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Flowers are always good but it’s up to you.
    Me: Alright, thanks.
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    I get to the club about ten minutes early and everyone is already here except for Holly and Christen. I stopped on the way and got her a dozen roses, hopefully that’s good. I don’t know any of these stupid relationship rules. Nicole got here early and saved us one of the big booths. They already have a line of drinks on the table, waiting for the girls to get here.
    “Ah, there she is!” Nicole and Madison run up to Holly and Christen. Christen has on a black dress that hugs her in every right way possible.
    She walks over to me and I feel my heart start to speed up. I hand her the flowers and bend down to give her a kiss. “Happy Birthday,” I whisper in her ear and give her another quick kiss on her neck. She sighs in a way that makes me want to take her back home with me.
    Christen and I sit down, but all of the girls walk toward the stage in a group. She looks over at me, “What are they doing?”
    “Don’t ask me.” The DJ announces the girls and all of them walk up onto the stage wearing blonde wigs.
    The music starts and Christen groans. “Oh my God.” I look over at her, confused. “They are not doing this to me.”
    “Why? What’s up?”
    “I’m going to kill them for this.”
    “What song is it?” I don’t recognize it at all.
    “ Sandra Dee , it’s them making fun of me for being a goody-two-shoes.” The girls are laughing and singing the song while Christen hides her head. When they finally come back to the table they’re all in hysterics. “I can’t believe you guys did that!”
    “Aw, come on, Sandy! You know we love you!” Nicole throws her arms around Christen. The girls spend the rest of the night dancing and drinking.
    “You ready to go home, babe?” Jason has been itching to leave for the last half hour but he’s had no success in trying to get Nicole off the dance floor.
    “I’m not going home with you!” She throws hers arms around Christen and Madison. “We are having a girls’ night, Tarzan. No boys allowed.”
    “Hell no, you aren’t! We are going home and having drunk sex. I didn’t listen to all of these tone-deaf idiots all night just to go home alone.”
    “Well, too bad, buddy!” She then decides to sing the song You and Your Hand by Pink to him. The look on his face is priceless.
    Christen comes over and settles herself against my side. “You okay?” I ask her.
    She nods her head. “Just tired.”
    The girls had supplied her with an endless amount of birthday shots all night and I think they’ve finally caught up to her. She rubs her face against my shirt. “You always smell so good. And you taste even better.” She stands on her tip-toes and drags her teeth over my earlobe.
    My hands tighten around her. “That is not a good idea here, babe.”
    “You make it so hard to be good.”
    She has no idea how hard she is making it on me right now. I look up to see Carter watching us and laughing. We head out to the parking lot and Jason is still trying to convince Nicole to go home with him.
    “No! We are going back to our house to watch sexy man movies, eat popcorn, and talk about all of you boys!”
    I laugh. “Just give it up, J.”
    We all get into the cars and make our way over to the girls’ house. Jason walks them in, reluctantly returning a couple of minutes later. I’m about to drive away when he yells for me to stop.
    “Come over to my truck,” he yells from a few feet in front of me.
    When I walk over, Carter and Jason are already in the truck. I hop into the backseat. “What’s going on?”
    “Jason is out of his damn mind, that’s what’s going on.” Carter is just shaking his head. “We forgot to leave our walkies at work the other night and this idiot just hid one in the girls’ living room.”
    “Why the hell did you do that, J?”
    “Because I want to know what Nicole meant when she said they would spend the night talking about us. You might