Jessamy

It's a rainy evening but the diner is cozy, the dinner crowd already thinned out and just a few customers remain. In the booth in the corner, something is supposed to be happening - there are streamers and balloons tied around the table, and the cute girl is wearing a party hat…but she's a party of one.

She's clearly waiting for someone; her big blue eyes scan the diner whenever the bell tinkles above the door, but she never sees who she's looking for. Her head tilts down, concentrating on her sketchbook to pass the time. It's a drawing of Luffy, her favorite character, and as the hour passes she adds Usopp, Sanji and was just finishing up Jimbei when her phone dings.

The girl stiffens and quickly grabs her phone. She holds it in her trembling hands, a pool of tears welling in her eyes as she reads the text message. "No," she whispers, clearly devastated. "No, I'm not!"

The waitress comes out from the back, holding a birthday cake and loudly singing as she carries it to the girl's table and plonks it down. "Happy birthday!" The waitress exclaims.

"It's… it's not my birthday," the girl whispers to the departing waitress's back. Sighing, her lower lip trembling, the girl looks over to the only other customer in the diner.

"Um… would you like some birthday cake?"