Sixteen

"Open your mouth and close your eyes, and you just might be buried alive."
"Ahhhhwaitwhat?"

Belle turned 16 today. I shoulda gotten a cake or something for her, but I just came down off a week-long flu and had to go 24-hours fever free before venturing out into the world again to avoid spreading it, so she gets a carton of strawberries my family bought kicked over onto her instead.