The Bet
"Aack!" Crimson threw her stuffed animal across the room. "Why can't I write? This is the worst time to have a writer's block." defeated, Crimson trudged over to the kitchen to make herself some hot cocoa. Hot cocoa always helps her think, well, that and...no. 'I will not crumble first. I. Will. Not. Lose. This. Bet.'
"Crimson sweetie, are you making hot cocoa?" Ethereal called out from the study.
"Yes. Do you want me to make you a cup as well?" After a moment of not getting a response Crimson called out again while walking towards the study, "You know that it's very rude to ignore someone, right? Ether?" Crimson came across a very funny sight. Ethereal was laying on the floor with her feet on the wall as far as they can reach. "Wha-haha. What are you doing?"
Ethereal looked up startled. "You shouldn't sneak up on people like that!" Noticing the cup in Crimson's hand, "Is that mine? Thank you for making me some."
"Woah! What, no! This isn't yours. What gave you that idea! If you want hot cocoa, get out of this cave and go get it." Crimson walked out the door, smiling triumphantly when she heard movement behind her.
"Ugh. Fiiiine. If I must." Ethereal grudgingly made herself some cocoa. Eyeing the stuffed animal across the room Ether smiled to herself. "Not having much luck huh?" Crimson huffed and looked out the window.
"I could say the same about you. You didn't look like you did much work either. "
"Excuse you, I got a lot of work done!"
"Uh- huh. You had your legs up against the wall, that didn't look like work to me."
"I-I was thinking!" Ethereal huffed and walked back to the study. Crimson smiled as she sat back down.
"Working, my ass!" She will beat Ether in this. If she doesn't, Ether will have gloating rights and full access to the remote and T.V. for a week. A whole week! Ether probably won't use the gloating rights, but she will use the T.V. all night if given the chance. Crimson is the one that put time rules on the T.V. It is supposed to be off at 10 p.m. every night so that they can at least try to get to bed around midnight. They even had rules like no caffeine after 10, no blasting the stereo so loud that the cops are called again, etc.
The little competition they put in place was Ether's idea. Since they both realized that they are actually starting to have a busy life, they haven't been able to post to Tumblr that much. Their followers understand but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel bad. So, Ether came up with this idea that whoever can take three days off and write some fanfic and answer asks and successfully posts everything to their blog, they get bragging rights and T.V. rights for a week without any complaints from the other person. The loser gets to take the winner out on a date and pamper them for a whole day as well. All the more reason to win this thing. Let' s get back to work.
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Later that night, Ether came out of the study to see Crimson spread across the floor asleep. She chuckled to herself as she saved and shut down Crim's laptop. Ether gently tickled Crim on her stomach so that she could hopefully make it to the bed before falling asleep again.
"Crim, you fell asleep on the couch. Let's get you to bed." Crim sleepily nodded and half walked. Half got dragged by Ether to their room. After tucking Crim into bed, Ether was about to walk out when Crim grabbed Ether by the waist and dragged her into bed.
"If I have to sleep then so do you. Go to bed."
