"Did you have a good birthday?"

Pyrrha smiled as she lazily gazed down at her girlfriend – albeit with some difficulty considering that Ruby was tightly wrapped around her.

"I had a grand time Ruby!" Pyrrha was positively beaming, her infectious smile spreading to Ruby. "Thank you so much!"

Ruby let out a long sigh of relief, much to Pyrrha's amusement. "Was it stressing you out?" Her smile reverted slightly into a small frown. "I hope it wasn't too inconvenient for you-"

"No, no, no!" Ruby shook her head so fast, Pyrrha could have sworn that rose petals were flying off. "I just wanted to make sure you had a good birthday! Y'know, since it's the first we're, um, together for…" Her voice quietly trailed off.

Pyrrha gently kissed Ruby's forehead – the only place she could actually reach, "I had a wonderful time." As she watched the growing smile light up Ruby's face, she couldn't help but add, "Although, I really didn't expect it to be a surprise party… I guess that's what makes it a surprise, I suppose?"

The tall redhead chuckled lightly as Ruby playfully stuck her tongue out at her, "well, duh! It's a surprise party for a reason! I didn't expect you to be so startled when everyone jumped out of their hiding spots…"

Pyrrha's laughter turned a bit more awkward as she flushed at the memory. It's not every day that you open your dorm room door and literally all of your friends jump up and shout surprise! She couldn't help but internally cringe at the rather graceless reaction she had to it. I'm just glad I left Milo and Akoúo in the locker room…

"That's the first time I've ever had a surprise birthday party, in all fairness." Pyrrha admitted after a moment.

"Whaaaat?!" Ruby's clinging form suddenly shifted away from Pyrrha as silver eyes looked down at her in shock. "How've you never had one before?!"

Pyrrha gave a small shrug. "It's never come up before." Her brow creased. "Is it common?"

Ruby nodded. "Yeah! Yang and Dad and even Uncle Qrow always throw me one for my birthday! Or for Yang's!" A slender finger tapped at Ruby's chin for a few moments. "Although, I suppose they aren't exactly surprises if you know they are going to happen every year?"

"I suppose not, Ruby." Pyrrha's smile returned. "But the sentiment is what counts, I believe… does that mean you want a surprise party for your birthday as well?" Thoughtful emerald eyes stared up at silver ones.

"If you want to!" Ruby stated after considering it for a few moments. "I'm happy with whatever as long as you, and Yang, and Weiss, and Blake, and Jaune, and Ren and Nora are all there!" Pyrrha chuckled lightly as the long list of people. "And maybe some of our other friends?"

"So a planned party is what you want?" Pyrrha asked after a moment.

"Yup!" Silver eyes were already shining with excitement before fading almost immediately, "but, um, that's still a ways off and it's still your birthday today, so let's focus on that!"

"Only for a few more hours." The inky blackness of the night had replaced the daylight a while ago. "Then it'll be back to the grindstone."

"Yeah…" Ruby's shoulder slumped at the thought of more school work before perking up. "Oh! Did you like the cake?"

"Mhmm!" Pyrrha gave an immediate nod. "It was really good! Where did you buy it from?"

Even in the semi-darkness, Pyrrha could see Ruby's cheeks light up in a blush. "I-I actually made it…" Pyrrha's lips formed a large O in surprise. "And I-"

The sound of Ruby's scroll going off cut her sentence short. "Um, be right back."

Without the presence of her energetic girlfriend by her side, Pyrrha's tired mind started to slowly drift off to sleep, her eyelids drooping. After all, it had been a long, but fun, day.

"I'm back!" Yet the usual weight accompanying Ruby flopping back onto it with all the grace of a dying whale didn't happen. The mattress creaked from weight on the bed shifted slowly, prompting Pyrrha's tired emerald eyes to crack open slightly.

Ruby was indeed in bed again, this time, a different glint in her eyes then before… one that Pyrrha couldn't quite place a finger on. "So I never did give you your gift yet, r-right?" Pyrrha's hazy mind remembered Ruby mentioning she'd get her gift later. "Well, it turns out, that we're going to have the dorm to ourselves tonight…"

Pyrrha's semi-conscious brain took a few moments to piece together the significance of what her girlfriend had just said. Only when the oversized shirt that Ruby had borrowed from her as pajamas started to slowly slip off her girlfriend's form did everything start to make sense.

"Oh." A growing blush spread across Pyrrha's face as understanding dawned on her as Ruby's smile gained a predatory tint to it – one that was mirrored in her silver eyes.

"Oh."

AU: And then they played tick-tac-toe for four hours ;D

Hey look, a birthday chapter! …totally doing it because it's my birthday today and at least I'm going to write my OTP during my birthday, I don't have much else to do today anyways.

Pro-tip: never go "I'll take off the weekend for my birthday and figure out what I'm going to do as I go along that day!" because then you'll end up writing fanfiction, creating characters for pathfinder and watching anime for your birthday.

On a more serious note, I don't know when I'll get Dilation's next chapter out; I might be busy for all of tomorrow! Next time I'll post a Spoon Equality chapter will either be next Friday or next Saturday alongside Acceptance and Dilation!

Thank you all for reading, and have a wonderful day!

Oh! Have a short omake!

Omake:

Yang had a good idea what was going to happen when Pyrrha and Ruby had a dorm to themselves for the night. Ruby wasn't a kid anymore, after all. Yang had come to accept that long ago.

That still didn't make it any better when you return to your room and there was rose petals the smelled of something Yang did NOT want to associate with her little sister LITERALLY EVERYWHERE!