I´m so, so sorry.
"To just have this said…." Aiden said, when everyone have gotten their coffee, and we were about to start eating cake. "Mine and Jasper´s birthday- present to you Lex, is those." He pointed to the two cakes that Mr. Schue was holding on to. "These," he held up two more boxes of cake. "And those." He pointed to Jasper that held up two boxes of cake. I shook my head a little.
"You bought six cakes for..:" I counted. "… eighteen persons." I looked to Aiden and raised an eyebrow, he shrugged.
"What?" he asked. "I like cake." I shook my head more.
"Time for the rest of the presents!" Ben shouted. "Though… there is a small problem…. To see the present I, Ethan and Marcie bought, and the one from… ehrm… Mis…."
"Burt and Carole…. Please." Burt said.
"…. Burt and Carole…. You´ll need to open the one from Ty, Hayley and Connor first." Hayley sat with a big box in her lap, wrapped in birthday- wrapping.
"Hmm," I said. "I think I´ll save that one ´til I opened the rest of them."
"Ok."
"Here you go, open this." Johnny reached me a present. "This one´s from me, Anna and Amy."
"Thank you," I pulled of the paper and found a shoebox. Which I opened, and found a pair of red, low converse.
"Oh, great." I took them up from the box. "Thanks guys"
"That´s good." Connor said. "Because, your trainers are about to fall to pieces," I looked down at my feet, my trainers had wholes all over them, and it was a miracle that hadn´t broke totally yet. I looked up at Connor again.
"Don´t know what you mean." I said ironic.
"So, next then," Alice said. "I can´t give you your birthday- present right now, but I can tell you about it."
"Okay," I took another spoon of cake and listened to her.
"You can say no to this if you want to," she said. "But I´d like to cut your hair," I started to cough, when I swallowed another bite of cake.
"Didn´t know you´re a hairdresser," I coughed.
"I´m not, but I wanna be, and my mum is a real hairdresser, she usually watches when I´m cutting when I cut someone´s hair, then she can help and make it right if I do anything wrong… you don´t want to right?"
"I´d love to," I said. "It´ll be fun get this thing cut off." I put one hand around my hair, and threw all of the waist- long, brown- red hair over one shoulder. "When do you wanna do it?"
"Is tomorrow after school all right?"
"Sure." I said.
"Okay," Mr. Schue said and reached me another gift. "Open this."
"Yes, sir." I joked, and opened it, I found a CD, and a book with chords and notes.
"Greatest hits Westlife." I read on the covers. "Thanks Mr. Schue."
"You´re welcome Lex." He smiled.
"So, only one left, before the big reveal." Liam said, and grabbed a gift that lay beside him. "This is from me and Mariah." He reached it to me. I took it and I unfolded the paper slowly… and found a diary, with a small padlock.
"Thanks Liam…. Mariah," I nodded and smiled to the twins.
"Open it, we´ve already written something in it." Liam said, I started turning the papers it had been wrapped in as well as the diary.
"I think…. I´ll need a key to the padlock for that." I said slowly.
"Oh yeah, that´s right." Liam said and searched through his pockets. "Didn´t you take them sis´?"
"I thought you took them," Mariah said, but also she started searching through her pockets.
"Oh, that´s right here it is." Liam pulled up two keys, hanging from a thin thread out of his jeans- pocket and reached it to me. I opened the notebook. And read from the first page.
"To Lex, hope you´re having a great birthday." I read out loud. "Best wishes, Liam and Mariah Smith…. Thanks."
"Only this left then." Hayley stood up, still holding tightly onto the wrapped box. She walked over to me. "It´s got a cover, and I would recommend that you simply just lift it off."
"Okay," I said, got a grip of the cover, and lifted it off.
"Oh my god," I gasped when I had gotten the cover of, and I laid it to the side. "Oh my god…. Oh my god." I couldn´t really believe that what I was holding on my knee right now, was a cage, with a… fully alive…. Real…. Hamster.
"Oh, my god," I opened a lock to the cage, let my fingers catch around, the small white, and golden- colored animal. Who was at the time, sleeping. I lifted it up carefully and held it to my chest, with one hand around its back, and one hand under its stomach. I lifted it up a little, and held it just under my face, while I studied every single part of it, as if I were afraid that if I didn't, it would soon be gone. And just as I looked at its face, it opened its tiny, all black eyes and looked at me.
"Oh," I sighed, because I didn´t really know what else to say.
"It was Hayley´s idea," Connor said. "Me and Connor went to buy it."
"I guess it was a good idea then…" Hayley looked curious.
"Oh," I said once more. "Thank you…. I can´t tell you how happy I am, thank you."
"The birthday- present from me, Ethan and Marcie" Ben said. "Is the cage, the small house, and those tubes, or whatever it´s called."He pointed to the colorful tubes that were running around the cage, and inside it.
"And our present to you is," Burt began. "Is that, I and Carole will pay for food, sawdust, vet- bills, and other stuff it needs."
"You know what´s great Lex?" Liam said. "You can bring that…"
"It´s not a that…. It´s a boy." Connor protested.
"Whatever, you can bring… him, to sectionals, and regionals and other such stuff, he can be our mascot."
"Of course," I said. "He can be our little mascot."
"Come on then Lex." Mariah said. "Name him,"
"Hmm," I said. "… Ned."
"Ned?" Came from almost every direction.
"He´ll be our mascot," I said. "and N, and D stands for…"
"… New Directions," Mr. Schue said and smiled.
So, I´m gonna stop that right there.
