After the End: Maki's Birthday

07 - Just Us...

MAKI'S POV

"Well...I can tell you that I've been wanting to do this since days ago. Cough. To put it simply, I wanted us to just celebrate my birthday, here at your new house."

"Hang on, your mom told me you fainted and that you were at the hospital."

"Well..."

I developed an interest to surprise people, thus I thought I wanted to see Nico's face when she sees all of this, hehe...cough cough...

It was days ago when dad advised me what I could do on my birthday. It gave me the idea - since Nico-chan will be moving, I decided to celebrate my birthday at her new house. By that, I wanted to know what her new home was like, and I'd know where I could visit at the very least.

I'd had to do it all by myself at first, since no one in u's seemed available to help me out.

I called Nico's mom (I asked for her number when I first met her, hehe, I remember Nico being so cute and embarassed as she rushed to her mom, I tried not to laugh.), and asked her secretly where's the address of her new house. Then I told her about my plan - she played along with it, fortunately. She invited me to visit Nico's new house, there we talked about how to make the plan work, whilst not letting Nico-chan know about it. But that was when I suddenly fainted. Nico's mom contacted my mom and I was brought home.

Yeah, I got sick. It wasn't my plan to be like this. I almost thought that I'd never succeed. However, I had a lot of people help me out to make this plan of mine work.

Then a while ago, my dad brought me to hospital for check up, gave me medicine and made sure I am okay with my health. My mom helped to get all the party props at Nico's new home, then she told me that Nico was at my house. I told her to tell Nico to make an excuse to have her wait, so that I could secretly go to Nico's home after my checkup. I intentionally left my phone for Nico, so that she would not call me before I got the plan finished.

Finally, I got to Nico's house, told Nico's cute siblings not to mention me being there, then I prepared the party props. After all that, I called Nico by phone, and signalled Nico's mom to go to Nico and have her make an excuse to get here.

However, while calling Nico, I suddenly felt dizzy and accidently dropped an important present. It was a glass cup, I had two matching pairs, designed with pics of us, for me and for her. And it freaked Nico out when she heard it crash.

After that, I took my medicine again and cleaned things up. Then I hid until Nico got here.

And yeah, that was what happened. I told Nico about it.

"Maki-chan, do you have superpowers to do all that!!?"

"Cough..ehem...you should thank our parents, they did most of the important parts for me..."

"But that is still going too far, Maki-chan!! You're putting yourself at risk!!"

"I am willing to go so far just for you, Nico. That's how much I love - "

"Love me? You're being to reckless, BAKA!!"

Nico suddenly slapped me, it did not hurt much actually but it did caught me off guard.

"NICO!!?"

"What if something worse happened to you, huh? You made me worry so much!!"

Nico approached to hug me. Her face shows how worried she was about me.

"You're the birthday girl, Maki-chan!! You're not supposed to be the one doing all this, it should've been me!!"

I understand what I did, and Nico's reaction was not out of place.