Shafts of bright sunlight caressed her eyelids gently, her eyes  immediately reacting to the shining intruder. She struggled to open it, still dazed. The long wavy-haired girl lazily stirred as she had to remind herself again why she would wake up this early on a Sunday morning.

Ah, it was his birthday …

 

 She jolted awake in less than a second at the thought of him. But, to her dismay, when she shifted to look beside her, he was nowhere to be found.
 

 He wasn’t there… Again.

She let herself fall back against the sheets, letting out a loud sigh, loud enough for her neighbors to hear. This was the third consecutive year she doesn’t celebrate his birthday with him, but also the third year of them being together. She shifted uncomfortably in the bed. It wasn’t healthy to be in a bad mood this early in the morning and she knew it. For a while, she stared at nothing in particular, deeply saddened ….
 

 Why was life this cruel to her? Why couldn’t she even celebrate his birthday with him? Why couldn’t he stop being busy for one damned day at least and enjoy his special day with her? And... And why was her chin quivering all of a sudden? Until she felt her sheets gradually getting wet and a hot liquid streaming down her face, she hadn’t realized she had been …

…  crying.

Surprised at her own behavior, she first attempted to wipe her tears away, but, convinced of how vain her act was, she let it

all go. She kept choking helplessly at her sobs.

« Why am I even crying? I promised him to never be upset or sad at his long absence! I told him I will understand his

situation and tight schedules and never complain about it... I  ..



… I…

 

… I ... !

 

Her eyes shot open right away.

 She lay there for a bit more than a minute, uncertain about how to react, her heart drumming in her ears. Touching her

cheeks, she made sure there were no tears’ trails. « Wha .. Did I just dream about… what I dreamed about? » However, it

seemed so real to her.
 

Hot regular breathing against her neck brought her back to reality. She finally realized there was someone lying next to her, sleeping peacefully.

 There he was, a wingless angel lying on his stomach, hands below his pillow. She felt blessed to even stand there,

watching him breathe in and out, almost counting his breaths. She couldn’t help but grin like an idiot at the sight of this

beautiful tanned well built back raising and falling at the rhythm of her now calmed heartbeat. Then reality finally hit her:  HE

HAD DECIDED TO SPEND HIS BIRTHDAY WITH HER. Despite all his crazy schedules, his barking mad manager, his

overly-obsessed fans, his fancy celebrity life, he choose to spend his birthday with her, in her house, in her room. The

feelings of happiness, joy, self-satisfaction, and warmness she bared inside her chest couldn’t be put in words in any

language on the planet. She leaned on him to have a closer look of his heavenly striking features. This was one of the habits

she missed the most while he was absent; she couldn’t get enough of him no matter how often she repeated it. His big eyes

–now closed- were covered with bangs and had beautiful dark eyelashes on them. His nose, which was the reason he had

“dinosaur” as a nickname, topped pink full lips invitingly parted. His dark brown bangs were dancing in a tempting way at

the regular rhythm of his breathing. She got even closer, and all she managed to say in a whisper was “Thank you”. She

shyly smiled one last time before deciding to get up.

 

“OK, it’s already 11:30am. So let’s start with the preparations for this dino’s bi –



Her thoughts were suddenly cut short by a strong arm pulling her back to the bed, and quickly getting on top of her was a

muscular half body. Startled, she couldn’t even react nor breathe properly.

“Got you … Am I that good-looking to have your beautiful eyes stare at me for half an hour?” his voice came as a whisper,

sending shivers all over her body
.

      “Uggh… You’re such a tease, Jonghyun … You were awake all this .. time ?” she said, turning her head in embarrassment.


      “Hm ..? It depends on how long you’ve been eating me up with your eyes...” he smirked while her hair quite

slowly.

She couldn’t look at him straight in the eyes, even though she could feel his intense gaze on her. The position they both were

in, the warm bed, the pleasant April morning, the fact that she lived alone and had no one to disturb her,  all these were

enough reasons for her to throw to hell all her plans and spend the whole day right where she was, not moving an inch.
 

    “Ok stop now. It’s your birthday remember? And we should –“


And he cut her off once again, this time by gently letting his body fall on hers. As she gasped, he quickly embraced her with

all his might, squeezing the life out of her.

    “But I miss you! I don’t care if it’s my birthday, this day is only special because I’m with you, you know?”
 

Amazing. How he managed to drastically change from a naughty y flirt to a soft puppy-eyed-almost-begging five years-old in less than a second was beyond her understanding.

    “Jjong … Air ..Air.. !”

He let out a small amused laugh at the oh-so-missed nickname and loosened his embrace a little, still burying his head in

the hollow of her neck, brushing his nose against it in a very slow up and down movements.

That’s it. She was done for. Just great. She now needed a titanic effort to get off of his warm embrace. His warmth was her

obsession; his scent was her fatal poison.