born of laughter.

“well yeah, but i didn’t know you’d wreck it this much,” she states as she looked around at the disaster before them. truthfully it wasn’t that big of a deal, tink could clean up the mess fairly quickly - but it was still so much more than she’d expected. maybe she’d had too much faith in thinking fawn could handle passing her the tools she needed while she was under the car’s hood.... “how’d you even manage this?” 

a light laugh escapes tink as she looks away from her own mirror to glance over at her friend. “you sure do, honey,” she agrees before turning back to finish applying the last layer of lip gloss to complete her own makeup look. it was nothing compared to what rosetta was doing, but she liked to think it still looked good enough. floating up into the air, out of her sitting position to land on her feet, she held her arms out and did a little spin. “look alright? got the gardene stamp of appoval?” @missrcsetta

rolling her eyes, tink leaned back in her chair and crossed her arms over her chest before looking back over at the other boy, clearly unimpressed. “this was hardly a grave mistake,” she points out - for what felt like the hundredth time at this point. it almost made her wonder why she even sought him out in the first place, realizing now she should have known this was how the conversation was going to end up going. “vanellope is fine - we talked about it. it’s good. i told you, it’s not that big of a deal. we probably shouldn’t do it again - but it’s fine. you can stop stressing so much.”

So typical to transform a kid’s game into some kind of competitive war where any of them refused to give up. Nathan just laugh heartily at Tink’s threats, sticking out the tongue in a mocking grin to show that there was no fear but excitement to see how everything will developed from that point. “Ohhh I’m such a bad person! How terrible I am.” No remorse in the voice, that would be lying to Tink’s face and he didn’t feel like doing it. Why? Better to focus in all the fun to get out as the winner from this fight. He felt bad for a short time when he though that his friend would fall of the tree, but that sentiment was gone. His eyes sparkled with excitement, leaving the hiding spot to come closer as if that was all it took to continue that game. “You sure about that? Last time I checked I was the one with enough snow weaponry to beat an army and you.” The fingers pointed at her, in a parody of an official salute. “Are the one who’s trapped in a tree like a defesenless kitten. So the luck seems to favor one of us.” His eyes rolled at the promise to remain in that place. Gosh Tink could be so stubborn so that it wasn’t a bluff, it was a peculiarity that both had in common for better or for worse. OK. A devilish grin appeared on the musician’s face. “You know? If you’re planning to not get down from there, then you leave me no other choice.” Not second thoughts about the matter, arms and legs clung around the trunk of the tree found invisible points to ascend. He has been grateful to have had an adventurous childhood in the outdoors. “I’m gonna get up to you. Don’t sue me if we fall down and end in the hospital.”

“You’re thinking too plainly there, Nibs,” she calls back down with a shake of hear head, disappointed in her fellow Lost Boy for not seeing the bigger strategy at play. Being up in the tree and her flight abilities in general absolutely gave Tink the upper hand in this battle. For as he began to climb the tree, the blonde just let out a laugh as if it were no real threat at all. “Then I guess you leave me no choice but to do this,” she counters, jumping from her spot on one of the tree branches and flying away in the air. A little twirl and a flip for showmanship first, of course, and then Tink floated on over two trees further away to land on another branch. “I told ya Nibsie - you can’t beat me.”

mabel scoffed. “not worth dancing to? you aren’t thinking about the bigger picture.” any song was danceable. it all depended on the dance moves. and while mabel would love to take out he dj and dance to different music, she knew this was a fancy party and not the way to handle things. “dance with me! we can totally make this music fun.”

she was still upset about taffyta humiliating her the way she had but tink had nothing to do with that part. when it came to phoenix, she’d been in love with him and it’d never really gone away completely. vanellope couldn’t believe tink would hook up with him after knowing how badly he hurt her when they broke up. she’d been there by her side through it. there was no way she didn’t know she still had feelings for him even if they were gone now. she couldn’t help but be hurt by her best friend’s actions as well as her ex. at her question, she looks at the blonde. “ of all the guys, why him? ” she asks, trying not to sound as hurt as she was and failing. “ i still loved him. ” that was the part that hurt the most for her.

mabel snorted, looking away when tink looks at her because, well, she had already been looking at the blonde and didn’t want it to be weird. not that it was weird to look at your friends but…still. “i’m sure we could turn it into a real party. at the same time though it’s pretty romantic. the dresses, the dancing, not knowing who is who…. the mystery of it all os kinda hot.” she had made it obvious it was her just to get the attention and so far it had been working, but that didn’t mean she knew who everyone was. “did you even try to get out there and dance yet?”

the second she sees tink floating toward her, vanellope wishes she could just run in the opposite direction. she seriously considers it, if she glitched enough she could get away. she knows she needs to talk to tink eventually, she was one of her best friends but she was still reeling from finding out she slept with phoenix. truthfully, that hurt more than taffyta plastering the scene all over her instagram story. she hoped she’d get it over with by now but seeing phoenix at the ball only made it come back up again. right as the words ‘ i’m fine ‘ form on her tongue, she swallows them back down. vanellope looks away from tink, staring out ahead of her at everyone having fun and mingling. “ i know about you and phoenix. “

“oh,” is all she says at first as tink nods her head a little, taking in vanellope’s words. that wasn’t what she had expected but she guessed it did explain enough. though at the same time it didn’t really explain shit. at least not in tink’s eyes. things had been too fucking weird between them for that to be the only issue. but when vanellope doesn’t continue to give any other reasoning for why she’s been so off, she guesses it really just must be because of that. “do you... do you want to talk about it?” there isn’t really much that tink has to say regarding the whole thing, but she also doesn’t know what her friend wants from her right now in the first place.