[ Ai's kind of a scatterbrain sometimes - she knows that and she's made her peace with it. When it comes to the things that really matter though, there's nobody more on the ball than she is. Sure, she'd started planning for Rinne's birthday what some might call a slightly unhinged amount of time in advance but - it's a special day! She wants to give herself plenty of time to get this right!
Against all her most high anxiety expectations, though, things do somehow end up coming together. She ends up securing time off and babysitting when she needs it and manages to keep a straight face when she and Rinne glumly acknowledge their busy schedules right when his birthday lands so he doesn't suspect a thing. His gifts almost seem to fall into her lap with how perfect their timing is and the food sorts itself out, too; a cute bakery that does fancy and elaborate desserts handles the cake (apple tart's kind of a cake, right?) and she gets dinner delivered from all the take out places she and Rinne like best after she lets herself into his apartment to set everything up.
She keeps the decorations simple - red and gold bunting taped up on the walls and a matching tablecloth under all that food. In fact, Ai's really the most decorated thing in the apartment - it's a special day so she'd gone for something a little different, a cute sweater dress and dark stockings. The kind of mature look she's not really supposed to wear as an idol but might be just fine for Rinne's girlfriend. That's the only thing she wants to think about being tonight, after all.
So she settles in to wait. She'd made sure to do her best to line things up with his schedule and if she's timed things right, he should be on his way back to the apartment by now. She's been peppering him with lovey dovey texts all day to make up for her supposed absence but she feels a teeny bit bad about lying to him. Hopefully the surprise she's been covering for will make up for it. ]
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Against all her most high anxiety expectations, though, things do somehow end up coming together. She ends up securing time off and babysitting when she needs it and manages to keep a straight face when she and Rinne glumly acknowledge their busy schedules right when his birthday lands so he doesn't suspect a thing. His gifts almost seem to fall into her lap with how perfect their timing is and the food sorts itself out, too; a cute bakery that does fancy and elaborate desserts handles the cake (apple tart's kind of a cake, right?) and she gets dinner delivered from all the take out places she and Rinne like best after she lets herself into his apartment to set everything up.
She keeps the decorations simple - red and gold bunting taped up on the walls and a matching tablecloth under all that food. In fact, Ai's really the most decorated thing in the apartment - it's a special day so she'd gone for something a little different, a cute sweater dress and dark stockings. The kind of mature look she's not really supposed to wear as an idol but might be just fine for Rinne's girlfriend. That's the only thing she wants to think about being tonight, after all.
So she settles in to wait. She'd made sure to do her best to line things up with his schedule and if she's timed things right, he should be on his way back to the apartment by now. She's been peppering him with lovey dovey texts all day to make up for her supposed absence but she feels a teeny bit bad about lying to him. Hopefully the surprise she's been covering for will make up for it. ]