Surprise

Part 14

I headed off to the shower and planned out how to tell him about what I had planned for him. I was humming to myself and taking my time. I was very excited about telling him. I hoped he would like my idea.

I wasn't feeling as balanced as I typically do, so I decided that it would be best to limit any posts that I might make to a picture and no words. That lack of balance always makes me a little more loose with my words than I should be publicly, very sleepy, and naps happen on those days quite frequently. I had a lot on my mind, I was turning a whole year older and still had so many goals left to achieve. I knew I would, but that and the strange behavior that Lizzie was displaying was enough to wipe me out. Typically, I doubt I would have really noticed and would have just spent my time trying to distract her. I wasn't feeling entirely typical. I laid down on her side of the bed and took one of those frequent naps.

I got out of the shower after giving up on him joining me. I sighed and stepped into the bedroom wrapped in my towel. I was taken over by a fit of giggles when I found him asleep on my side of the bed. I let him sleep and slipped into some cotton shorts and a tank top before laying down next to him and closing my eyes. A nap seemed like the perfect idea.

I woke up happily not alone. "Hey? You're here." I snuggled as close as I could and nuzzled into her neck. "So, stupid sleepy."

I giggled and ran my hands over his shoulders. "Sorry you are sleepy. I planned a date for us for your birthday. Did you want to hear about it?" I kept my voice at a whisper with my lips pressed softly against his ear.

"That would be nice. What have you got planned?" I squirmed a bit because her breath tickled my ear.

I pulled his chin up so I could meet his eyes. "It's nothing crazy. After I found your skates the other day, I thought you might like to go skating. Just the two of us. We'll go around noon so it really shouldn't be busy and then dinner with your parents and sister at Eddie's. Does that sound nice?"

"Sounds perfect to me. Thank you. I love to skate. Just us?"

"Just us. I don't need witnesses for the amount of time I will spend on my butt " I winked at him and kissed him softly. "Are we napping, snuggling, playing?" I bit my lip and looked at him through my lashes.

"Undecided," I booped her nose for good measure and closed my eyes.

I giggled and snuggled into him. "I love you." I closed my eyes and I must have been more tired than I thought because I fell right to sleep.

I rested peacefully for a while then somehow managed to get out of bed without knowing if she noticed or not and wandered downstairs to the music room. It was still early evening. I had no idea what was planned for dinner or who was cooking it, so I grabbed a light snack and some water, set an alarm for a decent time, and got lost in the music that was calling me. I started out playing and ended up sitting on the floor in the far corner of the room under a lamp writing with my uncle's guitar on one side, my guitar on the other, and a pile of papers with notes all over them on the floor in the middle.

I woke up alone and hungry. I took care of business and looked for my phone. I had no pressing messages and nothing that needed to be attended to, so I headed downstairs to find out what was for dinner. I saw a light spilling out of the music room door. I knocked softly on the frame, not wanting to scare him. I could tell he was deep in the writing process.

My hair was all over the place and driving me insane so I pulled it up and made a bigger mess of it up off my shoulders and out of my face. I was tugging at my beard and looking at what I had written on the page when I heard a soft tapping. I looked around me for a second and mumbled the last word that I was looking for before writing it down then reviewed the page. That tapping, I honestly had no idea where it could have been coming from but I tapped the end of my pencil against my cheek to it. I smiled. The song was complete.