.

"Who?" I asked.

I walked over to where he was and stopped in my place.

"You-you're Tay-Taylor Swi-Swi-Swift," I stuttered.

I looked at the goddess in front of me and I thought I was going to pass out.

"Yes, I am," Taylor said smiling.

"Oh my god, I'm going to cry," I whispered to Michael but she heard and laughed. I felt myself blush and Michael laughed. I covered my hands with my face and Michael laughed more.

"You're so cute," he said kissing the top of my head.

"I'm a huge fa-fan," I said stuttering again to Taylor.

"I noticed," she said smiling.

"Can we be like best friends and make cupcakes all the time and do karaoke and shit?" I asked rambling and when I realized what I had said I started blushing again.

"You're so cute oh my god," Taylor said hugging me and I felt myself blush more, "I love the red lipstick by the way."

"I lo-love you," I stuttered again and Michael was cracking up next to me.

"You're a real shithead sometimes," I said turning to Michael.

"That was rude," he said pouting and Taylor laughed.

"You guys are so cute," she said smiling, "You guys obviously matched the red hair with the red heels."

"I didn't even think of that," Michael said smiling, looking at my shoes as I looked at his hair.

I blushed and buried my face into his neck as he wrapped his arms around me.

"You could've warned me in advance," I muttered and I was still blushing.

Michael laughed again and I hit his arm.

"Michael, don't be rude to your best friend," Taylor said.

"Yeah, don't be rude," I said pouting.

"Wow Taylor, I invite you and you decide to take the enemy's side," Michael hissed.

"She's cooler than you," Taylor said throwing her arm around me and pulling me away from Michael.

"Yeah, I'm cooler than you," I said crossing my arms and sticking my tongue out at him.

"And if you excuse me, Sophie and I are going to get Halsey and take pictures in the photo booth," Taylor said pulling me away from Michael.

"Halsey is here too?" I shrieked.

"Oh god," Michael muttered.

Taylor grabbed my hand and we went over where Ashton was sitting. On his lap was a blue haired girl that I never thought I'd meet.

"You-you're Hal-Halsey," I stuttered.

"Not this again," Taylor said laughing.

"Oh my god, you're Sophie! I've heard so much about you from Ashton!" She said. She got off of Ashton and pulled me into a hug.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god," I whispered quickly hoping she wouldn't hear me. I was freaking out.

I was meeting two of my queens in the same day.

"I love you so much," I said hugging her again.

"You're so sweet," she said smiling.

"We were about head over to the photo booth," Taylor said, "Want to join us?"

"Of course," Halsey said smiling.

***

"Another shot?" Calum asked pulling me to the side.

"I've had three already," I said giggling.

"How many?" Calum asked laughing along with me.

"Okay, maybe three in the past ten minutes," I said slurring my words.

"Oh my god," Calum said laughing.

"Soph, I have to tell you something," he whispered pulling me closer. I stumbled a bit and he stumbled a bit as well.

"What is it?" I asked suddenly curious by what he was saying.

"My socks are black," he whispered into my ear and I giggled.

He placed a kiss to my cheek and I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"You're great Cal," I said smiling widely.

I looked over his shoulder looking for Michael so I could go tell him that Calum's socks were black when I spotted something I didn't ever want to see. I was deeply upset.

I spotted the faux red head making-out with a blonde chick I had never seen before. I made eye contact with Michael and his eyes went wide. I felt a lot more sober in that moment so I pushed Calum off and told him I had to go pee. Anything so I could be alone.

I left the main party area and ran to the nearest room upstairs. I don't know why but soon a few tears were going down my face.

I was hurt and I didn't really know why.

"Hey Soph," a voice said as I heard a knock on the door.

I turned around and saw Calum standing at the door.

"Don't cry," he said frowning.

He walked over and wiped under my eyes.

"It's your birthday party; you shouldn't be crying. Michael's a cock that doesn't see what he has when it's in front of him," Calum said hugging me.

"I just was about to tell him that I liked him," I said pouting.

"Well then it can wait. We're going to help you get over Michael even if it's just for tonight. Don't cry," Calum begged.

"I won't," I said wiping at my eyes.

"Okay good, there's a game of truth or dare that's starting downstairs. Let's go," Calum said smiling.

