"Oh, it was Ellie and me," Arden said. "We're co-hosts! We agreed that we had to throw Kams a party since she was a sloth for hers, and brainstormed what to do. She's on distraction duty upstairs with extra cupcakes, and I got the rest of the food and drinks and did the decorations."

Which, to be sure, weren't much. Some balloons, some streamers, the word happy birthday strung across a wall.