Today is the day. The day I've been keeping my mouth shut for weeks. Heaths 23rd birthday.

"I love you so much." I kiss him hard on the lips and he smiles at me, one of the genuine ones.

I love birthdays, especially celebrating other peoples birthdays. You can imagine how I woke him up, I made waffles. Actually I just toasted them, I'm just taking the credit. Breakfast in bed while hearing me talk about how much I loved him.

Maybe more since today is his special day.

"You're growing up so fast." I place a hand over my heart like parents would do when they see their grown child.

"My sweet little grumpy old man." I ruffle his hair in which he slaps my hand away. Yeah, he doesn't like that.

"I'm not old." Heath sasses me quite quickly too.

"Of course not. You still beg for slurpee's and chocolate milk." I snort out a laugh but he doesn't react.

I brought us slurpee's even though it was still early in the morning. I had a whole plan today, one he didn't know of. And I had to keep it like that for a while longer.

While Heath and I were out and about, Lola and Duke were decorating the house. At least I hope they were, Im depending on Lola because I know Duke can get side tracked.

"It's your birthday and Halloween?!? Aren't you lucky." I lightly punch him on the shoulder.

"I don't like Halloween." He admits and my jaw drops.

"Why not?" I ask him and he shrugs. I love it, although my favorite holiday is thanksgiving because we get to eat. Love that.

"You finally get to be your scary self today without questions!" I explain to him.

"We're picking out each other's costumes remember?" I tug on his sleeve a d I don't miss the look on his face when he rolls his eyes as he looks away.

"You can pick out any costume for me and I can do the same for you. It'll be fun." I nudge him, trying to convince him. Luckily, he doesn't need much convincing when it comes to me.

"Anything I want?" He asks, with a mischievous look. I don't like that.

"Shore." I pat his back and get up.

"As long as you wear what I pick out for you, then I'll wear anything you pick out for me. Deal?" We stare at each other eye to eye and he finally agrees.

"Fine." He stands up and walks to the car, the blue raspberry slurpee in his left hand.

"Are you coming?" He nods me over and I walk over to him to catch up.

Am I coming? I sure hope I am soon. Gosh.

"After you." Heath walks to my side of the door and opens it for me. I raise a brow at this because usually I'm the one that does it for him.

Heath gets his juicy butt into the car and starts driving to the store. I had the perfect costume in mind for him, I couldn't wait to actually see his sexy self in it. The excitement makes me squirm in my seat.

As we arrive, I hold my hand out for Heath which he takes and squeezes my hand a little. Once we're in the store we go our separate ways and I immediately go to the isle where his costume was.

I wonder what Heath would pick out for me. I imagine it to be a fairy or maybe a mermaid. Perhaps even a pirate, gosh I hope it's a pirate. I want an eye patch, really bad.

I laugh to myself when I pick out the costume and hope he'll wear it without any fussing. Eventually Heath and I meet up again and just as we're about to see what the other picked out, I let out a laugh.

"Okay, just show me already!" I hold out the Spider-Man costume for him and watch his reaction when he glances at it.

"Seriously?" He gives me a nonchalant look with narrowed eyes. Is he not excited to be Spider-Man? It's Spider-Man. I love Spider-Man.

I look down to the picture of the costume and surely enough it's a nurse costume. That's, fun. I guess.

"A nurse?" My voice comes out more disappointed rather than excited. I guess I just expected a pirate.

"A sexy nurse." He clarifies and I slouch my shoulders.

"Did they run out of all the pirate costumes or something?" I ask, taking a look around the store. I catch a glimpse of a clown mask. I wouldn't even mind being a clown.

But a damn nurse?

"You're lucky I didn't make you an ugly witch." He points his pointer finger at me.

I lick his finger really quickly, not being able to help it. It's a reflex. He wipes his finger off on his shirt and I smile up at him.

"Alright, I'll be a sexy nurse for you." I smile and turn around, heading to the fitting rooms.

