Riley set the take-out bag on the picnic table and put the styrofoam containers on their respective sides. Rosette looked through her containers, smiling when she found her rice.

"Alright, we got the food, now tell me everything." She prodded, poking her brother with her plastic fork.

"Who said I had something to say?" Riley scoffed.

"May I remind you that you're the one who called last night asking to have dinner? Which means you have a story or something happened and you need to confide in your sweet, lovely sister and—"

"I get your point! Did you see that we locked up Frostbite?"

"Yeah I saw it on the news. Tell Laz 'good job' for coming up with that name, it's pretty good."

"After we locked up Frostbite, Ray came in saying that Vic broke out of prison. In with the new, out with the old."

"Vic? As in venom-spitting, snake eyed Vic? Man, I can't stand him."

"Snakes, why did it have to be snakes?"

"Well, Doctor Jones, how are you holding up? Last time you had a villain so slippery, you barely got any sleep."

"Don't worry, I'm the right amount of tired."

"The right amount of tiredness for you or a human being?"

"Alright, I think you're forgetting that I paid for the rice. I might have to take it back just for that remark."

"No, I don't think you do! You stay on your side of the table and I'll stay on mine. Seriously though, you're okay?"

"I think I'll be fine. Besides, you should probably stay with Laz or something."

"I can hold my own. You should be the one spending the night with Laz, after Vic did his whole villain speech about revenge."

"Rosette, for my sake, stay with Laz for a couple of days?"

"Okay, okay, but only because I can't stand the long lecture. You drone on and on about how Vic knows who we are and we 'can't take that chance.'"

"Is that what I sound like? I thought my voice would be a little deeper than that."

"Your voice is fine. And if you're not going to eat that rice—"

"I'm gonna eat it! Your side of the table, stay on it! This is mine!"

[God I love rice so much. Obviously my characters need to reflect this.]