[open] maybe i’ll burn a little brighter tonight

[revelation]

Date & Time: may 5th - 8th
Location: madoka's bakery, now also a new home for some magical girls as well
Characters: homura, kyouko, madoka, sayaka & you???
Summary: with the announcement of renovations, madoka comes up with a brilliant idea! absolutely nothing could go wrong with a bunch of magical girls living together, right? also surprising kyouko for her birthday for her and her friends!
Warnings: language, perhaps but nothing else comes to mind!

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[invocation]

[she isn't really expecting a party, or well. anything. kyouko's birthday typically passed in silence and minimal fuss, if any at all. when she had, offhandedly, given madoka her birthdate, she'd assumed nothing would come of it.

kyouko was of course, very wrong. she makes her way inside the new bakery, and the greeting (rude as it would have been) dies on her lips. she stares at the decorations with blank confusion.]

Huh?

[revelation]

[ and speaking of birthday girls! ]

Ah-! Kyouko-chan, hi. [ ah, that's right the most important part. ] Surprise and happy birthday!

[invocation]

[bewildered, Kyouko raises a hand in greeting, and looks around again, as if she can't believe her eyes.] Birthday? [she has to think...a lightbulb turns on.] You actually remembered that? Damn, are you kiddin' me...?

[but the usual bite in her voice isn't really there. She glances up at a streamer, embarrassed, and crosses her arms. gruffly:] You didn't hafta do this, y'know.

[she's touched though, really.

give her a party hat it'll be rad]

[revelation]

Of course I remembered. [ it's written down in her cute notebook with the cats on it, after all. how could she ever forget? ]

No, I didn't but I wanted too. You deserve it!

[ speak of the devil, her she comes with a party hat (one with polka dot and those color streamers coming out of the top) and smiling! ] Here, you go! It is your party, so you have to have the most fun.

[invocation]

[Kyouko gives the hat a look that could suggest several things, but the primary emotion happening is mild confusion.]

Huh? ...Oh no. I'm not wearing that thing, no way. [...] Make Sayaka wear it. [if anyone could be counted on wearing some ridiculous thing, Kyouko thinks it would be Sayaka. she looks around. red streamers and balloons. snacks.] How long have you been planning this? [like it's a murder conspiracy and not a birthday...]

[revelation]

[ and madoka just looks just as confused. who wouldn't want to wear a party hat on their birthday? ]

But Sayaka-chan is already wearing one, I couldn't make her wear two of them. Besides, I decorated this one just for you. [ she does at least lower the hat away from kyouko as she thinks over the question, really having to think back. ] I probably started planning around, um... the end of March? In April is when I started getting everything together here.

[invocation]

Since March? [How hadn't she noticed that...] Man, you're kinda sneaky, huh? I didn't know you had it in you.

[It's almost admiring, the way she says it. A little awkwardly, she adds:] You didn't have to do this though. I'm not the kinda person who needs parties, or anything, but...

[And even more awkward, she continues:] Uh...

[Thank you???] Where's the cake? [She motions to the hat:] Gimme that.

[She's not going to wear it, but she'll carry it around. Or something.]

slides in here finally

[fortissimos]

You'd better wear it.

[ EMERGING FROM THE DOORWAY and yeah sure enough she's got a party hat on, she didn't even have to be asked twice. Don't be a party pooper, Kyouko, even at your own party. ]

If you don't, I'll make sure you don't get any cake. It'll be easy enough for me to keep it out of your reach. [ Shortass. Madoka would probably make her hand it over eventually, but she's still going to be annoying about it for now. ]