the graceless

[instar]

Bella sits out, this year as every year, from gym class. It's just asking for a lawsuit. She does stretches and crunches and push-ups in the corner.

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[aeskhyne]

...Trouble watches this interchange.

[pandion]

"It's really good pie but I'm actually kind of in a chocolate mood, is there any of our birthday cake left?"

[instar]

"Should be, I had the second-to-last slice yesterday. All yours."

[pandion]

Andi gets a slice of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and 15 written on it in blue icing out of the fridge and has it in lieu of a second slice of pie.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble eyes the remaining pie speculatively.

[pandion]

"If one of us gets seconds we can all have seconds," Andi informs him.

[aeskhyne]

"I'm deciding if I want any."

[instar]

Bella steals a bite of Andi's slice of birthday cake.

[pandion]

Andi snorts and steals a bite of Bella's second slice of pie.

[aeskhyne]

Trouble giggles.

[pandion]

"That's a sisters privilege," says Andi, pointing her fork at Trouble, "if you had any designs on my cake."

[aeskhyne]

"Yeah, I figured," he says.

[pandion]

"Long as that's clear," says Andi contently.

[instar]

Bella's pie is all gone. She leans back in her chair, smiling.

[aeskhyne]

"I'll go for another one," says Trouble.

He goes for another one. Mmm. Pie.

[kindestgarden]

Renée wanders out of the room - she pats Andi on the head once as she goes, since she's right there.

[instar]

"What does your evening look like?" Bella inquires of Trouble.

[aeskhyne]

"Beats me," he laughs. "Guess I'll hang around for a while, then go somewhere else."

[pandion]

"Should we be entertaining you?" asks Andi vaguely. "There are, um... board games?"

[aeskhyne]

"We can play board games if you wanna play board games," says Trouble. "If they're fun. Or we could play, I dunno, poker."

[pandion]

"I only know Texas Hold 'Em."

[instar]

"And we don't have any chips."

[aeskhyne]

"Does that mean you don't wanna play poker?"

[instar]

"It means there exist practical obstacles to playing poker. I am largely indifferent to the choice of specific activity."

[pandion]

"We could go raid the change drawer, it's full of pennies," says Andi. "We have to put it all back after so Mom can put it through the machine at the grocery store but that's not a big deal."