“It really has been! I mean, it’s sorta been my fault, too.
And I’m sorry for that, I’m so sorry!” She insisted, nodding
her head with vigor.
In truth, Scarlet hadn’t been sociable with much of anyone
recently, something hugely unlike her, though she couldn’t
help but worry that “unsocial” was her new normal…
Pulling herself from those thoughts, however, the Pryde daughter
had to actively force herself to focus on the conversation at hand. The
mention of some elusive “thing,” though, had the blonde BURSTING
with excitement.
“You —- Made Rini something?
I completely forgot about that!
Thank you, so so much!”
Her baby blues were now bright and alight, and she couldn’t refrain from
bouncing in spot. Elijah was so nice, so, incredibly nice, and she didn’t DESERVE
someone like him as her friend.
“So do I finally get to know what it is?!” She squeaked.
The second Scarlet began to blame herself, Eli shook his head.
“No need to apologize when you’re not to blame, Scarlet.” He didn’t want
her to feel guilty over something that he could’ve also fixed earlier.
Besides in his mind it didn’t matter who was to blame.
As long as they hung out now and reconnected it didn’t
seem to be a problem to him. He of all people understood
the need for space and being alone for a while.
Her sudden burst of excitement had Elijah stumbling back a bit,
still not completely used to her energy levels. But he still smiled fondly at her
response. The way her eyes lit up and how she bounced before speaking again--
How could he not smile?
“Yeah, the secret is out of the bag..well box now.”
He nearly chuckled at his own joke, but busied himself with
opening the box behind him instead. “It’s supposed to be a
crib-bed hybrid thing...I didn’t think of a cool name for it yet.”
Truth of the matter as he had never built something like that before,
or really needed to. But when he saw that Scarlet’s child was growing he figured
that it couldn’t hurt to try. He only hoped that it wouldn’t be too weird of a gift.
“I just got to reassemble it so I can show you how it works, but it should be
able to adjust to Rini’s size until she’s about six years old.”