Music To My Ears | 2gether Short Stories

2wenty One

A/N : Consolidating my stand-alone birthday one shots (for Wat and Win) into this collection. TBH, the song selection was post-dated after I wrote the story, but dang it, it fits perfectly.

Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden

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Tine's POV

Wat's birthday was coming up, and I had no idea what to get him.

I didn't dare ask him because when I had ended up promising to give him whatever he wanted for Valentine's Day, we hadn't left the bed for two days.

"Down, boy" I scolded my traitor cock that was stirring just from the memory of that weekend.

I decided to seek counsel from those wiser than me.

An hour later, I found myself sitting before Fong and Man. Food and drinks were placed almost like offerings to a deity before them.

I looked eagerly at them, waiting to receive their wisdom.

"How would I know?" shrugged Fong. I hadn't expected that.

I took away the iced coffee from before him. He didn't deserve it.

I looked expectantly at Man.

"He's a simple guy. I like that about him. He isn't into material things. Never has been. In fact, you're the only thing he's ever been into, pardon the rather uncouth pun" said Man eloquently, waving his hand graciously.

I cocked an eyebrow at him and pulled away the cake slice he had ordered.

"However, you might want to consider gifting him an experience" said Man quickly, carefully pulling the plate with the cake on it back towards him.

"Think about what he likes and give him what he cherishes the most - your time" chimed in Fong, turning the straw in the iced coffee towards himself.

I thought carefully. Maybe they were on to something.

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"Happy birthday to youuuuuu" we concluded and clapped, as Wat smiled warmly and cut the cake into ten slices.

The surprise party at midnight was Man,    Boss and Phukong's idea. They had barged into our apartment at 11:55 with a candle-lit cake, a bunch of balloons and the rest of our friends.

Ohm, Fong and Phuak gave him a custom-designed pair of earphones, with Wat's face and mine on each of the speaker buds. The buds had magnetic backs and where they joined, it looked like we were kissing.

I blushed red when they demonstrated it. Wat chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment, but received it with a gracious thanks.

Pear and Earn had paired up to buy him an exclusive collection of indie songs. They had downloaded the songs on to a sun-shaped pen drive.

Wat thanked them excitedly and immediately plugged the drive into his laptop and set up a playlist.

Everybody split into twos and threes as we ate the snacks I had bought earlier that day in preparation for the party.

"Thank you for arranging this for me, my love" said Wat, hugging me from behind. He kissed my shoulder and placed his chin on it.

I turned my head and kissed his cheek. "It was your brother's idea and Man and Boss organized this whole thing. I was just helping them."