"I know You will." He confirms and follows me there. He reaches out for me and wraps his arm around my waist, bringing me back to him.

He likes to touch me is what I realized, that's his love language. Not that I minded because I was the same. Except I liked the way he would touch me. It felt nice and wholesome. Sometimes his touches were not so innocent but I'm not about to get into that.

"We have to change into our costumes before we go home." I tell him, hoping he wouldn't ask why. Usually he just listens to me and doesn't ask questions.

"For what?" He asks and I want to slap myself on the forehead. Oh, now he wants to be a curious guy and ask questions.

"Because... it's what people do. For y'know, Halloween and stuff." I come up with the first excuse I can think of.

In reality the truth was that I told everyone Heaths party was going to be a costume party so it was mandatory that everyone wore a costume. If they didn't, they would have to hear from me. The manager.

I open the door for the dressing room and he follows me in. I didn't expect for him to come in with me, I thought maybe he wanted a little privacy to change and all. I mean I thought I did.

"Uh, want me to turn around?" I face the mirror but see him remove his shirt from the mirror. Yeah, that didn't help.

"What's the point if you can't see me?" He says and for some reason my cheeks go red. I bite my lip before I clear my throat and make some room for myself.

"Are you trying to seduce me?" I ask but he doesn't respond.

It's not like I've never seen him naked. I mean I have, just never below his chest. So basically, not at all. But I've seen his muscular chest before, more than once so I don't know why this time I felt a little more stunned.

"You can change." He tells me when he doesn't see me moving to change. I blink my thoughts away and reach for the package.

I open it up and pull out the costume. Holding it up, it looked smaller than what it should be but I guess that's the sexy part of it. I've never seen myself as sexy before. I guess I never thought that someone else might see me that way.

Something about having Heath see me that way made my heart beat faster and cheeks go hot. Every time I would see any exposed skin of Heaths I would get all hot and bothered. He was too confident with showing it all that I never expected it and wouldn't know what to say.

By the time I got my shirt off, Heath was in his boxers and starting to put on the suit. I turn my gaze away and take this time to flee from my shirt since he wasn't looking at me.

The white buttoned up suit was tight fitting and short for the most part but it was my size so it would do. The skirt was the risky part of it all, it was obviously short and could expose my butt if I decided to bend down.

"I can't get the skirt on, I guess my butt is too fat and juicy." I jump up to get the skirt to slide on but the leather made it difficult.

Heath stops what he was doing and drops the suit mid waist, his chest was still exposed and all I could stare at was the abs on his chest.

"Let me see." He cowers down to me and his hands go behind me, clutching onto the white skirt.

He tugs on it and rolls up the ends to push it up higher onto my waist and over my hips. I put my hands on his shoulder to keep myself from stumbling over and look down at his helping hands.

"There." He slaps my butt and kisses me on the cheek before standing up. I pout at the friction of his hand on my butt.

"You look pretty." He looks down at me and I look into the mirror.

"Thanks." My bellybutton was showing in this top and my skirt covered most of my butt so at least there's that.

I put on the nurse hat that comes along with it and finish the whole look. I didn't look anything like the nurses from the hospitals.

"You think I can be a nurse looking like this?" I twirl for him and he looks me up and down.

"No. But I'll let you be mine." He finishes zipping up the suit and I look at him do it in amazement.

"You're exactly like Peter Parker." I put my hands on my hips and watch as he completes the whole look by putting on the mask.

Perfect. Just as I imagined Heath looked even better looking as spider man. I always thought spider man was attractive so why not make my boyfriend more attractive by putting him in this suit.

"You're officially everything I need in a man." I smile at him.

"Now say cheese for me." I pull out my camera and take a picture of him with the mask and all.

"Get my shirt on the floor." He nods over to the shirt on the floor as he removes the mask and I bend down to get it for him.

"Here you go." I hold it up for him and he takes it from me, throwing it over his shoulder.

"Don't bend down when you're wearing that." He says, wrapping an arm around my waist.

