december 2017

"morning padster man" (y/n) ruffled his hair as he sat at the breakfast table, spoon in hand, bowl of cereal underneath it.

"hey!" he exclaimed, patting down his hair. harry and (y/n) laughed as they begun to make themselves breakfast.

"did you guys forget?" paddy frowned slightly as he looked up from eating his corn flakes.

"forget what?" (y/n) asked innocently, giving paddy her most confused face she could muster. paddy's frown grew somewhat larger as he turned back to his cereal. "crap, i forgot my phone. one sec, harry, i'll show you it in a minute" she winked at her best friend and left the room.

she sprinted up the stairs and found the large bag full of cards and presents for the new teenager. she pulled her phone out of her dressing gown pocket and facetimed sam.

"morning, babe," sam whispered and smiled at the camera as (y/n) held the bag up into frame and placed a finger over her lips, shushing sam.

"morning. remember, you gotta be quiet until i get down, yeh?" she whispered in reply.

"got it"

"okay, i'm going down now, so shush" she made her way down the stairs slowly. once she got down, she peeped into the kitchen and saw three hollands sat around the table with paddy.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PADDY" she shouted, walking into the kitchen, bag in one hand and phone in the other. sam's face was facing his family and he smiled at the 13 year olds face at the surprise.

"thank you, thank you, thank you!" paddy practically squealed and he left his chair and hugged (y/n) as tightly as he could. she quickly gave her phone to harry as paddy held on for as long as he could. (y/n) heard sam's voice through the phone as the brothers greeted each other.

"come on, pads, you've got school. and i can't breathe," (y/n) pretended to have lost her breath as paddy let go. "thank you. here you go, these are from your mum and dad, me and sam, harry and, lastly, tom" she gave paddy the bag of gifts.

"thank you, thank you, thank you" paddy took the bag and sat back down in front of his cereal. (y/n) sat on harry's left side, directly opposite paddy, and took her phone back, smiling at sam before turning it around to let sam and paddy be face to face.

"that," harry pointed out, "is from mum and dad." paddy smiled as he unwrapped the blue wrapping paper, a smile appearing on his face as he saw the basketball appear from the paper.

"thank you, mum!" paddy continued to smile widely as he hugged nikki tightly. "thank you, dad!" he hugged dom. paddy sat back down and pulled out a present wrapped in white and gold star paper.

"this one," (y/n) started, "is from me and sam." paddy looked up at her and quickly back down to his gift. it was an envelope, and written neatly on it said the words,

paddy,

happy birthday from us two, we love you lots and hope you enjoy your gift. we couldn't think of the perfect present, but with this, we hope you can.

all our love,
(y/n) and sam xox

"i was there when she wrote it," sam spoke up, "it wasn't just her words, i thought of writing your name first"

"after i wrote it, babe" (y/n) giggled, and harry, paddy, nikki and dom joined in. paddy opened the envelope and pulled out many notes.

"thank you so much, sam" paddy smiled at the phone.

"hey" (y/n) frowned.

"and you, (y/n). thank you both of you." paddy finished opening his presents, receiving a present wrapped in princess paper from harry.

"what?" he had said when paddy saw it and glared at him. "it was the only wrapping paper there was"

finally, he received a present wrapped in spider-man wrapping paper from tom. after breakfast and presents were over, paddy ran upstairs to get ready for school and the rest of the day, excited to spend it with his family.