the pie

[instar]

Gym class is mind-numbing. Bella spends it thinking about introversion - Andi finds it peculiar and kept asking her questions about it. Bella's not an extreme case of the type, but definitely qualifies. Andi always has more friends - needs more friends - than Bella does.

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[aeskhyne]

"Good."

[instar]

"If you'd really upset her we wouldn't be allowed to have you over anymore, but she didn't say anything like that."

[aeskhyne]

"Good," he repeats. "That'd be sad."

[instar]

"Yeah, we'd have to come up with some other way for you to bring baked goods."

[aeskhyne]

Trouble giggles.

[instar]

"Are you going to open a bakery or something when you grow up?"

[aeskhyne]

"Who knows?"

[instar]

"Apparently not you!"

[aeskhyne]

He grins.

"I might. It'd probably be fun."

[instar]

"I believe the only obvious drawback, if you like baking, is that you have to get up early in the morning."

[aeskhyne]

Trouble shrugs. "And that's a drawback?"

[instar]

"Lots of people hate getting up early."

[aeskhyne]

"Lots of people hate a bunch of things I don't."

[instar]

"Then perhaps your calling in life is operating a cute little bakery. Perhaps with someone handling the business side, I suppose, I don't know if you go in for that part."

[aeskhyne]

He shrugs. "Business? What business? I just wanna bake tasty things."

[instar]

"Yes, exactly. So you'd need help, to run a bakery, or you'd wind up getting arrested for something like a health code violation or tax issues."

[aeskhyne]

He laughs. "Won't that be fun."

[instar]

"Do you even have preferences? About anything?"

[aeskhyne]

"Sure," he says. "I like stuff. I like stuff all the time. I'm standing here 'cause I want to bake you a cake, that's a preference, right?"

[instar]

"Would you be meaningfully disappointed if I told you you were not invited to make me cake, though?"

[aeskhyne]

Trouble shrugs. "I'd be sad. I'd go do something else. I'd get over it. Is that 'meaningfully disappointed'?"

[instar]

"I guess I'll count it."

[aeskhyne]

He grins.

"What's the difference, anyway?"

[instar]

"Between what and what?"

[aeskhyne]

"I mean - what difference does it make, to you, whether I get disappointed by stuff or not?"