[morning; Serena is walking down the stairs and into the kitchen, she freezes at the sight of Mara sitting on Amanda's lap at the table eating cereal; for a moment unsure of how to react]
Mara:
Are you sure you can't come for show and tell? Amanda is cooler than a toy airplane.
Amanda:
Your mother's right. Besides, airplanes are way cool.
Mara:
How?
Amanda:
Because they defy gravity.
Mara:
What's gravity?
Amanda:
It's what makes you fall back down when you jump.
[Mara stands up and jumps once]
Mara:
Like that?
Amanda:
Exactly.
Serena[Walking into the kitchen]:
Ready for school?
Mara:
Yeah. Amanda's teaching me about gravity.
Serena:
I know. Go get your backpack.
[after Mara gets on the bus, Amanda is preparing to leave]
Serena:
You're going to need back up.
Amanda:
And you have a daughter.
Serena:
And someone to take her if anything were to ever happen to me.
Amanda:
A child shouldn't grow up without her parents. You know that better than anyone Serena.
Serena:
I'm not planning on anything happening to me.
Amanda:
You can't exactly leave a five year old home alone.
Serena:
I have some coworkers who are attending a family camp in Woodland Park, just outside of Colorado Springs. They would be more than willing to take Mara with them for the weekend. And a weekend is all we need to disable Gogol.
Amanda:
No. I can't-
Serena:
Stop me? No matter what you do or say, I'm going with you.
Amanda:
Okay.