An Outlet: Part 4

15 August, 2018.

Today my friends and I gave my friend a surprise visit for her birthday. It's the same friend who treated us two days ago.

So I left home on time and met Kristen at her station. We then met one of our other friends at the destination station cause she stayed nearby. The three of us took the bus and this time around, I didn't have any unpleasant experience of people shouting at me like I did the last time I took a bus from there. We met the other three people including Darcy under the birthday girl's residence and all of us together went and surprised the woman of the day.

And yes, she was really surprised. She knew something was fishy when her mom asked her to dress up a bit but didn't expect this. You see, her birthday was yesterday and she had treated us day before yesterday so there was no reason for her to think that we would give her surprise visit. So we can all collectively say that the plan was successful.

We immediately made her solve a puzzle that one of my friends had made. It was a word search where each hint was our name and she had to search for an adjective for each person before she gets her gift.

Since it was already 3PM then and she still hadn't solved everything, we decided to eat lunch and boy was it a feast. We had pizzas, pastas, cheese balls, garlic breads, fried rice, manchurian and cranberry/lichi juice for drinks. No wonder I continue to be bloated.

Ultimately, the puzzle was solved and the gift was given. She was very happy with our gift. It was a scrapbook filled with memories. The friend who made it has done an exceptional job with the gift.

After that we cut the cake and had some ice cream. I was positively full for the day. We had a long photo session after that and it was fun! We finally left for home at 6.

Darcy dropped all of us one by one, me being the last one (to be stopped at a nearby station, not all the way home). Throughout the ride, Kristen played her songs and when everyone left, Darcy was okay with KPop songs so I played a few. To be very honest, it was kind of weird listening to KPop with someone else who is not accquainted with the genre and that too through speakers in a car.

I don't think I give this friend circle enough credit. I keep comparing everyone I become friends with to my school group and I don't think that's a good thing. Every friendship is different and I need to understand that. Besides, my school group is also not as close as it used to be so why am I holding on to false hopes?