Normal POV
The day Fine and Rein were born came quickly. Early in the morning their parents had gotten them a cake and a huge box for each twin, wrapped beautifully. When Fine came down from her room, Elsa and Truth hugged her as they cried silent tears. The night before, Izumi-sensei called, saying that it would be soon. Then the day before, it was all set, everything. Today is the day, where it will end.
Fine opened the large box to reveal a dress for herself. A pretty white dress that had a layered, knee lengthen skirt, each layer was cut so you could see the ones underneath. The top was simple and there was a huge pink ribbon that was tied to the side of the waist. Quietly, she thanked her parents and told them that they needed to go to visit Rein. Elsa went with her to do her daughter's hair, she was still crying. Fine wanted to cry too, her chest ached as she saw her mother cry. But she didn't cry, because she knew that she had to be strong.
Meanwhile, Rein was happy and smiling. "Shade, it's finally my birthday! I'm finally 14."
"So what does that matter? Age is just a number isn't it? And now you're just getting closer to dying," Shade said logically. Even though his words were cold, his eyes were gentle as his gaze was on the girl. "Why are you so happy about today?"
"Shade that sounds like something that an old woman would say so no one would find out how old she is," Rein said giggling slightly. "But I'm really happy, because Fine, and my parents are coming to visit me today. You know it wouldn't kill you to say happy birthday. If I knew when your birthday was, I would get you a gift and said happy birthday to you every time I saw you."
"Then happy birthday, Rein," Shade said as he patted her head.
"Thanks Shade. When your birthday comes, I'll promise to celebrate it with you."
"I don't know when my birthday is," Rein heard him say quietly. It's really only natural that Shade doesn't remember the day he was born. If he can't remember his most important person, then he really shouldn't be able to remember his birthday. While Shade didn't care about his birthday, Rein was more concerned.
"Really? You honestly don't remember?" Shade shook his head at the girl. "Then let's think up a day for your birthday. What would be good..? Ah! How about the day where you finally talked to me?" She asked looking towards Shade for an approval.
Shade shrugged his shoulders and said,"Fine with me."
"Then let's celebrate it next year, if you and I are still at the same place." Rein stuck her pinky out. "Pinky promise." Shade simply stared at her pinky. "Eh, come on Shade, promise me."
"Fine, I promise that we'll celebrate my birthday if we're still in the same place," he said wrapping his pinky around hers. "Are you satisfied now?"Rein happily nodded. This is only natural, to be happy about things like this. Making promises with someone important to you on the day that you turn a year older, that would probably make anyone happy. People on their birthday seem to realize how much they have even more, they realize all of the things that make them happy.
Suddenly the door slide open and the room became brighter. "Rein! Happy birthday!" Fine said as she ran in to hug Rein. "We're finally 14!"
"Happy birthday Fine! I can't believe we're already this old," Rein said hugging her twin back. "Mother, Father, it's good to see you two again."
Elsa had wiped away her tears earlier. She smiled at her blue haired daughter like her husband did and said,"Sorry that we couldn't visit you that often Rein. Your father and I were busy with work, but we're here now, and we have a present for you. Open it."
Rein looked at the large box with anticipation and hopefulness. "Wow! It's so pretty!" A white dress with a large blue ribbon at the side. It was similar to the one that Fine was wearing, except the skirt was pleated and didn't have the showing layers. "Fine, it kind of looks like yours. We can be matching the next time that we go out."
"Yeah... Anyways, Rein open my present too!" Rein opened the small box that her twin gave her. Inside was a charm bracelet. A charm with her name in blue, a locket charm with both twins, and a charm with a pink heart. "We're also matching in jewelry too," Fine said cheerfully holding up her bracelet. "With this, we'll be connect forever."
"Aren't we already connected? Here's your present Fine," Rein said giving Fine a glass jar. "Inside is 14 stars. Each year we get older, I'll put a new kind of star in it." After looking at Fine's expression, Rein said,"Or was it a bad idea?"
"No, thank you for this, Rein," Fine said hugging the jar. "I'll treasure this. Thank you for giving me this." Something was wrong with Fine, Shade could tell, but he still said nothing, not wanting to ruin Rein's happy day. He couldn't deny the feeling that something was going to happen.
After they both blew out the candles of their cake, Rein said "Ara? Fine, you aren't eating any cake?"
"Yeah, I have a stomach ache. I accidentally ate too much last night," Fine said sheepishly. Rein smiled and giggled at her sister's remark. "Nee Rein. Promise me something."
"What is it Fine?"
"Promise that you'll always try to be happy and smile even when you're down. Promise me that you'll never give up on anything." Unknown to the birthday girls, their parents were crying on the inside. "Rein, you're a strong girl, so I don't think that it'll happen, but don't give up on anything for as long as you live. Promise me that at least."
"Of course, I promise you. I'll always try my best." Rein cannot understand that meaning right now, but Fine still smiled back at her like she understood the meaning of her words.
"Hopefully you can... Anyways, I need to go do something right now." Fine hugged Rein. Then she hugged her parents. Before exiting, Fine smiled at Rein. "I'll be going now, Mother, Father, Rein. Remember the promise Rein."
Rein didn't understand what was going on, she turned to her parents to decipher the meaning, but they were crying. "Mother? Father? What's wrong?" They didn't answer her and just went to hug her. They embraced her with the tears falling from their faces.
Shade didn't understand what just happened. The cheerful atmosphere changed. Without knowing, he followed Fine, to try to get some answers. He followed her to a room where she met up with a nurse. After a minute, Shade went in to see Fine dressed in a hospital gown. Fine took a deep breath. "I'm so sorry, Rein."
Shade became angry. What was going on? "What are you doing? Why are you apologizing?"
He knew that Fine wouldn't answer him, he thought that she wouldn't, but Fine said, "Because, I'm going to do something unforgivable. Shade, you wouldn't forgive me either, if you were in Rein's place." Not only did she answer his question, she acknowledged his presence.
"How long?" Fine acted like she didn't hear anything, so Shade asked again. "How long have you been able to see me?"
