riverviewlogs | It's Party Time

who: Shiro, Keith, and close CR
what: Keith's birthday
when: Saturday
where: Shiro and Keith's house

A few days since the memories had stopped and a couple of nights of decent sleep and Shiro was back to his normal self. Now that he was feeling better, he remembered that he had missed something: Keith's birthday. Even Keith had forgotten it with everything that was going on. But Shiro needed to fix that.

As discretely as possible, Shiro had gotten an idea of who Keith's friends here were. Of course he also had some idea based on who had come to see Red when the lion had arrived. Some people had been generally curious while others had clearly heard about the lions from Keith and wanted to meet them in person. So he had used that as an opening to figure out how close Keith was to certain people. Once he had had an idea, he had begun to invite people.

The day of Keith's party, he made an excuse to get Keith out of the house for a while so Ed could come over. He needed help to get the decorations up in a short amount of time, plus surprising Keith wasn't necessarily the best thing to do so letting him know at some point there were people at the house was probably a good thing to do so Shiro would have to meet him or stall for time for everything to get arranged.

Which of course he did eventually have to leave to meet Keith once guests had started to arrive. Soon when he returned, it wasn't quite a surprise party for Keith... just a surprise it was for him.

However, Shiro couldn't leave without putting a party hat on Red. It was a party for her paladin after all so she should be festive.

[ooc: open to CR. Party crashers, be aware there are two robot lions - one the size of a liger - and if the host or guest of honor get annoyed with the party crasher, there will likely be a lion or two ushering them towards the door.

invited guests would be - Lola, Marinette, Ed, Hana, Al, Nico, Lyle, Genji, X'rhun. Shiro's going based on what he was able to gather]

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Keith couldn't help the slightly amused expression at Marinette's obvious relief. He looked at the figure as she asked about getting the lights put in it anyway, and considered it.

"I mean, if you really want, that would be cool, too," he said. "But it's still really nice as it is." He shrugged a little, and then held it out to her. "If you really want to have it do that, then go for it."

He honestly didn't mind either way because, just as it was, it was still pretty amazing. But, if she felt strongly enough about having it "finished" by adding the lights and other things she had wanted to do before actually giving it to him, then he'd let her do that.

ACK, she didn't mean NOW. "O-oH! NO no!" She reached out to put her hands on his and push them back, gently so she didn't accidentally knock the figurine out of his hands, "I didn't mean now..! I mean, I don't even have what I need, let alone I'd rather test it on the prototype before adding it to this one - so I don't mess it up. Hang on to it, I can always call you when I have everything ready~!" Besides, she'd feel like an 'indian giver' with the Here have this cool thing, but give it back so i can make it cooler eventually.'

Keith blinked. He didn't mind, either way, honestly, but okay. That could work, too.

"Oh, alright." He shrugged a little. "If anything, it's a good excuse to meet up again, right?"

That was definitely innocent statement. After all, Keith wasn't the much flirtier Blue Paladin.

... he... that HAD to be an innocent statement. Yeah it was just... that weird reluctance she'd had after pulling out of the hug because they were just friends dangit. Don't go misinterpreting things, Mari. Good lord don't go misinterpreting things.

"Oh --well, yeah, of course..!" She grinned, "Although technically we don't really need much reason to see other beyond just wanting to." ... ... that... kind of sounds -- okay that was definitely also an innocent line, but saying it while still resting her hands on his? Kind of made it sound otherwise. She glanced down at her hands, then quickly pulled them away to rest them behind her back, rocking a bit on her heels, "Ah-ahahh, right?" Because friends don't need REASONS to visit.

Marinette's reaction surprised Keith yet again, and he found himself confused again. His eyes widened a little and then he shrugged.

"Yeah. I mean, we don't," he said. "Though, it makes it a little easier to have an excuse, right?" Heh. Heh heh. Why did this feel awkward again?

"Did you see the cake?"

Change of topic, yeah... and he had a feeling she'd like the look of it with the space design Shiro had gotten it done with.

