13. Birthday

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Aashna's pov:

I'm at the mall, picking out dresses. I'm here with my aunt. She's literally forcing to buy me a few dresses so that I could have multiple birthday parties when I don't even want one.

She also called my friends to pick me up at midnight and have a party blast!! That is just ridiculous. And then she wants me to get dolled up for the day and throw me another sun-kissed party in the afternoon.

Actually the thing is that I don't like celebrating my birthdays.

It's spring here, the perfect weather.

It's my 26th birthday. And aunt is having me a party every year since I came to live with her 2.5 years ago. And sure she made sure that they were special.

The rest of my life, my birthdays have been like shit. And maybe I've broken all records of crying on your own birthday.

My parents never cared if it was my birthday, they just did a cake for formality and not what I really wished for. A happy day.

I don't remember one birthday where they haven't shouted at me for littlest things. My mom even slapped me several times, ik that it had become normal for her to do that everyday but......at least she could've let go on my birthday. I swear I was not that bad of a kid, but maybe she had her own demons.

And remembering my 17th birthday....brings tears to my eyes. It was the worst one.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when bua knocked on the changing room door.

I looked at myself in the mirror at the black dress I'm wearing.

I looked at myself in the mirror at the black dress I'm wearing

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I settle my hair and unlock the door.

"Oh. My. God! Are a goddess? Are you miss universe, baby, u are looking so good...!! We're definitely getting this one, now go try the other one that we selected for the afternoon party." She tells me and it makes me so happy.

She has been celebrating my birthday like she celebrates that of Tanu. And she's been doing a lot of stuff for me since I was born, she even got me my first phone and an ipad. She loves me too much, I see it when she's talking to me, she even slapped Tanu for me once, I think, in the whole fam, she loves me the most, she was also very excited about me shifting with her. My younger aunt also loves me like that, she lives in India. Both my buas love me to death.

But sometimes, a lot of times actually, I wish it was my mom in their place.
But this treatment makes it better than my mom could ever treat me.

I come out of the changing to show her the second dress.

I come out of the changing to show her the second dress

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