This is...Halloween?

[mitochondriaaya]

Usually bumping and screaming from the back bedroom of a young girl was a sign for worry. In this case? well, it was common place. It probably would inspire some worry, if anyone besides the room residents were around. Luckily (commonly) the three kids were alone in the house. "BRAIG YOU'RE PULLING! THAT'S ATTACHED!!"

She'd woken up at her usual early hour, but the boys had already been standing at her door by the time she'd pulled it open to go find them. Standing at her door and grinning, which was never a good sign.

And they had bags.

Of stuff.

She hadn't gotten a good look at any of it as they all bustled back to her room for pre-Halloween prep. All she knew at the moment, in fact, was that Braig was still grinning. And Dilan was...laughing? She wasn't sure what those noises behind her were, and she couldn't turn around with Braig's hands in her hair and something cool and wet dripping onto her ears. "IF MY HAIR TURNS GREEN I WILL KICK YOU BOTH!"

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[mitochondriaaya]

She looked down at the box, then back at Dilan 'Well, I guess we need to have holes in our ears, so, how many holes do you want? Then i can pick out that many earrings!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Um. Just one in each ear." he says slowly, "At the bottom."

[mitochondriaaya]

She nodded, then looked at Braig. "Okay, and I need two...um?" Obviously he would know how to do this right?

[sliceitwithwind]

"Right!"

This is Braig, going to boil a needle.

"Whu oh." this is Dilan, game but nervous.

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya watched Braig leave, then chewed her lower lip a moment. She hadn't expected such an immediate response? "...we can't put bandaids on our ears if we're wearing earrings huh?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nope." Dilan says, eyeing her, "This is gonna hurt."

Braig comes back in with a tray full of ice and the needle. "Okay, so, you have to hold the ice against your ears until you can't feel them anymore."

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya looked at the ice then carefully put down her mother's jewelry box. "Until it's numb? Okay. Do you need a thimble? Or maybe wash cloths?" she was babbling!

And holding ice on her ears.

"I hope we get a lot of candy and fruit for this..."

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan is grimly numbing his own ears, and nods to Braig when he's ready.

Say this for the spaz: steady hands. Dilan is barely squeaking before it's done and earrings are shoved through the holes.

"Cure, Dilan."

[mitochondriaaya]

Once Dilan was done, Aya nodded to Braig and scrunched her eyes closed. She did yip slightly, but she didn't jump...that would have been bad. "Adults are crazy" she announced once she opened her eyes.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Yeah." Dilan casts Cure on Aya, too, "It could have been worse, though." meditative thought.

[mitochondriaaya]

Aya was actually poking her ear, it was numb after all, when Dilan cast on her. She'd led a charmed life really, never needing such a thing in the past...and the results were immediate. Sure, the holes healed...

...Aya also ended up shrieking as only a small, childish soprano could and kicking away from the boys in mild panic. Because...ouch. Just...ouch.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Hey! Hey! Don't make your uncle kill us! It was your idea!" the sentences were jumbled, half from one boy and half from the other.

[mitochondriaaya]

"That hurt!" she declared from her new spot across the bed. "What did you do?! And what'd I ever do to you?!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Pierced your ear, then cured it!" Dilan insists, "Same thing that happened to me!"

[mitochondriaaya]

"Yeah, the piercing part really didn't hurt yet. Don't ever that again!" she grimaced and rubbed her arms, trying to rub the last tingles of whatever out. "Ever ever."

[sliceitwithwind]

Boys look at each other, "Okayyyyy."

[mitochondriaaya]

And she glared at them. "I mean it." she threatened crossly before giving up and inching back towards the boys. "Okay...ear tip things."

[sliceitwithwind]

Dilan offers them out to her silently, still really confused.

[mitochondriaaya]

She studied them a minute before trying them on...but her attention wasn't on the pieces really. "What?" she asked, poking Dilan with her foot.

[sliceitwithwind]

"That's weird, Aya. Humans don't react like that to cure magic."

[mitochondriaaya]

She rolled her eyes and poked him with her other foot. "Of course they do." she countered. After all, she was human.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Nu uh. You're the only one to ever act like that, I know 'cause most of the people in my class were human."

[mitochondriaaya]

"But you haven't tried with everyone I bet." she pointed out "Some of them gotta be like me!"

[sliceitwithwind]

"You're weird." Dilan insists, "But that's okay. Braig's weird and I'm a freak."

[mitochondriaaya]

"Fine, I'm weird." that was cool at least! "Did I get these on right?" the ear tips were staying at least? She was totally going to find a mirror in a moment!