
3.9 - Dynamic
Isolde walks down the hallway and into the living room, with Turner following behind from a further distance. Lillie shuts the door after she leaves Rai in the bedroom, still fast asleep. When Turner comes back, the other members of the crew are all talking to the remaining members in the living room, apparently already having finished their work. The workers turn towards Turner when he walks into the living room. They get the hint and start wrapping up their conversations, cleaning up their toolboxes, and finishing their drinks.
The workers and members stand up, and they all start walking towards the door, some of the members shaking hands with the workers. They arrive at the door, and the workers leave, with Turner shooting a quick smile and wink towards Lillie before putting his mask back on. As the door closes, Lillie just rolls her eyes at the door and turns around to leave, with Isolde joins her and they both start walking back to the living room. The rest all wait until the door closes to follow them and go back to the living room. Isolde looks bored, pouting while draping herself around Lillie's neck while standing behind her. Lillie just drags herself over to the couch and falls face first into the couch, taking Isolde down with her. The rest of the members walk in, obviously used to their antics as they don't pay any attention to them rough housing on the couch. Everyone just sits down on the couch and carpet, on their phones.
Lillie and Isolde stop rough housing after a while and start talking, suddenly in a very deep conversation, completely different from when they were simply rough housing around. Their conversation is hushed but it seems to slowly escalate in intensity, with them both taking turns gesturing around wildly. Isolde seems to get tired of the arguing and stands up with a final big gesture and starts walking towards the hallway. Lillie rolls her eyes at Isoldes leaving back and throws herself back into the couch. Isolde suddenly screams and gasps from the hallway, which makes Lillie immediately jump up, alert. The rest of the members look up from their phone, surprised. Before anyone can take action though, Isolde starts laughing, and the members in the living room can hear Sxena laughing as well.
Lillie sits back down, sighing and shaking her head. Everyone else goes back to whatever they were doing before. Brea walks in to the living room, and goes straight to the wall adapter. Sxena walks in, piggybacking Isolde, who's holding the hair dryer with one hand. Isolde jumps off of Sxena's back, smirking in Lillie's direction, challenging her. Lillie raises an eyebrow, obviously not backing down from Isolde's challenge.
"You dumbass, that's dangerous"
"Okay sure, but I'm fine" Isolde says, and yawns widely.
"But it could have been really dangerous"
Sxena and Brea haven't started drying their hair yet, and all the members can feel the tension in the air. They're all alert, knowing that it takes a lot to calm them down if they do start arguing.
Arguments between the members never go down well, and it's even worse when it's between the youngest two. They're too similar for their own good, and they don't forgive or forget very easily.
"Only could have been, I'm fine, not a scratch"
"Oh yeah? Not a scratch?"
"What? Do you think I would lie?"
"No, of course not. If I said that I saw how you landed, would you say that I'm a liar?"
Everyone knows that if someone doesn't interfere now, they could start fighting. You can practically see the tension between them at this point.
Jaxine interjects like how she usually does to calm down the members.
"Okay, okay. Both of you, don't argue. Let's stop, take a minute, calm down"
"Oh no, I wouldn't want to argue with her. It's going to be on camera right? Don't wanna argue, not in front of the fans." Isolde responds while Lillie nods, it's almost like they have telepathy. One says while the other agrees.
"Okay... What's up with the tension in the air then..?"
All the members look confused, save Lillie and Isolde.
"Oh nothing, we were just bored and we figured, you know, we haven't practiced acting for a while" Isolde breaks out in a large grin and starts walking towards where Lillie's sitting on the couch. The tension disappears like it never existed in the first place.
"Did we fool y-ugh" Isolde sits on Lillie's lap without warning, causing Lillie to stop talking.
"I guess so, yeah, you were acting?" Verli askes, disbelief painted on her face.
"That's what I said no?" Isolde responds, but then turns away from Verli, indicating that the conversation is over. Everyone else seems to get the hint as well, and Sxena sits down to start drying Brea's hair for her.
Isolde, still sat sideways on Lillie's lap, whispers into Lillie's ear.
"I guess we're still good actresses"
"Or they're all really gullible"
"Oh don't say that kitten" Isolde says while laughing and slaps Lillie's forearm.
"Maybe they are eh?" Lillie winks at Isolde, who just smiles down smugly.
