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She wasn't even sure Vickers heard her question before the lights exploded around them, with sound and balloons and a ginger Ravenclaw throwing herself at them. Louisa would never know how close she came to losing her eyebrows... or her entire face... and Vivi carefully returned her wand back to her holster and hugged the girl back.
"A... what? Birthday?" That wiped away any remaining caution that this was a weird trap, and Vivi smiled broadly at those gathered here. Her Baby Lion and her Baby Chaser and Max and Milton. And Louisa, of course, who got an extra bright smile... and was currently sucking the face off Vickers. Vivi, who had always been terrible at hiding her feelings, gave them both a stricken look before her attention was grabbed by her Baby Lion.
"Oh, THANK you, Baby Lion," Vivi huggled the smaller girl for as long as Lex would let herself be huggled, and then she turned her attention on the gift. A locket... with their faces inside. If that wasn't the most charming and thoughtful gifts, then Vivi wasn't sure what was. She plucked the necklace out of the box and immediately put it on. "Did you make this yourself? Now I have to look at your face every day after graduation... or was that the idea?"
It was such a pretty gift, and Vivi admired it until Beezus handed over her gift with a hug as well. She squeezed the younger Ravenclaw tightly, although her eyes were on the pink box in her hand. All these gifts... it sort of made up for the fact that people didn't really do Christmas gifts at Hogwarts, didn't it? As soon as she released poor Beezus to breathe again, Vivi tore into the girl's gift and revealed a pretty hair clip in Ravenclaw colors. She held it up to her blond hair and modeled it for Beezus' approval. "For looking more like a girl, right?"
Speaking of people things that made her feel like a girl, Vivi spotted Milton over Beezus' shoulder. She released the younger girl and accepted his gift with a silly-looking grin. For all that her emotions were in a constant turmoil about things, Milton always made her feel good. He was just easy to be with, which was a nice change when her own brain made even being alone with her thoughts an emotional upheaval. Even before she opened the gift, she sort of snuggled at his side. The gift (wait... he'd just called her love. That was awfully sweet of him... right?!?!) was in a little gift bag, and Vivi shook the contents out in her hand. Holy... Merlin's... toesocks. That was beautiful. And it was for HER?
"For me?" she asked, quite stupidly. Two necklaces and a hairclip had pretty much doubled Vivi's current jewelry, and all of it was nicer than anything she owned. "Thank you. All of you. It makes me sort of wish I wasn't graduating, so I could stay and make it up to you somehow." Because all of them, even Louisa and her face-eating, were incredibly thoughtful and she would miss them, if she let herself.
Vivi pressed a kiss to Milton's mouth, this one a bit more friendly than his had been, and then Beezus was dragging her away to the cake. She struggled to put the second necklace on, fighting with the clasp as she and Beezus overlooked the rather impressive cake Louisa had made... and the rather terrible face that Vickers made when he took a bite.
"I'M ALLERGIC TO CAKE," she announced, very solemn and very LOUD.
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