George could not wait to return home from school that day. The thing was...he had just received an invitation card from his classmate, Simon for the latter's twelfth birthday party. He was eager to share this exciting news to his mother.
Once he arrived home, he hastily toed his shoes off and ran excitedly to his mother as if he had not seen her for many years.
"W-What's the matter, George?" His mother nervously asked as she involuntarily took a step backward. She had not seen her son with a huge grin on his face since the time when he was about to score the final point for the tennis match against his own little sister.
Without sparing her a response, the enthusiastic boy shoved the birthday invitation card to his mother. She glanced between the card and her son who was giving her an expectant look. The twinkle in his eyes was so precious and his mother smiled at that since seeing her own son so happy was so rare these days. George was an introvert who had difficulty expressing his feelings to others so he always had this default gloomy face on his face. As such, he did not have many friends and his first crush unfortunately did not end well.
Patting her son on the head softly, she opened the card and gasped in surprise. "Wow, George! You've been invited to Simon's birthday party!"
George vigorously nodded his head and his Cheshire grin grew even wider. Laughing softly at that, she could not help but feel happy for her son. Since he had trouble making friends, he had never been invited into any birthday before. Not only was he invited to a birthday party, this occasion was actually to celebrate the birthday of the most popular student in the school. This would be an opportunity for George to mingle with other children his age and hopefully make some friends and in turn, hang out with them.
Praying silently, she hoped that this party would be the best thing that ever happened to her son's life.
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