I stood by my locker on Tuesday morning and picked out the books I needed for my first lesson, when Tyler sneaked up behind me, and reached me a bouquet of roses.
"Hello love, happy valentine´s day."
"Valentine´s day?" Oh my God, I had completely forgotten about Valentine´s day.
"You didn´t forget did you?" I took the roses, and read the card.
As a start of what´s to come for Valentine´s day.
"No," I lied. "I… I didn´t forget… you haven´t seen Connor anywhere have you?"…
"I completely forgot about it." I said when I had caught up with Connor.
"Why do you tell me that?" Connor said rudely.
"Hey, why so rude?"
"Sorry L, I´m tired, I over- slept and then I had to wait for Hannah, both of the twins and mum until I could use the bathroom, and then I had almost no time in there, so I didn´t have the time to shower, so now my hair´s a complete mess and then…"
"Whoa, hold on," I interrupted. "I can understand you´ve had a bad morning, but I need some tip on what to do for Tyler today. Please Connor."
"Just run down to the gas station and buy candy hearts then."
"I want it to be special"
"Sing him a song then."
"Actually… that´s not a bad idea… thanks Connor." I turned around and ran down the hall and stairs, I had to get to catch up with two of the guys from the band before the lessons started.
"Eli, Gus." I found them in the choir room. "Can you do me a favor?"
"Yeah, sure." Eli answered me, Eli played the piano, and Gus the drums. "What do you want help with."
"Do you know the song because you loved me?"
"Yes." They answered at once.
"I´m gonna make Tyler meet me up in the auditorium after glee- club, I wanna sing that song to him. Can you play to it?"
"Yeah sure."
"Thank you, be in the auditorium at five okay." I turned around and walked to the classroom.
The whole day, I was humming on because you loved me almost non- stop. But at last I had to stop to actually save my voice until the performance.
"So, glee- clubbers." Mr. Schue said when he came into the choir room. "I know, today is Valentine´s day, and the week for that, I know I usually do a love- theme, but I´m gonna move that to next week. I think Marcie can tell us what we´re gonna do this." Marcie stood up and turned to us.
"My dad and his… well, men, are leaving on Saturday, so we´re gonna go to the airport right before they leave, and sing two songs, the last one is going to be the national- song, but the first we can decide one song that fits. So… I guess that´s it."
The rest of the rehearsal, the time just seemed to go way too slowly, but at last, at five minutes past five, Mr. Schue let us go.
"Lex, Lex," Tyler caught up with me, and before I had the time to speak up he pulled up a piece of curtain out of his back- pocket.
"Oh, Ty, I have…"
"I have a surprise for you. But you´ll need to wear this." I wanted to tell Tyler to come to the auditorium, but he seemed so excited I just didn´t have the heart to interrupt and decided to let him do what he wanted. He blindfolded me and lead me outside, I found myself sitting down in a car, and then I felt it started moving. When it had stopped, Tyler pulled the blindfold of, and I saw that we were outside Breadstix. I reached my hand for the lock on the door, but Tyler stopped me.
"No, we´re not getting out." He said. "But do you remember this parking spot?"
"It´s where we first kissed." Tyler nodded.
"I´m going to show you three places that lead to that we got together. This is the first, the one for our first kiss. Also the last in the time- line, but I had to do it this way." He started driving again, and soon I realized that we were on our way back to the school. Tyler led me into the choir room first.
"Here I saw you for the second time, I performed a song, and there was a line about that I liked a girl but I didn´t dare to tell her…"
"And you looked right at me."
"I didn´t… okay I did. But it was all because of the first time I saw you. Come on." We walked over to the auditorium.
"The very first time I saw you, you were the most beautiful thing I´d ever seen. It was for your audition, I don´t remember which song it was- because I only saw you. I sat over there." Tyler pointed to a stool in the row, while we were walking down the stairs towards the stage. "With the rest of the New Directions. And you…. You were standing here, singing." We were now down on the stage. "And…. To the last part of my surprise." Eli came out on the stage, followed by Spencer- another pianist, Gus, and Nolan the violinist, each of them were carrying something. Eli a table, Spencer two chairs, Gus a tray with glass, plates, forks and knives, Nolan a tray with some food and drinks, at last, when they had set the table ready, James came out, holding a vase of roses, that he put on the table.
"So… would you like to join me eating?" Tyler pulled out one of the chairs, I smiled and sat down of it. And then we sat there, and ate and chattered, and when we had eaten Tyler asked me.
"Lex?"
"Yes?"
"You forgot about Valentine´s day didn't you?"
"Completely… You´re not mad are you?" Tyler chuckled.
"No of course not. Why would I?"
"Well… just look at this. You´re so good with these things, I just…. Completely forgot our special day."
"Lex." Eli and Gus came out. "Are you going to give Ty your surprise?" I smiled.
"Yes of course, Tyler, go sit up where you sat when you saw me the first time." Tyler chuckled and did as he was told, while Eli and Gus got to their instruments, and Spencer, Nolan and James took away the table and the other stuff after everything was done, Gus sat down on this kind of drum that looks like big wooden- box, and Eli sat down by the piano, and then it started.
I stopped singing when the tones of "we are family" echoed on the stage in the middle of the song, it came from my phone. I pulled it up, pops was calling, so I pressed the button, I could see Tyler was trying hard not to laugh.
"Okay, this will better be important, because you just ruined my Valentine´s- day- present for Tyler." Tyler couldn´t hold it anymore, he cracked up laughing harder than I had ever seen him laughing before.
"Oh… I´m sorry. Well… I and Carole are out walking, and we´re outside the school now…."
"I´m coming." I interrupted, and hung up.
"I´m going." I said to Tyler who was still laughing, we kissed and then I walked to my locker to get my rucksack and my jacket. When I walked outside, I immediately saw ma and pops waiting by the road. Pops was talking on the phone to somebody, so while we started walking I and Carole were chattering about Valentine´s day- all until Burt hung up on the phone.
"Timothy Duncan and his girlfriend had twins this morning." He said.
"Oh." Carole said. "… That´s… well…. I don´t really know what to say."
"Who you´re talking about?"
"Remember I told you I´ve been best friends with Charles´ dad, well, Charles have got a twin brother named Timothy Burtram."
"And Burt is the only one who ever says Burtram." Carole joked. "He´s so proud that Mr. Duncan wanted to name his son after him, well, Timothy, seventeen years old, got pregnant with his girlfriend, today they had twins."
"Wait, you mean Tim Duncan?"
"Yes… you know him?"
"I…. Tim…. Kind of…. Was the first boy I kissed," Burt snorted with laughter. "In kindergarten. He and Charles made some bet about who would dare to kiss the creepiest girl there, which just happened to be me. Damn, I knew I´d met Charles somewhere before."
"Girls or boys?" Carole asked.
"One of each, and because today´s the day it is, they will be named Lovie Grace, and Valentine Jacob."
"Well… can´t complain about giving them too common names." I shrugged, and then I started thinking about the performance we had on Saturday, we had decided to do This is war by Thirty seconds to Mars- maybe we could have come up with something better- but we only had an hour, plus an hour on Thursday to rehearse- and this is war most of us already knew. Suddenly, I thought about something and I stopped.
"Ma?" I exclaimed. "Which time was it I was gonna meet Katheryn at my old house?"
"Eleven, why?"
"Oh crap, we have a performance with New Directions on the exact same time, what am I gonna do now?" I kept on walking, and tried my best to come up with something.
Playlist
Lex- because you loved me- Celine Dion