"Did I flash you?" I ask and he licks his lips. He stares at me and caresses my cheek.

"Yes but I like it. You should do it more often." He tucks a strand of my hair away from my face and behind my ear.

"Maybe I will." I shrug, getting out of his embrace I reach for my bag and clothes.

I check my phone to see messages from Lola asking when we were coming home. My eyes widen at the time and I realize i was late to the part I planned.

"We have to go. I forgot to uh flush the toilet this morning so it's very important." I rush out of the store after paying for everything.

Every time I walked I had to keep pulling the skirt down to make sure I didn't flash any innocent by walkers. Heath drives to our house and by the time we made it home, the Sun was going down.

"Finally. Home sweet home, right?" I pull out the keys and unlock the door with Heath behind me.

"Why's it so dar-"

"Surprise!!" Everyone shouts and I hear a groan before hearing a thud.

"Ow! Fucker!" I hear Dukes voice and the lights turn on, revealing Duke on the ground.

"You came onto me, I didn't know it was you" Heath expressed carelessly.

"Happy mother fucking birthday, dick." Duke groans as he holds his nose in place and gets up from the ground.

"Lame ass mother fucker, wearing a Spider-Man costume. Lucky I don't punch you back right now." Duke spits angrily, injured on the floor.

"Are you surprised?!? We threw you a surprise party. I know you said you never had one before." I quickly interfere before they could start arguing. I look at him as he scans his eyes around the room.

"Lola, why does that balloon say happy 3rd birthday?" I ask her confused and she purses her lips and shrugs.

"Mateo can't read apparently. I sent him to get the balloons." She says pointing to Mateo.

I glance over at everyone's costumes, Lola was dressed as Emily from corpse bride and Mateo was matching with her. I had no idea what Duke was supposed to be.

"What the fuck are you wearing?" Heath looks at Duke weirdly.

"I'm Thalia. Duh. See it?" He points at himself.

"If you're what I look like I don't want to look like me anymore." I frown when I look at him.

He wore short jean shorts and a white top that seemed like he picked it out of my closet or something.

"Dammit I forgot the wig. Hold on, I swear it looks better with the wig on." He sighs and goes in to the kitchen to get his wig apparently.

I hear barking and whimpering and watch as Buddy comes in wearing a lion mane costume. Beau follows after him, with a fire fighter suit on. I may have just died of a cuteness over load.

"My gosh, they look so cute. Who's the genius who thought of this?" I sit on the couch and pet them both as they hop right next to me.

This is a proud dog mom moment, Buddy's first Halloween. I give them kisses before returning back to the conversation.

"It was me. I'm the genius." Lola raises her hand.

"The pregnant genius. Of course." I stand up and walk over to her.

"How's the baby?" I ask and she puts her hand on her stomach, instantly smiling.

"The baby's good. We'll find out the gender in a couple weeks." She tells me and all I can think about is how she'll have to be wiping baby butts while I'm simply not.

"I think it's a boy. No, I know it is. Strong dad genes." Mateo flexes and Lola slaps him lightly on the arm.

"I do too. A mini Mateo, running around and what not." I shoo my hand away.

"Hell no. I couldn't possibly deal with a kid version of him." She shakes her head.

"What do you think it's gonna be Heath?" I turn around, seeing him with his arms crossed.

"I don't care." He responded. I give him a look because how could he just say that with the mother standing right there.

"A girl, I don't know it's not mine." He fixes his answer, better than the last response.

"I sure hope it's not." I said, I'm kind of joking.

"Anyways..." I turn back to Lola .

"Where's the food at? I'm parched." I pat my stomach and look around.

"Parched means thirsty." Heath clears for me and I pretend to have meant what I said.

"Parched, arched whatever and I am thirsty. If you know what I mean." I attempt a wink but like always I fail at my own attempt. Winking is hard.

But you know what else can be harder? A..

"You're more hungry than I am and I'm the pregnant one." Lola makes her way to the kitchen where Mateo follows.

