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         "You don't say." Pete snorted in amusement at Tabbi's description of her big brother. "That must be hard. I have a little sister myself...I like to think I don't weigh down on her too much. We get on, but she's like fifteen, and it's a difficult age group for me to be around. Happily she doesn't take too much interest in my music, but she's super excited about coming to see the show tonight."

He took a bite then realised that warranted a further explanation.

"Oh yeah," he added, "the production company gave me a few free tickets for the first night, so I gave 'em to my sister to invite some of her friends. She might come looking for us after the show's finished."

Talking about sibling suddenly humanised Tabbi a whole lot. He realised that up until that point he's kind of seen her as some mythologised legend from the internet. Now, sitting across from him and without a guitar in her hands, she wasn't Tabbi the internet guitar hero, she was just Tabbi, someone's little sister and someone he was having a pleasant lunch with.