>>66337127>"Happy birthday Sweet tooth. Your friends wanted to surprise you." he smiles at us, clearly happy with our effort put in.>"Y-you guys?!" she exclaims, holding her hand over her chest and face scrunching up. Trish pats her on the back as well and beams up at her. We all huddle together as Naser gets a kitchen torch out to light the candles. The cursory happy birthday song sung and candles blown out it's time to cut the cake and exchange gifts.>Rosa goes first, a small set to make your own wristbands. Stella next, a few blank CDs and a usb-drive CD-reader/burner. Rip and Sam got her a gift card to the music store we'd stopped at and Naser got her a card to some strangely named store. Trish leans in and tells me it's where they go clothes shopping. Trish next and she presents Fang with some VVURM DRAMA stickers. I glance over them and note these are certainly not designed by her and am rather impressed with their actual quality.>Seems that I get to go last and I simply take out the small wrapped package, handing it to Fang.>"Awww cmon dweeb I know you're poor. You didn't have to get me anything." she says, eagerly tearing the package open.>I shrug "Felt bad to just show up empty handed so I at least got you something." >The picks fall into her hand as she dumps them out of the package. "Oh dude sweet I lose these all the-" she pauses as she holds one up to the light. She squints and brings it close to read it.>"...dweeb." she says, her voice breaking slightly as she steps forward to pull me into a kiss. I spy Ripley out of the corner of my eye. He's not pleased. Stella and Rosa coo at the two of us. We separate before Sam or Rip forcefully does.>Fang quickly looks over the picks again noticing the pink one. I begin to open my mouth to say something about that one not being my first choice but she speaks before I can.fucking literally one paragraph more cont.