Best Birthday Ever
Own Nothing
Today was the August of the 7. My day of birth. It was almost noon and I had still not received one call from my friends. I was sitting at our kitchen table staring at my phone, when Ryan stopped watching the T. and V. I knew he was upset that I was upset. He looked at me from behind the couch.
"Kori why don't you go see if anyone has sent you anything." my brother said to me. I got up from the table, and passed Ryan on the couch to the way of hall to the front door. Ryan watched me from his position on the sofa. I opened our door and went to our box of mail by the front entrance to our apartment building. I came back up with the mail.
"A bill, a letter from our new dentist, bill, and a note." I said to Ryan. He got up from the couch and did the hoping over our other sofa to see.
Dear Kori,
Meet me in the park at 1:30. Can't wait to see you.
Love on your Birthday :)
"Come on Kori you have to get ready." Ryan said to me.
"But I do not know who this is from. It could be someone dangerous." I told him. Ryan did the rolling of his eyes.
"Trust me Kori 'I think' it's ok." he told me. I knew that he knew who the letter was from. I was about to ask him, but he pushed me past our room of living and to my room. My room was on the right in Ryan, and I's hall. His was to the left and there was a bathing room at the end. I entered my room trying to figure out what I should wear. I finally chose a green of lime skirt and a shirt that matched it. The shirt had a blue butterfly on it. I wore the earings that I had bought when I did the trying out for dance. It reminded me that my friends had yet to call. When I was done I went to go ask Ryan's opinion.
"What do you think?" I asked while twirling around.
"Good, now go to the park." Ryan said to me while pushing me out the door. I exited the building and walked to the park. When you get close to the park you can view Wilson's Titans Academy. I smiled knowing that tomorrow I would see it on the orientation day. Then a old well dressed man did the stopping of me.
"Excuse me Miss, but would your name be Kori Ander?" he asked me.
" I am. And whom might you be?" I asked.
"I am your escort. Now please follow me." he said while holding out his arm. I did the fiddling with the necklace Richard had given me. I knew he would want me to be safe, even though he has not called.
"No thank you for you arm." I said him. He lead me through the park. "Where are we going?" I asked him.
"I am forbidden to say." the man said. I thought about running when I saw balloons and a banner that did the saying Happy Birthday Kori!
"Who has done this?" I asked, but the man was gone and someone was doing the hugging of me.
"Happy birthday Kori! Are you surprised to see us?" said Sarah. She, Rachel, Richard, Victor, and Garfield were here.
"What are you all doing here?" I asked them.
"Technically we live here too." Garfield said.
"We're all going to that Academy." Rachel said to me.
"Yeah I'm living with my aunt and uncle. Sarah, Garfield and their parents moved here. Rachel's staying in a dorm. And Richard has a place here." Victor explained to me. I hugged them all.
"You did not have to do this." I told them.
"Yeah we did. You see we all got these acceptance letters toward the end of May. We wanted to tell you, but Richard wanted us all to surprise you." Sarah said. I knew the Academy did not give out late acceptance letters. Richard had probably done the pulling of the strings. I looked over at him and he did the shrugging of his shoulders and smiled.
"OWWW!.... can we please give Kori the big present now?" Garfield asked. He looked like he was in pain. I then noticed that hid hands had been behind his back this whole time.
"Yeah I don't think Garfield's hands can take it." Rachel said. Garfield came up to me. His hands came around and there was a small kitty in his hands. He handed the small kitten to me.
"My great-aunt's cat had babies, and I know you couldn't resist the kittens when we went to the pet store that one time. Although he kinda goes by Silkie." Garfield told me.
"Hello my little bumgorf." I said to my little Silkie. The kitten started to purr. It was a blonde and striped tan kitten. They were all smiling at me.
"I made you my famous 8 layer cake with 3 kinds of frosting." Victor said to me. They sang the Happy day of birth song to me. I poured some milk for Silkie to drink. The cake was delicious. My friends had also gotten me a new purse, shoes, and the most adorable bunny of stuffness. After we had finished the cake and opened my presents I started talking to my friends.
"I was most worried that none of you would call." I told them
"We couldn't call, because we were busy setting up for the party." Sarah explained to me. Silkie had begun trying to play with the bows on the unwrapped presents.
"I love all of my presents. Especially my little bumgorf." I said while picking up Silkie.
"I can't wait to see the school tomorrow. What's it like?" Garfield asked Rachel.
