Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

There was a party at Caritas today, so Kitty came in early to make sure everything was properly set up. She did most of this alone, since Tino hadn't come in yet.

Right before opening he still wasn't there, and Kitty was a little worried she'd have to serve the whole party by herself.

He showed up five minutes late with Starbucks, and this might be the most Kitty had ever hated anybody.

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[somethingwithturquoise]

For someone who had literally emailed everyone she could access for this party, Summer didn't want to make it seem like it was any sort of big deal or anything, so her own set-up was pretty minimal. She'd brought some jello, of course, and balloons, but that was about it. She just wanted to have a little party back here again for one of the few remain good milestone birthdays of her life, in a place where she could actually do it in a bar, with people she liked.

And it was her birthday, too, so she shouldn't feel guilty about keeping those Summer Smith cocktails flowing.

Re: Back Room

[thatwaslucky]

Summer was really the only reason Rey went to parties, and she was here, and she'd made the mistake of getting a Summer Smith before finding out what was in it. It was... not something she would be doing twice.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Rey!" Summer beamed as she bounced over to the other girl. "You made it! Hi! Oooh, hey, is that my drink?"

Pause. Clarification.

"Not my drink as in it's mine and I'm going to drink it, but my drink as in the one I made up and named after myself."

Re: Back Room

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah. It's.... inspired." That was a word. "Happy birthday!"

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

Hey, Summer recognized that pause, but she was going to take it anyway. She thought they were delicious, anyway, and probably would until about tomorrow morning.

"Thanks! I'm just glad I got a chance to come back and celebrate with everyone. Feels like I've been waiting for this one forever."

Re: Back Room

[thatwaslucky]

"Eighteen years, probably?" Rey guessed.

Re: Back Room

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan hadn't brought much today besides a headache - never carry on a telepathic conversation with angry hive-mind insects - and a hastily-wrapped package under one arm because, shut up, of course he was getting his favorite birthday girl something for the really important one.

... It was possibly the first birthday present he'd ever given anybody, but that wasn't going to stop him from trying.

Even if, ah, it was a blaster pistol. That was a perfectly normal 18th birthday gift, right?

"I never claimed to be good at this," he shared, giving her a little nod hello as he stepped into the back room. "Happy birthday, Summer."

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"BDG!"

It took everything Summer had not to just go over and tackle him with a hug. She was going to be good, she was going to restrain herself, she was...

...going to say fuck it and hug him anyway. Even if it was a little awkward with the box under his arm that shouldn't be there.

"I said no presents."

She...did not sound very upset about there being a present, though.

Re: Back Room

[uncertain_dume]

"It isn't anything fancy," Kanan replied, shrugging into that hug anyway. It was mostly not awkward, even. "Probably needs some tuning up, definitely needs-- well, open it first."

He might've stolen it off a guy on a run back home and had been holding onto it in case he needed a backup.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

Aww, nothing to say you care like a blaster off a dead guy.

"Tuning, huh?" Summer asked, latching onto that particular word as she took the box and narrowed her eyes at it. It was too big to hold the keys to something like, say, a spaceship. Sure, that was an absurd idea, but no one could accuse Summer Smith of not dreaming big.

Of course, he could have just put a small object like keys in a big box to throw her off, but a slight subtle shake revealed far too much weight and volume. Without further prompting, she set it down on a table to start opening it.

"Oh, no way! Is this real?"

She'd pull it out for a closer look, but it didn't seem to be a great idea to start waving around a gun in a bar...

Re: Back Room

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan had never claimed to be good at gifts. Someday he'd give Hera her own family heirloom as a present.

Gifts were hard.

"It's real," he confirmed, shrugging. "I can go over how to maintain it and load it... sometime well after the party and you get whatever you drink tonight out of your system. I have power packs for you too, but they're at home."

There was no way he'd been about to give her a loaded weapon at a bar birthday party.

Re: Back Room

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon had been surprised that he'd received an invitation to another one of Summer's parties, considering he didn't feel that Summer liked him very much.

...so, no, he still hadn't figured out that Summer pretty much just invited everyone.

