#aadhya basu

[deathbyhysteria]

꧁tobin꧂

mauve’s birthday was coming up and, well, i felt guilty.  i knew she’d been struggling for a while now which, though i didn’t understand, i could empathise with.

so, with that in mind, i wanted to make her birthday extra special this year.  i was going to plan her a surprise birthday party and invite every one of her family and friends (and trust me, there are a lot of them).

i’m absolutely not a cook, but i thought i’d put in maximum effort and attempt making her birthday cake myself.  it turned out... well, it was no gordon ramsey creation, but it would do.

i researched all the best birthday gift ideas, and i found something that i knew would be perfect for her.  heck, maybe it would even be able to solve all our marriage troubles.

but after that, it pretty much all went downhill.

so when i planned for mauve to have one huge picnic in the park with her friends and family, i kinda forgot that it was the middle of winter and wilow creek is rather prone to overnight boughts of snow.  i felt somewhat concerned for some of the female guests...

also, stupid me, i forgot to bring the birthday cake which really was the bare minimum that i needed to do.  plus i had to do all the cooking since the caterer was aparently “too good” for an outdoor grill and refused to cook without a proper stove.

“mauve, honey, just think of it as a special burger.”

“a what?”

“you know... a special birthday veggie burger.  happy birthday...?”

phoenix, as ever, was not helping the situation.

“yeah, can i get two pretzels?  this lame excuse for a birthday party can’t even scrounge up a cake.”

i thought that maybe mauve would manage to have a good time, surrounded by everyone most important to her.  but the whole time, she just looked... disappointed?  troubled?  i couldn’t quite place it, but the only thing that was really left to do was to get her home and away from this disaster scene.

i had failed... unless my surprise birthday present managed to pull it out of the bag.

[deathbyhysteria]

꧁mauve꧂

well, it’s done.  i finally aged up to be a young adult, and it was a decidedly less painful process than i thought it would be.

turns out that at the end of the day, i’m actually pretty excited to get to university.

amazingly, my greatest fear actually did turn out to be true - i got accepted into every single distinguished course.  which was absolutely insane, but armed with the advice from my mum, the choice wasn’t all that difficult in the end.

so, i decided to study computer science at foxbury institute.  why that course?  well, for one, i really fancied trying my luck at joining two of the student organisations - the bot savants and the braniacs - at FI.  and i get to try my hand at programming and robotics on the course whilst also trying out some cool electives, so i thought, why not?

i also decided to move to britechester for my studies, because again, why not take the opportunity to explore a brand new city?  and my three scholarships will make living there not so costly, which is great because i’m taking charge of my own finances for the first time through taking out a student loan.

 i have three roommates in the house i’m living in just on the edge of campus.  one guy, omar assaoui, who didn’t seem best pleased about being assigned the room with the pink décor after showing up last.

then there’s alivia haskins, a mature student who seems driven enough to have hopped onto (my) computer to get started on work early, and who i don’t quite trust to leave unattended around all my valuables.

and finally, aadhya basu, who is also taking comp sci and who i already have the best feeling about.

“you’re in house alpaggard too?”

“for sure!  you’re a henry puffer fan too?”

“naturally!  oh mauve, i can already tell we’re going to be great friends.”

[deathbyhysteria]

꧁mauve꧂

what a turbulent time it’s been.  i feel like i’ve barely had any time to breathe since finding out i was expecting.

the day after i found out, my dad died.  it felt so out of the blue, but my parents were both elderly.  after hearing the news, i showed up back home with my baby bump.  neither my mum or i really had any words, so we just squeezed each other tight.

i told my friends, aadhya and nola, about my pregnancy.  not that they really needed telling with how much i was showing.  naturally, they freaked out.

“you’re pregnant??  how?  why?  who?  when?”

“girl...  are you crazy?  could never be me.”

thanks for the vote of confidence, nola.  i know she means well.

i wrapped up my final term at foxbury institute!  i packed up my stuff, said goodbye to my friends, and moved back into my home in san myshuno until i officially graduate.  uni was a lot of fun, and although it was kind of a breeze, it’s great to just have time to catch up on my cooking shows (my guilty pleasure).

my dad’s now gone, forest moved out a while ago, and crimson got married to some old dude (what a mess, but that’s a story for another time).  it feels different with just my mum and tyrian, but now tobin’s moved in too.

he’s been trying to get to know my mum, but with her still mourning and him geeking out over meeting one of his all-time favourite athletes, i don’t know that it’s going so well.  gold star for effort, i suppose.

honestly though, right now we’re just trying to focus on us and making this work as best we can.  i never saw myself falling pregnant before i even graduated uni, but i can’t help but feel a little excited about a new addition to the family.

with the amount of love and support my crazy big family has to offer, i’m sure the baby will turn out just fine.

[deathbyhysteria]

꧁mauve꧂

it’s getting a little silly now, having joel on my back 24/7.  getting home from a long day of classes, just to be badgered whilst eating my chicken nuggets?  that wasn’t going to fly.  something had to be done.

“hey joel, since we’re getting to know each other so well, i think there’s something you might want to know about me.”

“really?  tell me!”

“i’m actually a criminal mastermind.  you know that crime syndicate, mobwives?  it’s all me, dude.”

i couldn’t believe that actually worked.

meanwhile, it felt like high time i caught up with aadhya over coffee.  i told her about my crush on tobin which she managed to wrestle out of me.  she gave me some much needed advice.

“love, you need to stop worrying about it, and just ask him out!  boys are clueless, and you’ll never know if you don’t ask.  besides, now’s the perfect time, what with it being love day tomorrow!”

so i’m gonna do it!  i’m gonna ask him out for love day.  please, keep your fingers crossed that i don’t die from embarrassment - literally.