"Maybe, kitten, maybe"
Isolde adjusts herself on Lillie's lap, making herself more comfortable. She leans sideways against Lillie's chest and takes out her phone, playing around with it. Lillie just watches Isolde play a game on her phone.
"Wait who killed you there?" Lillie asks.
"What?! I can't hear you, the hair dryer is really loud." Isolde shouts back.
Lillie bends her neck down by a bit, whisper-shouting into Isolde's ear. "Who killed you in the game?"
Isolde leans upwards, into Lillie's neck. "I don't know, I wasn't looking!"
Lillie makes a confused face, but seems to understand, as she says "Ohhhh, okay" and nods slowly.
Isolde makes a small sound, quietly giggling at Lillie's confusion with her shoulders shaking in small tremors. Lillie looks away from Isolde, face flushed with the embarrassment of being laughed at. Looking away from Isolde only makes it worse, with Isolde's giggling getting louder in volume and intensity.
Lillie starts nuzzling into Isolde's collarbone to cover her face, as her own hands were busy trying to keep Isolde from falling off. Isolde doesn't seem to mind or care, too busy laughing with her head thrown back. Lillie starts whining, mumbling and trying to say something. Isolde stops laughing when Lillie starts whining, quick to apologize.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it kitten"
Isolde and Lillie are basically shouting at each other now to be heard above the hair dryer.
"I know you didn't mean it, but I have to say, it was pretty funny."
"It was"
"I have a weird question"
"Shoot kitten"
"Do they actually think we would fight like that?"
"Like what?"
"Like two little kids"
"Don't we?"
"Well... I don't know... I feel like we argue by apologizing? Like a sorry battle kinda thing." Lillie saying that makes Isolde frown.
"That's so fucking annoying"
"But if you think about the fights we've had"
"Yeah, okay, I get what you mean now. Still fucking annoying though" Isolde shrugs and scrunches her face up.
"I- Well... okay, we are pretty annoying eh?"
"We are?"
"We are."
"Yeah we are"
"But not to each other" Lillie winks at Isolde, even though Isolde isn't really paying attention, scrolling though something on her phone.
"Mhm" Isolde sounds distracted, but still makes an affirmative sound with a nod.
"Hey hey, don't look at those comments, they don't know what they're talking about"
Lillie tries to take Isolde's phone away, which is open on a twitter page talking about one of their newest songs. Isolde has a habit of checking fan reactions whenever she's on her phone, which means that she also sees what people didn't like about it. Lillie's been trying to stop her habit, because she keeps on beating herself up over it. Isolde doesn't budge, curling up into a ball to protect her phone from being taken. Isolde curling up into a ball makes her more prone to falling off of Lillie's lap, which makes Lillie panic, quickly putting an arm underneath Isolde's knees and another around her back, bridal style.
"Fuck! Be careful, pup"
The hair dryer suddenly stops, and Lillie's shout cuts through the air.
Sxena looks shocked, while Lillie and Isolde look panicky.
"Lillie! Language!"
Isolde silently chuckles, finding Lillie getting in trouble funny.
"I'm sorry"
"Isolde, stand up, I can see you laughing" Verli sounds annoyed.
"What? I don't know what you're talking about, this isn't funny at all, absolutely not, I'm not laughing at all" Isolde rushes it all out, still in Lillie's arms.
"Yeah? Can you at least stand up?" Sxena seems annoyed by Isolde's antics.
"Nooo, it's so comfortable here, so warm and cuddly" Isolde whines and cuddles closer to Lillie's chest.
"You're in trouble, you aren't allowed to be comfortable" Brea cuts in from her spot in the floor.
"Guys, Lillie's sorry, and I'm sorry too. Can't we just move on from this please? You guys swear too"
"Well yeah, but you're both only sixteen" Cy sounds much more madder than everyone else, and brings their age into this.
"Ugh, are we talking about this again? Our age? Really?"
"Come on, let's drop this subject. You're both sorry yes?"
Lillie nods up and down multiple times, while Isolde shows a thumbs up from her spot on Lillie's lap.
Brea walks to the kitchen while Sxena sits down on the floor and Verli walks over to her. Verli starts drying Sxena's hair softly. All the other members go back to their phones, including Isolde, with Lillie watching as well.
While Sxena's hair is being dried by her girlfriend, Brea comes in, holding two cups of cold milk. She drinks one and leaves one on the clear desk for Sxena to drink afterwards.