Smoke And Mirrors

"Happy birthday, Sierra," some guy of the Mars crew says. Sierra smiles at him and thanks him. There have been countless people who congratulated her with her twenty-first birthday. She doesn't even know all these people, yet they know it's her birthday. 

She walks further into the dining room for the Versa table to go and eat breakfast. She takes a seat next to Nick, who also wishes her a happy birthday. That doesn't feel so weird, because she actually knows Nick. 

"How is your leg doing?" Nick asks, after Sierra thanked him. She wiggles with her toes, even though her toes were never in pain. 

"A lot better, actually," she answers him with a sweet smile on her face. "You know, Shannon gave me some salve and that worked really well. It's less swolen and bruised. Look." 

She is about to throw her leg on the table, but realizes just in time that she is in a hotel and she's not supposed to do that. People would probably look weird at her and it's just simply impolite. 

"Don't," Nick chuckles, noticing what she was about to do. "I can see it from here, too." he smiles at her as she chuckles as well. 

"Yeah, I just realized that, too." She lets her hand travel through her dark brown messy waves, a grin placed around here mouth. 

"Happy birthday, mature girl." Sierra jumps a little at the voice coming from behind her. She recognizes it immediatley and turns around to look Blake in the eye and smile.

"Thanks," she say, but then her eye catches something else. Someone else. A certain girl with light brown, wavy cruls, big, green eyes and a huge grin placed on her face. Pretty much the same one as on Sierra's face. 

"Britt!" she yells happily as she gets up as quickly as possible and jumps into the girls spread arms. Brittany Francis is been Sierra's best friend since they're 14. They've been seeing each other less and it's nice to see each other again. 

"It's been so long," Brittany says as she releases Sierra from their tight hug. "I've missed you."

Sierra smiles at her best friend. "Me too," she says. She pulls back a chair for Brittany and takes a seat herself to finish off her breakfast. Her and Brittany really have to catch up a lot. 

"So, how did you here? You came here alone?" Sierra asks, her voice muffled because she just puts something in her mouth. 

"No, I came together with Vail," Britt anwsers. Charlavail Effron or, how she prefers it, Vail is Blake's girlfriend. They have been dating since March 2010. She's like the sweetest girl Sierra has ever met. 

"So, are you gonna introduce me to these band guys?" Sierra rolls her eyes at Brittany, but smiles anyway. She'll never change. 

"Sure, I'm done with breakfast anyways," Sierra answers. She lays her fork and knife down on her plate and gets up to walk to the nearest table. Brittany follows in track. 

Sierra walks toward the Mars table, that is closest to the Versa table. Only the three bandmembers are still eating, making small talk. The rest of the crew has left the table, leaving a couple of seats open to soon be occupied by Sierra and Brittany. 

"Hi," Sierra says taking the opposite seat from Jared, who's sitting in the middle. Britt takes a seat next to her and smiles at the three guys in front of her. They're all so good looking. 

"Hi," Jared says, looking up to Sierra. "Who's this?" His eyes leave Sierra's face for a brief moment to look at Brittany and then return. 

"This is Brittany Francis. Most people call her Billie, but I call her Britt. Well, most of the time. She's my best friend since like ages," Sierra says, looking from Jared to Billie. 

"So Billie -can I call you Billie?- what are you doing here?" Jared asks. He smiles at her with a smile that makes her heart melt. That could've made every girl's heart melt. 

"Well, it's Sierra's birthday and since you're Florida I thought I'd stop by. She can now legally drink, so we're gonna have some fun tonight. You can tag along if you want to," Billie says, her hands fumbling with the fork in front of her. 

She looks up from the fork to meet Jared's eyes. She's immediatley hypnotized by the gorgeous ice blue irises of his eyes. He smiles at her proposal, which makes her heart skip a beat. "We're always in for a party." 

"You were so flirting with him," Sierra says as she and Billie make their way to the table with The Maine guys. She chuckles at her friend. 

"I would have if I wasn't so caught up in his beauty. Honestely Sierra, have you ever seen a man as gogrgeous as him?" Billie says, the amazement clearly in her eyes. They glinster in excitement about tonight. They're going out with the guys from 30 Seconds To Mars. 

"Probably not," Sierra says. She's listening with just a half ear. She caught Garrett's eye as she talks to Billie and he's using half her attention. The beauty of his eyes sends shivers down her spine. She smiles at him which he gladly returns. 

"Come on, introduce me to the other band. What was their name again?" Sierra's attention snaps back to Billie and her talking. 

"The Maine," she anwsers in a duh-voice as she pulls Billie toward their table. Only the half of the band and three crewmen are still eating, the rest has left already. Sierra doesn't really mind, Garrett is still there. 

"Hi, guys," Sierra says as she takes a seat at the table. "This is Billie." The brown haired girl takes a seat next to Sierra and flashes a shining smile toward the guys. She recieves a chorus of hello's from them. 

They talk some more and then Sierra and Billie get up. Billie has already said goodbye and left, but Sierra looks at Garrett. "Me and Billie are going out tonight. You know, to celebrate my birthday. You wanna join?" 

A smile spreads across Garrett face the second the words has left her mouth. There's nothing more he wants to do than going out with Sierra. "Yeah, sure. I'll be there." 

Sierra smiles as well as she half turns away from him. "Be down by ten. You can bring your friends if you want to." And she walks away with one last beautiful smile for Garrett.