She's just full of awkward derping today. This is Keith's birthday Marinette, don't make things awkward~! ...can she just crawl in a hole for the rest of the day, gawd. "Haha, Yeah, I guess you're right." Ahem. "SO that's the plan then. I'll let you know when I have what I need. You'll barely even notice it was gone." She'll be done that quick! Yeah. She could probably even do it on site.

At mention of the cake, her face lit up with a grin as she nodded, partly grateful for the topic change, and genuinely enthused, "Yeah! It looked amazing - I had to take a picture of it on this," she motioned to the network device, with a chuckle. "It's almost a shame to cut into it."

If she did it on site, he'd probably want to watch the process.

Either way, he gave her a small smile and nodded. "Sounds like a good plan," he said.

Her enthusiastic response to the cake though, was definitely worth the topic change and he nodded back.

"Yeah, it does," he said. "I'm kind of not surprised Shiro got that, though. Space is one of the major things he and I have in common." It had been something they had fallen back on a few times, especially if Keith had been having a rough time and gotten into trouble for something. He knew he'd been quite the handful once Shiro had gotten guardianship of him, but the fact that they both were into flying and outerspace had given them something to bring them together.

Well, that, and Shiro's tenacity to make sure Keith found a way to finally level out. Keith was still insanely grateful that Shiro had refused to give up on him.

She wouldn't mind that, though she probably wouldn't be very good company. When she was working on projects, she tended to get very focused on it. "Oh Yeah, you two met when you joined up, right?" And he kinda took Keith under his wing, or so Marinette got that impression. "I half thought he might have put the Red Lion on the cake too. Like one of those little cake decorations." She paused, "Although maybe that would have been too difficult to make." She had to agree though, she'd be super grateful to Shiro for helping Keith when he needed it most.

Honestly, Keith wouldn't mind so much. He was used to people getting absorbed in their projects, and he tended to be a good audience. He didn't distract people by talking.

"Yeah, sort of. I actually met him before that, and joined the Garrison because of him." He smiled a bit. "He's a really good friend. I guess... we're kind of like brothers." He'd never really admitted that to anyone else before. It had come up in the Trials, but it sort of stayed between Shiro and Keith, and the Blade of Marmora believed deeply in secrecy. There was no way anyone who saw it was going to tell.

That was an excellent point. She'd just be embarrassed afterwards, but that was her problem. "Aww~, that's really sweet~!" Oh wait, was that embarrassing? "Sorry," she scratched the back of her head with a chuckle, "It's really nice that you guys are so close, though." She.. probably should stop hogging Keith's attention at his party too, he had other guests to mingle with !

Keith gave her a small chuckle.

"Yeah..." He shrugged a little, looking down at the Lion figurine again. "Yeah, it is." He didn't have a lot of people in his life to be close to. He absently ran his thumb over the figure's back for a moment before looking back at her again with a smile.

"Thanks."

Marinette gave him a warm smile in return, "You're welcome. I'm glad you like it." She cleared her throat a little. "I.. guess I should stop hogging your attention though, heh." She was sure he had guests who wanted to share their gifts and chat with him and all that!

"Oh... right..." He ducked his head a little and then nodded. "Yeah." He was bad at parties, and definitely bad at being the reason for a party. He had to remind himself to actually go mingle. "I'll catch you later."

Marinette chuckled at him remembering he had to go mingle with Other People(tm). Silly Keith. BUT she does want to make up for the weird awkward hug she gave him earlier, so she scooted forward to give him another quick hug with none of the awkwardness attached. "Only if I don't catch you first." She teased. "Have fun, Keith! And Happy Birthday."

Keith managed a delayed hug back. He wasn't always great at hugging, but he was definitely getting better. Her comment got a small chuckle.

"Thanks..."

He headed off to go place the figure with the other gifts for now, and then be a gracious guest of honor... even if it was kind of overwhelming and a little embarrassing...

It's Party Time | Open to CR

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