Saturday 25/4/15 – BBIIRRTTHHHDDAAYYY!!!

"Wakey, wakey!" I hear the smug voice near my ear.

I wave a hand. "NYEH! Go away!" I say, my words smothered by the pillow.

"No, now wake up."

"Go away bitches!"

"IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!" they yell this so loud in my ear I roll over and fall out of bed. Oh… cruel fate. Stupid Gaara.

When I roll over to face Gaara, Sasuke and Naruto I first stick my finger up at Gaara. "You put them up to this didn't you?"

"Yeah, well I said 'it's her birthday, let her sleep!' But nobody listened to me!" Naruto fumed.

"Which is fair enough." Sasuke countered. "Whoever listens to you?"

"Me," I snap "Now go away so I can get out of my PJ's unless you want to watch me dress." All three boys files out of the room and I don jeans and a T-shirt, putting my blond locks up in a pony tail I storm into the kitchen.

My kitchen is filled with Colours. It almost blinded me. There are presents on the table, they are overflowing onto the couch and spilling out of the cupboards, I twitch, but hide it so they don't notice and go about my daily routine.

I open the fridge and ignore three cakes that had been stuffed in there, and pull out the milk. Yawning I open a cupboard door and step aside so the yellow, orange and green packages didn't hurt me. I pull out the Weetbix and retrieve a bowl from above the sink.

Sasuke and Naruto twitch violently as they watch me pretend all of it wasn't there. Eheheheh… I love annoying them. They deserve it.

When I see them staring at me I look up blankly. "What? Want some WeetBix?" I ask innocently.

Gaara comes forward and gives me a gift, saying happy birthday. I smile warmly. "Thanks Gaara. At least SOMEBODY remembered my birthday." I look at the other two who look like they could strange me. I hug Gaara and make a show of saying how grateful I was that SOMEBODY cared. I told Gaara I'd open his present later. Temari and Kankuro came in later, both with gifts of candles and a cake. I hug Temari and notice Kankuro bore a bandage on his head.

"What happened?" I ask as I lead them into the kitchen.

They step into the kitchen and nearly go blind too. I look at them as if to say 'what?' and I think Temari got the point. Kankuro sat and stared.

"Now, what happened to Kankuro?" I ask, getting their attention by waving madly.

"Oh, the curtain rail broke and landed on his head." Temari said, once she had finished staring at my colourful kitchen.

I go pale. I smile forcefully. "Really?" I manage to get out after finishing choking on my weetbix.

"Yeah, it looked like somebody trod on the long curtain, but of course, Kankuro said he didn't." Temari rolled her eyes. "As if."

Kankuro launched into a speech about how it wasn't him and that someone else did it.

"Oh, so your saying somebody broke into our house to step on your curtain?" Temari countered dryly. Wanting to get off the subject I quickly offered them cake.

"Even though Sasuke and Naruto haven't even WISHED ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I look at them as if to say 'how could you?' "Would you like some cake?"

Naruto snapped. "WE DID WISH YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND IF YOU CARED TO LOOK IN ALL THE PACKAGES STREWN ABOUT THE HOUSE AND THE BANNER WE PUT UP AND THE BALLOONS ON THE CEILING AND EVERYTHING! WE DID WISH YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

I blink. "Oh, that was you?" The look on the two boy's faces was so depressed I had to laugh and hug them. "Don't worry, I'm just getting a little revenge, we'll talk about what for later." I glare at Sasuke. "Your brother broke some news to me." I say glaring at him.

Sasuke went pale. But then recomposed himself quickly.

"So, which cake should we eat?" I ask, opening the fridge and looking overwhelmed-like at all the cakes in the fridge.

"There ice-cream cakes in the freezer." Put in naruto.

I twitch. "Okay, Naruto, you choose then."

He seemed happy about this, and crowded around the Fridge making important decisions about which cake to eat first.

Sasuke smiled evilly. "Ok, but first Sora should open her presents." I pale.

"Oh no. I'm donating THESE to charity, there is no way I'm opening all of your bloody presents!"

Sasuke looked mock-sad. "You're going to give our presents AWAY?"

Temari shook her head. "How mean."

"No- you do NOT understand. They did this to be dickheads! I swear."
Gaara joined in. "Giving somebody lot's of gifts to show they care on one's birthday isn't being a dickhead." He chided.

