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 Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:19 pm
 ● ● ● | esther bradley
Esther beamed and crinkled up the paper. She tossed it aside as she re-entered the other world, a task which proved to be easier this time, perhaps because she wasn't thinking so much about the mirror right now. "I know," she said in reference to the ring, grabbing onto C.T. and pulling her close. "But I wanted to ask, anyway. I need to take over some of the 'manly' duties." She kissed C.T. "Also, I've been thinking about those tattoos--and they should be tattoos, not post-it notes--we were talking about a while back," she joked. "I would be open to getting 'C.T.'s Personal Playing Field' tattooed on my a**, as long as you got one similar in reference to your being mine. Less ambiguous than a ring."
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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 4:07 pm
  (Happy V day, question what's next after trying to move people out of the factory and what I would assume is the eventual wedding? Do we end our super long 1x1? Perhaps a revamp were you play the gang leader and I play the human? Or perhaps a different story line) C.T. couldn't help but shake her head. "I think we can go for something a little more appropriate than 'C.T.'s Personal Playing Field' doesn't paint the picture I want it too." C.T. said with a little bit of a laugh that she let die in favor of returning the kiss that Esther gave her. "Also I think you are going to have to tell my mother that you plan on stealing me away, and I believe there is some tradition about you having to ask my father that you may have just walked over." C.T. joked kissing Esther again. "But seriously, you'd get 'C.T.'s Personal Playing Field' tatted on your a**?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:40 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
"Yes," Esther replied definitively, nodding and grinning. "Yes, I would." She pressed her forehead against C.T.'s, enjoying simply being near the girl. "Hmm, you're right, though. I'm doing this all wrong. Maybe I'll go ask your father for your hand when we go downstairs." She sounded like she was joking, but she was seriously considering it. If she was going to take on the 'man duties' in this proposal, she wasn't going to half-a** it.
"So, would I take your last name? Or--ugh, God, don't take mine. It's boring, anyway," Esther laughed. Not to mention all of the baggage attached to it... but she wasn't going to think about that now. "Or we could just come up with a new one together. Like, Bojangles or something." Esther felt giddy, felt excited, felt happy. Some of it was due to the leftover adrenaline from her time in the mirror. But most of it came from the idea of C.T. being her wife. "Should we tell Mag? Speaking of, when did you want to head back to talk to the others about coming here?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:21 am
"You're crazy, how about just a heart with my name something very obvious. Hm. You know I wonder if a tattoo will stick on me, or if my body will push the ink out." C.T. pondered for a moment before shrugging. "But if not, I'll just get it redone everyday." C.T. added, knowing that her claim was very irrational, but that didn't matter to her. Love did that to you. "Oooh, your going to steal me away from them so soon, I wonder if he'll be willing to let me go, you never know he might not want to give me up to you." C.T. giggled like a teenager, unnaturally giddy at the moment. Very giddy, she found herself laughing a bit harder than she should of. At the last name joke, she had no idea what the hell or who the hell Bojangles was but it sounded funny. "No, I like my last name if you don't mind, and I also like the way you say it." C.T. added grinning widely. "Yes, we should definitely tell Mag, if we don't we'll never hear the end of it, and I think we should return as soon as possible now that we have a wedding to plan, I think everyone there will want to get involved and it might help coax them to move." C.T. said. She thought about something and it caused her to smile before again cracking up into laughter. "I also have to tell them about how it was you who asked the big question technically." C.T. said, though there was a technically with Esther's proposal that she was thinking of taking advantage of.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:36 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
"If your father doesn't let me have your hand in marriage," Esther said with a sigh, standing erect and powerfully, like she might whip out a sword and try to save a damsel from a tower, "I guess I'll have no choice but to duel him for it. That's totally a thing people still do, right?"
Esther grinned and blushed a little when C.T. said she liked how Esther said her last name. To Esther, this was a sign that maybe she was butchering the word... But it didn't matter. She would have plenty of time to practice, seeing as it would soon be her surname, too. Esther Tereshchenko. She loved it already.
