A week later, Carl had gotten to know Dylan 's birthday which is that day so she planned to surprise him with the clothes which has been made for him and a change of house.
Her parents had gotten him the car which they promised.
She picked up her phone while in the office and dialed Dylan's number which he picked on the first ring.
"Hello, my love." Dylan said.
"Hi babe." She said.
"Why the call?" Dylan asked.
"Babe, happy birthday." Carl said surprising Dylan.
"How did you get to know about this?" Dylan asked.
"Through some research." Carl said and Dylan sniffled.
"Alright." Dylan said.
"How do you want it celebrated?" She asked.
"I do not celebrate my birthday's again." He said making Dylan sigh.
"Because of your parents." She said and he smiled.
"Ever since my father's death." He said.
"Alright, would it be cool if I celebrate it with you?" Carl asked Dylan who sighed.
"Alright, you are the present phase of my life which I won't want to leave me." Dylan said making Carl smile.
"Meet me at Park Beach today at 5pm." She said making Dylan smile.
"So romantic." He said making Carl smile.
"Alright, I will be there by 5pm." He said.
After the call, Carl sighed reliefed. She actually was thinking he would refuse celebrating his birthday with her since he stopped celebrating after his father's death.
She held a knock on her door and told the person to come in.
Naomi walked into the office with all she asked her to get from the fashion store.
"Here Miss." Naomi said dropping everything.
"Alright, I want you to package everything just as a gift." Carl said and she nodded.
"With the wears?" Naomi asked.
"Leave the wears." Carl said and Naomi nodded.
"Alright Miss." She said and left the office with the things she brought so as to package them in a presentable way.
Minutes later, she returned to Carl's office and dropped all what she had package on her desk.
"Am I to bring the wears, Miss?" She asked but Carl shook her head.
"No, do not worry about it, I would get it myself before going out." Carl said and Naomi took a bow.
"May I take my leave?" Naomi asked minutes later.
"Yes you may leave." Carl said and Naomi left.
"This should be great." She said.
Hours later, they were done with the day's work and she walked out of the fashion house with Dan.
She entered her car while Dan entered his and trailed her car until she reached her house.
Getting to her house, she took out the wears and called for assistance.
Melinda walked out of the house and greeted her.
"Am I to take this into the house?" She asked herself.
"Yes I am. I don't want to attract anyone's attention with it being in the car." She said to herself.
"Melinda, I need you to carry all this present into the house." She said and Melinda nodded.
"Alright Miss." Melinda said.
Melinda carried all the packaged gifts into the house while Carl took all the wears into the house then walked into the house.
An hour later, she walked into her car, ordered Melinda to bring everything into her car which she did.
She drove on to the beach which she had mentioned for Dylan.
"Good evening Dylan." She said getting down her car when she got to the beach.
Dylan turned and smiled on seeing her.
"My love." He said stretching out his hand to her which she ran into his embrace.
"I love you, babe." She said and Dylan smiled giving her a peck on the head.
"Let's get something." She said pointing to a stall across the beach.
"Alright, let's go." She said.
They both walked to the stall and got themselves ice cream.
They walked away admiring the site. Carl wrapped her hands around Dylan's waist and he smiled touching her hair.
When they were done licking their ice-cream, Carl cleared her throat looking at Dylan.
"I have a surprise for you." She said and Dylan smiled.
"Do promise me you won't reject it." She said and he smiled touching her hair.
"I can't reject birthday presents." Dylan said and she smiled.
"Alright, can we get into the car?" She asked and he nodded.
"Alright, I will trail your car." He said.
They both got into their car and drove with Dylan trailing Car's car.
Getting to a street before hers, she drove into a road and reached a gate which opened by itself. The both car drove inside and the gate closed.
" Why are we here?" Dylan asked himself while they drove to pack their cars.
They got off their car and Carl led Dylan into the house.
"I would be back." She said and left.
Dylan took a deep breath as he looked at everywhere.
"Why are we here?, this is not her house neither is it her parents house." He said thinking?
Carl walked into the house and hugged Dylan.
"Why are we here?" He asked.
"This is one of the plenty gifts I bought you." She said smiling.
Dylan couldn't believe his ears. He looked at Carl who nodded her head smiling.
"Let's go check out the rooms." Carl said and drew Dylan's hand.
Minutes later, they were done checking out all the rooms and walked back to the living room.
"Carl!" Dylan called.
"Yes babe." She said.
"You said this is just one of the numerous gifts you bought." He said.
"Yes I just said that." Carl said. "You promised not to refuse."
Dylan looked at her and forgot himself. He kissed her passionately for some minutes then recovered himself.
"I just..." He stammered.
