This one was a much more quick piece, but I still like how it turned out! The prompt comes from the wonderful @oc-growth-and-development !
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It was late, and the park was quiet, except for a gaggle of kids loitering on a small bridge.
Dilly jumped down from the ledge and declared, "I would get a double decker bus. I'd paint the outside pink and yellow and orange and we would all live in it and drive all around."
"Yeah?" Scout said, laughing. "And who's gonna drive this bus? You, pipsqueak? You couldn't even reach the pedals!"
Dilly stuck her tongue out at him. "No. Ghost can drive it."
"I don't even know how to drive, Dilly," Ghost said with an amused smile.
"So? You're the oldest! You can figure it out."
"What about you, Rusty?"
Rusty didn't look up, intently focused on a thumb war with Charlie. "What was the question again?"
"What would you wish for, if you had a freebie?" Jasper repeated.
"What, like a coupon?"
Jasper shoved his shoulder, and Charlie pinned his thumb with a cheer. "No, stupid, like a free wish. For anything at all."
"I dunno. A hundred kickass sandwiches, or somethin'."
"Wouldn't they get spoiled?" Charlie pointed out.
Rusty shrugged. "Okay, then a fridge full of kickass sandwiches."
"Hide it behind Tino's, I'll guard it day and night," Scout said, striking a ready-for-action pose.
Crow laughed, playfully whapping him on the back of the head. "Cut the shit, you'd eat 'em all in a second."
"I would never!" Scout said, looking very shocked and offended. "I'm the most trustworthy guy from here to Harlem!"
"Well," Crow continued, batting Scout away as he pretended to fight them, "I would wish for an electric violin and a lifetime supply of rosin."
"Hey, that's two things!" Dilly piped in. "You only get one wish!"
"Why does Rusty get sandwiches and a fridge, but I can't have rosin for my violin?"
"'Cause the sandwiches are inside the fridge," Rusty said. "It's different."
"That don't make no sense, but fine," they said. "I'll just take the violin. Rosin's easier to steal. What would you wish for, Jasper?"
"Yeah, it was your question in the first place!"
Jasper shrugged and looked over the bridge at the darkened water. "Don't really know what I'd pick. That's why I asked you knuckleheads."
"I know what I would wish," Bugs said. Everyone else turned to look at them - they weren't usually much of a talker. "I'd wish that my dad didn't ditch me on the el train."
The atmosphere on the bridge turned somber. Dilly stopped turning somersaults, Rusty and Charlie abandoned their arm wrestling match, and even Scout didn't crack a joke.
"Yeah," Dilly said, halfheartedly scuffing her shoe against the ground. "Guess I wouldn't want a dumb bus if I could wish that Mom was still alive."
Scout toyed with his jacket sleeve. "Yeah."
Jasper sighed, and kept watching the water. "Yeah."
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[Image description copied from alt text: a drawing of a group of seven scruffy adolescents loitering by a short wall. The background has no rendered details.
On the far left, sitting cross-legged at the base of the wall, is a girl with pale skin and straight black hair that she is tying into a braid. Her tongue sticks out in concentration. Above her on the wall, stretching his arms toward his toe, is a boy with light brown skin and short curly reddish-brown hair. He is looking down at the girl with a smile, mid-speech.
In the middle of the scene is a boy with light brown skin and dark brown wavy shoulder-length hair. He is leaning against the wall with a carefree posture and holds a harmonica in one hand. He is playfully sticking his tongue out at the teen to his right, who is atop the wall on their belly, propped up by the elbows. They have pale skin and shaggy straight light brown hair and are sticking their tongue out in return with a mischievous smile.
On the right, sitting at the base of the wall, is a teen with pale freckly skin and straight shoulder-length red hair. They are looking up at the two kids teasing each other with an amused expression. Another teen is laying with their head in the red head's lap. They have golden brown skin and short straight black hair, slicked back from their face. They are looking up at a girl hanging by her knees from the wall, speaking to her with a kind smile. The girl has brown skin and curly black hair and is grinning. End ID.]
It's been TOO LONG since I posted about the patchwork crew - so long, in fact, that the last time I posted about them they were still in Scout's original D&D universe. Welp, here they are as regular human kids in regular human NYC - except for Ghost, because they're waiting for him to get out of work (ie, I couldn't fit him in the frame).
Left to right: on the ground is Charlie (she/her) and up on the wall is Rusty (he/him), Scout (he/him) is the gremlin in the middle, up on the wall is Bugs (she/they) and Dilly (she/her), and down below them is Crow (they/them), and Jasper, aka Jazz (he/she/they). At the time of this scene Charlie was 16, Rusty was 17, Scout was 15, Bugs was 13, Dilly was 12, Crow was 17, and Jasper was 17. Ghost (he/him), not pictured, was 18.
