both bluudud & c00lkidd were sitting on the couch, chattering loudly. it was a play date, nothing much more than an excuse for their parents to dump them off at one of the other parents’ houses for a couple of hours so they could get some previous time to themselves. pr3typriincess was invited as well, though bluudud himself couldn’t recall whenever they had housed a play date at pr3typriincess’ own house. he didn’t ever dwell much on the thought, but today he figured he may as well take a shot & ask her about it. maybe she didn’t have any parents after all? no, that was way too ridiculous. bluudud had attempted to ask his mum, 118o8, about it a few times before, but the topic always got shut down one way or another. only now did that constant shift of conversation become suspicious to bluudud.

the conversation between bluudud & c00lkidd had shifted to parents, with the duo exchanging their frustrations about each of their respective parents rather quite loudly. bluudud hadn’t initially noticed how pr3typriincess had scooted herself to the other far end of the sofa, arms crossed, an unreadable look on her face. it was only when c00lkidd caught sight of how she had distanced herself & had pointed it out to bluudud did the latter notice how she’d separated herself from the conversation.

bluudud decided to close the topic & shifted a bit closer to pr3typriincess, facing her now the best he could, as she was still turned away from him. he spoke up, voice still about as gruff as ever— but a bit more tentative than it had ever been.

“.. pr3ty?”