She didn’t like the ladder, by the way. It had been nothing but trouble and Ella continued to eye Oakey, giggling a bit at his sour-lemon glare. He didn’t look scary at all when he did that, did he know? She did it back just as an example. =____= See? Adorable. She observed the bass which seemed unharmed and since her face was unharmed too she supposed it was all good. ”I love gummy worms, Oakey. Get over it.” The gummy worm battle was one he wasn’t going to win with her. Just saying.

And speaking of gummy worms, Wade was totally going along with her experiment. The blonde BEAMED and watched on with great interest. WAIT…it was good? GRIN! ”Maybe we just invented a new snack food!” Or Wade was pregnant. Didn’t pregnant women get weird cravings? Would Professor Bentley like gummy worm!pickles too? Hmmm. Also hmmm? The fact that Wade was what? Sleeping on Kaiden now? N’awww. Team nap time or something? Could it wait until after ice cream, though?

Ella accepted the ice cream from Minnie and BEAMED, adding some gummy worms to the top. She took a bite, bounced, and noticed that Wade and Minnie were calling out to Nash, who looked like he needed ice cream. Clearing her throat, she gave him a small smile and said, “The more the merrier, Nash.” So he could join if he wanted.

Ickle Kace and Ickle Tobias! N’awww! Ella gave hair ruffles to each in between shoveling mouthfuls of ice cream down. She was just really glad everyone was showing up. ”Hey bash brothers!” Yup, she was calling them that from now on just cause. “Sure, help yourself to sweets. Eyes for you, Oakey Worm. No comments, please.

Freezing? It was suddenly really cold but that just meant they’d need to use their blankets, yeah? ”Maybe Minnie was right about building a blanket fort? We could stick them to the trees or something, yeah?” GRIN. ”Might be warmer that way.” Or they could all just group hug. Group hugs were nice. Group hugs and ice cream and boyfriends which were still not he-

BEAM!

Eyes for you too, Alec Summers. Ella watched him as he greeted everyone, smiling a little to herself. He had a really nice face, Alec did. It looked especially nice when he was smiling like he was and being all friendly and happy and oh! He was adding more sweets to the pile too? BEAM! His eyes were really blue right now too which meant he was feeling good which was nice because she didn’t like when he was feeling bad. She also didn’t like when he was as far away as he was right now and since it was cold she’d just casually scoot closer to where he was sitting, okay? No big deal. She also casually wrapped her arms around him in a side hug while still trying to eat her ice cream. ”Hi you.” About time he got here.

And Loch Nessie! ”Rawrrrr!” Ella managed as a greeting fitting for a member of the ferocious trio. The red head then got a BEAM mixed with a shiver cause cold Ella was cold. ”Want something to eat, Ness? We’ve got loads of stuff. Oakey brought his bass too so we can listen to him play…eventually.”

AND BRRRRRRR! WHY SO COLD?