#☾ relationship: Ky and Shane

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Shane approached Kyleigh with a small wrapped box. The wrapping was sloppy, but it was better than the other two times he had tried to wrap it. Before he had always let the professionals wrap the gifts that he'd purchased. That luxury didn't exist anymore so he did his best. He offers her the box. "Ignore the pink and blue baby feet all over the paper. It's all I could find." As she took it, he offered softly, "Happy Birthday."

Getting the scissors she found to glide through the denim material of the pants she was making shorter so she wouldn't trip on them when she put them on, Kyleigh never thought such a simple thing would make her so happy. Most of the time she was forced to use her knife to crudely cut inches off of jeans, but since she and Shane had decided to stay in their current house she found a lot of things were coming easier to her. Which she still hadn't decided if that was a good thing or not. Easy to her was a foreign concept, but so was worrying about another being, much less a human. Speaking of, where the hell was Shane? He had disappeared earlier that morning and when he returned he was being all weird. Telling her to stay downstairs for a few minutes and busy herself. Whatever that meant.

Shaking her head she snipped a stray piece of cloth from the bottom of the pants, then stood up to make sure they were the proper length now. Just enough to cover her ankles, but not too long to trip her up when she ventured outside. That was when she noticed Shane standing there with a small box in his hands, wrapped in some strange paper. "And here I thought you were trying to tell me you were expecting!" She teased, setting down the jeans so that she could take the gift. Every fiber in her being wanted to tell him that he didn't have to do this, go out there and risk his life to get her something for a day that didn't even mean anything now. But it was such a nice gesture that she couldn't bring herself to toss any sass his way, her eyes coming very close to flooding over with tears.

"I uh.. I can't believe you even remembered. Thank you." Kyleigh couldn't even look up right then, busying herself with carefully tearing the paper away. When she opened the box a stunned expression came over her face, and if he was paying close attention, a slight shake in her fingers as she picked up the necklace. It suited her perfectly and other than the necklace she had from her mother she had never been given such a nice gift. "Could you…could you put it on for me?" Quickly she glanced up at him before she turned around, happy to have an excuse for him to not see the emotions in her eyes. It might have just been a simple piece of jewelry, but to Kyleigh it meant so much more and nothing was ever going to take that from her.

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#☾ wexarethewalkingxdead #☾ v: Welcome To The New Age #☾ (Its The Dead's World; We Just Live In It) #☾ (The Walking Dead) #☾ c: Shane Walsh #☾ relationship: Ky and Shane #☾ Happy Birthday Kyleigh 2023! #☾ I did not mean to write a novel #☾ but that really meant so much to her <3