It is October 16 and today is Aphmau's birthday and everyone had planned a party and something extra special for a surprise. And right now in the kitchen at Aphmau's apartment, Sylvanna, Mk, Mei, Vee, Funneh, Lunar, Lucinda and Red son were all looking through a book of dresses. "Well, now, how about this one?" Funneh asked as she looked at a dress that she liked. "This is the one I picked" Lucinda says pointing a different dress.

"Oh, she'll look beautiful in that!" Vee says happily while looking at the dress. "Now I thought about a few changes here..." Lucinda says getting an idea and Mk says "Aha" and Mei says "Don't forget a pretty bow..." and then Lucinda says "Yes, and there's the shoulder line" and then Funneh says "We'll make it blue" and Lucinda says "Oh no, Funneh, pink" and Funneh tried to say "But..." but was interrupted by Lucinda saying "Of course, we'll need a few pleats" and then Mei asked "But, how are we going to get her out of the house?".

"Oh, I'll think of something" Lucinda says and as they were talking they had failed to notice that Aphmau had returned and entered the kitchen with a few grocery bags in her arms and smiled at her friends before saying "Well..." and this startled everyone as they looked at Aphmau while Mei quickly hides the book behind her. "And what are you all up to?" Aphmau asked playfully.

"Up to?"

"Up to?"

"Up to? Eh, eh, eh, we, we, well, we, we..." Lucinda tried to come up with an answer and suddenly there was a knock on the door. "I got it!" Lunar quickly says, runs to the door and opens it to see not only Kawaii Chan, but next to her is a young man as he's wearing a red jacket, black pants, and black sneakers. He is reasonably tall and is physically fit, has moderate tan skin with black eyes and hair and Rainbow wouldn't lie that he looked quite handsome.



"Hey KC... Who is this?" Lunar asked as her cheeks were a little pink. "Oh hi, my name is-" but before he could finish Aphmau drops the grocery bags and exclaims happily "Aaron!!" and zoomed towards the boy name Aaron and hugs him tightly as he laughed at this. "Happy birthday Aph!" Aaron said as he hugs her back. "Aph.. Who is that?" Mk asked as he and the others came over while both Funneh and Red son noticed that Mk was looking a little jealous, making them smirk.

"Heh. Anyways, yeah, Aaron, these are my other friends, Lunar, Mei, Vee, Funneh, Red son and my boyfriend Mk. And, guys, this is my bestie, Aaron" Aphmau introduced her friends to each other while giving Aaron a side hug. "Nice to meet you, guys" Aaron said with a small smile. "Oh, this is... He's hot" Lunar said unexpectedly before her eyes widened in realization and this made everyone look at Lunar in surprise by what she said. Aaron chuckled and said "Aph, you didn't tell me she was hilarious. That's so funny" and Lunar says while looking away "Right".

"What are you doing here Aaron?" Lucinda asked and then Sylvanna comes in and says "I asked him if he and the others can take Aphmau out for the day" and Aphmau gasps before exclaiming with stars in her eyes "That means we have a lot of catching up to do!" and then zooms off into her room to change. After a few minutes, Aphmau comes back out in a cute kitty purple and white jacket in a blue skirt with her hair up in a ponytail.



"You ready Aph?" Aaron asked and Aphmau nods with a smile and then Mk asked while frowning a bit "Where exactly are you taking her?" and Aaron replied "Me and the others wanted to treat Aph for her birthday, so we're having a little get together" and then Aphmau says "See you later guys!" and leaves, but not before giving Mk a kiss and the others said 'bye' too. "Heh. Jealous, Noodle Boy?" Red son asked with a smirk and then Mk points at him and says while exclaiming a little "N-No I'm not!".

Funneh then looks at Lucinda and says "I wonder if she suspects" and Lucinda says happily "Of course not, come on. Will she be surprised!" and Mei says "A real birthday party" and then Vee says while grabbing a cookbook "With a real birthday cake" and Lucinda says while getting some pink fabric "Yes, and a dress a girl can be proud of" and then grabs a small box with with scissors and pins before passing it to Mei, who hold it while saying "But, I never baked a fancy cake" and Lucinda says "Oh, you won't have to, Mei" and then Vee while grabbing some bowls and cups says happily "I'm going to bake the cake" and Funneh looks at Vee surprised and confused as she said "You?" and Lucinda passes some pink fabric to Funneh as she says "She's always wanted to, Funneh and this is her chance, since Rainbow and KC both have been teaching her".

