Friday came a lot quicker than I had expected. Nora and I have been making all sorts of plans. We asked one of the guys in our pack if he would handle the music for us, and Nora said that everyone who we invited is coming. My parents left yesterday and my sister- bless her soul- got the drinks for us. She said she was bringing Kyle, so she'll finally get to introduce us. She was a bit upset to hear that I was throwing a party, but as soon as I told her to invite all her friends and Kyle, she happily agreed. I think this party is her way of showing her friends and Kyle that she has a fun side.
Today is my birthday, so I will shift into my wolf sometime today. I wish my parents were here to see me shift, and give me advice about everything, it's lame of them to be away over my birthday. My dad is our packs financial manager, so he's going to the Red Stone Pack to work out some finacial issues we have with them. He couldn't really say no, alphas orders.
Nora and I didn't go to school today because she insisted we needed the whole day to set up for the party. Which was probably a good call because we've been setting up since 10am and we're only more than halfway done, it's 6pm now. And we still needed a fair amount of time to get ready.
"No Zack! Put those over there." Nora said pointing to a spot where he should put the table for the snacks. Zack came by after school to help, and Nora has been bossing him around the whole time, poor guy. He's helped a lot though, especially with the heavy lifting.
"Sorry babe," he said putting the table in the corner. Nora and I were unpacking all the drinks into ice buckets around the house. I know we told people to bring their own alcohol but a lot of them are underage and probably couldn't get for themselves. Some of our other friends from school came just after Zack got here to help, Nora threatended them that if they didn't help they wouldn't get free booze.
"Nora can we please start drinking now. Everything is set up outside." Dave whined coming in through the sliding doors. His shirt was drentched in sweat and his cheeks were rosy red.
Nora stopped what she was doing and looked at her watch, "I suppose that's a good idea, it's already six. Call the others inside and we can all have a drink." I could tell that she was having the best time organizing and bossing everyone around.
"Hell yeah! Guys it's drinking time!" Dave shouted to our five other friends helping outside. Their jobs included setting up tables for beer pong, putting up fairy lights in the trees and setting up fire pit stations for people to sit around when it gets cold later.
The six of them came racing inside, all of them sweaty and clearly thristy. Nora was conducting some unfair labour here. Our friends consisted of two girls- Emma and Lauren, both in our pack and very strong females. The four boys were Dave, William, Tom, and Vince. They were all really close to Zack, all of them played football and all were a part of the pack. Our group together were a rowdy bunch, the boys loved to be the centers of attention and us girls- besides Nora- were the calm ones. "Boys when you guys are done you can start getting yourselfs ready, there are rooms upstairs and bathrooms all over the house. If you need me, just shout." I said opening the first bottle of alcohol I touched. Setting up for the party was hard work, and a drink was well deserved. The cold liquid running down my throat was a treat. "Billy should be here any minute to set up the speakers for the music. So when he gets here please let him in and just show him where to go."
"No problem Tay, we got this. It doesn't take us nearly as long to get ready as you girls." Will smiled raising his bottle of beer in the air. "Yeah don't worry girl, we're responsible." Vince said waggling his eyebrows.
"Girls let's go get ready. I think we all need a shower after that." Nora said already halfway up the stairs. Luckily we had enough showers for everyone to use, or we'd be screwed.
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"I am a genius." Nora said looking at me, she had done my make-up. She did a smoky eye and applied some bright red lipstick. I straightened my long brown hair that managed to reach the small of my back.
"Let me see," I said trying to look in my full length mirror. Managing a glance I immediately felt a lot more confident. I was wearing my new dress, my makeup and hair looked great, and I looked and felt like a completely new person. I looked like the type of girl that could ruin a mans life with one glare. I felt like the type of woman that could walk into a room filled with just men and completely dominate them all, I felt like a badass. My nails, lips, and high heels were all red matching the bad girl theme.
"Nora you did an amazing job, Taylor you look incredible." Lauren gushed holding up her eyeshadow brush. "I better hide Will, don't want you stealing him from me." Emma joked while she buckled up her yellow heels.
Both of them looked amazing, Lauren was wearing tight dark blue demin jeans, a very short crop top and black boot heels. Her make-up was bright and colourful making her look gorgeous. Emma was wearing a tight orange dress that looked incredible on her dark skin, her heels were bright yellow and so was her eyeshadow, she looked like a sun goddess. "Both of you look stunning, Will won't be interested in me at all Em, he'll be too busy gawking over you." I smiled walking over to my dresser to spray on some perfume.
