章 7: The Birthday part 1
I wake up to Liam spooning me. I can feel the warmth emanating off of him. I snuggle into him automatically. I've always enjoyed his warmth.
I slowly leave the comfort of his arms. It feels so cold without him now. I stand up and look in the mirror. My long silver hair is now in knots. I need to brush my hair. I also need to get my bangs trimmed, they're getting in the way of my light green eyes.
I open the wardrobe to find something to wear, then I will deal with my messed up hair. I put on a white and black dress that is short in the front, and long in the back. It has lace flowing over the skirt. It has a thick belt, at the waist of the dress, so that it is more restrained. I then, put on my black heels.
My bangs are really starting to bother me. I brush through my hair, and I realize how long it is now. It's almost to my knees.
I put on a necklace, and my bangs fly into my line of vision. I blow upwards, in attempt to move my bangs, but they just fly back into my eyes. I keep blowing upwards, till they move out of my eyes again. I hear a chuckle from behind me. I turn around to see Liam smiling.
"What?" I ask, while walking to the bed.
"You're just funny..." he says. I smile.
"I need a haircut..." I tell him. He frowns.
"I think you're fine how you are." He puts a hand up to my cheek.
"But my bangs keep bothering me!" I whine. He chuckles, and moves my bangs out of my eyes.
"There. I mean, I prefer them where they were before... But if you want them out of your eyes, I guess they shouldn't be in your eyes." He smiles.
"Why do you like my hair I my eyes?" I ask him.
"Because you move it out of the way." He tells me.
"That doesn't make any sense!" I complain.
"When you move you hair out of your face, you have a cute face that you make. You look really happy and proud of yourself." He explains to me. I blush.
"W-well, I am just happy that I can see again..." I trail off, while looking away.
"Yep! That's what makes it cute!" He pulls at my arms, so that I fall into him. He hugs me. "Happy birthday, Vivi!" He kisses my forehead. I smile. He remembered, and I almost forgot.
"Thank you.." I kiss his cheek. We hear a knock at the door, and look over at it.
"Yeah?" Liam answers the knock. Xander comes in.
"Breakfast is ready, in case anyone cares.." Xander states in an annoyed tone. It's probably, because Eden is on his head again, and seems to be kneading his hair. "Happy birthday Violet" he says with a slight smile, and walks out of the room. As he was leaving, he tried to get Eden off his head.
"Eden is certainly an interesting cat..." I observe. Liam hugs me from behind.
"Yep! Ready for breakfast?" I turn to find Liam wearing a dress shirt, and dress pants. This is different from his usual black hoodie, and jeans. It's different here than it is in father's castle, we always had to dress up, even when we were just going to eat. But here, you can wear whatever you're comfortable in.
We get into the dining room, to find Annabelle and Zack eating. But strangely Lilly isn't here. The beautiful purple haired girl came walking in, I believe she is Bella. I can remember from when I was talking with Autumn for the first time.
"Good morning!" Annabelle says. She's as chipper as usual.
"I hear it's your birthday Violet...happy birthday." Zack says with a smile. Annabelle's eyes widen with excitement.
"It's your birthday?! We should party!" Annabelle suggests. Zack clears his throat.
"We can't Annabelle, remember...we're going rock climbing..." Zack reminds her.
"We are?!" Annabelle asks. Zack nods. "Yay!" Annabelle celebrates.
"Is that okay? I mean is it safe for her to do?" I ask. Zack shakes his head.
"No. But I'm letting her do it, because I'll be there if she slips or gets hurt." Zack answers.
"Or of course, changes her mind half way through..." Liam chimes in. Annabelle looks at Liam, behind me.
"That was one time!" She shouts.
"Yeah, but we haven't taken you anywhere since.." Zack states.
"I won't back out half way through, like last time!" She declares. "Anyway, what are you planning on doing this morning?" She asks, changing the subject. I think for a moment.
"I'm not sure.." I respond. I don't have anything I want to do in particular.
"I am.." Liam responds. I turn to look at him, he's smiling at me. What does he have planned? He walks to the table and pulls out a chair, while looking at me. I sit down, and he pushes me in, then sits down himself.
