Fortune Cookie

We all went to celebrate my birthday by having dinner at a Chinese restaurant. We all sat down and whizzed our eyes on the menu. Within two minutes we were ready to order. A waitress came to our table and took our orders. “Could I please have number nine, five, seven, one and three on your menu tonight,” asked dad. “Sure,” replied the waitress. “Would you like anything else?” “Can you please bring a bowl of fortune cookies please,” I begged. “Coming right away,” she answered back and left to take the orders to the kitchen. Mum said angrily “It is very immature and impolite to beg at a table and certainly in front of a waitress. “Give him a break honey,” Dad said supporting me. “After all it's his birthday” As soon we finished our conversation the waitress came back with the fortune cookies. “Finally,” I groaned causing the whole restaurant to look at me. “ Billy,” shouted mum and dad giving me an angry look. I said “I just want to open my fortune cookie.” I opened it with no hesitation and it read. ‘Your life is in danger. Say nothing to anyone. You must leave the city immediately and never return. Repeat: say nothing.’ I looked at my fortune confused but scared. I didn’t know what to do. Mum asked my what mine said. I replied “Um…Good things will happen to those who wait. I know I lied but what was I supposed to do. It told me not to. After we had dinner we all went back home but I couldn’t stop thinking what it meant in my fortune. I laid awake in bed hopelessly thinking. I just couldn’t figure it out.

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