Surprise Day Short Story

Surprise Day

Balloons. Gifts. Cake. Sounds like fun right? Parties make everyone feel better. Especially during tough times. New scenario: think of your friends. Your best friends. What makes them your best friends? Is it that they like the same things as you, they don’t like the same things as you, or they just get you. Keep that reason in your brain. Now think of this: have they ever done something amazing for you? Here’s what mine did for me way back when.

“Are you sure Raina’s coming?” I was wondering the same thing too actually, but I didn 't dare tell my mom that.

“Yes, Mom. She said 12:00, it’s 12:10, she’s probably walking over right now.” I was so excited, I hadn’t seen Raina at all that summer. I didn 't see anyone that summer,

A day later, we were back at the same Starbucks downtown, with my sister that time, and Raina was there before us. My mom insisted that we took a picture. I was around 5’ 7’’ and Raina was around, oh 4’8” 4’9’’, so taking a picture was hard, just saying. We ordered our drinks, me a strawberry Açaí refresher, Raina some type of lemonade thing, I think. As we had started to walk, Raina jumped right into having a conversation. The weather was much better than the day before so it was a nice walk. We caught up, talked about our summers, our families, and the next thing I knew we had arrived at her house. As we walked up to her door, I had noticed balloons and streamers were hanging inside, and Raina had started acting excited. I had almost asked about it, but I didn 't. It was a good thing too because as soon as I stepped into the room,

"SURPRISE!" my friends jumped out from everywhere. I was so shocked. "Hi, Makenna!!!!" came out of Stephanie 's, Ema 's, Kree 's, Story 's, and Sammi 's mouths all together, sort of, it was loud.

"Do you like it?" Raina asked.

"Are you kidding? Thank you!"

"I was trying so hard not to give anything away!"

"Hey, we had to stay quiet and remain un-visible, was that hard," Sammi was talking so rapidly, I had barely caught it.

"Okay, you guys, the foods on the table waiting." Raina 's mom ushered us all into the dining room. It was a little cramped, but I had still thought it was perfect.

After catching up with everyone else, Raina’s

"Ema! I love it!"

"I knew how much you like jewelry, Disney, and chocolate and I couldn 't decide which one to get so I just got all of them."

"Thank you so much!"

“Mine’s next, the only bag left so it shouldn’t be too hard to find.” Raina laughs. “I got it for you over vacation.” I opened the bag, small, but cute with all the intricate designs. Inside, there was some Finchberry soap that smelled so good, no joke, a bath bomb, and a rectangle wrapped in tissue paper. I held it up.

“What’s this?” Raina laughed.

“It’s mickey mouse soap, I got it from the Grand Floridian.”

“Seriously? Oh my gosh, thanks Raina!”

“No problem!” Raina’s mom came in and ushered us all into the kitchen for cake.

After we cut the cake, the doorbell rang. That day came to an end all too soon. Kree’s mom was the first to come, and after that, the parents kept coming. The next thing I had known, it was just me and Raina.

“Thanks again for doing this for me Raina, you didn’t have to.”

“Oh, I know, but, we were going to miss you so I thought that this was a perfect way to say goodbye.” Just then the doorbell rings and walks in.

“Well this looks fun!” I laugh.