"How many times do we have to tell you girls? You cannot go asking the rest of us for something when another says no. You shouldn't want to undermine any of us."
The girls poked out their bottom lips and lowered their heads. Sei and Celeste weren't daunted.
It would take more than cute faces to save the girls from trouble this time around.
"No means no, girls. It doesn't matter if I say it, if your dad does, or anyone else who-"
""We're sorry…"" The children sank even further.
Sei wouldn't let the cuteness of the children distract her. She wouldn't be phased again.
It helped that she had already gone through this when Serana was small. All of their tricks had already been done before by a much more mischievous child.
"These are…"
Sei gulped when she remembered her father was still among present company.
Shinji wasn't an expressive man, but she knew her father.
She knew the kind of look he made when he didn't know what to make of something.
