I woke up when someone jumped on me on my bed. It was Nathalia. When I look at my side, Grant wasn't there and immediately get up from bed to search him but then something happened and totally woke me up. Pops and Mom walk inside my room singing happy birthday, Mom was holding the cake and then behind them was Grant holding a balloon and a party pooper on his hand.
"I haven't taken a bath yet!" I exclaimed but they didn't mind.
As they finished singing the song, my Mom let me blow the candles on my cake. Grant released the party pooper and my room became a mess. After that, they all hugged me and they told me that they already cooked some of my favorite dishes in the kitchen and I should go down as soon as I took a bath. When I look at the clock, it was already nine in the morning and I think I overslept or did not. I just couldn't sleep because I keep thinking about the person sleeping beside me who took part in the surprise too. He gives me a thumbs-up as he stood behind my parents.
When I told them that I'll be going down soon and join them on the table, my parents left my room and Nathalia stayed inside. Grant sits on the edge of my bed.
"So this is your plan too?" I asked her.
Nat nodded and giggled, "and he helped us too!" she pointed to Grant. And he crawled towards me to give me the balloons on his hands. "He did that."
"Oh, wow! Ang effort, Grant ah?" I sarcastically mentioned.
He smiled and shook his head.
"Anyway kuya, I have a gift for you."
"And where is it?"
"Wait, I have to get it in my room," Nat said and jumped out of my bed and she rushes her way out of my room.
Next thing happened, Grant stands up and walk to the door and locked it. Napakunot-noo naman ako sa ginawa niya at naglakad naman ito pabalik sa akin. He sits on my side and he hugged me. Napapailing na lang ako sa ginagawa ni Grant. When I'm trying to push him out of me, he was just grunting as he keeps himself tangled with me.
"I didn't get to hug you earlier, so now, I did." He muttered.
"And then you did so you can let go now, they might see what you're doing!" I yelled but in a lower tone, I don't want them to notice that I'm treating Grant this way. "Can't you just stop?"
"Okay, okay..." he chuckles as he let me go. "I just wanted to do that. I just wanted to hug someone I care about."
I creased my forehead with his statement. "So you're not hugging anyone from the past few weeks, months—years?"
"I did," he admitted. "But do I really care about them? That's the question. I get to hug people but they don't care about me too. I care about you and I hope you care for me too."
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