When Cee failed all her exams, Boo turned all the Us into A*s in felt tip, to make her feel better.
First, I wanted to say that this would never ever ever ever ever happen to Cee, because she is absolutely brilliant and perfect in every way.Â
Katie had known that Cee was getting her report card, and had made dinner extra special, even though she couldn't cook, so "special dinner" was really "mac and cheese."Â
Cee, however, had come home crying and yelled to leave her alone, before she slammed the shared room's door closed, leaving Katie with two full bowls of mac and cheese. Katie scraped both of the bowls, because suddenly, she had lost her appetite.Â
Katie left Cee alone, because very often Cee needed space when she was upset - at least for a while, and then they would snuggle and fall asleep together, while Katie would pretend nothing was wrong at all, until it all came out in a blurt, and they'd just talk for hours.Â
So, Katie waited a long, frustrating hour, watching some Doctor Who special that she'd seen a million times. And then she found the crumpled, wet (because it had been raining all day and despite all Katie's attempts, Cee refused to learn how to drive) piece of paper, and sighed, before carefully flattening it out.Â
U's.Â
U's in everything. And then Katie was crying because it just wasn't fair . Cee had worked too hard!Â
So she smiled sadly and grabbed a pen out of Cee's bag, because by now she knew where everything in Cee's bag was, especially when she forced Cee to do her homework, and used the tip to change all the U's to A's.Â
Then she took it with her, when she went to knock on their bedroom door. She opened it slowly.Â
"GO 'WAY, BOO!"Â
"No."Â
Katie stalked over and got under the covers, close as she could beside Cee. "Now, let's look at these grades."Â
"Why are you - ?"Â
"Shush, and look."Â
Cee grabbed the paper, and smiled lightly for a moment before snorting. "A's, Boo? That's likely."Â
Katie shrugged, grinning, and tapped Cee on the nose. "Made you smile, didn't it? Now, it's not the end of the world. You're still brilliant."Â
"Thanks, Boo."Â
"I love you, Cee."Â
"I love you more"Â
Which got them started on their usual "love you more" fight. And they fell asleep in a limbs jumbled, smiling mess. Because nothing was ever that bad when they had each other.Â













