Sugar and Sass#Wattys2016

Cakes and Crushes

"Julian is this lunch with families really important?", this is probably the hundredth time I asked him the same question.

"Yes Abby", he said in his angelic calm voice. He was such a patient man. I can already imagine him speaking this calmly to our 2-years-old future daughter. Hold your horses Abby, baby steps, bigger problems first- luncheon!

"Hey Abby listen dad is trying to call me I'll call you back in a minute. Bye"

"Okay bye"

Since I can do nothing to cancel the luncheon I better start looking for something nice to wear. The last thing I need is my mother nagging me about how I should look presentable. I was scanning through my closet when I heard Meghan Trainor's  Dear future husband play in the background. That must be Julian. Yup that was my personalised ringtone for Julian's call. 

"Abby, there is a small change in plan. Mom is having a bad headache because of the travelling and it seems like she will not be able to join us for lunch.  Knowing how badly you wanted this lunch to  not happen, I called up your dad to tell him about the situation and cancel the lunch but instead he suggested we postpone it to tomorrow. And...."

"And what Julian?", I howled at him.

"And I agreed.", he mumbled.

"Okay"

"Okay? You are not angry? Look Abby I have a feeling the lunch will go smooth, my parents just adore you so don't worry about them. Even if anything goes wrong  we'll fix it. Together."

"Yeah, you are right. Everything will be fine. It's just a lunch anyways."

"Attagirl! You shall be rewarded with an ice- cream for this", he said in a dramatic manner.

"Jul?"

"Yeah babe?"

"Get me 2 tubs of ice-creams"

I heard a  light chuckle before the line went dead.

I stopped searching for a dress and instead flung myself on the bed and stared at the ceiling. I can hunt for a dress later in the evening and then go place an order for Julian's birthday cake at...... Shoot! I hopped off the bed and started pacing back and forth.

Julian's birthday and the lunch, both are on the same day. Shit! I had planned a secret getaway for Julian and I tomorrow, now that's all ruined. Thanks dad!

Now I have to come up with a new idea to surprise Jul. That man is so unenthusiastic about his birthdays that it takes me a lot of effort to just surprise him and make him enjoy his day. It's not like he hates birthdays, he has all exquisite ideas when he has to plan my birthday but he doesn't like celebrating his. Everybody is different so don't judge him!  

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The worst part about birthdays is waking up at 12 a.m. 

I set an alarm on my phone at 12 a.m and placed it under the rectilinear so that I would get out of my bed and walk all the way to the rectilinear to switch it off , that would buy me enough time to shrug off my sleepiness for a while. 

This was more harder than I thought. I cursed myself for placing my phone so far. The alarm tone was making me crazy. It needs to be shut down before my head explodes.I walked to the rectilinear, bent down and grabbed my phone and switched it off as soon as possible. I could hear Julian growling from the bed.  

I smiled and took a moment to just look at his face under the dim light and  made a  mind map of all his features, the small scar under his chin added to his perfection. I snapped myself out of Julian dreamland and focused on my mission. Maybe I should jump on him and engulf him in a bear hug. He would be surprised that I woke up so early to wish him and then he would hug me back, kiss me till I'm out of breath. Yes! that's it!