A Birthday Surprise...?- Victor Li
Cassandra tries to plan a birthday surprise with her daughter for her beloved husband while he is away on business the day of his birthday. Unaware of the fact that he ended up returning home earlier than she expected…
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Notes:
It's been a while since I've posted haha.. I've taken a break from writing due to my personal life unfortunately
And recently, my account has been giving me issues in receiving messages with friends so I've been dealing with that lately as well
But those issues aside, of course, I had to post something for my favorite and beloved CEO~ How could I not!
Happy Birthday, My Love!, My Greatest Miracle, May this day fill you with happiness and contentment. I am forever grateful to you for being in my life. <3
Told in Cassandra's POV.
Enjoy~
“Mommy, Mommy!”
My four-year-old toddler squeals, scrambling into the kitchen where I was briefly tending to the cake propped on a cake stand. Looking down at my daughter, I smiled.
“Yes, my sweet girl? What is it?”
“I finished wrapping Daddy’s gift! Look!”
She beams excitedly, feeling quite proud of her work, she removes her tiny arms from behind her back, revealing the wrapped gift in question, wrapped up in crinkled wrapping paper topped with a slightly uneven and off-centered bow. Her wrapping skills were most definitely not the greatest but for a four-year-old, it seemed pretty up to par. I couldn’t help but let out a soft giggle at her attempt to wrap the gift she got for him.
“It looks beautiful, baby. You did such a good job! Daddy will love it.”
“Yay!” She bounced up and down cheerfully, her soft raven curls bouncing everywhere as she did so.
“Go put your gift with the others in the living room, sweetie. Then you can help me with the finishing touches to the cake.” I tell her with a smile, ruffling her hair with my free hand.
“Okay!” She dashed back to the living room whilst I continued decorating the last finishing touches of frosting.
For his birthday cake, I made a 3 layered vanilla cake, topped with a homemade buttercream frosting dyed a vibrant red and decorated with a white chocolate drip along the top. I then added a simple buttercream border to the bottom of the cake and as well as little dollops to the top of the cake. All Isa needed to do was add the sliced strawberries to those dollops and the cake would be complete.
Isabella comes rushing back into the kitchen and right over to me.
“I’m ready!” She beams, excitedly. She’s been so excited for his birthday all week, she could hardly contain herself. I couldn’t help but smile, lifting her up into my arms.
“Alright, you get to be the lucky one to finish decorating the cake. All you need to do is add these little strawberries to these little guys right here. Can you do that for Mommy?”
She nods, “Yes!”
I handed her a strawberry slice, which she took happily, as I then leaned her closer to the cake so she could place it. She focused entirely on placing it carefully on the first dollop of buttercream, before repeating the same process with the others.
“Good girl! You did a great job!” I said looking over her work before smiling at her, showering her cheek with kisses once she finished.
Isa only giggled happily, wrapping her tiny arms around me, in a gentle hug.
“Come on now, let’s bring this cake to the living room. We have to go pick up Daddy soon from the airport,” I tell her, as I set her down. Isa nods as she heads back to the living room excitedly, only to see her father, Victor standing in the doorway of the living room looking at all the colorful decorations that were scattered throughout the living room–from various colors of balloons along the railing of the stairs, the streamers scattered throughout the room and along the wall, to a large and shiny ‘happy birthday’ banner hung up along the windows with a surprised expression on his face.
When she noticed him, her face lit up with joy as she immediately ran over to him,
“Daddy! You’re home!” She cheers happily, practically throwing herself into his arms.
Victor’s expression changes from one of surprise to one of contentment as he lifts up his daughter into his arms, showering her in kisses.
“Hello princess, I’ve missed you so much.” He smiled, as she hugged him tightly, giggling as she received several more kisses from him.
“I missed you too!”
Upon hearing his voice, I immediately left the kitchen, surprised that he was standing there in the living room and confused as to how he got home sooner than I expected him to. With the cake stand in my hand, I briefly set it down on the coffee table beside the gifts, as my mind questioned how he got home before we could leave to pick him up. I could have sworn I had more time…
When did his flight come in? How did he get home??
Trying to hide my confusion, I shake off the questions lingering in my head and walk over to greet him, smiling.
“ Hi, my love! I didn’t know you’d be here already.. We were just about to go pick you up from the airport, why didn’t you let me know you landed?”
Victor set down Isa, letting her go play with her toys whilst he pulled me into his arms, smiling with a chuckle,
“There’s my beautiful wife, I did, but I did not get a response from you. So I had Goldman drive me back home instead. I did not expect to see all this when I came in though..”
“Well…Surprise..?” I laughed slightly, “I was planning to keep it as a surprise for when we got back home… but then you came home..” I pouted slightly, a little saddened that the surprise didn't go as planned.
He pulled me into a soft kiss, one I couldn't help but melt into, smiling once we pulled away.
“I was still surprised, my love. I can tell you both worked very hard on this. Thank you. I did have a feeling you'd plan something like this.” He chuckles.
“Of course, I would! This is such an important day to me. I will always celebrate this day for as long as I am with you, my love. This day is the day you were born. Today, I get to show how much I love and appreciate you being in my life. How much you being alive has made my own life a much better place. How much I love celebrating you. This is the one day a year that will always be special to me, just like how you and Isabella are special to me. I love you. Happy Birthday.” I softly say, kissing him gently once more.
Victor smiled against my lips, returning the kiss with one of his own, holding me close, a look of contentment and happiness could easily be seen on his face once we pulled away. This. This is exactly how I hoped he would react.
“Thank you, sweetheart. I don't know how I got so lucky to have you and our precious little girl in our lives but I am so grateful. I love you both so much. Only you have made this day, what used to be so mundane and boring, so special and bright for me. I always look forward to whatever surprises you have in store for this day and no matter what, I will always look forward to celebrating my birthday as long as I have my special girls with me. Thank you for being in my life and for making me feel special.”
I couldn’t help but smile so wide, proud and overjoyed, I pulled away from his embrace, taking hold of his hand. I led him over to the couch and had him sit down where his birthday cake and all his gifts both from me and Isabella were on the coffee table. Isa comes rushing over, climbing her way up onto the couch and onto Victor’s lap which he gladly accepted, holding her close in his arms, kissing the top of her head.
I lit the candles on the cake, bringing the cake closer, while doing so I started singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to him. He smiled once I finished, with Isa happily clapping her hands. He leaned over, kissing my cheek.
“Thank you, my love. Truly. This day turned out to be better than I could have ever expected.”
“You’re welcome, my sweet. Here, make a wish and blow out the candles.” I smiled.
He looked at the cake briefly, before looking at me and Isabella in his arms, smiling he gently took hold of my hand with his free one, lacing our fingers together.
“My wish…has already come true.”
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