Lots of food was served in platter upon platter, including steak, salmon, lentil rice, Greek salad, mashed potatoes, fruits, bread, and plenty of desserts which included ice cream, homemade cupcakes and of course the huge mega birthday cake that had about 50 2x2 square slices all equally cut. Trixie attempted to grab a piece of cake, Veronica grabbed her wrist and shook her head, saying “Not yet Trix.” Luis went to his surround speakers and put on some Trance music, Goa Mix by Paul Oakenfold.
Many classmates and friends were stunned to hear this type of music. Except for a few, they weren’t really aware that trance music really existed. They all gathered around at the dinner table including the Trinity Guys. As they sat and ate, they had conversations on how life was going, school, friendship, their futures, etc. Miss Lockwood approached the teens and said aloud across the huge garden dining table:
“Let’s sing Happy Birthday to Luis Lockwood, for his 16th birthday,” Miss Lockwood conversed elegantly.
“Oh, come on Mom,” Luis groaned with a troubled tone. “We don’t have to do this! Everyone around here knows I am turning 16 years old today!”
Everyone on the table ignored the statement and began singing the Happy Birthday song to Luis who was feeling a little uncomfortable as Miss Lockwood also sang along with them. After the singing was over, Miss Lockwood motivated her son to blow the candles on the huge cake. Luis did so and the entire group started to feast. Trixie took a couple of slices of the cake and began to chug down the sodas, starting to get very hyperactive due to her having high sugar intake. Trixie began to do cartwheels and ran hyperactively around the huge backyard of Luis’s house. Veronica sighed at her younger sister taking too much sugar.
Luis and Allison began to play around with his personal set of bow and arrows. He demonstrated slowly to Allison on how to shoot an arrow at the target, as he shifted Allison’s arms in specific positions to help steady her arms and hands onto the bow and arrow, before taking the shot. As she released the bow, the nylon like string pushed an axial force towards the end of the arrowhead allowing the arrow to shoot rapidly towards the target. The arrowhead ended up far away from the bullseye, she sighed.
“Don’t worry, it takes time to get used to,” Luis stated positively. Allison smiled at Luis’s positivity knowing that indeed archery did require skill and training over time. Veronica started to get obsessed with the desserts mainly, which included ice cream, which she adored a lot. The Trinity Guys continued eating and chatting along with Aiden, Sandra, and Veronica. The Goa Mix by Paul Oakenfold was continuing through the surround sound speakers in the backyard. The mix was a couple of hours long. The music was elegant, electronic, with synthwave sound to it, that made Trance as the new defined electronic genre of music that is of today.
Trixie was drinking more and more, Pepsi, Gingerale all at the same time and taking sweet candies including freeze pops. She was beginning to get very hyperactive and Luis noticed it. “Somebody must be in a mood for manhunt or tag,” Luis said aloud. All the friends and classmates looked at Luis, they liked the idea of manhunt or tag. They all decided to form up for a game of manhunt.
“Mom, can we go for a game of manhunt?” Luis asked.
“Yes, but be careful kids,” Miss Lockwood said. “Be back in 30 minutes or 40 max. No questions.”
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After about 10 minutes of organizing the classmates and friends among the trails of Allentown, Pennsylvania, the game manhunt began. Luis was the one who wanted to find the others and tag them, while the rest hid in their spots within the trails/woods after setting boundaries minutes ago. Trixie, Veronica, Aiden, Luis, Sandra, the Trinity Guys along with some others hid in their designated spots in the woods that were nearby. The group waited in their designated hiding spots for Luis to look for them one by one and start getting chased.
Sam, one of the Trinity Guys, was caught by Luis from a distance. Sam sprinted towards the trails of the woods, almost tripping among the shrubs. Luis ran around the corner of the woods by the creek, which gave him the advantage, as he climbed up the rock pile by the creek which led him in front of Sam. He tagged Sam before he could react in time, as they both traveled together to look for the rest of their folks. Sam grunted as he walked with Luis, since he was annoyed that he was the first one to be caught and did not expect him to walk by the creek and cross his path, by taking a shortcut.
Trixie was twitching a lot, due to her hyperactivity, as she tried her best to calm herself down after taking that much sugar at the party. Trixie saw Luis and Sam along with a couple of others that they caught. She saw Veronica running for her life from them. She giggled as she hid behind a tree by the ravine. Suddenly, from the corner of Trixie’s eye, she saw Tom, one of the Trinity Guys, running towards her. She reacted suddenly as she saw Luis, Sam, and Veronica all about to encircle her, making a run for it, hyperactively fast. She sprinted with surge of energy as if she would never get tired ever, it was hard for Trixie to even get to bed on time
