Chapter 9It is Aiden’s birthday, and Beto has never stressed so much over getting everything perfect. He spent three days worrying over what to buy and still looks at the meticulously wrapped parcels thinking they aren’t good enough. He hates wrapping gifts for never getting them to look right, practicing on some brown parcel paper while watching a YouTube tutorial before trying the gift wrap. It is just Aiden’s thing; all cute little monsters in a repeating pattern across the paper, which is a dark blue—Aiden’s favorite color—the characters like something he’s seen on Aiden’s laptop and tablet cases. They stand out to Beto in particular because he thinks of Aiden as all clean lines, and the monster print is kind of chaotic. In a good way. Beto is loving getting to know all these different
