All By Myself

Birthday

It was my birthday today. I am turning 14! I don't expect anything much. I realized today was Elliot's base ball game. Great. How many sports does he need to be in? I guess everyone will forget that I am 14 but at least I am mentally prepared for it.

I went down stairs for breakfast. Mum and Dad had gone to work. Elliot was at the breakfast table with 2 plates of bagels.

"Happy birthday Estella! Look I made you breakfast!" he exclaimed.

"Aww thanks Elliot, good luck on your game tonight." I replied.

"Wait, we aren't celebrating tonight?" he asked with a concerned look.

"I don't think so, your game is more important."

He looked down and frowned.

"Mum and Dad didn't even know it's your birthday today, they weren't even excited." He told me.

Thanks for that Elliot. I am used to my parents forgetting about my birthdays. Coincidentally it's always Elliot's game or competition on my birthday. It's way more important than a stupid birthday. It's just a day that I hate the most, I didn't even choose to be born. It's my parent's fault for bringing me to suffer in this world. People say the first mistake you make is when you can't wear your shoes correctly but my first mistake was being born.

I smiled at him and ate the cream cheese bagel.

"Thanks Elliot, this tastes pretty good." I told him.

"You're welcome, it's my sister's birthday today"

It's pretty surprising that Elliot doesn't hate me. I was always jealous of him but maybe he hates the attention. We only bond over Harry Potter and Roblox.

"Did you know that he-who-must-not-be-named cares about Harry's education? He always waits till the end of the year to torture him." I joked.

Elliot hysterically laughed and spit his orange juice everywhere.

"You're such a joker "he chuckled. "I think his nose is like Nagini's nose".

I laughed hard as well. He loves Harry Potter as well. That's the only thing we have in common.

Elliot's bus came and he said bye to me. I waved bye to him too. He goes to Mt. Severus primary school. He has a whole scholarship, what do you expect a straight A+ student not to get a scholarship. I remember going to this school as well. It's just like my school, well, it's the same school but different places.

I looked at the time and it was my turn to go to my bus stop. I take the city bus to school instead of the school bus because the high school doesn't have buses to take us. I walked to Charmaine's house and she was there waiting for me. She looked sorrow faced and her eye bags were black. This was weird, maybe she was staying up to do the essay.

"Happy birthday Estella!" she yelled.

"Thanks." I smiled.

She gave me a gift box.

"Aww thanks Char!" I thanked her.

We went on the bus and Evelyn was there.

"Hello girls, going to school hey?" she greeted.

"Hello mam, how are you?" Charmaine asked.

I smiled at her.

"Good thank you beautiful." Evelyn smiled.

We talked about different things and Evelyn told me a lot about how schools back in the days worked. It sounded more stressful than now. She talked about corporal punishments and how she used the black board to write.

We reached school and said goodbye to Evelyn. We went into the common room because we had a lot of time left. I opened the gift. It was a book! I was so happy. It was "The Legend of The Frog" I always wanted to read the book.

"Thank you, Charmaine!" I exclaimed.

"You welcome, are you going to celebrate?" she asked.

"I don't think so because it's Elliot's baseball game tonight." I replied.

"Oh, it's Friday, want to have a sleepover?" she asked.

I didn't know what to say. I was scared that her parents might say no, you know, they are the Alphelions. I've been to their house so many times and they seemed perfect but her diary says it all.

"Are you sure, does your parents mind?" I asked.

"I told them it's your birthday today and they helped me get the book, they also suggested a slumber party." she screamed with happiness.

Is the diary a trap? Is it a lie? Why is she acting like nothing has happened? Is she setting this up? Did she purposely forget her book? I had questions packed in my head. Is this a kidnapping trap?