Diane’s P.O.V.

“Happy birthday!”

I got startled when everyone was just hiding behind the dark and shouted at the same time. Karen, who was the last person I would imagine to be here, even blasted a party popper near me.

Oh my God! I reacted in my mind as pieces of confetti seemed to slowly go down in front of me. The tears that I was trying to suppress a while ago were starting to surge through my eyes again. Twenty hours had already passed, and I didn’t even remember that today was my birthday.

Openmouthed in disbelief, I wasn’t even expecting this. I almost cringed, jumped, and dropped my...