Let's rewind time back to November 5th, the day of Liam's birthday when both of them hadn't confessed their feelings to each other, still in the ambiguous phase.
Liam, pretty ahead of time, deprived himself of sleep in broad daylight, faking nonchalance while flipping pages of a book, all the while pricking up his ears, listening to the conversations between Maureen and various people in the classroom.
Attempting to hear the words "birthday", "Liam", and "gift".
However, after surreptitious eavesdropping for quite a few days, he didn't manage to catch a single related word.
Everyday, like clockwork, Maureen would arrive at class at 6:50 in the morning, head to the library at 6:50 in the evening, focusing wholeheartedly on her studies.
If not, she would be reading up on the latest developments of the Mrs. Daniel incident on the forum, or heading out for meals with Josephine, carefree.
So worry-free that it seemed like she had completely forgotten his birthday.
