Something sweet.
Something only yours.

to my dearesttttt gilly babie,

HAPPYYYYYY 17TH BIRTHDAYYYYY MY LOVEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! 🎂🎀💐🤍

first and foremost, i want to wish you the happiest, healthiest, most beautiful birthday everrrr. i pray that this new year of your life brings you so much happiness, peace, good health, success, love, and sooo many beautiful memories that you’ll be able to look back on one day with the biggest smile on your face. you deserve a birthday where you feel celebrated, appreciated, spoiled, loved, and reminded of just how special you are to everyone around you, but especially to me hehe.

SEVENTEENNNNNNNN!!!!!!! BABIEEEEEE 😭😭😭

you’re still so youngggg but at the same time you’re getting dangerously close to UNC STATUS 😭😭😭😭 enjoy these last few years while you can because that unc transformation is approaching VERY VERY SOONNNN. HAHAHAHAHA. and before you say anything about my age, YES i already know you think im old now 🙄 but that’s okay because i still can’t wait to grow old with you, even if according to you apparently i already started without you LOLLLLL.

but jokes aside, seeing you turn 17 genuinely makes me think about how much life you still have ahead of you. there is sooo much waiting for you babie. so many places you haven’t seen yet, people you haven’t met, memories you haven’t made, accomplishments you haven’t reached, dreams you haven’t even discovered yet, and versions of yourself that you haven’t gotten the chance to meet.

and i seriously cannot wait to see all of it.

one of the things that constantly amazes me about you is how mature you are for your age. i know you’re only 17, and 17 is still sooo so young, but sometimes the way you carry yourself, the way you think, the responsibilities you handle, and the way you care about your future makes me forget just how young you actually are. you have such a mature mindset while still having this cute, silly, funny side of you that i absolutely LOVEEEE. you’re responsible and hardworking, but you can also be the girl with 67 different personalities that somehow all appear in the same conversation 😭😭😭 and i wouldn’t change a single one of them.

i know school can be stressful for you, and i know sometimes you put sooo much pressure on yourself because you want to do well and make the people around you proud. but as you enter another year of your life, one thing i really really hope for you is that your school life becomes something you’re able to actually ENJOY too. obviously i want you to be successful and achieve all the things you’re working toward, but more than anything, i want you to be happy while doing it.

i hope you have a successful school year with as LITTLE STRESS AS POSSIBLEEEE because my poor babie does not need to be stressing herself out every single day 😭. i hope you make memories with your friends, enjoy your classes, laugh a lot, experience new things, and have moments where you can actually stop and realize that you’re living through a part of your life that you’ll probably miss someday.

and pls pls pls always remember that your grades and accomplishments are not the only things that make me proud of you. obviously i’m gonna be your number one fan cheering when you succeed, but i’m also going to be proud of you for trying, for continuing when things get difficult, for learning from your mistakes, and for simply doing your best.

i hope that as you continue school, you slowly discover exactly what you want for yourself. i hope you eventually finalize on a major that genuinely interests you and a future career that doesn’t just give you money or a good title, but something that you actually LOVE doing. something that makes you wake up feeling excited and fulfilled. something that feels like *you*.

you have so much potential, babie, and i hope you never feel like you have to have your entire life figured out right now. you’re SEVENTEEN 😭 you have so much time to explore, change your mind, discover new interests, and figure out what makes you happy. whatever path you choose, i just hope it’s something that gives you a life you’re proud of and something that makes you excited for your future.

and speaking of your future…..... i genuinely cannot wait to see what the future has ahead of you.

i wonder all the time what kind of woman you’re going to become. what you’ll study, where you’ll go, what career you’ll choose, what dreams you’ll accomplish, how much you’ll grow, and all the different experiences that are going to shape you.

and if God allows it, i hope i get to be there watching every single chapter happen.

i want to be there when you graduate.

i want to be there when you finally decide what you want to pursue.

i want to hear you tell me about your first big opportunities and your accomplishments and all your chika stories along the way.

i want to celebrate when things go right and comfort you when things don’t.

i want to watch you become the woman you’ve always wanted to become.

and one day when we’re actually old together - BOTH OF US, not just me according to you 🙄 - i want us to look back at this time in our lives and laugh about how young we were and how much we still had ahead of us.

because as excited as i am about your future, i’m even more excited about the possibility of being part of it.

i want to grow alongside you. i want us to look back years from now and realize that we got to witness each other become completely different, more mature, more experienced versions of ourselves while still choosing each other through all of it.

and babieeee somehow you also manage to get more and more beautiful EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT PASSES😍😍😍😍😍😍

i already thought you were one of the prettiest girls i had ever seen when i first saw you, and somehow you just keep getting prettier???? WHAT IS GOING ONNNNNN BRUH.

