THE SURPRISE PARTY

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!