Am I being dramatic over ice cream cake?
I recently turned 18 on the Fourth of July and we were holding a party at my sister’s house, it was a party for the Fourth of July but we’re also celebrating mine and my niece’s birthday on that day. At some point, my sister’s lover starts bringing out the desserts and two cakes, mine was cookies n cream ice cream cake, my favorite and what I’ve had for every birthday.
So, I start getting everything set up, the candles, the plates, the knife, and then I wait for my parents to come. About twenty minutes later and they’re still not in the kitchen so I go out and look for them, I find them sitting in the car because my dad got too high and drunk. My mom tells me that my dad is resting and they’ll be inside soon, so I go back and wait in the kitchen. I’m not exactly sure how much time passed but by that time, my cake had melted, I went to go look for a place to store it since the inside freezer was full. By the time I got back, my niece had cut herself a slice and was eating my cake, I got mad but brushed it off since she was family and was supposedly told by my mom that she could.
Then, since the cake was cut, the rest of the family started cutting and leaving since they usually stay around till the cake is cut. I leave to go the to the bathroom to more or less stop myself from crying since it was just a cake and there was another in the fridge but as I come back to the kitchen. My mom was there and started asking what happened to the cake since it was cut and fully melted where I just started crying.
I don’t know if this was reasonable, I felt I was being dramatic, while it was my birthday, the party wasn’t about me and there was another cake in the fridge. There was just something about seeing my favorite cake melted and the happy birthday icing on it dripping onto the table that made me feel unreasonably sad.
Please tell me what you think.