Reconnected (Tokio Hotel FanFic)

Ch 2- Hey Du (Hey You)

​With the cooled omelet removed from the table, a warmed piece of red velvet cake, smothered in cream cheese icing drizzling around the plate, invited my appetite back. Dissolving in my mouth, two slices of cake disappeared quickly.

​"You'll absolutely love my present."

​Slipping the envelope I spotted before across the reddened wood of the kitchen table, lightened by the rising sun, Adileigh gracefully picked my plate off the table to drop in the sink.

​Sitting thoughtfully, I eyed the mysterious envelope. Every year, she spends too much, yet she does think outside the box. But for her gift to be just a card, scared me a bit, in an unknowable way.

​"Go ahead, open it," Adileigh urged. Scrawled across the front was my name, in the messy cursive everyone complemented. I hesitantly reached for the awaiting gift. "It's not gonna kill you."

​"And I'm supposed to believe you?"

​"We've know each other since forever," she replied easily.

​"Ya. And you haven't tried to kill me before," I responded with my usual sense of over exaggerated sarcasm.

​"Just open it," inserted my mum, anxious as usual, though no doubt, she probably already knew the gift I was receiving.

​Slicing the top of the paper, thin and folded, I unveiled a simple message within the card. Reading aloud, "Coming closer through the years," I flipped inside, "I know are friendship isn't always clear. But keep in mind the moments spent together 'cause this may be the only chance we get to walk the lane together. Make a wish you want to come true, and be happy all year through. Happy Twentieth Birthday Sephora."

​Staring at the card for a moment, I registered the words sinking beneath my skin. The lack of a gift, surprised me, actually. "So only a card this year?" I asked after a small silence.

​"No-" Adileigh peaked over my shoulder.

​"I mean, a card is just fine," I continued.

​"There's supposed to be another package within the first card I gave you," she replied franticly searching for a missing piece.

​With the break of searching my mum seized the time to hand me her present. "I know you'll enjoy it." She hinted with her untold smile.

​Ripping the paper from the narrow rectangular cardboard box, my wondering gaze swept over the labels. Giving no hints as to what lay inside; I carefully grazed my fingernail along the tape sealing the case. Gently prolong the lid away, I gasped. "No way!" I expressed, excited but quiet. What a way to thank someone for a gift.

​"You don't like it?" my mum asked.

​"No. No, it's beautiful-"

Adileigh might have contributed a word or two, but I was lost in thought and without knowing how to properly thank mum, I ignored her. "These are all landmarks of places you've traveled to, isn't it?"

​No answer held the air as I backed away from my chair enveloping my mother in a warm hearted hug, long needed before now. "You would've loved these places. I'm glad you like it," she murmured against my ear, "I really am."

​"Hugging moment is over, unless I'm invited in," Adileigh interjected.

​"You are practically family," mum and I replied in unison.

​"I was just kidding. But I found the important part to my present that you purposefully left in the card's envelope."

​"I did nothing purposefully," I reprimanded, "I don't even know what it is. So if you'd hand it over..."