Amu's surprise birthday party

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

When; Thursday, Sept. 24 2009, afternoon
Rating; PG at worst
Characters; Amu (the birthday girl), Konata (the hostess, again), Uta (the guilty party), Konata's apartment-mates, various friends of Amu
Summary; Uta enlists Konata's help (and suddenly sparsely-populated apartment) in planning a surprise party
Log;

Unlike the get-together on Sunday, this WAS supposed to be a surprise party. Amu's three chara and Uta had done the planning, and were to lure Amu to Konata's apartment sometime in the afternoon. Konata wasn't really used to playing hostess, and twice in a week was strange for her, but at least there was plenty of space...

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[guardianjoker]

When Uta told her that she was coming over to Konata's apartment to help with some things, she didn't really think anything of it.

Needless to say, she was totally surprised to find the apartment full of people who were her friends for a surprise birthday party for her. It was definitely not something she'd expected.

[justasystem.livejournal.com]

Tianzi had been pleased to hear that Amu would be getting a party- wouldn't it be nice? She'd never had a surprise party herself, because... well, her birthday was a grand occassion, feasts and diplomats, shows and riches for the Empress, but this...

She thought something like this was much nicer.

"Amu! Happy birthday!" That was right, wasn't it? The Tianzi waved eagerly, a small box in her hand.

[guardianjoker]

Amu had always tried not to make such a big deal out of her birthday. She'd always say that it's something that little kids only get excited over which was why she doesn't mention it until people ask. However, that wasn't what she really thought though. In truth, she was excited for her birthday and happy that her friends went to all this trouble just to surprise her for her birthday, which apparently they all somehow found out about?

"Ah, thank you Tianzi!" Amu smiled her as she approached her, noticing the box in her hand.

[justasystem.livejournal.com]

"I hope it counts when you get home!" The Tianzi held out her small gift with the bright smiles she often wore, inside, a Chinese good luck charm she'd managed to find fastened to a bracelet.

"I mean-" She realized it sounded a bit funny when she said it like that, correcting herself. "When you go home, I hope you get to have another good one!"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"If you didn't hear already," Konata said, approaching Amu, "It was your chara that spilled the beans about your birthday."

[guardianjoker]

Amu just sighed. "Yeah I kind of figured it was them since they are the only one who do know"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"That must be weird, to have a little part of you thinking independently. I wonder if you could play a four-player video game by yourself..."

[guardianjoker]

She was just about to comment on Tianzi's statement about it but upon been given the small gift, Amu opened it and smiled as she saw the present "Oh wow. This is really nice. Thank you Tianzi"

She paused and when Tianzi spoke again to correct herself, Amu just nodded as she finally realized what she meant by her original statement "Mm. Well knowing my friends back home, I don't doubt that"

[guardianjoker]

"Yeah, it can be...wait, a four player video game by myself?"

She's never really thought about it before, considering video games weren't really her thing.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Wait, we should really try that. Can you play 'Bomberman'?"

[guardianjoker]

"...Uh, I'm not sure? I've never really played video games much"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Well, now's the..." Konata stopped in mid-sentence. She had been in this situation before. Sometimes people didn't want to play video games. Kagamin had explained this to her. Patiently.

"... Well, maybe we could try it sometime. If you want."

[guardianjoker]

"Yeah, sure I guess we could try seeing as I have never played them much before" Amu shrugged.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Huh. I honestly can't imagine what that would be like." It was true. She couldn't.

[guardianjoker]

"Well...I don't think it'd be really that much different that from playing with other people"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Huh? No, I meant, I couldn't imagine what it would be like to have never played video games before. I mean, you live in the same era as me, right? And in Japan?"

[guardianjoker]

"Oh-- that's what you meant. Well yeah, we are from the same era and from Japan too but I guess I've never really had time to play them before, that's all"

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

"Huh. Well, it's your birthday, I shouldn't twist your arm, but if you're ever curious..." Konata gestured to the living room's impressive shelves of game consoles and games.

[guardianjoker]

She blinked as she stared at Konata's collection as she looked in the direction she was pointing towards "Wow, that's a pretty impressive collection"

[cat-on-strings.livejournal.com]

Ikuto was standing near the back, happy and amused to see Amu's surprised expression when she realized that she had just walked into a surprise party. He hung back for a while and let her talk to her friends; it was her day, after all, and he could wait. After a while, he saw her standing alone and walked over.

"Happy Birthday."

[guardianjoker]

She was standing by herself at this point and she looked over and saw Ikuto walk over to her. She didn't really notice that he was there before because she was busy talking to her friends, but she probably should have expected he'd be there too.

"Oh-- thanks"

[cat-on-strings.livejournal.com]

He smiled at her. "So are you having a good time?"

[justasystem.livejournal.com]

"That's great, then, I'm glad." The Tianzi rocked a bit on her heels, torn between excitement and nervousness, fingers lacing together in front of her.

"I'm not sure what we do at a birthday party so much, but- it's really fun!"

[guardianjoker]

"Mm, yeah. I guess" She just shrugged, though that statement pretty much translated to a yes.

[mypace-musume.livejournal.com]

That's not the half of it, Konata thought. She had a safe full of games that were too dangerous to display. Like the Tales series, or Final Fantasy, or... Well, there were a lot. The list grew every month.

"I try. Some of it's Hiyorin's and Sensei's too."