It was the morning of my birthday. As an excitable 9 year old girl would on the morning of her birthday, I awoke at the crack of dawn (6 o’clock to be exact). I lifted my head from my cosy memory foam pillows which were covered by my favourite pink and white silk pillowcases and eagerly arose to sitting position. Like every morning I was greeted to the sight of my dog, Maddy, laying at the very end of my bed waiting for me to wake. Her vibrant, charcoal black fur shined in all weathers, rain or sunshine, but today it was twinkling more than I had ever seen before. Considering it was an early morning in mid November, the vivid rays of sunlight beamed through the small, rectangular window placed in the middle of my bedroom wall, covering every inch of the room in luminous sunlight. To see her beautiful fur coat glisten so much made me happy. I stretched my arms up high in the air and whispered to myself “today is going to be a good day”.
“Breakfast is ready!” I heard my mum call from downstairs. By this time, it was 6:30 and I was getting ready to open my presents. I dashed down the stairs full of excitement and arrived to a living room full of presents, all wrapped in pink wrapping paper, complete with a gold ribbon and a tag on each one. “Come and get your breakfast it’s going to go cold!” my mum bellowed at me. Cockily, I turned to my mum and replied, “Mum, I don’t care about my breakfast I just want to open my presents!” and with that proceeded to ripping open every centimetre of wrapping paper there was to reveal what was underneath. “Oh my god!” or “Wow!” was my answer to everything I opened, but I was especially stunned at one particular present I got; a mobile phone, my first mobile phone, a black Samsung Diva with a purple diamante case. I jumped up and down with the delight that I now had a mobile phone. I had wanted one for ages, it made me feel grown up, and now that I had one I was over the moon. My huge amounts of excitement also excited Maddy and...