Robbie was giving out ice cream to kids and this time he wasn't being beat up and chased away suspicious mothers. He guessed having wrapped ice cream and a sign helped with that.

"I wanted mint chocolate twist." A little girl pouted to an annoyed looking Jade.

"You take what I give you." Jade growled shoving an ice cream bar to the little girl, who ran away back to her mother.

"Be nice…" Robbie mumbled. He handed out another ice cream to a little boy. "That's the whole reason we're even doing this."

"Thank you." The little boy said running off.

"I don't understand how giving a bunch of spoiled brats' ice cream is helping me become nicer." Jade announced.

Robbie gently sighed. "It's nice… and being nice makes you feel good."

Jade gave him a look.

"Look, no one can be nice all the time but everyone has to because it's part of being a good person. Do you have any idea how many times you've insulted me and I just let it roll off me instead of saying something mean back?" Robbie asked.

"You never said anything because you're scared of me."

Robbie nodded in agreement. "Yeah… and you're my friend and friends don't hurt other friend's feelings on purpose." Robbie lectured.

Jade rolled her eyes.

()

A complicated display of blankets and sheets were hanging around the room. Robbie looked over his fort and determined there was no way Jade would beat it. He had been a master at it as a child. Childish and immature and a complete waste of time is it? Yeah. But Robbie was too weak to do anything else and Jade only participated because there was no one else to hang out with.

As they went by each other in the hall to check out each other's fort, Robbie made thumbs down sign to tell Jade that he was beating her. The girl rolled her eyes in return.

"It looks nice but it won't ever hold." Jade commented eyeing Robbie's fort unimpressed.

Robbie tugged at his yellow stocking cap and frowned eyeing Jade very sad excuse for a fort. "What is this? This is not a fort."

They both made moves to look at each other but was slammed right into each other. "Uh," they said in union. Robbie rubbed his bottom lip and Jade rubbed her forehead.

"You…" Jade impressively held in an insult. "We can try yours first." The girl ended up saying instead.

Robbie nodded and led Jade into his fort. "It has three rooms and a back door." Robbie announced moving in making more room for Jade. It held up until they exited it again. "At least it lasted that long." Robbie commented looking over his destroyed fort.

"Whatever it's my turn." Jade quickly said and led into him into her fort which was all low ceilings and crooked sheet holders. It wasn't long before the thing collapsed on top of them.

"Get your leg out of my ribs." Robbie cried out in pain as they both tried to get of the blanket prison.

"Are you touching my boob?" Jade loudly shrieked.

"What… no!" The boy yelled. "Why would I touch you there?"

"Maybe incest needs to be added to your long list of horrible flaws."

"Get off me!"

Jade finally found an opening in the covers and they both could breathe again… well Jade could, Robbie was still having trouble with Jade on top of him. Their eyes locked and their erratic breathing for some reason matched each other's.

"I can't breathe." Robbie finally said breaking the connection that really shouldn't have been there.

Jade quickly got from a top Robbie her eyes darting all around avoiding looking at him at all costs. The girl was a little a taken a back at how she had felt. It was Robbie and he's supposed to be her brother.

Robbie quickly sat up noticing Jade had begun to clean up her mess. "I'll help you." He offered standing.

"No," Jade answered quickly causing Robbie to frown. "You have your own mess to clean up."

Robbie nodded slowly a little confused as to why she wouldn't look at him.

()

Robbie invited himself into Jade's room early the next morning finding the girl destroying paper with scissors. "You go home today right?" Robbie asked taking a seat on her bed.

Jade barely looked up at him for some reason. "No," was her simple answer.

Robbie gently nodded letting the awkward silence that was going to happen, happen. He wasn't really sure why Jade had gone mute and seemed to be avoiding him. He had honestly thought maybe they had become friends but recently she had stopped coming to his room for late night go fish tournaments and was actually avoiding him all together.

The heavy silence was broken by Jade's cell phone vibrating loudly. The girl looked at it and groaned pushing it away from her. "Who is it?" He asked curiously.

"Tori," the girl said with a grimace.

"Answer it…" Robbie very slowly said.

"She only wants my help with something ridiculous her and Cat got messed up in."

"I would love to help one of my friends out if I had the energy." Robbie mumbled sadly.

Was he really trying to guilt her into answering her phone? The girl couldn't believe he thought it would work on her… she answered her phone with a sharp, "what?"

()

Jade carelessly threw her bag down as soon as she got home, her annoyance at its highest. Cat and Tori was now seriously the most annoying people in the universe. Her dad peeked around the corner at her.

"You're back." He announced.

Jade held in a rude comment. Maybe Robbie's nice lessons were working… "Yeah, is Robbie upstairs?"

Her dad nodded. "He had a rough time today he's really sick." His daughter was already making her way upstairs. He was happy Jade's relationship with Robbie was noticeably making her a better person, but it also worried him. He hoped Robbie wouldn't get worse because of the type of damage it would do to Jade.

Jade quietly pushed open Robbie's door closing it behind her. She walked towards him taking a seat in the empty chair by his bed. She watched him breath, each breath coming out in deep slow breaths. She quietly stood reaching out and touching his warm forehead, warm but not feverish.

She leaned over him taking a closer look at his face her eyes lingering on his lips. She had a sudden ridiculous notion that if here lips touched his, he would be alright. It was strange and wrong on so many levels but in her mind she needed to kiss Robbie.

Robbie's eyes fluttered open, "We're you nice?" He asked softly seeming to ignore how Jade's face was only inches from his.

The girl didn't budge from her spot over him. "I wasn't mean to any one… more than usual if that's what you mean." Jade mumbled her voice heavy with emotion.

Robbie could tell Jade wanted to kiss him, but he couldn't let it happen. It wouldn't be good… for her. He wanted to kiss her though. He needed to kiss her. He couldn't let it happen though. So he turned his head away looking away from her as quick as he could.

The girl reading what it meant moved away from him rubbing her forehead in ashamed frustration. She couldn't believe that honestly she had tried to kiss Robbie, her brother. She turned away quickly and walked briskly out of the room. "Jade…" Robbie called after her.