"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MARCELINE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!"
"Aw, gee thanks guys!" I say.
"Now blow out the candle!" Bonni says in the seat next to me in a cheesy party hat.
I close my eyes and think my wish,
* I wish I could be with Bonni forever *
Then I blow out the one candle on the red-velvet cake Bonni struggled to make for me. I always giggle at the fact that baking sweets is like porn to the candy people.
There's only one candle, but it's a whole lot easier than putting over a thousand of them. And who cares? I only need one wish.
Bonni kisses me on the cheek and says,
"Happy 1014th birthday baby."
"Like, thank you so much." I say, "I really don't deserve all this."
"Course you do!" Finn says with his mouth full of soda.
"Yeah!" Jake says, "A thousand and fourteen awesome years and this is the least we could do. Now let's get to some cake!"
"CAKE, CAKE, CAKE!" Finn chants.
"Okay, okay!" Bonni says, "Let's have the birthday girl cut the first piece."
She gives me a knife, and as I cut into it something squirts in my face.
"Whoa," Finn says, "What didya put in the cake Peebles?"
"Just a ton of strawberry jelly." Bonni says, "I made sure it was set in the cake so that the pressure would build up and when cut into it would spurt into Marci's face to make it look like a bloody surprise."
I lick the jelly near my mouth to, indeed, discover that it is sweet. Yep, that's jelly alright!
I open my eyes to see all the jelly on the table, oozing out of the cake, and probably on my face.
"Awesome!" Jake says.
Yep. This. Is. Indeed. The. Most. Awesome. Thing. EVER!