SWEET || MASON THAMES

Bel's

The timeline to all of this is kinda weird, author do better, but since that night, you know the one in the previous chapter, months have passed. We're now in September. To be more specific my birth month, and to add a tad more detail the day right before my birthday. Not much happened today. I just stood, painted for a while, rewatched the "How To Train Your Dragon" movies and overall has a chill day. It'a currently 10:45 when I decide to go to sleep. I finish getting ready and head to bed.

I wake up the next morning to the sound of birthday music playing "GOOD MORNING BIRTHDAY BITCH" Miguel says screaming in my ear.

I sigh "mhm yeah" I say rolling over, covering my ears. He grabs my ankle and drags me off the bed "Mikey what the actual fuck" I rub my eyes.

"There's s surprise for you down stairs, come on" he says while he continues to hold my ankle.

"Well if you let go of my foot then I'd be able to walk on my own" I say while laying on the ground.

He lets go of my ankle "now come on" he says walking out of my room.

While following behind him I stretch and rug my eyes. I make my way down the stairs and to the kitchen where I see my parents standing in front of the table. I finish rubbing my eyes and as I open them I smile widely at the sight of three pancakes stacked on top of each other with one candle lit. It's somewhat of a tradition in our household that on one of our birthdays we each make a pancake, stack them on top of each other, place a singular candle on it for that person.

I sit down in front of smiling as I blow the candle. Miguel, my mom, and my dad sit at the table with me eating their own breakfast. "Are you ready for tonight" my dad asks as he takes a bite of his food.

"Yeah, I'm so excited" I say basically jumping in my seat.

My mom adds in "I'm sorry we couldn't have your quince but."

I cut her off "it's ok mami, a sweet six teen is similar so it's all good" I take a tale a bite of my pancakes.

"I'm so ready too, it's gonna be amazing" Miguel says sounding more excited than me.

I just smile as I continue to eat. My mom puts down her fork as she finishes "I was thinking I could take you Mo and Xochi to the mall to have like a little girls day before the party."

"Ooo that sounds fun, I'll text them about it."

"No need I already did" my mom says washing her dish.

"Damn you're prepared."

"With kids like you two I have to be."

"That's extremely true" my dad says adding himself into the conversation.

I look at him with my fork in hand "you have no room to speak you're like a third child."

"That's extremely true" says Miguel trying to mock our dad.

We start laughing as my mom tries her best to hold hers in. My dad just looks at us with a dead stare. I finish eating and go to wash my plate. Once I finish that I go to see several notifications from Instagram, Messages, and TikTok on my phone. I first open a message from Mason.

Noodles🍜

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEL'S
YOURE AS OLD AS ME NOW

THANK YOU NOODLES
YEAH DONT REMIND ME
I CAN FEEL THE BACK PAINS KICKING IN😔

I get more messages like this from Mo, Xochi, Malachi, Sophie, Malia, and a lot more of my friends. I open up Instagram and look at my tags.