 Lovely™ | Captain Hurted | Ariana's Bane | Resident Antagonist | Unparalleled Delight
Was there anything scarier than getting into Big Trouble? X didn't think so at all, hence the tears. The fright of the situation also had something to do with it, sure, but getting told off was something else entirely. X would do practically anything to avoid it. Crying sometimes worked, so she probably should have been saving the tears for later, but... well...
... Wait a minute.
Cake and ice cream and cupcakes and candy and cookies and toys?
In spite of her worries, X hiccoughed and then took a deeper breath and the tears started to slow down a bit and she rubbed at her eyes with the back of her hand and looked at the girl who was doing all the comforting. A girl who wasn't crying. Two girls, in fact. And one boy who was. Normally that sort of thing would be of great interest to X Upstead, but rather than focus on all that for long, she'd already shifted focus onto all of the nice things in the room. It was enough to wonder... was going home really necessary if all this good stuff was here and upset and angry parents would be out there?
Crying was basically a thing of the past. "I-I... I do like toys..." And cake and ice cream and cupcakes and candy and cookies and wonderful playrooms too, just by the way. "... and slides."
The other boy had decided to stop being sad join in the fun too, and suddenly everyone was playing PIRATES, and it gave X a moment to think. Not that she really to. After getting past the initial shock and worry, and once the tears had been wiped from her face, it was a lot easier to just focus on all the fun things in the room. And ALSO - and this was the most important part - to make everyone forget about that little crybaby moment.
"Okay. Okay. Pirates. Y'arrr!" See? Easy. And, with a toy sword in hand, it felt even easier to pretend to be ferocious and stop being upset.
But, before anything else, X hurried up to the top of the slide, because there HAD been that offer of going down next. She went down the slide on her stomach - whooooosh! - and half tumbled, half rolled off the end, before standing back up, raising the toy sword, and charging across to the rope ladder. "Y'ARRRRGH!"
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