AN: I know, the next chapter is up! Sorry it's even shorter than normal, but how much can you really write about how Bloom doesn't yet know the exact day she was born? Either way, I've got one question for everyone. Do you want me to skip over her captivity in Cloudtower's dungeons, or write something about that? Please review for an answer! Enjoy! More chapters coming soon!
A bit after Spring Break is over, Musa says her father took her to the Song Wharf for her birthday over Spring Break - then they end up sharing when their birthdays are.
When it comes to Bloom, she takes a minute to realize they're all looking at her expectantly. "What?"
Flora says "We were saying when our birthdays are."
Bloom's look is completely blank, like the fact never mattered to her before, but then she says "Right…um…"
Stella screeches "You don't know your birthday?!"
"I was adopted! They said I just came out of nowhere one day! Literally! Nobody had ever seen me before, why would they know when I was born?!"
Techna says "She makes a valid point. Her adoptive family wouldn't have had any idea about how old she was aside from estimation. So, it's not that illogical to assume Bloom doesn't know her exact date of birth."
Bloom shrugs uncomfortably, and says "Mother says I was about a year old when I arrived, but that's about it. Aside from that, I don't know." She goes back to the book she was reading, hoping to get off the topic; no such luck, Stella then asks about the day she was found and adopted - and the reason why nobody had ever seen her before that day.
Bloom can't answer the first question as she doesn't know the exact day, and because she doesn't want to say her birth planet has been destroyed, but she says "Because I came from this universe apparently, and I ended up in another one entirely. Can we please move to a different topic already?"
Techna asks "Why did you grow up in another universe if you were born in this one? It doesn't really make any sense."
"I was a year old! How many people do you know that can remember something from that point in their lives?!"
Musa says "Good point, Bloom. Fair enough."
Bloom doesn't dare ask why they wanted to know when her birthday was, something that never came up in all the time she was with Daphne, but if it's getting a new dress with Stella she's happy to tag along for someone else's - Stella can somehow spend forever in a virtual dressing room, Bloom doesn't mind it just gets really annoying after about the tenth hour or so when she hasn't eaten anything between dresses.
It's not the staying-in-the-dressing-room part she minds, or the trying-on-a-million-dresses, it's the fact that Stella doesn't stop to take a break for anything; food, drink, bathroom, fresh air, anything. After a while, it wears on anyone.
Finally, they get the hint that Bloom would very much like to change the subject to something else, and get into talking about their next group assignment.