Daily Flash Fiction Challenge

I don't know how long I lay there on the clifftop, staring vacantly at the now stormy sky.

Cloud after cloud had rolled in off the Atlantic as the wind picked up, merging into a dark, solid wall promising a deluge of biblical proportions would soon be here, washing the world clean once more.

It had been a stupid fight, but weren't they all. I shouldn't have let it get to me, should have just let it go. But today, of all days... sending me away like that.

I bit down on the anger, letting out a resigned sigh as I let my eyes drift back to the gate and the trail beyond.

They'd seemed nice at first, but they didn't owe me anything. I wasn't theirs, not truly - They probably didn't even know...

"One more year," I muttered to myself, "and it won't matter any more."

I pulled myself to my feet and trudged back towards the bicycle they'd leant me, ready to face the music.

My feet slowed of their own accord as I neared the edge of the village. I could see the house, cold, dark, empty.

"Happy birthday to me," I whispered as I turned the key in the lock, wondering when they'd get back, if I could put the confrontation off until tomorrow.

"SURPRISE!!!!" my head snapped up as a dozen voices echoed round the tiny room, my eyes squinting shut as the lights flared bright around me.

The figures of my foster parents and the cake they held blurring through my joyous tears. Best. Birthday. Ever!