I fell asleep, wishing I’d had a slice of caramel pie at the restaurant. At least then I would have had something sweet to eat that night. I felt like I’d barely drifted off when I heard and felt Clay waking me up. He was calling my name and gently shaking me out of the shallow sleep I’d fallen into.
“What?” I said, opening my eyes. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing’s wrong,” Clay said. “It’s almost midnight and I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday before your birthday is over.”
“Okay.”
“I have a gift for you,” he said, rising from the bed. He left the room and returned with a box…a cake box.
“Happy birthday, baby,” he said before handing me the box.
“I had to hide it in the top of the coat closet behind a bunch of hats and scarves,” he confessed.
“I knew you’d made a cake.”
“Of course I made a cake.”
“Why did you make me wait for it?”
“Because I wanted to surprise you. Plus, I told you when we first met that I can be incredibly juvenile sometimes.” He rose from the bed and asked if I wanted a piece of cake now since we had about fifteen minutes before my birthday was over.
THE END
ABOUT KIM DAVIS
Kim Davis is a writer, an editor, and an occasional adjunct English instructor. Her first novel, Clean Hands, was published in 2012 and her novels Collusion and Daddy Issues were published by JMS Books. Her work has also been published in the Detroit Free Press and the Metro Times. Born and raised in Detroit and a former resident of Philadelphia and Brooklyn, she currently lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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