*Riddles and Randomness*
As soon as J.C saw Ty, he started looking very worried as apposed to his normal slightly goofy stare into the distance look. As if this wasn't weird enough, he then told us, actually it was more of a command, to open Ty's presents first. I was eager to open mine but Leah already got everything she wanted. She's so materialistic. I, on the other hand have all I ever wanted and he's right next to me. He should've just wrapped himself in wrapping paper. I quietly whispered a little giggle. The laughter caught Ty's attention so much so that he gave me a funny what-are-you-thinking look. Leah was careless but I was curious to find what my gift was, other than the rose that I was hugging protectively. Leah's emotionless face didn't change as she opened her present, I think she was practicing her fake surprised look. She thanked Ty kindly whilst she sat back down. I rapidly opened mine, I could have never guessed that the box filled with something that looked and felt like clouds was empty apart from the cloud-like filling. But wait, there was a small beautifully little decorated vintage looking cream coloured card inside that read:
This day marks your success
Which is in your heart, not in our head
But I must confess
You are a true gift you will find
Reflected, mirrored where there are no lies
And everything is undefined
Parallel, too kind on each other's eyes
'Turn in over' Ty whispered in my ear. A sensational shiver ran through my body. I suddenly realized I was alone with Ty. I remember Leah whispering. Then I heard shuffling and saw that the whole family slowly backed away into the kitchen I guessed because they are polite enough to leave the room yet nosy enough to have their noses against the door of the kitchen with one of them kneeling down with their hands on the floor so that little Zach wouldn't be left out. I guessed it was Zohraia, she's very tall for her age. I did as Ty asked and turned the card around. The back was the same as the front. It read:
Clearing your lies just like a painting in disguise
Perfect vision you won't find
And I am the artist to give to you
The relief that I love you too
I am the blurred fool
And you are the love in my arms
You trust me won't you say you love me too...too
'I love you too...too' I said, I found myself smiling like a complete idiot.
''It's a poem I wrote.'' He shrugged awkwardly (and he looked even cuter, if that was even humanly possible!)''You were my muse... it's a riddle I wrote with you in mind, soon the true gift you will find. It is my gift to you so that you can see yourself as I see you. Beautiful. Always'' I recalled Ty wrapping his arms around me whilst in ran my finger across the line 'and you are the love in my arms' and smiled. ''Thanks Ty 'for giving me a riddle for a present'' I said in an unconscious, accidental bitter and sarcastic tone of my voice which I had never heard before... or maybe I just never noticed the change. Maybe it's because I never had to use that sour tone of my voice and I hope I will never use it again. ''I guaranty you will figure it out today or tomorrow by noon at the latest'' he smirked as I sighed at his slip into a non chalant tone of his voice around when he started naming dates and times.'' All I needed was my one and only birthday wish to come true and here you are. I don't call that a coincidence. It's a miracle. Guess I had a moment of bliss. Wish I could predict what's to come. I don't even think any being could've foretold my strange fate.
*Decode and Decifer*
I did it. I figured it out just as Ty had said last night. It's weird how I could be sitting in a classroom and my mind would be in its own world. I wonder what the 'rents got us for our birthday. It's eating me up inside and i can't wait to see what it is. They've been acting so strangely excited about our birthday...it kind of struck me as odd. Too bad they said it was best if we opened our gifts 'when the time was right', whatever that means. I did a mental eye roll that was identical to the one I did when they said this to Leah and I. It was 6am last time i checked and i could not go to sleep because i was thinking about Tyler's deranged (but equally adorable) riddle and dad's alien-like behaviour.
So back to the riddle, i think i figured it out. Well actually i guessed...badly, so maybe i have no clue what the riddle's about but since i'm going to school, i might as well slowly start to get ready. I hate Mondays. They always seem to last forever. Maybe not forever but you get what i mean. The weekend seems so far away and almost impossible to reach. I feel imprisoned within those school gates. Would they let me out, please? You see how crazy Mondays make me, i'm begging objects for crying out loud!
I babbled to myself silently for what felt like a minute and before i knew it the alarm clock went off and the scarlet numbers clearly stated that I needed to get up so i have enough time to get ready and make it to school on time. I must have dozed off in the middle of my psycho thought babble. How funny is that, i bored myself to sleep! I spent the whole night worrying and i guess the tiredness caught up with me and sleeping like a dead zombie was the outcome of it all.
My first morning lessons finished in the blink of an eye (no, not literally), time went by much faster today. It was break, 11 o'clock so naturally I go to my locker, to switch books. My locker obviously has a mirror on the inside of its door. When i looked into it, I instantly stood still and slowly reached for the most amazing mysterious package sitting there, at the back of my locker. I held it in my hands. I was astonished by the card and I automatically knew who this was from. The small but decorative card read (in beautifully cursive italics-it was obviously Tyler's handwriting):
Juliet-
See yourself through my eyes
Sealed with my love
From your Romeo
I wonder what it could be? I thought to myself, excitedly.