your smile somehow gets more beautiful to me. your sparkling eyes somehow become even prettier. your face literally never gets tiring to look at. even the little expressions you make, the way you laugh, the way you look when you’re sleepy, the way your whole face lights up when you smile - ALL OF ITTTTT.

and the craziest part is that the more i get to know you as a person, the more beautiful you become to me.

because obviously yes, you are EXTREMELY EXTREMELY EXTREMELY pretty. like unfairly pretty. suspiciously pretty. illegally pretty. ethereal pretty. pretty enough that i still sometimes wonder how i managed to pull this off 😭😭.

but your heart makes you even prettier.

your kindness makes you prettier.

your maturity makes you prettier.

your hardworking nature makes you prettier.

your humor makes you prettier.

the way you care about people makes you prettier.

the way you love makes you prettier.

the way you continue pushing yourself even when things become stressful makes you prettier.

every new thing i learn about you just gives me another reason to fall in love with you.

and i hope that on your birthday, you can see yourself even a LITTLE bit closer to the way i see you.

because i see someone who deserves sooo much love.

i see someone worth celebrating.

i see someone with such a beautiful future ahead of her.

i see someone who has already become such an important part of my life.

and most importantly, i see my Gillybabieeeee <3333.

thank you for being you.

thank you for all the laughs, all the random conversations, all the chika, all the calls, all the reassurance, all the cute moments, all the silly arguments, all your personalities 😭, all the affection, and every little piece of yourself that you continue trusting me with.

i know this birthday is supposed to celebrate another year of YOUR life, but i’m also grateful because the fact that you were born means that somehow, seventeen years later, life eventually allowed our paths to cross.

and im forever grateful for that.

out of all the people in the world, somehow i met you.

somehow that beautiful girl i was nervous to approach became the girl i talk to every single day.

somehow you became my favorite person.

and somehow i became lucky enough to call you my babie.

i hope 17 treats you kindly, my love.

i hope 17 brings you closer to your dreams.

i hope 17 gives you confidence in yourself.

i hope 17 gives you sooo many reasons to laugh.

i hope 17 gives you good health and protects you.

i hope 17 gives you amazing memories with your friends and family.

i hope 17 gives you success in school without you having to sacrifice your peace and happiness for it.

i hope 17 teaches you new things about yourself.

i hope 17 reminds you that you don’t have to have everything figured out yet.

and i hope throughout 17, whenever life becomes tiring or stressful or confusing, you remember that there is one very handsome, definitely NOT OLD man thousands of kilometers away who loves you soooo so so so so so so much and will always be rooting for you 😝😝😝.

you deserve such a beautiful life, babie.

and whatever happens this year, please take care of yourself. prioritize your health. rest when you need to. eat properly. sleep when you can. don’t feel guilty for taking breaks. don’t let school or responsibilities convince you that you always have to be productive to be worthy of being proud of yourself.

i would rather see you happy and healthy than exhausted trying to prove something to everyone.

you already make me proud just by being you.

i am soooo excited to see what this next year brings you, and even more excited to watch every year after that.

17 today.

then 18.

then 19.

then 20.

then one day we’re gonna blink and somehow we’re both actually UNC AND AUNTIE STATUS 😭😭😭😭.

and hopefully when that day comes, i’ll still be right next to you annoying you, teasing you, telling you how beautiful you are for the 7988067679th time, listening to your endless chika stories, and reminding you that somehow you STILL keep getting prettier every year.

i can’t wait to grow old with you.

i can’t wait to experience life with you.

i can’t wait to see where your dreams take you.

i can’t wait to see the woman you become.

and i hope no matter how old we become, i never stop seeing the same beautiful girl whose smile made me want to know absolutely everything about her.

HAPPPYYYYYYYY 17TH BIRTHDAY AGAINNNNNNN TO MY BEAUTIFUL, PRETTY, SMART, FUNNY, HARDWORKING, MATURE, SWEET, LOVING, CARING, ETHEREAL, ONE-OF-ONE GILLY BABIEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! 🎂🎀💐🤍

may God continue protecting you, guiding you, blessing you, and giving you many many many more healthy and happy birthdays to come.

i hope today reminds you just how loved you really are.

especially by me.

ILOVEYOUUUUUU.

ILOVEYOUUUUUUU.

ILOVEYOUUUUUUUUU.

AND ILOVEEEEEEEEEEYOUUUUUUUUUUUSOOOOOOOOOOOOOMUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GILLIAN LONGINOS SUMAGPAOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

happy birthday my love <333333333333

sincerely forever yours,

your zekie babie / your number #1 fan & supporter / your future boyfriend / your future LEGAL husband 😝🤍