Birthday Blues

Levy was having a really great birthday until Lucy changed that situation.

Levy had been enjoying her birthday this year, for once. How had it gone so wrong?

Jet and Droy had dropped off their present for her a couple of days before; they were leaving on their honeymoon and wouldn't be able to celebrate with her. The shape, size, and weight of the package led her to believe it was a book.

She'd had enough control to wait till this morning to tear the wrapping paper off. She discovered the beautifully crafted book of folk tales from Aurum. She'd sighed and tried to move one of the books from her night stand to a place on her shelves, only to realize she was out of shelf space and added the old book to one of the stacks next to her book cases. She'd returned to look over her newest acquisition and found the card her friends had stashed inside the front cover. Inside the card, besides their well wishes and congratulations on another year older, was a bill of sale. There, written down in a hasty hand, was proof that they knew her too well. They had fully paid for a new book shelf to be delivered the day after her birthday.

Lucy had shown up while Levy was still in her pajamas looking through her book and letting her coffee get cold. It only took a little prodding from Lucy to get Levy out the door for a fun morning of bagels and book stores. They'd browsed through a couple of Levy's favorite used book shops and a new store that Lucy had discovered the week before. Then Lucy surprised Levy at the stationary store with a personalized seal and a box of spelled waxes and inks.

Levy sighed, she'd been having such a good day, but now? Now she was planning a way to kill her girlfriend while making it look like an accident. Lucy just laughed at the scowl on Levy's face.

"Come on, Lev you had to know this was coming!" Lucy said as she looked at her under the ridiculous paper hat the restaurant had crowned her with. "As your best friend, and your girlfriend, it's my job to embarrass you in public on your birthday."

As the restaurant employees began their singing Levy promised herself one thing: Lucy would pay for this!