"Well..."

"I'm going to make it fifteen layers with pink and blue, forgive-me-nots..." Vee says as she wipes the table with a cloth before placing everything down and then Lucinda says "And I'm making the dress" and Red son said in disbelief "But you can't sew, and she's never cooked!" and this made Lucinda chuckle as she said "Oh, it's simple" and then Vee says while opening the cookbook "All you do is follow the book" and Lucinda directs Red son to stand on a chair as she said "Up here, Fireboy. You can be the dummy" and this made Red son look at Lucinda before saying "Well, I say we should call Golden Noodle Girl and my Meihua, the professionals here" but in response Lucinda just throws a sheet of pink cloth above Red son and begins cutting it with a pair of scissors and while Vee, who has an apron on her has laid all the ingredients for the cake before her. Vee reads the book as she says "Flour, three cups" before she started searching while muttering "Cups, cups, cups, cups, cups..." before realizing they were on the table and grabs three cups of different sizes and uses them to pour flour into the bowl as she said counting "One, two, three" and at the same time Lucinda has finished cutting a circular hole into the sheet, making Red son confused.

"What's that for?" He asked and Lucinda replied while laying it on the ground "Well, it's got to have a hole in the bottom" and Vee says "That's for the feet to go through" and Red son noticed something about the fabric and said "It's pink!" and Lucinda says "Oh, lovely shade, isn't it" and this made Funneh pout and mumbled "But I wanted it blue" and Lucinda said "Now, Funneh, we decided pink was her color" and Red son looks at her and says "You decided!" before he was fully covered by the pink fabric and started moving around while saying something, but it was muffled as Lucinda wraps a purple ribbon around Red son's waist and tighten it. Vee grabs two eggs and looks at the cookbook as she reads it "Two eggs, fold in gently" and this confused Vee as she said "Fold? Oh, well" and places the two eggs into the bowl and starts to fold them in before pushing the batter down and the shells cracking was heard.

Red son was completely hulled into the pink cloth and then says while it was muffled "I can't breathe!" and Lucinda cuts the cloth open at the top as Red son adds "Get me out of here!" and Lucinda pulls down the fabric a bit giving Red son the chance to breathe and he takes a look at the dress from the inside and said "It looks awful" and Lucinda just simply says while cutting a bit of the fabric "That's because it's on you, Fireboy".

Vee looks at the cookbook and reads it "Now, yeast. One tisp" and that confused her as she asked "Tisp?" and Red son said "One teaspoon!".

"One teaspoon, of course" Vee says while picking up a teaspoon and laughs a little before adding the rest of the ingredients in before trying some cinnamon and sprinkles more into the batter.

Meanwhile with Aphmau

Aphmau and her two friends were at a karaoke bar since that's where they were gonna meet up and soon Aphmau, Aaron and Kawaii Chan made it to their destination.



"This is the place?" Aphmau asked and Aaron says "Yep!" and then the three walked in and were amazed to see that the place looked amazing.



"Hey guys, over here!"

Aphmau looked around before seeing her friends, waiting for them as they were sitting at the table.

Waiting for them is Zane, Garroth, Katelyn, Travis, Kim, Mac, Noi, Pierce and Ein (A/n: Ein is good in my story) and then Aphmau exclaims "Guys!" and quickly runs over as they said "Happy birthday Aph!" and soon Aaron and Kawaii Chan both came over with Kawaii Chan going over to Zane, pulled down his mask and gave him a peck on the lips.

"Thanks for coming guys" Aphmau said and Katelyn scoffed before smirking and asked jokingly "Do you really think we wouldn't come for our best friend's birthday?" and this made Aphmau giggle and said "No" and then everyone started chatting while catching up with each other's lives. "Now who's ready for some KARAOKE!!!" Kim exclaimed while jumping on the table and the group started cheering.

Mac went up first and sang 'Party in the USA', Kim went next and sang 'Try Everything', Kawaii Chan sings 'Break Free' and at the end left a lovestruck Zane, Katelyn sings 'Girl on Fire' and everyone cheered as Travis was the loudest, Garroth and Zane both sang 'The Other Side' and had many girls squealing at the end, Ein even went up and sang 'I am falling for you' and the group cheered.