"Kissed me. I know and I like it." She said.
"Alright, can I get to see the other presents." Dylan said.
"You should hold on for a while." Carl said and walked inside.
She walked out with the house paper.
"Here is the house paper, I want you to keep it." She said and Dylan nodded taking it to one of the rooms.
"The house key." Carl said giving him a key.
"Thank you." He said smiling as they exited the house.
He locked the door to which they used to enter the house and turned to Carl.
"Where do we go?" He asked.
"Let's enter our car." She said.
They entered their car and drove off with Dylan trailing behind Carl's car.
Carl got off her car and bought some cakes from a vendor. She gave two to Dylan and entered her car with the remaining.
She drove to Dylan's house.
Dylan looked at her surprised as to why she drove to his house.
Carl got down her car and walked over to Dylan's car and knocked on the door.
"Come down." She said and Dylan got off his car.
"Let's go into the house." She said and Dylan got off the car unlocking the door.
"After you." He said and Carl smiled.
"Do go in first." She said and he entered.
Seeing that he had sat on his couch, Carl walked to her car and carried the packages into the house.
"Carl!" Dylan called when she dropped the packages on the table but she didn't answer instead she walked back to her car to bring the wears after which she locked her car and walked into the house closing the door behind her.
"Where is your room?" She asked and he got up smiling to her.
"Over here." He said walking her to his room.
"Here is my room." He said and she walked straight to his closet and opened it.
She dropped the wears that was with her on the bed.
"What are you doing?" Dylan asked.
"It's your birthday love and I will like to spoil you a little bit." She said as she took out some clothes from his closet.
"Why are you..." He was saying when she cut in.
"Those shirts are old." She said and Dylan could only smile.
"I fell in love with a great lady." He said sitting on the bed and Carl smiled.
She picked up the shirts and trousers she had brought and placed them in Dylan's closet.
When she was done, Dylan walked up to her and gave her a peck.
"I wish to do more than this for you on your birthday." He said and she wrapped her hands around his waist.
"You are the best thing that will happen to me." She said and ran into the living room.
Dylan placed his hand in his pocket as he walked to the living room.
Minutes later, his phone began to ring and Carl looked at him.
"Do not answer the call if it's work." She said and he laughed placing a peck on her lip.
He picked up his call and looked at Carl.
"It's Josh." He said.
"Who?" She asked.
Dylan reminded her of who Josh is and she nodded.
"Alright, you may pick it." She said.
"Hello Josh." He said picking up the call.
"Hi Dylan. Happy birthday." Josh said and Dylan smiled.
"Thank you." Dylan said.
"Come open the door for us." Josh said.
"What!" Dylan exclaimed.
"We saw both you and your babe entwr the house." Josh said.
"Really!" Dylan exclaimed looking at Carl who rose up.
"Where are you going, Carl?" Dylan asked.
"Invite them in." Carl said and Dylan looked at his phone.
It wasn't on speaker so he could only hear the person speaking so he wondered how Carl got to know.
Carl walked to the door and opened it.
Ten people walked in with Josh and Dylan smiled.
"Happy birthday bro." Josh said greeting Dylan.
Dylan smiled happily seeing all his team members in the game.
"Let's have our sit." They all said dropping various gifts on the package which Carl brought.
"I am amazed." Dylan said.
"This is all planned by your babe." Josh said and Dylan looked at Carl.
"Remember, I told you that you have numerous gifts." Carl said.
"How did you get to call them?" Dylan asked.
"I went to the venue and met them playing then when they was done playing, I walked up to them telling them that they should surprise you today. Josh and I made a plan and I told him what time he should make his move." Carl said.
"Yes bro, I know when a woman is in love." Josh said and Dylan laughed.
"Thank you." Dylan said.
They spoke on other things before taking their leave.
Carl hugged Dylan.
"I would have loved to spend the day with you but we have an important client coming today so I need to..." She was saying when Dylan peck her.
"It's your business and as a partner, I want the success of the business." Dylan said and Carl nodded.
They said their goodnight and Dylan followed her out of the house. He waved her as she drove then got into his car and drove to pack it at the back of his house.
He got off the car and walked into his house through the back door.
Getting into the house, he walked straight to his father's room and picked up his father's picture.
"Father, I celebrated my birthday in a way you promised that I would one day." He said remembering his father telling him that he was going to celebrate his birthday in a big way one day with his lover and friend.
His father told him that when he felt weak on his birthday years ago.
"I would have to vacate this house soon but you will always be with me and in my heart." He said and smiled.
"I promised not to love because of mother but now I can't but love Carl." He said smiling. "Father, I don't ever want to be like that woman."