Thread Roulette: RC, Jean, and Avery

[Jean Manne]

Jean looked unperturbed by RC’s outburst. “Riiiight,” He gave Avery a grin and shook his head, “Sure you can, RC. You’re just the life of the party.” He noticed that RC looked a little upset at his teasing and sighed. Trying to fix things, he poked his brother’s shoulder, “Well, you could be, if you could figure out how to make yourself be less liquidy and more rubbery. Then we could use you as a human slingshot. That’d be pretty cool.” Really, there wasn’t much to do with RC’s power, but hey. Jean was trying. One day he would pull his older brother out of his puddley, sad corner and turn him cool. It could happen. RC just needed to relax first.

And maybe flirt with the pretty girl. Hey, if Jean couldn’t flirt with her for whatever reason, maybe RC had a shot.

Then RC said “liquidy”. Jean almost slapped his forehead with his palm. “Bro, you never say liquidy. That’s a gross word. Ew. And it makes sense that if you were skinnier you’d be able to fit under doors! Like… you’re basically a human sized goo puddle. If you had less person on you, you’d be less of a puddle, right?” Jean… wasn’t sure that made a whole lot of sense, but he’d roll with it.

Jean brightened at the mention of a fight. Even if it was a potential fight that would probably never actually happen. “Yeah!” He shouted excitedly, “If someone punched you, you could suck up their hand like shlooooop!” Jean made a sucking noise with hand gestures to match, “And then they’d be so grossed out, they’d run away!” That sounded like a cool idea to Jean. Not as graceful as say, James Bond, or the Transformers. But still pretty cool. “See, RC? Your power can be useful.” He took a ginormous bite of his pizza, looking satisfied with himself.

[Avery Sainsbury]

Avery laughed again. the boys were funny and cute. Rc was cute in a I would totally date you way and Jean was cute in a little brother way. Even though she could tell Rc was shy Avery thought he was pretty cool. Jean was more of the outgoing type. "I think your fine the way you are Rc. I think it has more to do with learning your ability then has to do with weight. Jean you shouldn't be so hard on your big brother. Even though i think its adorable how you too bicker." Avery smiled with a slight blush on her cheeks.

Looking at Rc she fixed her hair and tried to ignore the blush on her cheeks. "I'm a sophmore too. I would have noticed you too. If we had a clas together I mean." Avery tried to keep herself from blushing or blurting out how cute she thought Rc was for that matter. All she could muster was to pick up her pizza and take another bite of it before she took a sip of pop and looked down at her plate.

[RC Manne]

Jean’s twelve year old logic perturbed RC when Jean admonished him once again for being uncool. “Bro, you just said liquidy.” He scoffed, munching moodily on his pizza. Jean was a pain, but he was sorta right. Though RC knew that wasn’t how his power worked, it made sense that if there was less person there’d be less liquid. But that totally didn’t matter. RC didn’t need to be self conscious about his weight…he was already freaked about everything else.

“Also, you wouldn’t want to use me as a human slingshot. Whatever you shot out of me would get goo all over it.” He pointed out under his breath, hoping to by-pass grossing Avery out. She seemed like that fragile, shy kinda girl who might get grossed out by stuff like that.

Even though RC was actually preemptively impressed by the fact that he could potentially suck in an enemies blows with little to no damage to his person, he was too grossed out by Jean’s sound effects to really care. And like any grossed out sixteen year-old…RC laughed. Chortling quietly around a sip of his soda, he shook his head. “Dude, ew.” He said through his chuckles.

He looked up, meeting Avery’s gaze as his laughter died down. Heat crept into his cheeks and he looked back down at his pizza. She was giving him a look. Not the you’re freaking me out look, but the I think you’re cute look. It was almost worse than the you’re freakin me out look because it made Avery look rather adorable. But he barely knew her! RC shook himself slightly and coughed. “Th-thanks…” He stammered barely above a squeak.

He never could handle girls.

Ever.

“Yeah I uh…I guess maybe next semester we’ll have something together?” he said, trying to grasp at the strands of the conversation. Man this was…this was weird. Avery was so nice…usually girls laughed at RC. She’d make a good friend if he good ever string together a sentence without the word ‘uh’ in it around her. “I mean, that’s not…not to say that we can’t hang out elsewhere.” He laughed nervously. “Hammel’s a big campus, right Jean?” He said, pulling In his little brother again (hopefully to rescue him).

[Jean Manne]

Jean considered RC’s words. “Yeah, I guess you’re right. It’d be kinda gross to shoot something off of you if it’s going to be covered in RC-goo.” He grimaced, forgetting to keep his voice down for Avery’s benefit; his twelve-year-old fascination with all things gross overwhelming whatever tact Jean may have possessed. “Is that made of your guts? Or is it like… water? I can’t remember.” He paused, considering the implications of bits of his brother oozing around the school with something like fascinated horror. “That’s so weird…” He took a bite of his pizza, chewing thoughtfully.

Jean watched as RC floundered around, trying to talk to Avery. He sighed, one day Jean believed his brother would be able to talk to a girl and not fail. Until then, Jean would have to run the show. “Yeah!” He piped in, bobbing up and down in his chair, “Hammel is so awesome! It’s gigantic! I bet we’ll run into you again.” He nodded positively, “And RC would really like to hang out with you, wouldn’t you RC?” Jean kicked his brother under the table, probably a little harder than he’d intended. He gave his brother a look, “You guys could be friends. RC needs some of those.”

Content that he’d done his big brother duties, Jean finished off his pizza and turned to his brother, “Can I have some money to get another cookie?”

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