Another Surprise Party

Inspired by true events.

As you may have gathered by my previous stories, I have quite a few sisters and two brothers. Like any other household all my siblings have different personas compared to each other. The sensitive child, the stuborn child, the joker, the intellect, the rich one, the leader and of course the one to mock. Here's looking at you.

"So, here's the plan" my sister said in a very mature tone. "We will get Rosie (our younger sister) to go into the Kitchen where the cake will be waiting and all she will have to do is light the candles." Holding the candle ridden cake near my face she continued "There will be a box of matches next to the cake and once she has lit all 16 candles she will carry the cake into the tv room where we shall start singing 'happy birthday'. Got it!" She put the cake on the kitchen table and started rooting around a draw for the matches.

"We should give her a code word just so she knows when to bring in the cake" I said getting into the party spirit. "We just have to make sure Daisy does not go into the kitchen before our surprise, otherwise it will all be ruined".

It was Daisy's Birthday and as normal she would come over to watch movies and play monopoly with us. We loved our late parties which virtually lasted all night and as she did not expect us to throw her a party she would be delighted at the gesture. We had brought a little cake using our pocket money with enough left over for other junk food, which we purchased. We had organised an itinery to exact out our plan and at 8.15pm Rosie would go into the kitchen for a glass of water (or so she will tell us) and then light the 16 candles and wait for one of us to shout out "get me some water Rosie". To this she will enter the tv room, cake in hand and we shall all start singing. Easy, or so you think.

When Daisy arrived we all sat around, chilling and watching a movie which I think was 'Beaches', so as you can imagine we were half asleep by the time Rosie got up to go to the kitchen.

"I'm just getting a glass of water" she said as planned.

We all just sat there pretending not to hear her then after about five minutes my sister shouted out "Rosie would you get me a glass too?".

"Err, yeh" she mumbled, "just one minute." So we waited but nothing happened. Rosie did not walk in as planned so in a panick I looked at my sister and gave a shrug to imply maybe she was still lighting the candles. So again after a couple more minutes my sister shouted "Rosie where's my water?"

By this time Daisy had got kind of curious as to what was happening so she asked "do you want me to get it?". No! we all shouted. "I mean, ROSIE WILL GET THE WATER!" I shouted. Still no Rosie.

Obviously Daisy had cottoned on that something was up and was asking what we were up to. So after requesting the water one more time and no Rosie entering with the cake, my sister went into the kitchen to see what the hold up was.

Of course Daisy knew something was up especially as all we could here was laughing from the kitchen. We all got up to see what was happening when suddenly my sister, holding the cake, walked into the room. Everybody sang 'happy birthday' and sat down to cut the cake.

I turned to Rosie who seemed quite flustered and asked "what took you so long?" At this both my sisters started to laugh.

Apparently, when Rosie went to the kitchen as planned she noticed in the match box there were only 3 matches but there were 16 candles?