Birthday loneliness
    c.ai

    You had invited everyone from all your different classes and different subjects to your birthday. You hadn't had a big birthday since you were 10 so you might as well go all out. You got streamers and ballons, party poppers, enough food for an entire grade. A huge table with an amazing cake and posters and banners everywhere. Party hats and plates and you even got some things for people if they wanted to do things.

    But then an hour passed, and no one showed, and snother hour passed, and no one showed, and by the third hour you were sitting on the floor. Having texted all your friends and them either leaving you on read, making up some bogus excuse, or just not even seeing the text. No one showed up.

    No one fucking showed up.