This choice: "Are we in this together?" • Go Back... You look the two of them in the eye, arms crossed. "Are we", you ask, "In this together?" You give an especially long look to James, though on seeing his face you want to soften up... but this is serious stuff. "You especially, James." Ruth looks down to the ground, then back to you. "I am." James follows. "Same."
You put a hand on his shoulder. "Sorry, babe. If you want, you can totally stay how you are." James looks up. "But what about, uh... everyone?" You shrug your shoulders. "You found it, you may as well keep your fun. Besides," you wink, "I don't think your Mom has to know." You look back to everyone. "Well, let's do it."
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You sit over James' desk, pencil in hand. The first thing you draw is a skin-matching band-aid-thingy, so James can stick his head back on. You know he'll remember in time. Over the seconds passed, you all formulated the plans. It was up to you to execute.
It was a machine, a bare bones machine to be sure, that would port the pencil back to it's maker. Simple stuff really: a pad hooked up to a button with only one setting "return". Picking up James' hand, you lay it over. In sync now: "3, 2, 1!" And like that, it ports away.
Ruth looks over this moment, this small, small period of weirdness. "Could've had something big." "Could've been a disaster," you joke. "Would've been fun!," James quips. You tussle James' head, still off his shoulders.
"Ruth?"
"Yeah?"
"How about you go home?"
"...Wow, what a movie ending." She leaves the room with that trademark smirk. Incidentally, she passes by Mrs. Kang, vacuuming a patch of floor with a cup to the wall. "It's exactly what you think is happening," she tells her. Mrs. Kang stops listening in and stands there, vac still whirring. Ruth excuses herself, saying thank you too but Mrs. Kang isn't listening. "Wow," she says aloud, "Those kids are boring."  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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