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29 Chimera Court, Saturday Morning
You'd think that by now, Vi and Steph may have started connecting some dots about the school dance and started preparing accordingly. But judging from the clothing flung haphazardly around the apartment, no, they definitely had not.
Still half asleep and looking forward to spending a long, lazy weekend in bed, Vi pulled the blankets in tighter around her, curling in closer to Steph to make up for the brazen theft.
Still half asleep and looking forward to spending a long, lazy weekend in bed, Vi pulled the blankets in tighter around her, curling in closer to Steph to make up for the brazen theft.
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"Oh my god Mom," Amber blurted out, horrified and burying her face into Vi's side as Steph handed the plate to Vi and the bottles of milk to the girls.
"You are also terrible," Steph informed her lovingly, though not without a brief grimace because there went those plans.
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"Who wants what?" Vi asked, making sure some of Steph's favourites were put to one side before offering the plate to the girls.
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"You should pick first," she said, managing to keep most of the reluctance out of her voice. "It was your breakfast to start with anyway."
Steph leaned over to kiss Vi's cheek in thanks, ruffled Amber's hair and got a brief token noise of protest for her trouble, and plucked something extremely chocolatey off the plate for herself.
Across the island, Saffron was mentally offering Cerise her paw for a shake of solidarity.
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"You know we won't win with her on this," Cerise murmured with a meaningful glance in Vi's direction. Even though there'd never been a risk of Cerise missing a single meal in her entire life, ever, she was still weird about making sure she ate first.
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"I know," Amber muttered back, glancing at Vi with a fond expression of her own before she picked something alarmingly covered in frosting. "Have to try anyway."
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"Besides there's more than enough for all of us," she said as she picked out a ham and cheese pastry for herself
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"Mine know," Amber said immediately. "They met here just like you did."
A few details were different, so she was starting to suspect her parents weren't the future versions of the ones here, but she wasn't going to say so.
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"I've tried explaining," she said, eventually. "I don't think my mom ever came here." Which made not bristling at Steph a little easier, given the alternatives.
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"Did she get that weird look on her face that people do when you try to explain this place to them and it just makes no sense?" asked Steph, who was honestly just glad to know that some version of Vi might never have come here but turned out all right in the end anyway.
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"A bit, yes," Cerise replied, definitely not volunteering how long exactly it took for things to turn out all right for her mom.
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"It is pretty hard to explain," Amber put in. "Well... Max and Chloe and Alex and Ryan roll with it pretty well, I guess, but everybody else? Oof."
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"They don't think I'm lying," Cerise said while trying to maintain the shreds of her dignity. "They just get hung up on the details."
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Probably in a similar way to Caitlyn, given they were both nerds; at one point she'd used a battle mat to try and piece together the way timelines must have branched, and only gave up because she ran out of room.
"Other you literally tried to do the red string wall thingie," Amber informed her. "And then Mom made her stop because it was stressing her out and also she went through like three balls of string."
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Because, yes, Caitlyn had done something very similar.
"Given how smart mouthed by kids are, guess I do." Because obviously she hadn't had anything to do with that.
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"Yeah, that sounds like us," Steph said, laughing. To Cerise she added, "Looks like your mom likes 'em nerdy. She has excellent taste."
"Mom, ew!" Amber yelped.
"Oh my god I literally didn't mean it like that!"
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"I do have excellent taste though," Vi said mercilessly.
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"Seriously, all. The. Time," Amber added to Cerise, very glad her sort-of-sister could fully sympathize with her on this.
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Vi grinned shamelessly and turned her head to try and catch Steph in a kiss purely to annoy the girls.
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Steph had no qualms about contributing to the girls' distress by leaning in to kiss Vi back, even making a soft happy noise on purpose.
"Mom! Right over my head?" yelped Amber, who was now utterly scandalized.
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"It's like they don't even know the meaning of appropriate." A prison cell, Amber. A prison cell.
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"They never do," Amber said, sighing, and looked at Cerise with a beleaguered expression as Steph cupped her hand around the back of Vi's neck and tried to pull her a little closer.
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Vi eagerly leaned in, as much as she could without eitehr crushing Amber or pulling away too much from Cerise. Not that it stopped the latter protesting loudly.
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"This is supposed to be breakfast and you're making me lose my appetite," Amber said loudly, trying (not that hard) to wriggle out from between them as Steph ran her hand through Vi's hair and twirled a lock of it around her finger. "We brought your food and you're not eating it!"
Steph was... a bit too preoccupied to answer.
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"They're too busy eating each other's faces," she told Amber, very judgementally.
Vi pulled back just enough from the kiss to smile at Steph, which honestly might have been even more sickening.
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"Why are you like this?" she whined.
"Well," Steph said dryly, "when two people love each other very much..."
Amber hit her with a throw pillow. "MOM."
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