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A legend to help out when reading….
"Hello" – Talking
'Hello,' – Thinking and Announcements (on radio, PA, etc.)
"To be or Not To be," – Quotes (will appear at the beginning of chapters)
Any word that is in Italic – Empathize the word
God send me an angel, From the heavens above – Lyrics or a letter/note, e-mails, posters (Their BOLD AND ITALIC)
Chapter Eleven: Seventeen Candles
"Seventeen candles for the birthday girl."
February
"Hey, guys their throwing a Valentine's Day dance!" yelled Aya, as everyone went to see the poster hang on the bulletined board.
The poster had red hearts decorated all over the poster, with a silhouette of a male and female dancing. 'Valentine's Day dance: Dancing for love and passion! Tickets are $5. Going to the dance with your girlfriend/boyfriend? How about two tickets for $8! Tickets are available during lunch period and after school till Feb.13.'
"And I know that I'm going to go with Ryan to the dance, because he purchase the tickets the first day it began, oh, he's a sweetie," said Aya.
Aya and Ryan was an official couple after the winter ball event. And Anna and Rose were dating Peter and Daniel, but they aren't couples, yet.
"Well, I'm not sure if I am able to go, since I got a test the following day, plus I'm able to go on a study date with Peter," Anna replied.
"I'm thinking about it," Rose replied.
Then they look at Jess waiting for her to answer.
"No."
"Why not?"
"Simple it's because I'm not interested and Valentine's Day is know as the day of rejections, as I am about to do so, since I'm not available for Valentine's Day."
"What do you mean 'about to do so'?" asked Anna.
Jess sigh at her question, before replying, "Come with me."
Jess left them to head to her lockers, but Aya, Rose and Anna follow her quickly, to see what she really mean.
It took a while to reach to Jess's locker, as Jess was putting the combination in her lock.
"You see for some odd reason, some of the guys know that I'm not going to be available on V-Day, and they are trying to get me unavailable to go to the dance with them."
"Come on, it can't be that bad like a few guys sending you a few letters wanting you to be their Valentine," said Aya.
Jess manages to unlock her lock, and before opening she said, "You don't even know."
Jess opens her locker fully, to see cards coming out of her locker. Not two or three cards, about thirty cards most. They all fell down in a scattered pile, some of them pink, red and white and some reveal Jess's name on the envelopes.
The girls were surprise to see so many cards; do these guys have a life?
"To add it up I have to carry these letters and see what they have to say, and I had a chance to see who each of these guys is, and they don't seem to be my type."
Jess pick up every card, and stuff them in her backpack, and close her locker.
"By the way, why aren't you available on Valentine's Day?" asked Rose.
"Art assignment. I need to go the art gallery to find a painting and do some research about it."
March
The café seemed busy as usual, since its cold as always until spring comes near the end of the month.
Jess went to a group of girls who paid their bill for having treats and drinks, she receives the cash from the girls, plus some of the girls gave her some tips.
"Thank you, and come back to Moonlight Star Café again," Jess said.
She headed to the cash register to place the cash and coins in, but keeping the tips in her pocket.
Then she headed to the other side of the counter to finish making the hot-chocolate a customer order, with a side of apple pie.
Jess got a tray to place the plate with the apple pie and with the hot chocolate, and carry it to a table with the customer who ordered it.
"Enjoy your order."
"Hey, Jess," said a girl, with blonde hair, and honey-brown eyes.
"Yes."
"Um… is it possible if I can borrow $5?" asked Susan, "It's because I need for the bus fare to get home and I promise to repay you tomorrow."
"No problem," Jess said as she went to her bag to get her wallet.
Jess open her wallet to give Susan the amount needed, and Susan took a glimpse of something saying that Jess's birthday was on March 20, two weeks from now.
"Oh your birthday is coming up soon," said Susan.
"Yeah, I'm turning seventeen once it's comes, and I'll be another year older than last year," Jess replied.
"Are you going to plan something special?" she asked.
"Not really," Jess answered, "I may think of working, and relaxing at home."
"You know what? How about for you birthday all of us here could close the café for the night of your birthday? We can have a dinner party and go see a movie; we always celebrate our employee's birthday by doing it."
"Sounds like it's better than pretending it's another day."
"GREAT!" Susan yelled excitedly, "I'll inform Karen about your birthday."
March 20
Jess woke up, as she sits up on her bed, stretching and yawning. She couldn't believe that her it was her birthday already.
Moving to one side of the bed, she place her feet on the cool floor, she look to her alarm clock to see it was 9:53 am on a Sunday.
She has until 5:30pm to meet the others at Moonlight Star Café to head to a restaurant and a movie, which she has a lot of time.
She peered through the window to see the sky cloudy, and there was almost no snow on the ground, a sign of spring that it is coming.
"Surprise!!!" two people screamed, startling Jess as she fell on the floor.
She looks to see Aya and Anna behind her with a cupcake cover in vanilla icing and a candle was place on the top, and lit with a small flame.
"Happy Birthday, Jessica!!"
Jess smile at them, replying, "Thanks you guys."
"Hurry up, to make a wish and blow out you candles," said Anna.
She never thought of what she wanted to wish for, but she quickly made a thought of her wish.
'I wish to have something to happen in my life that would change everything."
With her wish made she blew out the candle, and Anna handed her the cupcake as a treat to enjoy the day.
The day went by so fast that Jess came back from the apartment after enjoying a dinner party with the other employees and watching the movie, along carrying a few gifts from them.
Jess headed up the stairs, and down the hall way to her door, getting the keys to unlock the door before entering in.
"Hey guys I'm back," Jess said as she went to put her jacket away, along with her boots.
"How did the dinner and the movie went?" Aya asked with curiosity.
"It went good," Jess replied, "I had a good time."
"Cool. By the way, we got you some presents for your birthday, and also a package came from the mail. The address was from Canada, I think it must be from your family. There in your room."
"My family?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, thanks."
Jess went to her room placing the presents she got from those who worked with her at the café, to look at the three presents on top of her bed.
One of them, she knew came from her family since it was in a brown wrapping paper that the mail workers use, and there were two presents that were in colorful wrapping paper.
She got on her bed and start opening her birthday gift from Aya, unwrapping the present to see a free spa treatment at a spa that Aya went a few times, and you can bring two friends to get a free treatment as well.
Anna gave Jess two books for her birthday; one of them a romantic novel and the other was horror.
Then she looks at the package, wondering what they gave her for her birthday, Jess got the package, placing it on her lap, as she open up the package to see not only an envelope that could contain a letter or a card, and to reveal a small, flat, blue velvet box.
Jess open the envelope first before opening the velvet box, seeing what her family must have wrote down.
Jessica,
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY!! We can't believe that you are growing up so fast, and maturing to become a young woman. It was hard to celebrate your birthday without you being back in Canada... but we sent you good wishes for your birthday and a gift to show that we're with you, and we are always in your heart. Hope you have a happy birthday, and enjoy the gift.
With love and wishes,
Your family.
After reading the letter, Jess place the letter aside to pick up the box, slowly opening it to reveal a necklace.
The necklace was silver chained, and had a white and blue snowflake.
She remove the necklace from it's' place to lift it up and observe it. After a while she clutch the necklace close to her chest, as silent tears stream down her cheeks, a smile was plaster on her face.
'Thank you, so much.'
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