One Chance

Chapter 10

I wake up in the morning and check the time, it's only 8 am and since it's a Sunday I decide to go back to sleep. The minute my head touches the pillow I get a call.

I check my phone and it's from my mom. I sleepily answer it.

"Hello mom, good morning. I was just about to go back to sleep so if there's nothing important can I call you back? "

My mom immediately replies," well, I'm calling you this early to come join us for breakfast. I'm making all your favorite things. Plus I have to talk to you about some things in person so come down to the bakery along with Amanda in an hour. I love you. Hurry up".

"Alright mom, we'll be there. Love you too ", I reply back and soon after my mom hangs up the call.

I force myself to get up and knock on Amanda's door and tell her about the call. I can hear her mumbling an "okay" and soon after she comes out.

"Do we have to go. Can't we just skip it just this once," Amanda says and I can see she's as sleepy as I am.

"Well, mom said she has something to talk about. Plus she says she's already making us breakfast so we might as well go." I say while walking to the kitchen to get some water.

I can hear Amanda walk back to her room and I do the same. Both of us walk out of our rooms 45 minutes later managing to look as presentable as we can.

After a little more than 15 minutes we reach the bakery. As we enter I see that my family along with Amanda's family is talking happily. We both go and give them all a hug and take our seats. We start eating without wasting any more time.

Once all of us are done eating, we officially open the bakery for business. My parents close the bakery on Saturdays and they usually open it a little late on Sundays.

My mom asks Amanda and me to stay back and help. We agree without hesitation. Amanda's parents join us surprisingly and the morning goes by quite busy.

Once it's around 4 we all decide to close the shop and just relax. We head to my parent's house because my mom said she has a surprise for us.

Once we enter and make ourselves comfortable, my mom who disappeared into her room just as we got home comes out with two neatly wrapped boxes.

Once she hands them to us she says "I know your birthdays are next weekend but I want to give them to you right now and you'll know more once you open them."

We both open them at once and inside each box there is a dress and a note. My eyes are in awe of the coral blue lace deep v neck sleeveless dress and I immediately fall in love with it. I can't stop admiring how pretty it is. I put it aside for a while and read the note. All it says is "I hope this dress is enough to make you feel your best on your birthday at the cottage ".

I first look at Amanda who has a dress similar to mine but in red but off shoulder. She looks at me at the time and when we look at our cards they say the same thing. We then look up at my mom and she nods indicating that we indeed are going to the cottage next weekend and our parents planned all of it.

All four of them wish us an early happy birthday and leave us alone with our gifts. We both marvel at our dresses and try them on. We squeal with excitement and do a little show for our families. They laugh at our behavior but are very encouraging to let us continue with it.

After what seems like an hour we put everything back, say bye to our families and head home. As we reach home we get a text from Mark asking us how we liked the surprise and we reply a big thank you to him.

He replies us back asking us to come to Toby's house to hang out. Since we didn't have any plans we agreed to drop by for a while. He texted us the address which was a 20 minute walk from our place.