Room 234/236: Friday late afternoon to evening

[mparkerceo]

Parker opened up the doors to both rooms, set out the half-vanilla, half-chocolate cake from Jeff, God of Biscuits, and put a sign outside the hallway of 236:

Happy 18th Birthday to ME

Come on in and have some cake!

Booze and prezzies welcome.

Then sat down to contemplate her present from her father. Who'd sounded ridiculously pleased about

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[blessed_twice]

Wyatt just happened to be wandering down the hall. He spied the cake and the sign, then took a moment to appreciate the view inside the room. He'd definitely lucked out with the hotties living on his floor. "Happy birthday," he called, leaning against the doorframe.

[mparkerceo]

Parker turned around and cocked an eyebrow. "Thanks. Come on in, I'm Parker. Do you live on this floor?" Cute, but a little young, maybe....

[blessed_twice]

"Yeah, I'm in 208," Wyatt said. "I'm one of the many new students. My name's Wyatt."

[mparkerceo]

"Oh, hey. You're my Little Brother's big brother, then." Parker smiled wickedly. "How is Chris doing? Hiding in his closet yet?"

[courier_gavin]

Jake wandered in. "I come carrying gifts and coffee!"

[mparkerceo]

"Jake?" Parker blinked at him, recognizing the voice. At least, she thought she did. "That is you, right? Thank you!" She looked gleeful. "I have Christmas presents for you that I never got to deliver," she said, gesturing to a pile of goodies next to the TV.

[courier_gavin]

"Yup, totally me!" Jake grinned at her. "I'm done changing now. I think. Ooooh, presents!" He handed over his gifts to Parker and went to study his own.

[mparkerceo]

"It's a good look, I like it. What's Krycek think?" She pulled open the wrapping on her boxes, then stared. "Ohhhhh, Jake, god, these are *beautiful.* And they match the necklace I just got.*" Parker immediately put the earrings in, and said, "I so owe you better prezzies. All the coffee you can drink. And the boots!" She hugged them to herself. "You can never have too much Prada. Thank you!" She gave him an impulsive kiss on the cheek, then went back to spinning around with her boots.

[moonbrain_tam]

River hadn't known it was Parker's birthday. Luckily she had brought some souvenirs from Babylon 5, so she had quickly wrapped a model of the B5 station in a pillowcase and tied a ribbon around it before appearing on Parker's doorstep.

[mparkerceo]

"River!" Parker handed over a napkin full of cake and grinned at the pillowcase. "I got your Christmas present. Thank you, it's adorable. I've got one for you too here, somewhere."

[moonbrain_tam]

River accepted the cake with a grin. "Happy you liked it," she said. "Oh, and presents for me?" The grin got wider.

[mparkerceo]

"It made me think of you," Parker explained, and fished a gold-foil envelope out of her pile of presents, before opening up the pillowcase. "Ohhh, cool!" She lifted the model out and studied it with delight. "Where did you get this?"

[iftheseshadows]

Neil was working his way down the floors today and he couldn't help gravitating towards the activity.

Seeing that it was a party a birthday party, he looked around a little lost like but didn't see anything he could give a present. Well...err...the least he could do was offer a happy birthday right?

So he approached the door, knocking lightly on the frame and smiling.

"Hello? Happy Birthday?"

[mparkerceo]

"Thanks," Parker said over her shoulder before turning around and blinking. "Whoa. Another double. Again." She put her hands on her hips and stalked over, studying him. "Parker. Clone? Magic? Relative? No idea what I'm talking about?"

[iftheseshadows]

Neil was almost getting the hang of this now and his smile widened, even as he eyed Parker carefully due to the stalking.

"Neil, Neil Perry. Not clone, no magic, no Wilson's in the family tree, just seems to be a quirky, quirk of normal human genetics."

Holding out his hand, his dark eyes danced with good humor as he continued. "A pleasure to meet your, Parker. Is it your birthday? Happy Birthday."

[mparkerceo]

"My eighteenth," Parker said, shaking his hand firmly. "And it's a quirk of this place too. Fandom attracts all the doubles. Cute ones, too," she added, grinning at him, then dropping his hand to gesture to the cake. "Help yourself. So, sophomore, or junior, I'm guessing?"

[senor_chado]

Chad had with him a card with the usual offering of cash, in the form of twenty dollars instead of ten. He found Parker and gave her a hug. "Feliz cumpleaños, Manager. If I woulda known it was your birthday sooner, I coulda made another CD."

[mparkerceo]

"No worries, I figured everyone was partied and presented out from Christmas." Parker rolled her eyes but good-humoredly endured the hug. Chad was just too big to fight free of, anyway. She patted him on the back, and said, "Aww, thanks. Perfect! I've been needing a couple CD's anyway. Have some cake."

[senor_chado]

"Cake. Awesome." Chad would always go for cake, definately. "Gracias."

[mparkerceo]

"De nada, amigo. Settle and watch the movie for as long as you want."