Wait, soβ right now Alice is living alone with a thirteen-year-old boy?
[ No offense, Ken, but Miwako is on high alert. Two kids can't keep after themselves, nor should a child be responsible at all to care for another child, and she's... personally automatically worried about that arrangement between a preteen boy and a little girl living alone together. She was thirteen once, herself, and knew thirteen-year-old boys; and it was just at fourteen that she found herself alone with a boy her age who opened a door to adolescence for her, for better or worse. Not that she's voicing any of these concerns to Alice. She needs to keep her cool about a lot in this conversation, way more than she expected... The upbeat rock music playing in the background doesn't fit the scene suddenly. ]
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[ No offense, Ken, but Miwako is on high alert. Two kids can't keep after themselves, nor should a child be responsible at all to care for another child, and she's... personally automatically worried about that arrangement between a preteen boy and a little girl living alone together. She was thirteen once, herself, and knew thirteen-year-old boys; and it was just at fourteen that she found herself alone with a boy her age who opened a door to adolescence for her, for better or worse. Not that she's voicing any of these concerns to Alice. She needs to keep her cool about a lot in this conversation, way more than she expected... The upbeat rock music playing in the background doesn't fit the scene suddenly. ]