Life in a broken family

Kapitulo Tres

It's almost midnight already. Happy birthday to me though I don't feel happy.

I'm gonna turn sixteen years old already. I can't believe it's been ten years since my parents broke up. Tagal na pala.

When I was a kid, I was so excited to celebrate my birthday. Especially about my sweet sixteen and debut. But know that i'm slowly becoming more mature, I realized that my birthday is only a constant reminder of how long has it been since they both left.

Before I knew about the reason of their annulment, I still had hope for them to get back together. But after finding out that they cheated with each other? I lose all those hopes I had. For almost ten years, all of them didn't tell me any single detail about their breakup. The only thing that they told me was the fact that they're already separated and leaving without taking care of even one of their three children.

I didn't realized that I was crying here in my balcony with those thoughts.

All of a sudden, The lights in my room were switched on. I looked at the door, there I saw my family. Each of them holding a gift for me.

The silence was loud when they saw me crying.

I didn't expect for them to surprise me like this. They know I hate surprises. Despite hating surprises, still I appreciate their efforts so much.

I ran in my room to hug them. Of course I hugged my brothers first.

My room that was filled with silence earlier turned so loud. They started singing me a Happy birthday and made me blow the candle.

Before blowing the candle, I only made one wish. And that wish is for my family to reunite again, even if I know that I have zero percent chance for that wish to come true.

I'm happy for this surprise thing they did for me. Turns out that surprises aren't that bad at all.

We took a family picture and posted it on instagram. It was five pictures. One with the whole family, second with my amazing tita's and of course my pretty grandma. Third was with the boys which are my cousins and my brothers. Tito Bong joined the third picture since he's my only tito. Fourth picture was me holding my cake in between my brothers. The last picture is a solo picture of me. Nothing special.

As I posted the picture, My parents then posted also. I can't believe it at first. Ngayon lang sila nag post about my birthday. Is it just for show? or kinukuha lang nila yung loob ko because they found out that I already know their wrongdoings?

My phone rang. It was the both of them. I looked at my brothers with a hesitation in my eyes. They just nodded so I had no choice but to answer their call.

I know it's weird for the both of them to be in one call. They can't even look at each other.

"Happy birthday. I already sent my gift through FedEx. I hope you like it." She then left the call.

What in the world was that?

Dad also just greeted me and few seconds later, he ended the call.

I should've not answer their call. If only it wasn't for my kuya's.

Morning came. I fixed myself and went downstairs. All of them are busy for my birthday party.