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Her face goes from pink to green as she keeps digging herself deeper into this travesty. "Eh, your hair's fine too, Gohan, it reminds me of a pineapple... Soaree! I haven't had pineapple before, it seems like it would hurt to bite into. Haha, that was a joke, it's stupid, I know you eat the inside part, uh, nevermind. We don't get much tropical fruit back home, is what I was getting at. We also didn't get pizza but once a month, so, I've never had pineapple on pizza neither, I hear it's a contentious topic and, heheh, I'm always up to join sides in a gang war! Uh, I've never been in a gang, I don't why I said that, please forget I..."
As the cringe keeps coming and it don't stop coming, Peppa eyes her brother. <span class="mu-i">"Bro, what happened with Arabiota? It's like her moxie just evaporated."</span>
He rolls his eyes. "I told you, this isn't Arabiota, this is Krysmus. New girl."
"New girl?"
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"Huh, they look like they could be twins!" you note.
Peppa waves that off, "Nah, they have different hair and eye colors."
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Peppa taps her chin. <span class="mu-i">"But that's weird, why are you so popular all of a sudden?"</span>
Gohan slowly turns his head towards her, and gives Peppa a ^_^ smile. <span class="mu-i">"And why are you so, Not?"</span>
Low blow. Now, how best for her to hit him where it hurts-
She shakes her head, blech. Her thoughts were a slimepool lately. Why is it turning out like this? She just wants to know why girls are gathering around her brother Gohan. Gohan, who hasn't had a girlfriend ever. Gohan, who no girl in their grade would seek out because he's shorter than their younger siblings. Gohan, whose closest candidates to girlfriends lived on the other side of the world, and Otherworld. It's a real mystery!
And it's not like it was worth debating the point with him. Popularity shmopularity, she already has a girlfriend, and he don't. It would be the height of pettiness to rub that in his face, and she's better than him that.
<span class="mu-i">"Why are you looking so smug?"</span> he wonders, scowling once more.
"Um. Um!"
The two of them whip their heads back to Krysmus, who seems to have finished expelling all that word vomit.
"I'm finished talking, thank you for listening!" She bows, then stands there, <span class="mu-s">twiddling her thumbs, with much concentration and effort.</span> With all her fretting she looks like she's about to sink into a puddle despite it being below freezing. After a long pause with only the wind for company, she attempts to bail. "This was a bad idea, we don't have to hang out if you don't want to-"
Gohan cuts her off, "No, it's fine, I want to hang out!"
The girl's smile goes from manic to relieved. Mechanically, she crosses her arms and shifts her posture to look relaxed. She nods enthusiastically, flaring her nostrils. "Oh cool, cool! Yeah, you betcha, we can hang out. Hang loose! Just a couple of buds hangin' loose, don'tcha know!"
