Making Circles by Vanessa Gilbert (summer beach reads .txt) 📕

Everyone smiled and passed around high fives of “oh yea we got her” congrats. I sighed silently and used all my will power not to roll my eyes at them. “Thanks Carter for helping us pull this off,” my mom said.

“No problem and thanks for letting me do this with you guys,” Carter said.

“No problem,” dad said.

I starred between my parents and Carter and asked, “So you guys planned this together?”

They all nodded in unison. “Well that’s a bigger surprise then the surprise party,” I said.

Everyone let a bark of laughter out and began to mingle with each other. So little mingling, I mean everyone here knows everyone. Carter wrapped an arm around my waist and began to lead me towards the area that they all where huddling over. The little area was covered from head to toe in presents and decorations. The decorations were for a six year old party and the six year old who was having the party loved pink and flowers. “We’re sorry for the decorations, honey, but this is all they had left at the party store,” my mom said.

I smiled at her and said, “It’s okay mom but I have to tell you the truth, I have no idea what we are celebrating.”

Everyone froze on the spot and let out a bark of laughter. I starred at every one of them in surprise and said, “OH come on! All of you know what we’re celebrating, all of you but me!?”

They all nodded and kept laughing at me and my stupidity. I felt my blood begin to boil and my cheeks grew warm, well I can’t get more embarrassed than this. “Oh wait I forgot, Carter, would you like to see some baby pictures of Arien,” my mom asked.

Spoke too soon, I thought. “No mom he doesn’t wanna see me as a baby,” I said.

“Actually I do,” Carter said.

I turned my eyes on him and asked, “What?”

“I wanna see you as a baby and hear some of their stories I mean we all did stupid things when we were little,” Carter said.

Maybe but the stuff I did and said was downright retarded. “Oh then you’ll love this one story that we find downright cute,” mom said grabbing Carter’s arm and dragging him over to one of the benches.

I sighed then looked at everyone else who where now talking to each other. I sighed and starred down at the bench covered from head to toe in the decorations and presents. Straight across from the decoration present full table was the food full table that was full of food on any available spot. I sighed and made my way over to that table and began to look and see what was on the table. There were three or more different bowls fool of different chip types, two or three plate full of little sandwiches, three or more plate full of some classy looking appetizers that you find in classy restaurants, and more than three different kinds of casseroles. Yep, normal family food at parties…well normal for my family. I grabbed one of the different types of chips from a bowl and dipped it in one of the many different types of dips and then ate it.    

“Hey Arien,” I heard a familiar voice say.

I looked behind me and standing there was Rose, Kitty, and Kyle. I smiled and wrapped my thin arms around them and pulled them in tight for a hug. “Thanks guys for coming and I guess helping them surprise me,” I said.

They all nodded and said, in unison, “No problem.”

I laughed and then turned back over to the table, grabbed the same chip type and dip type that I had last and then at the dip covered chip. “So, your mom’s telling embarrassing stories about you to your boyfriend,” Kyle asked.

I sighed and nodded, “She warned me that she’d do it next time she and Carter were along, that’s why when she’s around me and him I never leave his side.”

“You know that whole, ‘she and Carter were along,’ thing sounds kind of like rape,” Kyle laughed.

I froze up and in just a matter of seconds I began to bark with laughter. He was right, it did sound a little like rape. “Kyle, that’s disgusting that’s my mother,” I said.

Kyle shrugged and soon began to laugh with me. I gently hit his arm as he walked away and shook my head at him. “God, pervert,” I said quietly to his back.

I took another dip covered chip then walked to a group and jumped straight in on the conversation. My uncle, Colt, was talking to Rose, Kyle, Kitty, and Mark. Kyle stood on Colts left, Rose on his right, Kitty stood at Rose’s right, and Mike stood at Kyle’s left. Colt had on his favorite black t-shirt that on the front has a skeleton with a surf board and on the back it reads, “Bad to the bone,” he also had on his black jeans, his black combat boots, and covering his brown curly hair was his favorite black hat that has the symbol for Metal Gear. Rose has on her favorite tight yellow t-shirt, that stops at her hips, and on her chest is the symbol for equals three (our favorite YouTube “show”), she had on her favorite blue pair of Capri, and her favorite two inch high, green, summer sandals. Kyle had on his favorite dark, dark purple shirt, his favorite black leather jacket, his tight black skinny jeans, his black and white high tops, and he had on a Jack the Skeleton beanie covering his black hair.

Kitty had on her favorite rainbow, tank top that has, “Gay Love,” writing on her chest in black, her favorite black ripped up skinny jeans, her favorite black combat boots, and she had on her favorite rainbow jacket. Mike had on his usual random black shirt, his blue jeans, his grey and white skater shoes, and his black drench coat. I smiled at all of them as I walked and stood in between Mike and Kitty. Mike leaned over and gave me a side hug and as soon as he let go of me Kitty tackled me to the ground and screamed out, “Abby!”

