Deals with Riley

"So you're trying to tell me that Riley was somehow okay with you having me for the entire day? She usually has the entire day planned down to the smallest detail every year."

"Well," Josh started, "I made a deal with her, She'll get you after we're done here. First though, I'll have to beat you at air hockey and then we'll go get a few slices of pizza."

"I suppose we'll be here for a while then, because there's no way that you're beating me at this." Maya said as she scored which put the score at 6-2 in her favor.

"I'll just take one rematch then and hope that the pizza cheers me up then."

"If that doesn't cheer you up, then I can probably help with that."

"Yeah, you're probably right about that."

"So how are you liking your birthday so far?" Josh asked as they finally got their pizza.

"It's been weird having a birthday as I haven't seen Riley yet even though it's five in the afternoon. I have to say that I really like the day so far though. This was a gret gift Josh."

"hold on, you don't actually think that this was your gift right?"

"Well I know how you like to overdo things, so I figured that there might be something else coming. This should have been enough though."

"Well, I do have something, but I didn't actually bring it with me. I had Riley put it at your nightstand so that you get it when you get back from our date."

"You know that you didn't have to do all this for me."

"But I wanted to, I love you and I really wanted you to have the best birthday that you possibly could."

Maya took a good long look at Josh. I love you she thought. "Come here." She said and pulled him in for a good long kiss.


"So, this is where I'm supposed to leave you according to Riley." They were outside Maya and Riley's dorm room, but josh hadn't allowed Maya to enter yet.

"What do you mean by according to Riley?"

"Well," Josh started and reached towards the door. "I'm supposed to do this and then my part of the day with you is done according to her." Josh said and knocked on the door.

"There you are." Riley said as she opened the door and dragged a shocked Maya into the room. "bye Josh." she called as she closed the door.

"Happy Birthday!" Maya heard, but it took her a few seconds to get over the initial surprise. Maya noticed Smackle and Emily as well as Riley all dressed for a girls' movie night.

"Thank you so much for all of this, but I think I'm way too overdressed for this." Maya said gesturing to the dress that she'd put on when Josh had told her that they were going out for a date earlier that day.

"Well we can give you a couple of minutes to just throw something else on, but you have to be quick then." Emily told Maya.

"You can be quite demanding when you want to, you know that?"

"I've heard that before." Emily said as she shooed Riley out the door.

Maya took a look around the room. It was mostly the way that she had left it earlier that day when she went out with Josh. She noticed a stack of presents on her desk, but she was surprised that there were more than just the three from the girls. She also checked her nightstand where she found what had to be Josh's present for her. She had to stop herself from going over to unwrap it because she remembered that Emily had only given her a couple of minutes to change her outfit. As she found her new outfit she was barely able to hide her grin. This would be her best birthday by far.


"So, start with opening your presents." Riley told her, just barely able to hide her excitement.

"Okay, just calm down and give me a present that you want me to open." Maya said and was handed a gift that appeared to be from Emily. "I'm surprised, I would have thought you'd be too impatient to give me a gift from someone other than yourself first."

"Hey, I'm maturing as well I'll have you know. Now open it!" Riley commanded. Maya gently opened the packaging to reveal a box that had once contained a speaker. Maya realized that the box was too light to contain the actual speaker.

"So, you remember the speakers that were placed around in your room this morning? Well some of them were mine, but I figured you might like to have one. You're always spending so much time painting and I figured you might enjoy having some music playing in the background. Now I know that you have the option to play it from a headset or something, but that might end up getting in the way."

"Yeah, I love this gift, but it sound like it could have cost you quite a bit?"

"Don't worry about that, I got a good deal on it." Emily said.

"Well then, let me try to connect my phone to the speaker then."

"But you're supposed to be opening gifts now Maya!" Riley complained.

"We don't have to rush it Riley, I want to spend time to enjoy every gift that I get."

"Speaking of the speakers, how was the playlist?"

"Oh, it was great, I had Josh show the list to me during our date. You really have my music taste figured out quite well."

"Well, you do listen to a lot of music that I like, but some of the suggestions also came from Josh."

"That's weird, I didn't think that he shared my taste in music?"

"Well, he might not share your taste in music, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know what you like. He really makes an effort to remember details when it involves you."


Well I made it, just barely though. I'll try to update again sometime the following week, but until then have a good holiday/vacation.