Disclaimers for all!! Even though this story doesn't really need them. Pick belongs to Mandy, or is it the other way around? All references to 'Area 51' are refering to Anne's bedroom. And yes, it's really THAT bad. The title in Japanese is Ai Shiteru, Chinese it's Wo Ai Ni, and in English it's Anne's 16th birthday, hopefully, no one will be the wiser. He he he.....

It was a saturday evening at the Anne's parents' house. But it was no ordinary saturday evening, infact, it was their youngest daughter's 16th birthday party.

"Hi guys!" Was the cheerful cry of Anne greating her friends Mandy, Jean, Mary, Adrienne, Emily and Hikaru.

"Hi Anne." said Emily, Jean and Adrienne.

"Howdy Annabelle!" said Mary.

"Hi Annie Bananie!" cried Mandy. The cat that she carried let out a 'meow' and jumped out of the carrot demon's arms. Once on his paws, he began to rub against Anne's leg lovingly and began to purr.

"Hi Hikaru," cooed Anne. She looked up from the floor expecting to see her friends still standing out side.

However, she saw no one. Anne turned her around to see Mandy doing her "Bob" dance, Mary and Jean going into Area 51 to look for lost, helpless and vulnerable bishonen, Emily following them with a desgruntled look on her face, and Adrienne looking for burglers so she could have a chance to show off her new karate moves. Having a Kouji moment, she grumbled, "Why don't you guys come in! Oh, why thank you Anne. You're welcome guys. Mi casa es su casa! Sheeesh. Well, Hikaru, are you up for being spoiled?" The cat nodded its head and made its way to the couch. After about two seconds of purring, Bob, the friendly kitten made his way into the house. When he saw what he saw (nothing dirty, of course!), he became EXTREMELY jealous of this cat that sat on the long haired girl's lap. He temporarily left the room and a minute later he came striding back in with a sock clamped in his jaws as if to say, "I did it, I killed it myself!" This effort however went unnoticed as Anne continued to pay homage to Hikaru's furry chin. Bob gave up his efforts and went to hunt some poor unsuspecting radioactive mouse in Area 51.

Mandy, finishing her "Bob" dance, noticed Bob lurking through the doors of Anne's room. "Bob my love! I hath found thee!!" cried Mandy. At hearing this, Bob ran for his life and decided to take his chances where ever the toxic wasted dump may lead him. Mary came running out of Area 51 after hearing ye olde English being spoken.

"Suboshi! Doko wa? (Note: Mary gave Suboshi brain o' Shakespeare and has been in love with him ever since.) Jean followed Mary trying to hit her with her halisen while yelling, "Mary no Baka! My aniki is off limits!" Emily slowly walked by spueing flames in every which way direction.

As the crowd of sugar deprived females left the room, Hikaru cocked his head to the left and had a puzzled look on his face as if to say, "I'm glad I'm not Bob." Then a nervous grin spread across his cute kitty face. It said, "Now's the time. I've got to tell her now." Hikaru got up from his comfy position off of Anne's lap and went to the green backpack that lie on the floor next to DoDo's cage (he's the pigeon). He managed to open the big pocket, Pick only knows how, and dragged a pair of pants and a T-Shirt across the room into the bathroom. When he came out, the other girls were still somewhere no where near him and Anne. (This is my chance.) he thought. He sat down to Anne on the couch and put his hand on hers.

"Anne, I have something I'd like to tell you." Hikaru said, rather seriously.

"Yes Hikaru...." Anne said cautiously.

"Well, um...I just wanted to say-"

"TO THE SUGAR LADIES!!!" Was the triumphant cry of Mandy. She had obviously completed Mission Capture the Bob.

(What a wonderful way to reck the seriousness of a moment.) thought Hikaru. "Oh yes, sugar. How could I forget. Hee hee...*grumble*.

Anne was flabergasted by this, "Hikaru, didn't you have something to tell me?" Hikaru suddenly felt the dead silence of the room.

"Hikaru was going to say something? Oh my, this IS an occasion! Well, let's hear it boy!" chanted Mary acting as if she were the old man in Big Country. Hikaru, obviously not amused, changed into cat form and sat on the couch thwaping his tail violently.

"Ok.......ay. Well, what should we do first?" asked Anne.

"MATRIX! We've got to watch the Matrix!" shouted Adrienne, hyper as hell.

"Yes! The Matrix! Keanu Reeves! *drooooooollll*" said Mary.

"Um, yeah, okay. Matrix it is!" Anne tookk the tape from Adrienne's hand and tried to put it in the V.C.R. "Um, Mandy, little help here?" After the technology problem was fixed, Mary and Adrienne started to act like two hormone crazed teenagers. As soon as Jean saw Keanu Reeves, she joined in the drooling too. Mandy sat off to the side faking elagorate death scenes while Emily's color slowly returned to normal. (Mary can't get into a whole lot of trouble while she's watching a movie) she thought thankfully.

So the next two hours were spent listening to Jean, Mary and Adrienne drool. Occasionally, if one moved from their fixed position, they could feel the drool. (ewwwww.) During the movie, Hikaru tried several times to talk to Anne, but each time his effort was foiled. Several times Mary and Adrienne pulled Anne up in the front to see some 'cool' ningen move. Then, on two other attempts, Anne's parents found their way into the room causing Hikaru to change forms as not to get caught. He didn't want to meet Anne's parents this way. By the end of the movie, Emily had seen and tallied every effort that Hikaru had made (totaling 13 tries!). After all, she is Mary's chaperone. She was trained to notice stuff like that, and if she didn't, Pick, please don't help us there.

