It was inevitable, given the return.

[edisonout]

Do you really think this is a good idea? I'm not so sure it is. You're going to go and drag out more of us on top of everything else you've got piled on at the moment? The last thing you need is something else to be thinking about. Shouldn't you be more concerned about, oh! I don't know, your studies? [She throws her arms in the air, exasperated.] You must enjoy being a nervous wreck all the time!

Look, I know you think you can do it, and I think you normally could, too! The timing's just not right. Next thing you know, you'll be having a nervous breakdown in the middle of school, or addicted to pills that are supposed to make you focus – or both! – and it'll haunt you for the rest of your higher education. Fine. Just don't expect us to pick up your mess when it gets to be too much to handle, and don't say I never warned you.

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[atdennys]

Ugh, Annie, the worst thing you could have done was tell them you don't think it's a good idea, because that will make them think it's a good idea.

[edisonout]

Jeff, this is serious! She really needs to learn to sort her priorities or she's only going to regret it. I was only trying to help. I mean, look at you. [Cue the nervous smile and hasty backtracking.] If you sorted your priorities and did things right the first time, you wouldn't be stuck here, would you?

[atdennys]

I was being serious. ... I sounded like Britta, didn't I? Dammit.

[Didn't back up far enough.] What was that, Granger? [As in Hermione Granger because, wow, could you say "sort her/your priorities" any more times?] Why is it that everyone else has the problem? Maybe you're the one who has the problem. And I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you showing up.

[edisonout]

Granger? [That utter shock and appalled gasp? Yeah, it just happened.] I didn't say you had a problem, Jeff, just that ... maybe you made a mistake or two down the line. Perhaps like, say, faking receiving a college degree? What do I know, though. [Time for the stern face/arm crossing combo that she's practiced so many times in the mirror to get just right.] After all, I'm Annie Edison, and I have a problem. Couldn't possibly know what I'm talking about.

[atdennys]

[Oh no, you're not going to guilt him with that act.] What are you talking about? And more importantly why are you dragging me into it? I was trying to help you but I guess I just made another mistake. [Crap, he's trying to pull the same stunt, isn't he?]

Look, Annie, sometimes you have to let people make mistakes because sometimes that's the only way they'll ever learn. And sometimes it'll turn out to the best thing that ever happened to them. Kind of like how my mistake lead me to Greendale and all of you. [Oh, double crap, FEELINGS. ABORT.]

And they're in charge and there's nothing you can do about it, so you might as well just enjoy the ride. [Well, he's had better speeches, that's for sure.]

[edisonout]

[Well, what can she say? She tried.] I'm just ... I'm saying that ... [Wild, frazzled waving arm gestures, until she realizes that she's going nowhere with this.] I don't know, okay? I think I know, but I don't. Is that what you wanted to hear? You're right and I'm wrong. Again. I'm sorry.

[This isn't going as planned at all, so she's just going to pout at the ground like the scolded child mature person she is.] Okay, maybe I'm not the best person to be talking about making mistakes, but I ... I just want what's best for you. I'd like to think that after this is all over, if we all go our separate ways, that you'll be okay, mistakes or not. [Role reversal, much?]

I don't think you know me very well if you're telling me to just enjoy the ride. As if that's possible.

[regretzio]

[strum]

♪ Oh Annie, she can do it all
With help from her friends and Adderall ♪

[edisonout]

Oh, look! He has a song! Isn't that great?!

[regretzio]

[strum]

♪ That's very kind of you to note
It's one of many that I wrote ♪