“Stop it,” Aki frowned as you held a cake up to him, prompting him to blow out the lit candle. He stared at you, the flickering of the flame shadowing his uninterested gaze. “I told you I didn’t want this.”

He had meant it too. He told you he didn’t like celebrating his birthday, yet here you stood in your shared dorm room ready to give him the celebration he didn’t want.

He contemplated pushing past you. “You can eat the cake yourself. Please move.” Aki said, trying to be somewhat polite.