Happiness and Surprises
“It’s so disappointing how none of the tasks
here are crossed off the list yet and it’s like...” she paused “...less than 4
hours away from my birthday” while Emmett just shrugged, clearly distracted by
the soccer game on TV. Alice stood up and walked back into her room. Damn, she
thought, never knew completing a task list is this hard. She was thinking out
loud to herself, speaking whatever comes to mind until she dozed off to sleep.
*buzzer alarm went off*
Alice cursed under her breath, “Must’ve
forgotten to turn of the alarm again”. She walked out of bed towards the
bathroom. She looked at the mirror, cringing at the sight of her morning hair.
She quickly shook the thought of that away, thinking that since it’s her 18th
birthday that day, might as well make it the best day. She went back to lie
down on her bed, it’s too early to do anything anyway, she thought to herself.
Staring at the empty ceiling, then she turned
her gaze onto the bedside table and spotted a crumpled piece of paper. She went
to look at it, realizing it’s her birthday wish list, she sighed.
“Happy birthday, lil’ sis!” Emmett barged into her room, running towards her, engulfing her into a tight embrace as she giggled at him. “Thanks” she said, smiling at him. “I’m going to head out to the mall with Eleanor, you know, birthday shopping and all” Emmett nodded, understanding what she said.
“…and then she splurt out spaghetti from her
nose like a spaghetti dispenser” she said, throwing them both into a laughing
fit. As they were walking alongside the stores, something caught her eyes, the
stilettos she always wanted. “Hey El, look at this.” Alice pointed out to
Eleanor she awed at the sight in front of her.
After few hours, Alice finally came out of
the store holding her newly bought stilettos on her hand. She won’t stop
squealing for the fact that she finally got what she wanted. Affording the
stilettos she always wanted, checked!
Maybe this birthday wouldn’t be so bad at
all, she thought. Eleanor had to go home early because her parents are strict
as heck when it comes to punctuality.
As she was walking out of the mall, she
wasn’t really looking where she was going and she bumped into her crush in her
class. She gasped “Oh I am so sorry, Derek, I didn’t see you so I just-“she was
cut off by Derek’s chuckle “It’s alright, Alice”. There was a long silence before Derek spoke
up, “So, do you want to hang out?” Alice gave him a confused look. “You want to
hang out with me?” Derek nodded and smiled cheekily at her.
She arrived at the apartment, feeling
exhausted as she went to Emmett’s room to search for him. “He should’ve been
home by now.” She mumbled to herself while looking at her watch, it was almost
5pm. There was still something bothering her even though her birthday wish list
is almost all crossed out. She sighed; she knew it was that she wanted to meet
her parents because it has been three years since she saw them. Her parents had
to work out of town so she had no choice but to live with her brother.
“Mom! Dad!” she ran towards them and hugged
them like there is no tomorrow. “I missed you…” she sobbed as she buried
herself in between them. “We missed you too, Alice” their voices cracking.
“Surprise!” she heard Emmett said behind her. Turning around and jumped onto
Emmett thanking him a million times.
Alice learned that happiness doesn’t come
from your needs or your wants, instead, happiness comes from people or things
that make you feel like home.
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