Oh, God, Mag would definitely murder both of them if they didn't tell her about the engagement and let her help plan the wedding. Although she was a little concerned Mag would make the event bigger than Esther and, she assumed, C.T. wanted, Esther was excited to tell her about it. "Yes, you do have to tell them that," Esther said with a grin, referring to the fact she had done the asking. She pulled C.T. in close again and placed a kiss on her neck. "It wouldn't be fair if you got all of the credit."
Grabbing C.T.'s hand, Esther pulled her with her down the stairs and into the kitchen where most of the family had gathered. Esther let go of C.T. and asked Katja and Alexei if she could talk with them for a second in the other room. They seemed a little confused, but followed. And now Esther was getting nervous. It was stupid, really; she didn't expect them to say no, and she was planning on marrying C.T. one way or another, but still. It mattered some to her that C.T.'s parents be on-board. Wringing her hands, she smiled sheepishly. Her attempts to appear confident were falling by the wayside. "This going to sound kind of silly... maybe... probably... but, uh... I came to ask for C.T.'s hand in marriage."
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 7:25 pm
"I'm pretty sure you just said that you'd be willing to beat up my father, heh. Not sure how that would be taken under normal circumstances, but I think I like it." C.T. said with a cool little chuckle. She could actually see Esther trying to square off with her father, and while in reality it probably wouldn't be funny for them to have to fight, in her mind it still painted a funny picture. Though her mood took a turn for something a bit more embarrassed as Esther reminded her that she would indeed have to be the one to tell their friends. She let out a bit of a sigh, she could just hear them talking now. Especially Mag, the teasing would be something that might become endless over the years. "Mag is going to be proud of you for asking, and disappointed in me for not popping the question first." C.T. said with a shake of her head, though the movement was stop when Esther kissed her on the neck. "I wouldn't dream of claiming all the credit, it takes two doesn't it?" C.T. said, and she attempted to continue the contact, but Esther took her by the hand and dragged her down the stairs, C.T could assume that Esther was going to get the first "obstacle" out of the way instantly, and C.T. could only give Esther her props for being on top of her priorities. Though as they pulled her parents to the side and Esther asked the question, C.T. couldn't help but laugh at the awkwardness, she was sure to cover her mouth and look off to the side so she wouldn't be caught laughing, but the look her mother gave her let her know that she did a bad job of covering up. "You the girl who has stuck by my daughters side, through the roughest moments of her life wants the right to take her hand in marriage?" Alexei spoke up officially as if his words allowed for any doubt that he would allow C.T. to be engaged to Esther. "Alexei stop playing around this is serious." Katja scolded, her voice sounded firm but C.T. could see that her eyes were watery. "You're no fun. Esther, it would make me the proudest father on earth, if my daughter were to marry you, the woman she loves like no other. You know she tried to fight me over you earlier." Alexei spoke up, saying more than he should of, C.T. looked off to the side. Avoiding the gaze of her mother and what she assumed would be Esther's. "I did no such thing." She lied remembering how ready she had been to take her father down, if he had said anything bad about Esther the day before when he told C.T. about the girls powers. "Anyway....Thank you, for your consent." C.T. said with a bow of her head.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:09 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
Under most other circumstances, Esther would be confident in her reading of Alexei's answer as a joke and think nothing of it. She was a little on edge here, though. Thankfully, Katja offered some support in the form of a classic scolding. Relaxing, Esther grinned and sighed in relief. Alexei's response proved to be even better than Esther could have hoped for, and--
Wait, C.T. had done what?
Esther's eyes found C.T. at the same time as Katja's. Left brow quirking, she shot her now-fiance a look that asked, C.T., what is he talking about? Ugh, nevermind. Shaking her head in defeat, Esther put her hands on her hips and chewed her lip thoughtfully. "I need to find you a ring now," she said quietly, mostly to herself, as she watched C.T.
