if these wings could fly for the rest of our lives
Abigail liked birthdays, as if that wasn't painfully obvious as it was! Still, she was excited for tonight. She'd been planning it for like....literally all week long. There were presents to buy and decorations to get and cake! All the cake! She had to get a super duper awesome cake too since Alexis had never had a cake and she wanted her to taste a cake she really really liked. All of it left quite a few conundrums for Abigail to consider. She had only half way paid attention to her classes that morning - those ecological studies paled in comparison to what she knew her evening would consist of. The moment she was free from that establishment, Abigail set to her GREAT GRAND MASTER PLAN. It was going to be epic. Her first matter of business was decorations. AND THEY HAD SO MANY COLORS. There were black ones and silver ones and pink ones and like..every color imaginable. But Alexis said she liked green. So Abigail got green. She got lime green and dark forest green and spring green and maybe one roll of orange because really, green and orange do go good together don't they? They were like..contrasting colors or something. Then it was onto balloons and naturally that was a whole different distraction because there were sparkly balloons and plain balloons and she just HAD to have one that said 'Happy Birthday' on it.

She had perhaps spent equally as long on this whole topic of presents. After all, she knew rather little about the girl and her likes but she did know that Alexis liked books. So she got books. She got a love story and this other book with a bird on the cover and then there was this book that was an utter classic that Alexis absolutely had to have. Abigail even poured over that wrapping paper she used to wrap each and every book she got, resorting to the internet to ensure each corner was perfectly straight, each piece of tape carefully hidden, and each bit of ribbon perfectly curled. And then...there was the cake. The cake was perhaps her singular most important concern because it had to be awesome. She'd considered going classic, maybe vanilla or chocolate but then that left a whole realm of cake flavors left that Alexis simply hadn't tasted! It might have been ridiculous and over dramatic (but then again, when wasn't Abby overdramatic?) but Abigail got them all. More correctly, she'd bought cupcakes. From a nearby little boutique. A dozen, to be precise, in every flavor they could offer her. She had a white cupcake, a yellow cupcake, a chocolate cupcake, a red velvet cupcake, a peanut butter banana cupcake and at least what felt like a bagillion other flavors with a number of other icing combinations. It was a cupcake smorgasbord and yet, Abigail felt entirely pleased with herself.

She had only just finished putting together that bowl of oranges she fully intended to give Alexis (which in itself was a veritable variety of anything orange like, she even included a grapefruit), when the sound of feet on her porch immediately drew her attention. She was here! Ahhh! The party girl was here! It could start! She could only hope the woman enjoyed her birthday and too liked all that effort that Abigail had put in for her. In fact, for once, the were-girl was almost nervous. It would be such a disappointment if she'd failed her newfound friend with her first birthday! She took a small breath to reassure herself before moving to open that door, her features shifting into a near beam at the sight of Alexis. "Happy Birthday!!!" She exclaimed, near pouncing on the girl in an effort to provide her a hug. After all, that's what friends did, right? She took a step back only to regard the stranger at her side with another beaming grin. "Hi there! You must be Raven! It's so nice to finally meet you! Come in!!"