"Wake up Mallika!!!" I hear in unison.
Why does everyone hate watching me sleep peacefully? Can't I once wake up on my own?
"Go away, I wanna sleep" I groan and turn away from the voices.
But suddenly something cold comes in contact with my entire body.
My eyes flutter open and I look down at myself and I realise that it was cold water poured on me.
I see Robert holding the water bottle in his hand and grinning hard.
"Why?" I whine.
"Happy Birthday!" They say together.
"What?"
Its 23rd September already? But how I mean, really?
So that means I forgot my own birthday!
Who does that?
How could I forget my own birthday?
Stupid!
"It's your birthday sweetheart, you're 17" mom replies.
"Oh! Yeah"
"Happy Birthday Mallika, may God bless you" Dad says.
"Umm thanks dad"
After dad, Jenny, Sara, Kevin and John wish me and I thank them all.
They leave my room, so it's just Robert and me together.
I wanna go back to sleep, but I can't do that because I'm drenched.
I remember the culprit who did this is still here and he's grinning at me.
"Robert!?!"
"Happy Birthday my love" Robert says.
"What's happy about it anyway?"
"It's your birthday Mallika, how can it not be a happy occasion?" Robert asks.
"Coz I'm 17, one more year and I'll be pushed into the Tartarus. I don't wanna grow up"
"What?" Robert asks.
"What, what? I'll be 18, legally adult. I'll have so much responsibilities, no fun, most importantly I'll start ageing"
Robert laughs before speaking again,"18, that's not too old. You won't start ageing right away"
"But what if I don't want to grow up, what if I wanna stay 17 forever?"
"Mallika, that happens only in fantasies, and this is no fantasy" Robert says.
"Why? What if I wanna live in a fantasy world?"
"You know you sound really weird. Did your brain get messed up because you woke up at midnight?" Robert asks.
"Midnight? You fucking woke me up at midnight? What is wrong with you guys!!! I did not wake up on my own, I was forcibly woken up- very rudely" I pout.
Robert laughs again and I give him a dirty look, he chuckles one last time and sits on the other side of bed; the one which is not wet.
"Go back to sleep" Robert says.
"Yeah, as if I can sleep with these wet clothes on and on a wet bed"
"I'll change the bedsheet by the time you get changed" Robert says.
'Yeah, you should totally change it since you were the one to wet it" I say as I stick out my tongue at him.
He chuckles but gets into work. I open my wardrobe and take a fresh pair of clothes and go to the bathroom.
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