A surprise birthday party for Jim - A Soy Luna Fanfic

Chapter 9: The ambience takes shape

By now, half an hour had already passed. While Yam welcomed Luna and Gastón, Luna already being in the pink version of Nina's dress, paired with a lot of pink accessoires and Gastón being handed his outfit, the room was slowly starting to take shape.

Nico and Pedro slowly started arranging the high tables and chairs to form a big circle around the stage, trying their best to make the place feel as cosy as it could be. Even if they were now accompanied by Gastón, the trio still wasn't even close to finishing the decor yet, but they still had a lot of fun.

Simón had made it his job to set up everything on the stage, Gastón did the main area and Nico and Pedro worked on the bar. Rosé-gold garlands were now hung up on top of and on the front of the bar, making it shine. To top the design off, an LED strand set to the colour peach was placed and secured on the counter, to create a warm ambience.

Meanwhile, Luna and Nina tried their best to sort the cutlery correctly, failing miserably at properly counting the plates, separating the forks from the knives and finally, they weren't even able to find a larger knife to cut the cake with later on. After the two had eventually finished, Luna and Nina sat down on a random couch and Nina went on her IPad, like always.

Another fight?

At 12:45, Ramiro finally decided to show up, a whole 45 minutes too late. It was a surprise to him that for once, even if he was really late, he wasn't the latest.
Seeing as he hadn't answered any of Yam's many phone calls, she exploded on him due to stress.
After calming down a bit, Yam silently handed him his mystery bag and Ramiro went to change quickly.

Now finished, he called over Luna and went right into 'executive mode' again, telling her that they needed to hide all of the gifts behind the stage. Afterwards, the pair helped Gastón out by pushing the chairs that they were going to sit on later closer to the table, so no accidents would happen before Jim actually arrived.

Finished and a little exhausted, Luna realised that Nina and Simón hadn't brought any candles for the cake. On the inside, she was screeching, there can be no birthday cake without candles! And so she sprinted over to Nina and convinced her to accompany her to the supermarket to buy some. Nina, of course, agreed without second thought and the pair rushed over to Yam.

Meanwhile, Ramiro and Gastón asked Pedro for the decoration supplies belonging to the stage.
The two, being a little stubborn as always, argued a while about what it should look like. To demonstrate that he was right, Ramiro tried to prove Gastón wrong by rapping a few lines about how his idea would be much better.
Pedro quickly jumped in to interrupt the two by saying: "Guys, calm down, we're celebrating a birthday here, you two can literally fight any other day, ok? Besides, Yam gave me this sketch to with with, and you'd be best to follow it."
Now filled with a little guilt and Ramiro especially not wanting to disappoint Yam, him and Gastón made up and made their way towards the stage.

After some small adjustments, the bar was decorated to its fullest. While Nico got a hold of the bag with the silver supplies to hang them up across the entire room, Pedro also decorated all of the remaining, not needed tables by placing silver fake glitter flowers on them.
Sometimes, he didn't really get girls, or specifically in this case Jim and Yam, but he figured that Yam most definitely knew what Jim liked more than him by a landslide, which in the end was all that counted; Jim had to like it, not Pedro.

The real latecomers

The clock struck 13:15. Yam was furious when Delfina and Jazmín entered the building. Like seriously, over an hour too late.
Also at this time, Luna and Nina bought some candles, returned, placed them on the cakes with a lighter nearby and went to the bar.

"Oh, hey Yam. Sorry we're late, traffic", Delfi absentmindedly said shortly upon arriving.
"But we-"
"Don't", Delfi shushed her friend. "Well", Yam rolled her eyes, "atleast you're here now, am I right? Anyway, have you two got Jim's outfit?", Yam questioned them.
"Yesssss! Look, like we said. She'll love it! Like us! I mean, it's not like she looks better than us!", Jázmin said, fiddling with a strand of her hair.
Delfi and Jazmín looked absolutely gorgeous like always, that's something even Yam acknowledged. Today, they actually followed the plan and wore what they were told to. The pair wore the same dress as the others, but Delfi in bright lipstick red and Jazmín in an emerald green. They both had paired them with silver heels, accidentally matching the rest, and elegant extras. Now, they had dresses with glitter skirts, each girl in their representative colour.
Yam in blue, Luna in bubbly pink, Nina in mysterious purple, Delfi in a flashy red and Jazmín her signature green; they looked absolutely breathtaking together.
After daydreaming for a little while, Delfi quickly gave Yam Jim's outfit and she hid it behind the stage, so it wasn't visible at first glance, but she could also easily reach for it and hand it to Jim.

"Yam, we actually have a problem. We were so busy that we forgot to wrap our gifts", Delfi exclaimed truthfully.
"Whoops!", Jazmín added.
"No problem girls, I've got you covered. I figured this would happen", especially with you two on board, "and so I brought extra wrapping paper just in case of an emergency!"
Yam pulled out a roll of black wrapping paper with golden stripes on it, tape and bows, excited for it to actually come to good use and not just be a waste.
After complaining about how it wasn't up to their usual standards, Delfi and Jazmín eventually resigned to using it and brought the paper, along with their paper to open table, in order to wrap them.

Relieved that the two divas were now occupied, Yam went through the list of things they needed to prepare in her head.