Stories

Story 55: Birthday Gift

Mai: 18

Joey: 16

Joey Wheeler was at school. He was concentrating hard on Tea. His eyes were wide open. Tea and Joey were staring into each other's eyes. For a long time they've been sitting in that position staring at each other. Yugi Muto was next to them counting. Yugi had just made it to 50 seconds and he continued counting. Joey kept concentrating, not trying to blink. He felt his eyes tearing up a bit. His eyes were starting to burn. He felt like blinking, but if he did Tea would win the staring contest. He saw that Tea's eyes were tearing up too, but she kept her eyes wide open. Come on, blink already, Tea! Joey thought. Joey felt his eyes closing very slowly. He forced them to stay open, but they kept closing. Then he blinks.

"You blinked!" Tea shouted. She started blinking so the tears in her eyes could disappear.

"But I almost won!" Joey complained.

"Wow you guys kept your eyes open for about 63 seconds," Yugi said.

"Well," Tea rubs her eyes. "Enough of that. What are you guys going to give Mai for her 18th birthday?"

"Today is Mai's birthday?" Joey exclaimed, surprised.

"Yeah," Tea replied.

"I can't believe you didn't even know that!" Tristan teased.

"Well for your information nobody never told me her birthday was on the 20th of November!" Joey shouted.

"I told you yesterday," Tea said.

Joey fell off his chair. Then he got back up. "No you didn't!"

Tea nodded. "I did, oh and Mai is also having a party tonight at 8pm,"

Tristan and Yugi also nodded in agreement. Joey sighed angrily.

When school ended, Joey went on a search for a perfect gift for Mai. He was walking down a sidewalk, thinking.

"Now what would Mai want for her birthday?" Joey asked himself. "What do girls like anyway? Maybe I should get advice from Tea," Joey took his phone out and dialed Tea's number.

"Hello?"

"Hey Tea, I don't know what girls like!" Joey shouted into the phone.

"Okay, sheesh, you don't have to shout," Tea said on the other end. "Get her some jewelry or something or buy her some makeup,"

"Makeup? What would I look like walking in a perfume store buying makeup?" Joey yelled.

"Fine. Get her something that she would like," Tea said as she hung up.

Joey sighed and put his phone back into his pocket. "Alright, I have to get something Mai would like," He spotted a jewelry store. "Tea did mention jewelry," He walks inside the jewelry store.

There was lots of jewelry everywhere in glass boxes. Joey looks through the glass boxes. He spots a beautiful silver necklace with a diamond in the middle of it. He looks at the price.

"Whoa, 1 million dollars!" Joey shouted.

Everybody in the store was staring at Joey.

"Heh, heh…" Joey quickly left the store. He starts walking down the sidewalk again. "Okay, now I can't buy any jewelry, so what can I get then?" then he came across a rare card store. He went inside. Inside the store held a lot of rare cards. The rare cards were in glass boxes like the jewelry were in that jewelry store. "Wow," he saw a card called Mystic Swordsman LV6. He didn't know if Mai even liked warrior type cards, but he got it anyway.

"That'll be fifty dollars, sir," the guy at the counter said.

"Fifty dollars for one card?" Joey asked, in disbelief.

"For one ultra rare card, sir," the guy said.

Joey frowned and gave the guy the money. Then he left the store. Now all he needed to do was get a gift box. He went to a gift store and bought a small gift box. He put the card in the box and he decided to put a rose in the box too. Then Joey was off to Mai's house.

Mai was at her house, sitting on a couch. Everybody was dancing around and having fun. Mai felt sad for some reason. The party has been going on for over 20 minutes. Joey hadn't shown up yet. Serenity walks over to Mai.

"Mai, why aren't you having fun in your own party?" Serenity asked.

Mai shrugged. "I'm just not in the party mood at the moment,"

"Oh…okay then," Serenity said as she walked away.

Mai sighed, sadly. Where is Joey? She thought. She closed her eyes and sighed again.

"Surprise!" someone suddenly shouted into her ear.

Mai covers her ears with her hands and opens her eyes. Joey was standing over her with a small present box in his hands. Mai frowned and removed her hands from her ears.

"I could've gone deaf you know!" Mai shouted.

Joey looked offended. "Well excuse me for coming over here at all!"

"What took you so long?" Mai asked.

"Just looking for the perfect gift. Were you sitting there waiting for me the whole time?" Joey asks.

Mai glared at him and folded her arms. "Of course not," she lied.

"Well…here," Joey handed Mai the small present box.

Mai smiled and took the box. She starts opening it and gasps when she sees what's inside. "This…this is an ultra rare card. How'd you get it?"

"I bought it at some rare card store," Joey replied.

Mai looks at Joey. "Thank you so much,"

Joey scratches the back of his neck and blushes lightly. "Eh, no problem,"

Mai sets the box down next to her on the couch. She stood in front of Joey, her face close to his. This made Joey blush even more. She leans forward and kisses Joey's cheek. Joey's eyes widened in surprise. Then Mai sat back down and starts looking at her new card. Joey sits next to her and sighs.

What a great birthday. Mai thought

THE END