Surprises Are My Thing - A Best Gift Story

If I was asked many years ago to know if I love surprises or not, I would have said no but after a series of surprises of all kinds, both bad and good, I've just come to understand the essence behind it. Sometimes, it's best to be a surprise for one to appreciate it even more and vice versa. Some things are so cool to be made as surprise.

For gifts? I'd love the surprises a lot of them come in. I don't get gifts from friends too often but I've had a few that left good memory and I would gladly want to experience those feelings again if I could.

For the best gift I've ever received, only one came to mind at the time of writing this post so I'm guessing it is the best for me yet. I've had other significant gifts though but this one was years ago and it still lives rent free in my head.

What would you want as a gift to celebrate your end of exams? This was the question a guy asked me some years ago. Surprisingly, he was a worker in a hotel not far from our place back then but fancies literally everything I do. He would always say he loves to be my friend but I don't seem like I want to be his friend. Well, you won't blame the me whose dad is after any male gender appearance next to his daughters 😅

To think that he wanted to get a gift for me to celebrate just my end of exams, I laughed at the idea and didn't give me any option of what to get for me. I didn't believe he'd actually get anything. Even when he asked was weeks before the exams started but we rarely see each other or even chat until I was done with my exams.

To be honest, I had forgotten I knew someone like that since I wasn't serious about anything he was saying about being my friends, I tagged him to be just another guy wanting to deceive me as the smart girl I was lol.

And the day came, a day I had never thought of or imagine would happen came. I was outside sitting, browsing on my phone and laughing at funny stuffs when I heard him calling my name from downstairs. I wasn't sure of the voice calling my name so I reluctantly climbed downstairs, after all dad wasn't around so I was safe from his discipline lol.

I got to where he was and he just rushed a package into my hands, whispered "Congrats Merit" in my ears and ran off saying he is late for his shift at work. I was more than surprised by how everything played out, remembering I knew someone like that, the gift and hsi whisper, I couldn't think for some minutes.

Well, that was a little of how I felt opening the gift. I wondered if he packaged it himself or had someone do it for him but I must say it was one very weird package, I held myself from laughing since it was the thought that counts. I opened the gift to see a very beautiful wrist watch with colourful stars on it 🥺

It was the very gift I've ever had, my first wrist watch and the first best gift from someone who isn't so close to me. I appreciate it so much but we lost contact with each other a few days after that gift incident as he got transferred to work elsewhere.

That is the story of my best gift, there are more but I feel really good writing about this particular one. _{It is my entry to the Hiveghana contest, you may join in as well.}

Posted Using InLeo Alpha