Javier walked up the steps to Kevin's house, it was the Saturday after his first week at his new school and he and Kevin had decided to meet up. After he had knocked on the door a woman, who Javier guessed was Kevin's mom, appeared behind the door.
"Hello I'm Javier Esposito, is Kevin ready yet Mrs Ryan"
"Hello Javier and you can call me Fiona, I'll just get him, please come in" smiled Fiona. Javier walked into the hall and looked around, on the wall hung photos of Kevin and his family. Kevin's sisters looked like more like Fiona, while Kevin looked more like his father, Liam. Javier smiled at a photo of Kevin and his dad, Kevin was dressed in a soccer kit on his dad's shoulders holding a small trophy.
"Hey Javier!" greeted Kevin as he came bounding down the stairs,
"Hey Kevin, ready to go?" asked Javier, Kevin nodded picked up his soccer ball and said goodbye to his mom. As they were walking down the street Javier asked "so how much older are your sisters than you?"
"Well, my oldest sister, Rachel is 18, Alison is 17 and Penny is 15"
"So at least you don't have to hang around with them"
"I did when I was younger, when I was 5 Rachel had to look after me, Alison and Penny. So they all thought it would be funny to dress me up. They put one of Alison's old dresses on and put some of Rachel's make up on me, so just be thankful you don't have any older sisters"
Javier tried desperately not to laugh, he didn't want to upset his new friend and from Kevin's face he didn't find it exactly funny. When they reached the park they played some one on one soccer. Kevin easily won, so they bought an ice cream each and sat watching the passers-by. They started making plans for October break, which was in two weeks' time.
"So Javier got any plans for next weekend?"
"Sort of, it's my birthday next Sunday, do you wanna come over?" asked Javier nervously,
Kevin smiled back at him and said "sure, that means your 9 months and 10 days older than me"
"So your birthday is June 21st?"
Kevin nodded. After they walked home Kevin realised he had no idea what Javier would want for his birthday!
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Kevin was sat next to Javier in Javier's living room, Kevin had handed Javier an envelope, he had asked his dad to buy two tickets for a baseball game where Javier's favourite team was playing.
"Wow thanks Kev! Do you wanna come with me to see the game?"
Kevin was speechless; he thought Javier would want to go with his dad. He grinned "Sure thanks Javi" they both smiled at the shortened version of their names, no one else had shortened either of their names before.