Going to the class dejectedly, Emily opened the door, sighing sadly.

What she met with in the class was out of her expectations, inside the class, there was a cake with eighteen candles, it was on her sit, there was also a huge caption reading "Happy eighteenth birthday Emily," there were also decorations in the class, most of it were wishing her a happy birthday and long life.

This gave Emily a great surprise, she had not expected this, but where was everyone, they had given her a huge surprise but they were nowhere to be found, she had to thank them for this, she felt guilty when she thought about what she was thinking about her friends earlier.

As she was thinking about this, the door to the classroom opened, her classmates entered together singing her a birthday song, although the door to the classroom was small and narrow they were still able to enter in an orderly manner, singing a birthday song to Emily, she stood rotted to the spot not knowing what she should do, this had far exceeded her imagination.

When they finished, the enthusiastic students dragged Emily to the cake, asking her to make a wish, after making it they blew off the candles, they surrounded the cake and shared it amongst themselves.

As this was going on, the door to the class was pushed open, and a teacher entered, all the students looked up and groaned in displeasure.

"Enough of the celebration," he bellowed and the students went to their seats reluctantly before the class commenced.

Emily was sitting down beside one of her friends who usually hang around with her, "thanks for the mini party," she whispered to Anne who was sitting by her side during the lesson.

Anne was one of Emily's best friends, she had a small and petite figure, brown eyes and brown hair that was neatly tied in a bun She had a beauty mark on her left cheek and a beautiful smile, "don't thank me, it was both James and Diane's idea," she replied in a whisper also.

"I thought you guys were still mad at me for what happened yesterday, that was why you didn't wait for me at the parking lot," Emily whispered back.

She had quite a fight with her friends yesterday, and it had caused a lot of misunderstanding between them, she had angrily left their company, we could say it was because of Emily's stubbornness, so she thought they were still mad at her.

Anne chuckled at her reply, "no, we've already forgiven you, we knew that you were always hot headed, you wouldn't listen to anyone so we left you alone."

The two continued to chat seemingly forgetting there was a teacher in their class, “you two what are you both talking about, would you mind telling us what you are talking about,” the teacher suddenly interrupted them, he had looked up earlier to see them chatting like he wasn’t in the class, this had made him quite angry.

Emily and Anne froze in their seats, standing up they look at themselves in a confused manner, all eyes were focused on them, James and Natasha in the distance were not helping matters, they were snickering at them.

Natasha was someone the opposite of Anne, with a long brown hair that was flowing down her back and a large blue eyes, while James was a tall guy, with a well chiseled faced and chin, his eyebrows were interconnected and his iris were long, he had a long nose which made him look more of Indian than an American. 

“Erm, ma we are not talking,” Emily lied through her clenched teeth.

The teacher glanced at Anne, but Anne shook her head in agreement with what Emily had said.

The teacher glared at them, before he asked them to seat, warning them not to repeat what they have done.

Soon the bell for the break was rung, the teacher left the class immediately, Emily and Anne sighed in relief, they were under pressure ever since the teacher caught them talking and they lie denying it, so the teacher constantly had his eye on them, so the rest of the class was boring for them.

What were you guys laughing at earlier,” Anne snapped at James and Natasha who had come over to their seats immediately after the teacher left the class.

“you see we are quite sorry for what happened earlier, we didn’t know how to control our laughter cause of the way you both looke…….” James's voice trailed off as he burst into another round of laughter, when he tried to apologize again he remembered the silly look on their face so he burst into another round of laughter.

This caused Emily and Anne's cheeks to go red in embarrassment, “would you stop laughing, it’s not even funny,” Emily snapped at James amidst his laughter.

James got hold of himself, turning back to Emily, “do you like our present earlier,” he asked.

“Yeah, I love it, thank you very much, by the way, I would like to host a party at my house this night, would you all attend,” Emily said, her voice was high enough for her other classmates to hear.

  “Wow, that’s nice we’ll all attend,” a chubby-looking boy spoke up on behalf of his other classmates, everyone nodded in agreement.

“That makes it all settled, then be at my house by seven this evening,” she said.

Turning to her friends, “are you also going to attend this time,” she asked with a raised eyebrow, as they did not attend her birthday party last year, making up some silly excuses.

“don’t worry we’ll attend this time,” James answered.  

The classes then commenced after the bell was rung, that day was a bit eventful for Emily, soon it was already closing time, bidding her friends goodbye she went to the parking lot only to see that Harry had gone again without waiting for her, of course, she knew where he went, “that blockhead,” she muttered under her breath, she had no choice but to start walking along the road while expecting him to catch up with her.

After some minutes of walking, a car stopped before her, Harry came down immediately from the it, begging his sister to enter, he knew she was angry with him, this was the drama they did every day they were coming back from school.

“Why the hell must you do that every time,” Emily yelled at harry immediately after she got into the car.

“sis why must you get angry at me because of this every day,” Harry chuckled as he replied to his sister.

“Why won't I get angry? You leave me to walk for over fifteen minutes every day just because you went to drop your girlfriend,” Emily snapped angrily.

“You know sis I can't live without the girl, her house is quite far, I can't bear to see her suffer, you know it's quite a long distance from our school before we can find a taxi, he replied smugly.

“So you can bear to see me suffer, that’s why you decided to leave me to walk for fifteen minutes every day,” she shot back at him.

Harry was confused, he did not know what to say again, “ by the way I have invited some of my friends to your party,” he said trying to change the topic.

That worked perfectly, cause immediately after he said that Emily yelled, “who the hell invited you to my party, for you to invite your friends,”

Although she was not angry at Harry at all, she loved putting up an act before him, scolding him for every single mistake of his, but Harry had come to understand that his sister was just trying to trash around to annoy him.

Soon Emily was tired of yelling and changed the topic the two conversed till they got home.

Some hours later it was already six in the evening, James, Anne and Natasha had arrived to help Emily with the preparations.

By the time it was eight, everything was already in place, her classmates started arriving after they had all arrived the party commenced.

It started with a speech from James thanking them all for coming, next they sang Emily a birthday song, they cut the cake for her, next they danced through the night, talked and ate happily.

Everyone was talking some were dancing some were even brazen and started making out with their girlfriends.

Harry and his friends were sitting at a corner talking, all this was happening cause their parents were not at home, they always go on a business trip every Emily's birthday.

Emily, James, Anne, and Natasha were sitting at a table talking happily, “Excuse guys, I want to use the washroom,” James said excusing himself, Natasha and Anne also stood excusing themselves to use the washroom, leaving Emily all to herself.

Emily sitting at the table all by herself sighed inwardly, she was already tired, although there was no school the next day, she did not want to call off the party yet, it was just twelve, thinking of this she closed her eyes to rest a little before her friend come back.

“Emily, Emily,” Emily heard a strange voice calling out to her, immediately she opened her eye to look at the person who was calling her, but to her surprise she wasn’t at home where she was seated, but in a dense forest, where birds were chipping happily, the moon was red and was hung low, low enough for her hands to reach out to it, it was if she had been teleported from where she sat, yeah definitely she had been teleported, cause there was no way she would have got here without been teleported.