BIRTHDAY GIRL
“I should've let you stand in front.” My brother whines for about the hundredth time as he glares at Sebastian, who was doing a poor job of not laughing. Busy in meaningless thoughts and nothing important per se, it had managing to skip my mind that my birthday was today. My ignored texts and phone calls made sense now, seeing as Mandy, Zoey, Sebastian, Julian, and dad were all gathered here. It must've been something they had been planning before now. The thought warms my heart as I pull on my most apologetic face, helping Julian ice the bump on his head, wincing each time he screams like a five-year-old whenever I pressed down on it. “Yo, you were like a human piñata, first strike straight for the head.” Sebastian loses it, unable to hold his laughter in anymore and on cue, we all
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