Ryder's POV
"Birthday girl, are you up?"
I knocked and waited a few minutes for a response, but only her silence answered back. I guess letting her stay up past midnight was a bad move on my part, but what can I say... it was one of the best night we shared in a long time. Games, movies, popcorn, fireworks at the stroke of 12. It was so worth it. I smiled to myself as the memories unraveled.
"Birthday girl?" I banged a little louder on the door, hoping that just perchance she had awoken by now, she would reply, but yet again, nothing.
We had so much planned for the day and to get it all in, we needed to have an early start to the day. I glanced down at my watch. 8:55 A.M. Maybe, I could spare her an extra 5 minutes.
I returned to the room, where Alli was standing in front of the mirr
