"Meulin honey! Can you please help me set the table?"

"Sure mom," Meulin replies getting the birthday theme'd tableware.

"Thank you Meulin, I do hope today is fun with all your friends," says Meulin's mother as she finishes hanging the 'Happy Birthday!' banner over the fire place where 2 presents from her mom and step dad sit.

"Yeah I do too! It should be really great!" you say, glancing over at the clock, it reads 11 A.M., the party starts at noon, but people could be coming at anytime, you are so excited!

20 minutes later the first person arrives, "Hey Meulin! Happy Birthday!"

"Thanks Latula, you can set your gift over there, you're pretty early though"

"I wanted to be the first here! I'm surprised I beat Kurloz here though, I was sure he was gonna beat me."

"Hehe, well you won! Your prize can be getting beat in Mario Cart!"

"Oh you're *on*!" Latula grins

Two races later and, you admit defeat, two loses later, the doorbell rings and Latula and yourself run over to answer it.

"Mituna! I haven't seen you in forever!" Latula says while tackling him with a hug

"it's been like 2 days Latula," you say with a small laugh

"But it's felt like forever!" protests Latula with a small pout, taking Mituna's present and running it over to the fireplace.

"What a cute couple," you hear behind Mituna.

"Hey Rufioh, hey Horrus!" you greet, "I'm glad you two could make it!"

"We wouldn't miss it for the world!" says Horrus, "Happy birthday Meulin."

"Thank you!" you open the door wider and gesture them all the come inside, Horrus and Rufioh place their gifts by the others and join the rest of you by the couch where an assortment of snacks and drinks are.

"Where do you think Kurloz is," asks Horrus, "It's past noon, I would think he would have been here before any of us."

"Yeah seriously, where is the dude," blurts Latula, grabbing a handful of pretzels.

You only shrug, offering to play another round of Mario Cart, everyone agrees.

After you lose another 3 rounds, you decide that's enough Mario Cart for you and watch the rest of your friends play, giggling as Latula pouts when Rufioh finally beats her. A triumphant grin on his face as Toad jumps around happily on the first place spot.

"I knew I could beat you Latula!" Rufioh laughs.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever" grumbles Latula.

"Aw come on 'Tula, be a good sport," giggles Mituna.

Just then the doorbell rings.

"Do you think that could be Kurloz?" you ask, look at the clock, it's 12:45. You all get up and walk to the door, opening it with a gasp, "oh my god Kurloz what happened?!" his eye was blackened and lip bleeding.

"Nothing, nothing. I just ran into a couple guys and-"

"Are you okay?! Oh my gosh, come in," you say in a panic, "Mom!"

"I'm fine, I'm fine," Kurloz reassures.

"Kurloz you're bleeding and you have a black eye, you are most certainly *not* okay!"

Before he can protest, your mom walks in with a gasp, "oh my Kurloz what happened, you know what, never mind just come with me so I can fix you up.

Kurloz follows and all your friends start to talk about what they just saw amongst themselves. You decide to interrupt their conversation by requesting they sit around the table to wait for your mom and Kurloz to return so we can eat cake.

About five minutes later, the pair returns, Kurloz cleaned and patched up. He takes the seat next to you as your mother disappears into the kitchen. Moments later, she returns with a beautiful cake with pastel green butter-cream icing, accessorized with little white cat paws. The top read "Happy Birthday Meulin!" in very elegant writing, the writing was surrounded by eleven burning candles. After setting the cake in front of you, your mother goes to turn off the light, then pulls out her camera to take pictures. Everyone begins to sing the classic happy birthday song and you couldn't be happier. At the end of the song your mom takes a picture and tells you to make a wish and blow out the candles, so you do.

After you all finish eating cake, everyone gathers around the fireplace to open presents.

"Oh, oh! Me first!" exclaims Latula as she practically shoves her present in your face.

"Alright Latula," you say holding the long rectangular box, you rip open the wrapping to find, "a skateboard? Latula I don't even skate."

"Well duh! I'm gonna teach you! We can start practicing later!"

"Well alright, but just to warn you I'll probably do terrible. Anyways who's next?" you say, picking up another present.

"Oh that is from me," comments Horrus.

You open the box up to find a gorgeous green ruffled dress. "Oh my gosh, thank you so much Horrus this is beautiful!"

"You are very welcome, I'm glad you like it Meulin."

You open the rest of your presents to find safety gear from Mituna, you guess this was planned with Latula, a headband and a pair of earrings from Rufioh, and, whoa what.

"My own laptop?!" you ask, extremely surprised

"Yes, your step father and I thought you were old enough now to handle it, you will be able to handle this Meulin, right?"

You rapidly shake your head, "Yes, yes of course! I'll be extremely careful, thank you soo much!"

"You're welcome," your mother says with a smile.

You open the box next to it and find a wireless mouse, a pair of headphones, and your charge. You excuse yourself to take all of this stuff upstairs to your room.

You put the laptop down on your bed when you hear a quiet knock at your bedroom door. "Yes?"

Kurloz steps into the room with a small box in his hand. "Um, hey, sorry I didn't get to give you this when you were opening presents so I thought I'd come and give it to you," he says, handing out to box to you. Happy Birthday Meu."

You take the box and open it, revealing a charm bracelet. "Kurloz this is so pretty thank you so much!" you say, pulling him into a hug.

Pulling away from the hug, Kurloz gives you a quick kiss on the cheek. And you don't know why but you just kinda froze and you are pretty sure your face is the colour of a ripe tomato.