"Hiiii. Do you want some bananas? I saw you looking at them. They taste really good, and they're good for your body. Oh, and if you're cold, tell us. I think we sometimes make things around us colder since we're cold. I think."
Snug as a Bug
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"Hiiii. Do you want some bananas? I saw you looking at them. They taste really good, and they're good for your body. Oh, and if you're cold, tell us. I think we sometimes make things around us colder since we're cold. I think."
Oh no, everyone was talking at him now. Aluin looked at the other kids nervously and fearfully and hugged his knees closer to himself. But it wouldn't be nice to just not answer to them at all...To Fulger's question, about whether Aluin was cold, he simply nodded a tiny bit, looking down at his feet that were cold.
"Blankets...are scary."
Aluin muttered quietly, and wiggled his toes a bit.
Aluin flinched a bit when Fulger scurried off, and then again when Junchi spoke to him. Junchi spoke so much, it made Aluin feel anxious. Maybe he shouldn't have stared at the bananas. But they didn't look that scary, and Aluin was a bit hungry...
Aluin nodded a tiny bit, but didn't reach for the bananas on his own before Junchi said he could take them, or he gave them to Aluin. Aluin didn't comment anything on the being cold.
It wasnt terribly long before Fulger was bouncing back into the room with his little arms filled. His blanket helpfuly tied in a knot by someone else so it flapped along like he was wearing a cape. Hanging from one arm was a small shopping bag but it was taking both hands to hold a very large bowl of fresh popcorn. In fact the warm buttery scent of it slipped in before the boy like a delicious breeze.The bowl was full enough that as Fulger made his way back to the other kids occasionally stray pieces of popcorn fell out to make a little bit of an intermittent trail behind him.
"I got the popcorn," Fulger happily announced, lowering his voice a little upon seeing Aluin there since apparently he was more scared than Fulger was most of the time. "Aaaand they gave me a bag of candy to share," he added as he looked down at the bag. Inside it was easy enough to see it was a mixed bag of various fun-sized candybars. Not a crazy amount but enough that should be more than plenty for a small group of kids.
But Arjean kept those thoughts to themself and excitedly went at the candy, soon needing to have Junchi pull some out of their hands so everyone else could have their share.
"Thank you for the candy and popcorn... I wish I brought something too..."
Thankfully, Fulger returned with candy and popcorn and gave Junchi something else to think about. After taking some candy away from Arjean, who always hogged food for themself, he thanked Fulger, then looked over to Aluin.
"I think that if you're cold, you should still use a blanket, even if it's scary. What if you get sick? ... Can you get sick?"
Aluin received the banana slices with trembling hands and nibbled on them carefully, calming down a bit at the soft, sweet flavour. But his anxiousness was escalated by Junchi staring at him, he could tell even though Aluin kept looking at the floor. The popcorn's scent was strong and Aluin began breathing through his mouth carefully. Aluin didn't flinch as badly when Junchi spoke to him, and he glanced at him fearfully.
"I...don't know. Getting sick...is scary..."
That convinced Aluin, and he started looking around for a blanket.
Fulger smiled shyly at Arjean as he hurried to set down the huge bowl of popcorn and practically flung the bag of candy at the other child. He was afraid they might accidentally touch him while trying to get to the candy and get zapped. Of course that meant that Arjean basically had the whole bag of candy to themself. "O-oh it's ok, my dorm parent gave me these for all of us to share," he replied quickly. In fact the entire point of the night was to have Fulger and other kids be able to be together and have fun to keep them from being sad they couldn't go outside because of all the snow. And what brought kids together better than treats?Fulger overheard Junchi telling Aluin to get a blanket and then saw the boy... looking around? So he did want a blanket after all... Well, Fulger reached down and summoned the very little bit of courage he had to go and grab a blanket from the stack on the couch. He slowly walked it over towards Aluin and held it out to the boy with a small smile and big wide eyes. "Here, and there are more over here by me," he offered very quietly.
While helping themself to the bag of candy, Arjean grimaced at how rough Junchi was with his words. That isn't to say they disagreed with him, but Junchi tended to be blunt and pushy with his intentions, good or bad. Aluin and Fulger were both nervous kids. Arjean could relate to that. That's why they felt it was their place to try being a buffer to Junchi's aggressiveness.
"Getting sick is scary... but blankets make me feel comfortable sometimes. Like I'm being hugged and protected from scarier things..." This would probably be followed up with Aluin saying being comfortable or warm or hugged is scary, but those were the best words of comfort Arjean could think of.
Fulger handing Aluin a blanket was scary, but he appreciated it in his own way, since Aluin felt least scary where he was sitting right then and there and moving would've made him more anxious just when Aluin had started to calm down a bit. Despite Junchi being loud and Fulger somehow making Aluin all fidgety. And with Arjean further trying to assure Aluin to receive the blanket he slowly nodded a bit, and carefully took the blanket from Fulger, making sure he didn't touch the other boy even a bit."...thank..you..."
Aluin muttered quietly and nudged the blanket on himself, so it only covered his feet. Aluin would slowly nudge it up as time went on, so he could get used to being under the blanket. He got the least scared like that.
Fugler smiled at Aluin and then backed off to scurry back to his originally seat on one of the couches. "You're welcome," he whispered as he left. Then Fulger reached a hand in to grab a bunch of popcorn and chomp down on it. Munch munch munch.Fulger was wrapping himself into his own sort of blanket cocoon there as he ate the popcorn. Happy to have friends, and a boy who maybe would be friendly eventually, there to watch movies with him. "Are we ready for the movie?" He asked, directed mostly at Junchi and Arjean. It seemed like every time Fulger tried to talk to Aluin the boy got scared.
It also wasn't clear where all they would sit. There was plenty of room considering they had several couches to themselves and they were all fairly little, but it didn't seem like Aliun wanted to sit very close. And Fulger really didn't want to be close enough to accidentally zap a friend. That would ruin the night probably.
"Will it be loud? I don't want my ears to hurt..."