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Lily was a bit confused at the pause in the middle of Reuben's sentence, but he didn't question it. "Yea! Even if we don't have wives." Lily's face almost flushed a white. The voices of his family echoed in his mind. The nagging voice of his mother telling him to get married to a nice woman and his step-father's voice telling him to just find true love and whoever he chose was okay. "If you do, that's okay too! She can help us as well?" He said quickly in case he was making a mistake and that Reuben really DID have a wife.

"Yes they are." Stas began speaking, but was cut off by the lady. He quickly put his hands over his mouth as he turned over to the lady who began speaking to the kids. At the sound of 'macaroni necklaces, his ears perked up and he wanted to get started right away. "Can I share your table with you?" Stas asked Vergil with his gray eyes glistening with anticipation at the yellow feathered boy.

"It seems like macaroni necklaces are for today." Lily said with a smile as he looked at Stas and Vergil. Stas who seemed just a tad too enthusiastic about it. It was only stringing uncooked macaroni onto a string right? Lily thought about whether or not he was like this when he was a small child such as Stas and Vergil were now...

"ah..." Lily said with a sort of sad smile. He wanted a companion in his life, and Stas answered his calls but... in another way. It wasn't as though it was bad or anything. "We'll ride the same boat then." He said as melancholy filled his voice a bit. He tried to cover it up and change the subject as Stas and Vergil seemed to have disappeared from beside him.

Stas smiled brightly as the table, as Vergil was trying to make it, was very appealing. "They sounds very nice!" Stas said happily to Vergil. Stas watched as Reuben made his way around the room to get a chair. "Thank you." He said with a thankful smile on his face. He would have never known where to get a chair for himself because he was new to the place.

Lily gave a smile towards Reuben. "thanks Reuben. And Stas. Make sure you behave yourself." He told the little boy. He was replied to with a nod and a trusting smile. Stas looked over to the other lady who poured out pasta into plates. His excitement built up inside of him as he saw that the lady was almost going to begin speaking again. He watched closely as his tail swished a little bit behind him.

"I guess." Lily said with a weak smile. But at the wink, Lily couldn't help but laugh from the heart. "Yea. We're still young, right?" He tried to look up instead of down on the situation. Reuben's bubbly personality (in Lily's eyes) was keeping him sane under the parent-pressure. It was sort of good to have someone with him through the baby blues.

Stas smiled sweetly towards Reuben and continued to sit with Vergil. "He's had lots of practice with my friends. They'd normally take care of him whenever they were free and went over. They're really good people despite the fact that they always pick on Stas and tell him things he's not supposed to know about." He said as his voice turned into a sour tone.

"Mhm. You didn't notice?" Stas said questionably. Most people would have seemed to overlook a tail on the small boy. It just looked like his regular hair from the front. but you know, it was more swishy than the hair on his head. "I don't see your friends Jill and Mark." Stas said as he looked on the opposite side of the red table.

"That sounds like a good idea." No tears and everyone wins, more or less. He watched as the young purple headed boy looked as though he was actually having fun for the little bit of his life. It made Lily feel warm and fuzzy inside when he saw the boy's face.

"That's okay though. Friends at school sounds nice." Lily said. "But that old lady. As long as she's not sketchy." He added after thinking about it for a little bit. He felt... lucky that Stas found a friend other than Lily's friends. He couldn't hang out with them forever, you know. They'd grow out of taking care of him and then eventually break his heart whether it's little or not.

Stas' ears drooped a bit as Vergil talked loudly and got scolded for it. He'd have to remember that so he won't get scolded and can remind Vergil so he won't either. He just smiled and waved to the boy n overalls and the girl with the cat on her shirt. He stayed silent though as Mrs. Pemberley began to speak again about the macaroni necklaces.

String. Stas looked over at the lady who was passing them out. She would get to them eventually. He eagerly at the two ladies who worked there and then back to his dad. He motioned his dad over with both hands making grabby movements. Lily sighed and said "Please give me a moment. Sorry." towards Reuben and kneeled down towards Stas.

"Dad, you have to watch me, okay? But you can't see what I'm making for you until I'm done. Okay?" He talked with a soft voice to his dad. Lily, without a clue on what Stas just told him, just nodded and smiled. "Okay. I promise." He said. Little did Stas know, he and Vergil's dad, Reuben, were going to be departing the moment they get distracted...

