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Who: Rapunzel, Open. Everyone who wants to come to her birthday.
Rating: G? Or PG at most I'd guess.
Where: Probably down by the beach I guess? Wherever Touma and the others organized to have it
Summary: It's Rapunzel's nineteenth birthday and there is, of course, a party. Involving lanterns.

Rapunzel could barely contain her excitement when she woke up that morning. "Today is a very big day, Pascal. It's finally my birthday!" the now-nineteen year old exclaimed excitedly as she held her chameleon friend and pet in a sort of hug. Beyond mentioning lanterns to Eugene and letting Touma organize. Something, she had no idea what to expect. She was just happy it was her birthday and that she got to spend it here at the Garden with her friends and Eugene. She had no idea what to expect, only that it was likely something bigger than her usual birthdays spent with Gothel in the tower. Usually, there would be some sort of present, and perhaps a cake when she was younger, but it was still enough to get the blonde excited. It wasn't your birthday every day, after all. No matter what lay in store, Rapunzel was excited for the prospects of the day and night ahead, perhaps not quite to the almost manic extent as when she had left her tower initially, but she was still elated. Even if the prospect of Gothel showing up couldn't bring her down, not when she potentially had the lanterns (or, some at least) to look forward to. She'd been dreaming about the possibility of seeing them for herself ever since she could remember, watching them from the window of the tower. Today, she just might.

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Whatever happened on that Winhill field trip, Cissie was pretty sure she didn't want to know. The upside? She didn't have to deal with Touma and his incessant whining about "fancy, elaborate" parties - they weren't leaving town! They didn't need to!

Still, the beach looked fantastic. Touma's money had paid for decorations, Pinkie Pie had helped (more like Cissie couldn't tell her no), and she and Eugene had even figured out something with the lanterns! 'Course, she'd let Eugene do the honors, since he technically was Rapunzel's... boyfriend? husband? significant other? Honestly, she wasn't sure how they were connected.

"Hey," she said, once she spotted Rapunzel. "Happy birthday! What do you think?"

Rapunzel beamed, looking around at the decorations and admiring it all. It looked like her friends had put in a lot of work with all of this. It looked great, amazing, though likely even the smallest of decorations would have been fine with Rapunzel. It was more than she had back in the tower, after all. The relationship between her and Eugene was somewhat complicated by the fact Eugene came from further ahead but nonetheless, it was obvious they cared about each other, and they were sharing a room. Boyfriend was probably the best option, if one really had to put a label to their current situation.

"Hey! It looks amazing, Cissie!" the teen exclaimed exchitedly, all but bouncing on the spot at seeing it all. "Thank you so much!"

"It's the least we could do!" She grinned, rushing over and hugging Rapunzel as tightly as she could. "Come on, it's your nineteenth birthday! Why wouldn't we throw a huge party and ask everyone to come?"

Sure, Touma had some fantastic ideas, but cross-country celebrating was not one of them. "We've got your lanterns lined up in the evening, some music right now, your favorite kind of cake..."

She grinned, ticking each one off with her fingers. "It's your first birthday outside the Tower, so we've gotta make up for all the other years for sure."

Rapunzel laughed and returned the hug as tightly in return. "I guess. It's just I've never had a birthday this big before." she admitted, tucking some hair behind her ear as she listened to what they had planned. Lanterns! And cake! But more importantly, lanterns. Part of her was terrified, what if it wasn't as amazing as she had always hoped and dreamed? But still, she doubted they would have managed to find or make as many as those in the sky back home. So maybe it would be unfair to expect as much. All the same, she was excited, and touched that they really had gone to the trouble and effort to sort obtaining some for her.

Oh gosh, that's right... because all of her past birthdays were in the tower, there hadn't ever been a big birthday before. To think, Touma'd wanted them to travel the entire world in one day too! She immediately mentally thanked herself for making him back down, just to keep things (somewhat) under control.

"I hope it's not too overwhelming," she confessed. "Everyone here wanted to be here, we promise."

"It's okay. I mean, there were quite a few people at the Snuggly Duckling and around Corona. I'm not as...jumpy as I was, anymore." Rapunzel admitted, having no idea just how huge this occasion could have gotten without Cissie to keep Touma in line as she bit her lip and Pascal looked around from her shoulder, apparently pretty pleased overall with what he saw had been arranged.

"I just thought, the more people, the more fun it might be, you know? I've never had my birthday with anyone but Gothel before now, so while I have the chance to have it here with everyone, I wanted to make the most of it."

Where I'm meant to be

/sorry for being late!

Never late. It's okay.

you are too good to me ;;

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