Why me?

A day of birth

     I woke up next morning to my brother shaking me awake, "go away Devin" I said tiredly and turned over. "wake up already, mom made breakfast and then we have to do chores" "fine, ill get up just leave so I can get dressed" I sighed and sat up. Devin being satisfied with his achievement, he walked out and shut my door.

    I looked out my window and noticed it was a  nice and sunny day which was odd for solstheim. I get up and change into my plane cloths and head out my bedroom door. As soon as I'm out however, I hear everyone yelling "happy birthday!". I jump, startled and look at the sweet roll and the cream treats mother had baked earlier this morning I had guessed. "morning girl!" my father had said happily "turning 12 today! be excited" "yeah, come on, I actually helped with the cooking for once" Devin said. I smiled at my family and sat down at the dining room  table "I am happy, really I am, its just you scared me a bit when you yelled" I lied of course. I wasn't one for celebrating this kind of thing but I played along to make them happy.

     We all sat and ate while talking about the new house and mother still tried to get another answer on how he got the money, but father just kept teller her the same thing "I told you dear, I worked extra jobs to make this happen" and that was that. Me and Devin were talking and laughing about thieves and killers. Odd I know, but we were saying how they were so stupid and how they could've had a better life but they chose the wrong path. We were both still young and didn't understand why people would do such a thing as killing but we did understand to stealing part.

     After we ate father told me that my gift was not doing chores for the day but Devin had to. Devin wasn't surprised and left to do what he was told and I went to my room to get s few things. I slid the strongbox out from under my bed. I was about to open it when mom waked into the room. "hello Luna, I hoped you liked the food, I was surprised your brother wanted to help but he did a good job." "He cooked most of it? I was wondering where you learned to cook so well" I tease and she sits on my bed next to me " I thought of giving you something but now I don't think so" she laughs. I've always loved to hear her laugh, it was always so smooth when it came out. I've noticed how the older I get, the more I look like her, you know, with out the pointed ears and very pale blueish skin tone, it was more gray but I still looked alive and loved the color so I'm not complaining. " no, no, I was just joking, I love your half butt cooking" she laughed along with me. That's the thing about me and mom, we like to joke around a lot but only when by ourselves. Plus I couldn't cuss so that added to how weird it sounded. "well lucky you I love you so I decided to give you something that's close to me, if that's alright" I know I didn't have  say in the last part but I nodded like I did. "turn around and stay still" and I turned and sat there quietly, I soon felt her start playing with my hair and it gave me chills, I loved when she does this. After around 6 minutes she was done and I could turn back around. I could see my refection in the window, even though not that good, I could tell she put my greenish gray hair into a messy bun but I couldn't tell with what. "what is it?" I asked and looked up at her " it's the mini crown hair piece that my mother gave me when I was 15". I knew what she was talking about, It was a small crown shaped hair accessory that was silver with a dark red gem in the middle of it. I hugged her and she hugged back, we stayed like that for a bit before she kissed me on the forehead and left me alone in my room.

     I smiled and turned back around to my strongbox and picked the lock since I never got a key and it locks automatically when it shuts. I opened it and took out the 500 gold that I made from selling the stolen items to the guy and put it back under my bed. I was happy and grabbed my dragon bone dagger I bought off the same guy and walked out of the house and to the town.

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