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Is all that she says. “It's okay, we've also been super busy with the plannings for my party! Twenty-one is a day to celebrate, isn't it? I feel officially grown up!” She giggles. Her blond hair is much longer than the last time Eleonor saw her, and her green eyes are sparkling in happiness.

I asked carefully. He took a deep breath. “I am not actually 26… but 21. I actually will turn 22 next week.” My mouth dropped open. For a second, I just stared at him in disbelief. Slowly, I broke our handhold, pulling my fingers back as the words sank in.

“Good thing I’m not people.” This time, he did smile, just barely, but it felt like winning some kind of impossible game. "I still want to know though, how old are you? I am twenty-one, by the way." He looked at me for a long moment, as if weighing whether the number was some sort of secret worth guarding, then finally lowered his gaze and scribbled across the page. CLOSE TO TWENTY I blinked. "Seriously? You look way younger." One corner of his mouth twitched, not quite a smile, but enough to tell me I’d surprised him. He tapped the pen against the notebook again, then added beneath it:

Masyado namang sinuswerte ang talipandas na iyon! Matiim ko siyang tinitigan. His age must be ranging between twenty-one to twenty-five years old. Halos six-footer din siguro siya dahil muntik na niyang sakupin ang espasyo hanggang dulo ng kama. He could be a better model than Kuya Dylan, to be honest. God must’ve taken his time when creating him. Umuwi na ako pagsapit ng ala-sais. Bahagya pang umangal si Jimin pero hindi naman ako nahirapan na kumawala rito. Kaunting pang-uuto ay bumigay rin.

Ashley nodded and calculated, "I just want to tell you that I have three months left. I'm only twenty. I'm the youngest of twenty years old." Looking at her silly appearance, Jacob could not help laughing. "And then?" "And then, you'll be 27 in four months." Ashley had a wine burp and had a sense of superiority. "You are so old."

"So he's twenty two today?" "Yeah." Daniel nodded and snickered. "He's getting old." "Like you're not." She poked his arm. "I'm forever 21." "You wish." He snorted. "This time next year..." "This time next year, we'll almost be through with school. I'll just be 22 while you old men will be getting closer to thirty." She guffawed. Daniel laughed and shook his head. He was happy to finally see her laughing and wondered what had made her moody before but as usual he didn't think of it any further. She was happy and that was all that mattered.

“Thank you” I grab two shots from the tray. “She’s nineteen,” Elixir tells the waiter quickly. The waiter turns to me. “He’s lying. I just turned twenty-one,” I wink. The waiter looks exhausted by life and walks away, glancing back once like he can’t believe he just enabled this. “Saff—”

Happy birthday, how old are you now? ""I'm 18."" ""I see."" ""Goodbye!""

He said, “I am 21." I said Oh you don't look 21. He said, “how old do I look?” I said I thought you were 18 or 19. He chuckled and said nope I am 21. He said, “how long have you lived here?" I said we moved in a few months ago. He smiled and said, “I don't want to get you in any trouble with your parents so I am going to head home but I enjoyed talking to you Crystal and I hope we hang out sometime.”

May 17th Age: 19 Life is bullshit. That sappy happily ever after bullshit isn't real. I refuse to believe that that shit actually exists. That shit was only made up by people that already had happy lives to begin with. Us broken and forgotten ones don't get a happy ending. We are a disappointment and remain as such till the very end. July 18th Age: 20