Finally 10!!!

Blake Thompson was an average American ten-year-old boy. He lived in a normal town, on a normal street, with his fairly normal mother, stepfather, and baby sister. Blake had just begun the second half of his forth grade year when he turned ten. The big “double digit” birthday celebration was held at the local laser tag park. After an afternoon filled with epic games of capture the flag and king of the mountain the party goers sat down for pie and ice cream. “Yes pie,” Blake explained, “ Cake is too dry and has too much frosting and no fruit so that’s why we aren’t having cake!” Gifts of all kinds were opened and the customary “thank yous” were handed back in return. However, Blake was really only concerned the new set of pogs that his parents had bought and the two packs of Pokemon cards that Cooper, his best friend, gave him. Pogs and Pokemon were Blake’s favorite things to do at recess, well maybe beside foursquare. Soon after the presents were unwrapped the other forth graders’ parents began to pick their children up. When Blake and Cooper were the only kids left Blake’s parents drove them back to their normal neighborhood. The rest of the evening the two boys fished at the lake a few streets from theirs. When dark came the boys returned to their homes to find their parents doing normal adult things. Blake finished his homework that he had left until Sunday night before brushing his teeth for bed. While lying in bed, waiting to fall asleep, Blake smiled to himself, thinking how fun the next ten years would be!