Re: 8:45ish, at a booth - open
"What???" Her attention was now fully focused -- in that moment, anyway -- on her younger brother. She popped forward slightly over the table, dumbfounded. "Hold up, what'd you do? Because if you ate all the Cheerios again, I gotta say that I side with them, Gusgus, because you can be a real piggy sometimes...
"No, I'm joking, seriously, what the hell happened? And good thing then that you were able to score a place at Pax. They're so fucking picky, I'm kinda floored that you and Alice made it through the gauntlet."