"But-"

"He's right." Kankuro said. "I wish I would get this many presents."
Naruto and Sasuke grinned evilly. I pout. "FINE! Be that way. I'll open all of your god-damned PRESENTS!"

I huff, and sit down in the comfy chair. "This is going to take a while…"

Well, in all they had given me all the things I would need for their holiday, which they don't know I've already agreed to go on.

I have a whole lot of new winter clothes as well as swimmers and towels and suitcases.

I go at the end. "With all of this you'd think I'm TRAVELLING somewhere." Sasuke and Naruto glare at me. I smile innocently. Gaara and Co. look at me weird.

"Inside Joke…" I say, still glaring at Naruto and Sasuke.

More presents came later; half of them contained a jelly bean, or a Tic-Tac. I think they ran out of things to put in all the boxes they bought, well… Sasuke bought.

"I wrapped them!" Naruto put in when I pointed this out later. Okay, Naruto did all the hard work I guess then.

I really didn't expect any of this, and it was an awesome birthday. I haven't got a birthday present since I was 13. After that Mum stopped caring.

Temari gave me make up. I really hope she isn't hinting anything, Kankuro game me some paints. I'm not touching them. I don't trust Kankuro.

Eventually I told everyone all I planned to do on my birthday was relax and they were ruining it, I told Gaara to stay. But glared at Sasuke and Naruto when they looked at me for an invitation to do the same.

I heard them talking as they left "Well, that went better then planned, she didn't shoot us!"

"Yeah, true, she did respond better then I expected… I'm worried."

"Oh well…"

I grin. They don't know I was coming anyway and I just got a whole lot of stuff anyway. hehehehe…

Gaara and I sat and ate cake for an hour before we felt too fat to move. "Oh god… I hate Naruto… why did he pick the double chocolate mud cake?" I groan.

"No, the question is: why did we EAT the double chocolate mud cake…" Gaara says in return.

We both groan, then laugh, then groan again. "We shouldn't laugh…" I get out.

"Then shut up before you do something stupid…" he says back.

"Hey!" I lift my hand to make a point but can't be bothered so it falls on my face. There is silence. Then we start to giggle.

"I hate you." Gaara says after clutching his stomach and trying not to laugh.

"Me too…" I say in return.

I've discovered lying in the FMSP helps when you've eaten too much cake. FMSP is code for 'Fat Man Starfish Position'. It's basically lying sprawled across the floor on your back. But lesson in this is too never eat Double Chocolate Mud cake.

So Gaara and I lay on the floor watching the ceiling. "Ehh…. I have to wooorkk…" I mumble, try to get up, fail, then lie back down in the FMSP.

"Why did we call this the Fat Man Starfish Position?" Gaara asks.

"Because you were high on cake and I felt like it." I snort. "Gaara high on cake…Must… convince self…. To… work…." After a few minutes of saying "Ok, getting up…. NOW! Ok, wait for it… NOW!" and not getting up, I give up. "Ok, I'm not going to work. I'm sick. And for once it's true."

Eventually we felt a little better and Gaara said he needed to go home before he threw up, and he wanted to aim it for Kankuro's room. After that comment he looked at me. "You know before I met you I wouldn't even think of saying something like that?"

"Yeah, you've spent too much time around me. Now scat." I say.

He shrugs. "Happy Birthday Sora." And walks away, I turn and close the door, walking into the brightly coloured kitchen.

There is still a small box on the counter, I sigh and pick it up. "I swear Naruto, if there is a Tic-Tac in here I'll- oh…" I stop in my tracks.

There in the box was a small pair of earrings, studs, small silvers ones, I pulled them out and underneath the velvet that they were in was a small piece of paper.

'Sora,

Happy 16th

Gaara.'

Well, the card wasn't exactly a vow of friendship but if you expect that from Gaara you also expect Sasuke to go to school and recite poetry. I put the box down and rush outside, ignoring my stomach's plea's for going back into the FMSP. "GAARA!" I yell, he stops and turns.

"What?" Before he can say anything I run and slam into him, hugging him. "Ow…" he gets out.

"Thank you so much!" I say.

"The thing is I know you really mean if because you came out of the Fat Man Starfish Position too hug me. But now you've upset my stomach…"

"Oh, sorry…" I recoil. "Let's never eat anything Naruto chooses ever again."

Gaara nods agreement. "Deal. Now scat."

I smile. "See you soon!"

And jog half way to the house, before thinking better of it and groaning. I hear a muffled laugh from Gaara. He saw that… damnit.

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