"Happy birthday to you!"
All of us finish with loud clapping as Mom cuts a slice of cake. All day long, I kept Mom out of ruining the surprise party dad and his friends had planned for weeks. All Mom 's close friends came to the restaurant to celebrate her forty sixth birthday.
She claims she 's twenty with twenty six years of experience.
One of her friends help cut out cake slices and pass it along to everyone. Dad gestures me to join him in front of the twenty some people. Honestly, this much attention makes me nervous.
"Gina, before you open anyone else 's present," Dad starts, "Val and I would like to say a few words."
When did we establish that?
I frown at dad for catching everyone including myself off guard.
"Say something nice," …show more content…
"I 'm so exhausted."
I fit in the parade like marshallows in a mug of hot chocolate. Arsen 's next to me as the parade starts walking again. Purposefully, I clash the cymbals next to his ear and he flinches. When I attempt it again, he grabs one of them.
I bat my eyelashes like an innocent angel.
He shakes his head, clarifying he isn 't giving it back.
"What am I supposed to do with one cymbal?!" I ask him.
"Together?" He proposes.
I grin and nod. We clap the cymbals together, one in his hand and one in mine. As our eyes meet every single time the instrument produces a sound, my heart skips a beat. My whole body wants to inch closer to him, even though we 're extremely close to each other. There 's a ghost of a smile on his lips. No matter how creepy it looks, I know it 's real. I haven 't seen such happiness and excitedness on Arsen 's face before.
Normally, I 'm fire and he 's ice.
Today, we 're both mixed and created a beautiful, exuberant time for ourselves.
Rather than falling in a Nightmare, I 'm in a daydream.
This experience, this moment, this time is something inexplicable.
It 's as if, for one moment, we 're back to how we used to be.
Nothing we 'll be able to recreate
All of us finish with loud clapping as Mom cuts a slice of cake. All day long, I kept Mom out of ruining the surprise party dad and his friends had planned for weeks. All Mom 's close friends came to the restaurant to celebrate her forty sixth birthday.
She claims she 's twenty with twenty six years of experience.
One of her friends help cut out cake slices and pass it along to everyone. Dad gestures me to join him in front of the twenty some people. Honestly, this much attention makes me nervous.
"Gina, before you open anyone else 's present," Dad starts, "Val and I would like to say a few words."
When did we establish that?
I frown at dad for catching everyone including myself off guard.
"Say something nice," …show more content…
"I 'm so exhausted."
I fit in the parade like marshallows in a mug of hot chocolate. Arsen 's next to me as the parade starts walking again. Purposefully, I clash the cymbals next to his ear and he flinches. When I attempt it again, he grabs one of them.
I bat my eyelashes like an innocent angel.
He shakes his head, clarifying he isn 't giving it back.
"What am I supposed to do with one cymbal?!" I ask him.
"Together?" He proposes.
I grin and nod. We clap the cymbals together, one in his hand and one in mine. As our eyes meet every single time the instrument produces a sound, my heart skips a beat. My whole body wants to inch closer to him, even though we 're extremely close to each other. There 's a ghost of a smile on his lips. No matter how creepy it looks, I know it 's real. I haven 't seen such happiness and excitedness on Arsen 's face before.
Normally, I 'm fire and he 's ice.
Today, we 're both mixed and created a beautiful, exuberant time for ourselves.
Rather than falling in a Nightmare, I 'm in a daydream.
This experience, this moment, this time is something inexplicable.
It 's as if, for one moment, we 're back to how we used to be.
Nothing we 'll be able to recreate