Surprise

Tif shuffled down the hall to Mary’s room. The hall was quiet most of the door closed the girls inside either out for the night or asleep. Tif tilted her head to one side as she passed a door. ‘Wow she is a heavy sleeper’ she thought hearing the girl on the other side of the door breathing loudly. The door on the opposite side of the corridor slightly ajar Tif could hear the girl speaking to her roommate in a hushed voice about some guy she was going to bang soon. Tif only shook her head who had time for that?

As she came to Mary’s door she lifted her hand to the door knob but paused as she heard Mary and Jillian talking giggling “Shut up she doesn’t know a thing.” Mary was saying

“Well her pizza is going to be cold by the time she gets here and I’m pretty sure she figured it out. That’s way she took so long”

“No way, she said she lost track of time.”

Tif sighed she had never noticed how easy it was to hear through the doors. She gave a soft knock on the door turning the handle. Just as she opened the door she got the sense Mary and Jillian weren’t the only ones in there, but it was too late the door was swinging open.

As the door was pulled open from the inside just as Tif started to open the door the shouts were defining “SURPRISE!!!!” Tif put her hands on her ears why were they so loud?

“Wow guys!” she said looking around Mary’s small room at least thirteen people had piled in to surprise her. That’s what Mary and Jillian had been talking about. “You guys really didn’t have to do this…”

“Shut up yes we did.” Jillian interrupted Tif the biggest grin on her face, holding out a pizza box to Tif. Tif took the box with a confused look on her face. “Open it” said Mary also grinning. A few of the other girls smiling and giggled. Tif frowned looking down at the box more suspicious of the box now. She slowly opens the it. The smell of fresh warm pizza spilling out from under the lid. Tif stifled a chuckle as the pizza was reviled ‘Happy Birthday Tif’ was written out in pepperoni and bell peppers. “Oh no, you guys really didn’t have to.” Tif chuckled laying the open pizza box on Mary’s desk. Hugging her friends. They enjoyed the Happy Birthday pizza along with drinks.

Tif’s phone buzzing in her forgotten pocket. The screen lighting up with another missed call than a text from mother ‘Tiffany answer your phone it’s regarding your Birthday. Please don’t ignore me.’

Her mother always someone to leave things to the last minute, was in a frenzy mess trying to check on her only child. Another missed call, voicemail message. “Tiffany.. Tif, it’s mom, you know the person that brought you into this world. Please stop ignoring my calls.” Her mothers sounded worried. Tif obvious the call, and the worry her mothers sounded worried was feel was happy talking away with her friends not know what was going on with her mother or even her only body. “Tif I’m sorry sorry I didn’t tell you this before hand. I was hoping it wouldn’t happen praying it wouldn’t.” Mom sounded like she was rambling or at least Tif would think she was. But this time tomorrow night Tif’s whole world will change forever. And Tif would have called her mom crying screaming for with holding this from her. But for the moment Tif was just a girl who could smell that five or her friends were on their period, two of them were pregnant and didn’t know it, one had been pregnant recently but wasn’t any more, tree were ovulating, and the last two were somewhere in the middle. Tif know all this just by there smells and had no clue why it was coming to her like that or how she would even know what someone on their period should smell like. But she did and if it hadn’t been for the third drink one of them had handed her she would have been concerned about it. But for the moment she brushed it off screamed cheers and drank away.

And a couple thousand miles away in Southern California her mother was pressing the send button on her phone again. Feeling her daughter’s change before her daughter even knew and counted the dots something was happening to her. Her husband watching her from the couch. “You never told Tif anything?”

“I didn’t think I was going to have too. The spell that damn witch told me she wouldn’t remember a damn thing and she would be locked in her human form for good.” Her mother passed the room as she heard her only child sign song voice came on the line. “You reached Tiffany Miller I’m not really answering calls at the moment leave a message and if you are lucking I will call you back, thanks fam.” The recording ended. Her mother pressed the end call button and dropped the phone face down on a table. “I thought it worked she didn’t have the change at 18 and there were no signs it was going to happen. It’s the only reason I agreed to let her leave for ducking Montana of all places.” Mom said dropping down in the chair next to her husband Bill. “But now.”