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[hold_infinity]

She shakes her head. "Not my kind of music, not my kind of fun."

[pandion]

"Are you going to try starting a band, then?"

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe someday."

[pandion]

"Sometimes I think about learning an instrument but then I think about all the little seven-year-olds who can play ridiculously well and it just feels embarrassing to start."

[hold_infinity]

Robin shrugs. "Everybody starts somewhere, right?"

[pandion]

"Yeah, I guess. I also don't know what I'd pick up."

[hold_infinity]

"Figure it out, and you could be in my band," laughs Robin.

[pandion]

"Well, what do you need in your band?"

[hold_infinity]

"Drums. Bass. Any instrument that's not a guitar," she laughs.

[pandion]

"Isn't a bass a kind of guitar, bass guitar?"

[hold_infinity]

"A bass is a guitar like a square is a rectangle," says Robin. "Except even less."

[pandion]

"Oh. Hmm. I wonder if Renée can even afford lessons for me in anything, which one's easier to self-teach and cheaper to rent?"

[hold_infinity]

"Maybe bass? Or something weird, I could always use something weird," says Robin.

[pandion]

"The triangle! The didgeridoo! The sousaphone!"

[hold_infinity]

"What in God's name is a sousaphone?"

[pandion]

"Some kind of brass... thing. I don't actually know but it's definitely an instrument."

[hold_infinity]

Robin giggles.

[pandion]

And here is the movie. Well, here are the movie previews, anyway. Andi politely refrains from talking during the show.

[hold_infinity]

So does Robin!

But when it ends, she declares, "That was fun."

[pandion]

"Yeah, it was good! Thanks for coming."

[hold_infinity]

"Thanks for taking me! Right, time to battle the infernal dollar."

She manages to pay Andi back for her ticket, after some fussing.

[pandion]

Andi tucks the money into her purse, which is in a state of maximum entropy except for the separate pocket for card-shaped things. "You're welcome! Now we go wait for my mom, I guess."

[hold_infinity]

"Guess so," Robin agrees. "Is she gonna turn up?"

[pandion]

"Eventually. Bella will remind her if she forgets."

[hold_infinity]

"All right."