"Happy Birthday Gingey!" My five best friends shout at me.

It's the 28th of April 2019, my thirteenth birthday, and my five best friends in the entire world are standing outside my door screaming happy birthday in my face at 8am in the morning. If it was anyone else, I would have shut the door in their face and gone back to bed but since they are my best friends, I allowed it.

Lily's the first one to step inside and wrap her arms around me in a bear hug. The rest follow her and we end up in a big group hug for about 5 minutes.

It's been our little tradition since we first met each other years ago that we always have a sleepover when it's one of our birthdays. The first one of the year is always Daniel and Jordyn's, their birthday is the 2nd of April, then it's me, then Jack, Lily and lastly, Corbyn.

"I see you guys got here early as usual," My mum says, walking down the marble stairs in her pyjamas and fluffy slippers. All of us look at her in sync and nod joyously.

"Hi Melody!" Lily speaks, followed by the other four saying hi to my mum, she smiles and waves at them before walking into the kitchen. I look back at my five best friends and smile to myself, I've known these idiots since I was 5 years old (with the exception of Lily) and I couldn't ask for better friends.

"Well you guys know where to put your stuff so I'll see you in the kitchen and we can make our favourites!" I say excitedly. When I say our favourites, I mean fluffy blueberry pancakes, Lily, Jack and I make the best blueberry pancakes, we make them every time it's one of our birthdays, again, it's tradition.

They all nod and race upstairs, they always do this, whoever gets to my room first gets to sleep in the bed with me instead of sleeping on a mattress on the floor.

"YES!! I WON FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS!! Screw you Jordyn!" I hear Corbyn scream, Jordyn usually wins everything, she's the most athletic one in the group - I mean we are all athletic but her more than us - Corbyn has been catching up recently though.

I chuckle to myself as I walk into the kitchen seeing my mum smiling at me. Melody isn't my real mum, she's my step-mum but I always call her 'mum' instead of her name because I love her like a mother. I moved to Hawaii with my Dad and Lily's family when I was 2 years old. My mum and Dad had already split up and she didn't want me so she left me with my Dad who happily took me to Hawaii with him. He met my step-mum Melody the first day we arrived and they've been together since.

"He likes you y'know," My Mum snaps me out of my thoughts and I turn to look at her. She's standing over the stove making us a cooked breakfast.

"What?" I reply, half shocked and half confused.

"Corbyn. He likes you, it's obvious," She smiles at me as she speaks. I shake my head smiling and I look down, hoping she won't see me blushing. I look back up to say something but stop myself as I see Corbyn and Daniel entering the kitchen and sitting down at the table. Looking over to my mum, I see her slightly smirking at me and nudging me to go sit next to Corbyn.

I roll my eyes laughing and sit down at the table next to Corbyn. We start talking and Daniel joins the conversation after briefly speaking with my mum, we talk about unfortunately having to go back to school on Monday, it's currently Saturday.

The others come downstairs and join us at the table. As we continue to have some stupid converstaion about whether cereal can be classed as soup (which it can be) my mum puts down plates of scrambled eggs, sausages, bacon, toast and more on the table for us to take from, kind of like a buffet. We all pick and choose what we want and start eating this lovely breakfast.

I'm the first one to finish so I get up and wash my plate and start making our favourite blueberry pancakes. I start mixing the pancake batter when I jump, letting out a high-pitched scream, as I feel someone wrap their arm around my neck in a pretend choke-hold. I hear Jack laughing behind me as I turn around and smack his chest, trying not to laugh myself. I look over to the other four at the table to see them crying of laughter at my reaction.

"God, you guys are so damn loud!" My step-brother Zach speaks walking into the kitchen wearing only his boxers. Zach is Melody's son, making him my step-brother. He's only a year older than me, he's turning 14 next month, we actually get along really well and I consider him my real brother as I've never really had any siblings. "Zach-" I sigh, "Go put some clothes on!" I say laughing and shaking my head.

