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It was finally Willows birthday and everyone was trying to make it a half-decent day for her,

"Good morning," Willow was spending her morning at the studio as she was meant to film with 𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 otherwise known as Chunkz,

"Hiya, happy birthday." Chunkz smiled at the younger girl as they both sat in the studio.

"Thank you," the blonde grinned as he pulled her in for a hug,

They had known each other for a few years through James as he once made Willow come with him for an interview,

"Both of you sit down and stay still." 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄 𝐉𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒 warned the duo as they both sent her a salute,

"Why though?" Despite it being a normal thing for Willow to sit in a seat to get her makeup done for work,

She never managed to sit still.

"Because I need to do your makeup and blending foundation when you keep on moving is hard." The older blonde explained as the makeup artists started their work,

"So you want to get takeaways later?" The Australian turned to her friend who let out a laugh,

"Willow there is a table full of food over there." The Brit pointed to the table that was covered in different snacks.

"Yeah you're right," Willow trailed off with a pout,

"But do you want to get food later?" The girl was now adamant on getting food,

"What? I want Nando's." She shrugged as the boy let out a laugh

"You're worse than your brother." Chunkz pinched the bridge of his nose as he shook his head,

It seemed to run in the family.

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Willow grinned as she skimmed through the Nando's menu,

"Thank you for coming with me," she looked up to the footballer in front of her who smiled.

"It's no problem, we won the game and it's your birthday after all." 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐂 was the girl's partner for the game of FIFA and it turned out that they had more in common than they expected,

"So you have any plans for the rest of the day?" He added knowing that 23 wasn't really a big birthday and it came right on a workday for her,

"Not really, I know that Ben wants me over to his for dinner tonight, but that's about it." She usually didn't work on her birthday but this year it was a nice change for the blonde as she liked the little outing she had,

"So he's finally made the move huh?" The American quickly realised that he wasn't meant to say anything to the girl,

"What move?" Unfortunately, the Australian had picked up what he had said but it didn't really make sense to her.

"Uhh well, I plead the fifth." The boy sent her an awkward smile as he tried to get out of it,

"We are not in America but I guess that works too." The girl just made the mental note to ask Ben when she saw him next what Christian meant.

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Ben nervously opened the front door to his house as he saw Willow quietly waiting by the rose bush outside,

"You took my advice huh?" Willow smirked motioning to the garden that was still there,

"Yeah and Sarah suggested that I kept them too," there seemed to be an ongoing thing where neither of them enjoyed admitting that the other had a point when it came to anything.

"I'm gonna act like I was the only one who told you to keep it and that was what made you do it." The blonde nodded before she smiled,

"Come on in," the brunette let out a chuckle as he motioned for her to come into the house,

"This is for you by the way," he added pulling out the small velvet box,

"Oh thank you," usually he would give her a thing of flowers as they were the kind of thing that Willow loved but would never actually buy for herself.

"Wait is this, Benji!"  The sports pundit trailed off as she opened the box and it revealed a locket,

It held two photos from the day when Leicester won the league and Ben had inviting Willow to come down and watch the game,

It was actually the day when Ben realised that he loved Willow but of course she didn't know that.

"I love it." She added with a smile remembering that day,

"Thank you," Willow looked up at the boy who looked chuffed with himself,

"Can you put it on me?" She asked seeing how pretty the piece was,

"Yea sure just turn around," the footballer nodded as the girl turned and faced the mirror,

"It looks great on you." Willow felt his cold fingers run along her neck as he put the necklace on her.

"Thanks, Ben," she grinned as she noticed his phone ringing it was from James,

"I'm sorry but I have to take this," the duo had a rule where if they missed two calls in a row you were meant to assume that the other was dead,

It was a stupid thing but the boys swore by it.

"Remind me to kill him the next time I'm back home." The girl whispered to herself feeling somewhat annoyed at Ben.

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𝑨𝑵: 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 10 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.