"It's big. I almost got lost trying to find my room, until some annoying girl showed it to me. The girl looked like she just had her fourth cup of coffee." Rachel said to us. We laughed at the thought of that. After the party I invited Richard to have dinner with me. He agreed and carried all but one of my presents. I carried Silkie.
"How hard was it to get all of them in?" I asked. I do not think he noticed that I figured out that he had gotten all of our friends into the Academy.
"Not that hard. Well except for Gar, we had to... wait hey. How did you figure it out?" he asked me.
"It was not hard. I knew the Academy does not offer late students in, unless offered something big." I told him. He smiled. I did the kissing of him on the cheek. I could do the telling that he was doing the blushing. I could not help but to giggle at him. We finally arrived at my apartment I knocked upon the door. Ryan did the opening of it.
"Hey... hello Richard." Ryan said. Ryan's tone went from happy to disappointment.
"What is wrong baby brother?" I asked him.
"Nothing, come on in." Ryan said. We both entered, and I showed Richard to my room so that he could place my stuff down.
"I shall show you around my new home." I told him.
"Okay, but you can't tell everyone about the donation that Bruce had to throw in for them." Richard said to me. I nodded. I showed him where the bathing, and Ryan's room was. I showed him the room of living, and our kitchen. The kitchen was to the right, but you could not see it from our room of living. I then showed him where the room of laundry, and Galfore's room.
"And that was the tour of my knew home." I said to him when we were finished. Galfore was making the spaghetti for our dinner.
"I like it. Although I have to show you this won apartment room that Bruce is selling." Richard told me.
"Why is that?" I asked him.
"I think you might like it." he said to me with a smile. I lead him to the balcony attached to my room.
"This is my favorite thing of my new home. I can see everyone and the Academy. It reminds me of the palace I lived in on Tamaran." I told him. A gentle breeze blew past us. Richard wrapped his arms around me.
"I'm sorry about Tamaran. I wish I could have done something to help." he said in a whisper in my ear.
"It is not your fault. There is nothing anyone could have done." I whispered back. I turned to face him. I closed my eyes and almost kissed him when Ryan came in.
"Dinner's ready and no PDAing." Ryan said to me. I looked at Richard confused.
"It mean no public displays of affection. PDA." he explained. I nodded and we headed toward the table.
"The dinner is delicious Mr..." Richard tried to find something to address Galfore.
"You may call me Galfore." my knorfka said. I smiled at Richard.
"I wish I could cook as well as you." I said to Galfore.
"Yeah, we would die if you had to feed us." Ryan said. I did the rolling of my eyes.
"I can teach you." Richard said to me.
"What can't you do." Ryan asked Richard.
"I can't turn mud into pudding." Richard said. Galfore and I laughed. Ryan just smiled.
"So your adoptive father sells apartments too?" Galfore asked Richard.
"No, we use to live there, but now Bruce is trying to help sell it. The only thing bad about it is that it's kinda of expensive." Richard explained. After dinner Galfore brought out the iced cream cake. It was glorious. Richard smiled at me while I was eating it. After that Richard, Ryan, and I were watching some of the T. and V. Ryan just did the flipping through the channels. Richard sat next me, with his arm around me. I rested my head upon his shoulder. Then his phone of cell started to do the ringing.
"Hello... Really it is?... Sorry I lost track of time... Yeah I'll be home after I say goodnight...ok bye." Richard said while on his phone.
"Who was that?" I asked when he was finished.
"It was Bruce. He wants me home now." he said. I could do the telling that he was upset. I walked him to our door.
"Thank you so much for my day of birth party." I said while hugging him. He hugged me back and did the lifting of my face. We kissed. It was not long because of Ryan.
"PDA." Ryan said while seeming very annoyed. We broke apart and I waved the goodbye to him. I closed the door after he had reached the stairs and I could no longer see him.
"Ryan why must you do that?" I asked him.
"Your too young. Besides I don't really know him, so how do I know he's safe." Ryan answered me.
"I know who he is. If it were not for him, I might not be here." I said while reminding Ryan of my accident when I was hit. Ryan went back to watching the T. and V. I said good night to both Galfore and Ryan. I took Silkie with me, and we both headed to bed.
Author's Note Corner
I promise I will have more BBxRae. Just be patient. And the character list will be up in the next chapter. Oh and don't be afraid to review. I don't mind constructive criticism. Just be nice. :)