Title: Treehouse
Theme: Ladder
Pairing: None
Rating: K


83. Ladder

"No girls allowed!"

"Yeah, no girls allowed!"

They were at that age where sexism was hilarious – about seven – and though the boys had built a treehouse in Tucker's backyard and Sam had long since switched to black and purple, and ditched the dresses, the thought of her climbing a tree was, apparently, hilarious as well. The boys had brought up the rope ladder and made faces at her, laughing when she shook her little fists and yelled at them.

"That's not fair!"

"Yeah, it is!"

"How come?"

"Girls can't climb," Danny retorted.

She smirked. "Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Then throw down the ladder."

They boys exchanged looks, and nervously let the ladder down, and she was up in their treehouse in a flash. After discovering they spent their time talking about Paulina, reading comics and eating beef jerky, she decided to leave and never return. Which, in the end, resulted in the abandoning of said treehouse, and the movement of the trio to Fentonworks.