Lily chuckled at Reuben's words. "That sounds like quite a nice woman then." He could still remember his own grandparents when he was little. He liked them a lot even though they were old and sort of boring. He had grown up by himself and always trying his best. He wanted to change it for Stas. Except, he still wanted him to try his best in all that he did, even if he gave up once or twice in a while.

"Vergil looks so cute, I wish i could take a picture." Lily said with a chuckle. "I sort of feel bad for thinking that his difficulties is cute." Lily looked over at Stas to see how he was doing with the string. Knots weren't easy things for little kids like these. "I wonder if Stas will have the same problems." He said as he looked over to his own child and watched what he was going to do.

Stas watched as Vergil got a string and looked up to the woman handing them out. Sure enough, he received one too. The colour didn't really matter to him, as long as it was pretty and fit for his dad. Stas, wanting to be independent like Vergil too, tried to tie the knot himself before making it more of a loop and not a knot. He tried many times before he gave up being independent. "Vergil, I can't do it." He said to his friend as he held the string in his right hand. He pouted a little bit at his defeat as he shyly raised a hand and waited for someone to come help him out of his problem.

Lily nodded. It would've been good to have some emotional support when Stas hatched. He had felt so alone when all his friends were gone for the week and no one was there to understand him. For the first few days, Lily didn't even know what to do. He thought about abandoning the boy at one point, but then thankfully his friends showed up and urged him to keep the boy...

"Vergil seems like that type." He said with a smile as he watched Vergil try to help Stas as well. "I don't really know about Stas' problem-solving skills. But he's really gullible." He said with a chuckle. "And yea. It sort of does. Keeps you on your toes." He added at the end as he held back laughter softly to not disrupt anything.

Stas put his hand down and looked over to Vergil who wanted to help. "O-okay." Stas said as he let Vergil at his string. "But don't break it." Stas pleaded gently as he noticed that Vergil seemed to be doing it differently than how the teacher and assistant had done it. Lily just watched. He wanted to help, really. But it was just more fun to watch the two try to figure things out by themselves or at least ask Mrs. Pemberley or Becky. Plus, Reuben didn't interfere, so why should Lily, right?

Lily just watched as the two tried their best with Vergil's technique of mashing string together and hoping that it would work. "We could teach our kids how to tie knots together. and they can be knot-tying geniuses like a bear scout" Lily said as he remembered the days of summer camp where they showed the campers how to tie a few different types of knots.

"But that's okay. Practical can always be learned with his cooperation, no?" Lily suggested. "I'm sure he'd be able to handle it. He looks like a tough child that won't give in." His tone of voice tried to reassure the other parent that it wasn't all work in life and that you had to let go once in a while and let them discover it on their own. Lily noticed the lady who Mrs Pemberley had introduced as Becky approach the children. He felt half relieved that the two wouldn't be stranded to tie knots for themselves or not even have a single knot in their string.

"Okay. I trust you." He said as his heart let go of the short connection to the safety of the string. When he saw that Vergil's technique didn't work, Stas didn't know what to do. but when the lady came over and Vergil asked him if she could do it, He nodded with a soft giggle. "It's okay if Becky does it. It'll still be really really really awesome!" He said with a large smile on his face. He tried not to make Vergil feel bad, but he wasn't in a position to laugh at Vergil's inability to make mashing string work because he didn't know how to tie a knot either. "Thank you, Becky." He said with a smile to the lady who came to help them fix their strings.

"We can hunt them down. Hopefully they'd be eager to help." Lily said as he watched the kids with his dark brown eyes glistening with happiness. "mhm. He'd be a good boy scout if he could perfect that new method of knotting he has there." Lily said playfully, referring to the mashing of string in the minute or so before help came and rescued them.

Stas watched as she knotted it swiftly with her fingers. He wanted to do that too. He'd have to ask his dad to teach him the magic behind knot tying. "uh huh. I am Vergil's friend." He said after Vergil had introduced him to Becky instead. "Oh, okay." He said absent mindedly as the string was handed back to him with a knot at one end of it.

"Vergil, Vergil!" Stas said as he quickly turned to his friend. He controlled his volume to no louder than a whisper. "I want to know how to tie 'nots' " He said in eagerness. It surprised him at how the string could stay in place instead of come all undone like when Vergil tried to do it. He inspected it closely while he waited for the next set of instructions from the teacher and her assistant.