I turn to look at Jordyn, knowing she likes Zach, and see her notice me and quickly put her head down to hide her blushing. She looks back up at me and I wink at her making her face go even more red. Zach looks at Jordyn then back at me, I smirk at him knowing he's had a little crush on Jordyn for a while, unfortunately he has a girlfriend. I honestly don't know what he sees in her, she's so rude to me when Zach isn't around. That doesn't matter right now anyway, the only thing that matters is making these pancakes! I laugh at my own stupidity.

With the help of Jack and Lily, we finish the pancakes and set them down on the table along with the maple syrup. We, shockingly, managed to eat every single one we made - with the help of Zach of course. It was a nice day as normal, around 25 degrees celsius, so we decided to get changed and have fun in the pool, yes we all have a pool.

I finish changing and walk downstairs seeing Corbyn already outside standing by the pool in his favourite navy blue swim shorts. I sneak out the door and tip-toe behind him, he spots me sneaking behind and tries to run but I push him in the pool before he can get away. He resurfaces quickly and starts laughing as he swims around the pool. I sit down at the edge of the pool and he swims over to me, he looks up at me smirking, using his hand to shield his eyes from the sun. I take one look at his face and instantly start getting up to run away. As I start running I hear splashing and wet footsteps catching up to me, I don't even know why I'm trying, Corbyn is way faster than me.

I suddenly feel my feet being lifted off the ground as Corbyn picks me up over his shoulder. "Corbyn I'm sorry! Please put me down!" I shout, laughing and trying to get out of his grasp. He just laughs in response and I hold my breath as I feel him jumping in the pool with me still on his shoulder. We both resurface at the same time; I brush my hair back out of my face as I look at Corbyn, both of us still laughing. He swims over to me and hugs me in the water, "I'm sorry, but now we're even," He says between laughs. I chuckle and hug him back, laying my head on his shoulder.

I could stay like this forever, I think to myself, or so I thought.

"Me too," Corbyn replies. I could feel a smile slowly spreading across his blushing cheeks. I could feel my own cheeks heat up at his response my accidentally spoken thoughts.

"I said that out loud didn't I?" I question rhetorically, laughing as I say so, still not taking my head off of his shoulder. Corbyn nods, quietly laughing along with me.

Silence suddenly takes over, a comfortable silence, and the two of us stay there, holding on to each other in the middle of the swimming pool, embracing the moment.

The moment was broken by 2 big splashes either side of us, we both scream in shock and hug each other tighter, if that was even possible. We see Jordyn and Daniel come out of the water either side of us, we pull away from the hug and start laughing again. "Sorry, did we ruin the moment?" Jordyn and Daniel speak simultaneously, laughing with us. These two are always playing pranks on people and just generally messing around when they're together, so basically all the time! We all love them for it though.

We all look over and see Lily sitting at the edge of the pool, Daniel smirks and swims over to her. "Daniel don't you da-" Lily is cut off by Jack pushing her in the pool from behind. She gasps from the cold water and turns around to face Jack, "Oh you're going to regret that!" She tries to swim back to the edge of the pool as Jack starts running away but Daniel swims underneath her and comes back up so she's sitting on his shoulders. Jack runs back, diving into the pool and joining the rest of us laughing at Daniel dancing around in the pool with Lily on his shoulders. We stay in the pool for a while just messing around and being the kids that we are.

I honestly couldn't ask for better friends, I think to myself as I sit on the sun bed next to Jordyn and Lily, watching the boys play football on the grass. Jordyn and Lily are in their own conversation and I'm sitting here laying in the sun, thinking how grateful I am to have this life, I live in Hawaii, with my five best friends and the best family I could ever ask for. Not to mention how lucky I am to be able to grow up in a wealthy family, I think looking behind me at my house. I look back at the boys just in time to see Jack failing to kick the ball and instead tripping over it, the other girls saw it two and we all started laughing once again.

This is a good day to be alive.