woo, rock music

[pandion]

When Robin arrives on Sunday, Andi is in the front yard on a lawn chair, knotting a friendship bracelet safety-pinned to the knee of her jeans in robin's-egg blue and two shades of pink.

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[hold_infinity]

Robin waves.

[pandion]

"Hi, Robin!" says Andi. She detaches the bracelet-in-progress and stashes it in a little bag, then hops up out of her chair.

[hold_infinity]

"How's it going?" she asks, hauling her guitar in its case toward the front door.

[pandion]

"Going pretty good." Andi holds the door for her. "Got all my homework done early, I love having all my homework already done on Sunday. You?"

[hold_infinity]

"Homework?" she says innocently. "What homework?"

[pandion]

"Not a schooly person?"

[hold_infinity]

"Not so much. Ethan's helping me cheat," she says cheerfully.

[pandion]

"Whatever, I'm not judgy," shrugs Andi. "...But I spend so much time around Bella that I kinda have a Shoulder Bella like cartoon characters have a Shoulder Angel and my Shoulder Bella wants to make sure you don't do it in a way that gets anybody else in trouble."

[hold_infinity]

"Nah."

[pandion]

"Shoulder Bella is satisfied." Andi pats where a three-inch Shoulder Bella's head might be, gently, and says, "Is the living room a good guitar habitat? Bella's having an Introverted Day. Or at least an Introverted Morning, sometimes she perks up around lunch."

[hold_infinity]

"I don't see why not," says Robin.

[pandion]

Flop! The sofa now contains and Andi. She waves a hand with mock imperiousness. "Music!" she says.

[hold_infinity]

Robin laughs. She puts down her guitar case and extracts a somewhat battered-looking acoustic guitar.

"All right, what're you in the mood for?"

[pandion]

"I dunno what my choices are! What's your favorite?"

[hold_infinity]

She laughs. "Depends what mood I'm in! Here, I'll play you something fun."

She grabs a chair, sits down, and plays.



It turns out that Robin is a really good singer. Not bad at writing music, either. And her lyrics are adorable - it's a song about sweet things, and you can almost taste the chocolate.

[pandion]

"Now I'm hungry," laughs Andi. "I like that song!"

[hold_infinity]

"Me too," says Robin, grinning.

[pandion]

"Has it got a title?"

[hold_infinity]

"Nah, I'm shit at those," she says. "I just have it written down as 'Sweets'."

[pandion]

"Speaking of which wow I really want chocolate like right now, how do you feel about muffins, we could make muffins. I have this recipe with yogurt in it, it's good."

[hold_infinity]

"I feel great about muffins!"

[pandion]

"Awesome!" Off goes Andi to the kitchen. "Mom would make us wait till after lunch to eat them but she's off at - I forget what it is this week. Bella!" she hollers at the ceiling. "Remind me where Mom is!"

[instar]

"Book club, then ceramics class," Bella's voice replies faintly, "we might wind up meeting her at the Mexican place for dinner with her ceramics friends."

[hold_infinity]

"Your mum does ceramics?"

[pandion]

"Apparently," shrugs Andi. "She signs up for all kinds of things. If Bella says she has ceramics friends she's probably been doing it for a while, I don't really keep close track, it could just as easily have been origami or some nature hike group or an exciting new religion."