"You don't have a ring, either?" Alexei threw his hands in the air. "More nonsense!" he joked. Katja promptly smacked him on the arm.
Turning to Esther, Katja smiled. "I think I have just the thing. I'll be right back." Katja went upstairs, then returned a few minutes later holding a small gold band. She handed it to Esther, but addressed C.T. as she explained, "This was your great grandmother's. It's quite old, but it's still in good shape. I want you both to have it."
Grinning softly, Esther walked over to C.T., took her hand, and slipped the band onto her ring finger.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 9:36 pm
C.T.'s first thoughts as the ring slid onto her finger, probably weren't the most romantic thoughts she could have, and Mag would probably strangle her if she could read C.T.'s mind right now but the first thing that shot through C.T.'s mind was how happy she was that the ring wasn't something extravagant. She would probably just die from embarrassment if it were. Her other thought was that Esther would probably be able to sport the ring better than she would, and now she was trying to find ways to get Esther to wear the ring. Just to see how it worked. Her thoughts did change after a few moments later, to visions of a wedding. Again nothing extravagant, but she could see all of her friends, all of her family blood ties, and her adopted bonds, all there happy for her. She imagined the girl she loved, walking up to the alter were she waited to accept her, and then her vision grew blurry. C.T. cleared her throat, a look of confusion on her face as she tried to figure out why it felt like she had a bit of a lump in her throat and why she couldn't see because a sudden blur had come over her eyes. She blinked rapidly to try and clear the blockage, and then wetness began to cascade down her cheeks. "Oh," C.T. said again, surprised, as she wiped at her eyes. "That's weird." she said, forcing a bit of a laugh, as she sniffed loudly looking upwards towards the ceiling to stop her tears from falling.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 3:07 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
Esther's brows rose slightly in surprise when she realized that C.T. was crying. Suddenly the blonde wasn't sure whether to be concerned or... She wasn't sure she had ever seen C.T. cry. Well, wait, that wasn't true--she could think of one or two other times. But Esther wasn't sure it had ever been quite like this. Smiling gently with just a touch of worry, "Baby, if the idea of being married to me makes you that upset, you should have told me when I proposed," she joked, taking C.T.'s hand with her own left and wiping a few of the tears away with the thumb on her right.
Katja gripped C.T.'s shoulder affectionately on her way out of the room. "I think this calls for a celebration, don't you?" she asked with a smile. "I'll go prepare us a special dinner." She headed into the kitchen.
The other kids, all of whom had gathered in the dining room as a result of the secretive conversation happening in the living room, finally showed themselves. They had an idea about what was going on, but the ring was a pretty big tip-off.
Well, for basically everyone. Leon was still a touch behind.
"Are you hurt, Connie?" he asked her timidly, tugging on her arm.
(We can skip to the dinner with Kia's friend or even the trip back to the warehouse, if you want.)
