Our Everlasting Friendship

Stage's Birthday!!!!

So it's been a while...

Stage: browadway_crackers

Cards: meeeeeeeee

"I think you need a partner in crime. Y'know two extra fists in a fight, someone to travel the world with,"the smaller girl says in an attempt to convince the taller boy.

"I really done think you should be fighting anyone," he comments.

"But you could still use a partner in crime!"

"Two extra fists in a fight," Stage sings along to the song.

"No!" Cards replies. "You aren't fighting anybody if I can help it."

"But whyyyyyyyyy," the girl asks.

"Because the last time Albert gave you a stick you had a bruise on your cheek for almost a month," Cards replies giving her a look. "I've got the evidence for it,"he adds, pointing to the set of polaroid pictures hanging by the fairy lights around their window. More specifically the one of stage smiling with an ice pack pressed to her face with the comment 'stage is not to use a stick June 2020' written underneath it.

"It was one time and three years ago," Stage points out. "It'll be easier now because I'm older and less clumsy."

"You tripped over nothing yesterday."

"It wasn't nothing it was my own two feet."

"That's not helping your point."

"Pleaseeeeeeee,"Stage begs. "Pretty please."

"Nooooooo," Cards replies. "Either way the Newsies and I have a surprise for you and it should be ready by now. If they haven't mucked it up."

Stage gives her partner in crime a look. "You guys really didn't have to," she says. "It's not the most important thing in the world."

"It's your birthday I'm not gonna let you go the whole day without at least one surprise," Cards points out and takes Stage's glasses off of her face, placing them into his pocket and covering Stage's eyes with his hand.

"I can't see," Stage says and sticks her arms out in front of her. "That's point isn't it?"

"Yep," Cards replies and slowly leads his friend through the corridor and down the stairs towards the living room where the newsies had set up her surprise. He presses a finger to his lips, gesturing for the Newsies to be quiet. The taller partner in crime switches on the lights and takes his hand off of stage's eyes.

"Surprise!" The newsies call out with jazz hands. "Happy birthday Stage!"

Stage squints her eyes slightly, trying to figure out what had happened. "Oh yeah you kinda need your glasses." Cards hands Stage her glasses and she blinks a few times as she puts them on.

Covering a blank wall was a bed sheet and opposite the wall was a computer set up to a projector with a few blankets covering the floor with some spares on the sofa. A few presents on the floor with Jack, Davey, Crutchie, Katherine, Sarah, Race, Albert, Elmer, Henry, Specs, Romeo JoJo, Buttons, Finch, Mush, Blink, Mike, Ike, Les, Lucky, Tumblr, Smalls, Sniper and Tommy Boy sat on the floor with grins on their faces waving at the birthday girl.

"Cards I told you guys you didn't have to do anything but thanks anyways," she says and hugs her partner in crime. She feels Cards hug her back and the newsies join in the hug. Eventually her friends let her go and sit back down.

"We've got Come From Away, Hamilton, Mean Girls, Wicked and SIX on bootleg with subtitles and some snacks here," Les says excitedly taking Stage and Cards by the hand and leading them to the sofa to watch the bootlegs.