He picked me up and I squealed as he carried me down the stairs. I held onto him by wrapping my arms around his neck as he laughed. I was happier than I was a few minutes ago. We walked into the room that people were playing truth or dare and I recognized about half of them. Halsey, Taylor and the rest of the guys were in the room with a few others. I recognized Harry and Niall from One Direction but I wasn't really surprised they were here. They still talked to the guys all the time.

I was assuming the rest were the hometown friends.

"Are you guys joining us?" Ashton asked from where he was sitting with Halsey.

"Yup," Calum said nodding his head.

We all sat in a circle and I was sitting in between Calum and Halsey.

"Okay, who's first?" Ashton asked.

"I'll ask first," Michael said.

He turned to me and smiled, "Sophia, truth or dare?" he asked.

"Um, truth?" I asked.

"Really, you're that type of person?" Calum asked and I glared at him.

"I don't want to be the first to choose dare and knowing Michael, he'd embarrass me in front of everyone."

"True, do you like anyone in this room?" Michael asked.

"Of course, I love Ashley," I said throwing my arms around her and kissing her cheek. Someone took a picture and we both giggled.

"You know what I mean," Michael said rolling his eyes.

"Then yes, yes I do," I said smiling.

"Who?" Michael asked.

"One truth at a time, Clifford," I said and he rolled his eyes again.

***

Half an hour later, Luke was shirtless, Ashton was sitting in Michael's lap, Ashley had admitted that we kissed earlier on accident, and one of the others had been forced to run around the house naked. A few others happened like Harry singing and someone had to have a penis drawn on his face but those were just the few that stuck out.

"Soph, it's your turn again," Harry said looking at me.

"I guess it is," I said giggling. A few shots may have been taken in that half an hour as well.

"Truth or dare?" He asked.

"Uh, dare," I said giggling.

Harry thought for a few seconds before he spoke, "I dare you to do seven minutes in heaven with Calum."

My giggling stopped and I looked over at Calum who had a smug smile on his face.

"Okay, let's go," I said getting up and pulling his hand.

The alcohol had gotten to me and I wasn't thinking straight as I pulled Calum up with me. I stumbled a bit but Calum wrapped his arms around me so I'd stop. He said I'd get over Michael so why not start with seven minutes in heaven?

I looked over at Michael and his face was redder than hair. He was pissed. Good.

Calum pulled me over to the closet we were designated too and he pulled me in.

"You guys have seven minutes; good luck," Harry smiled and then closed the door.

"We don't have to do anything if you don't want to," Calum said once the door had closed shut but I wasn't really listening. I just wanted to kiss him.

I pouted a bit before pulling him closer to me.

"But I want to," I whispered in his ear.

I pressed my lips to his and it took a moment but he started kissing back. I moved my lips against his and he eagerly started kissing back. Mint and alcohol. Mint and alcohol. Mint and alcohol. That's what his lips tasted like. He moved his tongue against my bottom lip and I opened my mouth so our tongues could meet. It was nice. Calum was a nice kisser.

He pressed me closer to his body and started grinding. My breathing got shallower as I started grinding back slowly.

"Oh my god, Soph," Calum panted.

I started kissing down his neck and started sucking once I got to the base of his white v-neck.

Calum let out a small moan encouraging me to keep going.

"So-Soph, we need to stop or else they'll suspect something," Calum said pushing on me slightly. I pouted slightly and he just grinned.

He pecked my lips once more before we separated. I tried to fix my hair in the dim lighting from Calum running his fingers through it and I saw Calum trying to fix his hair as well.

"Calum, your hair is a mess," I giggled.

I stumbled over to him slightly, still not completely sober, and helped him fix his hair as he helped me brush through mine.

"Thank you for this, Calum," I said quietly after a few seconds.

"Thank you for what?" Calum asked.

"For just being there for me tonight," I said smiling slightly.

In the dim lighting and smell of alcohol, Calum actually looked really pretty. I don't know why I had never noticed this before, probably because I was in love with his band mate, but Calum was actually a really good guy.

We hugged and I pecked his lips repeatedly again and again when we finally heard the door open. We stayed in our hug and saw Harry and Michael standing at the door.

"Oh damn," Harry said.

"What is it?" Calum asked confused.

"Did you guys do anything?" Michael asked.

"No," I responded quickly shaking my head.

