A surprise birthday party for Jim - A Soy Luna Fanfic

Chapter 12: Happy Birthday!

..."You can open your eyes now.", Pedro exclaimed as he pulled his hands away from Jim's face and she carefully opened her eyes, slowly letting them adjust to the light.

Jim was in total shock.
She looked straight-on towards the stage, all of her friends were standing there, holding a paper sign, reading 'Happy Birthday Jim!'
To her, this was a lot at once, therefore unbelievable.
Her green eyes now wide open, Jim slowly turned to look around herself.
The Roller was seriously unrecognisable, whilst it glimmered in the light and gave off a very prestige look, the colours chosen were also in Jim's all-time favourites: the most outstanding ones of them all.
Excitement filled Jim's empty head. She truly couldn't believe her eyes.
Her friends hadn't forgotten her after all!
Instead, they had even gone all out, just to surprise her.
This ought to have been one of Yam's creative, though mostly unpredictable ideas, since she was Jim's best friend and the person Jim had been bugging with her complaints the last few weeks.

Suddenly, everything seemingly flashed before her eyes and Jim finally understood what had been going on: the secrets, the drama... The amount of happiness Jim was feeling at the moment was unmeasurable.
And to think that she had exploded on Yam just a few hours ago.
She desperately needed to apologise...

The red-head had to conquer so many thoughts crossing her mind, that she didn't even notice that her friends had already started singing 'Valiente' for her and honestly, it fit the occasion perfectly.
It was the ultimate group song, demonstrating strength, bravery and happiness when among your friends.
The moment felt magical, it seemed as if time had stopped entirely and Jim had all of the time in the world to enjoy her friends' performance.
Never ever would she have come to the conclusion that her friends were in fact caring so much for her, while leaving her so lonely earlier.
'How often does it happen that your friends are standing on top of a stage, because they are singing a song for you on your birthday, that you didn't even know they remembered?', is the question that Jim's mind came up with next and, for some reason, wouldn't leave it either.

When Jim exited the dream world and re-entered reality, she was greeted by Pedro having her in his arm, as the two observed the incredible performance of their friends.
Another thing worth mentioning was the choreography, which led to a lot of memories flooding Jim's mind.
Luna of all people had been very pessimistic about the group actually remembering the few steps the dance contained, which saddened everyone.
Up until this very moment, Jim had thought that nobody had even bothered to look at the video they recorded of themselves dancing the steps, in order to learn it.
So she was shocked that now, everyone knew what they were doing and were doing beautifully, whilst also having a smile on their faces.
Finally, at the next Open, they could show what the song is really about: enjoying yourself, no matter what the others say.

Jim was saddened by the fact that the song had come to an end already, but of course, right after the group finished singing, Jim and Pedro started clapping their hands as loudly as they possibly could.

Afterwards, everyone but Yam left the stage to go and finally give a big group hug to Jim, who was so busy with the hug that she couldn't even say thank you to them all.
Eventually, after having freed herself, she said: "Wow, you guys, I can't believe it. I never thought I'd ever see you all this dressed up just for me!"
She giggled as the others purposefully demonstrated their looks.
"Wow, I guess you didn't forget me after all, did you? I thought such mean things of you guys, while in here, you were preparing a whole celebration party just for me. I'm so, so sorry."
During Jim's speech, everyone sat down at the table.
Yam got the word.

"Jim, you have absolutely nothing to apologise about, don't worry about it."
She gave her best friend a reassuring look, which she reciprocated.
"Jim, we planned today because we love you, a lot. You are such a great friend, you listen, sing and dance with us, hype us up and much more. With this party, we wanted to do our best at showing our gratitude for you being our friend and that we always love to see you content.
In fact, we all knew you wanted a big party and when you told me you weren't able to realise your dreams, it broke my heart.
So, we hope that you enjoy the well-deserved party and that you forgive us for today, birthday girl."

Everyone clapped at those moving words and Jim led quickly let go of Pedro, in order to run upstage and tightly embrace Yam.
"Are you kidding? Of course I forgive you, this is perfect, I can't thank you enough!", she said while pulling Yam closer towards her chest.
"All of you, but mostly you, Yam, I love you all so much. You are the best friends I could ever ask for. Yes, even you, Gastón."
Jim pointed at him, causing him to look away.
The rest was completely out of themselves.
"Stop Jim, you're going to make me cryy", Yam sniffled, trying her best to hold back tears. "Nuuuuu", Jim answered playfully, aggressively tightening their hug.
"Thank you Yam", she whispered into Yam's ear, since, due to her height, that's the highest part her body could reach at the moment.
As the pair separated, Ramiro felt the need to contribute to this scene.
"So, whose birthday are we celebrating again?", Ramiro provokingly asked, forcing everyone to only let out a quick giggle.
"Hmm, let me think. Mine!", Jim answered, after pretending to think about the question, going into a stance.

"Alright, before we continue, we have a little surprise for you", Yam told Jim.
"Another one?", Jim was seriously in shock at the preparation work this must have taken.
Jazmín was filming everything up until this point, the moment was just too cute not to.

"Yup, close your eyessss"