At first I was confused and
unimpressed. I knew it was my birthday, but I had no idea if the cheers were
for me. Then someone reached out and gave me a card. Then I felt embarrassed,
then shy, then grateful and somewhat impressed by their warmth and finally
surprised.
You see I had been pulled away under
false pretense by my roommate who claimed he had something to show me… indeed!
So we strolled down to the gym and stood outside its glass windows as he said,
“Look!”
“At what?” I replied, wondering what
I was suppose to be looking at aside equipment that I had hardly, if ever used.
“Look at it… don’t you see it?”
At this point I thought Ben was
crazy. There was nothing spectacular to see.
“I’m heading back!” I announced.
“No wait,” he said, “Tell me
something…”
“What?” I asked.
“Do you like it here?”
A bit of an odd question, but I
replied. “I guess!”
The small conversation went on till
at some point he looked at his watch as if he was bored with what he started.
“Let’s go back,” he said. And that was how we walked
back to my surprise party!
