15

It's been a terrific month so far. There is something about August other than just Shubhi and my birthday. I have had the most awesome time of my life in the last week or so.

I turned 15 on the last Friday. My friends made me a scrapbook for my birthday. It was the best thing I could have and I thought I was quite lucky. You know with people writing all the nice stuff in it and all my favorite quotes, poems, people there and of course the picnic pics.

I had absolutely no idea what these people actually had in store for me. I was so tired that day that I slept early. My mom had told me about this silly family day at her office. I remembered going to one about 2 years back. I wasn’t surprised. I was to go through extreme torture on Saturday.

My birthday had gone off like just another day. I wanted it to be like that. But just the day after my b’day, I was sure I would barely survive. You know with these boring family meetings where one hardly knows anybody. Anyways, Saturday morning saw my parents pushing me into the car to go off to gurgaon. The party was somewhere in the malls, I was told. And well, I reluctantly accompanied my parents.

I of course had absolutely no idea what I was in for.
My friends were awaiting me in pizza hut for my surprise birthday party. For the first few minutes, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Shubhi had planned all this out. The best part was, however, not this but the fact that she manage to invite Vasudha. I met Vasudha after 2 years. We had such a great time.

Also, our class was chosen to go to the Rashtrapati Bhavan for a painting exhibition on Tuesday. We had an awesome time there too. The paintings were wonderful and some of them left me spell bound. They really did.

Now, Wednesday was Shubhi’s birthday. We had to go to her place- the 10 of us excluding her other 5 friends. We managed to fit into a Camry. Imagine 10 people in one car. It was quite suffocating, I thought. But of course it was worth it!

I had to really work hard for Shubhi’s birthday scrapbook. And the best part is that she liked it.