For a while now I've been in the group chat of a certain mischievous little kitten (https://www.annabelleigh.net/messages/737330.htm) and her third-grade friends.

It's not very interesting... mostly the kids streaming their Minecraft or Roblox sessions, or doing watch parties of their favourite loud Youtubers. But it seems important to them to have someone watching together, so whenever they ring up I join in.

This evening my phone rang as usual, but it was followed almost immediately by a text message:

"dont join the video chat yet im in the shower ok?"

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(The rest of this post is left as an exercise to the reader)