FRIENDS // Christian Anthony

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** luna's pov **

i've been dreading this day for as long as i can remember, and if you're wondering what could possibly be wrong with today, it just so happens to be my birthday. yay a birthday, how could anyone hate the only day where people quite literally praise you for doing absolutely nothing but existing? well to be completely honest i'm not sure either, ever since i was little i've always hated my birthday. i'd cry when people sang me happy birthday but as a kid i sure loved the presents i got after my little sob session, but growing up i didn't have too many good birthdays. being a kid in a broken home, split parents, and evil step parents, as i like to call them, you just counted the days until you got out. my mom would try and make my birthdays as good as she possibly could but all that included was singing happy birthday and then everyone going into separate rooms for the rest of the day, leaving me to wonder if anyone in that house even cared about my birthday like they cared about my step siblings birthdays. i mean they were literally treated like royalty on their birthdays, i was forced to sit in the living room all day to "spend quality time" with them on their birthdays. at least my dad made it known that my birthday was just a normal day and was nothing to celebrate. he'd take me and the rest of my siblings shopping weeks before my birthday, buy us all something, and then claim that said thing was my birthday present once my birthday came around. i guess when you grown up at a young age you generally just take your birthday as a regular day. that's what i was used to, that's how i liked it to be.

but of course once you're an adult and you have two close friends who happen to not only be the only two people you talk to but they also happen to be dating, they take your birthday like it could be the last day of your life and make the biggest deal of it. luckily i was able to convince them that a dinner at a nice restaurant was all i needed. i haven't heard from any of my family all day, not a single text. i cant say it wasn't expected but i had hoped they'd at least pretend to care since i don't live with them anymore. i'm sure its safe to assume my family and i don't have the best relationship. you learn to stand up for yourself and all of a sudden you're no longer part of the family. anyways enough banter about the tragic birthdays of the past. it was 6:00 pm at the moment and the reservation was at 7:00, i slipped on a black ruffled bodycon dress with a pair of strappy heals and started on my makeup. i should've started with my makeup because it usually takes me about an hour to do it but i was going fairly simple today since its just dinner. just the normal base makeup with winged liner. classy yet still not too much hassle, just how i liked it. once the clock hit 6:45 pm i heard a honk outside and i knew that was my que to leave. i got into the car with my two friends, jacob and aleyuh, and we set out on our way to the restaurant. of course once we got there there was a bit of a wait since this is a pretty popular restaurant among tourists since all of the celebrities and social media influencers go here all the time. that only means one thing, everything is going to be expensive. now i can't lie, i have started my own social media journey and it's been going pretty well. i never knew so many people could enjoy one persons content and give as much support as i've gotten in the past year i've been doing social media but i appreciate every ounce of it.

we finally got our table and sat down, ordered our drinks and started up the conversations. as much as i love my friends their conversation starter with me is always the same. and it goes a little something like this,

"so luna, got anyone special yet?" jacob asked as the waiter handed the drinks out. this was sort of his way of telling me that he doesn't want me to feel left out because him and ale were together and i was single.

"you make it sound like you've been dying to hear that i've been talking to someone" i replied as i took a sip of my drink, furrowing my brows in confusion by his comment. its not that i'm shocked he asked its that i was really hoping he'd understand where i was coming from when i explained why i was still single to him. he looked at me with a sympathetic look that i know all too well and i rolled my eyes.