34. failed private.

[childrenoflilim]

I'm 15 today.  Kaworu-kun shouldn't have got me anything.  I don't deserve it.




Birthdays are a bad idea.

Comments

[xxxing.livejournal.com]

Birthdays aren't an idea, dumbshit, they're just a thing that happens.

What did he get you.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

Getting people presents and celebrating it is an idea that goes along with birthdays.

Something that looks like it plays music like my SDAT did, but doesn't use tapes. I don't know what it's called.

[xxxing.livejournal.com]

You don't like presents? What kinda kid are you?

Walkman? MP3 player? iPod? Aah, there's a million of those things...





... Oi, oi, Ikari, what kinda flowers do you like?

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

I never said I didn't like presents.... I don't really know what it's like to get any since this is the first time I've gotten a real birthday present in a long time.

Um, the box says it's an MP3 player. What does that mean...MP3, I mean.



Flowers?

[xxxing.livejournal.com]

Then what the hell're you complaining about?

It's a kind of music file. I dunno what it stands for, it's just a file type.

Yes. Flowers.

[material_guy]

If you don't like the idea of gettin' presents for your birthday, just think of it as somethin' someone randomly gave you for the hell of it 'cause they had time and cash to blow and wanted you to be in debt to them. Then you don't gotta feel bad about getting older or deserving anything or any of that.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

...oh.

[well now he's thinking people only give him things because they want him to return the favor. this is not cheering him up at all.]

[material_guy]

...You're in a real funk lately, kid.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I guess I'm still not feeling very well.

[stillneedawish]

Everyone deserves something on their birthday, Shinji-san.

Um... I know you said you don't think much of them, but, ah. Happy birthday anyway?

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

Not me.

...thank you, Kaname-san.

[stillneedawish]

I don't believe that.

You're welcome, Shinji-san.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

How can you say that when you don't even know what I've done?

[clapifyoubullieve]

tHAT'S THE ONE THAT'S LIKE A WRIGGLING DAY, rIGHT,
uHH, hAPPY BIRTHDAY,
eVEN THOUGH YOU'RE KIND OF, uPSET ABOUT IT, i GUESS,

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

A wriggling day?

That's alright. Thank you for the birthday wishes, Tavros.

[clapifyoubullieve]

yES, uMM, bASICALLY, tHE ANNIVERSARY OF OUR LARVAL AWAKENING,

yOU'RE WELCOME,
oH, iT'S CUSTOMARY TO GIVE A GIFT FOR THIS HUMAN BIRTHDAY, iSN'T IT,
aT LEAST, tHAT'S WHAT i HEARD FROM jADE,

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

Larva...like what bugs come from, but you all are trolls. Hm.

That's what most people do. The gift is usually something that person wants or needs really badly, but it's always up to the person that gives the gift.

[fruitfultempo.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you deserve it.

And happy birthday, by the way.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

No, sir. I don't.

...thank you.

[fruitfultempo.livejournal.com]

Everyone deserves kindness, I'm sure. Especially when we don't think we do.

You're quite welcome.

Oh, pardon me, I forgot to introduce myself. My name's Charles, Charles Xavier. And you are?

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

Sometimes we don't think we do for a reason.

My name is Shinji Ikari, Mr. Xavier.

[eschatologist.livejournal.com]

It is the least I might have done; I had wished to grant you what I could.

You are not undeserving, Shinji-kun.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

... [well what can he say to that]

small delay;

[eschatologist.livejournal.com]

...

You were in need of a new music player, were you not? I am merely sorry it could not be more.

[childrenoflilim.livejournal.com]

You've given me more than I could ever ask for, Kaworu-kun.