34 Candles

By: Austin C.

Gerald was a boy, and he was thirty-three. Tomorrow was his birthday and today was Thursday the twelfth. In about fifteen minutes his friend, Timmy, would be at his house. 

Gerald’s house was huge, it used to be the ireland boys house but then they got an even bigger house. That house is great, it has a pool, a foam pit, a sauna, and it is great for hide and seek. Oh, and don’t forget the spiral staircase! 

Then, he heard the doorbell ring, and he sprinted to the door.

“Hey Gerald!”

“Hi man, how’s it going.”

“Good, how are you?” asked Timmy.

“Great, come on in.” replied Gerald.

For the rest of the night they played Destiny, Call of Duty, Rainbow 6 Siege, and Need for Speed. They also stuffed themselves with junk food: pizza, chips, nuggets, burgers, cupcakes, and cookies. 

The next day, Timmy woke up and saw that he and Gerald had both fallen asleep on the couch with food all over, and the tv running. He looked around and saw that there were presents that were not there before. He turned off the TV, and cleaned the food up.

Then he heard a noise from outside, it came closer, then he went closer to the noise so he would not wake up Gerald.

“Who’s there?” He looked out the window. “Huh, I don’t see anything.”

The door slowly swung open. A woman and a man tiptoed in holding presents.

“We have to be quiet, we don’t want to wake them.” said the woman.

“Them?” asked the man.

“I think Gerald has Timmy over.”

They both walked right past Timmy and then he stood up and said, “ Yeah, I think Timmy is here.”

 The man and woman spun around and Timmy realized that they were Gerald’s mom and dad. 

“Hey Timmy! Derall could you go get the rest of the presents from the car please? Thanks. How’s it going Timmy, I haven’t seen you for so long.” 

“Great to see you too.” he looked at the clock and it was only 7:00A.M. “Why here so early.”

She answered him,”Well we always show up early on his birthday, then sleep at his house this year he is going to love his present!” 

“Well I guess I better get going to bed. See ya.”

Timmy walked back to the fold out couch next to the tv, and went to sleep.the second time he woke up at 9:00 A.M. and he saw that Gerald and his parents were at the counter eating breakfast. Gerald was glad that everyone was awake because then they could have a conversation at breakfast. But they didn’t.

Then, Gerald’s dad went up the stairs to get the big surprise, while he opened the other presents. He was so confused why there were dog toys, dog food, a crate, and random dog things. There were other things to though that he was not confused about.

Then his dad walked down the stairs with a mini goldendoodle puppy. After everyone left, except Timmy, they went over to the foam pit. Gerald had tons of duct tape, so they build a dog bed/house and put it next to their beds.  After that they took him around for a tour of tour of the house and thought of a name. They took him in the pool and taught him to swim.They dried off in the sauna and decided to name him Max. 

 They loved Max, He loved them, But now it was time for bed. It was a full moon night and they were all asleep. 

Something creeped down stairs, it slowly crawled up the spiral staircase. CReAK CREaK cREaK. Max barked. It woke up Gerald and Timmy, so they started to walk down the stairs. 

CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP!