Milena (COMPLETE)

CHAPTER XVIII: Special Day

June 2016.

Azil and I started building our friendship again. She never missed her chance to tell me every day that she still loves me. From time to time, she likes teasing me. So, I needed to practice my self-control. She has no idea that the innocent Mimi she once knew changed over the years.

As usual, our favorite hangout place is my place.

The only thing that annoyed me is when she start vanishing for days without notice! It’s like she kept me hanging on a thin thread. How I hated this feeling, the fear and trauma creeping my thoughts. I always think that she’ll be gone in a snap again. Like what happened when we were teens; having a happy moment and then the next day, she started avoiding me.

Every time she’s missing-in-action, I worked twice as hard to make myself busy. To overcome this longing feeling for her. Sometimes, I chose to sleep in our office’s quarters to avoid flashing images of Azil sleeping on my bed.

Tomorrow is my birthday.

My parents gave me a pair of new leather driving gloves and new sports watch. My baby brother bought me a Harry Potter Ravenclaw beanie and he made a personalized book with the things he loved most about me being her big sister. We celebrated my birthday today because they said they have some business meetings tomorrow. I didn’t believe them! They always made me their priority!

Another person to greet me in advance is my persistent caller. He called me earlier and greeted me a Happy Birthday for the nth time! His advanced gifts came last week. He gave me 3 LEGO Game of Thrones mini figures, a Keyboard waffle iron, and an ICE Portable Wireless floating Bluetooth speaker! Awesome, right?! It made me want to give him a bear hug and a sweet friendly kiss on his cheeks! He’s really sweet like my brother! He also knew my geeky side!

One hour before my birthday, I kept staring at my phone. Waiting for a certain someone to remember me. We didn’t see each other for a week now and since then, we didn’t text or chat each other. I started scrolling all her saved pictures on my gallery. When my phone’s time reached 00:00, I received a chat message. I almost dropped my phone at my face! She sent a very sexy photo of hers on her bed with a caption of, “Will your birthday celebration be completed without me in your bed? LOL. Happy birthday, Mimi! I love you! See you later!”

I cannot wait for later!

Time checked. 7 AM.

Azil woke me up with a delicious breakfast in bed. My mom helped her prepare my favorite maple bacon waffles plus a chocolate banana smoothie! Then before lunch, we went to a cinema and watched Finding Dory and Central Intelligence movies. She held my hand and lay her head on my chest as we watch. After the movies, she asked me where I want to have our lunch. I chose a Korean Grill restaurant nearby. She told me that her father will have a vacation leave from work and be home next month and will stay at least a month or two. She also told me about her busy week these past few days and asked me if I missed her.

I jokingly said to her, “I think you are purposely doing that MIA moves so that you can ask me if I miss you!”

She just laughed, and we continued our conversation.

By afternoon, we went to the arcade and played some shooting games. She won a large panda bear for me. We went back home before dinner and I noticed that my parents set a romantic dinner for two in our garden.

I asked Azil if she ganged up with my parents and she just smiled and said, “I told you I have ways to make you fall in love with me again.”

Oh, so that’s why my parents forced me to celebrate with them yesterday instead of today. I was amazed by their set up. For appetizers, hummus with pita chips; for our drinks, red wine; for the main course, baked salmon with rice and brussels sprouts; and for desserts, blueberry cupcakes. After our dinner, she insisted that we should go into my room for her final gift. She removed my eyeglasses then blindfolded my eyes before we enter my room. She sat me on my bed, then I felt her sat on my lap. She slowly removed the blindfold. She gave me a little smile telling me she’s going to do something naughty. She leaned her forehead on mine, her hands on my face. She guided my hands to hold her legs on both my sides. She stared at me asking for a permission and I simply nod. She gave me a quick peck before really kissing me. She slowly moved her tongue in my mouth and I mimicked her. Our tongues moved in a circular motion, moving on top of each other. She put her arms around my neck and I moved my hands from her waist to her shoulders. Our kiss deepened. And before this could lead to something we might both regret, I pulled back. A lot of self-control again! She looked at me and asked why I stopped. I told her that we both know we’re not ready to do it.

She pouted, “Okay. It’s your birthday and your wish is my command.”

I ruffled her hair and smiled, “Thank you, baby, for making my day special!”

“Oh, yeah! Mission successful! You called me your baby again! I’ll do anything for you, my Mimi! I hoped that I really made you happy today.”

I hugged her and said, “Yeah so happy! Thank you, my baby Azil! You gave me the best gift I ever had!”