Angela immediately said, "What's wrong with John? This is the first birthday that Nina has celebrated in the North Yard. How could he leave at such an important moment?"
"Maybe it's an emergency. He has no choice." Daniel patted his wife on the shoulder.
Nina was a little disappointed.
However, thinking that so many people celebrated her birthday, Nina raised her head and smiled. "It doesn't matter. I want to cut the cake."
Nina's favorite thing was to cut the cake and then distribute the cakes to everyone who celebrated her birthday.
She thought that sharing good things would make herself happy.
"That's great. Let's cut the cake. It looks delicious." Speaking of food, Michelle was very active.
Emma stopped her and said, "Mimi, we can't cut it now. We have to light candles for Nina to let her make wishes."
"Emma is right. I'll get some candles." James appeared to be helpful.
Emma felt slightly strange when she heard James call her name.
She took a glance at him and then immediately looked away.
"Where are the candles?" James looked around but didn't find the candles.
At this moment, a person in the elk puppet clothes came over with candles. Angela's eyes lit up. "Someone is bringing the candles here."
Turning around, Nina saw a tall elk walking towards her, its two hooves carrying candles.
At the first sight of the elk's horns, Nina recognized that it was the elk that had led her way when she had lost her way.
After that, she often sneaked to look for the elk, which lived in the forest on an island.
Besides her brother, the elk was her best playmate.
"Little elk..." Tears fell from Nina's eyes. She looked at everyone excitedly. "This is my elk. The horns on its head are different from those of other elks. It is my good friend."
Michelle smiled and said, "Yes, it's your little elk. Uncle John asked Leon about it and then ordered someone to make this puppet clothes. He has asked someone to wear it to celebrate your birthday."
Nina looked at the person walking towards her. Wearing the heavy puppet clothes, the person looked a little clumsy.
The person was so tightly wrapped that no one could see who was inside.
The person stepped forward, stopped in front of Nina for two seconds, and then walked past her.
At this moment, Nina smelled a familiar smell.
'John.
The person in the puppet clothes is John.
He hasn't gone to the company.
These people are fooling me together.'
With a gentle smile, Nina didn't immediately expose their trick. Instead, she turned around and watched as John inserted the candles into the cake one by one and carefully lit them one by one.
Then he stepped aside.
Michelle held Nina's hand and said, "Nini, close your eyes and make wishes. You can make three wishes."
With her ten fingers crossed in front of her chest, Nina slowly closed her eyes. The candle light reflected on her face, and the shadow of her thin eyelashes could be seen.
"I hope my brother can find his own happiness." Nina had the habit of speaking out her wish.
She thought that speaking out her wish would make it more likely to come true.
In her opinion, people often celebrated their birthdays with people who were important to them. Telling them their wishes would give them psychological hints.
In this way, they would try to make themselves happy.
But in other people's minds, birthday wishes wouldn't come true if they were told to others.
Someone wanted to stop Nina speaking out her wishes. Wearing the puppet clothes, John gently shook his head, asking others not to disturb her.
John had already figured it out.
He knew the forest island, the elk and that Nina would speak out her birthday wishes.
Nina continued to make wishes, "I hope all my good friends can find their own happiness.
And I want a forest, where there is only one banyan tree."
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