Aaron went up and sang 'Lone wolf', much to everyone's shock and amazement as many girls were left in awe and lovestruck. Finally, it was Aphmau's turn as she went onstage and saw her friends smiling and cheering for her as she smiled at them before taking deep breath and starts singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1d7POrp5A

🎶Talk to me baby, I've been waiting for a lifetime🎶

🎶Just keep on fading in all these photos🎶

She started clapping her hands to the beat along with her friends and everyone in the karaoke bar.

🎶Caught in the memories and captured in the highlights🎶

🎶Just keep on wastin'🎶

🎶Glass after glass, I keep hoping you'll come around🎶

🎶Drowning our fights in what, whatever can be found🎶

🎶'Cause I've given into all my demons lately, you know🎶

🎶Might be easier, just to let it go🎶

🎶Cut the cable short, and the problem's solved🎶

🎶Might be easier🎶

🎶For you I'd do it all night, you're my only lifeline🎶

Aphmau starts dancing her heart out on the stage, making everyone start cheering with her friends cheering loudly and Kawaii Chan quickly pulls out her phone and starts recording it live and everyone, who was online saw this and started giving comments and hearts for Aphmau and even wished her a happy birthday. Pigsy, Sandy and Tang saw the live on Pigsy's phone and they were amazed to see Aphmau dancing as they all smiled. Back at Aphmau's apartment, Mei's phone went off and she looked over and saw the live and shouts "Guys, look!" and everyone stopped what they were doing as Mei ran over to Red son and everyone was behind her and were amazed to see Aphmau singing and dancing on live, making Mk sigh dreamy as he said with hearts above his head "I love my sweet potato~".

Aphmau stops dancing and starts singing again.

🎶Sing for me darling, it's been quiet for a day now🎶

🎶Can't bear the silence inside my own head🎶

🎶I keep on hoping somehow we can make this alright🎶

🎶Just keep on trying🎶

🎶Glass after glass, I keep hoping you'll come around🎶

🎶Drowning our fights in what, whatever can be found🎶

🎶'Cause I've given into all my demons lately, you know🎶

🎶Might be easier, just to let it go🎶

🎶Cut the cable short, and the problem's solved🎶

🎶Might be easier🎶

🎶For you I'd do it all night, you're my only lifeline🎶

Both Macaque and Monkey King saw the live on Monkey King's phone as they smiled softly at this and meanwhile the rest of Krew also saw this and started cheering for their friend as they showed Nezha and Ao Bing as they were both stunned and surprised.

🎶Talk to me baby, I've been waiting for a lifetime🎶

🎶Just keep on fading in all these photos🎶

🎶Caught in the memories and captured in the highlights🎶

🎶Just keep on wastin'🎶

🎶Might be easier, just to let it go🎶

🎶Cut the cable short, and the problem's solved🎶

🎶Might be easier🎶

🎶For you I'd do it all night, you're my only lifeline🎶

Aphmau danced her heart out a little more and after the song ended, she stopped and gave a pose before bowing. Everyone immediately stood up and started cheering as they clapped and Aphmau's friends were cheering the loudest with Kim, Zane, Katelyn, Mac and Kawaii Chan shouting "THAT'S OUR BEST FRIEND!!" and this made Aphmau blush a little before smiling softly at everyone and her friends.

Back at Aphmau's Apartment

Vee is lighting the candles on the cake with a stick and then pulls it out and says "There!" and then the cake starts to melt down and Vee tries to hold it before grabbing a broom and uses it to hold up the cake.



"Well, what do you think of it?" Vee asked with hope in her voice and Lucinda looked over while Red son was still standing as a dolly in a bad joke of a dress as she said "Why, it's..." Lucinda saw the cake before saying "..It's a very unusual cake, isn't it?" and then Vee saw the birthday candles sliding off the cake and onto the broom and she said while trying to keep the candles on the cake "Yes. Of course it'll be much stiffer after it's baked" and then Lucinda says "Of course, Vee. What do you think of the dress?" and Vee comes over and sees a very ugly dress. Not wanting to be mean, Vee says "Well, it's not exactly the way it is in the book, is it?" while Red son sighs and looks away with his arms crossed as he looks annoyed. "Well, I improved a bit! But perhaps if I added a few more ruffles. What do you think?" Lucinda asked and Vee says "I think so. What do you think, Red son?".

