[for kat]

[formicine]

Blue has never been much for birthday parties. This year, thinking about who she'd even invite if she had one just seems like a recipe for throwing a notebook at the wall or crying in the kitchen, but it also seems like a year to celebrate making it through -- for Kat, too, honestly. With a few weeks left before school starts, weather muggy but getting cooler and breezy, it seems like a good time to just relax.

She'd texted Kat as the birthday girl, i have decreed that we're treating ourselves with a picture of a couple bottles of rose she'd then brought home, and every intent to order absolute trash food and the most ridiculous that Filmfix has to offer and get cuddles.

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[swerved]

Were it not for the text, Kat would have suggested they do something. Nothing huge, not a party or anything — not with everything that's happened over the last year or maybe longer — but she's got a wrapped gift carefully hidden in their bedroom, and she would have offered to take them out for dinner or order something in or whatever. The message that comes in from Blue, though, makes her grin immediately, and it doesn't take her long to respond, sounds perfect and a smiley face emoji. A night in with her best friend, with wine and whatever dinner amounts to treating themselves, is probably not something they would need an excuse for, but she means to make sure Blue has the best birthday possible.

"Alright," she says once they're sitting on the couch, dinner on its way, grinning as she looks from the TV to Blue. "Do we want a good movie, or an amazingly terrible movie? Your birthday, you pick."