January 19th

It was a curious case that she was celebrating the same number of years as the number of the day she was born, but other than that, there was nothing more impressive.

Despite being a very famous idol and a spirit —Beings that with their mere appearance cause space earthquakes—, she was still human and a person who also celebrates her birthday.

But Miku Izayoi's job was to be an idol, so even on this special day, she had to give an interview on a TV show where she also performed one of her most famous songs of the moment.

Normally, she would not be interviewed unless her career had taken a huge leap, something like performing a song for the opening or closing of a particular series or being a voice actress for an animated character, however, that was limited to Japan only.

Currently, Miku Izayoi wanted to conquer the United States as well, so she was touring in this country, where they knew her most famous songs, but they did not know her, hence the reason for the interview. For this she had the help of a translator.

Her single: 'From Yesterday', was the song she had to perform in the program, it was a very different song from what an idol normally performs, but it was made from the music trends in the United States, it was made specially to delight their ears with a voice like Miku's, who they did not understand anything, but they liked how enveloping and soft it sounded.

It was a song that could perfectly be listened to in a café anywhere in the world and no one would care what language it was in.

Despite her success, she couldn't help but feel lonely, especially on a day like this.

She missed being in Japan, at home, or rather, at the home of her beloved Darling, that is, Shidou Itsuka. She also missed her friends, especially Natsumi, with whom she always wanted to be attached and she always ran away.

Oh, if only she were in Japan now, she would celebrate together with all of them and could ask them that she wanted suggestive photos of each of them as a present for her 19th birthday, even if they flatly refused, it would be so much fun.

Now, all she could do was go back to the hotel to rest and then she would go out for some cake for dinner, all alone.

It was a little strange, but she understood that here she was not known as such, so there were no people chasing her through the streets or annoying reporters who wanted to disturb her privacy to sell it to the media.

Once she entered her room, she was surprised to find the lights on, as well as a bouquet of roses adorned with pink, orange and light blue ribbons.

"Ah...! How pretty~." She bent down and took them in her hands and brought her beautiful face close to smell them. "Ah~."

Yes, she wasn't worried about knowing the person behind this detail, she was more concerned about smelling the flowers and intoxicating her nose with their freshness. Miku was just that kind of person with such childish attitudes for some situations.

"I knew you would like them, Miku."

"¡...!" She opened her bluish purple eyes in surprise, a glimmer of hope appeared in them, hope that she wasn't mistaken about the owner of that voice.

A voice she had not heard in a long time and she had least expected to hear it here, so far from the country of her birth.

Suddenly, the bathroom door opened, which was on the right side and at the back, and from there a young man with blue hair and brown eyes walked out, his gaze reflected confidence and in his hands he held a confetti launcher, which he activated and threw Miku the celebratory contents.

"D-Darling !" without a care in the world, she walked quickly to him to hug him tightly and give him several kisses on his cheek. "Mmn, mmn, mmn , how did you get here! You took a plane just to see me~?!"

"Haha, well, I think that would make the story very romantic and cliché, as Nia would say, but I would have loved to do it... um, I had help from Fraxinus; well, a lot of help from Fraxinus" he answered with a small smile.

"I don't care! Ah, if you're talking about Fraxinus, then..."

Knowing what she would say, Shidou shook his head and reciprocated her hug, putting the confetti thrower down.

"They didn't come with me, I called in this favor well in advance, in fact, Reine-san and the rest of the crew brought me here."

"Oh... so~, that means," she said with a playful grin, "Darling wanted to monopolize me on my birthday, huh~?"

"Yeah."

"Huh?"

Miku almost went backwards, if it wasn't for Shidou, who had his arms around her, she didn't expect that answer at all, it was so assertive that it made her blush with emotion.

Shidou, on the other hand, only blushed and looked away.

"Well, sort of..."

"Geez, Darling, you can monopolize me as much as you want s."

"Ah, it's not about that, Miku, it's just that... well, we're boyfriend and girlfriend, after all and... it's the first birthday you've had since we've been."

"Ah~, I see, so that's what it's about. Darling is very conservative with that kind of couple stuff" he commented with a wide grin. "I'd like to celebrate with everyone, but since you said that, I guess you have something prepared, don't you~?"

"...!" He turned his gaze to her eyes. "It was supposed to be a surprise... but, yes, I do have some things ready for today."

She let out a melodious giggle.

"Darling is always so transparent, it's easy to tell when you're planning something~."

"Haa... I guess you're right, but, I bet you can't imagine the gift this time!"

"Hmm~, more pictures of Shiori-san ?!" she asked with hearts in her pupils.

"...No."

"Uh..."

"Oh! No way...you're going to turn into Shiori-san for my birthday?! Kyaaa!"

The young man was cold to see his girlfriend so happy for his fake identity rather than for himself, so after sighing, he tried to bring her down from her cloud of illusions, but he couldn't do it, because Miku continued with another one of her insane ideas.

"No, wait, wait, did she... is Shiori-san my birthday present?!"

"No!" he shouted and Miku had to duck her head a little, like a scolded child. "Ahh... Miku, gosh... it has nothing to do with Shiori!"

