Temporary Boredom;;Arden

[Riley Pearson]

I shrugged a little. "I don't really see how it'd be ridiculous.. we're talking about you not liking my tea, right?" I asked looking over to her and wanting to make sure I didn't get something confused. It just occured to me that she forgot to hit me though and that's always a good thing.

[Arden Patricks]

"Well, more specifically, me not liking your tea so much that I'd deliberately spill it." I shrug. "Past the age of five, that's fairly ridiculous behavior."

[Riley Pearson]

"Oh, okay." I said with a small nod, shaking a few more pieces of hair from my face. "That makes more sense then." I added with a small chuckle. "That would be ridiculous."

[Arden Patricks]

"Glad you agree, immature child that you are." I smile slightly. He's not really immature, of course, except in odd spurts made even stranger by this fact.

[Riley Pearson]

I smiled and laughed lightly, "As long as I'm a cute immature child, I'm okay with it." I said with a small laugh, still smiling lightly.

[Arden Patricks]

"In which case you've no hope." I smile slightly.

[Riley Pearson]

I smiled lightly with a small laugh and tossed the tea-soaked dishtowel at her slightly playfully. "Thanks." I chuckled.

[Arden Patricks]

"You're very welcome." I laugh slightly, catching the not-so-very-clean dishtowel just by the edge and twirling it around my hand in almost one motion.

[Riley Pearson]

I laughed a little and nodded. "Nice catch by the way. If you threw that at me it'd probably somehow end up on my head."

[Arden Patricks]

"So you think, anyway," I laugh slightly. "The other day I won a small plastic doll from my nephew because he said I could have it if I caught it, and I did - with these two fingers." I hold up my pinkie and ring finger. "I don't think he was expecting that."

[Riley Pearson]

I laughed a little and shrugged. "Wow.. Impressive." I grinned, nodding a little as I leaned against the counter and crossing my arms infront of me. "I don't think that I would've been either."

[Arden Patricks]

I laugh slightly, shaking my head. "I wasn't either... very lucky catch. But he did deserve it anyway."

[Riley Pearson]

I laughed a little. "So what did he deserve then?" I asked with a small smile, shaking my head a little bit.

[Arden Patricks]

"To have his little plastic doll taken away when he was hitting Katie with it," I explain, shaking my head.

[Riley Pearson]

"Ah," I smiled with a small nod. "Okay, I guess he did derserve that then."

[Arden Patricks]

"Plus, he's now very impressed with my catching abilities." laugh slightly, then realize I've still got the towel wrapped around my hand, wonder how I've failed to notice that, and quickly unrroll it with a few flicks of wrist so I can start folding it carefully.

[Riley Pearson]

I laughed a little and nodded. "I can imagine." I grinned, noticing she still had the towel too and watched her fold it after she unrolled it from her hand.

[Arden Patricks]

I smile slightly in response, inexplicably in a less-good mood all of a sudden... as tends to happen, I suppose, when I've been too cheerful.

[Riley Pearson]

I watched her smile slightly, seeing a slight change in mood with her. At least that's what it kind of seemed like. Even though she smiled, it was just something you could kind of pick up on after a while. I was gonna ask if she was okay, but I figured that maybe I was just being weird and really she was fine, so I didn't bring anything up yet.

[Arden Patricks]

"Hm...." I say after a moment, then shrug. "So, I guess that conversation's slightly dead."

[Riley Pearson]

"Yeah.. I guess it sort of is.." I said with a small nod, before taking a sip of my tea.

[Arden Patricks]

I nod, sitting down beside the counter and folding my arms in front of me, playing idly with the folded towel.

[Riley Pearson]

I saw her sit down and sat down next to her a moment later, watching her play with the folded towel slightly. "Are you okay?"

[Arden Patricks]

"Fine," I shrug, shaking my head. "Just... the usual crash."
I'm sure I've explained to him at some point in the past ten years that I can't be too cheerful or I'll pay for it later.

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded a little. "Right." I said, biting my lip a little bit. "So um.. anything I can do?" I asked her bumping her shoulder very lightyl with mine.

[Arden Patricks]

"Not really." I laugh very faintly. "But thanks."

[Riley Pearson]

I smiled a little when she laughed and nodded. "You're welcome." I said moving my eyes down to the floor, staring at a spot for a moment, feeling like another silence was coming on. After a couple moments, I looked over to her. "So um.. Sorry about when you visited me in the hospital.. you know, about bringing up those things..." I said kind of slowly, wondering if I should have or not and not saying which things aloud. Mainly, I was talking about the mentioning of Travis and how I brought up that whole kissing thing from ten years ago. I was still sorry for it, but I didn't really know why, I couldn't've really knew at the time.

[Arden Patricks]

I wince very slightly, not entirely sure why he's speaking in plural but definitely remembering a stilted sort of non-conversation about Travis.
"It's fine," I say quickly, shaking my head despite the fact that inwardly I wish he hadn't brought it up yet again. Least said, soonest mended... isn't that the saying? "You didn't mean to, and you couldn't have know that you were bringing anything up...." Unlike now.

[Riley Pearson]

I nodded a little. "Okay.." I said quietly, biting my lip a little, realising that I did just bring it up again. ".. Unlike now I guess.. sorry." I said shaking my head a little bit.

[Arden Patricks]

I laugh very faintly, a little surprised to find him in agreement on that point. "Yeah, unlike now. But really, it's all right." I shrug slightly. Even if it's not I'm hardly going to say so.