"'Cause we were dead." Which is now officially the worst way she's ever spent her birthday.

"I must be feeling like crap because I don't feel like celebrating. I was going to do cake with you--one of those special recipes so you could have some. And have Connor over, too. And I somehow talked Steve into a friend date? Like, all dressed up and old fashioned like when he was my age, just buddies hitting the town. The Admiral's a real asshole."