I and Rebeccah were hanging around in the tax- free- shops. "What are you looking for anyway?" Rebeccah asked me.

"I don´t know. I just need to find a birthday present for Tyler. I´m going to buy him a big bag of Skittles, a Hershey's cookies ´n´ cream and jelly beans- they´re all his favorites. But I want to buy him one thing as well."

"What about some clothing?"

"I don´t know his size."

"Will be easy to find out, have you got the key to yours and Tyler´s room."

"Yep," I pulled the card out of my pocket, and reached it to Rebeccah.

"Be right back." Rebeccah ran out of the shop and out of sight, while I walked to get a basket, and then the candies Tyler liked the most. After about ten minutes Rebeccah was back.

"His got the size large." I was just choosing between a blue, zippered hoodie, and a checkered shirt.

"Which one?"

"I don´t know."

"Well, this is nice, and totally his style." I held up the hoodie. "But this is nice too." I held up the button- up. "And he looks so hot in buttons up." Rebeccah giggled, and I kept on choosing, I finally went for the hoodie. At last I went to get some wrapping- paper and I and Rebeccah bought him each birthday card.

Later that night we went to the bar for the karaoke night, I got up to sing "breakaway" by Kelly Clarkson and during standing ovations from the rest of the people there that evening, I walked back to my place between Tyler and dad. At last the guy from the staff came up on the stage.

"Now it´s time for this evening´s last performance, and it´s Finn and Kurt Hudmel who´s asked me to have the last number, welcome up boys." I looked to Kurt and Finn when they stood up- they sure hadn´t mentioned a word about singing tonight, and by the look on the others faces, they hadn´t told them either. I had a feeling Kurt and Finn were planning something.

"Hello everyone." Kurt said in the microphone. "I´m Kurt Hudmel, and this is my step- brother Finn." Finn put the other microphone to his mouth and continued.

"In the beginning of the school year ten months ago, I was expecting a lot from my Junior year. But what I surely did not expect was that I, in the end of the year, would have the most awesome little sister. And in October, when my mum called me and told me that this girl had moved in with them… I didn´t quite know what to think about it." I laughed. "But, the first time I got to see her, I knew, that she was supposed to be my little sister, and that I would protect her with all that it took." I smiled, tears that rose in my eyes.

"And that was about what I thought too." Kurt said. "And… that is why we wanted to do this song… Lex… this is for you."

I stood up and clapped when they had finished- with all the other people in the bar when Kurt and Finn signed to me to get up on the stage with them, I wasn´t really sure what to do, until I felt dad literally pushing me towards the stage. I ran up to the stage and hugged both Finn and Kurt at the exact same time.

"I love you." I whispered to them both, during cheering and clapping from the audience. "Thank you." I turned around again and let the boys thank the audience for the round of applause, before starting to walk down towards us.

"Mum?" I heard a little boy say. "That girl who was singing… was she born a teenager?" I bit my lip not to laugh, and from what I could see, the mother did too.

"No Henry, some people, they can´t live with their real parents, of different reasons. They can get new parents, it´s called that someone gets adopted." Henry- as I guessed the boys name was, looked around and spot me. He stopped, looked up at me and said.

"Are you a- pot- head?" I couldn´t help but to completely break down laughing, and I had to hold on to Kurt not too fall laughing. The others were laughing too, and I could see Henry´s mum trying hard not to, Henry just looked confused, from me, to his mum, then to me again.

"ARE YOU A- POT- HEAD?" He almost shouted at last, which just caused me to laugh even more, until I was laughing so I cried.

"Henry…" his mum kneeled down to reach his height. "It´s called, adopted, and you can´t go just ask someone you know if they are adopted." I cleared my throat and kneeled down next to Henry.

"Hey Henry…"

"Are you A-Pop-ded?" I snorted with laughter again, but pulled myself together right away.

"It´s adopted." I began. Then I turned my head and looked to mum and dad. I smiled. "And yes I am."

"Why don´t you live with your real parents?"

"Henry." His mum said with a strict voice. I smiled bigger.

"I am living with my real parents." Henry looked confused. His mother pulled him backwards.

"I am so, so sorry for Henry´s behavior."

"It´s okay… thanks for that laugh Henry." I joked, Henry just looked confused, I stood up fully, ruffled in Henry´s hair and walked towards my room.

On Tuesday it was the fourth of July, we were out on deck when the staff set of fireworks. It was beautiful- though loud, and I suddenly found myself reaching for dad´s hand. He took my hand and squeezed it.

"There´s nothing to worry ´bout." He exclaimed.

"I know, it´s just loud." Burt smiled.

