Eleanor's social shyness prevented her from really joining in on the big shout of surprise (she figured Kamala would cover it enthusiastically enough for the both of them, anyway), but she did, at some point, come up to Cal to offer a "Hi, Cal," a "Happy birthday", and offer out her small gift for him.

"It isn't much," she warned him, "but I still wanted to het you something."

And if it just ended up collecting dust in a corner of his room somewhere, she'd think it was a terrible waste of a decent journal and pen, but she'd also understand.