I can remember just a few months later after my adoption, my mom called me down stairs.

"Yes mommy?" I called from my room.

I heard my dad chuckle, "I told you we should just walk into her room. It will make it more special, Vivian."

I gasped quietly and locked my bedroom door before my parents knocked.

"Amimi? Open the door, honey." Dad said.

I began to feel nervous before speaking, "I can't, daddy. I'm locked in and I don't know how to open the door."

"Amimi, it's okay. Mom and I just want to show you something."

I sighed and took my blanket off my bed and covered myself from head to toe before opening the door.

"Amimi, can you take that blanket off of you?" My mom said softly.

I shook my head, "nope. I don't want to, mom."

The next thing I can remember was me pulling the blanket off after my mom and dad convinced me to. I heard them gasp when they saw my ripped cloth peeling off me. Mist lingered around the area where the cloth was missing. I looked down in shame.

"Sorry mom and dad." I said.

"What happened to my baby?!" I heard my mom say before embracing me carefully. The hug took me by surprise, I was never held like this while I was shedding.

"It's okay, mommy. I'm just getting new cloth. It happens every year on my birthday." I said.

I saw my dad relax and my mom looked at me with surprise.

"Why are you apologizing, Amimi? It's normal, just like you said." Mom told me. I just shrugged as an answer.

Dad smiled before he handed me a box. I looked up at him with curiosity.

"Happy Birthday, Amimi. How does it feel having your first birthday with us?" He said.

Mom stood up so can open my present with ease.

"Don't say a word yet. You can do it after opening the box." She said with a warm smile.

I shook the box before pulling the lid off and looked inside. There was a silvery picture frame holding the family photo of me, my mother and my father inside. I gasped in surprise and held it carefully in my now fully misted hands.

"I love it! Thank you so much, mommy and daddy. Thank you. I'm so happy you adopted me." I began to jump all around my room before trapping both mom and dad into a group hug.
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Chapter three is coming soon. Find out how Amimi came to know her cousin Grillby for the first time.