The day I’d dragged for so long seemed even worse when it actually happened. The only positive thing was that there was no annoying alarm. But instead of staying in my bed, feeling sorry for myself, I got up early to go for a run. Normally, I’d take a break and sit in the park for a while, but it was cold, so I didn’t stop at my usual place. Before I entered the house I looked at my reflexion in the door. “Happy birthday to me,” I sighed. I shut the door quietly, because I assumed everybody was still asleep. “Liz!” a happy voice yelled and she hugged me from behind. “Mila?” I turned around to hug her. I was sweaty and needed a shower, but we both didn’t mind, since it had been too long since we had this opportunity. “I missed you so much,” I whispered. I hadn’t seen a real friend for weeks. “Hey, don’t we get something?” I looked up and saw Louis, Harry, Liam, Niall and Zayn. “No, not before I get her changed in something… not this,” Mila answered. “Thank you,” I replied.

“Ehm, no,” I said when Mila wanted to do something freaking complicated to my hair. “Okay, fine,” she sighed. “But you look great.” “Yeah, way too good for a Sunday,” I murmured. “But it is not just a Sunday.” “It is, to most people in this world… How did you actually get here?” I changed the subject. Seriously, that I hadn’t asked that before. It is not like she lived around the corner or something. “Yesterday, my dad brought me to London and their the guys picked me up. And last night we stayed with a friend of Louis, so it would be a surprise for you. I actually expected that I’d have to drag you out of your bed. It is nothing like you to bed up and around this early.” “Are you calling me lazy?” I asked. “Yes, because you are, but that’s why I love you.”
“What took you girls so long?” Liam asked. “You just said it. I am a girl and she likes to use me as a Barbie doll.” They all hugged me tightly. “You look beautiful,” Harry whispered. “Okay, we have something for you,” Niall cheered when Harry let me go. “No,” I groaned. “Come on, I know you’ll love it and don’t have it yet, because that is kind of impossible,” Mila said. “Okay.” Zayn gave me a package. It contained two albums. Hier 20 years Bløf and the newest album of Rigby. “How the hell did you get that here so fast? It was released last week.” I starred at the album of Rigby. It was always a hell of a job to get those albums sent in England. “We have our sources,” Louis said. “Thank you, thank you, I love you guys.”

Things were fun until some people decided that they wouldn’t leave me alone. And with people I mean our, Lotte’s, friends. “Hey,” Melissa said with a tone that made me want to throw up. “Happy birthday sweetheart.” Louis raised an eyebrow and I shrugged. It became very quickly clear that they had ulterior motives to be here and I spent the rest of the night laughing my ass off because Melissa and her group were all over all the guys. The bell rang, I got up to answer the door. I frowned when I saw it the guy was delivering a package. Since when do those people work at 9:30PM? “Thank you,” I said as I saw that the package was addressed to me.