Rose raised a hand. 'Can I join the boys?' It wasn't anything personal, it just wasn't fair and she was a tomboy... They were so young, she just wanted to help them win any way she could. God, she sounded patronising. She hated that. She'd just tell her brain to shut up now.
SHUT UP, BRAIN.
NO, YOU SHUT UP.
And that's how it went for a while.