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TakemetotheBurrow 
Expressive eyebrows, eh? Ella squinted at him and wiggled them playfully, just as a test. "Y'mean these expressive eyebrows?" Heh. As for the pranking, the blonde bit her lip. "I won't do it again. It's too stressful." As good as she was at imitating an ogre, she was all conflicted inside about it still. He really didn't have to worry.
"And yet you're able to get along with me most times." Ella smiled back a tiny bit too because yeah, she figured he'd been joking around. Her smile grew when he promised and she nodded her head, expecting that he'd keep it. She trusted him too.
What was this? Ogre was exposing his ooey-gooey soft side? Ella rested her chin on her palm and listened intently, a smile playing on her lips. She knew how tough it was for him to talk about this sort of stuff but maybe he'd changed since Eve had been in his life? N'aww, was the Ogre growing up? The thought made her smile even bigger but she refrained from humming Here Comes the Bride. "You like me lots, huh?" GRIN. He totally did. "But seriously, I'll try not to worry so much." And she held up her right hand as proof.
"Y'know, you're not such a terrible brother after all."
Edric had to look away to keep himself from laughing as Ella began to wiggle her eyebrows at him. He couldn't let her find out that she was funny or she would totally use her eyebrows against him at every given opportunity.
"Good," he said with a nod when Ella promised not to prank him again. As much as he enjoyed her admiration for his Scroogey ways, he had to admit it was no fun being the victim of these pranks and troll moves. He would've taken this as a lesson never to be a Scrooge again, but NAHHH. He was too good at it by now. Though he
was going to keep his earlier promise of not jumping to conclusions ahead of time.
And then, after Eddy made the huge mistake of exposing his kinder big-brother side, Ella was being just like him by using his moment of vulnerability to poke fun at him. Edric rolled his eyes when she accused him of liking her a lot. "Not as much as you like to think." Psh! The only person Eddy liked was himself. And Evs. But mostly himself. Let that be clear.
And because Edric wasn't ashamed enough of his moment of kindness still, Ella was now torturing him with the reminder that he wasn't a terrible brother.
"Alright, alright, let's not get ahead of ourselves," said the boy, waving the compliment off. "I'm not some big teddy bear just because I can be nice sometimes. I'm still the scary older brother." And he was
so tempted to be sixteen again and 'accidentally' spill his water over his friend like he had that one time in the Great Hall, just to remind himself that he could be evil again, but decided best not to. He'd worked too hard to make it back on Ella's good side. He'd have to leave his bullying for another day.