XXXVIII [Special]

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Anniversary

Time:
Present

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Story:
Sharing a birthday

Six, R.k, and an uncomfortable amount of Nomes gathered around a table as they scrambled around the room giving them preparation.

R.k: Six, do you know what day it is?~

He said soothingly, hiding most of his upcoming excitement.

Six: ...

R.k: S-six.

Six: Eh!?

R.k: I said if you know what day it is.

Six: Hmmm...

She gazed a yonder and pondered in the room. She could see colorful strings, ribbons, and hanging signs placed in like festivities.

However the gathering of the Nomes covering the floor around them threw her off the subject.

Six: Is it the holidays?

R.k: No.

The Nomes climbed as unexpectedly threw on him and her a party hat as the string holding them on their heads made a painful slap towards their chins when the Nomes let go.

Six was aggravated for a moment, snarling her teeth out that made a couple run off the table.

R.k then leaned down a grabbed a Nome he set close to him, fixing a black bow tie on them.

Six: Is it... someone's birthday?

R.k: Now you're getting there!

Six held a finger at her chin trying to think of who would have the celebration.

R.k: I'll give you a hint. It's for more than one person.

Six's eyes widened, although she's never known two people to have the same birthday on the same day, she turned her attention towards the crowd.

She kept her head turned but her eyes gazed back at, R.k. Raising a brow she directed a thumb pointing out to the Nomes in an awkwardly confused face.

R.k: No- Well, actually..... I dunno.

Six: You're not giving me very many options here.

R.k: Do you even know what day it is?

Six: It's April.

R.k: "April" what?

Six thought hard in her empty noggin, rattling her brain around as if it were a maraca.

R.k watched patiently and had high hopes she'd get it after she lifted her slouching posture.

Slowly raising her mouth open like she was coming up upon a breakthrough, she appeared next to have nothing, dropping back down with a blank expression.

Six: I dunno.

R.k: You really are clueless.

All of a sudden their ears were caught by the sound of a piano musical out to their side.

Six and R.k looked on to see what was the commotion and saw multiple Nomes sitting on a designated spot to jump and hit the right keys on a piano they managed to get in.

One after the other they carefully hit the correct note keys, and while doing so, more Nomes were coming towards the special two with a cake about their size.

Although quite small, the baking of it was well made and adorably designed into colors of blue, red, and yellow, along with a number 5 on top of it.

Six: 5?

She stared at it having the thought that she should have remembered something by now.

She glanced out at a calendar hung on the wall and saw it marked in a big red circle onto the date of "April 28".

Six: 28th...

A nearby Nome tugged on her raincoat trying to grab her attention. Pointing out in signs about her lighter.

R.k: They want you to use your lighter to light the cake.

Six: Huh? O-oh! Right.

Taking her time she lit a one candle after the other carefully as all watched her do it in joy.

At long last the final preparations were complete. The lights unexpectedly went out in a blink of the eye and all that provided light was the cake.

Then the piano begun to play in a specific tune that could be well known as the birthday song.

Although not the best of voices, the Nomes only having a clicking voice than what they once had sung along for them.

*Ding, da-ding, ding, ding, ding-bum*

*Ding, da-ding, ding, DING ding-bum*

*Ding, da-DING, DING, ding, ding, ding*

*Ding, da-ding, ding, ding, ding*

*...bum...*

Six looked on in sudden realization at the cake, the number 5. The scenery, celebration.

Turning her side to stare at him she finally got the idea, and to be honest she felt kinda stupid realizing it at this moment.

Six: It's my birthday?

R.k: It's our birthday.

R.k could only smile for the time of the celebration.

R.k: Make a wish.

Softly he whispered to her with a smile still fixated on his face. It only took a second, but taking his words she heartedly wished one thing and started to inhale.

Six stopped mid-breath without exhaling. Still having her facial direction towards the cake, she fixated her eyes towards, R.k... and she smiled back.

At the same moment they both let loose their breaths and blew out the candles, leaving the entire room shrouded in the dark.

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