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Mark woke up to the ringing of his doorbell. He groaned and checked the time on his clock. "04:39 AM" it read.
Sluggishly Mark dragged himself off his bed and got dressed.
Mark could hear consistant knocks on his door, so he wasn't just hearing things. He could also make out a familiar yet muffled voice.
"Mark? Are you up? I have a surprise!"
Mark yawned before opening his door slowly. He was met with his well dressed friend with a lovely bouquet.
"Hey Mark, Sorry to wake you up this early.." Cesar smiled with a small wave
"Yeah it's cool, is everything alright?" Mark moved slightly to let his friend in the house. He began preparing some coffee as Cesar set the gift down and made himself comfortable.
"Yeah everything is alright now, i got my mom to the hospital and they said she's gonna be okay. She didn't break anything vital and she's awake" Mark let out a relieved sigh "that's good.."
"So like.. what's with the flowers?"
Mark pointed at the gift
"Oh yeah, These are for you." Cesar had gotten up holding the flowers properly handing them to Mark
"For.. me?" Mark took them gently and looked at them. They were yellow roses, it had a card attached that read 'to my awesome friend' with a crudely drawn smiley face on it
"Why though?" Mark laughed gently, pleasantly surprised "Well to be honest they are technically from my mom, she insisted that i got you something after you went to our place and checked our security cameras."
Oh.. yeah he did do that.
"So she gave me some money and told to get you some nice flowers. I would have gotten you something else but the only place that was open was this shady flower shop. The dude selling the flowers looked like he was about to kill me if i took any longer."
Cesar chuckled and took a sip from the coffee Mark had prepared. Mark kept staring at the roses. they were pretty average, kind of flowers you see at stores all the time but the fact that his friend had bought them made them special.. to Mark at least.
"Yeah but seriously like.. Thanks."
Mark focused on Cesar. It was the most serious Mark had seen him after the call they had earlier. Cesar was rubbing his own neck bashfully.
"I know how late it was and how you feel about our house but you got there anyways. And because of that I got the tapes to the police station and i'm pretty sure the cops are onto that weirdo who attacked my mom. I just appreciate it a lot.. so does my mom."
Mark smiled "Don't mention it dude. You guys are like family. I'm glad i could help some how."