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I wake up feeling like shit, why? Cause it's my fucking birthday, and my birthdays always felt wrong.
My parents always said my birth was a curse, a mistake, and never took time to celebrate it like how everyone else would celebrate there's. Other people also said my birth was a day to hate, a birth of a monster they always said. Honeslty, I didn't know how they found out when I was born, but they did somehow know and they made sure to make it a day to be extra horrible to me.
To be honest, I'm not sure if I even blame them, although I was always mad. Mad at what is the question, my life, the fact I'm alive right now, my parents, or everything else that's wrong with this place.
"RUDO!" Regtos voice calls, being way to loud today. But besides that he should be at work right now... why is he home? How is he home? "GET OVER HERE!"
It's been about a year sense meeting Regto, and a few months sense I have met my first friend. And life has been pretty okay sense then, they are the only people I will ever need in my life, the only people I care about here.
"COMING!" I yell, rubbing my eyes and walking out of my room. Or the room I share with Regto, he always gets up before me or if not at the same time as me.
Once I get into the loving room/kitchen/everything else other than bathroom cause our house doesn't have a bathroom and neither does everyone else in the slums because of stuff I can't bring myself to remember all the reasons other than the rich is just stupid little motherfuckers. Don't really like thinking about it, it makes everything seem I don't know... worse? More disgusting and horrible?
"What?" I ask, voice rough and slow with sleep, the door closing behind me. "And arnet you supposed to be at wor-?"
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUDO!" Regto and somehow also Chiwa yell at the same time. Voices somehow also harmonizing, which also happens to scare the shit out of me.
After getting over the fact they somehow got me a new tools to use, ones I don't yet have and have been eyeing to see if I could recreate it using what I have as money is always been running low as Regto hardly gets payed. No one here really does, but we are the ones always working.
Anyways.
Maybe, today was a good day.
And so was the next ones from then on.
And even later on...
There will be even more people by my side, more people than I could ever even imagine caring that much.
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"RUDO! GET TOUR ASS UP AND COME TO BREAKFAST!" I here Zanka's loud as fuck voice when he yells loud enough for my ears to bleed even through my bedroom door. But nonetheless I get up and out of bed, I haven't slept at all the past few days, been stuck thinking about the past. I hate doing that, always makes me feel like crying.
"FINE!" I yell back, almost tripping on some screwdriver I left on the floor. Get into casual cloths because I don't have a job today, infact, I don't think anyone does.
Never asked why, maybe I should though.
When I open the door no one is there, the halls are completely empty, void of anyone.
Okay, weird.
My shoes click and clack on the ground, the footsteps echoing a bit. Which, is not weird, as I'm alone in a big hallway. What is weird is that the cafeteria is also quiet and voide of all noise and that the door is closed when usually people prop is open with something during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Okay, even more weird, and creepy..
Pushing the door open I'm immediately hit with cheers.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUDO!" Everyone yells, voices harmonizing just like how they did the first time.
"I-"
Arms surround me without warning, hugging me close before loosening and leading me over a table with a strawberry shortcake on a fancy plate and a knife is waiting for me.
Enjin pulls put some little colorful sticks on, like mini candles, and lights them up before everyone starts singing.
Hey, that's another thing the ground and the sphere have in common, they sing the same song...
Once they finish fhe song I stare at the now burning candles, not knowing what to do because I have never seen this happen before. So what do I do with them?
"Blow them out Rudo, make a wish!" Riyo whispers in my ear.
I do just that, making a wish that a birthday would never be like my old old ones ever again.
After the candles are blown out, everyone cheers once more and the candles are taken away. Soon, a piece of cake on a plate is set infront of me, and someone hands me a fork to eat it with. Which I do with record speed, scaring some people.
"Damn."
"How the-"
"Dude.."
Anyways, today was also nice. The attention may have bugged me a bit but it was only for that tiny bit before people broke into groups while still making sure to congratulate me and stuff.
I felt warm, just as I did back with Regto.
And that's all I could ever ask for.