Tattooed

Double Party

"So what do you want for your birthday?"

Gren looks up from his shelving to see Crowmaster standing next to him with a notebook in hand.

"World peace, and for you and the rest of our mutual friends to stop teasing me every time I get a text from a certain female friend." He responds, earning a laugh from his friend.

"Okay but material wise, like a new pair of pants, potted plants, some books, shirts, a horse?"

"I can't keep a horse in my apartment, and with this job I can't even care for one so cross that off."

"So an exotic potted plant then? Corvus can easily get you that thanks to his girlfriend."

"And have Ginger knock it over after two days? Not a good idea, but thank you."

"Tickets to a musical then?" Crowmaster suggests. "Or some nice pants?"

"Why don't you just surprise me?" Gren asks. "Instead of asking me what I want, you know I like surprises as long as they're not bad ones."

"I'm still getting you a plant."

Gren nods absentmindedly as he pulls his phone out of his pocket to send a message to Amaya, before tucking his phone away in his back pocket. "So who's coming to the party, we need to make reservations."

"Aside from me and Corvus, Runaan and Ethari said they'd go, Ella said she would come as well, so that's six people." Crowmaster responds and slips his notebook into the front pocket of his jacket. "I'm guessing Amaya hasn't responded to your invite yet?"

"I just sent her a message asking her again if she is planning on going, but no response." Gren says and sighs. "I mean if she can't go because she has a show that day, it's fine. I'd just like a confirmation so we could put in the reservation."

"Well I'll put in a reservation at the wings place for seven, in case she says yes." Crowmaster says with a nod. "I'm sure she'll respond soon."

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"Hey, is Amaya alright?" Kazi asks, giving their roommate a worried look. Amaya was laying face down on the couch with her face buried in a pillow with Janai sitting on the floor next to her and holding her hand.

"She's having a small crisis." Janai responds, to which Amaya lifts her head from her pillow and flipped her off. "Hey we don't allow that in the house."

"Oh, why is that?" Kazi asks in surprise. Normally Amaya was so calm and collective with anything, but this was the first time they've seen her like this.

"She can't decide if she should go to Soren's birthday party, which she had been planning for months to go to, or go to Gren's birthday party that is going to be on the same day as Soren's party." Janai explains. "I mean I can understand why this is such a crisis, choosing to go to a very close friend's party or to the party of the person I've been crushing on since- HEY!"

Amaya had flung a pillow at Janai's head and was glaring daggers at her before signing something at Kazi.

"She said to ignore everything you just told me." Kazi translated and gave a nervous laugh. "And she said something very inappropriate I won't translate."

"Typical Amaya." Janai sighs before looking back to her friend. "Look, if you are so worried about offending either of them by not showing up to their parties why don't you tell them the situation. I'm sure Soren wouldn't mind you missing out on his party since it's not on his official birthday and you can always celebrate it with him that day since your sister's family is celebrating it with his. Or if you still want to go to the one we're going to be at, you can spend maybe an hour or two at the restaurant with us and I'll drive you to Gren's and you can spend the rest of the time there. Problem solved. At least maybe text either of the two to tell them of the situation."