At home, her parents never celebrated her birthday. They would only celebrate her more beautiful elder sister's birthday.
She had once asked about celebrating her own birthday. Her mother looked at her scornfully, "I was so unlucky to have given birth to such a fat and ugly child. Why even bother having a birthday? Did you want to remind me of the day I gave birth to such an ugly child?"
Preslie came to realize that she would never have a birthday at home, so she always celebrated it elsewhere.
On her birthday, she bought herself a large birthday cake and invited some of her friends.
One of the kids she invited then made fun of her, saying, "Preslie, you're already so fat, but you bought yourself a large cream cake. Is this a birthday or a day for getting fat?"
From then on, Preslie never celebrated her birthday ever again.
On her birthday every year, she would find a quiet corner and send up a prayer to God.
However, her prayers were never answered.
She never celebrated her birthday and no one ever remembered.
Her eyes began to turn red.
Yesseca was puzzled. "You look so unhappy. What's wrong?"
She thought that she'd be happy to join the party.
Preslie quickly rubbed her eyes.
What was she doing?!
It was Yesseca's birthday and she was so kind as to invite her. She shouldn't be sad right now, this would be very rude to her!
Preslie forced out a smile. "I'm just so happy. I will definitely be there. I've never been invited to a birthday party before!"
After her shift ended, Kylin came to pick Yesseca up. Preslie got into the car with her.
Yesseca thought that Kylin had organized her birthday party at a hotel, but when they arrived at the venue she realized it wasn't.
They were at a location that Kylin had found. There was a huge transparent glass house on top of a wide grassy field.
Upon entering the huge glass house, she saw several small, exquisite looking houses.
All of them were made out of food.
Some were made out of biscuits, others cookies, chocolate and more.
This was just like the fairytale where all of the houses were made out of delicious food.
Yesseca's eyes widened.
She looked at Kylin.
Kyi in looked back at her. "Well, Yesseca, is it everything you imagined?"
After that, he reached for one of the windows of the house in front of them. It was made out of mint candy.
Kylin placed the mint candy into her mouth.
The mint tasted very fresh and sharp.
The small houses didn't just look good, they tasted good too.
"How... how did you do this?" Yesseca stammered.
She had told Kylin this not too long ago and in passing. She didn't expect him to prepare all of this so quickly. It wasn't exactly an easy feat to get so many houses done in such a short time.
"Selina and Matthew helped," Kylin answered.
He could have taken all the credit, and in fact, Selina had told him to do so. She told him not to let Yesseca know that she and Matthew had helped him to get people to create these houses.
"This is how you'll win her heart," Selina told him.
Kyi in decided to tell her the truth, though.
He didn't want to lie to Yesseca. The way he saw it, it was always best to be honest.
Just then, Selina and Matthew stepped in, hand-in-hand.
Seline happened to hear Kylin.
She kept shaking her head.
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