The Sunhat
It was the night before the summer break, and it was raining cats and dogs, but I was not bothered as Justin, Wendy, Crystal, Kevin and I were texting each other about our trip to the Niagara Falls. Everybody was so engaged in giving ideas about what to bring along. Suddenly, Justin came up with a brilliant idea. He suggested that we should assign roles to each one of us so that we could minimize each person’s work from a thousand to one. I was assigned the babysitter’s role because I was the most meticulous person among them all.
On the day of the departure, the weather felt as fresh as peppermint. My friends and I decided to go to school and wait for Kevin, who was assigned the role of the driver, to pick us all up. On my way to school, I saw a gorgeous sparrow foraging for food. I stared at my breakfast in my hand, which was a white bread bagel whipped with blueberry cream cheese and shifted my sight back to the sparrow. I decided to share some of my bagel with it. Seeing the sparrow poking and eating that tenth of the bagel, I smiled. I felt very happy.
When the sun was right above our head, we departed for our destination. On our way, I served my role as the babysitter. I collected hundreds of junk food wraps and guided us into every single rest station when we needed one. As Wendy and I were lining up for the washroom, I remembered seeing a little girl who seemed like rubbing her eyes. I noticed how this little girl always got shoved out of the line, so I allowed her to stand in front of me and helped her not to get hustled. When we all got back to our car. Wendy praised me as a kind and responsible member, and that made me feel very proud of myself. I was happy.
When we arrived at our hotel, it was already six in the evening, but the sky was still crystal clear without any sign of darkness. Since we had been eating on the way for the whole time, no one was hungry, so we decided to rest and get ready to embrace tomorrow’s adventure. However, I, as an exception, was way too excited, thinking about spending the next few days without parents. I couldn’t close my eyes. I decided to go hang out in Crystal’s room since she was playing some music in her room. I knocked on her door, and before she had the time to answer me, I rushed into her room. Crystal was weaving something that looked like a sunhat, and I was very impressed. As I was watching her weave, time passed by like an arrow, and Crystal unintentionally fell asleep before she finished with her sunhat. As she fell quickly into her dream, I suddenly came up with a superior idea; I thought that I could help her to finish the sunhat, and it would be a total surprise for her the next morning. I took her hat, sneaked out of her room as quietly as an ant, and I worked on the hat until about 12 in the morning. I was exhausted, but I could not wait to see Crystal’s smiling face the next morning. So I fell asleep the second my head landed on my pillow.
As the sun rose, I was awakened, not by the beautiful singing of sparrows, but by a terrible shake. I quickly opened my eyes and saw Crystal standing beside my bed, her face livid with anger. She started yelling at me. Before she finished her first sentence, I interrupted her and told her that I helped her finish the sunhat. I asked her if she liked it or not. Just at that moment, tears gushed out of her eyes like a spring. She stomped her feet on the ground very hard and yelled at me that it was not supposed to be a sunhat, but a basket for her mother’s birthday. She said that I had ruined everything she had planned. I was shocked.
I felt guilty and sorry.
Crystal did not talk to me during the whole trip, and I felt that I had ruined our friendship. Not just the two of us, but all of my friends felt tense about each other. I thought a lot after we came back from the trip, and soon I realized that drawing legs for a snake is more of a hindrance than a help.