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Daan's 23th birthday

5th august 2014:
"Daantje... Daan!" "Wake up darling, it's your birthday today!" is what Daniëlle heard in her right ear whilst waking up little by little after every word her mom was 'shouting' in her ear. "Come on baby, you're turning 23 today!" her mom continued. *hmmpf hmmm* is the only sound that seemed to come out Daan's mouth. "Mom please, the fact that I still live in my parents house after 23 years doesn't make for you to still wake me up anytime you want to... like I told you yesterday. And the day before that. And also the day befo-... you get it. Hopefully". "But today is a special day honey" her mom said. "I don't remember winning the lottery" Daan said whilst turning around once more. "But thanks for waking me up. Now please leave my room". "Oh, okay... well... breakfast will be waiting for you downstairs darling" her mom said kindly. "And please shut the door" Daan said, trying not to react to her mom the same way she reacts to referee's when they don't do what Daan asks them 'kindly'.
"Well, now that I'm awake I could also just get up and change huh... UGH" she said to herself.

As you might have noticed, Daan isn't really a morning person. So after several attempts, Daan gave up on finding a good looking outfit and just went downstairs to get breakfast in her pink unicorn pyjama's that she got last Christmas.

"Er is er een jarig hoera! Hoera! Dat kun je wel zien dat is ziiijjj" (this is a Dutch birthday song). "Omg guys. Was this really necessary?" Daan said to her family. "Of course not, but mom forced me to do so" her little sister immediately responded whilst scrolling through her Twitter timeline. Daniëlle's mom tried to interrupt her,  but was too late. "Of course this was necessary! Everything for my little girl" her mom said smiling. "I mean, I appreciate the singing and all, but I'm not really your little girl since I'm 23 now." Daan said nicely after her family's singing managed to kill her 'morning mood' a little. "Haha you're still little" her sister said in an irritating way. Daan remained silent, she's used to her.

After a nice breakfast, her dad realized that they were forgetting something, somehow. He stood up all of a sudden and walked towards the fridge. "Uhm Daan". "Yes dad?". "You are aware of the fact that you have to be at the soccer field in 30 minutes for your training, right?". "...." Daan stood up and ran to her room as fast as she could to get all the stuff she needed for her training. Within record time Daan ran back downstairs, still dressed up as a pink unicorn, to get into the car as fast as she could since she still had to drive for 20 minutes to get to the field. After Daan smashed the door shut, her mom said "do you think she's aware that she's still wearing her pyjama's?". Dad looked up but remained silent.

After a 17 minute drive that should've been 20 minutes if Daan would have driven by the law, Daniëlle arrived at the PSV training ground. She ran into the changing room as fast as she could, still not knowing she was still a pink unicorn.
Upon coming into the changing room, her teammates began to laugh (obviously). "What's wrong?" Daan asked and looked at herself in the mirror. "Oh. That is what's wrong" she said. One of her teammates immediately said "I mean, having your birthday doesn't mean you have to come to training dressed up as a pink unicorn". "No time to ask questions, training starts in 5 minutes" "now please let me change, okay?" Daan asked her teammate whilst having no time to be ashamed of herself.

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So, that was my first chapter... ever :)
I hope you like where this is going so far, and I hope you like my way of writing and stuff... ✌🏼
I would love if you'd tell me what you think of this chapter by leaving a comment below! I will write more chapters soon, don't worry 😉.