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[nothinglikea]

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[onebadapple]

You- you would bake a cake for me? No one's ever made me a birthday cake before!

Even with help I know you'll have tried your hardest for me. Oh, Rose, that sounds delightful!

[nothinglikea]

Absolutely! Especially if it's never been done for you before. You'll have a plethora of cakes waiting, since we'll need to fit all of your birthdays into one big celebration.

I will certainly be doing that! How many cakes do you need? One for each year.

[onebadapple]

Oh goodness! I don't know that I can eat 9 cakes! Not unless my seven dwarfs came all of a sudden! [She giggles but there is a hitch in her voice at the thought of her found family coming to Trench and how that would just make her whole world complete.]

One cake for my 16th is more than enough for me.

[nothinglikea]

You have a great deal of friends, I'm sure they'd love to help you eat nine cakes. Even without them. [she says gently]

But your sixteenth birthday will be one to remember. In a good way. I'll make sure of that, at least.

[onebadapple]

Even if my birthday is just the two of us with a tiny cake, I would be happy.

I need to know your birthday, my darling, then I can make sure it is celebrated too!

[nothinglikea]

I'd be content with that as well. Though, I can't help also watching the whole of Trench tell you how much you mean to them.

My birthday is December 31st, so there's always a guaranteed party somewhere, even if it's not about me.

[onebadapple]

We should have a joint birthday! Celebrate the both of us!

[nothinglikea]

Ohhhh, no! You deserve your own day, all to yourself. It's bad enough mine is on New Year's Eve. I insist on giving you your own day for celebrating you.

[onebadapple]

Well, if you're sure? But still, I want to celebrate your birthday too. A new years eve baby! My goodness! How perfect for you!

[nothinglikea]

I'm absolutely positive! You deserve your own day to be celebrated and not have to do any of the work! As for mine, back home it got rather lost in the whirl of society new year's eve parties.

[onebadapple]

I've not celebrated in a long time. I may try to help by accident.

Well, I don't think they celebrate new years eve here. And even if they did, I would make it very clear it's a ROSE birthday party, not a new year's eve one.

[nothinglikea]

And I will tell you that your sole duty is to have fun! To enjoy being with those who care for you!

[blushing and smiling] I would appreciate that. People think it must be fun, sharing a birthday with a major holiday. It isn't. It's frightfully dull, in fact.

[onebadapple]

That's very sweet of you, truly, but I suppose I should be very used to how sweet you are by now!

I think it would be fun to just celebrate in general. I haven't done that since I was six or seven.

[nothinglikea]

Used to it? No, that makes me want to be even sweeter!

[and through a choked up voice] Then you'll have your celebrations! As many as you like. And New Year's is rather popular, I suppose we'll have our pick of parties to go to. Or we could go to all of them!

[onebadapple]

I shan't complain, certainly. But I feel I should do something to match your wonderfulness! I don't wish for you to do everything alone!

Whichever parties we're invited to, it's rude to attend a party without an invitation. But hopefully one of them will be a formal occasion and we can dress in our finest! I look at you everyday and am stunned by your beauty, so I know that you in a ballgown would make it more so!

I'm so sorry, I didn't get the notification!

[nothinglikea]

Well, there's a middle ground between celebrating on my own and celebrating with a crowd. I don't want a crowd, I want you and my other friends.

I would love to see you in a formal gown. You're already breathtaking, I may pass out from your beauty. And you deserve a family which accepts and loves you as well, you know I think that's true.

No worries!

[onebadapple]

A small party with friends, then.

Goodness, if you pass out, shall I try and wake you with a kiss? [She giggled.] I have always wanted a very big family. And... maybe someday we can consider one another each other's family.

❤️

[nothinglikea]

Yes, that's a bit more my taste.

Absolutely! [Rose says with a decisive nod] If you wake me with a kiss, I may try to steal another one. And, it would be nice to have that, even here if we adopt our own family here. I can think of a few possibilities already. And that would be my dearest hope. To be with you.

[onebadapple]

You don't have to steal kisses. [To prove her point, she presses a smiling kiss against Rose's lips.] All my kisses to you are happily given. An endless well of kisses.

[Another kiss just for the heck of it. She finally pulled away, smiling.] I have some I consider family already. Faith is like a big sister and Peter a big brother.

[nothinglikea]

[Rose smiles into the kiss as well] Endless, hmm? [gently teasing] I look forward to finding out.

[and there's nothing wrong with more kisses] Good, good. Though, if I may...can I meet them at some point? I'm not sure I know them.

[onebadapple]

I would love for you to meet them. I've been trying to get us altogether several times now, but Trench seems to think it isn't the time yet.

[nothinglikea]

[ruefully] Ah, Trench. That which can bring people closer together with a complete stranger than they ever would their friend, but also that which likes to put setbacks in place.

[onebadapple]

I'm sure if we try very hard, we can manage! You and Luna are so smart, and Peter is so clever! And I'm very determined. So, with the four of us trying, it is sure to happen.