Sun Mote Copse But if I can make it to the street

Phox's comment was well-received; but Nellie's wasn't. There was an edge to her daughter's comment that she found to be somewhat tacky, though she still didn't feel like now was the time to break the news to Nellie. Then again...Would later be any better? Her daughter was testing her, and she didn't care for it...But she also knew better than to simply pretend that things were different than they were. There was possibly a better time to talk about this- but at the same time...Hiding it likely wouldn't have made things any easier. 

"Nellie," She said, having caught the tone in Nellie's voice that seemed to insinuate that there was more than one good reason for her and Phox to not be together. Whether he was aware of her crush or not was beyond her, but she had to operate under the assumption that he likely didn't know. He was probably too fixated on her to notice that her daughter seemed to have been crushing on him. If it was even him, and not Orr. Oh god, why couldn't Nellie have just fallen for one of Raven and Quixote's kids? Even if it meant that she and Quixote might have to share more milk-toast conversations together, at least that would be better than this. 

She cleared her throat, hoping that that was enough to tell her daughter to curb her impoliteness. "I don't think they're 'hooking-up,' all I know is that they're friends." She said, "Though I doubt very much I'd be the first person Bronco would confess his crush to, if he had one. I just imagine some day he's going to bring someone home and that's going to be that. I don't think there'll be any 'come meet my Mother' or asking permission or anything from him." She confessed. There- keep the topic elsewhere.

But Niamh was too petty to keep her mouth shut; and she knew, like her daughter, where to dig, too. "For the best anyway. I'm not good at keeping secrets," She chuckled, and aimed a slight, quick, but meaningful side-eye at her daughter.