Its the wildest thing to Ilya that the Hollanders no only do not forget his birthday but make it a central part of their June plans. The first year he's officially Shane's boyfriend, three days after the bears are knocked out of the playoffs, he gets a phone call from Yuna. She somehow has managed to normalize the fact that he now gets monthly phone calls from his boyfriend's mother so he's not too weirded out. But then she's asking about his plans, obviously he will be invited to Vegas but is he celebrating his birthday with his friends and which is fine but when does he think he'll be in Canada or does he have a free couple of days in June we'll just come to you. Ilya's kinda speechless because 1. He was not aware that Yuna knew when his birthday was (when he expresses this later to Shane, Shane's like Ilya its on your Wikipedia page... which renders Ilya speechless again because that means Yuna went looking for his birthdate.) 2. He was not expecting the Hollanders outside of Shane to want to do something.
His plans at the moment were to talk Shane into going clubbing with Ilya and Svetlana. But suddenly an image popped into his head. The Hollanders, Shane, Sveta, and Ilya all gathered around Ilya's massive dining table, eating pasta and drinking nice wine, maybe having cake. They all give Ilya nice gifts that he likes, maybe Shane gives Ilya a really nice watch or a perfume that he'd had a professional help pick out. Then the Hollanders retreating to the living room while Shane, Sveta, and Ilya heading upstairs to laugh and pregame and get ready for the club together. Saying goodbye to Shane's parents and slipping into Shane's car to go out and meet Marly and a couple of the guys out for some partying. Then ending the night in his own bed, in Shane's big steady arms, maybe with some drunken birthday sex. Quietly, obviously, because the Hollanders and Sveta are in the guest rooms.
Ilya has never wanted something for his birthday more in his entire life. The scariest part is that he's almost sure that its now something he can actually get.
