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BowtiesAreCool 
"And what if I am calling you out?" she asked him. "What are you gonna do about it? Call my mother?" she asked him. "Why would I want candy. I'm not four. I'm eleven." Geez this boy was not a people person. How did he expect to make any friends? "Why would I want that stupid book." she told him. "You really need to stop being such a grouch." she told him. "You should be lucky that you're alive."
"I don't want your candy."
What? Calling him out on what? Edric merely blinked at the girl, confused.
He thought she was done, and shrugged, opening a bag of candy and turning it over in his mouth, filling it up with gummy bears. But the girl kept talking, correcting him on her age (eleven, four, what's the difference?), insulting his book ("Hey, that's a classic!"), and giving him life advice.
To be brief, Edric was shocked.
He hadn't expected the little eleven year old to blow up the way she did. However, he was amused, and he felt no remorse. See? Thanks to HIM, she was learning to stand up for herself. Though he still didn't understand how he was even being mean in the first place. Oh well.
"Lucky I'm alive?" he repeated, raising both eyebrows. What?! "Are you saying there's been someone following me and trying to murder me all this time?" he asked, looking around with a hint of panic on his expression. Edric was all about paranoia and conspiracies, so he totally took this seriously. He turned back to the girl as she denied his candy.
"Yeah you do… you're a kid, all kids want candy," he said matter-of-factly. "Just take it, jeez. I didn't poison it," he added, gently tossing a bag of sour gummy worms at the girl in hopes that she'd catch it. If she didn't… then hey, more candy for him.