Fourteen (A Willow Falls Story)

Leo's Gifts

Amanda's POV

          Leo pulls a pack of makeup wipes out from under a tablecloth and hands one to each of us. I take one and proceed to wipe off my facepaint.

“Wait!” Tara says. “We need to take a group photo!”

      We all nod. I'm glad I didn't rub off all the facepaint. I only did my chin. We all gather next to Tara and smile. She holds out her phone and proceeds to take a ton of pictures.

    Finally, when she gets the “perfect” photo, I go and take off the rest of the face paint that Leo rubbed on my face.

Once everyone had cleaned up, I say,” Alright, I think it's time for Leo's gifts!”

     We all cheer and he sits down in a chair. First, Conner and Grace bring their gift to him. He opens it and finds a really cool stationary set.

“This is for writing your poems,” they say.
  
   David walks up to Leo.

“We couldn't leave you out.”

      He pulls a box of Minty Melts out from behind his back. The box looks a little shiny.

“Have fun!”

    Leo pokes it.

“Did you cover this whole thing in plastic wrap?”

    David snickers and nods.

“How many layers?”

“You'll just have to find out.”

     Leo starts prying at the layers. After peeling for 10 minutes, and taking off 30 layers of plastic wrap, he finally gets to the box.

“You know what, I'll save these for later,” Leo says.

     We all laugh. Rory grabs a giant box from the floor next to her.

“Happy birthday, Leo.”

      He rips the wrapping and tears open the box. Inside it is another box, full wrapped. He unwraps this one as well. Inside it is yet another box. Thankfully, inside this box is a small bag. Inside the bag is a small picture frame. The picture in it is a picture of all of Team Grace at the diner.

    Tara gives him a gift card to the diner.

“Go get yourself as many chocolate chip pancakes as humanly possible.”

    We all laugh.

“Speaking of the diner, guys, come out,” Leo says.

     From behind the bathroom comes a few of the workers from the diner. They're dragging a cart with some plates on it. When they get closer, I see that the plates have a whole bunch of chocolate chip pancakes on them.

“It's dinner time!”

    We all squeal. As soon as the cart gets under the ramada, we scramble to get as many pancakes as we can.

“Thanks guys!” Leo calls out to the workers as they leave.

      Once we finish eating, I go grab my gift.

“Happy birthday, Leo,” I say with a kiss on his cheek.

     He opens up the lion I got earlier.

“Thank you, everyone, for making this one of the best birthdays ever!”

A/N: I'm so sorry for the delay on this chapter. Professors are already warning us about finals. How was your guys's Thanksgiving? I got time to write this because my boyfriend and I drove and hour across town for Thanksgiving with my friends.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter. There's only one left! All characters are owned by Wendy Mass!