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Kolyander 
It was hard not to notice. Even for him. Yeah, he might be her brother and at times it might seem like he didn't always care about the things that she did but he was always there when she needed him. Actually he was always there regardless. Most of the time, even with him wearing his noise cancelling headphones, he knew what was going on around him. So he was rather surprised that she hadn't come to him at all but also maybe he was a little relieved too. If it had anything to do with what he thought it might have to do with.. well he wasn't entirely sure he was ready to have that conversation yet. It was going to come up though, it was just all a matter of when. The small squeeze he received from her reminded him that she did appreciate him being there and he returned the grin.
Ah, now there was his sister! The cheekiness made him laugh. "Go ahead. The more challenging the better." If she was going to be giving him something to work on for a little while he was all for it. "A lemon square with a chocolate bottom?" Vas hummed in interest, nodding his head slightly as he thought this over. Possibly already constructing up different ways to go about making this work. "Like what? Any idea what's her favorite this week?" Maybe if they went with something pink or rainbow they would be safe. Or chocolate. One could never go wrong with chocolate.
It wasn't that she didn't want to talk to him. Truthfully, she really wanted to talk to him and be able to sort through everything that was running around in circles in her head. But there was two major reasons she didn't want it to be him, because his suspicion would have only been half right. She figured how she was feeling would just be a burden on her twin, and it didn't make sense to share that. And then when she considered the other people in her life who she could have talked to, there were more reasons that while she logically
knew it would have been safe, she didn't
feel safe. And then the more she thought about who she could talk to her, the more her head came up with reasons she couldn't, until it finally occurred to her the excuses were because there was
one person she wanted. But that person didn't exist anymore - and she'd never felt that as acutely as she did now.
But she also knew how sad their mom being gone was for Vasco, in general. So... she didn't want to talk about it with him. But she did have a letter in her bag for someone else.
So yes... instead it was far easier to just... try to be normal for an afternoon. Which was made easier by the challenge they'd just established.
"Deal. Let's go look at the hard candies!" She smiled at him, before tugging him over towards the pops and drops. Of course hard candies still were meltable but... they took longer. And she was hoping there'd be something around here that would be specifically made NOT to melt.
"Lemon and chocolate is a very underrated pairing." She replied, very serious as he seemed to be considering her suggestion.
"Let's get her a chocolate frog and maybe some Bertie Botts?" Classics, but one hit the chocolate requirement and the other she thought it'd be cute if she shorted the GOOD flavors into a rainbow. So like.. a specially crafted Bertie Botts just for Scootalou.
"Do you want anything?"