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Surprise party! [Backdated to Saturday evening]

Character(s): Fang Yun Oerba, Hope Estheim, Lightning Farron, Sazh Katzroy, Serah Farron, Snow Villiers, Vanille Dia Oerba, Damian Razem, and anyone of Hope's friends.

Location: Empty classroom on second floor.

Rating: PG-13, I think.

Open/Closed/Finished: Semi-Open

Summary: Hope's birthday! Enough said. :3

Somehow they'd managed to keep all this a secret from Hope; she and Snow had told him they'd take him out for dinner in Fisherman's Horizon whenever he'd asked, and it had kept him from asking very many questions. But now it was the big evening and Lightning was waiting for Hope by the stairs, hoping to meet him there and corral him up into the classroom where the others were waiting to surprise him. Hopefully their luck would hold and this would go off without a hitch.

...Hopefully.

[ooc: mingle as you please~ Lightning will lead Hope to the classroom, and then feel free to mingle under the "surprise!" thread. Play nice, now~! :3]

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Whenever Hope came down, he'd see Lightning leaning against the wall just watching the people in the area and glancing at her watch every now and again, waiting patiently for him to come downstairs without a word.

Hope had put on a fresh set of clothes, washed up nicely and brushed his wispy hair. He took a few steps down towards the party and saw Lightning. He hurried down the stairs, desperate not to trip on himself.

"Hey Lightning! I'm ready! He said, looking up at her.

Lightning turned at the sound of Hope's voice and smiled faintly, pushing off from the wall as he hit the lower level of the steps. He certainly cleaned up well. Now it was just time to put the plan into motion.

"Then we'd better get going. You don't want Snow to eat all the food at the restaurant, do you?"

She said that with a light tone, then stopped suddenly, acting surprised.

"I just remembered I left something upstairs. Do you mind coming with me to get it? It shouldn't take long."

You may think that Hope would be suspicious of this... 'Lightning forgetting something' nonsense but actually he trusts her with all his might and will quite happily go along with this plan. Hope follows after her, as she strides towards her room.

"What did you forget?" He asked, his smile sweet and small. "'Cause I kind of don't want Snow to eat all the food. Could you imagine trying to bring him home after he ate too much?" he laughed, imagining them both struggling to lift the six foot seven giant out of a chair.

"Something I wanted to give you, besides your present." She's got her back to him as they head upstairs, and though her relief may not be very obvious, what is obvious is that they're not heading for the dorms but for the upper classrooms. That's probably going to strike Hope as odd any second now, so when she speaks it's to distract him.

"We could always just roll him down the street if we had to. It'd be easier than carrying him back." Especially if he passed out on the way back; she remembers him doing that on the way to Hope's place back in Cocoon and they both toppled over that day.

"Did you leave it in your desk?" He said as they were moving up towards the classrooms. When the mental image of rolling Snow down the hill came to him. He laughed aloud again.

"It'd be funny to say the least!" Hope said with a chuckle.

"Yeah, I did." Not quite, but the surprise was in the classroom so it wasn't a total lie. And since it wouldn't take much longer to get there...well, for now she'd just chuckle in amusement and nod her head.

"We should ask someone for a video camera before we head out, just in case we end up having to do that." Because if that ever happened, Serah would undoubtedly like to see it.

"Maybe the photo lab will supply one. I mean, the students would love to see their martial arts instructor being rolled down the hill!" Hope couldn't help laughing harder. This was going to be a fun night. He could tell already.

"Shall I wait outside?" She might be doing reports like Snow was.

"It would definitely boost morale for a while, at least. A laugh would do us all some good at this point." And it was good to hear Hope laughing again; he needed to laugh more often, really.

But here they were, right outside the class, and Lightning found herself hoping this would go off with a hitch. It just had to.

"No, you can come in. I meant it when I said this won't take long." And since the classroom was dark, it was impossible for Hope to make out the table as Lightning got the door, stepping in to put one hand on the light switch. If she could smell the food and the cake from here...Hope probably could, too. He was hoping the others were in place.

And now, the meat of the night's "course", as it were. Time to knock Hope's socks off when all he's probably expecting is a simple dinner with his family.

Fang had to admit that the classroom didn't look half bad for how little notice they'd had. They'd gotten a string of lanterns from the Garden Festival Committee, who were apparently also the Unofficial Random Decorations Committee, and earlier she'd snuck out onto Fisherman's Horizon and gotten what was apparently more traditional in birthday decorations - a few balloons, a couple of streamers, and a random Moomba doll that was sitting on the desk chair. It wasn't really like any birthday decorating she'd ever seen, but whatever. She certainly wasn't about to argue.

She did, however, think it was silly to turn off the lights while they waited for Hope and Lightning to arrive. Her comments about it had been shushed though, and Fang had shrugged and set herself to hide behind a desk. Sort of. Her head was peeking out - hey, she still wanted to see what was going on and all.

"I hear 'em," she muttered just about a second before Lightning opened the door. The moment the lights flooded the room, she got to her feet, joining everyone in shouting out the surprise.

Of course they shushed it, Fang! Turning the lights off is traditional!

Snow had hidden behind the door, by virtue of being too damn tall to hide anywhere freaking else in the room. So when the lights go on, he stepped around it, grinning as he joined in the chorus of "Surprise! Happy birthday!"

Hope's face was the picture of surprise when the lights went up. He beamed at his friends and though his body language was quite confused you could tell this was the happiest he had been in a long time.

"Thanks guys!" He called back once they'd all settled down again. His smile brightened again as he took in the decorations, the people and the food he could smell.

Sazh moved from behind the desk he had just jumped out of as he yelled. He made his way over to Hope, making a mental note to do something like this for Dajh sometime.

He gave Hope a friendly pat on the back as he smiled down at him. "Happy birthday, kid. Make sure you have fun now, all right?"

The lights had gone on, and Vanille had sprung out from her own hiding place, running across the room almost immediately to deliver unto Hope the most cheerful of birthday hugs she could manage.

"Happy Birthday, Hope!"

With just about everyone else having sprung the surprise or come over to give Hope their own birthday greetings, it was probably no surprise that, once the others had retreated, Lightning came over to put a hand on his shoulder, smiling fondly.

"Happy birthday."

"I couldn't get any chocobos to do a festive dance for you," Snow said, half-sitting on a desk with a grin. "But I figure the sentiment's there."

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