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nysalogs2017-08-22 12:03 am
webdesigned) wrote in nysalogs2017-08-22 12:03 am
happy birthday to the GROUND
Who: Peter Parker (webdesigned) & Clary Fray (obstinance)
What: sad birthday thread
When: August 23rd!
Where: a park in the theatre district?
Warning(s): mmm no, besides trigger warning for nerd.
( birthdays had never been a really big deal for him. his aunt always made him pancakes, he and Gwen usually went out for Korean food and a movie. his aunt was usually working the night of but she'd always leave a cupcake for him in the fridge, with a card that played birthday song and things that made him misty scribbled on a card intended for someone at least ten years younger (it'd been Mickey Mouse last time). it wasn't much, but it'd been enough for him. a reminder that there were people in his life that loved him, loved him enough that they would remember the day he got older, even if Peter himself sometimes forgot.
he remembered this time, though, not because he was excited for it. sort of the opposite, actually. it was his first birthday without Gwen, which was hard enough. it forced up memories of guilt and loss and remorse that he usually blocked out. he'd visited his Aunt on the station but she was still asleep and unresponsive as ever. it didn't really matter, honestly, what was it? just a day. the fact he was more alone than usual shouldn't matter, he'd been alone the day before too. why did it bother him more today than it had yesterday?
the only concession to turning 19 that he had was buying himself a cupcake. or, trying to. Olympia didn't exactly have those. a pie seemed to be as close as he was going to get. they didn't have those tiny cartoonishly pastel candles, either, so he just looked like a weirdo sitting alone with a pie in the mostly empty park.
he's not even hungry, he realizes miserably as he stares it down. maybe he can bring it back and share it with Cheryl and Lila... though if they ask him what it is for, he probably won't explain. ) Happy birthday to me, ( he mutters with a half sigh, closing the box again and leaving the pie untouched. )
webdesigned) & Clary Fray (obstinance) What: sad birthday thread
When: August 23rd!
Where: a park in the theatre district?
Warning(s): mmm no, besides trigger warning for nerd.
( birthdays had never been a really big deal for him. his aunt always made him pancakes, he and Gwen usually went out for Korean food and a movie. his aunt was usually working the night of but she'd always leave a cupcake for him in the fridge, with a card that played birthday song and things that made him misty scribbled on a card intended for someone at least ten years younger (it'd been Mickey Mouse last time). it wasn't much, but it'd been enough for him. a reminder that there were people in his life that loved him, loved him enough that they would remember the day he got older, even if Peter himself sometimes forgot.
he remembered this time, though, not because he was excited for it. sort of the opposite, actually. it was his first birthday without Gwen, which was hard enough. it forced up memories of guilt and loss and remorse that he usually blocked out. he'd visited his Aunt on the station but she was still asleep and unresponsive as ever. it didn't really matter, honestly, what was it? just a day. the fact he was more alone than usual shouldn't matter, he'd been alone the day before too. why did it bother him more today than it had yesterday?
the only concession to turning 19 that he had was buying himself a cupcake. or, trying to. Olympia didn't exactly have those. a pie seemed to be as close as he was going to get. they didn't have those tiny cartoonishly pastel candles, either, so he just looked like a weirdo sitting alone with a pie in the mostly empty park.
he's not even hungry, he realizes miserably as he stares it down. maybe he can bring it back and share it with Cheryl and Lila... though if they ask him what it is for, he probably won't explain. ) Happy birthday to me, ( he mutters with a half sigh, closing the box again and leaving the pie untouched. )