She was done cooking her famous lasagna and spaghetti Bolognese, the wine and beer was being set up on the table by her husband, which she was still in a cold war with him lately, and Leon was already dressed up in a nice blue shirt that brought out his adorable eyes.

Meike dressed in a black dress, hugging her body tightly, showing her curves as she let her brown locks hung loose to the back of her spine. She put on her last touch of lipstick before decided to take Leon downstairs, but suddenly a hand snaked in and wrapped around her waist gently. She held her breath, closing her eyes tight as she felt a warm breathing blew on the back of her neck. A kiss was planted there and she met her husband’s eyes in the mirror.

“You look beautiful, schatz.”

Daniel kissed her neck, pushing her hair to the back as she leaned and tilted her head a bit. She can’t help but giggle when his breathing tickled her sensitive spot on the neck.

“I’m sorry we fought. I’m sorry I called your music taste as trash. I shouldn’t say that before I really listen to them.” he murmured on her skin.

“Damn right you shouldn’t.” she chuckled and brought his arms tighter around her waist.

“I have a surprise for you.”

She snapped open her eyes, realizing that she was shutting them all along. “You do? What is it?”

Daniel parted from the cuddle and Meike liked what she saw. Daniel was wearing a crisp black shirt with two buttons popped on the top, and a matching slack. He resembled that English actor, Daniel Craig a lot when he dressed like this. Daniel went to reach for his wallet and loomed out a couple of rectangular card and handed them to her. She took it and studied.

“Wow. Wow, Daniel! Wow! You got me Rock Am Ring tickets? YOU GOT ME ROCK AM RING TICKETS!!”

“Happy birthday, darling.”

Meike jumped and immediately wrapped her legs around his waist, finding his lips, kissing him deeply as he returned her kisses with his arms rubbing down her back.

“You got me football tickets plenty of times. It’s time I repay you back.”

“Oh, baby. You don’t need to repay me. I love you with all my life.”

They kissed passionately again until Daniel broke apart. “I forgot to tell you. The first guests have arrived. Hella’s downstairs entertaining them. We should go to the party too.”

Meike chuckled and settled herself back on the floor again.

“You have that...on your...” she chuckled, pointing towards Daniel’s lips which was now smothered in red lipstick.

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“Hella! The cake is beautiful!”

Meike gasped at the sight of a beautiful cake in front of her, decorated in white roses and ‘surprisingly’ a Deathbat decoration on top of it. She chuckled at the little tiny details that Hella paid attention too, and never broke her promise.

Meike had always admired her true talent in baking and now she was more than grateful to Hella for providing cake pops for the kids and this huge cake for her.

“Thank you, doll. Happy birthday. I hope you like the decoration.”

“I love it. It perfectly describes me.”

She reached for a hug and Hella granted it. A few seconds later, Hella scanned around. Her eyes only caught a normal view of a party; guests chattering about, party hats on their heads and glasses of wine in their hands with the kids running around and playing with balloons. She figured Meike didn’t invite many of her friends and these are mostly Daniel’s friends.

“So, where’s the guy we were talking about earlier?”

Meike grabbed a cake pop and shoved it onto her mouth. “What? What guy?”

“You know…the invisible guy.”

“What invisible guy? And what crack have you been you smoking?”

Hella rolled her eyes and slapped on her friend’s shoulder. “Oh come on! Don’t tell me you’re not excited when Jimmy ‘The Rev’ fucking Sullivan is here, in your house at your party?!”

“Shh!! Keep your voice down, damn it.”

“Oh relax, dear. Nobody here knows A7X except for us. Well, maybe Leon. Hey where’s that bugger anyway?”

“He’s here, somewhere. Let me go look for him.”

Meike went away and here, Hella took a chance to bring out a pair of black candles which she bought from a supernatural party shop with a caption that came with the package: “Blow it and your wish will come true.”

She had her fingers crossed that Meike will be wishing something about Jimmy, though she also felt a little silly for believing in things like this but why the hell not give it a try? After placing the candles right on the eyes of the Deathbat, she covered the rest of the cake with a few more regular candles. She gathered the whole party guests and ready to pounce on Meike from the back.


“Baby, what are you doing here? All your friends are inside.”

Meike found Leon who was playing with his box of crayon in the backyard as he was drawing a picture of his imaginary friend. He drew Jimmy in his usual attire – all black with colorful blotches on his arms; a mockup of his tattoos and Meike just sighed heavy.

She wished she could see through her son’s eyes.

“Mommy, Jimmy says hi.”

Meike smiled sullenly at her son but before she could answer him, sudden barging voices emerged from behind her, making her jump almost three inches from the ground.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEIKE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOUU…”

Applause came by after that and Meike smiled at all of them. There were murmurs of voices telling her to blow the candle but she took her time to scan around, from her husband who winked at her, to Hella who gave two thumbs up for her and to her son, Leon who excitedly jumping and dancing with the drawing of Jimmy still in his hand. She stared at the drawing for a second before she finally drew a step forward.

“I wish I could see Leon’s imaginary friend.”

Meike shut her eyes tight and blew the whole candle in a split second. A chorus ‘yeah’ rambled through the guest crowd and made Meike opened her eyes and her lips curved up in a smile.

As soon as that happened, her eyes locked with a reflection on the glass sliding door before her, a pair of blue eyes staring. With raven black locks engaging a spiked up style and a black outfit adorned on its body.

He was standing directly behind her that she couldn’t hear anything else after that. Daniel handed her the cake knife, Hella told her to cut the cake and everyone chanting ‘cut it, cut it’ like she was about to perform a knife trick or something.

But her eyes remained fixed on that set of crystal blue eyes, her mouth dropped open as the reflection drew nearer and whispered on her ear.

“Happy birthday, Meike.”

Notes

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