“...I’ll give it to you, sis.”

I quickly reached into my bag, and when I saw what was being held out in front of me, my eyes went wide.

“...I’m giving it to you.”

It was a present box decorated with a red ribbon.

At my age, I’ve come to think of my birthday less as a day to celebrate myself and more as a day to thank my parents, so
I hadn’t been thinking about buying myself a present or anything like that.

The small present box being held out to me somehow looked so sparkly.