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:30 pm
"I can't believe I'm turning into the girl who cries over everything." C.T. laughed wiping at her eyes, as she looked over at Esther. "And last I checked, you didn't give me much of a choice, look at what you've done to me. You're going to have to live with this." she joked. It was weird trying to casually talk and joke around while she was crying. Though she'd retain that she wasn't actually crying.... her eyes were just leaking. Though she'd have a hard time explaining that to her younger siblings who had moved into the room. The youngest Leon seemed the most concerned but only because he was confused over why she was crying. His mind was simple, tears meant pain, which wasn't wrong in most cases but in this case it was wrong. "No, I'm just happy." C.T. told him, and he didn't truly seem to understand. "Happy?" he asked, and C.T. nodded. "Yes, because Esther and I are getting married." C.T. told him, using him as the gateway for which this bit of information would be delivered to the others. "But...she's a girl?" Leon said, now not too sure. C.T. burst into laughter at that this was something that he was definitely to young to understand. "Yea, she is.""Are you going to be good to be my wing man later or am I going to have to find someone else?" Kia spoke up, obviously in reference of C.T.'s tears. "Yea, I'll still be able to help you." C.T. said wiping the last of her "eye leakage " "Well that's good to hear, otherwise I might of had to take a personal vendetta out against Esther for deciding to propose to you on the night I need you." C.T. rolled her eyes at that. "Don't worry about it too much," C.T. said with a wave of her hand "This'll be easy."--- Time skip to warehouse meeting. --- "Are you inviting your girlfriend to the wedding whenever it's set in stone." C.T. asked Kia who was siting in the backseat looking out of her respective window. At the mention of her "girlfriend." Kia began to blush furiously, having half a mind to kick the back of C.T.'s chair, but decided against it since that would just be childish. "She's not my girlfriend, we're just friends." Kia insisted weakly. The dinner had gone well. Kia's little date had shown interest in all the ways Kia had wanted her too, she had asked C.T. and Esther a lot of questions, probably a lot more than she herself realized she was asking. "Kat says she saw the two of you kissing." C.T. teased looking at her younger sister through the rear view mirror. "Kat?!?" Kia shouted in surprise. "That was supposed to be a secret" she hissed, Kat who was sitting next to her shrugged innocently. "You got her to be your wing man, I just wanted to get some points in with my older sister too, you should know that I wouldn't never keep secrets from family anyway. That's not my fault." Kat dismissed. "I hate you both." "You'll love me again when we reach the warehouse, right Esther?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 7:39 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
"Sorry, sweetheart, but I'm on Kia's side," Esther said. As she looked down at the puzzle she was working on, she clucked disapprovingly and shook her head. "The 'don't kiss and tell' rule applies to people who saw the kissing."
Kat glared at Esther. "What?! You're the one who pressured me into telling you and Connie about it!" Not that Kat wouldn't have told, anyway. But still. Maybe if Esther hadn't persuded her to spill the beans, Kat would have held on to this exciting tidbit of information a little longer. Like, a whole twenty seconds or so. Kia, meanwhile, looked betrayed by Esther's clear disinterest in her privacy.
Esther scrunched her nose and waved her pencil in the air. "It was a test. And you failed it."
Kat groaned and rolled her eyes. "I can't believe you're marrying a traitor, Connie."
Looking up finally, Esther saw the warehouse and grinned. That grin only brightened when she spotted Mag, Jennie, and a number of the others outside holding signs to welcome C.T. and Esther back and Kia and Kat for the first time. It hadn't even been that long, but time was clearly relative to Mag. Not much of a surprise there.
As soon as the car was parked, Esther got out, and she was greeted with a big hug from Mag. Mag then made her way over to C.T.'s side and tapped the glass. "Hurry up, slowpoke! These arms won't be waiting forever!" she joked.
Kat was grinning in admiration as she stepped out of the car. The warehouse looked like something straight out of a movie, and she was loving it. Jennie hopped over and held out her hand in greeting. "You must be... Kia, right?" she guessed.
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Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:52 pm
"Hm, this is coming from the girl who told my best friend that she 'ate me' literally five minutes after the first time we had sex." C.T. said, not too loudly mind you, but loud enough. Realizing that maybe her comments could put her in the hot seat with her fiance she decided too straighten herself out real quick. "What I meant to say is," C.T. started robotically. "My fiance is not a traitor she is the most loyal person I know. Esther is very good to me, and I love her very much." C.T. said with a nod. "It's too late for you Connie. Soon you'll be asking permission to hang out with your friends, and apologizing for going out even when she said you could." Kat said morbidly. C.T. rolled her eyes she didn't believe it. 'Home sweet home' C.T. thought as they pulled up to the warehouse, she didn't realize til she was here that she had really missed this place, and then Mag was knocking on her window, calling to her and she realized that she should have stayed away. C.T. sighed shaking her head as she stepped out of the car and she was instantly wrapped into a tight hug, one that had the joints in her back popping in protest. "Alright, alright I get it." C.T. groaned pushing Mag off of her. "It hasn't even been two weeks." C.T. complained straightening out her clothes. "Well it felt like longer, forgive me for caring about you and your girlfriend Connie..... what's this?" Mag asked suddenly, as she picked up C.T.'s left hand noticing the ring sooner than C.T. had expected. "An engagement ring." C.T. said with a shrug as if it was no big deal. "What!?! Since when? How? Who?!?" Mag sputtered and C.T. pointed at Esther. "She did it."--- "Yes, I'm Kia." Responded to Jennie a bit timidly which was surprising given the girls personality, but she couldn't help it. Jennie was so pretty. "What's your name?" Kia asked a bit dumbly reaching out and taking Jennie's hand.
