An Alien's Guide to the Human Species by McEwan Deb

Author:McEwan, Deb [McEwan, Deb]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Deb McEwan
Published: 2013-01-26T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The next big event on the Gibson calendar was Jack’s 6th birthday party. His chosen theme was pirates.

The first to arrive was Robert Steele, accompanied by his father. Robert eventually gave Jack a parcel containing a toy truck as a birthday present. There had been aggro in the Steele house about giving Jack this present. Robert had seen the shiny red truck when his mother showed it to his father. It was love at first sight and he wanted to keep it. Mr Steele was on his son’s side and if Robert wanted anything, Mr Steele thought he should have it. Mrs Steele had explained to her husband that Robert was spoiled due to his over-indulgence of the child and she was determined that the truck would go to its intended recipient, or else. Mr Steele had been on the receiving end of or else from Mrs Steele before, and it was not a pleasant experience. He decided that Robert should therefore give the toy truck to Jack for his birthday.

Max. ‘It’s tradition for all party guests to give birthday presents to the person who is celebrating their birthday.’

Caroline welcomed Robert to the party. ‘Hello, Robert, how are you?’ Robert looked at his father.

‘He’s fine thanks.’ Said Mr Steele. ‘You know he’s allergic to jelly, comes out in rashes. Lovely day for Jack’s party. Must rush now, be back to pick him up 5-ish. Enjoy yourself son.’

Next to arrive were the twins Hazel and Lucy with a new computer game for Jack, followed closely by Jason Phillips in their wake. Jason was fascinated by the twins and would follow them around at every opportunity.

The twins adored Jemima, and as soon as they saw her they ran over to where she was sitting on the grass and started to play with her as if she were a doll.

Jason gave Jack a pair of cowboy spurs which instantly went into the toy box to be forgotten about; Jack was not a fan of cowboys.

Caroline greeted Jason. ‘Hello, Jason, that’s an interesting pirate costume.’

‘It’s a cowboy pirate, Mrs Gibson.’

‘Of course it is, Jason, fancy me not knowing that!’

Jason wanted to be a cowboy and loved his cowboy outfit. Every fancy dress party he attended, he insisted on wearing it. His parents thought it wasn’t worth the hassle to insist on new costumes so consequently, Jason went to astronaut parties dressed as a space-cowboy, gangster parties dressed as a gangster-cowboy and pirate parties dressed as a pirate-cowboy. All his young friends knew he was mad about cowboys and accepted it.

Jack’s other classmates arrived shortly after and the normally laid back Jack was excited about all his presents and his party.

Jack had been practising his pirate acting for a few weeks and he shouted. ‘C’mon, me hearties, let’s go and play in the garden.’

The children followed with their plastic swords, some of them hopping on one foot. They ran and rolled around the obstacle course and piled into the bouncy castle.

Jemima went to follow

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