Kessel Run Week Two Challenge:

Write a dialogue-only story between 400 and 800 words in which two characters have a disagreement.

Word limit = 400-800 words

Playing Host (Jade family OCs from my story Renewal, within a year of Renewal's end)

"She's not going to want to just follow you to class and watch you twirl."

"Oh, like she's going to want to go to the shop and work on her vacation."

"She was a hyperdrive mechanic!"

"She was a dancer, too!"

"That's the point! At least she's doing something at the shop. She goes along to your class, she'll just be sitting on the sidelines watching you do stuff she learned a decade ago."

"Excuse you, I'm not at a child's level, you jerk."

"Whatever. Besides, Mom and Dad are at the shop. You know she'll want to spend time with them."

"I'm not arguing about that, obviously. But she'll want to spend time with her sister, too."

"So spend time with her. Show her around town, take her to that new gallery opening or something. There is more to life than dancing, you know."

"Shows what you know. Besides, you're the artist. You take her to the gallery."

"Dancing's a type of art, idiot. You're an artist too."

"Yeah, well, that sort of art involves too much sitting still for my taste."

"Do you always have to live up to the 'pesky little sister' stereotype?"

"Do you always have to live up to the 'overbearing big brother' stereotype?"

"...Mara's the oldest, really. Not that we didn't know that, but—I guess we get to see it in practice now. What's the oldest sister stereotype?"

"I dunno. Do you really think that Mara's ever going to do anything stereotypical?"

"Point."

"What are Mom and Dad planning for her, anyway?"

"The usual, as far as I know. Staying home and talking, mostly. And Mom teaching her how to cook."

"Ugh, so boring."

"Don't be a jerk. They have a lot of missed time to catch up on."

"I know that. It's still just a lot of sitting around."

"Did Mom and Dad ever have you checked out for an attention deficit disorder?"

"Just because some people don't like sitting around with a bunch of drawings and diagrams all day—"

"Ha! So you admit you don't like sitting around, and you think it's boring that Mara sits with Mom and Dad, so they can get to know each other after more than twenty years apart, but you think she's going to want to sit on the sidelines at your class?"

"...shut up."

"Uh-huh."

"I still think it's ridiculous to expect her to work at the shop on her vacation."

"No one's expecting her to do anything of the sort. She didn't seem reluctant to work there on her last visit, did she? She's really good at the mechanic work, and I think she likes being part of the family business, after all that time alone."

"I guess."

"You know, this whole argument is stupid. Do we really think that Mara's going to do anything she doesn't actually want to do?"

"She's pretty stubborn, isn't she?"

"Well, she is a Jade, after all."