Anxiety over whether Josh would be happy or not about this had flooded her head all day. What if he'd just wanted some loud, drunken fete with his friends and something more subdued and intimate wasn't going to make him happy. She'd been second guessing her whole plan for days. Maybe she should have just let other people take over and throw some massive party that she'd feel obligated to go to because she was his girlfriend but uncomfortable in. She'd gone to Brooke prior to slipping up the stairs to the boy's dormitory just to see if she could offer anything to help get her nerves down. The solution had been two shots of something that tasted horrible. Her head wasn't racing as much once it started to settle in though and she was certain that she could hold it together long enough to pull it off.
She knocked at the doorframe. Entering without knocking was something she only did in the middle of the night when she wanted to slip in and cuddle or she was with Josh. It wasn't late yet though and she wasn't precisely sure who all might be in there. She certainly didn't want to risk walking in on someone in the middle of dressing. There were some things in life that she did not need to see and Arthur Delving's naked bum was one of them. She'd seen more than enough of the male anatomy in that dormitory by accident. She was going to keep pretending like she'd never seen anything though. It wasn't like she wanted people to know just how often she ended up sleeping in there. The curtains seriously needed to be thicker though.
"Birthday Boy?" she called out from the entry hopefully. Merlin, she hoped he was in there and hadn't gone off elsewhere. She generally knew his schedule during the week. He ought to be getting ready for rounds. She hadn't exactly told him that she'd switched his rounds yet. She hadn't told him anything other than she was claiming him before his rounds! He hadn't been acting like anyone had slipped up and told him either. She inhaled deeply. This could work. She could pull this off. She could make his birthday special. Her hands were mostly empty except for a black scarf. He couldn't be taken to the secret location without a blindfold after all and she knew better than to try and put something with girly colours on him. The gifts and cake were already stashed at that location. All she had to do was get Josh there.