Alan's pov

Now that I had some money, somehow even though taxes loved to snatch a lot of it away, I could buy my mom a gift. Maybe I would even buy Kaden and Landon gifts too. Right now I was focused on seeing the guys in time, and buying Bob his gift.

The question was what to get him? I had been to at least two stores now. I wasn't about to go to a third store. Really, I felt so lost on what to give him. The present I had gave him was so good, but mom just had to make me think. Ugh...and she was kind of right. But in a way it was still a gift.

I shook my head to clear my head, and continued to look around again. I could buy him books, sure he would love that. But..he would probably feel like it was a joke gift. I needed to go deep in my mind to think of all the things I know he likes. While looking around and thinking, I found a black and red basketball. Landon would definitely love that. And my mom I know she would like some nice shoes, but ones that were comfortable. She didn't want to look like an old lady or a "mom", whatever that means.

Eventually I stumbled upon some flats that were very soft in the inside. And I'm pretty sure I've seen some girls my age wear something similar. I may have even tried them on myself and walk around in them- just to make sure they were good for my mom! Anyway, they didn't go against the dress code at her job either. So win win, now I just had to get gifts for Kaden and Bob still.

I pulled out my phone to check the time. Luckily it wasn't too late, so I stil had plenty of time to keep looking for gifts. As my eyes landed on the clothing section, I realized that Kaden wore hoodies pretty much 24/7. I couldn't recall a time he wasn't wearing a hoodie, vest, jacket, or coat. And they were always long sleeved too, he must get tired of that. So I started looking for ones that had short sleeves or no sleeves, mostly in dark colors since that's all he seemed to wear as well.

Now all was left was Bob. And it irked me that it was taking this long to find him a gift. It's not like I was clueless to things he liked, I just didn't know how anything could top off his original gift. Here I am stressing over all of this...and I'm not sure if I'm even going to be getting any gifts. The only gifts I've ever got were from family. So Kaden and Landon probably didn't have anything for me. And I doubt Bob would buy me anything, he's already done a lot for me.

My thoughts were interrupted by my phone vibrating. I pulled it out again, to see that Kaden had text me.

Kaden

Kaden: Are you still coming?

Me: Yeah, sorry I was takin a while. I'm just gonna come now.

Kadem: Alright, meet us at the karaoke place, it's the only one here so don't ask which one.

I rolled my eyes at his messages then looked up a karaoke place in my location on google. Sure enough there was only one.

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It so happened to start snow during my walk to the karaoke place, and my mom also happened to be off work in time. I was able to get a ride from her thankfully, but there was a possibility I was gonna have to walk home afterwards.

The place looked a bit shabby, and had a glowing pink and red sign that said Sing Out Shack! The snow fell gently onto the roof of it as I walked up the steps to go to the door. Once inside it looked way nicer, and there was a guy and girl behind the desk. They both looked like butlers of some sort. I cleared my throat walking up to the desk.

"I'm looking for um...Kaden." I say grinning nervously.

"What's your name?" The girl asks picking up a clipboard.

"Urm...Alan?" I say hoping Kaden didn't have any special requirements made.

"Alright, Room 2B. You can't order anything with alcohol in it." The girl waving her hand in the left hall.

"Thanks." I reply letting out a breath as I go down that hall.

Eventually I find a silver door that has 2B on it. I hear some laughter from behind the door, and took a deep breath before opening it. I closed the door immediately once I was in the room, without getting a good look of anything. But their were couches, a big screen, a karaoke set up obviously, and Bob fucking cross dressing! I blinked staring at Bob in a santa dress like costume.

"Don't ask us, we were just as shocked as you." Landon says laughing as he sips from a cup.

"Landon got alcohol, he lied about his age and somehow got away with it." Kaden says rolling his eyes.

"But now we can all have some." Landon replies grinning as I shake my head but find my eyes landing back on Bob.

"Landon lies, we made a bet that I lost a while ago. So my punishment was to wear an embarrassing outfit for the holidays, I chose this event versus actually Christmas day since I couldn't find something appropriate." Bob explains muttering.

"Have a drink! You'll let loose, and the dress won't bother you anymore....and the makeup." Landon laughs a bit while sipping his drink before choking.

Kaden shook his head and took the bottle away from Landon. "You're an idiot, you better not die."

"He'll be fine." Bob says pushing the puffball of the santa hat out of his face, before looking at me under those long lashes... "So, choose a song." he says holding out the machine that had lists of a large variety of songs.