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:53 am
● ● ● | esther bradley
(Haha, everything about that was just... the best. XD)
Mag gaped at C.T., then her expression twisted into one of disappointment and she smacked her friend on the arm. "C.T.! I can't believe you didn't ask her first!" she scolded, jabbing C.T. a few more times for good measure. "I even gave you the damn ring and everything!" Almost as quickly as she had become frustrated, though, Mag turned sweet and excited again, and she grinned at Esther as the blonde walked over. "Good work, Esther!" she screeched, dragging Esther into yet another hug. "I'm so proud of you!"
"Don't congratulate us just yet," Esther grumbled, glaring at C.T. over Mag's shoulder with narrowed eyes that said, You know what you did. They both knew it was Mag who had twisted her words into something sexual that time way back when. Esther was a woman of integrity. Well... "I might be taking that ring back."
Mag pulled away from Esther and put her hands on her hips as she looked at C.T. again. "What did you do, Connie?" she asked, left brow quirked.
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Oh, whoops! Jennie looked away from Kat to focus on the real Kia, and she smiled. Aww, she was adorable! And she looked so much like C.T., it was surreal. "I'm Jennie," Jennie introduced herself. "It's nice to meet you. Did you guys have an okay trip?"
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:05 pm
C.T. raised her hands to defend herself from Mag's brief attack, knowing this would happen. "It's not my fault, you told me that was a promise ring not an engagement ring and yes those are two different things, the internet told me so." C.T. said, backing up away from Mag who rolled her eyes at her. "What did I tell you about listening to things you read on the internet Connie." Mag scolded. C.T. shrugged and looked off to the side, taking a sudden interest in a bird that was hoping around on a tree branch. "Yea, yea." Mag shook her head at C.T. and instead turned to Esther to get to congratulating the girl who obviously wore the pants in this relationship. --- "Yea, our trip was-" " Yea we had an awesome trip!" Kia said happily, cutting Kat off. Kat rolled her eyes at her sisters antics but let it go. "So happy to be here, Connie has told us a lot about this place, and the people here. But she didn't say much about you, so now I'm interested." Kia said excitedly like a school girl who managed to chat up the most popular boy in campus during her first day. "One second." Kat requested stepping in, she wrapped an arm around Kia and turned her around so that they could speak in private. "У вас есть подруга идиот."(You have a girlfriend idiot.) Kat hissed, Kia's response was to jab her sister in the ribs. "Заткнись! Я только ищу , я не планирую трогательно! ... Пока.(Shut up! I'm only looking, I don't plan on touching!... yet.)" Kia defended, somewhat ineffectively. Kat looked at her sister in disbelief, before shaking her head. "I'm telling." She said, before walking off towards C.T. "No! Kia cried chasing after her sister. Leaving Jennie who had studied a bit of Russian in college, behind to chuckle to herself. --- "What did you do, Connie?" "Me? Nothing, I've been a good fiance, because I love my future wife and I would never do anything that would ever jeopardize my chance of being with her forever and ever." C.T. said, again sounding as if her answer had been rehearsed. But her grin seemed real enough as she eased her way past Mag to get to her Fiance. She took Esther's hands to keep the girl from pulling away, and ducked her head a bit lower than Esther's to look into her eyes submissively. "Are you really mad at me baby?" C.T. asked, giving Esther puppy dog eyes. "Don't be mad at me." C.T. begged. "Connie!" Kat suddenly called her name, interrupting her. "Kat shut up or I swear to god, I'm going to hit you!" Kia hissed, Kat looked at her sister and raised a brow as if to say 'bring it' Before turning back to Connie. "Kia is being a lech." Kat said and instantly Kia pounced her crawling up her