hypothetical Otherways thread, vaguely recycled

[hermit_of]

And a teenage boy walks in, nose in a book. (As I Lay Dying, for the curious.) When he looks up, both eyebrows go up.
"...Okay, I know the house isn't this big."

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[big_violin]

"You're new, huh?"

Says the kid with the red eyes holding onto the two blue haired babies.

[hermit_of]

"That's more than likely a yes."
He'd call it a prank, but Elsie doesn't have this much of an imagination, and Daria and Jane haven't even been over yet.

[big_violin]

"It's not a joke or a delusion and you're not suddenly crazy," he says as he puts one of them down. Minuet curls around his boot.

"Just so that you know."

[hermit_of]

"You mean I can't get out of the reading quiz on the grounds of insanity? Damn."
He's mostly joking - it's really not a bad book, except for where the main characters could have learned a thing or two from Oregon Trail - but still.