AN: Hello, and welcome back to Gormiti Love 2! Hopefully I should be able to write this out a lot quicker than ROTLON *fingers crossed*
Prompt/word: birthday
Couple: BlizzardStormshipping (Toby/Jessica)
Ages Jessica - 14 (she has her birthday!)
Toby, Nick and Lucas - 13
Set during: Season 3 Episode 5 - "Curse of the Winds"
When Toby woke up on the morning of March 11, it didn't occur to him straightaway that it was his girlfriend's birthday. As soon as it did, he sat up bolt upright in bed. Today had to be perfect. It just had to be.
The first part of his plan was easy. He had to get Jessica out of the house and keep her away for a few hours. Luckily he had texted Gina about a week before and asked her to arrange a surprise shopping trip for the two of them. This would give himself, Nick and Lucas enough time to prepare the surprise they had for her.
Once Jessica had left the house with Gina, the latter having been assured that he would text her to let her know when they could come back, the boys headed to the kitchen.
"So, uh, how do we go about this?" Lucas asked, holding up a recipe book. Step two of the plan was to bake her favourite cake: chocolate gateau.
"We follow the recipe." Nick responded before adding firmly, "Isn't that right...Toby?"
"Wha-" Said boy had been busy gathering ingredients from the cupboards. He looked up, narrowly avoiding giving himself concussion, and quickly said, "Of course! How hard can it be?"
Just because he had once set the kitchen on fire due to having deviated from the recipe!
The boys set to work making the cake mixture. The ingredients were mixed together in a mixing bowl before being poured into cake tins. Nick had prepared the oven beforehand so it was at the right temperature. He had taken the responsibility of keeping an eye on the oven and the clock so that the cake wouldn't burn.
Once all the cake tins they needed were filled, they were carefully placed in the oven. Nick switched the timer on and sat down on a stool, his eyes intently watching the oven. Lucas meanwhile set to work making the icing for the cake - chocolate, of course - while Toby busied himself with licking the cake mixture off the bowl. To his surprise, it tasted a little funny. He put it down to the fact that he wasn't fully recovered from his cold and his taste buds weren't quite up to par yet.
A couple of hours passed by and the cake was finally ready. They had pulled it out of the oven, wearing gloves of course, and had allowed it to cool for a little then iced each layer before sandwiching them together. The topmost layer had the most icing and had fourteen candles stuck into it.
Toby texted Gina letting her know that she could bring Jessica back. The text he got back confirmed that Jessica still didn't suspect a thing. If anything, she seemed to think they'd all forgotten.
When Gina dropped Jessica off with a considerable amount of shopping bags, he announced that they were going in the pool. The cake had been safely hidden away from sight - no need to ruin the surprise.
Needing to go to Gorm hadn't exactly been part of the plan. While in the pool, Jessica had playfully pushed him and Nick around with her wind powers, only for the wind to suddenly become as hot as lava. At least it would be easier to pretend that they didn't remember her birthday now that there was saving Gorm and Earth to focus on.
It had been awful seeing her suffering under the terrible curse Magor had inflicted on the Air Nation. Yet, despite her initial worries, she refused to give up. It was one of the qualities he both loved and hated about her - her unerring stubbornness.
He had volunteered himself to help her in an instant, knowing that she would have put all of her trust in him without her sight. She never had been very good at trusting people, except him. He knew she trusted him implicitly. He would not let her down.
Together, though it was really all her, they saved Gorm and Earth through the use of her brand new power - a glacial wind. After the heated wind from earlier, the cold wind was painful on his skin but a lot more welcome.
When they returned home, he exchanged glances with Nick and Lucas. Their faces told him they agreed with him.
It was time.
Still under the pretense that they didn't know what day it was, he and Nick walked into the kitchen. He had to fight to control his laughter as Jessica started complaining about how they had all forgotten her birthday and all they cared about was filling their stomachs.
"Surprise!" all three yelled, grinning widely. It took both him and Nick to hold the cake between them. Her expression morphed from annoyance to surprise and gratitude.
"No, wait!" she exclaimed, hands flying to her face as she sprung up off the sofa. "Forget what I said! I didn't mean it! You guys are the best!"
She opened her mouth and took a deep breath to blow out the candles. Instead Toby, Nick and the cake were treated to an icy wind that left the latter frozen solid.
Despite their hard work on making the cake, the boys saw the funny side and began laughing along with her. They'd heard of an iced cake but never an ice cake!
Later on, he approached her when they found themselves alone in the kitchen doing the washing up. "So did you enjoy your birthday?" he asked casually, having gifted her with a collection of CDs by her favourite music artists. It wasn't the best present ever but she had been grateful all the same. Still, he had found himself wishing that he could afford to buy her a better present. But he was saving for something truly special.
"Yeah," she smiled as she dried some plates. "I did. Although I genuinely did think you'd all forgotten at one point!"
"Hey, we'd never forget your birthday!" he laughed as he put away the plates she passed him. On a whim, he opened the food cupboard and nearly fell over with laughter as he said, "You know, it's probably a good thing you froze that cake after all!"
She raised an eyebrow. "Salt instead of sugar?" she asked wryly.
"Yep," he responded, popping the 'p'. "Trust me to make a stupid mistake like that, eh?"
"It was the thought that counted. It was really sweet of you guys to bake it for me in the first place!" she smiled as she finished washing the cutlery.
He smiled back. "We all know how much you love chocolate, especially chocolate cake!"
Out of nowhere, he felt her arms wrap around him. "Thank you," she whispered gratefully.
"For the cake?" he questioned as he hugged her back. He knew that hadn't been what she had meant, of course, but making jokes was something he excelled at. "You can make it up to me in two weeks."
"And a day," she reminded him. "You always forget the extra day!"
He rolled his eyes before kissing her cheek. "Why do you always have to remind me about that? Nobody cares about the extra day, you know. If someone asked how old we were, I'd say I was two weeks younger than you, not two weeks and a day!"
"Do you want me to plan a surprise for your birthday or not?"
"Of course!"
"Then hurry up and put the cutlery away. I've been holding it for ten minutes now."
"Oh, that's your other birthday present, didn't you know?"
"Toby..."
"Only kidding! Love you!"
"Toby! Get back here!"
"What? I said I was jok-"
"Love you too."
"If you do that on my birthday, I can honestly say it would be the best birthday ever."
"Oh, shut up."
AN: And we're done with another oneshot! Yay! I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you guys next time!