sister back and pulling at her cheeks. "You're going to by for that you snitch!" "So who is this mystery person that Kia is leching on?" Mag asked, being one who was always ready for gossip. "Je-" Kat started but Kia covered her mouth "No one!." The girl shouted quickly. "Jennia?" Mag asked filling in the blanks. Kat nodded grinning with her mouth still covered, and Kia just glared at her sister. "You're dead." she hissed. "You're dead because I am going to kill you, and then I'm going to go to jail, because I'm not going to be discreet about it." Kia threatened, Mag for her part just doubled over in laughter at that. "You should probably thank your sister instead of threatening her." Mag said gently. "And why is that?" Kia asked not seeing any bright side that Mag seemed to be alluding too. "Because Jennie is mine." Mag said, and it took Kia a moment to figure out what she meant by that. "Oh...." Kat's laughter could be heard through Kia's hand, Kia removed her hands, since Kat was spitting all over the inside of them, and she also wanted to lower herself to the ground, and hide behind Kat to avoid the possible wrath of Jennie's girlfriend. She didn't know enough about Mag to know that the girl was mostly harmless, as far as she was concerned, Mag might be able to turn into the hulk. "To be fair Mag, dear." Jennie spoke up joining the group. "She was just looking, she didn't plan on youching," Jennie said in Kia's defense and Kia smiled at the woman, glad that she was on her side until Jennie spoke up again " 'yet' " Kat started laughing harder and Kia groaned. " Kat." she asked, and her sister contained her laughter enough to respond. "I still hate you, alot. But can you kill me?I don't think I can live in this world any longer."
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 1:28 pm
● ● ● | esther bradley
Esther scowled and leaned away from C.T., wanting to appear strong and unmoved. But how was she supposed to do that when C.T. was acting so adorable? "Goddamn those puppydog eyes..." she murmured under her breath, wrinkling her nose in frustration. It was pretty clear that she was about to give in, but, luckily, Kat and Kia arrived.
Mag appeared pretty amused, but she didn't let Kia's imagination off the hook just yet. She could sense the girl was afraid of her, and Mag was sort of loving it. "Alright, I'll let it slide for now," she said, folding her arms over her chest and standing erect in order to be intimidating. "But so much as lay a fnger on her, and I can promise you that not even Connie will be able to save you."
Kia gulped and ducked behind C.T., since it was clear to her that Kat wouldn't be much help if it came down to needing protection.
Meanwhile, Esther was all but rolling on the floor as she laughed. As Kia neared, her laughter died down and she grinned. "Mag once punched through a man's stomach for staring three seconds too long," she whispered in Kia's ear, a sinister smirk touching her lips. "He had only been staring for two seconds."
Jennie grabbed onto Mag's arm and grinned at her. "Hmm, I like it when you're all protective of me like this," she said quietly with low-lidded eyes.
Mag blushed. "Jennie, you're going to make me break character," she warned out of the side of her mouth. Jennie didn't seem to care. But she let go and, still grinning, head into the warehouse.
"Let's go in," she called waving at everyone to follow.
It took Kat a while to recover from her laughing spell, but once she did and they were inside the warehouse, she looked around, impressed. "Plenty of places to hide," she joked with a playful sideways glance at her younger sister. Though whether she was talking about places for Kia to hide in fear or Mag to hide to attack wasn't completely clear.
"Kat and Kia, you two'll have the spare room down the hall from the kitchen," Jennie said.
"Sorry, C.T., but we auctioned your room off to the highest bidder after you left," Mag said with a straight-face. She was joking, but... she could not be. "Hope you don't mind sharing a room with Jennie and I."
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