I couldn't sleep for a while because I had Gold Eyes in my mind for the whole night. Every time I tried closing my eyes, the memory of the short, but magical kiss would come back and that would send colour all over my face and neck. I was restless because I had no muscular body holding me to sleep, letting me know that I'm safe with him.

Once morning came, I was sleep deprived and frustrated (me every morning) but Alder was determined to get me out of bed.

"Mellie! Get up! Mellie! MELISSA!!"
"Alright, alright! I'm up! Jeez..." I reluctantly crawled out of bed, and ended up falling back asleep on the floor.

"Melissa!" Alder screamed at me. "Melissa. If you don't get up in the next 10 seconds I swear to the heavens above I will kick you silly. One. Two!"

"I'm getting up, I'm getting up! Don't get your knickers in a twist." I said, tugging at her jeans, sniggering.

"Don't be silly with me now Mellie. It's an important day."

"Why?" I oh-so-dumbly asked.

"Did you seriously forget?" I nodded my head sheepishly.

"Did you seriously forget?!" Alder asked again, more loudly. "This girl I swear. I can't believe you forgot your own birthday."

"It's April 20th?"

"No, it's the day the Earth collides with the moon. Of course it's April 20th you fool!" Before I could answer back, Alder threw a pillow at me.

"Ow! That actually hurt you know."

"Well good. Hopefully that will knock some sense into you."

"Wait, it's my birthday."

"Oh you're finally realising it."

"It's my birthday! I'm 17! I thought the day would never come."

"It worked! The pillow woke you up! The pillow knocked you into sense!" Alder then danced around my bed, cheering. I laughed at her and attempted to film her with her phone when she stopped and pointed behind me.

I looked up and saw, you guessed it, Gold Eyes.

I went up to the window and opened it. "What are you doing here now?"

"Nice to see you too." Goldie jumped down the window, careful not to fall on me again. "I heard it's someone's birthday today."

"How.....how did you know?"

"I was outside your window when you woke up and saw everything. I promise I'm not a stalker by the way." He chuckled. That was when I blushed as he leaned into my ear and whispered, "Do you remember last night?"

In my head, I had a snarky reply that went something like, "Of course I remember, I'm not that forgetful you know." But it hadn't found it's way out my mouth. Alder impatiently cleared her throat and we both looked her way blushing, remembering she was also in the room.

"I hope you're going to introduce me to this boy toy of yours because I haven't seen him before in my life." 'Curse you Aldie' The neon red colour spread across our faces, which made Alder laugh.

"He's not a boy toy..." I mumbled loud enough for Alder to hear.

"Hmm, are you sure? Because I remember when you were 14-"

"Alder please!" My head found its way to my hands. This made Gold Eyes laugh too.

"You better tell me this story one day," I heard Goldie say to Aldie. "Oh, and my name is Luther."

'So that's his name. Luther. Luther. I like that. It suits him. Luth-'

"MELISSA!"

"What?" I called out.

"Both me and gold eyes here have been calling you for so long? What the hell were you thinking about?"

"I have an idea." Luther whispered into my neck. I bit my lip. That made shivers run down my spine, but I had enough strength to push his head away playfully. He smirked.

"Ok, what's up with you two? Have you-?" Alder paused, putting her hands at her hips and smirked. "Have you been dating without my knowledge?"

"N-no i-its not l-like that I-"

"No. We're not dating. Yet." 'Why does he do this to me?'

"Oooooooo! I see what's happening. You two are in love with each other but you haven't given in to your feelings yet." 'Why does everyone find interest in torturing me?'

"Why, Alder? Why?" I spoke from my hands. You see, Alder isn't like normal adults. If she finds a stranger with her daughter, or in this case, her younger cousin, she will tease her about it instead of grounding her like normal parents/family members. Which is both a blessing and a curse, as you can clearly see.

"Just my way of showing my love. And speaking of love." She sat on the edge of my, well, her bed. "What are you two?" She asked through her grin. I could never be more embarrassed at my cousin in my life.

"Well, we just met but we actually shared our feelings to each other last night in a very comfortable environment," I heard Gold Eyes say. "We will work things out as life goes on. How are you doing? Have you found anyone?"

And for the first time ever, in anyone's entire life, Alder. Was. Speechless.

"Wow, you're really something if you managed to make the great Alder who always has a comeback ready speechless!"

"I have had a knack for taking people's breaths away. You should know that, right?" The shivers came back again and I had a slight temptation to wrap my arms around him and feel what that felt like again.

But that was when Alder came back to her senses. Yay.

"OOOOOOOOO!! You know, eh? You know, eh?" Alder said while nudging me playfully. "When was this magical kiss?"

"How did you know?" I whispered to her.

"Have you been talking about me?" Gold Eyes piped in. "Wow am I that effective?"

"No, I have not talked about you. Or the kiss." I mumbled the last three words but I could tell Goldie heard everything. "Alder, just so happens to be a good guesser."

"I'm psychic," Alder pointed to her head as she so-proudly said that.

"How did we get from talking about your love life to talking about mine. Spill! Have you met anyone?"

"Ah ah ah," Alder waved her finger in front of my face. "We are not changing the subject that quickly. We were first talking about your love life so we will finish that conversation. When. Was. This. Kiss?"

'Woohoo. There goes the neon red again. This is going to be a long birthday.'

And, little did I know, it was.

||AN||

Wooooo!!!! Two updates in one day! How lucky you are! No. Seriously. It's my b-day and I had these chapters written and ready to be published today.

What lucky ducks you lot are.

That's it for today (I promise lol). Any other updates will be another day. So be patient little ducklings as I have not set a day for chapters. I just write depending on my mood.

Until then, Queen Enchantia ❤❤❤❤