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Today was a very special day in Nutlandia. Everyone was working happily out of their own free will knowing what time of the year it was. The preparations took a little while but it was all worth it.
What special occasion it was you ask? Well Alice's birthday of course!
Alice, one of the three great Nutlanders, celebrates their birthday on October 12th. Even if the existence of Nutlandia was only created about one and a half months ago it is a day worth celebrating. That's why everyone was working hard to make the best present! Some we're drawing, painting, making art sculptures while some would buy already made gifts. Someone even wrote fanfiction.. we don't talk about what type of fanfiction it was.
And that Alice was having her 14th birthday today! The thing is, Alice is still asleep, because of that, the rest of the Nutlanders- Cale and Mio, we're making gifts for him. Mio was in charge of the cooking and baking, very cautious to not let anyone else (especially Alice when she wakes up) into the kitchen, being far too knowledgeable about the consequences of such actions. Cale was making a presentation on PowerPoint about dinosaurs and studying chess techniques at the same time. Both of them were very busy, of course they weren't the only ones trying their best.
Intruder was thinking of a gift that they could give to their dear Alice. Then they came up with the idea of flowers, heliotropes to be exact. He read somewhere that they meant eternal love.. it was a perfect way to show his affection to Alice. With that, he made his way to the flower shop.
Meanwhile, Mio and Cale we're finishing up their tasks.
"I swear to god if I finish this cake without any problems I will admit to Alice that I almost burned down my kitchen once.." Mio sighed, pretty much ready to admit defeat over the cake they were baking. She didn't know what was Alice's favorite flavour so she settled for her specialty, carrot cake with a coat made out of white chocolate.
"HOW DID I LOSE?!? IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!" Cale practically screamed, furious about the chess match he lost. Mio stepped over to him, looking over his shoulder (which was pretty hard to do since Cale was taller than her).
"You made a mistake moving your rook here, could've made a checkmate if you moved the knight there." Mio tried to explain, though they didn't actually know why Cale lost.
Suddenly the oven started beeping
"Fucking hell" The blonde whispered loudly, quickly running to the source of the sound. She opened the oven and put the warm cake in a safe place, ready to coat it in the white chocolate, then she put the dessert in the fridge and joined Cale in a match of chess.
Intruder finally got to the flower shop and started looking for beautiful heliotropes.
"May I help you?" Asked an Ant. It wasn't unusual to see animals talk in Nutlandia,in fact it was quite common.
"..." Intruder replied, pointing a finger at a picture of the flowers they were trying to buy.
"Oh! Those ones, my husband used to buy me those in the past.. they're special flowers indeed." The ant continued, Intruder couldn't help but wonder how their husband was doing. Instead of asking, they waited for ant to give them the heliotropes.
"Give them to someone special, I'm sure they'll love them." Ant smiled at them and went behind the counter. Intruder decided to leave and make their way to Alice's place, hoping she would like the gift they picked out.
Alice woke up, hearing commotion from downstairs. They got up, and went to examine the source of the sound.
"Happy Birthday!!" He heard a group of voices exclaim, those voices belonged to Cale, Mio - and Billy who got there by accident and was forced to sing happy birthday. Alice quickly noticed there was one more person in the room, it was their beloved Intruder. She jumped right into intruder's arms and hugged him, then she noticed Intruder was holding something.
"..." Intruder said while giving them flowers. It was truly a romantic gesture, Alice was sure to never forget that moment.
The birthday party was great. Everyone had fun, especially Alice who even managed to win against Cale in a game of chess while Mio was trying to comprehend how Billy's hair works. It was surely a birthday worth celebrating.