We sat in the living room for about an hour, talking and eating loads of cake. When the clock had reached five Marcie was the first one to stand up.

"I need to go home and help mum with the dinner," she said quietly, I thanked her, and then she went out the door. Only a couple of minutes later, Hayley stood up.

"My dad will be home soon,"she said, I nodded, and gave her a hug.

"Thank you," I said. "I´ve had the best birthday ever." And so it went on, Jasper, Aiden and Johnny went at the same time, then Ben, then Anna, the twins, Alice, Amy, until it was only, me, Burt and Carole, Mr. Schue, Connor and Tyler left in the living room.

"I am so happy you didn´t listen to me, when I told you not to do a great deal about my birthday," I said and smiled. "And I have… I could never have guessed that someone would give me a living animal," I looked down at Ned who lay in my hands. "Seriously, I´m just waiting for one of you to say.. no, it was just a joke, I want my hamster back." The others laughed.

"I swear he´s all yours," Tyler said. I smiled again, and scratched Ned under his chin.

"Well," Mr. Schue said. "Suppose I better get home and feed my wife." I stood up and hugged, and thanked him.

"I´m going too." Connor said. "Are you coming Ty?"

"No," Tyler said. "I think I´m gonna stay for yet a while."

"Okay, bye Lex, bye guys." Connor took his shoes and jacket and walked out the door.

"Ehrm, can you follow me to sit outside or something Lex?" Tyler stood up.

"Yeah sure," I put Ned back in his cage and closed it, before I went outside and sat down on the stairs next to Tyler.

"So, what do you think of your birthday so far?" Tyler asked.

"It´s great," I said. "I… oh my god, I´m so happy."

"I…" Tyler began and pulled a small parcel wrapped in birthday wrapping from the pocket in his jacket. "I was gonna give you this when the others had left so… Happy birthday Lex." He gave me the gift.

"You shouldn't have bought this, whatever it is," I said. "You've given me so much already." I opened the parcel slowly, and pulled out necklace, with a silver- chain, hanging from, was a heart in silver and red.

"Oh Tyler," I said. "It´s beautiful! Oh thank you, thank you so much."

"Let me…" he reached for the necklace. I turned my head so I had my neck towards him, and held my hair up. When I turned my head again, my face was really close to Tyler´s, and suddenly his lips reached mine… and this time, everything felt right.

Carole pov

It was able to see the stairs outside the door from one of the kitchen, I stood there watching Lex and Tyler, when Burt sneaked up behind me, and put his arms around my waist and his chin at my shoulder.

"You´re not spying are you?"

"No," I said. "Just looking at how cute they are together."

"They sure are." I smiled when Tyler put a necklace around Lex´s neck, then they kissed.

"I think we should stop looking now," I pulled of Burt´s arms and walked to the sink, where the dishes from the party were laying. After a few minutes, Lex came in again, totally shining of happiness, she jumped up on the bench next to me, and started drying the dishes.

"Lex, you don´t need to do this… it´s your birthday, remember?"

"Oh, no," Lex said ironic. "Have I forgotten it´s my birthday today?... no, it´s fine, I want to do it." I laughed and shook my head to Lex irony.

"You, wanna talk about it and have some girls´ talk?" I asked her.

Lex pov

I nodded.

"Oh… I don´t know how to explain"

"I know, I saw you through the window." Carole said.

"I´m… I´m so in love I feel like I wanna dance, run and just scream, show the whole world I´m so happy."

"So why don´t you do that?" three boys I recognized came into the kitchen before Burt.

"Kurt, Finn, Blaine." I jumped down from the kitchen bench, and gave each hug to the boys. "What are you doing here, what about your school... and work…"

"Well," Finn began. "Couldn´t miss my little sister´s birthday right?" he ruffled in my hair.

"We have taken a few days off, we´re going back on Monday." Kurt said.

"Happy birthday" Blaine said.

"Yes happy birthday." Kurt and Finn said at the same time, and they reached me a big parcel.

"Oh, you shouldn´t have…"

"Don´t even try it." Finn said, "come on Lex, it´s your birthday."

"But…"

"No BUTS." Came from five different directions. I smiled, and placed the parcel on the kitchen table. Before I slowly unwrapped it, and found two boxes, one were bigger than the other, and I started to open it, out from it I pulled a beautiful dress, white, with flowers in light paste colors.

"Oh, thank you… oh this is way too much. Thank you, thank you." The others laughed a bit from my reactions.

"You´ve still got one box to open." Kurt said. I hung the dress, carefully on a chair, and took the other box, to find a pair of red, really nice shoes, and a read headband.

"Oh, you´re being way too nice to me thank you… thank you so much." I had tears of happiness in my eyes.

"Well, go upstairs and shift, we wanna see it on." Kurt said. I lifted the dress up again, and walked upstairs to change clothes.

When I came downstairs again, I first looked through the kitchen door, before taking a step to the side. And showing myself, I tried to cover scars on my arms with my hands.

"They´re so ugly." I mumbled.

"No they´re not." Blaine said. "They´re a part of you… and you´re beautiful." I smiled. And turned around, I had let my hair out to cover the scar from the shot. But I was still insecure of all the scars that could be seen.

"I´m… gonna go change again," I said. "Then you can meet Ned."

"Ned?" Finn looked curious. But I just smiled and turned around to run upstairs and change, when I came downstairs again, I told the others to come to the living room, where we all sat down, I placed the hamster cage in my lap, and reached down my hand to get up Ned.

"This is Ned," I said. "N and D stands for New Directions, Ned´s gonna be our mascot."

"Can I hold him for a minute?" Finn asked. I nodded, and when he held out his hands I placed Ned in them.

"I´m sure you like your name," Finn held Ned in front of his face. "Don´t you Ned… Ouch."

"What happened?" I asked.

"He bit my nose." Finn gave Ned back to me. I laughed.

So, I´m gonna stop right there, about the dress, shoes and headband. I have no idea if read fits well with paste colors, but who cares, let´s say it does.