Shady

“What ‘fatter’ mean?” Tasia asked. “Flattered,” Ky corrected. Tasia looked at her, then back at Emery. “Yeah. That.”

“What’s her name?” Ky asked. “Ann-ke-ke.” Ky raised an eyebrow. “We tried to talk her out of it,” Tadaaki said quickly, sighing in exasperation. “We even told her she wasn’t ...

Tasia now pouted, upset that Regulus had hit her doll. “Hey, Tasia!” Ky said, deciding she needed to distract Tasia from her distracting so that they didn’t end up with ...

Tasia sprang to her feet and sprinted around the end of the table before either of her parents could do anything at all about it. Aashi stood up, but Tasia ...

(Aww hahaha what a muse) Ky bit her lip, trying to decide whether to keep trying to distract or to leave him as Pamela’s problem.

Ky glanced down at him, but wasn’t sure how to distract him. He was too little to appreciate jokes. But, well, she’d rather try something than listen to Regulus cry. ...

“Oooh,” Ky said, grinning. “Sounds yummy.”

Ky nodded once and looked back at the Ash kids. “What do you think we’ll have for lunch?”

Ky bit her lip and glanced at Emery.

Ky nodded. “Your Papa is very wise.” Sometimes. And sometimes he was an idiot and went walking into a situation he knew damn well would trigger him, all because he ...

“It’s true,” Ky said. “And we’ve got to respect when people of things say no.”

Ky laughed. Yet another commonality. “My Papa used to say I was going to get taken out by trying to pet something I shouldn’t.” Zander smirked. Yes. Yes he did ...

“Did he?” Ky asked, curious. There must be quite the story to go along with that.

Ky choked on a snort, overhearing him, but kept her gaze on Marcella. “A slow poke!”

Ky forced herself not to fixate on the comment about Sara and instead went, “What do you get when you cross a porcupine with a turtle?”