"Wooooh!" Poe cheers as we run inside.

Ri comes over and socks me, hard in the arm. Then she hugs me.

"You suck." She says.

"Your welcome." I reply nonchalantly.

It's almost like we're having an impromptu party. I see Poe pull out his phone with that smirk I know so well.

"Don't you dare." I say.

"Going to anyway."

"I'm ordering Pizza!" I call. I pull out my phone and order the Pizza. Then I pull open Tally's contact and send a quick text.

Me: My place. 30 minutes. Pizza. Then I put my phone away.

30 minutes later, the doorbell rings. "Mom, where's your credit card? It's probably the pizza!"

"In the front pocket of my purse!"

I grab it, not totally sure it is the pizza.

"Hey, it's everybody!" I say. Finn, Tally, and the Pizza guy are at the door. I pay the for the Pizza, then get Finn and Tally inside.

"Tally!" Poe exclaims. "What are you doing here?"

"Rey invited me." She twirls to me, curious. "He didn't know?"

"Nope." She starts to laugh.

We eat and laugh to our hearts content. It's Mom and Dad's first dinner with all three of they're children's significant others.

That night, I don't sleep very well. I never do on the night before my birthday. I know what I'm going to do tomorrow. It's what I always do on my birthday, even if it's a school day. I go to Jakku Park, where they abandoned me.

The next morning, I wake up, get dressed, do my hair, eat something, and leave. I sit there. On the swing that they left me on, Fifteen years ago today.

"Are you sure you want to do this Astra?" A deep male voice comes from behind me. "She's not going to be there. It was Fifteen years ago."

"I know." A light feminine voice replies. That voice sends shivers down my spine. "But I need to see where we left her. This is the first time I've ever had wanted to."

I stand up and twirl around as they approach the swing. The color drains from my face the second her drains from her face. Because it's my face.

"Rey?" She squeaks out. "Is that really you?"

"Why are you here?" I ask, coldly.

"It's a public-" She starts.

"I know. But why are you, here at this very swing, on this very day. I heard your conversation. Fifteen years since you've been here? Not for me. I've come back. Every. Single. Year. You know why?"

"Why?" The look on her face gives me some sort of sick satisfaction.

"Because. I hoped. I prayed. That my birth parents," I fix each of them with an icy stare, "would come back for me. But then, I got adopted. Into the most loving family in the universe. And I still came back. So that if they did, I'd give them a piece of my mind."

"You are our daughter!" She exclaims. She looks, happy. "Our daughter!"

"No I'm not! You," I glare at her, "are not my mother. And you," I glare at him, "are not my father. You abandoned me. How could you live with that?" I'm crying, I am.

"We were in some rough times." Her eyes are pleading, but I won't give in. "We just thought someone else could take better care of you."

"THEN DROP ME OFF AT A FREAKING ORPHANAGE! HOW COULD YOU ABANDON YOUR CHILD, YOUR CHILD, NOT EVEN A DAY OLD, ON A SWING?" I'm livid. She's crying. He's trying to hold you together.

I run home, and burst through the front door.

"SURPRISE!" A thousand voices call out to me. So full of love, and care, unlike what I just heard.

"Surprise indeed." I mutter running up to my room. After a few minutes, I hear a knock on my door. "Who is it?"

"It's me."

"Go away Finn." I cry into my pillow.

"I'm coming in anyway." He opens the door and sits beside me. "What happened? You're not normally so torn up after going to the park." I lean into him and cry into his shoulder.

"They were there Finn. My parents."

"Are you serious?"

"And they pretended that everything was fine between us!"

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?" I nod into his shoulder and cry more.

"I told them everything going through my head, and, and, and they tried to justify their actions!" He kisses me on the head and gets up.

"I'll give you some time." He always knows.

He goes downstairs and is bombarded with questions. He answers calmly as everyone settles down. Then he comes back upstairs.

"Come here." He says. I run into his arms and he just hugs me. He kisses me head a couple times, and he just lets me cry. Then he lets go. "Look at me." He gets down so I can look him right in the eyes. "This house is filled with people who love you. Who know all want to kill your parents. Birth ones, Shara and Kes are the sweetest people in the world." I laugh. "We're getting you ready, and we're going downstairs and you are going to feel loved. Ok?" I nod. He gets up and kisses me.

We walk over to my closet, and pick out something nice. He grabs a cream sweater dress, black leggings, and knee-high brown boots. He leaves the room while I change, and then comes back in when I tell him to. He takes my hair out of the usual three buns and brushes it down. Then he puts a little bit of makeup on me, and we go downstairs, where everyone has formed a line. He stands at the front of it, picks me up in a hug and passes me down the line. Him, Ben, Poe, Tally, Ri, Mom, Dad, the thousand other people who love me, and they all whisper the same thing, 'Happy Birthday, my little Rey of Sunshine.'