Remind Me Of The Bad Times

Chapter 8: Pity Party

It's March 6, meaning Lexi's birthday. I'm surprised she got a birthday party, I thought she stopped caring. I'm sure she'll love my birthday present! We came over and... looks like nobody else came. The house was completely empty, it was only Aqua and Lexi there. My crew wasn't even as big as it usually is, it was just me, Cinna, Jackie, and Rupert. The room smelled awful, I think I smelt the alcohol and... cigarettes? My god.

I gave her some goggles, after all she always wanted them but the ones she wanted were too much for her to afford. Cinnamon decided to bake Lexi's birthday cake, it was wonderfully decorated with pink and brown frosting with the "Happy Brithday, Lexi!"... yep, exactly that. Jack gave her some nice Mary-Jane heels, with hearts on the sides of them. Aqua apparently already gave Lexi her gift, but I don't know what it was. But Rupert got the best present of them all... a promise ring. It was a beautiful silver ring with a tiny diamond in there. Lexi seemed really surprised from that one!

It was empty but kinda fun. This day she wasn't drinking that much alcohol, just one tiny glass. It felt strange, I didn't really like being at this party despite it being fun... it felt lonely. It felt like I was completely alone, and that she was alone. It felt like I wasn't really there, and I was just a witness to her depressing life. But I didn't want to leave. 

Lexi seemed to keep waiting, but nobody else came... not even her own parents. She said her parents should arrive soon when we first came in, but we waited 30 minutes... then a hour... then 2 hours. Lexi seemed very upset that they didn't come home, but it didn't look like it was completely unexpected.

Eventually Lexi just said we could go outside. We decided to just walk all together, like we ruled the world. Doing whatever we wanted, that wasn't illegal of course, just so Lexi could have a great day. Rupert bought her more gifts, I'm surprised he has all that money when he doesn't even have a job himself. We decided to try out things we never did before, like skateboarding and paintball fights. 

We eventually got so far away from the city that we reached the woods, but we weren't allowed in there. So we just laid right by there, watching the sunset sky turn to night. We even saw a strange red... "plane" flying overhead of us. I really couldn't tell what the hell it was, but I'm pretty sure planes aren't that big and they aren't bright red. We spent the whole night trying to find Lexi's house, and that weird red flying thing surprisely was helpful. We headed home and I decided to go home, Rupert stayed over at Lexi but he came home a hour later, I know this because he called me when he arrived home.