Another birthday I spent alone I wanted them to remember on their own not me to have to remind them and them give me guilt money. I wasn't the only child but I was the child they did not have to worry about so I guess along the way it made me invisible. I had three reckless older brothers who were always up to something.
"Andrea we have reservations to get to let's go," yelled Marco the oldest of the three. He was the child who caused the most trouble. At least they didn't forget. They made reservations at my favorite restaurant amoure. One thing about my brothers is they never made me feel invisible. Not saying my parents didn't love me it's just sometimes they don't worry about me as much as I wish they would. "coming don't rush me on my birthday" I yelled back as I finished pinning my hair up.
When we got there My brother said reservation for 6 now this confused me because there were only four of us. "Happy birthday Andy" I looked over and saw my best friend Maya. That answered partly why he said 6 but I was still curious about who the last guest was. I looked around in hopes to figure it out but the waiter sat us at our table. Along the way, we begin to converse leading me to forget about the mysterious guest.
"Well, how does it feel to be 15 little sis" Silas inquired. Silas was the second oldest he was the sweet brother but his pranks were sometimes too much. "How did our sister grow up so fast It was like it was just yesterday She was born, I was two, you were four and Marco was six," Harlan said with a sad expression. Our parents made sure we were all two years apart because they thought any less would be a struggle. Boy were they wrong no matter what the age difference was as long as those three were together trouble followed. " I remember all of us arguing about who was going to hold her first." stated a new voice I began to panic it was none other than Atlas Harlan's best and only friend. He was the only person who could handle how much of an ass my brother could be. The reason for panic is because of what happened during the summer. Right before his 16th birthday a day, I will never forget. Altas had been in our lives since we were kids our parents were best friends so we spent a lot of our time around his family. His parents only had him so they take us in like their own. I'm sure they invited him because he was like family to the boys. For me it was different I Had a crush on him since I was thirteen. I don't know why or how the crush began but I hid it until last year. We never got along growing up we always argued about little things.
The boys were going back and forth about random topics when all of a sudden Altas handed me a box. It was unusual because he has never given me a gift. "Happy Birthday Drea." He was the only one who ever called me that he called dibs on the nickname when he was four and ever since then it stuck. I opened the box and was shocked it was the Prada purse I wanted how did he know?
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"Wow um thank you." I was at a loss for words I had never told anyone about it before I never had an interest in purses but when I saw this one I fell in love. "There is more here" he stated as he handed me another box this one was heavy. I opened it and inside were four books this was not shocking I could not shut up about books. What had changed? Normally he would tease me on my birthday and that's as far as I would get for a gift. This year it was different I look around and everyone was a little shocked. " Are you feeling ok dude" Harlan joked. " Yeah just felt kinda bad you know about all the teasing and petty arguments," nobody said anything after that. Soon the food came and we began to eat.
