Ellie giggled at the answer -- it was so much like the one she'd imagined he would give, and there was that tickle of nostalgia she always felt at times like this. They did know eachother quite well, didn't they? They'd always be playing these parts.
"Are you a genie?" She joked, pulling him backward onto the floor with a sarcastic shimmy. Your wish is my command.
There was an Interpol song playing that Ellie might have known once; now the words slipped from her mind just like all the others, so all she could do was move instead. Spare me the suspense.
Pulling Miah closer -- her other hand still occupied by a sloshing glass -- Ellie pressed up on her tiptoes, half-grinning at the joke she hadn't told yet.
"Have you noticed," she asked, "that I am a rabbit?"