April 3

“Happy Birthday!” Derek, Robin, Celia, and the twins shouted in unison. Unfortunately Temari and Gene were away on kingdom business. And Victor was nowhere to be found. No one was worried, Victor did this often. Esme didn’t mind that he decided to skip her 8th birthday. She didn’t like him much anyway. He was always so grouchy. Derek said that Victor was infected with some diseases called puberty, and that is why he was aching like a big troll. 

Esme took a big breath and blew over the cake. She got about half of them on her first try. It took her two more times to finish blowing out all the candles on her birthday cake. 

It was a two tiered, chocolate fudge cake. It had slices of oranges surrounding the first tier. Then it had “Happy Birthday” on the top tier, in orange colored fudge icing. Yes, it looked a bit weird, but it was what Esme wanted. She refused to accept anything else than an orange, chocolate fudge cake. 

“Did you make a wish?”, Celia asked. Esme nodded. She made a wish. Her wish was for her father to come and visit her for her birthday. She also specifically requested that he leave Calvin and Crystal at home. 

“Can we eat now?”Robin pleaded, he had been forced to stare at a cake for two hours. Robin loves food. It doesn’t help that the kitchen staff adore him and can’t help but give him extra snacks when he pleads to them for food. If you didn’t know the boy, you’d think that he was never fed. 

Celia chuckled, “Yes Robin.” She motioned for a servant to cut the cake for the children. 

Esme got the first slice. Robin stared at her slice like it was a gold bar until one of his own was placed in front of him. Soon, everyone had a slice of cake. Celia had picked the orange slices off and ate the cake. Derek and the twins ate the cake and the orange slices separately. Then Esme and Robin just ate it all together.