During the group's "Sugar Break", Hikaru managed to get passed all of the girls' stuff and make it to the bathroom. Well, he almost made it. Just before his foot hit the ground, someone tightly squeezed his arm (not a smart thing to do...) and dragged him into Area 51.

"What's up with you tonight Hikaru?" asked Emily.

"Um, well, you see, I-uh, um..." Those were the only sounds Hikaru could manage. His blatter was full and when you've been grabbed suddenly and have a rat drinking water behind your attacker, you wouldn't be able to make out too much either. His next effort was rather inspiring.

"Necessito al bano!" With that he ran into the bathroom to relieve himself. Emily shrugged and went back to the living room to scarf down all of the yummy candy (sugar...^_^ sugar is good.)

"Sugar Break's over! It's time for...*trumpets sound* SCRABBLE!!!!!" Mandy yelled triumphantly. Hikaru came into the room just in time. He walked over to Anne to ask if she'd be his partner. Mandy got there first. "Anne! I command thee to be my partner in this foul game!"

Mary got all starry eyed and whispered, "Suboshi-chan." Jean, like a chain reaction, hit Mary over the head with her Instant Mallet™.

"Itai..." whimpered Mary. Jean put her mallet away and dusted her hands.

"Alright, we need to figure out partners." said Mandy. "Me and Annie are partners, Mary and Emily, Jean and Adrienne. That leaves Hikaru....now where did you want to go? You can't be with me and Annie! You'll upset our balance of tranquillity." When Mandy said that, Hikaru looked as if he had just been stabbed with some sort of a sharp object (descriptive, no?) In the end, Hikaru chose to go with Jean and Adrienne.

"XORK!" Cried Mandy. "Ha-ha! X-O-R-K! Let's see here...8+1+1+3= 13! And look! It's a double word score! 26 points!" While Mandy was off in her world, the others scowled and sweatdropped. But Hikaru, still mad at Mandy from their previous encounter, challenged her.

"Are you a callin' me out?" Mandy said in her Western Cowboy accent. After about two seconds she got over it.

"What? You challenge the wonderful planet Xork? How? EVERY Weirdo knows it's a word!"

"Aah, but does Webster's Dictionary?" replied Hikaru. Mary pulled out her two ton dictionary titled Random House Dictionary of the English Language : The Unabrigded Version. "According to Random House here, Xork is not a word. Xopher and Xuthus are, but no Xork, sadly." said Mary. She gripped the dictionary tightly as if half expecting to get Carrot Bombed. She was wrong. Hikaru got the other half of her expectation. Anne gave Mandy a glare that could discourage Mary from looking at any guy ever again (scary, isn't it?). Mandy, fearing for her life, turned into her Carrot Demon form and bounced off the living room walls SD. The crowd stared at her in dismay and sweatdropped, a lot. Well, that is to say except for Hikaru who was so mad the goop practically melted off of him onto the carpet.

Now mobile, Hikaru chased SD Mandy all over the living room, in cat form. Whilst violent actions between Mandy and Hikaru were exchanged, the other guests continued their Scrabble game. Towards the last few pieces of wood, the contestants stopped keeping score, although we all know that Anne won. When the game finally ended, it was near 11:30. Anne decided that her house had suffered enough damage as it was and decided to pull the two quarellers apart.

"Now you two will behave yourselves or I'll...I'll dress you up as me and leave you in a room with Bear and Mike Miller!" The two however didn't get the reference as well as Mary and Emily because they were cowering where they stood. "Mandy! I'll write a Hiei/Mandy love story! I'll do it!" Mandy stopped dead. "And Hikaru! I'll write a lemon with you and Mary! I'll do that too!" Hikaru stopped dead too. <Phew, I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that to him.> Anne thought.

<Please don't write it.>

<Nooooooo! Me and Cat boy!!! *gag**gag*>

<Not Mary! Not Mary!>

<Kill Hiei.>

(Bishonen...droool)

<I wonder if we can watch The Matrix again......>

After all of the excitement stopped, the girls and boy thought watching Anime would settle them down. So, much to Adrienne's disappointment, the girls watched Slayers Next. Once again, during the movie, Hikaru tried to talk to Anne. However, it was not Mary, Adrienne or Emily that kept the two apart; it was Anne.

"Hikaru, can you tell me later? I've never seen these two episodes." asked Anne as sincerely as she could possibly manage. Hikaru nodded, transformed into a cat and went to sit on Mandy's lap. This effort was rejected violently. So the battered cat went off to sit on Adrienne's lap. She accepted the cat since she didn't really understand what was going on in the movie.

The night got older and darker, and soon it was young and light. The girls got sleepier as time wore on, but they managed to stay up. Finally their efforts were lost. The first to go was Mary, then Emily, Mandy, Jean and Adrienne. Anne managed to stay up just long enough to turn off all of the lights and the damnable T.V. contraption. She hit her sleeping bag with a 'bang' and was out like a light. Hikaru sat on top of the couch and watched his girlfriend sleep; a deep and peaceful sleep. He sat there swaying his tail wondering what she dreampt, what she thought and what she saw. While contemplating all of this deep knowledge, Hikaru himself fell asleep.

That morning, the girls woke up to the sound of Anne's father's voice. "Time to rise and resent children!" The girls groaned and surrendered to the call of conciousness. When Anne's father left the room, Hikaru decided it was time to transform. Not two seconds after he stepped into the living room did he hear Anne say, "Oh yeah, Hikaru, you said you had something to tell me."

All of the Weird no Seishi stopped eating the cold pizza that had been laid out for them and stared at the couple. Hikaru felt a rush of dismay and shock and horror seize him all at once.

Hikaru walked over to Anne, kissed her forehead and said,

"Happy Birthday Anne." ^.~