The War With Fate

BONUS 2: New Year Biotches!

11p.m. Dec 31
Athena POV

One hour. One more hour and I can be rid of this meme of a year. It was surprisingly quiet, considering all us friends were in Kasey's living room with Kasey herself, Erin, and all of their siblings. Lea was there, along with Zander and her brother Elliot, and I didn't mind that much, to the others' shock. Lea had won me over with her dinner last week.

Zander was making most of the noise, whispering quiet complaints to Lea and I.
"Why did I have to come?" He complained.

"Because you didn't want to be with your family," Lea replied back.

"But why did we go here?" Zander groaned.

"We've been through this," I shot back, "You didn't want to be alone and Lea's mom couldn't have you be upstairs while she had all her friends over."

"Thank you, Athena," Lea smiled. I nodded as I tucked myself further into Zander's hold on me. Lea was using his other side to rest her back on as she braided Aria's hair for the billionth time.  Aria was adamant that Lea hadn't gotten Elsa's braid in her hair yet, but we'd all seen near exact copies of her braid, Lea even putting it in a bun held by a clip that could be pulled out.

"What do you guys want to watch next?" Erin asked, going through Netflix.

"Glee," Lea and Zander replied simultaneously.

"I third that," I said. Zander hugged me tighter and Lea leaned over and gave me a highfive.

"Can I fourth it?" Macy asked. Erin shot her a glare and Levi laughed. His brother, Marcus, had taken a nap and we had to promise that we'd wake him up with ten minutes until eleven, but we may have forgot.

"Fine, you may say yes, but the kids get vote," Erin groaned out.

"I wanna watch it!" Aria shouted, "That's the one with all the singing, right Lea?" Lea nodded and told Aria to stay still while she fixed her hair.

"Eli, what's your vote?" Erin asked.

"Sorry Wren, but I wanna watch it."

Valerie shot up from her seat next to Lauren and said, "That's it! Why do you have so many names, E!?"

I noticed that all of us friends seemed to  perk up, listening for the response.

"It's pretty easy, isn't it? My family can call me what they want. When I was little, my nickname was Cath, so Lea calls me Cath. Elliot couldn't say Erin, so he called me Wren instead."

"Turn on glee, Cather," Kasey complained.

"Too many nicknames," Valerie murmured. We all laughed at that.

"Are you going to wake up Marcus?" I asked Levi.

"Should I?" Levis jokingly pondered.

"I do have an air horn," Erin mused.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Lea butted in, "I think not! I'm not in the mood for any of the kids to go deaf." She grinned, "but why don't you move all the clocks ahead to like three and tell him we all fell asleep?"