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Alia walked to the front of the house and paused for a second before opening the door.
"I'm ho!" she exclaid and got no response. Instead, she heard sounds of water hitting the floor and the sounds ca from multiple rooms at the sa ti.
'Of course Clara forgot. I shouldn't have expected much.' she thought and smiled, 'Well, it doesn't matter. I'll drag them with tonight!'
She then walked towards her own room and just as she passed by the entrance to the living room, a familiar figure jumped in front of her.
"Happy birthday!!" Caleb exclaid and so did the other four. Her eyes instantly moved towards Keith who was playing with a brak coin while grinning from ear to ear but her gaze was fixed on his apron instead.
She raised her eyebrow as she took in his look, "You cooked? No, even though you do cook once in a while, I've never seen you wear an apron."
"This woman here forced to. It's not like I wore it because I liked it." Keith said as he placed his palm on Clara's head.
Alia smirked and nodded before looking at everyone, "Thank you. I was thinking of dragging you guys to drink with , but this is way better!"
Laura grinned and grabbed Alia's hand before pulling her into the living room. Then, she pointed at the kitchen counter that was filled with multiple containers, most of which were tallic and due to this, Alia was unable to see inside.
Just as she was looking at the counter, she felt a rough hand on her shoulder, "Uncle Edward?"
"Heh, yeah. Don't worry about Clangson. Those people are just threatening him, so I asked the new sheriff to keep an eye on their property. I can spend a few hours here before going back." he said and took a step back to stand behind Brandon.
"Wait, how did you get here faster than ?"
Edward chuckled, "That wasn't , but the storekeeper. I asked him to help and he did it for , but anyways... surprise surprise!" he said and clapped his hands together.
The door that was opposite to the entrance of the living room imdiately opened and a pretty middle aged woman walked out, "May the goddess' blessings be upon you, darling."
"Aww, even you ca here?" Alia said as she gave the nun a tight hug, "We're going to drink tonight, so will you join?"
"Hohoho of course child. I'm not a full fledged nun so I don't have to follow all the rules. Did you forget that I also sell alcohol to people when they co to the inn?" she asked and patted Alia's back before pulling away.
Keith silently walked over to the counter and began to set up the plates. The at stew went onto a bowl which was placed in the center of the plate and surrounding it were bread slices, potato chips, stead fish that was bought from a nearby restaurant.
It wasn't much, but that was how the traditions went. Good quality items that were less in diversity, but could be eaten until everyone was full.
Keith placed all the plated on the empty area on the counter and looked at the others who were still talking to Alia, "Maybe you guys should grab so food and talk while you eat." he said and then pointed at a copper pot.
"Wine is in that one and then there's sweets for dessert in the pot beside it." he said and grabbed a donut from the pot and showed it to them, "It's my personal recipe."
He lied effortlessly and took a bite of the donut before licking the extrely sweet condensed milk glaze from the corner of his lips.
Everyone rushed over to the counter and picked up the plates, but Clara stopped them all.
"Hey, stop! Did you forget about presents?" she said and took out a small box before giving it to Alia.
There were no gift wraps, so it was pretty easy to know what the present was. The container looked like jewellery container and just as Keith thought of this, Alia excitedly opened it up.
"Ooooh these earrings are so pretty!" she said and then glanced at the trio who were walking towards her.
"Um, we pooled in our money and bought a... dress for you." Caleb said as he handed over a folded piece of red fabric, which Alia imdiately pushed against her body to see if it would fit well or not.
Laura smirked, "Clara told about your asurents so this one is pretty accurate. The tailor also told that she will help with alterations in the future."
"This looks great!!" Alia exclaid and folded it back up before Clara took it from her, "I'll hold it for you."
Alia smiled and looked at Keith expectantly, but Brandon, Edward and the nun walked towards her instead.
The nun gave her a small envelope and smiled, "We found out a little late, so we didn't have the ti to buy you anything special. I hope you can accept the money instead."
"Oh of course! Even if you didn't bring anything, it would have been fine!" she said and hugged her while Brandon clicked his tongue.
"Tch, I told you guys that it would be fine even if we didn't give her anything." he said, but Edward smacked the back of his head, "Stingy bastard, she gifted you a nice pair of shoes for your birthday and this is what you say when it's her turn?"
Brandon frowned and nodded, "Yeah, that's my mistake. I apologise."
Edward sighed and shook his head while Alia turned to look at Keith as she rembered the look of regret he had on his face a few seconds ago. This was more than enough for her to know that he hadn't got any gift for her.
"It's fine, I wasn't expecting any gifts. Let's just eat and drink to our heart's content!"
Keith let out a soft sigh and shook his head before taking out his pocket watch from his inner pocket.
"Here, I wanted to give you sothing better... but it's a dangerous item, soo..."
Alia instantly snatched the watch from him, "This is exactly what I wanted! My watch broke a few days ago."
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