See in middle school when Kitty and I became friends we started writing this story about a lesbian couple. Kitty used her name and I used what I would like to change my name to, Abigail. So, Kitty decided that my nickname that she can only call me is Abby and I’m the only one aloud to call her my Kit-Kat. In any case, sadly for Kitty no one listened to her, “I’m the only one aloud to call her Abby,” rule so now everyone calls me Abby except for Mark. Mike calls me Air-bear, don’t know where he got it just know that that’s what he calls me now. “Kitty, get off of Air-bear you’re gonna hurt her,” Mike said to Kitty.

“Aw okay I’ll just show her my love when no one else is around,” Kitty said as she got off of me and held her hand out for me.

I smiled and took her hand then as soon as I was up I wrapped my arms around her neck and pulled her in for a tight hug. “Aw thanks Kitty and I’ll show my love back,” I said.

“Yay,” Kitty screeched as she wrapped her arms around my waist.

We laughed then starred at Colt and Mike and laughed at their expressions. Colt has one eyebrow raised and looks a little freaked out and Mike looked…a little excited.  “Can I join in,” Mike asked.

Kitty and I both let out a bark of laughter and both said, “No, it’s just for us two.”

“Aw,” Mike whined.

We both laughed then unwrapped our arms form each other’s bodies and then jumped straight back into the conversation. “Well like I was saying before the lesbians here got it on, did you check out the new game Skyrim,” Colt asked everyone in the conversation.

Everyone but me shook their head and looked at him in confusion. Colt looked at all of them in surprise and said, “What?! Come on its new and its awesome!”

They all looked at me with questioning stares. I sighed and said, “It’s like Dragon Age only you choose what you look like and you don’t really fallow a plot line.”

They all nodded and then starred back at Colt waiting for the next game discussion. “Well, fine then well forget about that game and move on to Dead Space, one of you has to have played Dead Space, besides Arien,” He asked.

Marks eyes grew wide and he looked like soon he was going to explode with happiness. “I have,” Mike screamed.

I laughed to myself and watched as Mike and Colt began to talk intensively about Dead Space one and two. “So did you get past the level when you had to go outside the space craft to fix something and then you had to fight like either two or three of those big nasty creatures,” Mike asked.

Colt laughed and said, “Are you kidding I got past that part in no time.”

“Damn I’m kinda stuck on that part,” Mike said.

“Really, it’s simple,” Colt said.

Mike glared at him and said, “Hey now, give me a break.”

Colt laughed and soon we all jumped in with the laughter. It’s funny how almost all of my friends are gamers and all of them have played almost all the exact same games that my uncle and I have played together. Sadly though I can’t talk about them…I’ve only played one fourth of the games, the rest I’ve watched Colt play. “Okay here’s a game I know for a fact that Arien played but the rest of you I don’t know. Who here has played Rock Band,” Kitty asked.

Colt looked at me then Mike and Mike looked at Colt then me. “Oh come on you two? Both you have played almost every game out there but you haven’t played the best game ever,” I asked both of the boys.

“Yea, come on guys even I’ve played that,” Rose said.

“Well, I only play shooting games,” Mike said.

“Same here,” Colt said.

I sighed and rolled my eyes at the guys as I said, “You guys are deprived.”

They both laughed and shook their head at me. Kitty and I always play Rock Band, when I’m at her house, and it’s always the same thing we pick. We pick our band that has Kitty as the drummer and Abby on the guitar. Last time we played it we made a new band called, “Psychotic Kitty,” where I was the singer and Kitty was the guitar player and we had her younger “brother” play as the bass guitar but usually she didn’t let him play just because he always tried to sing when I was suppose to sing and screwed me up every single time. Kitty finally kicked him off the first time we were playing when he kept screwing me up and it almost made us lose our fans and our money. Luckily he finally clammed up when he saw how bad I was failing and just let me sing by myself. When Kitty told him to sign off and go to his room and play with his younger brother and sister he pleaded and begged to keep singing and promised to keep his mouth shut Kitty almost game him a second chance…but she took it back when we were looking at songs and I was practicing and he joined in.

“Well I have a surprise for all of you,” Kitty said.

Everyone looked at her waiting to hear what she’s going to surprise us with. “I talked to Sandy the owner of the vet building over there, and she decided to be nice enough to let us use her building and TV to hold a game playing competition,” Kitty said.

“No way,” I yelled.

“Yes way,” Kitty said.

“Well then what are we doing here let’s get the game competition going,” Mike said.

Rose and I