And having enough of this, Red son angrily says while struggling out of the dress, which falls to pieces "I think we've had enough of this nonsense! I think we ought to think of Aphmau, and what she'll think of this mess! I still think what I thunk before. I'm going to call both Golden Noodle Girl and my Meihua!" and he goes off to call them as the cake melts completely into a pile of sludge.

"You know, I think he's right" Vee says to Lucinda and this made Mk, Mei, Funneh and Lunar all nod in agreement and then there was a knock at the door and Lucinda went over and opened the door to see Gold and Rainbow. "Sorry! We came as fast as we could! Did we get here on time?" Rainbow asked and then Red son comes over and says "You have arrived on just in time, my Meihua".

This made Rainbow smile before hugging him and giving Red son a kiss on the cheek, making him blush. "Alright Rainbow, you and Vee take care of the cake" Gold said and Rainbow nods as she immediately went to the table. "While I..." Gold cuts Lucinda off by saying "Clean the room, Lucinda along with you, Funneh, and I'll make the dress. Now, hurry!" and then Lucinda starts cleaning up as she uses her magic "Come on, bucket, mop, broom. Gold says, clean up the room!" and they immediately start to sweep everything clean. Gold giggles as she says "And now to make a lovely dress, fit the grace a fair girl" and works on another sheet of pink cloth with her magic.

"Eggs, flour, milk!" Rainbow sang as she uses her magic to make ingredients come walking over to her and Vee. Rainbow looks at Vee and says "Watch and learn Vee" and then she looks at the ingredients, shows them the cookbook and says "Just do it the way it says here in the book. I'll put on the candles" and then the cake starts to bake itself.

Everything proceeds smoothly and quickly, but then Funneh sees the dress. "Oh no, not pink. Make it blue" Funneh said and she makes it blue by snapping her finger and this made Lucinda gasp and scold "Funneh! Make it pink" and she makes it pink by also snapping her finger and this made Gold sigh as she continued making the dress. Funneh made sure Lucinda wasn't looking and whispered "Make it blue" and snaps her finger making it blue once again. "Oh, pink!" Lucinda snapped her finger, making it pink again and looked at Funneh getting a little annoyed as this made Gold frown a little at their childish behavior.

Funneh looks away and before saying "Blue" and blasts magic at a pot with her finger tip as it reflects and heads towards the dress, but this time, Lucinda stands in front protecting the dress and Gold as she gets blue herself. Funneh looked away as she covered her mouth to prevent a laugh from coming out when Lucinda blasted magic at her with her wand, making Funneh pink. They started fighting over the color while Rainbow is decorating the cake as it was purple with pink frosting on the edges and Vee watches in awe ignoring the color fight going on while both Mei and Mk chanted 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' in the background. The two blazes of color go through the chimney that is above the oven and meanwhile outside a familiar golden color bird flies around saw sees the fireworks and went to investigate, but only for him to get hit by the magic from his behind many times, making 'caw' in pain.

Inside the apartment complex, the 'war' continues until Funneh and Lucinda both hit the dress at the same time with the result that it looks like two cans of color were emptied on it, making Gold gasped in shock and horror by this. Mei and Mk both looked a little pale as they saw Gold's eyes had shadowed and said in unison "Uh oh..." and Red son flinched when he saw Gold snapping her head towards Lucinda and Funneh, who both looked scared by Gold's angry expression.



"Oohhh! Now look what you two have done!"

Both Lucinda and Funneh looked away in shame and said in unison "Sorry" and then Red son sighs and says "Why not make the dress purple? It is Potato Girl's favorite color after all" and this made both Funneh and Lucinda gasp as they exclaimed "You're Right!!" and then they heard someone opening the door, making everyone stiff before sighing in relief that it was only the rest of the Krew, Ender, Macaque, Monkey King, Nezha, Ally, Bai He, Ao Bing, Sandy, Mo, Pigsy and Tang.

"Oh, thank goodness! It's just you guys" Vee says and then Macaque sees the dress and asks with his eyes slightly widened "Woah! What happened to the dress?" and Gold groans in annoyance and then says while looking at both Lucinda and Funneh with an annoyed look "Ask them" and the two whistled innocently while looking away and then suddenly Nezha hears something from the distance and says "Shh, listen!" and they hear someone humming 'LifeLine' and they realized who it was.

