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carpediem Caelen offered a closed mouth smile as she swallowed the bean, looking him up and down quick. She hoped that didn't look snotty, but she was trying to get a feel for the kind of person she was. That was important to her; to talk to good people. Well.... it was important to her mom, but there wasn't much of a difference anymore between that. Well, in her mom's eyes anyway.
Ooh, the boy was talking. She listened as intently as she could and hoped she didn't look creepy, popping another jellybean into her mouth. She was like an addict with this stuff. The little redhead sometimes wondered if there was a center out there for people addicted to sweets. She was surprised her mom didn't send her to one already.
"You bet! It's the Bertie Bott's kind. Want one? They're mostly all good!" This was her blatant offer. To be honest, the mean side of Caelen kind of wanted to see him get an earwax one. But the nice side of her -and it was about fifty fifty to be honest- wanted to see him get a good bean. Because nothing solidified friendship like an earwax jellybean.
At least that's what she hoped they could become later on. Again, he looked like he wandered around and if they were both adventerous, well, that would just be awesome
He was really hesitant about trying something he never even heard of before. But, he felt like he would be rude to decline the offer. So much for taking candy from strangers. But, she looked harmless.
"Well, my papa said to always try something at least once," he bit his lower lip as he dipped his hand in the beans and pulled out a red one.
"Hmm, looks like I got a cherry one!" he said happily as he popped it in his mouth, but as soon as he bit down on the bean his mouth felt like it was on fire.
"Not a cherry one!" he yelled as he spit it out and started to wave his hands frantically over his tongue to try and cool it. It tasted like peppers or hot sauce, but it was extremely powerful and he could feel his head begin to sweet and the heat began to flow from his tongue to all over his body.
"What the heck was that?" he said as he kept waving his hands. He didn't know if it was some sort of trick. Why would she do such a thing?