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Marie pressed the button on the tv remote continuously. channel surfing until she found something that would fill the void in her brain that was hungry for something not too trashy yet not too boring. That was, until she heard banging coming from one of the rooms as she turned her head to see a figure dart out from her respective room. Said figure grabbed the couch arm and started bouncing up and down while Marie just watched with piqued interest.
“Marie Marie Marie!” She hopped with stars in her eyes like an excited puppy. Marie raised her eyebrow, “Yes Cal?” she asked almost cautiously, like she was opening a peanut can that was most obvious filled with toy snakes. “You know what we haven’t done in a while?” Callie jittered with excitement upon awaiting Marie’s answer.
“Hm…what haven’t we done in a while Cal?” Marie asked thoughtfully, there was a sky full of possibilities that could be running through Callie’s brain right now.
Callie then lifted herself up off on the ground and consequently fell face first into the couch. She then lifted her head up and put her arms in the air. “We haven’t had a girls night in sooooo long!” When she put it like that, it made Marie think. With everything that had been and has been going on..They really haven’t had a girls night in a while.
Lots of nights spent, swapping self care tips, doing each other's nails, makeup, and tentacles, gossiping about other people they went to school with, and other celebrities they had to deal with. “Hm, you think we should have another one?” Marie proposed.
Callie pulled herself up and got into a sitting position using her knees as a chair on the couch. “Yeah! Plus get this, we invite Four this time!” Marie put on her thinking face, and weighed the decision.
Callie, recognizing this, wrapped her hands around Marie’s upper arm and lightly shook her. “Come onnn Mar Mar! It’ll be funnnn!” While inviting Four over, who Marie thought probably never got the chance to have a girls night, there was one thing Marie and Callie started doing at the end of girls night’s once they got older that wouldn’t be so appropriate for Four. Oh well, they could probably just skip that part this time.
“Maaarrrrieeeeeeee” Callie continuously kept shaking her until Marie finally gave in. “Alright alright, let’s do it!” Callie squealed in happiness and flapped her hands before jumping off the couch exclaiming “I’m gonna go call and ask Four right now!” But before she could run off Marie snatched the back of her shirt collar and pulled her down. Callie quickly came crashing down onto their carpeted floor, busting her ass.
“Orrr,” Marie offered, “You can wait til tomorrow like a normal squid.” Callie threw her head back and groaned. “UGGHH, fiiiiine. I guess..” She folded her arms in a halfhearted pout. Then she perked up and ran off exclaiming “I'M GONNA GO GET READY FOR BED!”
“IT'S FIVE PM!!” Marie shouted uselessly.
The next day Callie was jittering so hard in her seat at the cabin Marie swore she was about to cause an earthquake. “Callie calm down, Four will be here any minute.” Marie chided her. Callie just started swaying back and forth. “I knowww I’m just so excited!” Callie stomped her feet and flapped her hands.
Soon enough, a figure emerged from the grate and Callie made an excited squeal. When Four walked over, Callie was practically gonna shake the entire earth. “Alright Agent 4,” Marie spoke, “Standard day, just a quick patrol, make sure the Octarians don’t plan on taking over anytime soon, we’ll keep an eye on Octavio.”
Before Agent 4 walked off to get started Marie piped up again, “Oh! One more thing-”
“DO YOU WANNA HAVE A GIRLS NIGHT WITH US!?”
Callie cut off Marie before she absolutely exploded from having to hold in the question. Four looked baffled. “I mean I don’t…really know if I qualify for a girls night..” Four looked down at their feet nervously. Marie put a loving hand on their head and said “Don’t worry about that kiddo, it’s just a night for the three of us to do fun things together.”
“Yeah!” Callie chimed in, “I mean the things we do are a bit girly but that doesn’t mean we can add in otherrr fun things!” Four looked at the two and smiled slightly, “Well…alright!” The two cheered at the agreement before Marie rushed Four off to do their duties.
That evening the Squid Sisters took Four back to their apartment with them and they all dressed down into more comfortable clothes. Callie in a pink dino onesie with matching slippers, Marie in an old worn Chirpy Chips shirt with green plaid pajama pants and sea bunny slippers. Four had on an old black and pink cat onesie that was a hand me down from Callie.
Four felt like they were going to combust before realizing they had no idea what to do now. “Uh, so…what exactly do we do?” They asked and could practically see stars forming in Callie’s eyes. “Lots of things! Play games, paint each other's nails, do each other's makeup, do each other's hair, girl talk, oh oh! At the end we-” Callie then suddenly got an elbow to the side courtesy of Marie.
