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When Arian finally left the Beaded Garden, the dark-haired teen was several dollars lighter. To the dark-haired teen however, the handmade lampwork beads that the dollars had gone on was totally worth the expense.

Actually Arian always enjoyed stopping by the Garden, it was one of the two shops in the City, that the dark-haired teen had come across which specialised in just beads. However unlike Sparklespot which tended to mainly get seed beads and Swarovski crystal, the Beaded Garden tended to have quite a range for Arian to get excited over.

It was a pretty nice day and Arian was contemplating perhaps stopping by the bakery for a slice of cake and a cup of coffee, maybe even sketching some ideas out on his notepad before going home and getting his supplies out. The dark-haired teen reckoned that he maybe had enough for the coffee and the cake, maybe even two cakes if he went for a couple of mini cupcakes instead – the lampwork beads hadn’t completely cleaned out his allowance money, even if he had probably spent more than he should on them.

Arian clung to the paper bag printed with the Beaded Garden’s logo almost as a reflex. Lampwork beads were made of glass and it was a safe bet that the dark-haired teen would probably end up weeping if they smashed on the sidewalk given how much of his allowance had just gone on buying them – or at the least pretty miserable.

All was well though, the beads were in one piece and he hadn’t had an unfortunate introduction to the sidewalk. He looked over at the taller blue-haired teen around his own age that he’d almost bumped into – or was it almost bumped into him – with a slightly rueful smile “I’m fine thank you, thanks for…” his voice was quiet as he started to answer the other’s question and then trailed off his smile fading as the last word spoken by the other finally registered. Miss? “Er I’m not actually a girl.” It was a relatively common enough occurrence, at least one of the relatives who Saffy had introduced him to last Christmas had seemed convinced he was a girl – although the dark-haired teen personally thought it pretty obvious he wasn’t female.