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Giovanni quickly pouted when the shinys were moved away... again. Plopping down onto his rear on the ground, he stared at the bracelets, still wanting one. The boy hadn't even looked up to see who else was there before he spoke;

"I unno anyones here." He stated in a rather 'matter of fact' tone, one which he had quickly adopted from his mother. With his eyes still transfixed on the bracelets, Giovanni's mind went from the idea of stealing, to asking...mainly because he probably wouldn't get away with nabbing a shiny from this girl anytime soon now that he noticed the snakes.

"I kin has shiny?" The blue haired boy asked cutely, looking up at Adeline before looking down at her bracelets yet again. Ooh, he wanted one so bad.

"Thanks, miss," Onyx spoke. Then she continued a bit. "Are you the person running this party? If so, my brother and I made these for you." The blondish-streaked girl had offered the older girl, also a blonde, the bouquet. There were various flowers within it, of equally various colors, tied with a pale blue ribbon.
"Onis ied fawas, I ade fawas!" The green-haired boy at Onyx's feet piped up. "Onis caws it 'hank-oo if.'"
Onyx then proceeded to speak again, to translate her brother's babble. "Yes, Lou-lou, Onyx made the bouquet and you grew the flowers... I'm Onyx. My brother's actual name is Lyuben."
"Hi, miss!" Lyuben said, waving at Sonnet. "I o find sea!" So he went to do what he said; Lyuben went to find a seat. "It wi me, Onis!"
"I'll give this to her first, Lou-lou - try one of the food things for me!"
"Ey," Lyuben responded. He took a half of a sandwich off one of the plates and proceeded to nibble on one.

"'Kay!" Hayden waited patiently as she poured the drink into his cup. He then lifted it carefully, with a most serious expression on his face, blew on it a little and then sipped a bit of it. "Bitterrrr!" He exclaimed as he set it down a little too harshly. A bit of the hot liquid splashed onto his hand, but all he really did was stare at it, eyes watering before he wiped his hand off on his lime green overalls. "Dun like it.. nuh-uh." He shook his head and rubbed at one eye with a tiny fist.

Adeline was a little awkward after this, shining a bright light on the fact that she felt alien in the world of socializing. Her first response to the request was to blink her way slowly out of a hazy-eyed stupor, and then quickly retract her arm to her chest as if expecting the jewelry to be nabbed right off of her wrist. The same thing every kid does when they don't want to share.

"You want one of my bracelets?"

It was more of a confirmation of what little Gio had said, not a question. She processed the words and looked quizzically from the boy, to Sorrel who had guessed correctly. The purple girl didn't seem to know what she was supposed to do when asked a question like that, and furrowed her brow in utter puzzlement.

Not only was she rather attached to her own 'shinies', but she supposed they had been a gift from her mom. That might not make her very popular around the house, if she gave one away....but what was one bracelet? A less innocent thought seeped through her mind afterward. They had been a gift to the other Adeline, anyway - not her.

So whether she was driven by generosity or bitterness, she hesitantly held out her arm to the toddler and stuttered in a tone that insisted he was very lucky to have such an honor.

"...One. Point to just one, okay?"

And then looked guiltily at Sorrel again, as if pointedly daring her to say something about the offer.

"Wat is iss?" Lyuben thought out loud. The sandwich filling, from what he could see, looked to be green, white and pale pink layers. It tasted good to him, but the young boy, unlike most, actually liked his vegetables. He could tell he was eating some sort of leaf, but the white and pale pink layers - cheese and turkey slices - were a mystery to him. "Is ummi."
Onyx went to join him after giving a nod and a smile to the hostess, an attempt at a nonverbal 'thank you.' She noticed that two of the other guests had reactions to their tea; a young boy around her brother's age had almost spilled his cup after saying his tea was bitter, and a girl around her own looked like she was making a tea-flavored sugar drink instead. Onyx hadn't ever tasted tea herself, often drinking plain water at home, so she wondered why Andy was placing multiple sugar spoonfuls in her cup of tea. "What's tea without sugar like?" Onyx asked Andy, curious about what others thought of it. In the meantime, she took a cookie from a nearby platter, putting it on her face-down sketchbook, an impromptu plate.

Adeline's watching eyes didn't miss Sorrel's disapproval, even before she ever opened her mouth. She could tell from the start that this probably wasn't the best way to deal with a kid asking for things, but a strange emotion made her act otherwise. Something rebellious that wanted to somehow get back at SOMEONE for her illness. So if it meant giving some random little boy a bracelet, something probably personal to her, she could manage.

"It's all right, Sorrel - it's only one." She mumbled, a tone thick with avoidance. "Don't worry about it."

It helped that Gio was so enthusiastic, it was kind of adorable seeing his excitement over a little gift. It would be nice to have a brother like this, probably. The opposite hand wriggled the thin gold bangle off of her wrist, leaving plenty left in it's absence. Unknown to her, there was a tiny 'A' engraved on the side of it - obviously for her name. A pause, and then she held it out to him. A small smile from her, to boot.

"You're welcome. Don't lose it though, okay? You can't lose this."

Her small purple hands folded in her lap tightly, a contrast to the smile on her face. It was like she was internally fighting over whether to regret, or like the exchange. She wondered what the kid's parents were going to think when he came home with a girl's bracelet. In this time of thought, Adeline hadn't even noticed that Sorrel had moved closer. The surprising part of this was, in fact, that she hadn't been bitten. Maybe the snakes were starting to warm to her?

Giovanni smiled, quickly putting the bracelet around his own wrist, though he found that it was too big so he put it in the next safest spot, his pocket.

"Thankyooou." He said happily, though as he put the bracelet in his pocket, he had remembered that he had nabbed something from his mothers workshop. It had been a small squiggly thing of glass among other pendants like it seeing as Aderyn had been working on glass work for the past few months, testing her skill in it. Taking the pendant out, he looked at it before looking at it and holding it out to the snake haired girl.

"Here... take... as uhn... I dunno the word.. " Giovanni frowns wishing that he knew the word that he was looking for.