Tomorrow was my birthday. I was jumping all over my house out of excitement and am wondering what tomorrow has in store for me. My mum got exhausted and told me to go to bed.

The next day I woke up quite early in the morning. I was calling my mum because every year she is the first one to wish me and personally I also prefer this. I came out of my room and saw my father who is sitting on a sofa reading a newspaper. I asked him where mum is.

He got confused as if he heard the word 'mum' for the first time. He asked me to repeat what I said and I repeated the same thing. After listening to me he asked me what the word mum means. Is it the name of any of my friends? I told him no. I told him mum means mother who gave me birth due to which I exist and every year I celebrate that day as my birthday. My father started laughing. He told me that I was very funny. I replied to him that I was not joking. 

Now my father told me to sit beside him. Initially I was hesitant because of my father's strange behaviour but after sometime I eventually sat. He wished me 'happy adoption day'. I stared at him for sometime. He read my expressions and told me that today is the day my father adopted me. At that time I was very much pissed. I told him what in the world was he saying. I also added that I was not adopted. My mum gave me birth several years ago and she had hospital photographs of her delivery time. My father smiled and told me that I was extremely innocent and made so sweet and creative stories. 

He told me that yes it is a good idea to have a partner for taking care of a child but nature doesn't go like this and we have to accept it. He told me that every child in this universe is being adopted and not being delivered by any kind of mum with a smile. I am shocked to my very core.

Then a call triggered on my phone. It was my best friend Roma. As soon as I picked up the call, she also wished me happy adoption day. Initially I was thinking that my father was playing some kind of prank with me but now I am sure he is not. I am so terrified. I got up from the sofa and started searching for mum. I called her repeatedly but no reply came from the other side. Now I started crying. Then a hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to see my father standing with a worried look in his face. I hugged him very tightly and he told me to calm down and started shaking me vigorously. I looked up at him and to my very surprise I saw my mum's face. I am so happy to see my mum. I hugged her. She wished me happy birthday and also told me to get up from bed. I released her and started looking around the room and realised that I am sitting on my bed. My mum asked me why I looked so confused. I told her that I think I experienced an extremely bad dream. After sometime a thought struck me. I called my mum and told her happy birthday. She started laughing and told me that today is my birthday not hers. I corrected her by saying that today is my birthday but her birthday as well. She asked me what made me think like this. I told her today is her birthday as a mother. This day a mother was born too. She smiled and gave me a warm hug.