"Then explain why your lipstick is destroyed and Calum has a hickey with red lipstick leading down to it," Michael snapped. His face matched his hair. He was so angry. It was kind of hot.

Why was I thinking this about my best friend when he was pissed at me?

He did not have the right to be mad at me. Earlier he was making out with someone he probably didn't know.

"Whatever," I said rolling my eyes.

Calum took my hand and we left the closet and sat down with the people that were still playing the stupid, stupid game.

"You two seemed to have fun," Luke said and I giggled, leaning into Calum.

Calum was great.

He wrapped his arm around me and smiled down at me.

I laced my fingers in his and he tightened his grip on my hand. A few more rounds of truth or dare happened until finally someone said the words I had wanted to hear, "How about cake?" Ashton asked.

***

Luke, Calum, Michael and I were sat around a table in the kitchen eating leftover cake with plastic forks as a few of the guests were still in the house. A majority of them had left but now it was just a few people in the living room singing karaoke. A blonde chick was sat on Michael's lap and we saw them flirting together so Calum and Luke and I made a game. I had to take a shot whenever she played with his hair. Luke took a shot whenever she giggled annoyingly after asking him about the band. Calum took a shot whenever they kissed. We were all tipsy once again to say the least.

We could hear Halsey and Ashton doing a duet together and the crowd of drunk Australians cheering them on.

"Can we open presents?" Michael begged tugging on my hand pulling away from the girl. She had an annoyed look on her face and I rolled my eyes at her.

Luke and Calum brought over the gifts and they called Ashton and Halsey into the room once they had finished their song.

"Can I open the big present?" Michael asked pointing to the wrapped guitar case.

"Not yet," I said slapping his hand away, "Save it for last."

We each were handed a gift and we opened them at the same time. This process kept happening until we finally got to the final presents. My gifts to Michael and his gifts to me.

I had gotten a bunch of clothes from people I wasn't really sure I knew and I also managed to get a really nice new camera from Luke and Calum. They had chipped in for it together. Ashton also got me the box set of all the seasons of Friends and Full House and I nearly tackled him for it. Even Halen, Valeria, and Nora had sent in presents the week prior so that I could get it today. I was really content for the first time in awhile.

"Here are the presents for my bestest friend in the whole wide world," Michael said shoving three really big boxes in my way.

I placed a small box and the guitar case in front of him.

"You go first," Michael said smiling in my direction.

I opened the first one and I thought I was going to cry. In it was a lilac record player with a bunch of records. The 1975, Green Day, Pierce The Veil, My Chemical Romance? I started digging through the box and found about 20 records in the box. I was going to pass out. Throwing my arms around Michael, I kissed his cheek repeatedly thanking him.

"There's something else in there," Michael said.

I pulled out some of the vinyls until I thought I had seen what was extra. I pulled out a picture frame and Michael started smiling widely.

It was painted a black with one side of it painted blue. In the frame there was a picture of our first conversation and our first picture together at the Detroit show.

"I love it so much Mikey," I awed looking at the picture frame. I was really, really happy.

"Did you paint this yourself?" I asked smiling at the crooked lines.

"Yeah, it took me like three hours. I painted it four different colors before deciding to paint it the color of my hair the day we started talking," Michael said smiling.

"You're so cute," I said laughing. He was such a dork.

"Open the next box," Michael said smiling. He pushed over the second of the three boxes.

"You're such a dork," I said shaking my head.

I pulled off the red bow and placed it on my head and Michael adjusted it so that it'd "look adorable on an adorable girl".

I opened the box and saw a lot of tissue paper. I pulled it off and saw a mug in it. I pulled it out and saw that something was written in Michael's handwriting. #Mophie. It was the cutest thing I had ever seen.

"It's to help crave your coffee addiction," Michael said excited.

"It's not an addiction. I can quit any day I want to," I said pouting, "Starting tomorrow."

I giggled as Michael rolled his eyes.

"The day you stop drinking coffee is the day I stop dying my hair," Michael exclaimed and I giggled at his remark.

"So never?" Calum asked jokingly and Michael just glared at him. I was guessing he was still mad at Calum.

Calum held my hand under the table and I squeezed it quickly before going to the final present. I grabbed the final box and opened it. I reached in and pulled out a t-shirt but something was wrapped in it.

"I hope you like both objects," Michael said smiling nervously.

