April 1st

After months of intense events happening in the Borderland, during the last major event of the Invasion of the Skinwalker to the current events in Mexico…there was a period of peace in which people lived normally…

This is the story of a “normal” birthday celebration as Daniel turned 14 years old…

(BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP)

I heard my alarm clock, but for some reason, I was already awake. I heard someone enter my room a few moments before but I was so tired… I slowly opened my eyes and saw that a girl was on top of me…

The girl has brown skin, white hair and dark blue eyes. She was wearing our school uniform. Her name is Estrella and with a shy voice she spoke:

“Uuhmm…Happy Birthday Daniel…”

“Thank you, but why are you on top of me?’ I thanked her and wondered why she was here...this is probably one of my sister’s pranks. Estrella shyly responded; “Valerie told me that it was a tradition for a girl to wake up a boy on his birthday…”

“I see…well, would you mind getting off before she…”

“DANIEL, IT’S MORNING ALREADY, WAKE UP!” Just my luck, here she comes. Another girl enters my bedroom, she has white skin, blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She is also wearing the girls school uniform; “Good morning Daniel, Happy Birth…” The girl looks at Estrella on top of me and her face turns red like a tomato. I sighed with my eyes closed; “Good morning…Fabiola…”

“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU PERVERT!” Figures, I knew she would do that…Fabiola is very strict, that means that she will make a ruckus. Estrella gets off me and immediately runs to the door embarrassed. I stood up and walked to the door as normal. Fabiola is still paralyzed; “Hey Fabiola, please let me change…thank you…”

“Hey wait…”

I slowly closed the door and decided to put on my uniform. After that, I decided to go downstairs and eat breakfast. As I walk downstairs, my sister, Valerie immediately ran and hugged me:

“DANIEL, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”

Valerie is so clingy that she hugs me with force and doesn't let go. I have no choice but to let her do this…what a pain… Valerie chuckled as she looked at me with a smirk; “So, do you like my present? I bet it was your dream to be woken up by a pretty girl on top of you…”

“Valerie, I am not a pervert, please don’t give false ideas to Estrella…” She continued to laugh. I decided to go to the dining room. I entered the dining room and saw two girls eating their breakfast along with Fabiola. One has brown skin, black hair and light brown eyes, she is Abril. The other has white skin, light blue hair, and also light brown eyes, she is Mariana. Both of them stand up and hand over a cupcake. Mariana says with a low tone: “Happy birthday…” Abril said the same thing and added; “We decided to make cupcakes for you, here you go…”

I smiled and thanked them. Both of them smiled. Sister Carolina and Father Clemente also congratulated me. Sister Carolina gave me a big hug and also a present, a silver rosary. Father Clement also gave me a present, a medallion with the image of “San Benito” which is a Patron Saint, protector of the innocent.

I saw my mother coming this way. With tears in her eyes, she gave me a big hug; “Happy Birthday, my baby…” This was embarrassing, doing it in front of everyone, but she is my mother, I can’t just push her away. My mother said that we would have a celebration tonight, which was supposed to be secret, but I discovered it, days before it…so they decided just to tell me…

We ate breakfast, Fabiola and Estrella sat next to me as they were the ones who made me a special breakfast consisting of pancakes with strawberries…they were good…I saw everyone, except for “him”...who my mother told that he stayed at Sun City because had a mission…figures I betted he didn’t even remember my birthday…

At school, a group of four guys immediately came at the entrance and shouted; “HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFE (BOSS)” They are all self-proclaimed delinquents who called themselves The Chuco Clan. Diego or Apá like he likes to be called. light brown hair, white skin, and brown eyes.He always has his shirt unbuttoned with a dragon shirt below. Behind him were other three people:

Tito (Victor) the brains of the group, he has brown skin, long black hair and bluish eyes. Bofo (Adolfo) the brawns of the group. He has dark skin, curly hair and brown eyes. Chuy (Jesus) is the extra of the group. Because there is always someone who is extra. He has long blonde hair, white skin and green eyes.

I thanked them properly and decided to just walk towards the classroom. By the way, the girls asked me to walk with them, so I didn’t use the portal…Ms. Gutierrez congratulated me and gave me a chocolate as a present…she is a member of Yggdrasil…the group that is currently working with “him” but I have no interest…

During the day, many girls gave me presents, it was like a holiday. Girls would come and give things for my birthday...It was really annoying…

The whole class sang “Las Mañanitas”to me, which I felt embarrassed about. The Chuco Clan gave me a sweater with the logo which consists of a skull with flames and in the back the word; “Jefe.” I think I will probably change the logo…but anyway, it was interesting…Ms. Gutierrez brought a cake and we all ate it during our last period with all the girls fighting to see who would sit next to me…at the end it was Ms. Gutierrez herself...because she hates fights…

If you want to know, I really don’t like my birthday, first, it’s because it’s on April Fool’s day and I find it irritating. Second, I don’t have my father with me…and my mother always cries because she said that April Fool’s was my father’s favorite day…

I don’t know much about him and most of his pictures are hidden away in my mother’s closet in which she said to never open...I prefer to have this day to pass on quick...

Other than that, it was just a normal school day...after that, we went back to the ministry where Valerie gave me her present...a brand new video game that I was waiting for...Not gonna lie, it was really a surprise…

We decided to eat pizza because it’s my favorite food...and cake after that…it was a small celebration with the members of the Ministry and my family…which is the largest celebration I had in years...however, he never showed up…I guess, he has more important things to do…after we ate the cake, everyone returned to their normal lives…

I decided to head back to my room, but I had a feeling to go outside first. I went outside and looked at the moon…Suddenly I heard a voice:

“Hey…how did it go?”

I turned to see him, my big brother, Uriel…I acted cool; “It was nice, but you weren’t there were some leftovers in the kitchen…”

“Thank you, sorry, I was busy…but go to your room, I left a present there…Happy Birthday!”

For some reason, I felt happy to see him...even though we aren’t close…he did remember…

I immediately headed to my room and saw what he left me there…the gift was wrapped with blue paper…it felt light, it looked like a picture or something similar… there was a note next to it that said:

“It took me a while to find it, but Kasumi found something that you will probably enjoy…Happy Birthday!”

I unwrapped my present…my eyes opened wider and tears began to fall as I saw something that I never imagined…A picture of my father, Roberto carrying me as a young boy, probably when I was 7 years old…I was smiling in the picture with my dad…the lights were turn off but the moon shined down my room…

Tears wouldn’t stop flowing as I chuckled; “You idiot brother, why would you give me something so lame…”

It was one of the greatest presents I received…I guess, “he” really does care about me...maybe I should talk to him more…

That was my birthday…a very normal birthday...

THE END…