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16. Purple

Later that afternoon, Lindsay went to Lucy's school and picked up Lucy and her friends, Kaelyn, Brooklyn, Lexi, Chloe and Henry to take them back to the apartment for Lucy's birthday party. Lindsay had spent most of the day cleaning up and decorating the place with balloons, everything in the color purple, Lucy's favorite color. As they walked into the apartment, Lucy said, "Wow mom, you sure did a great job decorating!"

"Thanks sweetie," Lindsay replied.

Lucy gave her mother a funny look for calling her 'sweetie' in front of her friends, and they headed to the living room to talk and play poker. At five, there was a knock at the door; Lindsay grabbed the money to pay for what she assumed to be the pizzas, but when she opened the door, Danny was standing there with the pizzas, having met him downstairs.

"Danny!" Lindsay exclaimed in surprise, "What are you doing here? I thought you had to work!"

"I do," he replied, "Mac sent me home for a few hours to spend time with Luce on her birthday."

"When do you have to be back?" she asked.

"Six. Hey Luce! Pizza's here!" he said to his daughter, who turned around in surprise seeing her dad in the kitchen.

"Dad, you got off work!" she exclaimed in happiness as she ran up to him and gave him a hug. "Thanks," she said as she grabbed the pizzas from him, and she grabbed a few paper plates and went back to sit down with her friends.

After they were finished eating the pizza, Lindsay grabbed the cake out of the freezer, Chocolate Ice Cream Cake is what Lucy had decided she wanted as her cake this year, with Oreo crumbles on top. After lighting the candles, everyone began to sing "Happy Birthday" and she blew out the candles, but one stayed lit.

"Uh-oh Lucy!" declared her friend Kaelyn. "Who's this guy you have on a crush on?"

"Nobody!" Lucy said, even though by the redness of her checks, everyone knew she was lying. The cake was then cut, and afterwards it was time to open presents.

Lucy's friends gave her a variety of things, gift cards to her favorite store, new clothes, and the latest hot boy band CD. The gifts from her parents would be opened at another time. Lucy was more than satisfied with all her presents, thanked her friends, and Lindsay took everyone home as Danny left to return to work.

Once Lindsay and Lucy returned home, Lucy began to start her home work; she had gotten a whole week's worth since they were leaving the next morning and would be gone for a week, and had decided that she didn't want to do all of it in Montana.

"Lucy, you sure you want to do that all night tonight? We have a long plane ride tomorrow that you can do your homework on," Lindsay said.

"Yeah, I'm just going to start some of it, until Dad gets home again," Lucy replied.

"He should be home in a few hours," Lindsay said, "We'll open the rest of you presents then."

Two hours Danny walked in the door, bearing gifts from Mac, Stella, and the rest of the team. Before they went to bed, they opened the rest of Lucy's gifts, tickets to a Yankee's game from her parents like every year since she was five, were amongst the gifts. Then, even though it was still relatively early, they went to bed; they had an early flight out to Montana the next morning.