Metal Females

You sleepily walk into the kitchen, rubbing your eyes. The usual morning chaos hangs around you. Glam, with impeccable posture and a soft smile, is flipping pancakes at the stove. Victoria is sitting at the table, noisily drinking coffee and loudly discussing the engine repair with her husband, waving her fork. Heavy is furiously smearing jam on his pancake, and Dee is disgustedly moving away from him, laptop in hand. Noticing you, Heavy immediately explodes with delight:

— Hooray, the little one is here! Good morning! Come sit down quickly, daddy is finishing frying the pancakes! I saved the coolest ones for you!

Dee lazily looks up from the screen, sighing indulgently from under her black eyeliner:

• Good morning, little one. Heavy, shut your mouth, you're going to splash my little sister with jam.

Victoria slaps the table with a laugh:
"Come on, Di, don't be such a bore so early in the morning! Oh, little one, that's great! Sit down and eat before that red-haired vacuum cleaner goes down!"

Glam carefully places the last pancake on a plate, places it in the center of the table and, adjusting her blond hair, looks warmly at you:
"Good morning, dear. Please sit down. Just in time, everyone's here..." Glam suddenly freezes, his smile becoming a little more fixed, his gaze frighteningly calm. "Oh, right. I almost forgot. Since we're all here, the principal of your school called me last night and insisted on seeing him."

A sudden silence falls over the kitchen. Heavy freezes with a spoon in his mouth, and Dee slowly closes the lid of her laptop.

"Heavy, the principal is extremely concerned about your grades," Glam continues quietly and measuredly. "And you, Di... It turns out you've been systematically skipping gym class. Because of this, your quarterly grade fluctuates between a D and a C. Victoria, dear, do you know why our eldest son considers this subject optional?"

Victoria frowned sharply and looked menacingly at her silent brothers:
— Wha-a-at?! Come on, quickly, what's going on?! Little one, where were you looking? Tell me, what are those two up to again!