"I got the wig on now! Where did everyone else go? Never mind, see? Do you see it now?" Duke enters the room and I don't even know if I should be offended.

"I feel offended." I said as I looked him up and down.

His brown long wig wasn't even properly placed on his head and the clothes on him looked like they were about to burst because of how tight they fitted. I'm almost one hundred percent sure that he stole them from my closet.

"I'm Thalia. I love dogs and Heath. Oh my, Heath and his big, strong, muscles. I just love when he kisses me and I love telling him what to do." Duke mocks me in a high pitched voice.

First of all, I don't sound like that. At all. At least I hope I don't cause that's embarrassing.

"I don't talk like that..." I start to think about it and maybe, it's possible I sound a tiny bit like that.

"You do." Heath confirms and ruffles my hair as he walks past me and into the kitchen.

"Told you. The wig doesn't lie." Duke points to the dang wig on his head before following Heath into the kitchen.

"Dammit." I whisper under my breath and walk to where everyone else was at.

Now that the sun has practically went away, the house which was seventy percent windows made the house appear slightly darker. I set up some scented candles and lit them up around the kitchen.

Another thing I love, scented candles. Especially the ones that make it feel like fall. Every so often I would keep pulling down the skirt that would rid up whenever I walked or pretty much moved. I joined Heath sitting in the stool next to him.

"I made you something." I whisper to Heath when everyone else was busy talking within themselves.

"Yeah?" He lowers his head to hear me better and I nod.

"Mmhm. Wanna see it?" I ask and squirm in my seat. I leave to get it after a nod of his head, eager to get his reaction for what I made for him.

I come back with a bouquet of flowers I had mixed together and a very own love note of my own.

"You inspired me so here you go." I hand him the note and flowers.

He takes it and looks at the variety of flowers before looking at me and bringing me into his embrace.

"Thank you." He mutters and kisses me, gently.

"You can read the note later, when you're alone if you want." I look down to my feet before meeting his eyes.

"I will." He says.

"Oh! I also got you this." I slid the small box over to him.

He sets the flowers down and goes to open it, he pulls out the gold chain necklace with the letter T hanging off it. There was a second necklace in the box too and I take that one out.

"You have my initial and now I have yours too. Do you like it?" I look at him closely.

"Not really." He admits and I freeze, just staring at him.

"I'm joking. You're sensitive." He nudges me and gives me a smile. Right, knew that.

"I knew you were joking." I didn't.

"Thank you, baby. I love anything that comes from you." He pulls me in closer to him before setting the necklace back into the small box.

"Can you put mine on?" I turn around and hand him the necklace.

I feel the hairs on my neck stand as his fingers brush over my neck to get my hair out of the way. He pulls my hair to the side gently and puts the necklace on me, letting it fall still around my neck.

I turn around, seeing him putting his on all on his own. When he's done, he pulls me back into his arms, nuzzling his head into my neck.

"You like matching with me, Hm?" He mutters but I can still hear him.

"Yeah. There's just something about it." I sigh as I wrap my arms around his neck.

His hands go down to my lower waist, very close to my butt. He doesn't think I know what he's doing but I know everything.

"Remember us?" Duke clears his throat and I turn my head to see him waving his hand.

"I can't take you serious when you look like that." I laugh at him. That wig wasn't doing him any justice.

"Then don't. Serious is boring anyways." He shrugs, opening a beer after and clinking his bottle with Mateo.

I lay my head on Heaths shoulder as I watch my friends. I can feel the slight pick up of his heart beat which makes me think that I still have an affect over him. I could never picture Heath nervous because he just looks confident. But I know now not to assume what he can and can't feel.

I still love him either way so it doesn't matter.

"You're so cute" I give him a big juicy kiss on the cheek, leaving a lipstick mark on him.

He doesn't move to wipe it off either.

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A/N

A little bit of a long chapter but still hope u like it

Also if anyone noticed yes, I did change his age just a bit.

9/27/22