“Hey, if someone doesn’t teach the children of America their geography, then China wins,” she said with an eye roll, slouching over the table as she rested her head on her hands, elbows holding it all up against the cold table surface. “And today they have chocolate chip pancakes, so I doubt that anyone should be surprised that I’m here. When was the last time you had pancakes with a whipped cream smile on it?” she said, looking totally serious right then. But she let Ben keep going, talking about his plans for the day. It sounded boring, but it wasn’t like Charlie’s day was any better.
“I have to bag groceries for a few hours, and then I’ll be home playing video games and trying to get Calvin to talk with me,” she said, not really wanting to talk about Calvin too much right then. She was worried about the other man, yeah. But she’d learned over time that forcing Calvin to talk with her wouldn’t going to solve a damn thing, and there was no way that he’d be happy about having his baby sister talking about him to Ben. “I might practice my cello- if I go for a music major, I might have to audition,” she said with a little groan, still not sure what she wanted to do when she ‘grew up’. Not that Charlie planned on doing much of that.
“By the way, how are you alive? I mean, with all those classes?” she asked.