A Birthday to Remember

Before I get into the details of what this post is all about, first an update. Apy is in Mexico. It’s been 1 year since my last post. It would be silly to think if anyone still remembers this place but here I am, writing another post. I don’t know why, I love this place. I don’t know why I stopped blogging and I don’t even know if I am going to be regular at this now but will definitely keep trying.

Currently, I am living with 2 roommates, Liz and Naaz. It was Naaz’s birthday on Saturday and we (me and Liz) had planned the day one week back. The idea was to irritate Naaz to the core and then give her a surprise party. Well, as long as I am in the picture, irritating someone is never a problem. We started building the base a week back by telling Naaz that we were planning to go for a trek on Saturday (the day of her birthday). She had had an accident a month back and she is still not supposed to trek. That meant that she was going to be all by herself on her birthday. She tried her best not to look irritated.

As her birthday approached, she got more and more upset. We felt bad a little but it was worth it. All the lies were planned. For everything that we did, a lie was thought of beforehand. On Saturday, we wished her and told her that there had been a little modification in the plan and we were going for a night trek instead of the day and we would leave in the evening. The guest list was planned and all the friends were invited. We usually party in such a way that everyone cooks something and gets along. So, we had to cook just one dish for the party.

At lunch time, I told her that we would cook something nice for her for the lunch as we won’t be there for the dinner. Also, we may not come back at night. With that, her last hope of cutting the cake vanished and she had a clear LCD display on her face saying “Fk you Apy!!!” She was on the verge of crying. (As I said, irritating someone can never be a problem if I am around.)

Since she likes fish, we started cooking fish for her. Luckily for us and also for her, she went to sleep in the afternoon. It was ‘Lucky for her’ because we had thought of a lie for that situation as well. We would have said that since it’s a night trek, we would take the fish along for dinner at night. Considering, the liking that she has for the fish, no one could have stopped her from crying after that.

We cooked fish for the party. In evening, when people started to come home for the party, she still thought that they were all there to go out for the night trek. She was sitting amongst all in her pajamas as she had woken up after a long sleep.

We didn’t want her to cut the cake in her night suit so Liz took her upstairs and convinced her to join us for the “trek”. For that, Liz had to answer a million questions bombarded upon her by Naaz.

Finally, she got dressed and came down to realize the fact that everyone was there for her birthday party. She was so confident that we were not going to celebrate her birthday that she did not respond at all even when we shouted “SURPRISEEEE!!”. It was only after she saw the cake, she realized what had been going on.

Finally, she gave a smile and cut the cake. A smile, for which we had to use a million lies.