The Fault In Our Stars

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35. That should be me

Avneet opened the door to her apartment around twelve to the bell that rang repeatedly, disturbing her sleep. Rohan and Jai were in the guest room, but jai left to buy Ishaan a cake.

"What?", Avneet asked sleepily as she saw Siddharth, Anushka, Vaishnavi, Abhishek and Faisal on her door with shit eating grins. They were all jumping on their toes like excited toddlers.

Vaishnavi was holding a cake and Faisal was holding another cake. All of them had a bag on their arms and Siddharth had a cupcake in his hands.

"I baked it myself!", he excitedly explained when he saw Avneet looking at it.

Abhishek snorted. "Yeah, after destroying it four times.", he exposed making them all laugh, "And then calling me to help."

Well, our Dada Siddharth Nigam took it in his hand to bake a cake for his son.

He was doing everything well, but the first one got burned. The second one was a bit umm unshaped(?) because he forgot to add baking powder to it. The third one he dropped accidentally because it was too hot but he forgot to add sugar in it so it was definitely not something he should cry over.

Well, he didn't really understand what he was doing wrong so he called Chef Desouza and asked him to instruct him what to do. It was all good but Siddharth being Siddharth accidentally put the batter of it under the water when he was washing hands.

At last, he was disheartened and was almost about to cry because it was already eleven and he had no ingredients left to make a cake. So he called Abhishek to rescue who helped him bake a little cupcake for his son.

"I'm sorry but he's sleeping." Avneet chuckled. They all gasped, instantly bursting out into protests.

"But why it's his birthday?"

"He's just a four year old if
all of you are forgetting." Avneet reminded. They all pouted as they followed her into the living room.

Avneet saw all of their sullen faces and sighed, feeling a little bad. "Fine, wait here.", Avneet stood up, "I'll wake him up.", saying that she walked into Ishaan's room.

They all stood up excitedly,taking their positions so they can surprise the boy when he arrives.

Meanwhile Avneet walked in and saw how Ishaan was sleeping on his tummy, clutching a pillow to himself and his face pressed to it as he slept so peacefully.

Avneet wanted to let him sleep but she also didn't have the heart to ruin the surprise of all those people that adored him so much waiting for him.

Moreover, the little one would be so happy when he will get the surprise.

"Baby, wake up.", Avneet whispered as she nudged the boy's back slowly who whined, snuggling his face into the pillow more.

"Wake up, you lazy baby!", Avneet shook him more making him turn on his back and glare at her cutely with half open eyes.

Avneet scrunched her nose and booped the little ones small one and slowly started to clap her hands.

"Happy birthday to you~! Happy birthday to you ~! Happy birthday my ishu! Happy birthda---Aww, my baby!", Avneet cooed when she saw her baby sitting up with a big smile on his sleepy puffy face, eyes barely open and messed up hair and clapping his hands along with her.

"Happy birthday, my baby. Mumma is so proud of you. You've grown up so well.", Avneet wished before kissing his forehead.

"Thankou, mumma!", the boy said before jumping on her for a big hug which Avneet gave him wholeheartedly.