"It's Aph!" Funneh says and then Lucinda says "She's back. Enough of this foolishness" while she and Funneh magic their clothes back to their normal color, Lunar quickly cleans the dishes with her magic and puts them all in either the cupboard or drawer. Lucinda looks at the dress and says while snapping her finger "Make it pink" and makes it pink and then grabs both Rainbow and Vee as she says "Now hide, quick" and while Rainbow quickly finished lighting the candles on the cake. Funneh was about to join the others, but stops before she snaps her finger at the dress as she says "Purple" and the dress color turns purple.

Meanwhile Outside

Aphmau was running toward the apartment as she shouts "Guys!" and the rest of her friends were trying to keep up with her as Pierce then exclaimed almost out of breath "Dang! Aph Can Sure Run Fast, Can She?" and Aaron mutters to himself "Let's hope the others had finished".

Back inside Aphmau's Apartment

Everyone hid behind the counter and then Gold noticed something and said "Good gracious, who left the mop running?" as the mob is still sweeping the floor and Lucinda gasped before saying "Stop, mop!" and quickly uses her magic to make it stop. Aphmau opens the door and enters as she calls out "Mom, Funneh, Mei!" and she starts looking around while her friends were either grinning or smirking knowing what's gonna happen. "Where is everybody?" Aphmau asked herself before she gasped as she saw a beautiful dress and cake "Oh!" and went closer to them.

"Surprise, surprise!" Everyone then exclaimed as they came out of hiding and clapped while cheering as Sylvanna goes over to her daughter and says "Happy birthday, Mija!" and gives her a big hug while Kirby shouts "Pooteetah!" and hops on Aphmau's shoulder and snuggles against her.

"Whoa! You guys..." Aphmau was touched by what her family and friends had done for her.

"Alright, let's celebrate!!" Mei exclaimed as she and the others cheered. They cut the cake, chat and danced a little with more karaoke and it was finally time for opening presents. Funneh went first as she gave Aphmau a picture frame of her and Aphmau when they were little, Rainbow gives her a box full of meemeows plushies, Mei gives her a mini plushie version of Mk, making his face turn bright red, Lunar gives her a beautiful white wand.

Bai He gives her a new purple kitty hoodie, Draco and Ally both gave her some new nail polish with cat stickers on it, Red son even got her a gift as he gives her a beautiful purple bracelet, Nezha gives her some lotus earrings, Ao Bing gives her a crystal ball with a purple flower in it, Monkey King gives her a charm bracelet with Lady Irene' symbol on it and along with a monkey face too, Macaque got her a ocarina, Gold gives her a new set of makeup.

Pigsy, Tang and Sandy all agreed and got her a pair of new beautiful purple shoes, Aaron gives her a galaxy werewolf hoodie, Kawaii Chan gave her a cute kitty chocker, Zane gives her some new pair of shoes, Lucinda gives her beautiful glowing gems, Kim and Noi both got her a little tea set, Pierce and Ein even both got her a new book of pranking people, Travis and Katelyn both got her a new pack of video games, Mac bought her a camera to do vlogs, Vee gives Aphmau some mini kitty-shaped cookies she baked (A/n: Vee already mastered on baking cookies thanks to both Rainbow and Noi) Sylvanna gives her a new shirt that says 'Best/Beautiful daughter in the world', making Aphmau smile and it was finally Mk's turn.

"Here you go, Aph. Happy birthday" Mk says shyly as he hands her a neatly small wrapped present and Aphmau opens it and she was surprised to see a beautiful kitty angel necklace with a purple stone in the middle along with a beautiful purple stone ring too.



She looks at Mk, who was looking away with a blush as he stutters "I-I hope you like it Aph..." and Aphmau smiles before getting up and pulled Mk into a kiss, making him blush brightly as smoke comes out from his ears. "Whooo! You go bud!" Monkey King cheered, making Nezha look at him with a 'WTF' look on his face. Aphmau pulls away and says "Thank you, Mk" and in response Mk stammers "Y-Y-You're w-w-welcome A-A-Aph..." before falling down with a bliss and lovestruck look on his face as hearts appeared above him, making Macaque, Funneh, Mei, Aaron, Kawaii Chan and Monkey King snickered at this and the others laughed while Sylvanna simply rolled her eyes and looked amused by this, knowing Mk was a good kid.

"This Is My Best Birthday Ever!" Aphmau said with a smile. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

🎉Happy Birthday Aphmau🎉

Here are some artwork I found just for this chapter ( These fanart aren't mine; belong to the rightful owners )