A Sour Sweet 16 (Aim to Engage Entry)

A Sour Sweet 16

Everyone froze.

Fear and worry radiated off of each and every person in the neon-lit bowling alley. All were unsure of whether or not we had just witnessed the same thing.

The defeaning silence did not help either. The crowd concaved from the spot where my 6ft tall birthday cake just swallowed my crush's little sister.

I searched my mind trying desperately to get ahold of my thoughts only to feel sheer panic in return. How was I going to face him after my birthday cake ate his sister?

In a town like this one, abnormal activity was expected but never to this extent. The enticing cake stood on it's cardboard pedestal snarling angrily at its spectators.

The only reasonable explanation: someone sprinkled the cake with Magic Sugar Dust.

With worried eyes my crush looked at the cake then back at me, silently asking if I would make the daring rescue. The $100 garment that hung elegantly off my hips was enough to keep me in my spot.

Any chance of him reciprocating my feelings flew out the window.

My best friend being the reckless one, charges into the cake with a humongous cleaver. It fought back to our horror, snarling and wiggling in all it's frosty glory but it was no match for her.

She emerged from the battle messy yet victorious. Everyone around us cheered while I stood with mixed feelings. Not only did she save the day... She stole my crush's heart too.