Isabella Marie Swan ✴ "Stella" (
self_composed) wrote2012-10-12 12:02 pm
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for my birthday i become a real person
The eighteenth birthday is the best one. Bella is no longer A Minor. She no longer needs Charlie's or Renée's permission to do random things that real people are allowed to do. She still can't drink, but she doesn't feel like throwing her cognitive edge out a window anyway.
Also, she is going to get a cake.
Also, she is going to get a cake.
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Alice carries it through the door in an enormous plain white cardboard box, reinforced on the bottom with two extra layers of thicker cardboard. Instead of de-invisibling in the stairs, he sneaks all the way outside to visibly come back inside and take the elevator. Helpful strangers push the buttons for him.
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Others start putting in their own requests with various amounts of timidity.
"I wonder where Janine is," Bella says.
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He cuts Bella her desired slice; it takes a little work to get the knife through the chocolatey shell in some places, but he manages it in the end. Then he moves on to the next nearest person, and so on until everyone in the room has been served, at which point he finally hacks himself off a corner.
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"Comin' right up," says Alice. Janine gets a piece with a single guttered candle, which she carefully extracts from its chocolatey surroundings before beginning to eat.
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"I had it made special," says Alice.
"It is delicious."
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He also kisses back very cheerfully and with a complete disregard for their audience.
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"What'd you get for your birthday besides cake?" asks one of the random hall residents.
"Besides this lovely cake? My mom sent me a make-your-own-candle kit and a batch of homemade crackers, and my dad got me some books I wanted," Bella says.
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