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[This is a view from the bottom of a very tall hill - a small mountain, if you will - that is also very steep and has a small cart at the top. Standing next to the cart is Adam Parrish. He looks doubtful.]

This is for posterity, Parrish. In case we die.

[Running a hand over his face, Adam’s faint voice can be heard in all it’s horrifically accented glory.]

I should never have let you watch those Jackass reruns. It’s not the nineties anymore.

[Ronan makes a noise.]

Don’t pussy out on me now-

[Ronan sets the camera down and gets in the shot; the angle such as it can catch the entire length of the hill. He heads up, and there is a moment of bickering at the top that the camera doesn’t catch because that’s how far up they are. The bickering is good natured for all that - they’re not really fighting. They’re just arguing for the joy of arguing. Chainsaw is sitting at the front of the cart and she occasionally contributes her opinions in the form of cawing.

And then Adam scowls, gets in the cart, and Ronan gets in behind him. Apparently, Lynches celebrate birthdays with spectacular feats of stupidly racing down things, because Ronan pushes them. They’re both screaming after a moment, and Chainsaw opens her wings and flies away before they crash at the bottom.

Now they’re right in distance for the camera to catch them, a pile of boys at the bottom of the hill, with Ronan making a noise that’s laughing and Adam-

Adam Parrish, resident misanthropist, who has never been seen really smiling on the network (or anywhere the public can see) is smiling too, and pushing at Ronan.]

That was really fuckin’ stupid. [He’s still grinning though, far too fond as he untangles himself and moves to check out the pretty wicked scrape now on his arm. It’s then that he catches sight of their recording, moving to pick it up and hand it back to its owner when he gets a look at it properly.] Did you press something different?.

What? [He looks up. Ronan Lynch, who has never posted to the Network, didn’t realize that the red button for record and the green button for stream were different things. This is what you get when you hate phones. He gets up, and rolls his eyes, and switches it off.]

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It was never that bad.

[That's one hell of an exaggeration.]

You can literally go back and watch it again to see how bad it was. [ There will be blo-- wait, there already is. ]

Yeah, that's why we taped it.

[That's why Ronan insisted, anyway.]

So you could relive your seriously questionable decision over and over again? [ Boys.

Boys. Why is she friends with so many boys.

Who the fuck do you think you're talking to?

[Because girls make you irrationally jealous?]

I remember when you hated cell phones.

[ Oh, right. Also, don't just lay out all her weaknesses like that! Gee. Is this revenge because she told Adam you were nice, hmm? ]

If you think this isn't costing me pieces of my soul, you're dead fucking wrong.

[He still hates this shit.]

What's wrong with using your phone? Adam has one now, so you can talk to him on it.

[ She pulls no punches, this one. ]

Bite your tongue. Parrish and I talk in person.

[ She very deliberately and comically does just that. ]

So? You can't be attached at the hip 24/7.

We don't need to be talking 24/7 either. Are you telling me that you and Dick need to be constantly communicating? If you are, Mary help you, get a fucking life.

[ Eye rolling goes here. ] Of course not. Though he can talk a lot, if you start him on something that gets him excited.

I'm just saying, it seems like it'd be nice to be able to talk when you want. [ Says the girl who had covert midnight meetings and secret phone calls down to an art with the boy she loves. ]

[Blue, you might be making out with him, but no one knows how much Gansey can talk more than Ronan.]

Divorce yourself from the phone, maggot. Don't be a stereotype.

[Of course it should be said: how rich does a person have to be to be utterly disaffected by their phone?

Lynch rich, that's how rich.]

[ 'Scuse you, who said anything about making out with him? No one knows that's happening. Blue doesn't turn the house into a botanical garden, after all. (Gee, sorry, Adam.) ]

Okay, I'll just dump this extremely convenient device that lets me chastise you from a distance. That's fine.

[ And yet Lynch rich is not the richest rich she knows. Actually, a lot of the rich boys she befriends are sort of blase about cell phones. Maybe not Henry. Hm. ]

[Henry is a foreigner: he does not count.]

Works for me.

[ One day, he's going to win you over. ]

I won't give you the satisfaction.

[Ronan is going to throw him in a trash can.]

You have a problem.

Says the person who just threw himself down a hill.

[ Oooh, she will fight you, Ronan Lynch, she will. She may recruit someone else to help. ]

And had a great time doing it.

I'd say it's because you're weird, but Adam did it too. [ She can't very well call Adam weird. ]

Take the stick out your ass and try it sometime. You'd be surprised at the shit you can convince Gansey to do.

As if he needs convincing to go and do something incredible. [ Incredible meaning awesome or incredible meaning... 'displaying an appalling lack of concern for one's health or safety' though... ]

By incredible do you mean donuts in the Pig in Monmouth's parking lot?

That wasn't what I had in mind, no. [ Boys. ] That just sounds like it'd give you a headache.

Give you a headache, you mean?

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