Billy Batson's Big Birthday Bash

[sayshazam]

If it had been anyone else Billy totally would have begged off hanging out with them after work that night. He had school the next day and was a little tired but he'd have to be mostly dead before he cancelled on his girlfriend. Even then he'd probably do his best to make it to her, especially with everything she was going through right now. She'd told him to just let himself into her place, which gave him a good idea of how she was feeling.

Sliding off Naga as he arrived at her apartment building he sent the polar bear dog off to do whatever it did when not hanging around with Billy. Eat fish and bother Ellie, probably. Izzy had a lot of black clothes and it turned out polar bear dog fur was kind of a pain to get off of fabric so he figured .

Heading up to her apartment he fought back a yawn as he adjusted his backpack. It wasn't even that late but maybe he could just crash at Izzy's place tonight and head straight to school from here. It would definitely save him some time.

Testing the door he found it unlocked and pushed it open. Anyone else he would have definitely said something about how dangerous it was but if someone broke into Izzy's apartment to rob her then they were totally the ones in danger.

"Babe, you in?" he called out, frowning when the lights weren't on. That didn't seem like a great thing, if she was here with the lights off. "I brought some food from work if you're hungry..."

[ooc: Tag Billy by shouting "surprise" at him or hit him up after that while he's wandering around the party. Feel free to tag each other too.]

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[and_survive]

She hadn't entirely decided, still, how mad she was at Billy for keeping the superhero thing to himself. On the one hand, she got it. Superheroes had secret identities, that was how it worked. She read comics, she knew the game.

On the other hand, he had cool as shit superpowers and he'd kept them from her.

On the other other hand, then he'd done the opposite of that, so that was a bunch of points in his favor.

No matter how you looked at it, though, she wasn't going to skip out on his birthday party. And not just because there was cake. Friends were friends, and people had secrets, it was how people worked. It didn't make them not your friends any more.

Mostly the cake, if anyone asked, though.

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"Hey, thanks for coming," Billy said. He was still kinda surprised that people actually wanted to show up and he figured that might be more because of Izzy than him, but he didn't think Ellie knew Izzy very well so she was probably here mostly for Billy.

Which was nice. He liked Ellie, even if she was constantly hitting him. That was pretty much how he imagined having a sister would be though, so it wasn't too bad.

[and_survive]

"Hey, I'm not saying no to cake," Ellie said, but smiling a little all the same. They hadn't exactly had proper birthday parties -- or what she now thought of as proper birthday parties, now that she had the comparison -- in the Quarantine Zone. It was a good thing to be able to do. "Happy birthday, old man."

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"Izzy is pretty smart about this stuff and know how to bribe people to act like they want to be here. But thanks," Billy said, giving Ellie a smile back. He was pretty sure that Ellie didn't go to parties that she didn't want to be at, cake or not. "And does it ever weird you out that you can just buy cake now if you want it? Like... if you want cake you can just go buy a whole cake and eat it if you have the money."

[and_survive]

"Man, it weirds me out I can just buy meat. Soup. Potatoes. Being able to just go out and buy cake is a whole other level," Ellie said.

There were a lot of cans in the cupboards of Konoha-Uchi. She wasn't as bad about reflexively getting survival supplies as she'd been, but she still usually ended up getting a can or two beyond what she needed every shopping trip.

"Just entire stores where all they sell is cake. It's nuts!"

[sayshazam]

Billy sometimes forgot about the sort of world that Ellie came from and just how different this all was for her. Cake, ice cream, and other stuff were probably impossible where she was from. He knew how hard it was to get food in this world sometimes so wherever she came from must have had it crazy bad. Still, cake whenever you wanted was pretty awesome.

"Okay, so what's the first thing you ate until you got sick then? And not because it was bad but because eating a whole cake by yourself is going to make you puke."

[and_survive]

"Chocolate," Ellie said, thinking back. "It wasn't even that much of it, it was just- I mean, holy shit, I'd heard about chocolate but I didn't know."

Although it hadn't been a small amount, either.

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Billy tried to imagine eating so much chocolate that it made you sick. Well, he didn't have to imagine that hard because there'd been the one year he'd stolen a bunch of Halloween candy but that had been a lot of chocolate.

"And how come you had to think about that. How many times have you puked because you ate too many sweets?"

[and_survive]

"Of all the times I puked, it wasn't ever too many anything," Ellie agreed. Too many was an utterly foreign concept. Bad food, sure, but never just too much of it.

[sayshazam]

"I drank too much beer once," Billy confessed. It wasn't like a big deal or anything because high school kids got drunk all the time. But Billy felt like he should have known better with how much alcoholism he'd seen while living on the streets. "Like... sweet look at all this beer, everyone wants it so it much be awesome, right? It didn't even get through a whole can before I puked because it was so gross. So gross."

[and_survive]

"Alcohol we had," Ellie said. "I mean, not much. And when we left the Quarantine Zone it was mostly just for putting on injuries. But I guess at least I knew liquor already. Beer, though... I guess less people kept it?"