InsaneJournal

Who: Cormac and Alicia
What: Cormac is taking Alicia out for her birthday
Where: Her place, and it's a surprise!
When: Backdated to Friday, evening.
Rating: Lowish, maybe a bit of of language, since it's Mac.
Status: Working on it. :)



Cormac’s normal level of thought and effort into planning someone’s birthday celebration usually just involved scoping out pubs, or buying a bottle of whiskey to share in a parking lot somewhere until they were too drunk to really do anything else but find a grassy patch to look up and stare at the night’s sky. Maybe that’s why no one really let Cormac plan such occasions anymore. For all his faults, this was one he would actually openly admit to failing at. He wasn't much of a planner. But now that he was feeling all strangely grown up, he figured that maybe he should make an attempt at legitimately trying to change that.

And what better way than to do that with his long time friend. Alicia was one of the few people on this earth who really got him, and had even gotten the way he worked even back in school, and she still liked him. Plus, she’d been a god send when it came to helping out with Addy. Honestly, he said wasn’t sure he would have been able to get to this point without her help. Well, her and other people like Astoria, and some of his teammates. But Alicia had been there since the day it all happened, and it wasn’t everyone that Addy named her dolls after. So, he decided that she deserved something special. So dressing up a bit he arrived at her house and knocked politely holding a few flowers that he actually bought, rather than picked out of someone’s garden on the way over, and the bear that Addy had insisted on getting for Alicia behind his back.

When she heard the knock on the door, Alicia was scrambling around in her bedroom, trying desperately to find her other shoe, which had disappeared somewhere inside the mass of dresses and other such clothing that seemed to pile up on her floor as she was trying to get ready for the evening. Finally, she managed to track it down on her bed, and shoved it on before scrambling out into the hallway, making her way towards the front door.

She stopped only long enough to tie the ribbon on the shoe, and grab her jacket and clutch, which she’d purposely left near the door because she knew she was going to be rushing. Alicia took one glance in the mirror by the door, and attempted to flatten a fly away strand of hair, before taking a deep breath and opening up the door.

“Hi.” She said, a little shocked at how well Cormac cleaned up. Not that it wasn’t anything she hadn’t seen before, but somehow it always managed to surprise her.

“Hi there birthday girl.” he said grinning at the sight of his friend all dressed up. Well. At least they had been on the same page in that department. He would have had to change the plans so suddenly if she’d showed up in jeans or something. Not that he minded, but he was pretty determined to do something kind of out of the ordinary tonight. “This,” he started as he pulled the bear from out behind his back. “Is from the little Monster.” he said grinning proudly. “And these,” he said pulling out the flowers. “are from me.” he said only slightly awkwardly. Hm. Strange, normally he was a little more smooth than that. Maybe because he’d broken his “I don’t believe in giving roses” policy. Yes. That had to be it.

She laughed a little at the bear as she took it from him. "Well, you tell the little monster thank you." She was, admittedly, a little surprised at the flowers, however. "I - Thank you, Cormac." She said, giving him a genuine smile. "I thought you didn't believe in giving roses?" She asked him jokingly. He'd told her that once. He'd said they were cliche. Alicia, however, loved them. "I'm just going to put these in water, and then we can head out?" She waved him into the house, and headed towards her kitchen to get a vase.

He smiled a bit when he saw that look on her face when she saw the flowers. "I don't. But they were the only decent thing they had in the shop." he lied. She could probalby tell that he was lying about that. But like hell if he would actually admit to buying roses for someone other than say, his mother. And even then, he'd get her Irises since those were her favorites. See. He paid attention. It might not seem like it most of the time, but he did. He followed her into her house and looked around. It'd been a while since he'd been over since she'd actually gotten...stuff into the house. He felt a little bad, but, he'd been kind of busy lately. "Sure. Hope you're hungry." he said a little offhandedly as he waited for her to come back.