9. The Big Surprise Ending

9 The Big Surprice Ending I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that when I blew out the candles, something caught on fire. You're thinking that set off a whole chain of events that ended with everybody running around yelling and screaming and hooting and hollering and

freaking out. Well, you're wrong! You think you know so much? That's not at all what happened. So nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you. Here's what really happened... I blew out all nine candles on my birthday cake, and everybody cheered. My mom cut the cake and started passing out pieces. Everybody was having such a good time that they didn't want to leave. So they kept on jumping on the trampoline, painting pottery, singing songs, blowing bubbles, and getting their faces painted. The backyard was still crowded with people. My grandmother was doing Zumba, whatever that is, and she must have tripped or something. She bumped into Ranger Rick from the Wildlife

Conservation Center. That startled one of his birds of prey, which flew around crazily. The bird smashed into the guy from the Fencing Academy, who fell down. As he was falling, his sword went flying out of his hand. It landed right in the middle of the giant inflatable bouncy castle, poking a hole in it.

Psssssssssssss... Air was escaping from the giant inflatable bouncy castle! It started to collapse! Mrs. Wizard ran over with some duct tape to patch the hole in the giant inflatable bouncy castle. But on the way over, she bumped into the paint-your-own-pottery table. All the pottery went flying! Some of the pieces hit Buffo the Clown. He thought Giggles the Clown was throwing pottery at him, and he became furious. The two of them started fighting again. They knocked over DJ Jazzy Jim's speaker system. It landed on the Amazing Tortolini. He started crying. Miss Tumbles and Drusty Rhodes ran over to help the Amazing Tortolini. Everybody else started running around

yelling and screaming and hooting and hollering and freaking out. "Run for your lives!" shouted Neil the nude kid. You should have been there! I saw it with my own eyes! Well, it would be pretty hard to see something with somebody else's eyes. "Great party, A.J.!" Ryan said as we sat on the steps and ate birthday cake while we watched everybody going

crazy. "Best party ever," said Michael. In the middle of all this, there was a knock on the gate. "Who could that be?" asked my dad as he opened the gate. There was a policeman standing there. He looked pretty mad. Mr. Marty came running over. "My name is Officer Luke," the policeman said, flashing his badge. "There must be some mistake," said Mr. Marty. "I didn't hire a guy dressed up as a policeman." "I'm not dressed up as a policeman," said Officer Luke. "I am a policeman. There have been complaints from your neighbor Mr. Kidd about the noise. This party is disturbing the peace. Who's in charge here?"