THE BIRTHDAY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA
“Kyon-kun! Kyon-kun, wake up!” my little sister chanted, shaking me awake. I didn’t bother to tune her out. That would just make her try to get me up even more. I sat up, rubbing my head. A bump had made its way onto the back of my head. I must’ve banged my head last night. Sigh…..
“Kyon-kun! Come on, get up!” My little sister kept shaking me. “You have to get to school noooooow!!” she whined.
It’s seven in the morning. I have half an hour to get to school.
I unwillingly got out of my warm bed. Goodbye, bed. I’ll see you tonight.
I pushed my sister out of the room as I got dressed. Geez, when can we switch back to the winter uniform? It’s late October, but it seems like it’ll snow any day now. God, I really hate Mother Nature for playing with the weather. Why can’t we just have one season?
Then again, Haruhi would hate it if she had to wear the same uniform all year long.
I opened the door out of my room just to crash into my little sister, who was standing at the door like a cat waiting for a mouse to hit it with a frying pan. Wait, that’s from some American cartoon… Tom and something… The point is……
"Why are you stalking my door?"
My little sister sat up, presenting a small box wrapped in red wrapping paper. “Give this to Haruhi-neechan.” She said simply, handing the box to me. The box was badly wrapped, but I guess Sis gave it her best shot. I put the box in my bag. “Why exactly are you giving a present to Suzumiya?”
My sister paused, staring at me. “You forgot it was her birthday, didn’t you?” she uttered.
"Oh shit……"
“Don’t curse like that, Kyon-kun!” my sister whined. “I’ll tell mom about your potty mouth!”
"Shut up. I’m in serious trouble here."
My sister was near tears by now. “You forgot Haruhi-neechan’s birthday?! How could you, Kyon-kun?!” she cried, pounding at my chest. You shouldn’t be the one pounding at me right now. Haruhi’s going to kill me.
I stood up. “I’m going to school now.” I said, waving goodbye to my mother and sister.
What in hell should I do now?
I slowly walked up the hill to school. Now that it was cooler, I didn’t mind it as much. It was just what would happen at school that worried me. I could just imagine Haruhi’s tearing face. Then Haruhi would kill me, then Tanaguchi would kill me, and then Haruhi would kill me again.
I’m going to die three times over. Hurray.
I walked into the classroom to see Tanaguchi with half of the class, busily blowing up balloons and hanging streamers that said ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY’ on them. Damn it. Why does Haruhi get this special treatment?! I never got this kind of thing. And why are they setting this up, anyway? Aren’t we in high school? I’ll never understand these people…….
At the sight of me, Tanaguchi ran up to me. “Yo, Kyon! Go distract Haruhi! She’s going to be coming in any second now, and we still aren’t ready!”
"Why are you people doing this?"
“Simple! It’s because it’s Haruhi!”
"I’ll never understand you people." I sighed. "I’ll go, I’ll go."
I stepped out of the room just as Haruhi was walking down the hall. Shit. I ran up to Haruhi. “Morning, Haruhi!” I called, waving at her as I ran up to her.
“Hi, Kyon!” She said cheerfully, flashing a cute smile. She looked even cuter now then she normally did….I felt a small pang of guilt.
Haruhi cocked her head. “What is it, Kyon?”
I shoved the small package my sister had given me. “Happy…..birthday. This is from my sister.” I mumbled. God, I’m in trouble.
“From imouto-chan? Awsome!” Haruhi smiled, ripping the package open. She opens her presents like a kid would. Then again, it’s Haruhi we’re talking about. She opened the box to find a locket. It was silver, in the shape of a star. How the hell had my sister gotten her hands on that?
Haruhi attempted to open the locket, but with no avail. “You try, Kyon.” She said, shoving the locket to me. I easily got the locket open.
Inside the locket was a picture of……. me?! What the hell?!
Haruhi blushed at the sight of my picture. Haruhi was blushing?! What the hell?! Everything’s topsy turvy today!
“Wow…… how’d Imouto-chan know what I wanted?” she said aloud.
"Wait, you wanted this?!"
Haruhi smiled, standing on tiptoes. “Yup!” She kissed my cheek. “I love you!”
I could feel my face becoming red. Haruhi just giggled and hugged me. "Are you high, Suzumiya? How in hell am I supposed to respond to that?"
“You aren’t!” she chirped, glomping me. Did she just chirp? What the hell?!
To make a long story short, I did get Suzumiya a birthday present, even if I didn’t mean to.
I gave her a boyfriend.
