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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Robin plays some more.

Her songs are all over the map. Some fun and cheerful, some melancholy, some angry, some just beautiful.

[pandion]

Andi listens happily, clapping at each song, singing along in places when she can learn the chorus well enough to do so - she has an untrained, serviceable voice - and then she goes and gets the muffins out. She wipes the counter clean, then upends the muffin tin onto it; twelve muffins bounce out, and she sets them upright and plates two and offers one to Robin.

[hold_infinity]

The rain of muffins makes Robin giggle. She's still giggling as she takes the offered muffin.

[pandion]

"If you take them out by hand you have to wait for them to cool," explains Andi, unwrapping her own muffin with careful little pinches too brief to leave burns.

[hold_infinity]

"And if you take them out by hand you don't get to see them bounce along like that," she says, continuing to giggle.

[pandion]

"Muffins are surprisingly bouncy!"

[hold_infinity]

Robin cracks up all over again.

[pandion]

The muffins are delicious and moist. Andi is smug.

[hold_infinity]

"These are awesome," says Robin.

[pandion]

"Thanks!"

[hold_infinity]

Robin beams. And eats her muffin. Om nom.

[instar]

"I smell chocolate," says Bella, coming down the stairs. "I am collecting my share of chocolate."

[hold_infinity]

"Hi, Bella," says Robin. "Andi made muffins! I helped!"

[instar]

"Hi, Robin. Thanks, Andi." Bella picks up and peels a muffin.

[hold_infinity]

Robin grabs another one. Because they are delicious.

[instar]

Bella brings a second with her upstairs, but apparently she is still being introverted.

[pandion]

"How many songs have you even written? Do you just have them all memorized?"

[hold_infinity]

"I dunno, a bunch," she says. "I have most of them written down somewhere."

[pandion]

"Yeah, but do you also have them all memorized?"

[hold_infinity]

"Mostly."

[pandion]

"Wow, I can barely keep the words to 'Jingle Bells' straight sometimes. If I'm in your band can I have sheet music when we perform?"

[hold_infinity]

Robin laughs. "Sure."

[pandion]

"Awesome, I thought that was, like, frowned upon."

[hold_infinity]

"Hey, I currently have zero band members. I can't be too picky."

[pandion]

"Well, I dunno, maybe you had a foolproof plan to find more and they weren't going to have objectionable habits."