Summary: On a Saturday when nobody else is home, Mimmi decides to try and figure out how the laptop she got from Evie works. Of course, this wouldn't be possible without a little help from her brother who decided to introduce her to a few more land people things.
This was a request from 'KaMi-HiMe BVB'
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It had been several weeks since Zac and Mimmi found out that they were siblings. They were finally able to get along well with each other and actually behave like a brother and sister should with only a few small arguments which was typical with siblings anyway.
Mimmi hadn't had much of a chance since her trip to land school to figure out how Evie's old computer worked so she could do research on her own without leaving the grotto and risk getting herself into trouble. Evie had meant to show Mimmi how to use the computer but hadn't yet had the chance to show her yet, and Mimmi was determined to figure it out.
It was a beautiful Saturday morning; Rita was at a meeting for land school and Mimmi had decided it was high time she figured out how to use the laptop computer on her own, one way or another. Sirena and Ondina also both had plans so she figured she'd learn how the computer worked.
When she heard splashing coming from the direction of the pool in the grotto, she looked up and waited to see who it was. She was surprised to see her brother, she thought he and Evie would be hanging out today. "Zac, what are you doing here?" she asked, her brow furrowed in confusion.
"Evie's working and I was out swimming. As I was passing by, I thought I'd stop in to see if anyone was here or not."
"Oh, well I'm just trying to figure out how to make this thing work," Mimmi said, motioning to the computer in her lap.
"You still haven't been able to?"
"No, Evie's been really busy with work and school and hasn't been able to show me."
"Here, move over, sis. I'll show you how it works." Zac went over to Mimmi and sat down next to her on the bench around the grotto. "First, you need to push the power button to turn it on," Zac explained, pushing the button in question as he showed Mimmi how to make the computer work. It was soon powered up and began buzzing with life.
"So that button you pushed, it just makes it work?" Mimmi asked curiously.
"Yeah," Zac replied.
"How?"
"You're asking the wrong guy. All I know is that there are things inside the computer that make it do what it does. When you hit a button, it sends signals to other things that make it work and respond to what you're telling it to do. It's like how when you get hurt your nervous system sends signals to your brain to tell you that something hurt."
"Nervous system?"
"Ah, forget it. I'll teach you more once you get to know a little more about land."
"Okay," Mimmi replied as Zac showed her more of how to use the computer. He showed her how to go to the internet and how to search for different things when you wanted to know more about it. "This is so cool, the whole world is at your fingertips."
"Yeah," Zac agreed. "So have you watched TV or used a phone yourself?"
"No," Mimmi replied.
"Let me teach you how they work too," Zac said.
"Okay," Mimmi agreed. Zac's enthusiasm was contagious and she liked seeing the bright smile on his face. He wanted to introduce her to land-people things and she wanted to learn about them, they were the perfect team.
The siblings made their way up to the main level of Rita's house and to the living room where the TV was. "This. Is the TV," Zac said like he was making some big scientific revolution.
"That's what that box is called?"
"Yeah," Zac laughed. He grabbed the remote and turned the TV on. "This thing controls what the TV does. You can change the channels or adjust the volume with it."
"Cool." Mimmi took the remote from Zac and began pushing random buttons to see what the results would be.
Zac laughed as he watched Mimmi find joy in the simple act of pushing buttons on the remote and watching the buttons light up as she did so. "This is fun," Mimmi said.
"Okay, now if you stop pushing all the buttons, we could watch one specific show," Zac joked.
When Mimmi stopped pushing the buttons on the remote, the TV was on a cooking show. "What's this?" Mimmi asked.
"It goes through a professional chef, which is a person who cooks food, making a specific dish or meal and showing you how you can do it yourself."
"And people watch them do it? Do they watch it over and over to learn how to do it themselves?"
"I dunno. I don't really watch them."
"Let's watch something else then." Mimmi started flipping through channels once again and stopped only briefly on each channel to see if what was on seemed interesting to her or Zac. Eventually, Mimmi made it to a channel with a movie playing on it. She stopped there and she and Zac went to sit on the couch to watch it.
When the movie ended, their stomachs gave low growls. "I'm hungry, let's go to the cafe and get lunch."
"I have a better idea," Zac said. "Ever had pizza?"
Mimmi shook her head.
"I'll go order some." He got up from the couch and went to order the pizza. A half hour later, there was a knock on the door. Zac went and got the pizza and brought it back to Mimmi. After showing her how to eat it, she dug in.
"This is really good."
"And this is only one type of pizza, there's a lot more."
"I can't wait to find out about them all," Mimmi smiled.
When the pizza was gone, they got comfortable on the couch and watched another movie, which they ended up falling asleep during. Rita returned home to find Zac and Mimmi asleep on her couch, having fallen asleep laying over top of each other during the movie. She was amused and decided to let them be.
And so began the journey of Zac teaching Mimmi everything he could about land and land-people.
A/N: So this again was a request centered around Zac teaching Mimmi about land-people things. I've got another request that's going to be the next thing I have then something Christmas themed that I'll find time to publish on the 25th.
As always, let me know what you thought and what you liked or didn't like. Thank you so much for your continued support in reviews and PMs because without them, I'd probably just be keeping what I write to myself and my little sister. So thank you. Until next time
-CrazyHayniac
