Inktober 2022

Day 6: Palace

Ava's boyfriend, Kyle, was driving her to her parents house. Her mom and dad were moving and had asked Ava and Kyle if they would help them pack and maybe go through some things so they could get rid of what they didn't need. Once Ava and Kyle got to the house, Ava could already see a U-Haul truck outside that her dad had rented. Even her boyfriend got out and walked up to the front door and went inside, hugging her parents and saying hi to them because they had not seen them in a while. Ava then grabbed a box and went up to the attic with her mom to start going through things. As they started going their stuff Ava found an old photo album full of pictures from when she was born up to when she turned 12.

"Wow you took a lot of photos of me didn't you mom." Ava said jokingly as she started looking through the photo album. She stopped on one page and giggled seeing photos of her 8th birthday. "Mom do you remember my 8th birthday party?" She asked as her mom came over with a warm smile to look at the photos. "Yes I do. You were so excited that morning you woke up and got dressed before you came to eat. You were most excited about the bouncy house called The Palace." Her mother said with a soft chuckle. Ava remembered that morning clearly. She remembered waking up excitedly and getting dressed as her mother said before she came down to eat. She also remembered having eaten pancakes that morning for breakfast.

She had been so excited on her 8th birthday when she woke up because she had been talking about how she wanted to have a princess themed birthday party. Her mother had called a party group to help her set up a princess themed birthday party. Ava had eaten breakfast and gone to the mall with her mother while her father and brothers stayed home and helped the party group set up the birthday party and also greeted the guests that came. She remembered going home from the mall with her mother and being surprised by all of her friends and the professionals that had dressed up like princesses to make her birthday special. Her mother had bought her a princess gown so she could be Princess Ava for the day.

Ava had been so happy and excited to be Princess Ava for the day and remembered having everybody that talked to her that day call her Princess Ava. "I remember you making everybody call you princess Ava and Kyle, your current boyfriend, had dressed up like a prince so when we played music he could ask you to dance. I remember calling it adorable that even when he was 10 years old he was romantic to you." Her mother giggled softly. Ava chuckled, also remembering that day clearly. She remembered having such a big childhood crush on her best friend Kyle and she was really happy with him. The older they had gotten, she really didn't think that she would be able to go out with him but they ended up being High School sweethearts.

"I know. When I was 15, I thought he was going to be with Kelly but then he asked me out." Ava said. "And I was so surprised on my 8th birthday when Prince Kyle had asked me to dance. I remembered having been so excited I almost threw up my pancakes on him." Ava laughed a little as she flipped through the pictures of her eighth birthday. She liked thinking about stuff like that. All throughout high school she really hadn't thought that Kyle would go for her but she was so surprised when he had asked her out on their senior year of high school. She remembered they were graduating when she was called up to grab her diploma.

She remembered going up and grabbing her diploma and waving to her mom before Kyle walked up to her in front of everybody and asked her to go out with him. She had been so flustered that day she thought she would have fallen off the stage if she was close enough to the edge. "I think I still have pictures of that day when Kyle asked you out." Her mother said. She got up and went over to a bookshelf and grabbed another album. She came over and gave it to Ava who then flipped through the book and realized it was pictures of her when she was 13 up to when she was 20. She found the pictures of her graduation and smiled when she saw her holding Kyle's hands when he asked her out and hiding her face in his shoulder as they walked over to join the other kids with diplomas. She smiled as Kyle came up into the attic and walked over to see what they were looking at. He also smiled as he wrapped his arms around her from behind and look down at the photos. "I love you Ava." Kyle said. Ava smiled softly. "I love you too, Kyle." She said.