Chapter 5
My Birthday
Today was my Birthday and belive it or not I had fun. But I'm getting ahead of myself...
This morning when I woke up I felt horrible. Todays my day and no one except for my brother(maybe) knows, but who knows where he is. To make the day worse I had to go to school. Luckily, Maia would be there to make it better. Her teacher was still mad at me for taking Maia out of school.
At the end of the day while I was walking Maia to the lobby to be picked up she asked me if I wanted to sleepover at her house. At first I thought "How would she know its my birthday?" I never told her and I never planned to. Maybe it was just a sleepover, not anything special. So I agreed and went upstairs to pack. When I came back down her baby-siter Christine was there to pick us up.
When we got to her apartment I asked where I should sleep. She told me they had to blow-up bed I could use.
When her mom got home she asked us if we could go grab the mail because she "forgot" to get it on her way in. So we walked downstairs and grabed the small bit of mail.
When we got back upstairs and to the door Maia told me not to get scared that everything would be ok. I asked her what she meant but she wouldn't tell me. When we opened the door it was dark so for light I lit my hand on fire. Maia took me twords the kitchen and thats when I saw it. On the table was a cake with candles and Diana was standing by it. I was in shock! I haven't had a Birthday party in 3 years. I felt so happy, but I still wondered how they knew, so I asked. Turned out after I first met Ms. Skouris she did a check onme and saw my birthday was in a week.
After the shock wore off and they saw it, Ms. Skouris said they had a suprise. Over in the other room a man walked out and said "Hey Syd, how've ya been?" Right then I knew it was my brother Ryan. Maia asked why I wasnt smiling. In a way I was happy to see him, but I knew he had just come for the free trip. I haven't seen or talked to him since I was taken. Back then he was more of a dork, but now he looked more like a normal cool adult, also, he must work out now cause he had muscles. I started to laugh and said to him "Hey your not a nerd anymore!" We all started laughing and started the cake. Ryan and I went to talk on the couch. Turns out he's married (shocking!) and has a kid. He is 27 now and makes video games in Tokyo. He was only here for the day and his flight was in 2 hours.
When he had to leave I was sad to see him go, but also so happy that I had finaly got to see him. Also, maybe now things might be easier for me. Or maybe the war Maia talks about will change everything.
