After the heartbreak, Aidan had his birthday where he would end up aging up from teen to young adult.
Staring at the birthday cake, he wondered what life had in store for him, since he couldn't have Alanna.
He looked around at the rest of the family that he'd grown up with...and he saw, his heart painfully twinging, that it seemed as though life went on, par for the course, for Alanna, like her painful crushing of his heart pretty much hadn't really bothered her. In fact, Alanna had done him a favor in not beating around the bush, though Aidan hadn't realized it. Even though the pain was like a dagger through the heart, she had made it easier for him to move on from her - in letting him know that he would never be a candidate for winning her heart.
Did he have a wish for when he blew out the candle, Aidan thought to himself, I don't even know what to wish for... as he leaned over the cake and finally just blew out the candles.
Maybe not get my heart crushed again...he thought bitterly as he moved back away from the cake.
He stared off into the distance contemplating what his life consisted off. He'd go to university, get a degree and put some distance between him and Alanna, maybe he might actually find someone at university that he could date. Who knows. Life had a way of doing the unexpected.
He looked away as Alanna cheered for his birthday. He didn't want to hear it. But couldn't resist a wistful look back. But that door was closed and he wasn't going to open it. He'd lick his wounds and be a man about it, even if it did hurt like hell.
When the transformation happened it took him by surprise, but he came out of that transformation a young adult and ready to take on the world. And even if he felt like his heart was in several pieces, he realized that he was ready to tackle what the adult world was ready to throw at him. He needed to get himself a job and start making some simoleons so that when he was ready to move out of the house, he would be able to move with ease.
At least that plan was good enough on paper. If he managed to get his university degree he'd be able to go into the boss and ask to be promoted several steps above what he'd normally get to be able to do, with no higher education. And he knew that his late mother and father would be proud of him, standing on his own two feet, carving out a future for himself and whatever family he created with a woman that accepted him for who he was.
Haruo sighed to himself as he saw another of the kids (his cousin) become a young adult and he realized even more the passing of time - that it was only a matter of time before he'd have to make way for the new generation. Looking gratefully as his soon to be daughter-in-law passed him a piece of birthday cake and then sat down beside him. He looked over at her gratefully as Greta was a sweet young woman and he considered himself lucky that Braden had such a woman as his bride-to-be.
Looking forward to the future was for children. As an mature adult, Haruo could only look forward to retirement and enjoying his latter years with River by his side.
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