#cv02append

     Birthdays are such a unique thing. For an event that happened years and years in the past to continuously be celebrated for the rest of their life...      It's like re-living history, in a way.      Miku is lucky she even remembers when her birthday is.

     But today is not about Miku, nor should any other day be, really. Feet stand before the door of a flat while she waits, a gift tucked between her arms, a finger resting on the doorbell. What shall she say, when she grabs his attention at last? Ah, this is two presents within two days.      He is lucky, having a birthday so close to Christmas!

     And so she presses an index gently against the button, soft ring echoing from beyond the door. It is hard to tell if he is awake; sometimes he awakens early, other times he sleeps until the sun sets.

     A soft smile is on her lips, though teeth chatter in the cold. While his birthday is in the bitter end of December, hers is in the gentle heat of summer and she recalls it clearly now. Waking up to have a plush leek thrown at her, a bubbly voice and bright smile until the rest of their day is spent on a train ride and taste-testing fancy sushi.

     An encounter she had not expected, and still, when thinks about it, does not expect it. But the first of many to come, of smiles and songs but also of angry voices and steps that threaten to abandon everything she has worked hard to obtain.      If not for him, she would not be standing here right now, at his door, with a plush banana.

     And when the door opens at last, she says, in the same tone as he--                                         "Happy Birthday, Len-chan-san~!!"

     Though, it does not matter. She knocks on the door, waiting for a response.

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