The Apartment Above Luke's, Saturday

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After a big day outside - playgrounds! puppies! snow! - Katherine had come back to the place where she'd woken up and had promptly fallen asleep, all tuckered out by her adventures. Now she was awake again and hungry. The only cereal in the house was a sugar cereal, which she wasn't supposed to have and she wasn't allowed to use the stove without adult supervision.

But there didn't seem to be an adult in the whole house! Just her. That was funny. Who had a house with nobody in it?

She took a shower in the pretty bathroom and got dressed, figuring maybe she could find somewhere to eat. And another funny thing - she found a twenty dollar bill tucked away in the exact place she hid money back home: hidden in a pencil box in the top drawer of the desk. She painstakingly wrote out an IOU and put it there, and then sat down to plan her day.

First, breakfast. Then...puppies again, maybe?

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Dante shrugged. "Not mean can be very, very hard for a lot of people," he said, "And not all of them are gonna be worth your time."

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"I bet nobody's mean to you," Katherine said wistfully. "Cause you're cool."

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"Plenty of people are mean to me," Dante said easily, like it was nothing.

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"Who?" Katherine asked him, eyes wide. "But you're so cool!"

She could tell! He was nice and treated her to ice cream and wore cool clothes!

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"Bad people," Dante said thoughtfully. "Sometimes people who aren't used to people like me. Sometimes good people who get confused..."

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"Get confused how?" Katherine asked. "Good people can be mean, too?"

Katherine hadn't really discovered all the shades of gray that existed in the world yet.

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"Yeah, for lots of reasons, some of which aren't even really their fault," Dante said lightly. "Like if I did something dumb that I meant well, and it made them feel bad. Or I did something that was okay, but they took it differently, and it made them angry."

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"People are complicated," Katherine said with a heavy sigh. "I don't think I'll ever understand them."

Kid, you weren't quite yet six, jeeze.

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Dante laughed softly. "You've got plenty of time to work on it," he promised her.