Your Day Is Jinxed {Charm/Hex}

hex jinx;

I guess that even after two years, it still felt wrong to celebrate a birthday without Curse. But we have to move on at some point. Charm came down late, but that's a bit of a blessing. I get my own little party while she was coming downstairs. Sharing parties was always the way in a family of triplets and twins; it's almost a miracle to have a special one, even while we wait. Curse's place at the table was always filled, despite all that time gone.

"Looks like the birthday girl slept in!" Father said suddenly, as Charm came down and sat opposite. I always liked that we sat opposite on the table. Almost mirror images staring at each other. "Happy birthday Hex. Too bad we can't have cake for breakfast, right?" Charm let out a laugh, and I could do nothing else but smile. At least this time it's more civil -- in the past, we would have been lucky to say a word to each other. "Cake would be nice! Happy birthday Charm!" 

It's nice to have a party for once, not sitting out another, or lying through teeth to go to another one that miraculously turned out to have alcohol. Sitting down for breakfast all together is almost as much of a gift as anything else, everyone working on slightly different times. It took almost all of my energy to get up in the morning and it was a small mercy that the scowl had stayed off my face. Birthday's were a time for smiles, not scowls. "So, can we eat breakfast now, Mom? Now that Charm had joined us, finally." I mock roll my eyes, smile beaming on for nothing other than making it obvious.

No need to make anyone annoyed today.

hex jinx;

Food; the one thing that keeps everyone happy. The go ahead was given, and everyone started to eat. Slowly forking the food onto my plate, not wanting to drop anything. I don't want to do anything to upset Mom on a day like this. It's rarely this peaceful, don't want to break it by spilling food all over the table.

She's probably surprised that I'm using a plate. It's not very often we all sit down and eat like this, only on special occasions. I wished that we did it more often but it'll lose all the surprise to come downstairs and have a full breakfast. Charm, she glanced towards me, scrambled egg on her fork -- that is definitely my favourite, not that we have it enough -- pushed further. "I got you something as a gift this year, Hex." I almost spat out my mouth of food, even though I'd done the same. I wasn't expecting Charm to give me a gift; we never normally did and I bought one as a surprise.

What's the chance of that? We were getting older, and gifts I suppose are part of that. "Lucky that I picked one up as well, wasn't it?" Not wanting to surprise anything, I left it up in my room. "This is exciting, right!" Part of the birthday excitement, after all.