because it’s his day!! it’s today!!!
adam always kicks off his shoes without undoing the laces then gets annoyed when he has to untie them to put them on again
so for his birthday ronan dreams him up a pair of velcro sneakers
they’re super bright and obnoxious (neon green or something) but they ALSO light up when you stomp your foot AND they glow in the dark
adam: “they’re hideous. i love them.”
he hums when he concentrates really hard but doesn’t really realise he’s doing it
usually 70s or 80s songs that play a lot on the radio when he’s working at boyd’s
so he gets a lot of songs stuck in other people’s heads accidentally
adam: *humming the final countdown by europe while doing his homework*
ronan, later: 🎵it’s the final countdown, na na naaaa naa, na na na na na naaa🎵
adam: why are you singing that
ronan: are you fucken kidding me
he’s forever fixing things around the barns or 300 fox way
leaky faucet, loose door-handle, stiff window, squeaky hinges? adam’ll fix it
i already have a hc that ronan makes adam a new mixtape every time adam heads back to college for a new semester
but i think that adam makes mix-cds for ronan too
he has an older laptop that still has a cd-drive in it because it’s second hand
so he makes cd’s for ronan’s car, filled with songs that ronan finds irritating as a payback for the murder-squash song
think like uptown funk, hollaback girl, call me maybe, happy, somebody that i used to know – stuff that probably got way overplayed and/or was annoyingly catchy
he leaves them in ronan’s car after he drives it so the next time ronan drives it and presses play he’s bombarded with 🎵A FEW TIMES BEEN AROUND THAT TRACK SO IT’S NOT JUST GONNA HAPPEN LIKE THAT CAUSE I AIN’T NO HOLLABACK GIRL🎵
(but maybe adam sneaks some songs on there that remind him of ronan too. maybe. just maybe)
gansey teaches him how to play chess and adam rapidly becomes better than him and now every time they play he wins
gansey always thinks this will be the time he wins until adam makes a move that turns the whole thing around and gansey realises adam could’ve ended it several turns back but was just humouring him
through carefully cultivated habit his expectations for his birthday are low to non-existent
but he has friends who think the world of him and who also have the worst poker faces of all time
so when blue arrives to take him out for a birthday breakfast it takes him all of two minutes to get her to admit they’re throwing him a surprise party
“you better act surprised or ronan is going to murder me”
they get back to the barns later on and there’s a bbq going and lights floating in the air around the deck and gansey, henry, matthew, ronan, opal and the fox way ladies are all there.
adam, trying to act surprised: um wow thank you guys oh my god what a shock
ronan, narrowing his eyes: sargent i fuckin’ knew you’d cave
anyway he spends his birthday surrounded by people who love him who would do anything for him :’))))
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