"She's right, you guys are both so beautiful. Any guy would be lucky to talk to either of you." Nora smiled while putting her earrings on. Nora looked other-wordly, the bright pink lumo dress matched her bold personailty. Her heels were black and her make-up looked like it was done by a professional. Nora was one of the most confident people I knew and her outfit amplifed just who she was. Her short spikey hair was styled in the most adorable way.
"Zack is not going to be able to keep his hands off of you." I said waggling my eyebrows. "Yeah Nora I don't know how you do it but you can pull off anything." Lauren smiled looking Nora over.
She chuckled, "we all look great. Lets take a photo to remember this moment." She loved taking photos, and posting them all over social media. She had a massive following because of the outfits and style choices she made. People loved to see the new looks she would come up with every week.
"Smile!" she said when we all gathered together. She looked the photo over, "perfect!" she said, this is going on my story.
We had been getting ready for over an hour or so, we had heard a few knocks on the door and the music had started playing 30 minutes ago. I wasn't sure who was here so early but I was glad that at least some people were here. We had all started out own little party in my room, we had all had at least 3 ciders each. Unfortunately for werewolves it took a lot more for us to get drunk.
"You ladies ready?" Nora cheered passing us all another drink, "here's to my best friend, I love you and happy 18th birthday bitch!" She yelled and started downing her drink.
"Cheers to that, happy birthday Tay." Emma and Lauren said drinking their drink. "Thanks ladies, I love you all." I smiled and followed suit.
We all made our way downstairs to see the boys already enjoying the party, there were only about ten other people here. William and Vince were playing each other in beer pong outside, I could see that Vince was winning and Will wasn't taking it too well. Zack was talking to two other guys that I recognized from the pack, and Dave and Tom were busting out their best dance moves on our make-shift dancefloor.
As we made it down the stairs Amber and three of her friends walked through the front door. "I'll see you guys now, just going to say hello to Amber." I said squeezing Nora's arm before heading to Amber and her group.
"Hey Amber, so glad you guys could make it." I smiled looking at her friends and giving Amber a quick hug. "Thanks so much for organizing the alcohol, I owe you."
"Wow Taylor you look amazing," one of Ambers friends commented, I think her name was Robin. She was a short Mexican girl with a fiery personailty. She was stunning, all of Ambers friends were beautiful.
"Thank you." I blushed while smoothing out my dress. "Nora found the dress for me, and did my make-up." I rambled, having the attention on me was nerve wracking.
"Of course she did." Amber scoffed, "don't you think that dress is a bit revealing."
"Where's Kyle?" I didn't even bother answering her question, I knew Amber was going to have an opinion on my dress and how 'sexy' it was. Amber liked to always be presentable and stick to her goody-too-shoes way.
"He had some important pack business to attend to. He'll be here a bit later." She sighed while looking the house over. She didn't look too impressed, we had moved the whole house around so that we could have a big enough dance floor area. "Let's hope the parents don't find out about this or we're both going to be in big trouble." She didn't give me time to respond as she and her friends walked past me towards the party.
"Talk about a stick in the mud." Nora came up behind me with large eyes, "I told you she hates me." She laughed while intertwining oour arms together. "You need a drink."
She was right I really did, Amber was a stress I didn't need tonight. I was allowed to have a good time, it was my 18th birthday party. "You know that guy Nathan who's in our chem class, he's also in the pack?" Nora asked while she ushered me to the kitchen where some of the drinks were.
"Yeah I think so, is he the really tall pale guy?" I asked over the loud music, someone had turned it up in the last ten minutes.
"Yes! That's him, he brought this weird ass alcohol. It's super strong and it's supposed to help werewolves get drunk faster. I think he said it had like 0.05% wolf's bane in it. So not enough to hurt us, but enough to get us on the level of a human." While Nora was telling me all of this she had poured us two shots of this scary sounding liquid.
"Are you sure it's safe?" I half yelled, I had never been drunk before, and this sounded like a scary way to do it. Before Nora answered she had already taken the shot.
"We'll have to wait and see. Losen up, it's your night! Enjoy it, it'll help you relax." She smiled pushing the shot into my hands. "Bottoms up birthday girl." She was right, I deserved to have some fun. Without a second thought I threw the shot back.