[As Buffy speaks, a smile slowly spreads over Dawn's lips and her eyes slowly brighten up leaving some of that weariness and blah-ness behind. She sets the leather bag she caries to and from work with her everyday down just inside the door and then simultaneously bounces up and down and wraps her arms around her older sister in a bouncy, excited hug.]

A birthday party for me? Really? You actually remembered with all the crazy going on? I thought maybe you'd forgotten but yay! Is there cake? Chocolate cake? Or! Oh! Brownies?