Simon also held his flower like a sword, before poking Holly on the nose with it.

Holly, not bothering to wipe any stray pollen off of her nose, blinked hard and lightly bashed his forhead with the buttercup.

Simon lightly brushed his buttercup against Holly's cheek.

Holly laughed and suddenly jumped to her feet. She stood with a widish stance, the hand holding the flower almost outstretched and the other arm behind her. "Come on," she said playfully, prodding the buttercup in his direction. "Up!"

Simon stood up, taking a similar stance. "Engarde!" he said in a French accent.

Holly suddenly burst into a fit of giggles, waving the flower around menacingly.

Simon did his best to 'block' all the waves, while laughing because of Holly laughing.

Holly ducked and weaved as she thrashed her flower at him, even though he wasn't really attacking her as such. She didn't really care that she probably looked like a complete and utter nutter, she was having too much fun.

Holly's buttercup hit Simon on the nose, the pollen causing him to sneeze. "That's new..." he muttered, before waving his flower at her.

Holly stopped acting like a nutter and stared at him with widish eyes. "Do you have hayfever?" she asked, worry in her voice.

"No, not that I know of. I think something went up my nose though" Simon said.

"Oh, okay..." Holly nodded, relieved he wasn't going to have some sudden allergic reaction. "I did that with pepper once..."

"I presume it was powdered, right?" Simon asked.

"No, I got a red bell pepper and stuffed it up me nose." Holly rolled her eyes.

"I knew it was black powder Holly" Simon said. "But when it's still in the pepper grinder the bits of pepper are the size of your average hailstone. Put simply, sniffing them would hurt..."

"Not necassarily..." Holly said with a knowing smile. "You can get white pepper in little platic thingy that you just pour out through little holes..."

"It's still the same sorta pepper, tis just white rather than black" Simon said.

"...Whyyyyyyy?" Holly asked, tilting her head to the side cutely.

"I don't know" Simon replied, putting on a thoughtful face as he held back a smile at Holly looking cute.

Holly tutted and crossed her arms, shaking her head. "You're useful..." she said, but the playful expression on her face showed she was joking. "Well, it was one of those two types of pepper I put up my nose..."

Simon suddenly burst out laughing. "I've just remembered a prank my big brother played on my parents. Basically, he got some flour, arranged it into lines on the living room table, waited for our parents to enter then snorted one of the lines."

"...That was a bit silly, wasn't it..." Holly said, obviously not getting it.

"Well, my parents thought the flour was a certain illegal substance" Simon clarified. "So it was a bit silly, but hilarious."

Holly stared at him blankly for a second before widening her eyes in realisation. "Oh!! I get it...how'd your parents react?"

"Loudly" Simon replied with a nod.

Holly half grimaced, half smiled. "Well, it's probably better to have them yell then have them sound all calm and disappointed..." she added thoughtfully.

"Yeah, that would've been kinda creepy to say the least" Simon said. "Especially if their reply was 'You found our stash' or something along those lines."

"And thus, all was not as it seemed in the Baker household..." Holly said in a narrator like voice. "But yeah, that would be...uhh...wierd..."

"But alas, everything worked out in the end" Simon concluded, before realising he was still holding the buttercup. "Oh yeah, that's what we were doing" he smiled, before poking Holly in the cheek with it.

"And alas it began." Holly said, poking him on the nose with her buttercup before adding, "Again..."

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