Adventures of M+N

Adventures In Packages

Writing Prompt: The doorbell rings. You check the alarm clock and notice it's way to early for someone to be visiting. You crawl out of the warm bed and scuffle across the house to the front door. You crack it open and no one is there. Upon opening the door, you notice a big package on your doorstep. (changed it a little bit but once again same concept)

Ding! Dong!  The doorbell ringing wakes me up. What time is it? It feels unbelievably early. My alarm clock reads 5:00am. Who is ringing the doorbell at 5 in the morning?! I know it's not Miles because he doesn't knock. He just walks in. Even if it's 5 in the morning. I know I have to get the door because my parents are on a cruise for the next 6 months, so I'm the only one home. I mean I am 18 and they trust Miles and I to not burn the house down. They shouldn't trust us not to burn a chair though. They will never know that happened. I climb out of bed and wrap a blanket around myself. I slide my way down the stairs and to the door. I crack it open a little bit but no ones there. I throw the door open and see a large package sitting on my porch. I look to see if there's a note but I don't see one. I grab the box and it feels kind of heavy. I pull it into the house and put it in the living room. 

"This is really weird." I mumble to myself. I run up the stairs and grab my phone. As I'm walking back down the stairs I call Miles. He answers on the third ring. 

"Why are you calling me at 5:15 in the morning Nova." He asks me in a husky, tired voice. 

"Miles something weird has happened." 

"What happened Nova?" He asks sounding more awake then before. 

"I got this weird ass package at 5 this morning and there is no note and it's kind of heavy. Also there was no one at the door when I opened it." I told him. He was silent for moment and I could tell he was thinking. I could imagine the little wrinkle he gets in between his eyebrows when he thinks. 

"Ok I'm coming over and we are opening this together." He tells me and I can tell that he is getting ready to come over. 

"Miles its 5 in the morning. You don't have to come over." I tell him.

"I'm coming over and we are opening this together." He says with finality in his voice. I can hear his keys jingling as he grabs them. "I have to make sure you stay safe and besides I'm really curious." 

I roll my eyes but agree in the end. We hang up and I sit on the couch and wait. It only takes 8 minutes to get to my house from his. 

It's been 15 minutes since he hung up on me and I'm getting curious on where he is. 

6 more minutes later he walks in my door with a McDonald's bag in his hand. 

"Did you go to Mcdonalds before coming here Miles?" I asked in disbelief. 

"Yeah I was hungry but I got you food too." He says waving the bag in my face and sitting the coffee he got down on the coffee table. 

"Awwww Miles. You brought me food and coffee? Thank you, you're the best friend ever."  I say as I stuff my face with food. He just smiles and says "I know." 

Ten minutes later we are sitting on the floor criss cross applesauce facing each other with the box in between us. 

"What do you think it could be?" He asks while staring at the large cardboard box. 

"I have no clue." 

"Did you order something from Amazon and forgot about it?" 

"Not that I can remember."

"Of course you don't remember. That's why I said forgot about it." 

I look up at him and roll my eyes. "No I didn't buy anything recently." 

"Ok, so do you think your parents sent something to you?" He asks still staring at the box. 

"My mom would text me if they did." 

"True, she would." 

I make a noise of agreement. "Can you go grab the scissors." I ask Miles. 

"Sure." He gets up and walks into the kitchen. I inspect the box again. There is still no clue as to where this box came from. Miles walks back in with the scissors in his hand. "Are you ready to open this box?" He asks as he sits back down on the ground. 

"Yeah." I'm actually kind of nervous. It's been an hour since the package arrived and we still have no clue of how or why I got this package. He passes me the scissors over the box. I cut the tape and take a deep breath. Before I open the package I look up. "Miles are you sure we should open up this package? I mean what if there is a body part in there?" 

He looks up at me with worry in his eyes. "Are you really worried about that Nova?" 

"Kind of. I mean we don't know where the box came from or who left it for me."

He stands up, walks over to me, and sits down. "Ok I'm gonna sit here and I'm going to open the box and see whats inside first. If it's safe then you can look and if it's not then you don't have to." I smile and tell him ok. He gets on his knees by the box and opens one side then the other. 

"Whats inside?" I ask him. 

"Come see for yourself." He says as he turns to look at me. I slowly move beside him and look inside. 

"Oh my god!" It's just a box full of sketchbooks and other art supplies. Who ever sent me this knew that I want to become an artist. There was a note sitting on top of everything. I grabbed it and read it aloud. "Dear Nova, I'm probably sitting next to you and you have no clue that I sent this to you. Yep that's right. Its me Miles." I gasp and look at Miles. He has this big smile on his face as he stares a me. I keep reading, "I know you want to be an artist and I also know that you just ran out of some supplies. So I decided to get you more but I also wanted to mess with you a little bit, so I gave no clue as to where this came from. Now you might be asking how the doorbell rang and things. I paid your neighbor, you know the 8 year old girl across the street, to put this on your doorstep and ring the doorbell then run. I knew you would call me after this happened so I couldn't be the one to do it. If you have more questions I will explain in person. Sincerely, the best person you know." 

I look over at Miles with tears in my eyes. "Oh my god Miles! Thank you so much!" I exclaim as I throw my arms around him. He chuckles as he hugs me back. "But how did you get the girl across the street to get up at 5 in the morning and do this?" 

"I paid her 20 dollars and told her you were my girlfriend." He says the last part quickly. 

"Why did you tell her that?!" I yell as I stop hugging him. 

"Well she asked if you were my girlfriend and she looked so excited so I said you were and she agreed immediately to do it for me so." He said as he shrugged. 

"Oh god Miles! You can't just tell someone that!"

"But it got her to do what I wanted!" 

"Miles!" I yelled as I smacked his shoulder.

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