Chapter 132: Excessive celebration

I could never get used to being the center of attention. Even less, when it's my birthday and Aninka knows about it. Because she doesn't know how to measure herself and that's why she ends up embarrassing me. Because, even though we are adults, she is still a child, a rather desperate one.

We finish breakfast and when I'm about to leave, the waiters come with a small cake and a birthday candle. I, deep sigh knowing that Aninka's extended conversation with the waiter, meant this.

"Happy birthday to you" sing the waiters and those who had breakfast in the restaurant, join in the song that leaves me blushing.

David and the others, look at me smiling and clapping as if it was the most amazing thing to celebrate. They give me the warmth of a birthday and it makes me have mixed feelings.

My mother, was like that...Aninka and so, even though it was kind of nice, it kept reminding me of the few birthdays my mother was at.

The birthday song ends and amidst applause I