Lost Adventure

Chapter 14

"C! C! C!" Maverick whispered. No answer. Lilly tried to move closer, but quietly walking around on the dry grass is very hard without getting poked. "Maverick help me! I am stuck." C whisper-yelled after a while. "C where are you?" Maverick asked, squinting into the darkness. "Just kidding, I'm fine." C giggled. "C, c'mon we have a lot of work to do." Maverick said sternly. "Ok, ok." C said, rolling her eyes. Lilly realized that she was dozing off and she decided to confront them, for whatever, in the morning. All those days C had been missing, she was actually off gathering materials for Lilly's birthday.All that night Maverick and C were slaving away, setting up a birthday party for Lilly. C made a cake using ingredients she had saved from the fire, and Maverick used fallen logs and made four benches, and two poles. He weaved the grass blades together to spell out 'Happy Birthday'. Which he hung on the logs. C had also sewn a new outfit for Lilly trying to make it look as modern-day as possible, Haley and Teague had found a baby bunny a couple a week before and they kept it safe and hidden from Lilly. Soon everything was ready and it was about four hours from sun up. C and Maverick washed up then went to the teepee and slept. Maverick, Haley, Teague, C, and Lb were all awake, towering over Lilly for about an hour. Soon she woke up and she was frightened to see them. "Maverick and C-" She began before Haley cuffed her mouth and eyes and they all dragged her outside. "Look, Lilly." Haley said. "Happy...Birthday?" Lilly asked, confused. "It's not my birth...day." Lilly's eyes filled with tears as her whole body was overcome with a warm, happy feeling. They all ran over to Lilly and gave her a big group hug. "But how did you know, we don't have a calendar *sniff* I mean....I even forgot my own birthday." Maverick pulled out a dirty crumpled-up piece of paper, it read: Lilly's birthday- August 25, 2022, 365 nights. There were 365 marks on the paper, some of them were red, some blue, some yellow, but most of them were black. "You keep track of when my birthday is?" Lilly asked sweetly. "Yep, I've done it every year for 6 years now. All of the black marks are from when we started this crazy death adventure. Let's see we've survived for around...16 and a half weeks!" Maverick said. "Guys we will talk about this later, Lilly, come over here these gifts are from all of us." Haley said excitedly. Lilly opened the gift from C and Lb, and her eyes lit up when she saw the beautiful shirt. It was a navy blue shirt, it had a silky layer inside and then a lace like cover on the outside. There were ruffles on the sleeve and neckline, and on the bottom left corner in yellow thread wrote 'Lilly' "C, Lb thank you, I love it! Thank you," Lilly said excitedly. "But where did you get everything for it? All our stuff burned away in the fire." she added. "Well, When you guys were staying at our house, Maverick woke me up in the middle of the night and he said that your birthday was in a few months. He asked me if we could buy some materials and if I could sew you a shirt. Somehow he had a picture of something he was going to buy for you, and I made it. With the help of Lb of course." C explained with one long breath.