I pulled out the heavy object that was in the t-shirt and saw that there was a white box in it.

"You bought me a phone?" I gasped looking at the white box with a little silver apple on it.

"I felt bad that you couldn't talk to your friends here unless you had wifi and it still didn't work that well and I wanted you to be able to talk to us as well," Michael rambled. I cut him off by hugging him tightly.

"I love it, thank you," I said smiling widely.

"Now look at the shirt," Michael scolded playfully.

I unfolded the shirt and gasped once I saw it. My design was on it.

"You-you," I started stuttering.

"I-I," Michael started finishing, "made your design into a shirt. This is what we wanted to tell you. We- well I talked to our management and stuff and they said you could help us design new merchandise and stuff. We wanted you to be one of our new digital artists."

"Michael- I can't do this. I love you so much. Thank you," I said throwing my arms around him.

"This will be on sale on the website in a week and you will be getting 35% of all profit," Michael said.

"You are the greatest friend a girl could ever have," I said hugging him tighter.

We kept hugging until Calum coughed and we pulled away from each other.

I pushed my two boxes towards Michael and Calum grabbed my hand again. I laced my fingers with his and i sighed in content. I loved being here with my closest friends.

"Shit, is this a shirt from one of Metallica's first tours?" Michael asked pulling out the t-shirt from the first box.

"Yeah," I said sheepishly looking at the ground.

"I love you so fucking much," he said pulling me into a hug.

"Wait until you see the next present," Calum said smiling and I nudged him in the stomach with my elbow. I was sitting on his lap and he wrapped his arms around me so I was leaning back on his chest. I felt safe with Calum.

"Shut up Cal," I hissed and he imitated locking his mouth with an invisible key.

Michael looked at Calum but then looked at the final box, wrapped in red paper with a black bow.

Michael took the bow and placed it on his head.

"We're matching now," he said smugly patting the bows on our heads.

"You're a dork; open the present," I said nudging him.

"What did you even get me that was this big?" Michael asked.

He unwrapped the case and looked at the guitar case.

"You got me a guitar?" He gasped.

"Open the case, dork," I said and he pouted.

"I'm not a dork," he frowned.

"Just open the damn case!" Calum exclaimed bringing us back from the small argument we had.

"Yeah, yeah. Keep your chill, Hood," Michael said and I giggled.

He unlatched the case and Calum's grip on my hand tightened.

"I'm going to pee myself. I'm going to pee myself. I'm going to pee myself," Calum whispered repeatedly.

"Chill Cal," I said laughing at him.

Michael opened the case and he looked down, then looked up at me, then looked down at the guitar, then looked up at me, then looked down at the guitar again.

"Is this re-real?" Michael asked.

Luke and Ashton peaked over his shoulder. Luke instantly paled, if that was even possible, and Ashton stared at me in awe.

"Yo-you lucky bit-bitch," Luke stuttered to Michael.

"You got me a guitar signed by fucking Nirvana?" Michael yelled and I nodded my head slowly.

He pulled me up from Calum's lap and started spinning me around and jumping up and down. He hugged me and kept spinning me around. I held onto him so I wouldn't fall and he held onto me just as tightly. I was happy.

"I love you so much," Michael said burying his face into my neck and placed a small kiss.

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HI FRIENDS. Okay so originally I was going to write this whole birthday party into two chapters but I had no idea how to stop it so I went and made a really long chapter. I feel kind of iffy of it because I wrote this in a span of two days. I didn't go to school at all this week because of snow and cold so I wrote it with all the snow days. I also had to deal with a fuckboy so that kind of was reflected in the chapter.

There's over 3,500 words in this chapter so I hope you enjoy it and I'm sure this is probably the longest chapter I've written in this book. Thank you so much for 13k reads. I never expected to get this many reads. I thought it was amazing when I got 800. Writing this book really makes me happy and it keeps me going. You guys are amazing. I love you all lots.

Anyways, you guys are amazing and if you ever need someone I'm here for y'all. I'm always just a dm or message away. I don't like seeing people upset. Your comments and everything make me smile. :-)

If you guys ever get bored waiting for the next update I have other stories up if you want to read them and I can update it a lot faster since I have like 13-14 chapters prewritten. Anyways, I love you all. (again said for the 4,000 time). Xx

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