fandomhighdorms | The Roof, Friday Late Afternoon Onwards

While Alluka didn't know lots and lots of things, she knew what a tea party meant and, after talks with Ringo and her own experiences at the welcome picnics, she knew that it was important for real parties to have lots of tasty food and fun things to drink. So that was easy enough to figure out! Then she let Ringo handle that.

Which was why there was so much food. Ringo had started by ordering take out "for one" from a bunch of local places, which would probably have been enough on its own. But then she'd found a recipe for fruit punch on the internet, and decided to try that out, and then she'd had a random craving for cherries which had led to a bunch of random fruit. There was even an entire table dedicated to chocolate. You were welcome, Alluka.

Alluka handled the decorations, which meant that come the Friday of the party, ever since just a little past noon, she'd been up on the roof decorating under the critical eye of her bunny and her giraffe (both of whom had differing opinions on everything from glitter placement to balloon placement) but by the time the party was to get started, she'd managed to get it all up, with the tables and chairs and balloons and glitter and banners along the rooftop railing.

Between the two of them, they'd gotten everything set up in time to go and do their hair and change.

Her bunny won the argument between her toys about who got to come with, so her bunny was looking very smart indeed with its ears tied back with a black and white scrunchie.

Alluka smoothed her new dress down and grinned over at Ringo. While Alluka's dress was white (well, okay, with a little bit of black, but they'd both decided that that didn't count) and her hair was up in an elegant twist (Ringo had helped her do it), Ringo's dress was a deep black and her long hair was loose from its usual pigtails to spill down her back.

Now they just had to hope people came.

[~~Wait for the~~ OCD is up! Come party!]

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Alluka looked troubled for a moment, but she was very good at not thinking about things that bothered her and always willing for a subject change.

"You haven't?!" she asked, surprised.

Kathy shook her head. "Nope," she said softly. "Before Fandom, I didn't really have any friends to throw a party for. And even now that I do have friends, my birthday's too close to Christmas for most people to notice. But I'm thinking this year, since I'll be turning eighteen, I should try to throw one anyway."

Alluka had no idea what Christmas was, so she was completely honest and utterly serious when she said:

"But you're way more important than Christmas, Kathy. You should definitely get a party."

Kathy leaned over to give Alluka another big hug. "Thank you, sweetheart," she said. "That's very sweet of you to say. And if I do have a birthday party, I promise that I will make sure to come and get you personally so you can be there. And if I don't, we'll have a tea party to celebrate instead, okay?"

"I do like tea parties," she admitted, leaning into the hug. "And I like you lots, so we should have one anyway."

And maybe Ringo would help her give Kathy a birthday party...

"When is your birthday?" she asked curiously.

"December 22nd," Kathy said with a smile. "Just three days before Christmas. When's yours, Alluka? Since we're making birthday party plans and all."

Alluka blinked.

"Mine?" She looked at her bunny, who looked back at her. "I don't know."

Maybe blinking was contagious? Because Kathy was blinking at Alluka now. "You--you don't know?" she asked. "You mean, you can't remember, or...or no one's ever told you?"

Raven now knowing her own birthday, Kathy could understand. After all, she'd been abandoned as a child and had grown up, alone, on the streets. But Alluka'd had a family. Hadn't they ever acknowledged her birthday? Kathy's parents hadn't ever thrown her a party or anything, but they'd at least made her noodle soup and rice cakes and given her presents, and...

She'd been really small when she'd been locked away!

Alluka frowned at her bunny, thinking hard. Her bunny tilted it's head to the side as it thought too, since that made Alluka feel better.

"I don't remember," she said doubtfully.

Her parents had totally thrown her birthday parties in the first few years but: she'd been too small to remember them and after getting locked in her room they hadn't happened.

"You know what we can do?" Kathy suggested. "We can have you pick your favorite day and make that your birthday. We did that for Raven, my roommate, because she didn't know hers, either. So we'll choose your birthday and then we can celebrate it on that day every year."

Her eyes went huge.

"Do I, do I have to pick right now?" Alluka looked overwhelmed at the idea.

"Of course not," Kathy assured her. "In fact, you should take you time and think about what your favorite date is. Anything really important is worth thinking over, at least for a little while."

"I'll think it over," she promised, then paused and tilted her head slightly. "Does that mean Nanika gets a birthday too?"

Kathy wasn't sure all-powerful entities had birthdays, but who was she to say for sure?

"Uhh, maybe?" she hedged. "She could probably just share yours, but if you'd prefer to have one of your very own, we could probably pick a different one for her?"

Alluka looked at her bunny for a moment, then asked, "Is it okay if Nanika picks hers?"

That seemed more fair, really.

"Of course," Kathy said. She was pretty sure that she couldn't stop Nanika from doing what she wanted anyway, but if that made Alluka feel better, she was cool with that. "Uhh, make sure to ask how Nanika would like to celebrate her birthday, too," she suggested. "I'm not sure if we'll be able to do it--" like if Nanika wanted to make a murder-playground or something "--but at least we can ask, right? It's the considerate thing to do."

That was a Kath fact!

One to be repeated at every opportunity?

"I'll remember," she said, and beamed at Kathy. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Of course!

"You're welcome, Alluka," Kathy said, smiling warmly. "You know you're always very welcome."

She ducked her head, hugging her bunny.

"I know," Alluka said, smiling at her toes. "It's just strange that's all. But nice."

"It shouldn't feel strange," Kathy said softly, looking down into Alluka's eyes. "You're a person and deserve to feel loved and appreciated just because of that, okay? It's very important to me that you know that."

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