"Uh... in that case, I think it will indeed be a big surprise, I already want to know what it is!" she said again excited and with a twinkle in her eyes, that was enough to be forgiven by her boyfriend.

"Not so fast, Miku. Before that, how about we go to the balcony?"

"Oh, is my present there?"

"No, but maybe it will appear there~."

Miku just smiled and took Shidou's hand, who was a little surprised, but squeezed it gently, to go like that to the balcony of the room, which was at the back and could be entered by just sliding the glass door, there was a small table and two very small chairs there.

There was nothing more than that, the idol checked every corner with just a glance, but apart from the nice view of buildings illuminated by lights, there was nothing else.

"Darling tricked me..."

Deservedly so, perhaps, but Shidou wouldn't be angry at her delusions about Shiori-san, in fact, he was already used to it.

"I didn't, I said it'd show up, but it won't do it in front of you, what surprise would there be in that?" he let go of her hand and moved a little away, the wind ruffling Shidou's hair more. "Close your eyes, Miku."

She did so and stood on her tiptoes, expecting something very obvious, but since it didn't happen in ten seconds, she couldn't help but ask.

"Aren't you going to kiss me, Darling~?"

"No... you just keep your eyes closed, don't go cheating."

"Uh... I wanted a kiss from Darling..." She complained with mock sadness.

"Didn't you want one from Shiori-san better?"

"I was just toying with that theme, Darling, besides... you were the one who gave me pictures of Shiori-san on my previous birthday. The one to blame for me getting my hopes up about that, is you~."

"Hn... it won't be like that this time!"

"Hmm... I'm getting more and more curious, what are you doing so much? You don't even make a sound."

"That's the idea~, don't eat anxiously, I'm almost done" he said calmly while adjusting things on the small table on the balcony.

It didn't take much longer, however, something was missing and because of the intensity of the wind, he wasn't sure if the flame in the candle would manage to stay long enough, so, he lit the candle with a lighter and enclosed the flame with his hands.

"Miku, you can open your eyes now."

When she did, Shidou was no longer in front of her, so she turned to the little table on the balcony, where there was a little gift box, next to it a small circular cake that was covered in white polish and was decorated with flowers made of polish and said, 'Happy Birthday, Miku!' written in melted chocolate.

"D-Darling ."

"Quick, make a wish...!" he said as he uncovered the one candle he had lit, but the wind quickly blew it out. "Ah..."

"...Heh..." Miku couldn't help but laugh as Shidou relit the candle, but the wind wasn't helping matters.

"Uuh..."

"Hahaha... it's okay, Darling ."

"But you didn't make your wish..." he said as he raised his head somewhat sadly.

"You already fulfilled it, Darling ."

"Huh?" he gaped slightly open-mouthed.

"Because you're here , that's what I had wished for all this time."

Without wasting any time, Miku moved his hands away from the cake and then intertwined them with her and reached up to join her lips with his in a soft kiss.

When they parted, Shidou was the more flushed of the two and now his hands were not cold, they both sat down to eat the cake that the boy had bought at a bakery in this country with the help of Reine and her miraculous credit card.

While they enjoyed the cake, Miku updated her boyfriend on everything she had been doing in America as well as the differences with Japan, at the same time, Shidou told her about how everyone was doing since she had gone on tour and how they missed her every time the thought of her came to them.

Until it was time to open the gift, from there she took out a very small pad that could easily fit in any of her bags, she also brought a white pencil with two different colors: black and blue.

It did not have such a striking design.

Miku thought about what she could say, she didn't expect it, but she didn't understand why. Shidou also didn't say anything, he just stared at her.

"Hm..." Then, she decided to open it and found that each page possessed date, so you could say it was a diary. "Oh."

"Go to today's date" he said with a small smile, she didn't see it, she just paid heed.

"...!"

"Happy birthday, Miku! Today is a special day, it's not every day you turn 19 and not every year you can celebrate next to the one you love, but I can always do it, for you and for you. No matter where you are, I would go anywhere, even to the other side of the world, or to outer space where all the stars are, even if I don't need to see them, because the brightest star of all is you.

Shidou Itsuka."

"Da-Darling... ."

"You can write down anything there, even though I thought of it for you to write new songs, I think it's better than writing them on the cell phone and also..."

"I love you ."

"...!" He was caught totally off guard and when he saw how happy Miku was, he couldn't say anything else anymore, he just blushed slightly and sketched a sincere smile. "I love you too, Miku ."

"I definitely will, I'll write a song just for Darling !"

"Eh, I didn't mean it'll be songs for me, Miku..."

"I know, but it'll be for Darling!"

"So, do you like it...?"

"I love it!" She left the present on the small table and, with a little jump, sat down on his legs.

"Miku?"

"I love you, Darling, I love you so much ." She wrapped her arms around his neck and laid her cheek on his head.

"Happy birthday, Miku ."

He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her tighter against his body, even though the wind was cold and it would get worse because the night was covering the city, neither of them felt cold in each other's arms.