Bones sat up in bed, he looked at Spock's alarm clock, it had the date and it read,

March 18 6:01

Great. He thought. Jim groaned and sat up.

"Morning, Bones. Whta's today?"

"Uhhh, Thursday." He said. I hope he forgot.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BONES!" Yelled Jim.

"Why do you have to do that" Bones said. "Can't you wake up slowly instead of instantly being hyper, like a normal person?"

Spock entered the room.

"Where were you?" asked Jim.

"I required materials from the library for class this morning, so I went and got them." He said.

"Aren't you going to say 'Happy Birthday' to Bones?" Asked Jim.

"I see no logical reason to celebrate the day of one's birth." Said Spock.

"Thank God!" said McCoy, flopping back onto the bed.

"Oh, come on, Bones. Get a little excited, we get to party!"

"I don't want to party, I want to pretend that it's not my brithday." said Leonard, sitting up.

"One thing puzzles me, Leonard." said Spock. "Why do you not wish to celebrate your birthday? I might not see a reason to, but it is a human tradition."

"I have never, ever enjoyed my birthday." said Leonard.

"Why?" asked Kirk.

"Four years old, neither parent was around, spent birthday with my grandma who made me a fruitcake. Five, no presents, crashed on my bike and had to go to the doctor to fix the massive scrape on my face, Six, had the flu, Seven, Chicken pox because my mother didn't think a chicken pox vaccine was nessesary vaccination. Eight, Dad forgot my birthday, Nine I nearly drown. Need I continue?"

"So some of your past birthdays haven't been that great, big deal." said Kirk, "THis one will be different, We can go down to the Launching Pad and..."

"No, no, no, no. I am not leaving campus today. At all." Said Leonard

"But-" Began Kirk.

"Nope, Putting my foot down on this one, We are NOT celebrating my birthday."

"Hey Leonard! Wait up!" called Uhura later that day. He stopped and let her catch up.

"Happy Birthday, Bones." she said, He groaned.

"Sorry." He said, "I'm just really sick of people saying that."

"Yeah, James said you didn't like your birthday." She said. "But I still think he's right."

"About what?"

"That you're letting the past influence today, before you've always been in Georgia on your birthday, the people around were your family. Now you're here, wiht us, maybe you should give your birthday another chance. Besides," she smiled, "It would force Spock to go to a party."

"That might just be worth it." said Bones, "I'll think about it Uhura."

"Hey, Bones." said Kirk later. "I'm going to the Launching Pad, wanna come." Bones raised an eyebrow, then realized that's what Spock did and dropped it.

"Relax, I'm just going becasue I want to, it has nothign to do wiht your birthday." Said Kirk.

"Might as well." said Bones, "Let's go."

Ten minutes later they went into the bar, Kirk immediatly dragged him over to a table where everyone was, UHura, Scotty, Chekov, everyone. Even Spock.

"Happy Birthday!" everyone said.

"Honestly, Did you think we were going to let you off?" Said Kirk, he grabbed a lighter sitting by a cake on the table and lit the candles. Everyone started to sing. When the song was over Bones blew out the candles.

"Vhat did you viSh for?" asked Chekov.

"A chance to get Jim back for this." he said. "But as long as I'm here, might as well enjoy it." Everyone laughed.

"Bones, BONES!" Yelled Jim.

"Wha-" Bones at up in bed, he looked ta the clock, Seven A.M.

"It is fortunate that your first class do not begin until eight today." said Spock.

"Yeah." he said. "Hey Jim, Thanks for being a jerk and ignoring that I said I didn't want a party, I had a lot of fun."

"Me too." said Jim. "You like the jacket I got you?"

"Yeah, It's even got the old Georgia flag on it. And thank you for the book, Spock."

"I was informed it was traditional to give a person a gift on their birthday, and I thought it was best to honor your Earth traditions, however illogical. Which is why I was there last night" said Spock.

"Yeah, sure, I'll bet you had fun."

"I cannot expirence fun."

"Sure you can't." Leonard got out of bed, "You two both have class in ten minutes, you should get going."

"See you later, Bones!" said Kirk, and he and Spock left.