My Holiday Memory

“You better give that back!!” I yelled at Ryan. “Yeah right! I took it, so it’s mine now and you can’t have it back” Ryan said in a snooty way. Right then and there I wanted to smack him in the face so hard that he would be forced to give it back. It wasn’t fair just because he caught me with what I got didn’t mean he could just take it, he already had one he didn’t need another, especially so he could use it against me. So I walked up to my mom and said “Ryan took my present when he already has one! Its not fair he should let me have it!” my mom gave me a look as questioning my sanity, “Hun you are too young to have one you’ll get hurt, I would feel better if Ryan just had it, we can get you another toy something less dangerous.” she said in a calm voice but you could tell that she didn’t want to talk about that subject anymore for the rest of the night, she didn’t want us to embarrass her. I went and sat on the couch pouting thinking about how he gets everything, it wasn’t my fault I was so little maybe my mom should have had me before Ryan. As I sat on the couch thinking, I was watching my family still going after what everyone else got, still not satisfied with what they had at the moment. I didn’t like this game, it’s called White Elephant, everyone had to bring something that was less then 10 dollars and if you didn’t bring anything you wouldn’t be able to choose a present when the time came to play it. The presents were usually really dumb it was rare when you got something really good but every year someone would bring some big fluffy pillows and people would go in all out war over the pillows. I didn’t see what was so great about them, they were just pillows…everyone had them. But this year was my year I brought my cool present and was expecting to get something really good, but no Ryan took mine. When I thought about how this all happened I was giving Ryan an evil glare "I hope he feels bad about stealing that from me" I thought to myself. When we all chose our present (we weren’t allowed to choose the present we brought so we couldn’t cheat) we all sat down in a circle and took turns opening the present we chose, it was my first year, finally I was able to be part of the adults and do what they did instead of watching them all have their fun and I just got stuck with one stupid present, but I knew this year was going to be my year, I couldn’t wait to open mine! Ryan was sitting next to me and when it was his turn to open his he got a pregnancy test! Everyone started laughing even I was laughing very hard, for I just found out what that really was a couple weeks ago. He turned to me and gave me the dirtiest look I have ever seen and said “Well Kena lets see what you got” as he said this he had this evil smile come across his face as though he knew what I had chosen already and then I got really nervous what if it was worse then his, so I looked at my present for a couple minutes trying to figure out what it was, but then everyone said I had to open it or I didn’t get it. So I opened it and to my surprise it was a Beebe Gun! I screamed at the top of my lungs “I love it!!” Everyone started laughing but then I looked at Ryan and you could tell he was very upset about this, but I didn’t care I got a good present and he didn’t. When everyone was done opening them my uncle said it was time to trade and then my heart started to beat really fast, how did this happen?! It wasn’t fair! I just got the Beebe Gun and now Ryan is going to steal it from me! So when we all traded he got it and I got stuck with the pregnancy test! I hated him. I wish there was a way that I could get the Beebe gun and force him to have what he had at first. I asked my aunt Chris about the rules she said you can only trade the person that you traded with once so I talked to my uncle Red who was a total goof ball and would do anything for me, so I asked him and he said sure. My wonderful Uncle who I loved oh so very much had taken my present and marched up to Ryan and handed him the pregnancy test and took the Beebe Gun from him. I was so happy! As I was watching Ryan’s face he looked at me with a facial expression as though he was going to punch someone in the face but he couldn’t and that’s what made me happy! “Hey Kena want to trade” I looked behind me and it was uncle Red “Yeah sure!” I said as I hugged him as tight as I could “Oh wow little missy you are sure getting stronger by the second, try not and break me, I still need to look good with all my beautiful hair” as he laughed and walked off. It was funny uncle Red had no hair at all but he still liked to pretend he did, I sure love him. When I looked back over to Ryan he marched right up to me and yelled “Kena that is not fair! You have to give that back!” I started to laugh and said that same thing he said to me “Yeah right! I took it, so it’s mine now and you can’t have it back!” I walked off while holding the Beebe Gun, now it was my turn to shoot him with it, but I’ll do it later so my mother doesn’t take it away. The rest of the night went well I was holding onto the Beebe Gun very tightly making sure no one especially Ryan couldn’t take it. But I made plans to right after we leave my Aunts I was going to strike and shoot him right in the butt with one of the Beebe’s. Today I must say was one of the best days ever! I am so glad I am finally able to play among the adults. This was going to be a blast!

Personal Narrative

Today is October 1,2008. I have work tonight…ugh. I really don’t want to go.

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I have work tonight...ugh!