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I have learned so much in this place, Father. I go to school now and have a job and do all kinds of things that real girls do. But there's still so much to do and tonight I hope to have another experience that I've heard so much about. I've watched movies and read books and nearly all of them talk about slumber parties as if they're the quintessential coming of age experience.

I want to have these experiences, things I never would have done had Mother succeeded.

So tonight I've planned a night with my friends, and invited them to invite a few of theirs. I have cookies and ice cream and pizza and games and scary movies to watch and I truly hope that everyone enjoys themselves. There are pillows and sleeping bags all over our living room and I have to thank you for allowing me to overrun the apartment like this.

I do hope we all have fun.

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"See, this is exactly the issue," she says, jabbing the nailbrush into the air in exasperation. Juno sighs, then laughs. "Yeah. It would actually be a pretty crazy place if everyone did that."

"Oh totally," Cissie teased. "But okay, I will admit that it might be a pretty interesting place too and I will totally remember this if you ever achieve world domination or something."

"If I achieve world domination I'll make you... My majordomo. What is a majordomo, you may ask? Honestly I have no idea. It just sounds good." The base coat done, Juno pulls out the tape to make stripes over it. "Hey, you play any instruments?"

Cissie grinned at her. "It does have a nice ring to it. I could totally get behind being a major domo. Do I get a fancy uniform? Because I think being a majordomo totally calls for a fancy uniform."

"No instruments," she added as she watched Juno start making the stripes. "It's funny, though, I did everything else but that - dance, voice, gymnastics. I don't think Mom thought instrument playing would get me anywhere."

At least in the superhero gig but that was neither here nor there right now.

"Right? There'd have to be like, tassels or something." She finishes the tape and grabs the second bottle of polish, tilting to look up at Cissie when she mentions voice. "You sing? Really?"

"Truth or Dare? What kind of game is that? Can we play that tonight?" I don't know what other games to play other than, well, board games. Which I have if others are interested, but I'd rather something much more traditional.

"I'd been heading to the surface, but yes, it was much more jarring than I anticipated. I... I'm still a little nervous in open spaces. Not as badly when I arrived, but... Father works in an aquarium and sometimes I go to visit him, just so I can stand under the tanks and watch the water above me." I'm a little ashamed to admit that, but I feel like it's safe. Like it's something she would understand.

"Oh man. It's well... It can be pretty awful. I mean, you get to dare someone to do something or if they pick truth you ask them something, usually embarassing." There might be a fun way to play the game, but she's never seen it. "Stick with boardgames and pizza."

Cissie nodded in complete understanding. Going to the aquariam to look at the water over her felt like it was her safe space. It was how the archery range was for her in a way - a place where she could go and lose herself for a bit and know that she would be okay at least for a little while.

"I bet," she said. "Do you miss being there at all?"

"Yeah," Cissie answered, keeping her hand still. "I haven't really kept up with it much, I'll be honest, but I had the lessons and all."

"Then what do you mean you couldn't be in a band? Uh, singers required." Of course Juno has always imagined that she'll be the one singing, but she can share duties. "Bam, you're in."

"I am? Seriously? Awesome!" Cissie started to hug Juno then thought the better of it. Hugging would have to wait until after her nails were done. "I've never been in a band before. I'm moving up in the world!"

Juno pulled back when Cissie made to move toward her, waving the brush in the air to stop her. "Yeah, well, neither have I. I mean, Bleeker and I wrote songs sometimes, but it wasn't anything like this. Cool. This is going to rock."

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