Every so often, one of the horsemen needed their alone time. Henley would get a pedicure, Daniel would go for a walk, Taylor would bake, Lula would go to starbucks, Jack would therapeutically unlock and relock all the doors in the house, or Merritt would nap. They all needed their own space sometimes, and respected when the others did too. They did live in a house together, afterall.
Mostly, though, only one of the horsemen needed space at once, two at most. That afternoon, though, four out of six were personal spacing out, leaving merritt and Taylor alone. They had sat in silence on the porch for a few minutes before Taylor spoke up.
"Soooo… Hi." She didn't like the silence, but she couldn't think of much to say.
"Hi?" The older man looked at the slight girl beside him, before looking ahead to the backyard. He knew she wanted conversation, and he was happy to oblige. "What did you do today?" Not the best, but a Taylor was hard to talk with.
She nudged him with her shoulder, hitting his side. "I've been in the same room as you all day, I think you know." she smiled up at him.
"Yes, but I don't know what to say, and neither do you, I can tell. Humor me."
"OK, today I woke up, made breakfast, and came outside to sit with you, so here we are."
"Here we are." Merritt paused a moment before continuing. "You bored?"
"Yup."the P poped in Taylor's mouth. "You?"
"Yeah." They were facing the garden. "Wanna play a game?"
"Sure. How about what are the chances" She seemed genuinely excited.
"OK. what are the chances you… convince Jack that the colors red and blue have swiched places. Like a strawberry is blue and the sky is red?" The old man studied her, seeing that she would pick two, picked two as well. Being a mentalist pays off sometimes. She went inside and he followed.
"Jack? Ja-ack! Jack jack jack jack Ja-ack! JACK!"
"What?" Jack appeared from his room.
"Um, I was just researching some different forms of colorblindness." He gave her a strange look, and she answered his unspoken question. "Yes, colorblindness. Did you know men are like ten times as likely to have it then girls are?" Merritt finally understood what she was doing.
"Yeah" The older man supplied "She tested me and I'm clear. Let her test you."
"Yeah! Ya know, sibling to sibling." She grinned and Jack melted. He couldn't say no to that face
"Fine. What's the test?"
"What color is a plum?"
"Purple?"
"Good. pear?"
"Green." he seemed to be warming up to the game. Time to pull it out from under his feet.
"Nice. Tomato?"
"Red."
"Close, they're blue. Blueberry?"
"How is a tomato not red? I'll show you later. They are. And blue."'
"No, sorry. Red. You're really colorblind."
"They're literally called blueberries. How are they red?"
The game went on like this for the next half hour or so, until Jack stormed out of the room and returned from the kitchen, his hands full of items that were blue and red. Taylor just kept telling him he was wrong, going so far as calling it a fairly common case of red-blue-swap-osis. When the others came back, Jack asked them all a simple question.
"Guys, what color is a cherry?" yeah, He was met with some strange faces.
From the other room, Taylor called in "I told you they're blue. You're just colorblind."
The girls figured it out first. Lula then henley, Danny figured it out after Lula spoke and a nudge "Did you not know cherries were blue? Oh, Jack." she grinned and walked to her room , passing Taylor and Merritt on the way. "What game?"
"What are the chances." The mentalist responded.
"Good one."
"She's a trooper. Been at it for half an hour."
"Yup!" taylor grinned as Lula ruffled her hair and left. Henley passed by with a bump on the shoulder for Merritt and a smirk for Taylor.
Danny passed and asked "When are we gonna tell him"
The other two looked at each other and Merritt responded with "are we ever going to?"
"Fair point." he nodded and left, leaving a very confused Jack behind, haveing heard none of these conversations.
AN- yeah! Confused Jack! I love it! Also, Merritt and Taylor bonding! Yass! That's a lot of exclamation points, so I think I'll leave y'all with this… Please give me ideas, prompts, dialogue that u want to see, or even just a comment telling me how I did. Every time I read one, My day gets better.
See yall soon,
Rain
