#bergen_county

"Gotta hit the balance - I want to help lots of kids, but not make it too crowded or have anyone feel lost in the shuffle."

"I could do emergency placements, maybe."

"Maybe" Lupe nods

"I just... I want to be a safe place for kids, you know?"

"Any kids around you are safer than if they had a Rotweiler pack on guard... "

Yarf!

"Pardon me, a pack of two bits"

"Good girl." Ear-rumple.

Twobit bounces, she is fierce

"Sometimes - you want a laugh? - I've thought about becoming a fire fighter, because that's, like, all about saving people."

"But not exactly a career."

"Tiffany is one" She says "Though I guess it's part time"

"And not something I can do forever, not physically."

"Right?"

"Nope. But it's a good cause. Mmm" She looks her friend over "So you want to save people. Okay. Maybe look into jobs that require college degrees and let you do that?"

Sigh.

"Sorry, trying to be helpful friend and I blew it?"

"I still don't know what I wanna pick for my major."

"Yeah, sorry" She ponders "Liberal Arts?"

Grunt.

"Sorry."

"No, don't apologize. If it's a lame ass suggestion , it's a lameass suggestion"

"No!"

"I just... no, sorry."

Lupe eyes her "Everytime you say sorry, you will owe me a quarter. I'll be rich in a month" then she gives her a hug

"How many quarters do I owe you already?"

"You'd owe me about a thousand, but you charged me a nickle every time I bossed someone around, so Actually I owe you"

A smirk

"Ha!"

"If either of us were perfect, we'd get on the other's nerves SO fast" She says

"Also true!"

"May's closest to perfection, but she doesn't even begin to get it, so adorbs"

"She's gonna be okay."

"Darn straight" A nod but she is glad to hear it

"That's what matters, right?"

"She's gonna be a famous screenwriter."

"Make movies that create bigger dreams than Star Wars."

"Yeah" A smile "Maybe about three bad ass adopted sisters?"

A soft chuff. "Maybe!"

"I'm good with that" A nod "Want to read that script with me? I want to see if the sister I inspired is short too. I bet she's short" A sigh

"Travel-sized."

"Let's go."

A smile at travel sized

And she SCOOPS the shorter girl under one arm to cart her upstairs!

"HEY, my dignity will be avenged..."

butthe threat is lost a bit as a laugh does escape

Soon, the two are riveted by the exciting tale of three sisters bound by something far stronger than blood

(End Scene)