It seemed rude to refuse an invitation, and he hadn't actually been to the bar yet, so it seemed like a happy combination of things to get him out and about, even if birthdays seemed a little silly to him. But humans only lived a fraction of the life that Zora did...he supposed they wanted to celebrate what little bit they had as much as they could.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Oh, hey, Sidon!"

Summer had no idea that Sidon thought she didn't like him, nor would the idea ever cross her mind, especially since it was borne from this one time she'd yelled at him for dripping water on the carpet at a party where they weren't even really themselves anyway. She was honestly sort of glad that there was a non-human element to the party, because parties kind of felt weird without them now. Plus, being able to say there was royalty at your shindig was always a bonus.

"Thanks for coming!"

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[futurespacemom]

Hera wouldn't miss this, even if she didn't have much of a present. Which, she knew they'd been told not to, but Kanan had brought one, so she had, and what if hers what underwhelming? Or if Summer really didn't want them at all?...she was overthinking this, wasn't she?

"Hi, Summer!" she greeted with a wave.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

Well, Kanan was clearly terrible at following directions, but you certainly weren't going to hear Summer complain about it.

"Hera, hey!" Summer waved back, bouncing over, careful not to spill her very, very, very pink drink. "Thanks for coming!"

Re: Back Room

[futurespacemom]

"Hey there." Hera pulled her in carefully for a hug. "I'm glad you decided to celebrate with us. You're only a year behind me now, you know."

She held out a bag of three small, spiky fruit. "Happy birthday. I love meilooruns, but I bet they'd be great in jello, too?"

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Wait." There was a lot going on in just a few moments, at least for Summer's brain, who was first glad to hug Hera back, and then receive a bag of what she assumed was cool space fruit, and then it hopped back and got stuck on another part that struggled to register.

"What? You're only nineteen??"

BDG had said they had trouble with bars and Hera outside the island, but it didn't quite click just then, obviously.

Re: Back Room

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot hadn't brought a gift for Summer, no.

Peridot was simply walking into the bar, walking up to Summer, and wrapping her arms around Summer's leg.

Summer had left. Who did that?

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

And now Summer had a Peridot on her leg.

Awwww. She missed having a Peridot on her leg.

"Hey, Peridot," she said, grinning down, fighting the urge to just pat the top of her hair. "What's up?"

Re: Back Room

[era_two_triangle]

"You're here. And now that you're here, I have called what I believe is known as dibs until further notice."

Things were so much less sparkly without Summer!

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

It was hard not to feel good about something like that. Summer chuckled, and went ahead and patted the top of Peridot's hair.

"Okay, that's fair," she said. "You can have dibs for the rest of the party. What'cha been up to, Peridot?"

Re: Back Room

[thatsweirdright]

Much like Peridot, Jason didn't have a present. Also much like Peridot, Jason was aiming for a hug as he made his way over to Summer.

Unlike Peridot, Jason's hug would end up a little higher than her kneecaps.

"Hey, you," he greeted. "It's good to have you back." Yes, he'd been vaguely aware that she'd been around during that whole... thing... where all the adults got younger, but because the player was too busy playing a teen-ified adult somehow they hadn't managed to cross paths.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"Heeeey!"

Best thing about this party so far (other than the free drinks named after herself) was easily all the birthday hugs Summer was getting. Yeah. Hugs were nice.

"Thanks, Jason. It's only really for today and tomorrow, and probably back for the Pride stuff this weekend, and, really, I don't even know why I don't just move back already."

Because you made a deal, Summer. Also, being away inspired people to hug you when you visited.

Re: Back Room

[thatsweirdright]

"Right, college," Jason rolled his eyes. "Which is dumb 'cause there's perfectly good colleges like, right across the causeway." Not that Summer's parents were likely to see it that way.

Re: Back Room

[somethingwithturquoise]

"'It's not about college, Summer,'" Summer rolled her eyes back, launching into her best impression of her mother, made all the more effective thanks to having an alcoholic beverage in her hand, "it's about family."

Pretty rich, coming from a lady who didn't even want to have a kid.

"I didn't even really want to go to college, but she promised to lay off if I just gave it a try. Like, sure, being back home for three months is suddenly going to change my mind about preferring to be somewhere that the weird, crazy adventures don't nearly get me killed every other week..."