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Another day soon dawned as Tomoko, was awoken by her clock - exhausted from last night, but feeling smugly satisfied. Rain was pouring again, as the sound cascaded against the windows and in the street. But something else was awry today, like why was her mother in her room, at this early?

"M-mom?" yawned Tomoko, rubbing her eyes and getting into an upright position. "Why are you?"

"You don't know?" asked her mother, smiling the entire time. "Happy birthday, Tomoko!"

And her world shattered for the twenty-fifth time.

"M-my birthday?" asked Tomoko, unbelieving it.

"Of course," replied her mother, pointing at the calender - a red circle crossed on a specific date.

'How! How could I forget my own birthday?!' thought Tomoko, feeling sick to her stomach.

"Don't worry. The party will be after school, even your little cousin said she could come," said Tomoko' mother, seeing her daughter go pale for some reason. "Don't forget to invite some friends!"

Tomoko then got a few leaflets handed into her lap, then her mother left the room. If only...

Tomoko counted about seven invitations - all welcoming the receivers to her 16th birthday. How pathetic would it be if she only got one guest - which was her cousin, Ki-chan. Maybe not, but who to invite?

Her ringing phone answering that mystery soon. A message from Yuu-chan: Happy B-Day, Mokocchi! n_n!

'This isn't so bad,' thought Tomoko, relaying Yuu-chan the time for her party. The reply coming as well: See you then Mokocchi! :-)

"Maybe this won't be worthless," said Tomoko, hoping her little cousin would come too. Already two invited, time for the rest.

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At school Tomoko was bouncing back and forth names on who could she invite to her birthday. And here it got difficult: she had classmates who had been friendly towards her, but she wasn't sure on who to invite. If I only hadn't been so pre-occupied last night.

Throught the day Tomoko was still pondering - some people she 'knew' were either too socially tangled-in with other people or were too high up in the social-ladder for her to invite. With that time slowly started to pass by Tomoko without her noticing.

'Seriously? I don't even have one-WAIT! Alex-san!' realized Tomoko, having acquired one name into her party. Then came the second-phase: delivery. How can I get this invite to him, without making myself look like a stuttering fool.

With that thought the class was over and everybody started to shuffle home.

'What? Over already?' realized Tomoko, checking the time - school was over. 'Invite! Gotta hurry!'

A few seconds later Tomoko arrived at the lockers, breathing heavily and sweating, as she slipped the invite into Alex' locker - not knowing if he was still in school or not, and if he would come or not. What a day...

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Rain. Rain. Did Tomoko disliked and hate it - especially at this moment, her birthday. The one day in the world where things SHOULD go your way, you should have the best day of your life and not be suffered by bad weather - yet as usual for Tomoko, things were always bad.

"Cheer-up Mokocchi!" said Yuu-chan, dressed in her usual attire, around the birthday table.

"Why?" asked Tomoko, feeling down - her father was at work and her mother had to leave suddenly. Leaving only her bestfriend Yuu-chan, her cousin Ki-chan and her brother Tomoki.

"Cause your turning sixteen. Just try to enjoy yourself," sighed Tomoki, was her sister ever happy or just a magnet for sadness.

"Why?" asked Tomoko, seeing no point of enjoying when even the weather disliked her.

"Oh-" started Tomoki, but a knock on the door silenced him. "See, they're back."

When Tomoki opened the door, standing in the rain with an umbrella and in a brown jacket wasn't their parents, rather a person he had met several times: on the bridge, once in their home and several times at school - Alex.

Tomoko was slightly suprised when Tomoki started to speak with someone at the door - but the rain and her own mood stopped herself from hearing anything. Likely another of HIS friends.

Then she heard music start to play. Coming and playing a synthesizer in his hands was none other than Alex, playing music that sounded both exotic and modern. Then he started to sing as well.

Tomoko couldn't even comprehend it - he sang like some popstar, in his russian tongue and she was a bit red from it. But the words were almost, certainly directed at her - the synthesizer/keyboard producing a very relative beat, a pop-song likely.

Yuu-chan getting into the song, Ki-chan liking and clapping along to the music, even Tomoki liking the beat - leaving Tomoko in her shock, slowly edging out of her shell as she listened to Alex play. Was it enjoyable, even if she didn't understand a thing he said - but they sounded so powerful and yet soft. Then he finished to the clapping audience, smiling at Tomoko.

"...and I conclude - happy birthday Tomoko!" said Alex finishing the song, slipping of the belt from his shoulder and presenting the synthesizer to Tomoko.

"I-I n-never p-played music," said Tomoko, when she was presented with the instrument.

"You'll learn...or you could check-out your other presents," replied Tomoki grinning.

"He right," added Alex, returning to the door and returning with two large gift-bags.

"...uhhh..." stared Tomoko, unbelieving what she was seeing.

"Wow! You're so lucky onee-chan!" said Ki-chan, seeing the amount of presents.

"Even I didn't get some many gifts!" added Yuu-chan in suprise. "You are lucky, Mokocchi!"

"T-this can't be t-true," spoke Tomoko, standing up.

"Is too. We celebrate big in my culture, birthday biggest thing, next to New Year. So again..." said Alex, handing over everything to Tomoko. "...happy birthday Tomoko."

"Atleast you cheered her up," muttered Tomoki, as her sister eyed every present over which was a lot. "Come and sit."

"Thank you," said Alex. "And thank you for invite."

Tomoko herself was beyond happy at the moment, her gloomy tone changed back to her creepy/happy one. And it would turn out to be a great birthday, for an anti-social teenage girl - her family returning right after Alex had arrived and being suprised with a new portable computer or a simple laptop as their present for her turning sixteen; Ki-chan showing a liking to music onboard Tomoko' new synthesizer and even getting a few tips from Alex who seemed to be a closet-music player; Yuu-chan making spa-plans with a nervous Tomoko about going on her first spa-trip as Yuu-chan' gift to her best-friend and Alex ending the night by accidentally eating a mouthful of wasabi; Tomoko would ask herself the question for a long time on how a guy could eat that much of wasabi and look no worse than usual and calling it 'slightly spicy'.

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A/N: Tomoko' birthday, n_n! Happy birthday Tomoko!

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