30th

Written for #RCReadathon2020 Prompt and Pairing, Please! Challenge. Jill and Shinta are characters from the Playlist series, starting with Songs of Our Breakup and also in Songs to Make You Stay. Prompt:  Shinta plans Jill’s 30th birthday party   *** Shinta Mori took birthdays seriously. Specially the landmark ones, like the 30th, which was turn-of-the-decade important. Since he’d made Manila his home base, he had been hearing it referred to as the advent of the tito-slash-tita stage of life, where one would get excited about purchasing rice cookers and tea. Fascinating, really. When he turned 30 he already had an interest in household machines and errands, having moved out to his own place early on. And tea, while it was not sake or beer, was always nice. Anyway, this wasn’t about him. This was another person traversing into an exciting new decade, and this person was important. This person also nursed a firm dislike of birthday parties. Tricky. His palm fell on Jill’s thigh, squeezing. “Do you want to go to Sapporo?” One eyebrow rose. “Randomly?” “Not right now.” “Yeah, cos I’m supposed to be up there in 5 minutes.” Her mouth curved to his favorite smirk. She tilted her […]