Twelve

Jimmy looked at the calendar.  It was the twelfth day of December.  Today, Jimmy would be celebrating his twelfth birthday with twelve of his friends.

The excitement died, when Jimmy realized that he had to go to school first.  After school, all the fun would begin.

With that, Jimmy got ready and went off to school.  Due to his mother setting up some of the party decorations, he wasn’t able to get there on time.  In fact, he was twelve minutes late.

The day wore on and Jimmy kept looking at the clock.  Time seemed to drag slowly.  Finally, Jimmy began the countdown.  It was twelve minutes to three.

After school, his mother picked him up and drove him home.

Once at home, Jimmy got ready for his friends to come over.  When he came out to the living room, he noticed the room was decorated with streamers.  A big banner read “Happy 12th Birthday, Jimmy!”  All around the living room were twelve balloons.

Finally, Jimmy’s friends came over.  There was a lot of food there, considering the number of friends that he had.  But this problem was easily remedied with Jimmy’s food of choice: pizza.  And there was plenty of pizza to go around.

After pizza, Jimmy opened up his presents.  There were twelve presents from his mom and another twelve from his friends.

When that was over, it was time for cake and ice cream.  Jimmy’s cake had twelve candles.  After they sung “Happy Birthday to You”, Jimmy blew out the candles.  Jimmy’s mom cut the cake into twelve slices.  Jimmy and all his friends ate it.

Finally, it was time for Jimmy’s friends to leave.  So Jimmy said bye to all his friends.

With the night being about over, his mom smiled.  “How does it feel to be twelve?”

“Just another year older.” Jimmy said with a smile.

After that, Jimmy got ready for bed.  He went to sleep and smiled.  All in all, it was a fun birthday.

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©2012  K. L. Walker