I didn't die guys – I'm back.

BTW Happy Bahrain National Day to everyone who's celebrating it. Imma gonna go for fireworks today with my family.

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[Published: 17/12/2019]

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Today we went to watch the movie, Siren's Lament.

Like Randy asked, I invited Sandra and obviously brought along Jessica. Sandra came along and said she "was honored to be invited" even though we met only like two days back.

I said I wanted to make her feel welcome, even though I honestly didn't care THAT much. Obviously, I didn't tell her THAT part.

We met Randy's main circle of friends – Joel, Keith, and Alicia. He always hung out with them and I met them often. They were happy to see us, especially Alicia as she said, "It's awesome to hang out with girls sometime. Seriously, these guys drive me nuts."

Alicia is kind of like a tomboy sort of person who hangs out with guys most of the time, but she welcomes girl friends.

So we all had lots of fun, took selfies and that MOVIE WAS LIKE GLAMOROUS!

Of course, Randy took the opportunity to flirt with Sandra a bit and Jessica took the opportunity to flirt with Keith. Jessica has been crushing on Keith since sometime and they don't meet each other so she took full advantage today.

The rest of us (Joel, me and Alicia) were watching the whole thing and having fun. We sneaked up on them and took pictures which we can use to blackmail on them.

After the movie, Randy asked, "What do you guys wanna eat?"

"Anything is fine," Joel shrugged.

"Why don't we eat McDonald's?" Keith suggested. Jessica agreed with him because she would obviously agree with, like, EVERYTHING he says.

"We should try pasta – I haven't had one in some time," Alicia countered. A lot of us agreed.

"Pizza is the best," I decided. "Nothing can beat pizza."

"What do you think, Sandra?" Randy asked her specifically, mainly because she was the newcomer (public reason) and he wanted to get closer to her (private reason).

"As Joel said, I'm okay with anything," Sandra said.

"Okay," Randy thought a bit. "Should we do majority wins?'

"Why don't we just go to the mall's food court and order what we want?" I asked.

"Mac – you, you're a genius!" Randy said.

"Well, DUH," I said, feeling good about myself.

So we all went to the food court and ordered whatever we wanted. When we parted, I said, "See you guys on my birthday!" I also invited Sandra, and she said she would LOVE to come.

"I can't wait!" Alicia gushed. "We're gonna have SO much fun!"

The others agreed and while we left, I whispered to Randy, "Now you owe me another favor."

"For what?" Randy played dumb.

"You know what," I said, looking pointedly at Sandra.

"Crap," Randy replied jokingly, as he followed my gaze. "See ya, Mac!"

Speaking of birthday, I'm really excited about it which is TOMORROW!

I was hoping Mom would change the venue to the Country Club at the last minute, but NO. She DIDN'T. I'm still annoyed, and more annoyed that our house is starting to have more bugs which I noticed after coming back from the movie.

Which was ANOTHER reason for her to change the venue but NOPE.

I asked her why and she said the same DUMB excuse, "It's between grownups. You wouldn't understand."

Like, how STUPID did she think I was?!

I'm sure it had to do something business-related because she said it was "between grownups".

Ugh, I don't understand grownups. They always think we are so stupid which is SO UNFAIR is they won't even begin to explain what's wrong!

Toodles!

-MacKenzie

Guys, I'm kinda sorry to not update in such a long time, but hopefully, you guys liked this chapter. The main reason I didn't update in months was that I was really mad about the silence (*cough*reviews*cough*) from you guys – so uh, silent treatment from my side too. Then I got busy and got used to not updating this.

Let it be known that as long as I live, I will continue to update and finish this off so if there's anyone who ever worries about this becoming incomplete, please don't. I may hate Dork Diaries, but I LOVE this fanfiction to the core.