Broken Girl-A Niley Story, Chapter Two: A New Surprise
The weekend after Miley's nightmare was her father's birthday. He was turning 47. She was excited. She and her mother had gone all out this year and got a big dinner for them to share together and bought him lots of presents.
Miley had even chipped in with her allowance to get him the new work boots he wanted. Though she couldn't quite understand why he would want work boots when he could get anything else, from a new cell phone for work or even a new TV set to replace the broken one in the living room. He would have loved that. But for some reason he wanted work boots.
Miley made her way in to her parent's room where her father had a surprise for her and her mother. She hopped on the bed and listened.
"Well, since I know you too went all out for my birthday this year, I want to give something to you guys too! Since we didn't get to give you a very good present for your birthday this year Miley." He said to her. She waited excitedly.
"So are you going to tell us yet? Or do we have to wait here all day!" Her mother said with a smile. He turned to her and said, "Ok, ok. Well…we haven't gone out on the boat for a while so… I decided that we'll take a vacation for the next week!" He said with a big smile. Miley's smile faded, there was something she didn't like about the idea, but she couldn't quite remember what.
After a moment of silence her mother finally said, "Oh honey, your beat up boat is so broken down. I don't think you would even get it past the dock." She said, hoping she hadn't hurt his feelings. But surprisingly, his smile didn't leave, in fact it got bigger. He stood up, "That's exactly what I thought you would say. Come here!" He raced down to the back yard. As the girls reached there he motioned them to the old barn.
He opened the door and they all walked inside. When he closed the door darkness closed in. After a few seconds he turned the overhead lights on and…
"Tada!!" he waved his hands toward a brand new boat. The same boat he had but much nicer and definitely cleaner and more put together. "Cool!" Miley exclaimed, forgetting the fear she had felt only a few moments before. Honey, this is amazing. It must have been expensive!" Her mom cried. "No, I traded in 'Hope' and got this new boat for almost half the price." He said happily. "I took a week off of work and I called Miley's school and got them to let her get a week off! Everything set! So what do you say? Let's go!" He said expectantly.
"Oh honey…" His wife said as she started to reject, but when she saw the look on his face she couldn't, "Oh what the heck! When are we leaving?" She said joining in on the excitement. "How about right now! We can pack a few things and stop by the store for some supplies."
"What about your presents? And your birthday dinner!" Miley said wonderingly. "Well…we'll take the dinner with us and have ourselves a feast on the sea! And the presents? How about we wait until we get back and then we can open them then. Sound good?" Miley nodded and agreed.
By now she had completely forgotten about the memory of the dream she had days before. Instead, excitement filled that part of her mind. By tonight she'd be on the new boat, her dad would be telling stories and they'd all be laughing and having a great time. There would be nothing to worry about.
Now all she had to do was pack!