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[color=gray][sub][center][color=ffc8f9][b]Location:[/b][/color] Home Sweet Home![/center][/sub][/color]
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[color=87ceeb][i]"Oh, no; don't worry. I understand. You've just moved into town, after all. It'd be wrong of me to think that you would already know all our traditions and holidays on your first day here. Just remember to warm it in the oven before you leave, so that it isn't cold when you arrive."[/i][/color]

Ana just sort of nodded, like.. Yeah. Yeah, that would be silly to think either way. How would she have known unless she did a bunch of research on the town? Like, sure, her [i]dad[/i] probably could've told her, but he didn't- Aaahh, it's fine. It's fine! She's not even mad, just a little flustered. A lot flustered. Why did she thinking moving out was a good idea?

[color=87ceeb][i]"I think it's a wonderful gift, either way. Breakfast bars like these aren't something I typically have for breakfast, but I can see why you like them, Ana."[/i][/color]

Surely she was just being nice - it didn't even compare! One was a delicious home-cooked pie made with love and good intent, the other was made in a heartless factory for profits.. Aaahh, Ana's never baked or cooked anything beyond sticking it in a microwave for 90 seconds! She'd have to ask Zach how he makes his pancakes or something, so she could return the favor and not give her what could be equated to dog food.

[color=87ceeb][i]"Well, I'll have to get going, in any case. My air-headed cousin is probably already up and bothering our grandmother while she tries to prepare for the picnic. I can at least show you into town if you'd like to meet the others, though."[/i][/color]

On one hand, she knew she'd need to go into town eventually - she needed to find out where to get some groceries beyond peanut butter breakfast bars, after all - but on the other.. Oh, jeez, what if nobody except Irina likes her? What if it's grade school all over again, where she's just too [i]weird[/i] to have friends? What if they all can somehow recognize she's practically an alien trying and failing to be a regular human? Not that she [i]is[/i] LITERALLY an alien, but.. It certainly felt like that, sometimes. 

...Then again, Irina did bring a whole ass pie. Maybe the people here were [i]all[/i] that nice. Maybe she was just overthinking again and letting her nerves get the better of her. Maybe going and meeting everyone else in town would be fun. Maybe there's a dog!

[color=ffc8f9][b]"Yeah,"[/b][/color] Ana finally said after an uncomfortable few seconds of quiet, [color=ffc8f9][b]"Yeah, um, that might be fun! I could come with you to town- if that's ok with you I mean. Obviously."[/b][/color]

Irina is the one that [i]offered[/i], why would it [i]not[/i] be ok? Think before you speak, Ana! [i]Gah![/i]
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