Opposites

A special surprise

Months went by, and the days became colder. The two abnormal friends have spent most of their time together, mostly because they sit next to each other and hanji always insists on being paired up with levi no matter what. Ever since that day during recess they’ve spent every day talking, well, hanji did most of the talking. Levi just sat there doing his work, pretending to listen. In reality he was listening. he just didn’t want to stop her from talking, he was fascinated by how her eyes filled with excitement when she talked about something she read and found interesting in a book, how she always seemed to have a big smile on her face, and how she always seemed eager to hear what he had to say.  He’s never met someone like her, she was..strange..but interesting to say the least.

  It was getting closer to Christmas and the teacher decided to get the whole class to make snowflakes and snowmen out of paper to decorate the classroom. Hanji was chatting away all the information she knew about snowflakes while working on her own, Levi was too busy concentrating on his paper snowman to even pay attention to what she was saying anyways.

 "Hey, levi. when’s your birthday?” Hanji suddenly asked, she stopped cutting the folded piece of paper and set her scissors down and was now looking straight at levi. He tensed up for a few seconds, ‘why does she want to know my birthday?’ he thought as he turned to look at her.

“Why do you want to know, stupid glasses?” He asked, Hanji smiled and shrugged.

“I make it my job to know, so I can give you a birthday hug.” she said, Levi cringed. Even though he could tolerate hanji he still wasn’t comfortable enough to let her touch him.

  “I’ll pass, thank you.” Levi said and went back to working on his paper snowman. Hanji pouted but didn’t press on and went back to cutting her snowflake. Levi stole a glance at hanji, he was surprised that she didn’t start begging him to tell her. ‘she must be planning something, I just know she has something up her sleeve’ He thought to himself. He spent the rest of class, pondering over what kinds of things she could be thinking of.

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 School finally let out for winter break a few days later, all the while Levi was observing hanji. He wanted to see if she would start acting differently, But to his surprise, she didn’t. She was completely normal. Well, as normal as hanji can be. He began to relax and not worry too much about why hanji didn’t pester him until he caved in and told her. Besides it wasn’t that big of a deal. She didn’t have to know his birthday. It wasn’t important. She shouldn’t bother worrying about it anyways since it didn’t matter.

 It was a cold winter day and the earth had a thick blanket of  snow covering every inch of green it once had.  Hanji and levi were walking home after school like always, except this time hanji wasn’t being her talkative self. Levi looked at her curiously and saw that she was lost in thought. He shrugged it off and thought that maybe she had too many things on her mind, maybe she had discovered a new spider living in her basement. Who knows really, She could be thinking about anything.

  Levi thought about what he would do when he got home. His parents weren’t home, Like usual. they had ‘business to attend to’ as they said when they left that morning, And his babysitter wouldn’t arrive till a bit later. He sighed as he thought about his upcoming birthday. It was on the 25 of december. Christmas day. Most kids who knew about his birthday thought he was lucky, They thought he got double the presents and since his parents worked for the biggest company in the state that he would also get the biggest toys.