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fandomhigh2025-08-14 12:17 pm
stykera) wrote in fandomhigh2025-08-14 12:17 pm
Finding (More) New Hobbies, Thursday 8/14 Period 2
Stark still, after years of associating with Summer, had no social media. He hadn’t been flooded with notifications about a new album coming. Today’s activity was completely coincidental! Really.
Sure, maybe ‘friendship bracelets’ had been higher in the search results than they might have been otherwise when Stark looked up ‘fun easy hobbies’ but he wasn’t doing this on purpose.
“Today,” Stark said, “jewelry. But nothing fancy. Beaded friendship bracelets. Sometimes these are given away or traded. Easy to do, but fun, I hope. And then you have something at the end to show for your efforts and maybe something you could give to someone. If you like.”
He smiled a little uncertainly. “I have elastic cord. You’ll want to make sure there’s enough of it so you can tie it and have it still fit on a wrist. Yours or someone else’s. I’ve plenty of beads and plenty of cord and there are scissors. Not much else you need for this.”
“I have beads with letters and numbers, if you’d like to put messages. Or something meaningful to you, or whoever you might be giving one of these too. I have star beads and ones with glitter and ones that glow in the dark and metallic ones and ones that are just plain colors. And there are some other shapes as well. I’m not sure why these,” he pointed, “look like gummi bears but they’re amusing.”
“So…let’s make some things. And if you like this you can take more supplies with you to make more another time.”
Sure, maybe ‘friendship bracelets’ had been higher in the search results than they might have been otherwise when Stark looked up ‘fun easy hobbies’ but he wasn’t doing this on purpose.
“Today,” Stark said, “jewelry. But nothing fancy. Beaded friendship bracelets. Sometimes these are given away or traded. Easy to do, but fun, I hope. And then you have something at the end to show for your efforts and maybe something you could give to someone. If you like.”
He smiled a little uncertainly. “I have elastic cord. You’ll want to make sure there’s enough of it so you can tie it and have it still fit on a wrist. Yours or someone else’s. I’ve plenty of beads and plenty of cord and there are scissors. Not much else you need for this.”
“I have beads with letters and numbers, if you’d like to put messages. Or something meaningful to you, or whoever you might be giving one of these too. I have star beads and ones with glitter and ones that glow in the dark and metallic ones and ones that are just plain colors. And there are some other shapes as well. I’m not sure why these,” he pointed, “look like gummi bears but they’re amusing.”
“So…let’s make some things. And if you like this you can take more supplies with you to make more another time.”
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Or himself. Just himself. But no, couldn't be him. Not with his good intentions.
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But she decided she'd give ut one more go, if he sincerely did want to know why she was changing her mind about being upset at him.
"That you've hurt and upset each other," she said. "Or that you've hurt and upset Marc. I was talking about you, you know. But you said Marc has hurt and upset you. Like you hurting and upseting him didn't even come to your mind."
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Steven stopped. Luma was much younger than him and clearly dealing with something. And, after all, the conversation was about knowing when to stop.
"I'll leave you be," Steven said. He turned back to his pile, pulling some of the purple beads together for the next bracelet.
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And ignoring the pang of hurt that he didn't even want to try and understand her, apparently.
"Good," she murmured, then gathered her beads to take with her as she got up and moved away from him, not even caring about the ones that fell from her grasp and bounced along the floor in her wake.
Like she needed to deal with another Eleanor, anywag.
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It wasn't 'are you all right' because he wasn't an idiot. There was a similar intention behind it though.
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"All right. There's more of everything if you decide you need it," Stark said.