ooh, british accent

[pandion]

It's not like Andi never noticed him before. He's totally cute and everything. She's been noticing boys for, like, a while. (She doesn't have the date noted in Inscrutable Cipher like Bella, but it's definitely been a while.) It's just that until he had to give that report in week two of American History she didn't hear him talk very much.

Mmmmmmmmmmm British accent. There's probably kinds. She can't identify this one and doesn't care, they're all yummy. He's yummy. Yum. She's going to have to talk to him at lunch, or something, if she can get him off by himself. Maybe Bella will help.

Andi scopes out the situation around Ethan Rayne, He Of The Hot Accent, at lunch.

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[instar]

"I suppose that's good, then. You an only child?"

[aeskhyne]

He laughs. "Yeah."

[palmofyourhand]

"Is uninvited telepathy a big problem in your family?"

[instar]

"Do you wish you weren't?"

[pandion]

"Nah, not really, I just read novels and then I explain what the story was about to Bella and then she goes on and on about all the things that are wrong with it and then," says Andi, "I have a book report."

[palmofyourhand]

...Ethan laughs.

[aeskhyne]

"Oh hell no," says Trouble.

[pandion]

"And if it's science fiction or fantasy and somebody reads somebody's mind she always latches right onto that," says Andi. "So I know how she'd be about it if I were reading people's minds."

[instar]

"Why not?"

[aeskhyne]

"Skip it," says Trouble. "Juuuust skip it."

[palmofyourhand]

"Aha," says Ethan. "But on the other hand, how would she know?"

[instar]

"Why?"

[pandion]

"Sometimes in the books people can tell. Anyway I wouldn't do it, she'd be so upset. She writes her notebooks - like her diary, I mean - in cipher because one time years ago she caught me reading one."

[palmofyourhand]

"And you're a good sister and you'd never go reading her mind if it would upset her so badly," says Ethan.

[aeskhyne]

"Did I not just say, 'skip it'?" says Trouble. "Is that not what I just said?"

[pandion]

"Yeah."

[instar]

"You did say that. Now I want to know why it is to be skipped. No going up a level of meta, either, huh?"

[aeskhyne]

"Nope," says Trouble, with an explosive pop on the p.

He shoves his chair back, gets up, grabs the back of Ethan's shirt, and hauls him out of his seat.

[palmofyourhand]

"It seems I'm being carried off," says Ethan to Andi. "Probably to some marvelous adventure. I'll see you later."

And he detaches Trouble's hand from his shirt, not especially gently, and follows him out.

[instar]

Bella blinks.

[pandion]

"Bye!" calls Andi to Ethan.

"What happened?" she asks Bella.

[instar]

"I seem to have touched a sore topic. I'm not sure. Lunch is over, anyway," Bella says, glancing at the clock.

And so it is. The bell rings. The twins go to class.