Chapter 27: Rebecca's Birthday
An early morning, everyone was up and busy but Rebecca.
It was her birthday.
"Hurry blow up the balloons." Regina ordered.
"Stop hurrying me and get to it as well." Sasuke complained.
"Shut up. I've been doing it since morning. Now it's your turn to do it."
"I woke up earlier than you…"Sasuke mumbled.
"Just get to work. I've got a more important job, which is to supervise."
Regina walked around to get things done faster.
"Jonathan! What design are you making for the piñata?" Regina went over to inquire.
"Tiger," Jonathan replied.
"Make sure no drool gets in."
"Don't doubt my ability."
"I've got to make sure if not it turns out the same way for Konan's birthday where the entire drool splat all over."
"Yes, yes…"
Regina then walks her way through the hall and corridor while making sure that the decorations on the walls were put up nicely. Deidara was in charged of the decorations.
"Satisfied?" Deidara came up to her and asked.
"Hmm, it's acceptable. You'll be officially in charged of all decorations from now on." Regina replied. "Put up more purple and blue crepe paper. Her favourite colour."
"Alright."
Regina carried on and walked over to the kitchen.
"Hey, how's the cake coming along?" Regina asked Konan sweetly.
"It's fine, blueberry cake right?" Konan confirmed.
"Yep. How long more is the cake going to be done?"
"Soon, in about an hour more."
"Pein, please whisk the egg white properly or the cream wouldn't come out nicely."
"Don't you dare command me to do anything." Pein glared.
"Too bad, today I'm in charge." Regina grinned and walked over to Hinata who was preparing the food.
"Just bear with it. She knows Rebecca better." Konan consoled Pein while he just grumbled.
"What food are you preparing now?" Regina peeped over at what Hinata was preparing.
"Bake rice now. The sushi and ice cream is already done." Hinata replied.
"Don't forget the fried chicken wing and the prawn tempura."
"And the fish and chip right? Don't worry; I've got all those on my to-do list."
"Thanks, I knew I could count on you. Carry on; I'll be going around supervising on them."
When Regina walked out and came to the foot of the stairs, Regina saw that Rebecca was already up when the preparations were still yet to be done.
"Rebecca! Why are you up so early?" Regina forced a smile on her shock face and tried to stall for time.
"I just woke up. No reason." Rebecca answered groggily.
"Why don't you go back to sleep first and get more rest?"
"It's ok."
"No, I insist that you go."
"Why?"
"Oh, because, Happy Birthday!"
"Thanks." Rebecca grinned and got pushed back into the room.
Finally Regina got more time on her hand; she went to rush everybody to speed up since the birthday girl is awake.
"Hurry, Rebecca is already awake. She's not going to stay in her room forever you know." Regina went round and told everybody.
Everyone got the message and started to work faster. They managed to complete all their work in half an hour.
Regina went up the stairs to bring Rebecca down to start the whole party.
"Happy Birthday, Rebecca!" Everyone chorused when she appeared in the living room.
Rebecca was shocked when she saw all the decorations that she hadn't noticed before.
"Thank you, everyone." Rebecca thanked everybody.
"Well, then let the party commence." Regina announced.
The party started, everyone ate and played games till it came to the finale.
The piñata and presents!
"Here, I did the piñata myself." Jonathan presented his present, the piñata, in front of Rebecca.
"Tiger! MY favourite!" Rebecca exclaimed.
"Let me hang it up so u can hit it. Remember to keep the blind fold in place!"
It didn't take a long time for Rebecca to hit open the piñata and sweets spilled out of it. All of those were her favourites.
"I prepared those sweets myself too!" Jonathan grinned.
"Thank goodness there isn't any saliva in it." Regina murmured.
Next was the presenting of presents. Konan and Pein gave her a bracelet while Regina gave her a necklace to go with it.
Sasuke gave Rebecca an empty ring box and promised to get ring when the time comes.
Zetsu presented Rebecca with a cactus plant and made her promise him to take good care of it. Kisame and Itachi gave her a brand new sword they made themselves. The rest of the Akatsuki members gave her soft toys which she accepted gleefully.
They spent some more time chatting away about the preparations in the morning but also how well the party went. Only then when Rebecca yawned that they decided to head to bed.
"Once again, Happy Birthday Rebecca!" Everyone wished Rebecca before they leave for their rooms.