Still not mine.
On the day of her 16th birthday, the restaurant Mindy was supposed to have her family dinner at unexpectedly closed. Determined to not let it ruin her daughter's day Daisy found another restaurant that could accommodate their large group last minute. Mindy was going to have a big party with friends from school later in the week, but tonight was reserved for family.
Walking into the restaurant, Daisy noticed a table across the way with a young kid opening presents and laughing with his family. The kid, probably no more than 5, was flanked by his parents and both were smiling widely. A familiar pang in her gut twisted and not for the first time that day she wished Lincoln was there to celebrate their daughter's 16th birthday. Shaking her head out of her reverie she walked into the main room to join her already gathered extended family.
Dinner was a fine affair, full of laughter, love, even some maybe flirting between Mindy and Henry Fitzsimmons, and of course the beginnings of a food fight. Even now Hunter couldn't be taken anywhere. He tried to blame it on his son, but everyone knew better. Mindy had been happy and bubbly through out the evening but Daisy could tell Mindy was missing Lincoln as much as she was.
As dinner was winding, the same little boy who Daisy saw when she walked in wandered over to the table, he tapped Mindy on her arm and Mindy smiled down at him.
"Hi!" He said shyly, holding something behind his back.
"Well hi there cutie," Mindy replied looking down at the boy standing next to her.
"Is it your birthday too?" He asked her.
"It is! But I think I'm a bit older than you are," Mindy laughed
The boy smiled and pulled out the object from behind his back.
"I wanted to share my cupcakes with you," he said and handed her the cupcake.
Mindy tried to stifle a gasp when she looked at the cupcake. There on top of the cupcake was a Pikachu smiling up at her.
Mindy smiled at the little boy who gave it to her.
"Thank you," she whispered.
"You're welcome! Happy Birthday!" The boy said waking a way again.
"Happy birthday." She mumbled after him.
Looking back up she put the cupcake on the table and caught her mother's eye. Both women looked like they were going to cry.
Taking a deep breath Mindy looked out the rest of her strange little family.
"So, who wants cake?"