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[hackitude]

"Hey! You've reached Skye. Leave a message. I mean, if you want to. Or uh, don't. Whatever."

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[hackitude]

I might die from all the cheese. Just saying. If I die, I'm holding you personally responsible.

[vaccination]

[That's not too funny to someone who has immense survivor's guilt, but Ellie musters up a laugh.]

But then you'll miss his reaction.

[hackitude]

Yeah, that's true.

Maybe I should troll him first? Give him a mix full of terribly cheesy top 40 pop stuff. Watch him try to keep a straight face.

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[vaccination]

[Ellie doesn't know what the cheesy top 40 pop stuff is, but she'll take Skye's word for it.]

Oooh, yeah. Yeah, I like that idea. With a dumb gift. Like... underwear. Edible underwear, I saw that in a store in the mall. So weird.

[vaccination]

Unless you guys are into that sort of stuff. Then it can be a real present? [She laughs...]

[hackitude]

I'm worried he'd take it seriously...

But I'll come up with something.

[vaccination]

So how are we gonna do this cake thing? Joel's birthday is the day before so I'm gonna be with him, but we can start our new careers as bakers in the evening. Or the morning of Jesse's. Maybe make him think we forgot.

[hackitude]

Morning works for me.

You're going to need to help me with the guest list, though. I don't actually know who any of his friends are, other than you, me, Joel and Kara.

[vaccination]

[The wince here is audible.] ... that's my entire list, too. Um.

Maybe we invite them and have Jesse call up his other friends once he knows there's a party? I have no idea if that works.

[hackitude]

Hmm. Maybe Kara knows. Anyway, I'll ask around. Or maybe I can create some kind of filter to post something on the network that he can't see.

[vaccination]

He's [MYSTERIOUS, she wants to say, but refrains at the last moment because let's not have Skye think about that.] totally gonna freak.

[hackitude]

I know right? It's gonna be great.

[vaccination]

I hope so. I was only planning on doing one tiny birthday thing, so two? Way outta my league.

[hackitude]

It's cool. I'll help you through it. What else are cool big sisters for, right?

[vaccination]

[Slightly awkward silence? Maybe.]

Cool big sister, huh?

[hackitude]

Yeah. I mean, I'm cool, right?

[vaccination]

Ask me that again after baking.

[hackitude]

Wait. My coolness rating is affected by my baking ability now? Oh no.

[vaccination]

No, I mean that if you don't lose your patience, then you'll be cool. The most complicated thing I can do is pancakes. And maybe macaroni and cheese.

People don't bake cakes at home.

[hackitude]

Relax, it'll be fine. All we have to do is follow the instructions, right?

[vaccination]

Totally following your lead on this.

[hackitude]

Okay. Cool. Absolutely nothing can go wrong with this plan.

[vaccination]

Better not. Jesse probably suspects something. Since I asked and all, but he probably would never expect us to bake anything. Still... can't let him down.

And, on the plus side, I don't think us with healing can get food poisoning.

[hackitude]

Oh come on. It's not going to be that bad. It's just cake! Worst that can happen is we burn it.

[vaccination]

We can't give him a burnt cake. That's like... coal. On Christmas.