In the last chaps, it´s said that Lex´s turning 15, sorry, my wrong, it´s sixteen, and nothing else.
I sat down on my bed, and took the notebook with my letters to Maddie, Burt had come home really late in the evening the evening before, so we hadn´t had the time to read the last part of it, There was a knock on the door, and I could hear Carole´s voice on the other side.
"Can we come in?" she asked.
"Sure," I answered and laid the notebook back on the bedside table. She opened the door and came in along with Burt.
"Hey," I said. "You home already?"
"Yes," Burt said. "John took my shift." I nodded.
"Ok," I said.
"Oh yeah, happy birthday Lex." He said.
"Of course, happy birthday sweetie," Carole gave me a hug.
"So… we need to go downstairs, and talk about something." Burt took Carole´s hand, and walked out the door and closed it behind them. I sighed and slide down on the floor.
"LEX" I could hear someone shouting all of a sudden, "Lex, look out the window." I jumped up on my feet and looked out the window, where the whole glee- club stood down in the street, I smiled, and opened the window.
"Happy birthday Lex." It was Connor that was talking; it was also him that shouted. "Come on, close the window and get down here."
"I´m coming." I closed the window, and ran outside, in the hall I grabbed my jacket and pulled it on before I walked outside.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY" the whole glee- club, including Mr. Schue, Burt and Carole shouted when I came outside.
"Thank you guys…. I thought you´d for…gott…en… oh, fuck… him again." I looked down the road and saw the same boy, that had been following me the last month coming walking. With a big parcel, wrapped in birthday- wrapping, in his hands.
"How on earth does he know it´s today?" I whispered, more to myself then to anyone else, and walked over to him.
"Happy birthday," he said and reached me the parcel, which was wrapped in pink birthday- wrapping with Disney- princesses on. I looked up at the boy.
"You couldn´t find another birthday wrapping?" He smiled.
"Not really, I see that you´re busy." He nodded to the others, "I´ll just go." He turned around and walked down the street.
"I´m gonna go put this upstairs," I mumbled, and turned around.
"You´re not gonna open the present?" Hayley asked.
"No," I looked to the ground. "Not now, you see, I don´t even know who that boy is, he´s been following me for about a month now, and he´s scaring me, I´ll open this some other time." I looked around the group. "I was going to tell you to come into the house, but it´s not really my decision." I looked to Burt and Carole, who both nodded. "So, come on in." I opened the door, and walked in. "As I said, I´m just gonna go, put this, whatever it is, in my room." I pulled my jacket off and hang it next to the door, before I ran upstairs. It seemed like there was some big, framed photo in the present, but I wasn´t sure, because it seemed to be wrapped in bubble- plastic. I out it in the back of the wardrobe, and decided to forget about it… or at least try to.
"So, everyone," everybody from New directions, except Teeghan and Ethan, sat around the living room- table, some in the sofas, some on chairs from the kitchen and some on the floor, I sat down on the floor. "I really thought you´d forgotten my birthday."
"How could we forget?" Johnny said. "I mean, it´s not exactly like we have talked about anything else the last few days, except when you haven´t been around."
"Ethan is at the doctor´s," Ben said. "He was sad that he couldn´t come, but he wishes you a really happy birthday."
"And I tried to talk Teeghan into coming," Alice said. "But she said she had other stuff to do."
"It´s nothing," I said. "Ben, say to Ethan that I´m saying thanks for his wishes, and about Teeghan, well, I didn´t expect her to come either." I smiled.
"Ok, well we´ve got cake… cakes." Mr. Schue held up three boxes.
"And we´ve got presents." Hayley held up a parcel.
"You are being way to nice to me," I said. "I told you, it´s not a big deal."
"No we´re not." Marcie said. "We are being nice, just enough." I smiled and shook my head a little.
"I´ll go get plates, and spoons and a knife for the cake," Carole said.
"How many here want coffee?" Burt asked and counted the ones who raised their hands, and then he walked into the kitchen too.
So, the first chap of SR in 2013, it´s kind of funny, this Tuesday, I wrote a chap for "you can´t stop the beat"… I started it in the morning, and wrote during the whole day, till I finished it in the evening, the same when I wrote a chap for "when the past catches up" yesterday, and I wrote this over the whole day today… hmm.
