am115+Difficult+Choices

The Birthday Concert

Yesterday, when Kate was walking home from school, she saw a little pink post-it note that listed the numbers: 55446721, and then said M.J. She put the note down, and walked away. When she got home, her mom was in the kitchen cooking green beans, mashed potatoes, and sunny-side up eggs. She suddenly remembered that she had to do her heath report on food, and rushed up into her room, only to find her brother, Ben, was wearing her new purple dress. He was jumping all around and acting complete and utterly crazy. Kate slowly approached her brother, and ripped the zipper down the back of the dress.

"Hey!" Ben yelled like he was supposed to keep it on. Kate pulled the dress off and pushed him out. After that annoyance, Kate put her backpack on her desk, and turned on her pink zebra lamp. She pulled out her health binder, and realized her report was gone. She had gone downstairs to tell her mom, and she drove her back to school.

She went in and to her locker, "54-34-42" she thought to herself. When she effortlessly opened her locker like she was a pro, she grabbed her black and green Vera Bradley bag and looked around, and found her papers. She turned it over to the back, and saw the same pink note.

The next day, she woke up and got ready, got her backpack, and got in the car, but then realized it was Thursday, which she had off because of teacher meetings. A few minutes later, she found herself lying on her bed talking to her best friend, Courtney Arnotts. She said for her birthday she was going to go see One Direction in concert! Kate was super excited!

"She said you are soooo lucky!"

Then, Courtney said "And I picked a friend to go with me and that friend is you!" Kate screamed so loud her dad in Africa could hear her! Kate's dad was working with wild penguins in Africa and he would be gone for three more months, twenty-seven days, five hours, and twelve...eleven...ten...nine more seconds. Courtney was really blonde, and had two brothers, six sisters, and one stepsister. She had a pretty big family.

Kate suddenly remembered she was going to visit her dad that same day and see some real penguins.

She told Courtney and she said

"Oh.. but.. you can't miss out on this.." A sudden silence occurred.

"But I really want to see my dad..."

Friday morning at school, she was thinking about the whole thing that happened in Social Studies. Kate did not like the pressure to choose. Then, she realized One Direction is sold out for like.... forever, and her dad is coming back soon, and they are opening up a new penguin exhibit and the local zoo! Kate shouted out

"Yes!!!" To only find herself embarrassed.

After school, she called Courtney up and explained the whole thing. Courtney was happy. She put the phone down and looked at the pink note that randomly appeared on it's surface.

Kate went down to eat, got her dress on, and hopped into Courtney's mom's, great aunt's neighbor's son's mini van. She put some cherry lip gloss on and her phone rang. She said hello in a very cheery voice.

"Hi sweetie" her mom said. "I have some bad news. Dad wont be coming home in three months."

"Yay!" Kate said. "Wait... how is that bad?"

"Well, he'll be coming home in eight months."

"Courtney asked Kate what was wrong. Courtney understood. Courtney got nervous..."

"STOP THAT!!" Kate shouted. She was really sad about the whole situation. She did not know what to do. It was a hard decision.

In the car, Kate finally said she wanted to go to the concert. So, when she got to the Arnott's house, she got in the taxi and happily rode to the concert. When she got to the amazing place, she saw the pink post-it note. She got out of line, and followed the note. Then, Kate thought she saw Courtney and her mom get out of line. There were several notes saying the same thing. 55446721 M.J. She then found herself in front of a door that said DRESS in big letters. She walked in very slow, and then saw One Direction!

They all said hi, and then Courtney, her mom, and... and... Maya Jaross? Maya was her dad's trainor and.. there was her dad!! She ran over to her dad and he said

"My training code is 55446721"

Maya joined in and said "And my initials are M.J."

Kate smiled and said "Thats One Direction..." "Yeah................... I definitely made the right choice coming to the One Direction concert." They all laughed and had a great rest of the evening.