We eat and make small talk. When we finish, Liam takes my hand, and we say bye to Zack and Annabelle. He leads me out of the room.
"Are you ready?" He asks. I look at him confused. What is he planning on having us do today?
"What exactly am I supposed to be ready for?" I ask. He smiles, and leads me to a bench. He sits down, and I sit next to him. He pulls me to his chest.
"It's a surprise..." he whispers in my ear. I blush. He covers my eyes, and I hear some shuffling.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"The surprise is almost ready." Liam says. I can hear how excited he sounds. I smile. Suddenly the shuffling stops. "Alright! It's ready!" He exclaims, and uncovers my eyes.
I see a big, red and blue, box. There is a hole on the side of the box. A doll pops out of the hole. It has pastel pink hair on one side of it's head, and pastel green hair on the other side. It's starts to move around. I smile. It's a puppet show.
"Hello! My name's Shelly! I'm a shop owner!" I can hear Lilly say from inside the box. "Meet my friend, Joe!" A second puppet pops up. This one has spiky orange and blue hair.
"Hey, Shelly! I haven't seen you, since you opened your shop...what do you sell?" 'Joe' asks.
"I sell shells. Just like my name...kind of..." Shelly falls on the ground. I hear a 'oops' from behind the box. "Ah! The ground feels nice! I'm going to lay here for a while!" I giggle.
"Oh! Okay! Do you want to meet my brother? He's in for a visit!" 'Joe' asks.
"Yeah! I just want to lay here for a bit though!" 'Shelly' agrees. Another puppet comes out, and this one has a big scar across it's face.
" 'Ello there mate!" Lilly starts in an Australian accent. "What are you doing on the ground?" She changed the accent to be British now.
"I'm um...I like the ground!" 'Shelly' responds. Lilly drops Joe, and attempts to catch him. She stands up to catch him, and realizes that she just revealed herself.
"I...um.." Lilly stares at us, she looks nervous. "And it was all a dream!" Lilly drops the dolls, and waves her hands around. She looks down. Liam and I clap, as she bows, and makes the puppets bow too.
"Good job!" I praise her. She looks up nervous.
"I'm sorry! I kept dropping the puppets..I was just nervous..I wanted to put on a puppet show, for you to enjoy!" I smile. "Happy Birthday, Nee-San!" She smiles weakly.
"Thank you, I loved it!" She runs up to me, and hugs me.
"Thank you Nee-San!" I look at her with a look of surprise. Did she think I didn't like it? I thought it was cute.
"For what?" I ask. She hugs me tighter.
"For being so nice...I wanted to thank you, by doing the puppet show..but I.." Lilly trailed off. Her grip loosens. I pat her head.
"Like I said, 'I loved it'. Thank you, Lilly." I thank her. She's so sweet. Lilly starts picking up her dolls on the floor. I pick up Shelly and hand her to Lilly.
"Thank you!" She thanks me again.
"You're very welcome.." I respond. Liam and I help Lilly pack up her puppet show theater. Afterwards, Lilly and Liam lead me to the kitchen. Bella is waiting for us in the kitchen, with a basket in her hand. She hands Lilly the basket, and Lilly smiles big.
"Thank you, miss Bella!" Lilly chirps. Bella nods her head with a smile.
"Happy birthday miss Violet..." Bella says.
"Thank you! You can call me Violet, if you'd like.." I tell her. I'm not all that big on the whole 'miss Violet' thing. I don't care for formalities.
"Alright..Violet" she says with a smile. Liam pulls at my hand to go.
"See ya later Bella!" Liam yells, as he runs out the door dragging me with him, Lilly close behind me. He leads me into the forest, somehow knowing exactly where we are. Lilly holds my hand as we walk. "Ah! Here we are!" Liam exclaims.
We walk into a small clearing, that has beautiful scenery. It has a huge mountain on one side, directly across from us. There is a huge waterfall coming out of the mountain. The clearing is mostly a lake, that has stepping stones leading to the waterfall.
My mouth is dropped open. It's beautiful, it's magical. Lilly starts hopping on the stepping stones. Liam's following after her, but slower. After a few steps, Liam notices I'm not following.
