"If you literally drag my sister to Vegas tonight I require that you also drag me; I am not missing my twin sister's wedding."

"I will not drag your sister to Vegas tonight. However tempted I am by flour-related anecdotes."

"Good. I'll tell her to ask you out."

He grins.

Anna-Sophia picks her head up off the table and starts actually eating her lunch.

"So what else do the two of you have for the rest of the day?"

"Lucky has gym, theatre, and Writer's Craft; I have physics, World History, and statistics."

"Edie has physics; Anna-Sophia and I have statistics."

"Cool."

"I guess it's not that surprising we have a lot of overlap; there's not that many advanced classes open to sophomores."

"I wanted to be in more advanced math but it turns out there are in fact not enough hours in the day."

"That didn't seem like it was going to deter you when Vegas was on the table!"

"Only one of these problems can be solved with summer classes."

"Really? How do you solve Vegas with summer classes?" she teases.

Giggle.

"It occurs to me to ask, once you discovered an absence of fire-alarm-related precautions, did they add any?"

"Yep!"

"Good. So it was productive trouble after all."

"I try to trouble productively where possible!"

"Yeah." She looks at Lucky. "Wanna start a betting pool on whether their kids blow up the planet or cure cancer?"

"I'm gonna go with 'bring about world peace and usher human civilization into an age of unprecedented prosperity'. If they don't manage that themselves by the time the kids are our age."

"Edie and Merry do that, the kids locate sapient alien life and usher them into a golden age?" she suggests.

"See, but then I have to decide whether I believe in aliens!"

"There's almost certainly non-sapient alien life, at least," she shrugs. "It's a big universe. I don't see why other planets shouldn't have evolved people too."

"I don't really think we have enough information to decide that yet!"