Hello, everyone. I meant to have this posted yesterday, but I got lazy and lost my motivation; oh, well. It's posted now.
Disclaimer: I do not own the TV series Full House or its characters. The character Jodie Tanner was an idea given to me by Movies And TV Shows AU.
Michelle would not stop annoying Stephanie with the shadow game!
"Michelle, leave me alone!" Stephanie ordered in exasperation.
"Michelle, leave me alone!" Michelle repeated.
Stephanie stormed into DJ and Jodie's room to find them both lying in their beds (DJ reading a magazine, and Jodie doing her math homework), and she stopped in front of DJ's bed as her older sister looked up.
"DJ, make her stop," Stephanie begged.
"DJ, make her stop!" Michelle reiterated as she followed and stopped beside Stephanie.
DJ nodded in understanding. "The shadow game. Michelle, it's not nice to copy people. Stop copying Stephanie before I take away your ice cream sundae later."
Michelle gaped, as though DJ had suggested selling her on the street as a slave and hadn't threatened to take away her dessert privileges. She hurried to run away from Stephanie, but instead of leaving the room, she headed over to Jodie's bed.
"Thank you," Stephanie said to DJ in relief as she got her little sister off her back.
"Hi, Michelle," Jodie said without glancing up from the multiplication tables.
"Hi, Michelle," Michelle echoed.
"Michelle!" DJ called. "When I said stop copying Stephanie, I meant stop copying people all together."
"No," Jodie told DJ. "This might be fun."
"No. This might be fun," Michelle repeated.
As the day continued, so did the shadow game. Unlike Stephanie, who found the game to be an annoyance, Jodie discovered that the shadow game was actually a droll game.
Droll is a word that is defined by being 'curious or unusual in a way that provokes amusement,' like a droll sense of humor or a droll talent. The shadow game was a curious pass time and an unusual game with even more unusual rules.
The shadow game seemed straight forward; you follow someone around and do and say everything they do, but if the person you are copying were to say I am stupid, hoping you would repeat it back, you could change the I to you and transform the verb to match the noun, so that you would say you are stupid.
Jodie wasn't sure if that was technically allowed, or if Michelle was just too smart for that trick. She wasn't even sure if this was a legit game, one Michelle might have picked up at school, or if Michelle had created her own version of the game with her own version of the rules.
"I'm going to brush my teeth," Jodie said.
"I'm going to brush my teeth," Michelle parroted, and Jodie laughed in amusement. Usually, Stephanie was the more patient of the two twins (but Jodie had less of a temper. When Stephanie got mad, watch out, but while Jodie could become irritated and annoyed usually quite easily, she rarely became angry), but Jodie found the shadow game to be hilarious and allowed it to continue, which Stephanie (and even DJ) couldn't seem to fathom. After all, who wanted a second shadow?
Jodie brushed her teeth, and Michelle copied her actions with her own toothbrush before they both spit into the sink in unison. Jodie wiped her mouth on the towel and handed it to her sister, who mimicked her actions.
"Goodnight, Michelle," Jodie said.
"Goodnight, Jodie," Michelle chirped, finally ending the shadow game. "Thanks for letting me play with you!"
"How could you tolerate her copying you all day?" Stephanie asked as Michelle disappeared into her room, and Stephanie entered the hallway.
Jodie shrugged. "It was actually kind of funny. I'll admit, after a few days, it would get annoying, but for now, it's just funny. I found it to be a rather droll game."
"Droll," Stephanie snorted. "That's a funny word."
Jodie nodded. "It really is," she agreed with a giggle before the girls headed to their separate rooms to go to bed.
Jodie crawled into bed and drifted off to sleep, almost unable to believe she'd had one of the greatest days she'd had in a long time, not with DJ, her sister and best friend, but with her baby sister, whom she practically forgot about most of the time.
Maybe she should spend time with Michelle more often…
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