"Vivi! You coming?" He asks. I snap out of my trance, and start hopping across the stones. If I had known we were going to be hopping across stones, I wouldn't have worn heels. We catch up with Lilly and she hops onto steps that lead around the waterfall, into an opening behind it. We go in.
It's really dark behind the waterfall at first, but Liam lights his index finger on fire. He lights a torch, that is on the wall, near the entrance. He picks up the torch and lights the rest of the torches as we go through the mini cave. The cave leads into a cavern.
The cavern has a pond, and a underwater cave, that most likely leads to the waterfall. Lilly sets down the basket, and pulls out a picnic blanket. I help her lay out the blanket, while Liam finishes lighting all the torches on the wall. Liam, Lilly, and I sit down and start eating.
"When did you guys plan this?" I ask. They look at each other, and look back at me.
"I don't know" Liam shrugs his shoulders. "we just, one day decided to go on a picnic.."
"And we thought today would be the perfect day! Since it's your birthday and all!" Lilly adds. "Do you like this place?" Lilly asks.
"Yeah! It's beautiful!" I tell her. She smiles and continues eating her sandwich. I was about to take another bite of my sandwich, when I start to get a bad feeling. Whatever the feeling is, it sends shivers up my spine.
Liam notices my tension, and rubs circles into my back. After a bit, Lilly notices too.
"What's wrong?" Lilly asks.
"I'm get this bad feeling, from outside. Like as if something bad is happening." I answer. She looks into my eyes fearful. "But I'm sure it's nothing!" I brush it off.
"Well we can always check-" Liam is interrupted by a scream, it was coming from outside. We all dart outside to see what's happening. A bear is near the edge of the lake, with a little toddler boy screaming. The little boy starts crying. "Lilly, stay here!" Liam orders.
Liam and I go as fast as we can to get to the toddler. When we get there the little boy is bawling, and the bear is about to attack. Liam starts fighting the bear. I pick up the boy, and start bouncing him, trying to calm him. He starts to calm down.
The little boy has dark brown, curly hair. He has dark purple eyes, that have a hint of pink.
"M-mommy?" He asks me. What?! I'm not his mom!
"I'm sorry sweetie, but I'm not your mommy.." I tell him.
"You're mommy!" He yells.
"I'm not..." he starts tearing up. I sigh. My goodness. I became a mother, because I can't watch a child cry. "Okay" I give in. His eyes grow huge, and he smiles. He has little dimples that make him look ever cuter.
"Did the kid use your soft spot to his advantage?" I hear Liam ask, while walking over to us. I sigh.
"Yeah..." I respond. Liam smiles at the little boy. The little boy smiles back.
"Papa!" He yells, and struggles to get into Liam's arms. Liam's eye are wide. I giggle.
"I think it's safe to say he likes you..." I tell him.
"Yeah.." Liam holds the little boy for a bit, before he struggles to get back into my arms again.
"Onii-Chan! Nee-San!" Lilly calls, as she runs to us.
"What's wrong?" Liam asks.
"Nothing, but what happened here?" Lilly asks.
"We rescued him, and now he thinks we're his parents." I hold up the little boy to show Lilly, and the little boy grips my dress, pulling him back to my chest.
"Mommy? Who's that?" He asks. Lilly smiles at him.
"Hello! I'm Lilly!" Lilly introduces herself. The little boy leans away from Lilly.
"Scary!" The boy yells. Lilly looks at him, shocked.
"No! I'm not scary! See!" She makes faces at him, and he giggles.
"More! More!" He chants. She continues making the faces.
"Honey, can you tell us your name?" I ask him.
"My name is Alec" he says proudly.
"Do you mean Alex?" I ask him. He shakes his head.
"Alec!" He repeats. Liam, Lilly, and I head back to the castle with Alec. As we walk, Alec starts naming all the trees. He eventually gets bored and falls asleep.
When we get back, Lilly brings the basket back to Bella, while Liam and I bring Alec to our bedroom.
"I'm going to go talk to cat boy about making flyers for town, to see if anyone has noticed Alec missing." Liam says, just before he leaves the room.
"Okay! When Alec wakes up, we should give him a bath." I suggest. He nods in agreement, and leaves. I lay down next to Alec, slowly drifting asleep. The bed is making me so tired.
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