“Ow what was- Ohhh yeah maybe that last thing isn’t very Four appropriate.. Well still! Lots of things!” Callie chuckled slightly nervously. Four chose not to question what they did at the end of girls nights.
They ended up doing lots of things like Callie said. Marie brought out board games like Game of Cephalife, Minnowpoly, and Fish Jenga. Callie and Marie did each other's nails while Four watched, and the girls each took one of Four’s hands and carefully painted them. Callie offered to teach Four how to do makeup and volunteered Marie as their test subject. Marie against her better judgment begrudgingly agreed due to two squids giving her guppy eyes.
“Alright and then you add some blush here, some eyeliner there. Just a little bit extra eyeshadow…perfect!” Callie tried not to snort or laugh while Four put the finishing touches on Marie. She looked….fantastic..for lack of a better word.
Marie got out a hand held mirror and gasped. “It’s bad..” Four said solemnly. “No no! It’s…perfect, you made me look so beautiful.” Marie lied. She looked like a clownfish. “It’s absolutely wonderful.” It looks awful.
“Then you must wanna have it on for the rest of the night!” Callie teased. “I do.” Marie stood her ground. “Annnd you must want so many pictures of your wonderful makeup!” Callie teased harder. “Of..course!” Marie still held her ground.
After doing a small photoshoot Callie pulled out the big guns. “Well since you look so stunning, I just have to send this to Off the Hook!” Marie faltered. “Well…”
“And our producers!”
“Callie.”
“Heck, even a news broadcaster!”
“Okay Callie give me that.” Marie snatched Callie’s phone away from her. “No technology for the rest of the night. Callie giggled deviously. Four just watched amused and slightly confused.
“Oooh we should do girl talk!” Callie clapped her hands excitedly.
“What’s girl talk?” Four asked, to which both Callie and Marie shrugged. “Callie brought it up once when we were younger and when I asked what it was she told me she had no idea. So we just talk about whatever.” Marie explained.
“So what do we talk about?” Four again asked.
“Girls?” Callie prompted.
“Yeah sure okay.” Four readjusted on the bed they all sat on and patted their knees.
“Ooh Four have you heard the story of this one time when Callie tried to impress a girl?” Marie wore an evil smug look.
“Oh Four you don’t wanna hear about that-”
“I do!”
Callie shot Marie a glare to which Marie mouthed ‘Revenge’ then batted her eyes and said “Okay so this one time Callie wanted to impress this girl she liked so she walked into school in these enormously high heels that she stole from her mom and tripped right in front of her!” Four giggled and Marie laughed, Callie sat there pouting before getting an idea.
“Oh yeah? What about the time you blew up science class!”
“That was only because you handed me the wrong solution, Callie!”
“W-Well I take no responsibility for that.”
Marie lightly slapped Callie upside the head before getting another story idea. “Oh you know, there was this one time where this girl Sarah wanted to skip class..”
“NO.”
“Callie thought she was soooo gorgeous, she agreed to go up to the school roof with her.”
“MARIE.”
“But when she got up there and looked at how high up they were, she started bawling her eyes out and they both got caught!”
Callie tackled Marie to keep her from saying any more. “HEIGHTS ARE SCARY OKAY?!” She said loudly.
“Anyway…Four! Do you have any-”
“Callie get off me.”
“Nuh uh, Four do you have any stories you wanna share?”
“Umm..” Four thought for a moment. “This one time when I was in school, this really pretty girl walked by and I was so stunned and panicked I dropped my shell phone and ended up cracking it.” Four giggled nervously.
Callie snorted “You’re such a dork.” Marie and Four laughed along with her. Four yawned and Marie grabbed Callie’s phone out of her pocket to check the time.
“It’s getting pretty late” She said while pushing Callie’s face away to keep her from grabbing her phone back.
Four laid down on Callie’s big pink bed and stretched their body out. Marie pushed Callie off of her and laid down next to them, and Callie climbed over to be next to Marie.
They had quiet conversations before Four’s talking slowly turned into snoring. Then Marie got up and off the bed.
“Where are you going?” Callie whispered.
“Well, Four’s asleep, and we haven’t officially ended girls night without, you know.”
Callie perked up while she waited for Marie to come back.
Marie returned with a bottle of red wine and two glasses. Callie silently cheered and Marie poured two glasses of wine for the two of them. Callie was out within minutes after finishing her glass. Marie didn’t even pour that much.
Marie looked out the window as moonlight shone in. She nursed her glass of wine as she thought of the ever growing family she had somehow managed to be a part of.