The watercolors go up on the fridge! Then they can make popcorn and watch Inside Out.

...well that's bizarre and kind of distressing. Just a movie, though, there's all kinds of weird fake stuff in movies.

"- do you want to stop it and watch something else?" Winona asks.

Uh. Maybe? She can go read instead if she's bothering them and they want to keep watching.

"No, I'm not really invested," says Julie. "If you'd rather try another movie we've got time."

Okay.

Wreck-It Ralph?

Yeah, that one's good, she's seen it before.

Julie and Winona have not! They enjoy it.

Good.

Y'know, she likes cartoons fine but she can watch grownup movies, too, if they want.

"Gotta put a little more work into filtering those for appropriateness," says Julie. "There's probably some website that explains in more detail than the rating, I guess."

All right. It's hard for a movie to be all that upsetting, though.

"I'm still not gonna show a thirteen year old the one where a guy's ear gets sliced off on screen," says Julie.

- yeah, that might be a bit much.

"I think that's rated R," says Winona. "PG-13 should be fine, she's 13."

"I suppose you have a point," says Julie.

Sounds good.

"All right," says Julie, "The Prestige it is, next time."

Okay.

Winona puts the popcorn bowl in the dishwasher and starts it. Then she and Julie hug Dusk and go to bed.

And Dusk has math to read and plenty of hours to read it in.

She's up at ten thirty, the next day, and pretty sleepy for it.

"...you want to see if coffee helps? Just a little of it?" Julie asks.

Huh?

"Sometimes people drink coffee," says Winona, "which has a chemical called caffeine in it, to help them be more alert in the morning. Usually people older than you, but I think the only side effect I've heard of is stunting your growth, and you can be however tall you want."

- side effect? Like a drug?

"...yes, caffeine's technically a drug. It's a pretty mild drug, in the doses people take. There's a little bit in chocolate."