somethingwithturquoise | MHA #8; Saturday Evening [01/13]

There had been a handful of oh-so-handwavey flyers popped into the most obvious spots, but Summer was relying heavily on the age-old method of massive group texting (and general word of mouth) to let everyone know about Stark's birthday party tonight at his apartment because it really was just going to be a super chill, lowkey, casual sort of fling this time around.

She'd spent the majority of her prep work in splashing the apartment with decorations (blue and gold and black again) and bmaking a variety of different jello shots in pie and cupcake and other dessert-like forms, so, needless to say, she definitely ordered out for the the cupcakes themselves.

Other snacks and drinks were also available and moddable, and there was also a very moddable but totally curated, for real, music playlist, and she'd even dusted off the karaoke machine from the GxG birthday party years ago and dragged that up, just in case anyone was feeling up to getting that going.

Definitely not exactly her best, most extravagant party, but, hey, not all parties could (or even should!) be epic. Sometimes, they could just be kind of quiet and cozy with a lot of cupcakes. Which just suited the birthday guy better anyway, really.

[[ open party is open! as always, feel free to mod having gotten a text, seen a flier, been told by Summers or squirrels or ghosts of parties past or just swing by to borrow a cup of sugar, i don't care, I'm not your boss ]]

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"Last year's birthday was bigger and it was...it was a lot. I liked it," Stark said hurriedly, lest he be misunderstood. "It was just a little overwhelming. I'd never had a birthday at all. But this is good. Not too much but not too little."

Any effort at all would have been more than enough. There was nothing he would have considered too little, really.

"I don't need anything big. Or fancy."

"The important thing is it being what you like," Steven said. "It being your birthday and all. If it makes you happy to have something a little quieter, then that's what you should have. It's whatever feels like the right celebration to you."

"I'm happy with this," Stark said. "ANother time I might be happy with something bigger. And I was happy at Christmas when I took Summer away and that was bigger than this even if it was really just for the two of us."

"How was it bigger then?" Steven asked, curious.

"It was more," Stark said. "Travel and somewhere to stay and it was fancy and it was warm but this is just as good even if it isn't as much."

It made sense to him.

"More... involved?" Steven guessed, because he wasn't sure he understood. But then again he didn't really need to. If Stark enjoyed it that was what mattered.

"Something like that," Stark said. "I don't know. It felt like more but not in a way that would make this less but maybe that doesn't make sense to anyone who isn't me."

"I can't say I'm following," Steven admitted. "But if it worked for you that's what matters, right? Doesn't need to make sense to me, only the people who were there."

MHA #8; Saturday Evening [01/13] - Stark's Birthday Party!

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