mmm, tea

[pandion]

"Do you think I should try out for swim team?" Andi asks her sister.

"I don't know, do you want to be on the swim team?" inquires Bella.

"Maybe, I don't know. It could be fun, and I'd get to be in the pool a lot."

"Then sure, go for it." Bella bites into her grilled cheese.

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[instar]

"I was theoretically eligible to skip into first grade directly, but Mom wouldn't let me go past her without having me for the year, and besides, would've split me up from Andi."

[hold_infinity]

"Wouldn't want that," she says, glancing between the twins.

[pandion]

"Yeah, Bella totally carries me in English class. I have more tolerance for math though."

[hold_infinity]

"English class, there's a joke," snorts Robin.

[palmofyourhand]

"Don't mock the colonials," says Ethan.

[pandion]

"The Redcoats are mocking, the Redcoats are mocking!"

[instar]

"Pffffff."

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan snickers.

[hold_infinity]

Robin giggles.

[instar]

"I don't even know why it's called English class. In elementary school it was Language Arts, and a decent fraction of the literature we study is translated from other languages, we're doing a chunk of Dostoevsky in December."

[pandion]

"Not the entirety of Dostoevsky? Just like his arm or something?"

[instar]

"A passage from the middle of a novel," snorts Bella. "Not the whole thing, no room in the schedule."

[hold_infinity]

Meanwhile, the Redcoats

[palmofyourhand]

are cracking up.

[instar]

[pandion]

"I should go into standup, clearly."

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan giggles.

[hold_infinity]

Robin snickers.

[instar]

"I think you're more conversationally funny than monologue-funny," Bella tells Andi. "Maybe you could translate it, though."

[hold_infinity]

"His arm," says Robin, and giggles harder.

[pandion]

"Dostoevsky's Arm sounds like a band name. They would play incomprehensible electronica!"

[hold_infinity]

She is now laughing so hard she has to lean on Ethan to stay arguably upright.

[palmofyourhand]

He is not much less giggly than that. But he manages not to fall over.

[pandion]

"It could be a whole crossdisciplinary unit. We could dissect his arm in bio. Except he only has two, so we'd have to do in groups."

[palmofyourhand]

Ethan splutters.