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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[palmofyourhand]

"Au contraire," says Ethan, "I'd think a badly severed arm is more worth complaining about. All that mess and unnecessary discomfort."

[hold_infinity]

...Robin sporfles.

[pandion]

"No, you have to distinguish between the arm, and the severing," says Andi. "If the arm is good and the severing is bad that's the worst for the arm, um, donor."

[hold_infinity]

"Pfffffffffffff," says Robin.

[palmofyourhand]

"I think our girl's sprung a leak," remarks Ethan.

[pandion]

"I don't have my bicycle repair kit, can't help you."

[palmofyourhand]

"Well, nobody cut off her arm, that'll only make it worse."

[hold_infinity]

She thunks her forehead against his shoulder and cackles helplessly.

[pandion]

"I don't have my hacksaw either anyway, I'm going to get marked down for coming to school unprepared."

[hold_infinity]

Giggle giggle.

[palmofyourhand]

"You've gone and done it again. She'll never recover at this rate."

[pandion]

"Ooooops?"

[instar]

"Dying of laughter is very uncommon."

[hold_infinity]

Robin continues to snicker.

[palmofyourhand]

"She may not die of laughter, but she might die laughing," snorts Ethan.

[instar]

"What would she die of, then?"

[palmofyourhand]

"Car crash. Thirty years from now. Still giggling," Ethan predicts.

[instar]

"Oh, let's give her till she's eighty at least. I like the image of a little old lady who can't stop laughing because of jokes told in the tenth grade."

[pandion]

"She'll keep trying to tell all the other little old ladies in the nursing home what's so funny but she won't be able to stop laughing long enough to do it!"

[hold_infinity]

Robin covers her face with her hands and wheezes.

[palmofyourhand]

"There, there," says Ethan, patting her on the shoulder.

[pandion]

"We can all sit very still and wait for you to calm down if you want," offers Andi.

[palmofyourhand]

"Even though it wouldn't be any fun at all."

[hold_infinity]

Robin nods. And leans on Ethan's shoulder again.

[pandion]

Andi sits very still. (Well, she eats.)