Sometime after one o'clock that afternoon, Fonzie came over once again. Even Ralph and Potsie were there as well.

Fonzie opened the door for his friends, and they both were able to say thank you. He is really a gentleman.

"Hello, guys," Richie greeted his friends.

"Good afternoon, Richie. Have you figured out what you will be doing this afternoon?"

"Of course not, Ralph. I'm not sure what I can do since it's my birthday," he answered.

That was true what he had just said and it didn't take his friends very long enough to figure this out.

"We have a surprise for you, Cunningham," Fonzie told his friend.

"I told Lori Beth nothing special."

"This is different," Potsie replied.

"Why is this year going to be different?"

"Do you want to figure this out now, Richie, or do you want to wait until later?" she asked.

"Now is fine," Richie answered.

"You guys come over here," Lori Beth told them.

They followed her into the kitchen. She whispered as softly as she could do Richie wouldn't be able to hear about the cakes and cards.

He did hear a whisper or two, but wasn't able to figure out what she was telling his friends. Whatever it is, it better be good.

Now everyone was able to rejoin him in the living room. He still wondered what they were hiding from him, bur he will know sooner or later.

"We'll be back in a few minutes, Richie," Potsie said.

Both Ralph and Fonzie followed him. They had kept their cakes and cards in the car. Fonzie was with his friends because he wanted to bring in his own cake and card.

They returned shortly after that.

Now Richie was starting to get the idea of what surprises they had for his birthday today. They were surprising him with more than just Lori Beth's cake and card.

Then he watched he friends sneak through the back door, but didn't quite catch what they were doing in the kitchen with Lori Beth. But he would find out.

That's when his friends walked into the living room again. Then Richie saw his friends had cards in their hands.

"Happy birthday," Ralph told him as he came closer.

"Thanks, Ralph. I suspect those are birthday cards for me."

"That's right," Lori Beth told him.

"Is it okay I open them now?"

"Yes," Fonzie answered.

Then they handed him the cards. He decided to open Fonz's card first.

"Read the card to us," Potsie said.

"If you want me to."

"We do," Ralph said.

So he did. Here is what the card read:

"Hope you have a nice day, my good friend. I think of you as family, and our friendship will go on until death do us apart. My life would never have been brighter on my life."

So he stopped reading.

"That's a nice card, Fonzie," Richie said when he put it down on the table.

"It was a good one," Lori Beth agreed.

When Richie almost put the card on the table, some money fell on the ground.

"I can pick that up," Richie told his friends.

"Now read mine," Ralph told him.

Fonz's card had a man and woman holding hands and they were kissing. Fonzie thought that one was good so he chose it out. The card also had the man handing the woman a stuffed teddy bear and also a piece of cake.

"Glad you like it, Cunningham."

Next he opened Ralph's card.

Here's what his card said:

"To my good friend. We had lots of fun in the past several years along with a lot of jokes we shared.

"Since it's your birthday, I hope you have many more to come. I would like to throw you and your cake in the dump and you will be covered with dirt and chocolate frosting. Just joking and happy birthday."

"Thanks, Ralph," Richie said as he laughed.

"Can I see it, Ralph?" Lori Beth asked.

"Sure," he said and passed it to her.

She read the card and gave it a good laugh. She laughed until she cried.

"That's a good one," she told him.

"Open mine next."

Richie took Potsie's card.

"I hope you like it," he told Richie.

They watched as he opened the envelope.

"Want me to read it?"

"Please," everyone said at the same time.

Here is what he read:

"Happy birthday, my friend.

"May your wishes in your birthday come true. As we get older, we don't remember much anymore about the past life we had.

"I would be your friend, and the past friendship had a lot of negative and positive memories. Let us keep these memories in our life forever and ever."

Then he stopped.

"Thanks, Potsie. That was a very nice card," Richie told him.

"I knew you would like it."

"We're going out to eat tonight. I hope that's okay with you," she told him.

"That's fine. We can leave soon."

"We aren't having dessert out tonight. We're having it here."

"I thought I was smelling cake earlier."

"You have. Since it's your birthday today, you can have as much cake as you want."

"Thanks. Do you guys want to come with us tonight?" Richie asked his friends.

They all looked at each other.

"Tiffany is making dinner tonight, but I have to wait until next time if that's okay with you."

"We don't mind."

"I just thought of something," Fonzie said.

"What?" Ralph asked as he itched the back of his head.

"You all can come to my place for dinner. How does that sound?"

"What do you think?" he asked her.

"That's fine with me. I will stay here with the kids."

"We'll come back when we're done," Fonzie said.

"I like that. Call me when you're going to leave."

"I will."

Then he followed his friends and was gone.