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Fifth Floor Common Room; Monday Evening [ 09/20 ].

Sure, Ariel had said just streamers and a banner, but there were balloons now thrown into the mix because she couldn't help it. She and Ellie had gotten up all the decorations, which were all very pretty shades of green, based entirely on the fact that Ariel remembered that green was the color of the shirt she'd helped Chuck pick out. There was still an awful lot of flowers around, too, though who even knew where Ariel was getting them. The banner, meanwhile, was certainly not lacking in sparkle, stretched across the room:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUCK!!!!!

So now there would just be the setting out of all the food and the drinks and ever important CAKE, then waiting for guests and the ever important BIRTHDAY BOY and it would be time to party!

[[ up early because of evil things like working and time zones! Slowly approaching OCD is ~~on the way~~ up! Rock out! ]]

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Rilla heard the sounds of a party on her floor and wandered down. "Good evening," she said with a smile.

Okay, so Chuck wasn't actually sure who Rilla was, but tonight that wouldn't stop him from grinning cheerfully and offering an awkward wave with his, "Evening."

"You uh... want cake?" So smooth, as always.

Rilla blushed. "Cake would be lovely," she declared. "It'th your birthday?"

Sigh. Another perfect moment ruined by nerves.

"Not actually today," Chuck admitted, turning to find some of that cake for her. "But um, Saturday. Was my birthday. I was just gonna sort of pass it quietly... Somehow I got a party." He still wasn't really sure how that happened.

"Well, many happy returns," Rilla said. "How old did you turn?"

"Sixteen," he replied. "And I really don't feel any older than I did last year. That idea that you're supposed to feel older? Completely false."

"I was quite disappointed to realize that at my last birthday," Rilla said, "though months later I feel ever so much more mature."

At fourteen, yes.

"Rilla, ohmygosh!" Incredibly excited to see her, Ariel bounced up to Rilla and went to give her a hug, since she still had the incredible urge to just hug everything in sight. And, though she'd mostly gotten over the flower thing, she couldn't help giggling, reaching over to grab one from the decorations, and try to sneak it into her pretty hair. Partially because it was still fun, partially because she knew it would look wonderful on Rilla with Wiiiiiilliam here.

"Thank you so much for coming, how are you?"

"I am very well!" she squealed in reply. "I've been elected to office! How are you?"

"Oh, fantastic!" Ariel gushed with quite possibly one of the most wistful, dreamiest sighs in existance. On her face, a smile of pure contentment. "You wouldn't even believe it. But congratulations! Was it that student council thing? I would have voted for you, but, you know, I'm in the class above yours."

"Yes, I learned that my class is quite tiny," Rilla said. "I wrote them all letters! What is so fantastic? I'm simply dying to know!"

"Everyone, really?" Color Ariel impressed. "Aw, now I almost wish I was in your class so I could have gotten one. And ten I would write you back and I'd tell you why everything was so fantastic."

Really, the only thing better about what had happened Saturday night was the fact that she could tease people with telling them about it...

"You are a terrible tease," Rilla accused, smiling. "Was there a boooooy?"

Oh yes, it indeed deserved that many o's.

"Maaaaaaaybe," Ariel said, smirking and clearly intending to still be a tease.

That, too, deserved that many a's. That many a's, you see, meant yes.

Rilla clapped her hands together, knowing such international signals. "There is!" She lowered her voice. "Is he here?"

To that, Ariel laughed and couldn't even just say maaaaaaybe. She could just blush, bit her lip, and bob her head in a nod.

"He is. But I'm not telling you who!" she added, lifting a finger in warning, but probably not seeming too intimidating with that laugh.

"Rilla," Bruce said, walking over to her. "Why am I not surprised to see that you're up for a party?"

Rilla smiled and, yes, blushed. "Bruce! Because I light up a room whenever I enter it?" she replied.

Like clockwork. "I had noticed that," Bruce said. "I think I got here after you, though. The room was already very bright when I walked it."

"You are very good at compliments," she said, grinning up at him. "How have you been?"

"I practice," Bruce admitted. "I've been well. Between classes and trying to get out now and then it feels like I need a few more hours in the day, but that's my only complaint." Actually, he felt that the current number of hours was more than enough if you figured out how to use them efficiently, and he did. But that wasn't a very good answer to the question. "What about you? I heard that you made it onto the Student Council."

She beamed. "I did! It was my first election ever, and think it turned out quite well."

"Well, congratulations. he freshman class clearly knew what they were doing when they picked you," Bruce said.

"There are only seven of us," Rilla replied with another blush, "but thank you! I enjoy running things."

Because that hadn't been readily apparent before.

"Just don't let it go to your head," Bruce teased. Only deep down, he meant it. Power corrupted, after all. He hoped that this amount of power didn't change Rilla. "I wouldn't want to see you trying to take over the school in a coup."

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