Dated Friday, June 28th

[a_capella_boy]

Given the late notice he had about Kate's birthday Jesse was a little hard pressed to come up with something to do for her. Given how low key she seemed to want to keep it today though, it wasn't entirely possible. Jesse figured maybe it had something to do with her family not here or something like that, which he could understand. Everyone should have something fun to do on their birthday though.

At work that day, he'd started off by leaving an 'anonymous' note for her. It directed her to the break room where a bouquet of mostly dead flowers he'd found out behind a florist shop were waiting. The next note had a pretty easy to solve riddle that directed her someplace new. That one had a crudely drawn pink flamingo at the bottom, which he hoped would help her realize it wasn't some crazy stalker leaving her the stuff.

There were several more locations, most of them out of the way places only the grunt help like he and Kate knew about or visited, each one with a new treasure hunt note and some little gift. Mostly it was candy or random items he picked up for cheap at the thrift shop like an ornament or a new bathmat.

The last one brought her to the crappy little room they often had to go to if they needed to file something or retrieve a file. It was set up with a completely awesome table he was surprised no one had snatched up from the thrift store after the Furby attack, along with the crappy hot dogs from the cafeteria and two cupcakes he'd bought and decorated to look like eyeballs, one with a candle jammed in it.

Fun, but hopefully nothing too big that made her uncomfortable.

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[everyonetakes]

"You know, it's totally not a very good birthday present to be telling me that my only work friend might be ditching me for a new job," she says, but she's grinning, clearly just fucking with him. "I could like, throw a tantrum and I think it would be totally justified."

[a_capella_boy]

"It would be completely justified," Jesse said with a nod. It was a little cruel, but he figured she could handle it. It's not like they hung out all the time at work. It was nice to see her now and again though.

"But if you did I'd probably distract you somehow and just leave."

[everyonetakes]

"I'm pretty sure you'd have to stay and deal with it," she says, laughing. "Birthday rules say that I get anything I want. At least my birthday rules say that. I should write them all down, then people would be more inclined to remember them."

[a_capella_boy]

"Do you have any other rules for today that I should know about?" Jesse asked. He would actually be okay with doing whatever it is she wanted, especially since her it didn't seem like she had told many other people about her birthday. If he could make it even better for her like that, he would.

[everyonetakes]

"Oh, dude, I don't know," she says, laughing harder now. "I tend to just make them up on a spot as I go along. Like, hey, it's Friday and it's my birthday, so unless you already have other plans, we have to have a birthday night of awesomeness and I don't know how we'd accomplish that, but I'm pretty sure we could do it."

[a_capella_boy]

"Birthday awesomeness for tonight is a go," Jesse said with a nod. He didn't have any other plans, at least not anything he couldn't cancel (because he could always watch movies another night) and hanging out with Kate was a blast.

"And I think we'd have trouble not being awesome."

[everyonetakes]

"Good point. We're pretty much awesome all the time without even trying," she agrees. "Seriously, though, this was really cool of you. Thanks." Kate's not usually very good at saying thank you to anyone, but Jesse seriously deserves it after all this.

[a_capella_boy]

"Hey, any time you have a birthday I'm more than happy to make it awesome," he said, shrugging his shoulders. If she did want to go out and do something though, he could absolutely come through on that.