Room 308, Wednesday Afternoon

Weeeeeeird. Rikku didn't feel seventeen. Seventeen sounded all mature and sophisticated.

She was meeting Reno later up on the roof, for their date-thing. The one she'd mentioned should be on Wednesday, if he wasn't busy, you know, no reason. Look, he didn't celebrate his own birthday, she didn't want to make a big thing about it being hers.

She should be writing more letters, but she totally didn't have to do yucky stuff for her birthday. So instead she was looking up Abbie Hoffman on the internet, for her Chemistry and Anarchy class. It was kinda related, right?

And she was bouncy. She was totally allowed to be bouncy, if she was the birthday girl.

(Very open!)

The Roof, Then Room 429, Wednesday Evening

So Rikku had a pretty dress and she had a date. When she got to the roof, there was a whole table set up with nice dinner on it, candles on the table and nice chairs, and Reno had even buttoned up his shirt.

It was really a shame that the effect was ruined by the sudden downpour.

So it was a very wet Rikku who was now standing in Reno's room, trying not to drip on anything important and wondering how they were going to have a fancy dinner here, and hoping that the rain wouldn't necessarily bring --

BOOM!

And it was a very wet Rikku who was now curled up in a ball on the floor, trying to hide from the lightning and thunder.

Okay, so the birthday dinner wasn't off to such a great start ...

(just for the Reno, who was modded with permission!)