"Also I would punch him if he wasn't."

"It's true, she would."

"Really? I wouldn't have pegged you as a - reptilian rights activist."

Bella is quite ignorant of that unspoken part. "Well, congratulations."

"Thanks. I reserve the right to punch my brother if he is being a twit."

Darren snorts. "Thanks. I can feel the love. It's just radiating off of you."

"I register my probably easily ignored disapproval of violence as a treatment for twithood. It underperforms in controlled studies."

"Brothers are different. Because of reasons. I get rights to punch him for twithood."

"I think my argument against it was, 'How in the world would that help' and that didn't work, either. She's just going to punch me if I'm a twit, it's how the world works. Apparently."

"Um, at the risk of totally killing some entirely healthy sibling... thing... you two are doing right now, my dad gets called to a lot of scenes of 'somebody is hitting their family member' and it's not cute?"

Darren raises an eyebrow. "I should actually clarify - she doesn't punch me."

"Nope!" adds Savannah. "We should probably stop joking about it, huh? Whoops."

"I mean, I have no siblings, maybe all people with siblings think it's hilarious and I'm the weirdo, but yeah."

"Eh, more like we are just really comfortable with each other and know when each other's joking so we play along. At least in our case. I dunno about other siblings, twinning it up might make things different."

"Maybe."

"Sorry," apologizes Darren.

"It's okay. I didn't really think it, it just - wasn't funny."

"So to update you on the gossip from the gossip-zombies - Lauren is trying to get her ex jealous, again. Hey, Darren, want to play rebound?"

Savannah snorts with laughter. "Yeah, thought not."

"Am I missing interesting context?"

"He isn't the dating type and he doesn't like Lauren."

"I am curious about the why to both facts."