Chapter 11: Cake and Kisses
"Princess Talia"
The smiling face of the man whose familiar voice that used to be her beacon of hope slowly transformed to a wail of a banshee as Cyrus’ face contorted in a spiral in front of her and Talia woke up with a gasp.
Her shoulder hurt as she had laid on the hardwood floor for long and scrunching up her face in pain she rubbed her shoulders. Her stomach grumbled loudly and slowly getting up and stretching herself up, she checked her refrigerator for any ingredients. There weren’t even eggs left making her sigh and she fixed her strap slipping from her shoulders.
Who asked you to throw away a perfect sandwich, stupid Talia!
She looked through the big window in her living room to see the night lights already glimmering colourfully outside and wondered if she should buy some ingredients or order some food.
At that time, she heard the door knock and thinking it was Mrs. Johnson, she didn’t open the door. But as she observed closely, it seemed like it was a man outside and he kept on knocking and she was scared to open the door. She walked like a cat on tiptoes to the foyer and listened closely since she didn’t have the guts to peek through the peephole door camera. She blamed her hunger for her fear and her belief that the man outside could peek in and see her not dressed properly through the camera is she peeked through it.
After a while, she could sense something was placed on the floor and she heard the man’s heavy footstep leaving. Waiting for ten more minutes making sure there is no one on the other side, she wore the coat hanging in the coat hanger. She opened to door to see a neat package in front of her door.
Seeing the blue ribbon over the package, she knew who sent her that package. And she once again got reminded what day it was.
Her birthday!
And the package with blue ribbon is here.... Just like clockwork, every year!
She wanted to close the door leaving the package but then her curiosity got the best of her and she got the package inside and closed the door immediately, like she might get caught stealing.