"You know, when Kurt was little, about four or five, there was a fourth of July when we had fire- works for the first time of our own because Kurt was nagging me about it. But then, when we had started, Kurt was suddenly nowhere to be found. I and Elizabeth searched for him for a long while, and at last we found him crouched in a laundry bag. All shaking and crying with his hands over his ears.

"Naw, poor baby." Burt chuckled at the memory. I leaned against him and looked to where the sky was lightened up by bright colors.

The next day we all stood in the restaurant of the boat- the big hall, we had pushed all the tables to the walls, and now stood in the middle of the room with a banner that said "Happy birthday Tyler" Everyone had today acted like we couldn´t remember it was Tyler´s birthday until now. Just acted like this was just another normal day.

In secret, we had gathered all the presents we had been given to give Tyler from his parents, James, Connor, including all the presents from us. We had asked the staff on the boat to make a birthday- cake, and now we had all gathered in the restaurant. And I had asked Tyler to meet me here. I held my breath while the door slowly opened, and Tyler stepped in.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER." We all shouted at the top of our lungs, Tyler smiled big and laughed.

Happy birthday to you
(Happy birthday)
Happy birthday to you
(Happy birthday)
Happy birthday dear Tyler
(Dear Tyler)
Happy birthday to you
(Happy birthday)
To you.

Tyler laughed again and shook his head.

"I thought you´d forgotten."

"Yeah, we almost did." I joked. "It´s not like you reminded us a lot, except for yesterday at the Karaoke."

"And at the dance." Rebeccah continued.

"And right when we got on this boat." Finn continued.

"Okay, I get it." Tyler chuckled.

"Time for presents." Finn almost shouted and pointed to the pile with parcel´s that laid on a table.

"Oh, you shouldn´t have." Tyler reached for the one at the top, the candy from me.

"From Lex." Tyler read and slowly ripped the wrapping of. "Oh, great thanks love." He kissed the top of my head and then continued with unwrapping- unwrapping a checkered shirt- the exact same I had almost bought for him the day before, and a bow- tie. The staff from the boat had even given him souvenirs in form of a captain- hat, a fleece- shirt with a print of Diana, and a key- ring, he also unwrapped a guitar from his parents, and a beanie and sunglasses from Connor. After a while he came to the one from mum and dad.

"Oh this is awesome." He unwrapped a wrist- watch. "You really shouldn´t have, it´s too much."

"It is just enough." Dad answered him, while Tyler broke the packet and pulled the band around his wrist. Then he also unwrapped a huge box of red vines, and a year of Spotify premium for his phone from James. And a huge cartoon from Finn and Rebeccah with loads of different candies. At last, he only had the one from me left, and he slowly unwrapped it to find the hoodie.

"Ah, thanks love." Tyler kissed me again. "I was actually taking a look at this earlier this week and almost bought it. Now I´m glad I didn´t." Suddenly, Tyler´s cellphone started ringing, he checked who was calling, and then he walked out on deck.

Tyler POV

"Hey mum." I put the phone to my ear.

"Hello honey, happy birthday."

"Thanks. How you´re doing?"

"We´re missing you."

"I miss you too."

"You´re coming home on Sunday evening right?"

"Actually, there are a bit of changed plans, we´re coming home on Monday evening, if you just knew mum, we´re planning this huge surprise for Lex."

Lex POV

When we were all eating cake later, Tyler had come in again, and sat next to me.

"This cake was good."

"Didn´t know pot- head´s likes cake," he joked. Referring to Henry´s words the day before. He turned to his own cake and I grabbed a piece of mine, to put it in Tyler´s face.

"AAH."

"That´s for pot- head." I joked, and sat down again. Not ready when Tyler threw his cake back at me- and during loads of laughing, soon there had broken out a big cake- fight between not just me and Tyler, but also Finn, Rebeccah, Blaine, Carole, Burt and Kurt- who mostly hid behind something not to get cake on his clothes.

At last, there was no cake left to either throw or eat- and before the staff had caught us with throwing cake around the room, we helped Tyler to carry his presents and made our way back to the rooms to clean ourselves and change our clothes.

The next morning, at four A.m. it was time for what I had planned, I woke up- got out of bed and woke Tyler up before pulling a hoodie and sneakers over my PJ:s and then going to wake up the others.

So, what´s Lex going to do? And what is the others big surprise? I know.

Ehrm, when I wrote the first part about "A- Pot- Head" I didn´t really know what it meant, and by the time I had found out I had already written it, and I couldn´t delete it because it´s just too funny. I hope no one´s offended by it.

How many here think Henry´s adorable? "raising my hand." Thought so…